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It's official: Tennessee hires Jones

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http://tennessee.247sports.com/Article/Tennessee-Vols-set-to-hire-Butch-Jones-as-head-coach-105526
Butch Jones will be Tennessee’s next head football coach, school officials confirmed Friday morning.

This post has been edited 3 times, most recently by Ryan Callahan on 12/7/2012 at 6:41 AM
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Welcome to Tennessee, Coach Jones!!
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Press conference at 2:30pm per Vol football twitter...
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6 months ago

Welcome to UT coach!
There are many signatures in the world....this one is mine!
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Wes does Jones have any previous relationships with any staff members that are already here?
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6 months ago

Welcome coach! Time to put all our wish lists away and support our new coach! VFL
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6 months ago

Welcome to the University of Tennessee Coach Jones! I wish you the best. Lets get to work. Im behind you all the way!
GBO
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Let the Lyle Jones era begin!
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6 months ago

Best part? Ryan edited a post by Wes!
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Welcome to Big Orange Country Coach Jones!
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Well, Jones it is. Hope he gets a great staff. Go Big Orange.
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If he retains Graham, Pittman, Conklin, Ashley, Chaney, and adds Tee Martin and a helluva DC, I might be alright with this. Otherwise to me its looking like the hiring of Coach BJ sucks....
But still VFL GO BIG ORANGE

This post was edited by TornadoVol11 on 12/7/2012 at 6:56 AM
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6 months ago

Welcome Coach Jones
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TornadoVol11 said...
If he retains Graham, Pittman, Conklin, Ashley, Chaney, and adds Tee Martin and a helluva DC, I might be alright with this. Otherwise to me its looking like the hiring of Coach BJ sucks....

A definite improvement over Dooley. But the days of beating Bama, Florida, Ga, are still far into the future somewhere. Welcome to 8-4, 7-5 seasons. If lucky maybe 9-3.
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Wife's name is Bard or Barb?
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Jarrett said...
I think butch jones is a steal, the question is can he recruit sec talent

We'll have to wait and see about the recruiting, but I do think this will prove to be a good hire. CBJ has been a winner everywhere that he's been the HC. All accounts are that the players love him. I wonder who he has in mind for DC? That's probably the biggest immediate test for him.
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madkels said...
A definite improvement over Dooley. But the days of beating Bama, Florida, Ga, are still far into the future somewhere. Welcome to 8-4, 7-5 seasons. If lucky maybe 9-3.

I would agree with this 100% He does have a winning record, unlike Dooley AND Kiffin when they were hired. The ability to recruit is my biggest concern. I probably over-exaggerated when I said sucks, but when his initials are BJ, other schools are gonna start saying it haha.
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6 months ago via 247Sports Mobile

Congratulations Coach Jones...Welcome to Big Orange Country!
Go Vols! Beat Austin Peay!
I'll hang up and listen to your comments...
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At one point in our lives we were all a WTF hire, the question is did you prove them right or wrong? Welcome aboard Butch Jones
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TornadoVol11 said...
If he retains Graham, Pittman, Conklin, Ashley, Chaney, and adds Tee Martin and a helluva DC, I might be alright with this. Otherwise to me its looking like the hiring of Coach BJ sucks....

No way he keeps that many people. It is believed that he will bring John Janack (DC/LB), Steve Stripling (DL), Mike Bajakian (OC/QB), Mark Elder (ST/Safties), Don Mahoney (OL), and Roy Manning (RB). I dare him to replace Graham with Manning.
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