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I don't pretend to have any idea who the new coach will be but if it is him, I think most anyone would leave Lewis County, wherever that is, to come to OR. I'll take any of the names mentioned recently...Rankin, Rang, Whitten, or Price! As for your response to whoever is hired, you won't like it at all because you don't like anything having to do with OR. If you do like the hire, whoever it might be, then OR fans should be concerned!

So the man you love to hate (Gaddis) may have actually done something right? LOL...I don't care who did what as long as you're right and OR has a good coach. When will this happen?

You're right, I apologize. It was Barney who said no decent coach would touch the his job. He's apparently changed his tune. I have no idea who y'all are talking about but I hope he's as good as Barney thinks

So you really think Barney is onto something? You and Barney have been saying that no decent coach would touch this job. If you're right, I wonder what changed?

Ok, I get why you won't name the coach but why won't you answer if he's a current coach in East TN and when will it be announced?

Is the person that you seem to be sure is getting the OR job currently coaching in East TN? When will it be announced?

Let me ask you again...do you know this coach? When will he be announced? Is he currently coaching in East TN?

Rumor in OR was that DC threatened to fight the HC during a game. Now that may not be true at all but if it is even close to true, then what choice did the HC have? You, 92Dragon, probably have the real story because mine is just OR rumor and gossip!

I'm intrigued and hope you're not "playing me"...my question is "do you know the new coach personally" and did HE tell you this or are you relying on rumor or second hand information?

It's good to know that you're serious and I don't expect you to divulge your source, but how accurate do you think your source is?

Are you being serious or just messin"?

That is a great honor!

You're exactly right

I'm curious as well. That will be interesting to see how that unfolds.

LOL...you do make sense. I did forget that the D-B thread is pretty negative like the OR thread, but we're a little more negative!

I'm not complaining about it anymore. I used to complain about it but there's obviously a sickness in OR among some Coacht posters that makes them revel in negativity, so complaining is useless. I just told the truth and you know it's the truth. If you don't think that it is, go check out the threads of other reputable programs and you'll see what I mean. I just took what I know to be the truth and warned that AC guy that he will leave the OR thread depressed and filled with negativism if he stays on here too long. My advice to him is to SCRAM!!!!!

You're on the wrong thread if you want to be positive. Prepare to be chastised for saying anything positive on here. This group will find something negative about the most positive thing imaginable and most posters on the OR threads actually seem to revel in negativity. I've never seen anything like it. My advice to you is to stick to your AC thread unless you want to end up depressed. The AC threads through the years have always been positive, even when your team was losing in the playoffs to Greenville or Elizabethton every year. On the other hand, when OR made it to the title game in 2020, the sickos on the OR threads acted like OR didn't deserve to be there. This crowd loves to complain and they attack anyone who is the least bit positive...therefore, you don't belong on here. So my advice to you is to return to your AC thread...FAST, while you're unscathed!

Ridiculous. It's common knowledge that the previous principal and the current principal are good friends.

I'm looking at this year's OR football program and OR has had a total of 12 coaches, if you count "Joe" twice, and only one coach was let go after one year. Since that can hardly be defined as a "pattern", I think most head coaches in the area, HVA included, would consider the OR head coaching position., Now if OR had a history of firing coaches after a season or two, that would be a different story...but that's not the case.

Who was that? I don't remember that happening

If I were a coach, I wouldn't give Coacht the time of day. I'm not saying Rankin didn't read it, but as a coach, why give any time at all to a bunch of losers (me included), who hide behind a screen name and voice their opinions anonymously? The only people whose opinions I truly respect on here are the very few people who reveal their true identities...so I don't even respect my own opinion! LOL

Hardees doesn't have 50 applicants here in OR, nor do we have burned biscuits, because somehow our Hardees closed down a few years ago, and that was heartbreaking. Also, this is a time when most employers are finding it difficult to find many applicants for any jobs these days, so 50 plus applicants for the OR football job is actually a good thing. The word on the street, for whatever that's worth, is that there weren't even 20 applicants for this same job a year ago, but I have no way to know if that's true.

I actually hope "Joe" is the one making the hire, but I doubt that he has that complete authority. The reason I hope that is that despite the fact you and a few others seem to have no use for him, he does seem to love OR more than anyone else who might be in a position to make this hire. Therefore, I doubt he just recommends hiring a "friend" over a more qualified applicant. BTW...I did approach him at the West game last night, and he didn't answer a single question I asked other than confirming that there are at least 50 applicants. He was however, willing to talk to me as long as I wanted to talk, but he wouldn't directly answer my questions! LOL

If you don't want to get chastised, then don't ever say anything positive about anyone. That doesn't go well on here.

I saw on Twitter the other day that he was just hired at Navy, so I doubt he'll leave Navy for OR.