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Who will Tennessee target for their head coaching vacancy?
Pete Thamel, Dan Wetzel and Pat Forde from SI list new UT AD Danny White's most likely coaching candidates on the latest Yahoo Sports College Podcast. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen.
Video Transcript
PAT FORDE: I can't say that Lance Leipold will be a slam dunk, but boy, I think he'd be an attractive candidate. He's a very, very solid football coach who can win throwing the ball. He can win running the ball, he can win with defense. And he's a proven commodity. So that would be the guy that I think would be at the top of the list for Danny White, potentially as the guy, first of all, that he knows and has a relationship with, and I think, presents an attractive resume.
DAN WETZEL: You know who never had any SEC experience before going to the SEC? Nick Saban.
PAT FORDE: Yeah.
DAN WETZEL: Urban Meyer.
PAT FORDE: Right.
PETE THAMEL: If I'm Danny White, I target one of these three guys if he's not going to go after Lance. And you can't have a search and land the plane and talk to a guy. You've got to go covert, get somebody on board, pull him and go. And I think the three candidates would be Neal Brown at West Virginia, Scott Satterfield at Louisville, and Sonny Dykes at SMU.
I think you could-- now, we could talk about this guy as a candidate, should it be this guy? Tony Elliott at Clemson is another name. If I was gonna do five names, I'd put Lance and Tony there. But if you want a sitting head coach-- Sonny was a Power Five coach, he's not right now at SMU, but he's built them into a Power Five capable program. I think you need somebody with some gravitas, with some chops.
And I feel like that would be a candidate pool of which you really couldn't go wrong. There's a little bit of a reach factor there. It may be some of those guys think they have better jobs now. But I do think the whole paradigm of the Tennessee job changes when you bring in Danny White, because it shows an end to the old guard, the start of stability. If Phil Fulmer was still there, you would still be plodding through those same old recycled names. So I really think this is the dawn of a new day for Tennessee.
DAN WETZEL: I think you needed to bring in a pro, and I will guarantee-- again, like Danny White's not-- these guys are not-- they know everything about college athletics. They got family everywhere, they know everything. He's not going in there without a huge contract for a long time. And the clear power to tell every booster, message board poster, or anybody else to get out of here. I'm running this show. And that's what you need.
And if you do that, you know, some of these places are good enough that they will operate if you just get some organization. And I think, you know, that's a great list. Take any of those five.
PAT FORDE: Any of those guys should be able to go in and instill some measure of competence and confidence that Tennessee can be back to a degree. So bring it on.