Current Events > U of Tennessee rescinded offer to football coach after students went ape shit

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http://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/21579125/tennessee-volunteers-no-longer-hire-greg-schiano-head-coach

Tennessee has backed out of a memorandum of understanding with Ohio State defensive coordinator Greg Schiano to be the Volunteers' next football coach, sources told ESPN's Chris Low.

The memorandum of understanding was signed by both parties Sunday in Columbus, Ohio. Tennessee had planned to introduce Schiano at a news conference Sunday night.

But when news broke earlier Sunday that Tennessee was close to finalizing a deal with Schiano, there was public outcry among Tennessee fans, with people citing his connection to the Jerry Sandusky era at Penn State.

About 100 people gathered on Tennessee's campus to protest a potential Schiano hire, with many of them holding signs with various messages such as "Schia-NO.''

At a rock on campus where students often paint various messages, the words "Schiano covered up child rape at Penn State'' appeared Sunday.

Schiano, Urban Meyer's defensive coordinator at Ohio State for the past two seasons, and Tom Bradley, defensive coordinator under recently fired UCLA coach Jim Mora, were both Penn State assistants under Joe Paterno during Sandusky's tenure.

Both have denied allegations of their knowledge of child abuse by Sandusky from a 2015 deposition by ex-Penn State assistant Mike McQueary.

Court documents of the deposition released in July 2016 said McQueary indicated Bradley said Schiano went to him in the early 1990s "white as a ghost and said he just saw Jerry doing something to a boy in the shower.''

After the allegations became public, Meyer and Mora both defended their assistants' integrity.

Basically, he was not hired/fired because students and faculty/fans want to lynch him over unsubstantiated claims that he heard second-hand reports about Sandusky and never reported it. Claims which have been denied by him and multiple other assistants.

In reality, Schiano was the best coach Tennessee could have hoped to get this year, so hopefully that virtue signaling will satisfy the feeling of being irrelevant future seasons in the SEC.
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Ah, the good old Penn State debate. When "football > child molestation" was all the rage. Much simpler times back then.
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The Admiral posted...

Basically, he was not hired/fired because students and faculty/fans want to lynch him over unsubstantiated claims that he heard second-hand reports about Sandusky and never reported it. Claims which have been denied by him and multiple other assistants.

some players were threatening to drop their commit, too.

as an OSU fan, this makes me happy because we have too many coaches leave.
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Giant_Aspirin posted...

as an OSU fan, this makes me happy because we have too many coaches leave.

If he stays, you guys are very lucky.
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If there's no proof, then this was a dumb decision to cave into the mob and not hire him.
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The Admiral posted...

Giant_Aspirin posted...

as an OSU fan, this makes me happy because we have too many coaches leave.

If he stays, you guys are very lucky.

this news broke in 2016 when we hired him and we kept him. i haven't seen any rumors of OSU letting him go, or there even being protests about him being at OSU.

looks like UoT is just a little more sensitive than us folks up here in Ohio. or maybe we value football too much <_<
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