{"id":418342,"date":"2017-11-27T10:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=418342"},"modified":"2017-11-27T10:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:36:13","slug":"when-a-loss-to-vandy-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/when-a-loss-to-vandy-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/","title":{"rendered":"When a loss to Vandy is the tip of the iceberg&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TightenUp-11-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-418344\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TightenUp-11-27-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"384\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee had never before lost eight games in a season. So you may have thought that Saturday\u2019s home blowout loss to Vanderbilt was the low point in the history of Tennessee football.<br \/>\nYou\u2019d be wrong. Shoot, it wasn\u2019t even the low point of the weekend for the Volunteers, who clearly need to Tighten Up.<br \/>\nAfter an abysmal season, the only reason for optimism for Tennessee fans was the thought of a fresh start with a new coach who everyone could get behind.<br \/>\nThen Athletics Director John Currie decided to offer the job to Greg Schiano.<br \/>\nThe same Greg Schiano who was 68-67 at Rutgers; who was 11-21 with the Tampa Bay Bucs; whose bush league tactics once led Tennessee legend Peyton Manning to cuss him out on the field; who court records indicate was aware of the child sex abuse by Jerry Sandusky when they were both assistants at Penn State.<br \/>\nBut let\u2019s not fool ourselves. The outrage over Schiano has as much to do with his record on the field as it does the atrocities that happened at Penn State and what Schiano may or may not have known at the time.<br \/>\nThe response to Currie\u2019s decision was so swift and so severe that the offer was rescinded. Now Schiano is claiming that he will sue and wants a buyout of the contract he agreed to with Tennessee.<br \/>\nLosing to Vanderbilt to drop to 4-8 in bad enough. Botching the next hire has turned out to be even more of a debacle.<br \/>\nWho do you think needs to Tighten Up? Call in now. The caller with the best and most entertaining suggestion will earn a $25 gift card from Wintzell\u2019s Oyster House.<br \/>\nFor Threaded Fasteners, I\u2019m Randy Kennedy with Tighten Up.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-418342-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TightenUp112717.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TightenUp112717.mp3\">http:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/TightenUp112717.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tennessee had never before lost eight games in a season. So you may have thought that Saturday\u2019s home blowout loss to Vanderbilt was the low <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/when-a-loss-to-vandy-is-the-tip-of-the-iceberg\/\" title=\"When a loss to Vandy is the tip of the iceberg&#8230;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,106,176],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-418342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-nuts-and-bolts","7":"category-on-the-air","8":"category-top"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418345,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418342\/revisions\/418345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}