Report: Chris Weinke interviewing for Tennessee position
Former Florida State QB Chris Weinke is reportedly interviewing to join Tennessee’s staff.
John Brice of GoVols247 reports that Weinke arrived at UT on Thursday and is meeting with coach Butch Jones and other offensive staffers. Weinke’s resume should certainly impress Jones and others in Knoxville.
Following a shot at professional baseball, Weinke played at Florida State from 1997-2000, winning the Heisman Trophy at 28 years old. He played in the NFL for five seasons before retiring in 2007 and becoming the Director of Football at the prestigious IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. He coached at IMG through the 2014 season, when he joined the then-St. Louis Rams staff as quarterbacks coach. Rams assistants were recently let go following the firing of head coach Jeff Fisher.
Weinke’s mix of NFL playing and coaching experience along with his ties to Florida recruiting could make him a very attractive candidate to fill the vacancy left by former offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Mike DeBord, who left to join Indiana’s staff and return closer to home.
The report states that Jones is also looking at former Miami QB Ken Dorsey as well as current UT assistants Larry Scott and Zach Azzanni.
This is an absolute joy to watch – “Ya we’re probably gonna get Helfrich”. Weinke would much better suite keeping Tennessee where they belong in mediocrity. Throwing popcorn in the microwave as we speak
What a coincidence! I was throwing popcorn in the microwave when TN beat GA. How odd…
Yeah another game Kirby Smart does what he does best. Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Nice comeback,👍🏼
Lol Barry Muson I think jawja has enough worries with Jim Chaney. Let me know how Chaney works out for yall.
Mortgageguy really munsoned you!
So is UT interviewing him for OC or for QB coach…? This article lumps him in with our other OC candidates, but the cited source doesn’t mention that he is interviewing for OC. It says he met with offensive staffers. That doesn’t itself mean he’s interviewing for OC. Would make sense to have him as QB coach, not sold on him as OC. Really not sold on any of our candidates for OC. Typical Tennessee.
QB coach would make more sense but you never know. He would be a good choice for either one. Wienke really had some great talent and coached them up well at IMG Academy.
Definitely would be a force in recruiting down there for the next few years as he does have connections with them.
I can see Azzani (having OC experience) getting promoted to OC since he was a candidate at least at one place last off season for OC then you bring in a QB coach like Weinke to focus on developing the young QBs we have and as a ace recruiter in the Florida area to pair with Larry Scott who has done well recruiting there.
This is also my opinion and im not sure how i would feel about it.
Who even has a QB coach anymore? Just about every OC is also the QB coach.
You know I wouldn’t hate the idea of Wienke as an OC. I think it would make more sense for him to be the QB coach and maybe co or assist OC though.
This is why Jones is a absolute idiot as a HC. What happened to Helfrick? My guess is he knows that this is Jones last year and wants more stability in a job. Jones painted himself in a corner with his buddy hire in Debord and know reaps the benefits.
Helfrich took his name out. I don’t think it has so much to do with Butch being on the hot seat, and more to do with he wants to reunite with Chip if Chip comes back to college after next season…maybe even at Tennessee. Helfrich is getting paid a lot of money by Oregon to do pretty much nothing for the next few years. I imagine he will take some sort of consulting job somewhere or will just relax with family next season and still make a few million for just relaxing. Can’t blame the guy.
Yeah I see that but why come talk to Butch before the bowl game? If thay was me, I wouldnt want to move my family clear across the country for a chance of maybe 1 year. We all know if Jones wins 7 or less…….he is gone. Especially if one or both is Kentucky or Vandy. To me, SEC is the best and if I was a coach I would want to know how well I would fare in the best conference. Helfrick seen what he was up against with Jones, new offense coming in. Now 2 years ago, with Dobbs and all the weapons, it would of been a no brainer for him but he wasnt looking for a job 2 years ago. Jones decision making process has hurt him and UT I believe. If Jones doesnt hire a big time OC, better start packing his bags.
I miss DeBord already. We are not getting Helfrich, Tee, Chip, Peyton…etc. We have an unrealistic fanbase that would run them out of town.
Your fanbase is unrealistic if they even thought they had a chance at most of those guys.
Our fanbase wasn’t unrealistic. We thought we had a shot to get Helfrich. This guy is an idiot, because none of those other names have been floated around as OC…
I thought you had a realistic shot at Helfrich also.
Just read the comments. Our fan base is delusional. I wish I could screen shot the Manning posts for you.
Coach Herman says hello.
No one cares about him outside the state of Texas. He has more pressing issues than to say hello to anyone he isn’t recruiting. Let me know the next time Texas has a better season than LSU. It’s been a while.
Bet you miss Dooley too.
Found an unrealistic fanboy^^. You can hate Butch all you want. The more you do the more you push coaches away. Tell me who you would hire as HC and OC. Last I checked Saban already has a good job. Helfrich was visiting his old QB in Nashville. And what has Helfrich proven in the last decade? That he can hold Chip Kelly’s clip board. BryanChip for AD.
Would of never hired Butch in the 1st place. If I was AD I would of thrown Haslms wallet at either Gruden or Jimbo Fisher. Tennessee has to pay for a coach like the other big SEC programs did. You cant expect a good coach for $3 million a year. Dude been bleeding orange for 41 years actually in Ktown not Florida. Your probably not even from the south. The problem with alot of yall bandwagon johnny come lately fans is yall are satisfied with only winning 7 or 8 games a season. Go look at Bama and LSU. What happens when their coaches drop down to winning 7 or 8 games a year like your so happy about…..they get fired!! Comprehend dipshat. If you are satisfied with mediocre teams and only winning 7 or 8 games a year, go root for SC or Kentucky or Vandy. They never win more than 7 or 8.
Who is this btyanchip joker,he talks and spells like he went to school in someone’s back yard. Dude everyone can’t pay these kids and get away with it like Bama. When the smoke rises old Nick is gonna bail out Bame just Ervin Myers did down in Florida,just like Pete Carroll did out at USC! “Patients is difinitely a virtue”
Gruden and Jimbo did not want to coach at Tennessee. That’s what I’m getting at. We may have had a shot at Charlie Strong or Sumlin in the past.
From Chattanooga and graduated from UT. I hope I pass your criteria.
Bryanchip, while you might think have anything less than a 8 win season is bad, he hasn’t had a losing season yet. Look at Saban record prior to getting to Alabama, it was trash. All diamonds have to get polished, while I question quite a bit of his playcalling, he has put us into positions to win games. 2 years ago, we could have been undefeated but OUR players let us down, you can’t go out and actually play for them as a coach, it wasn’t butch’s fault Dobbs threw a pick with 2 minutes at Bama, that our defense broke down on a 4th down try twice vs FL, Vandy simply wanted it more. The biggest issue has been our offensive co, because debord mismanaged is personnel, especially this year at home vs bama. You can point fingers at the coach all day long, but if the players didn’t execute then you can’t blame the coach they got outplayed. The coaching flaws were in his offense, everything else this year given the fact we had more offensive line changes(8), Defensive line changes(11), LB changes(8), and DB changes(8) than most of the country is remarkable that we even got to a bowl game. it is actually impressive that we had a 9 win season for the first time since Phil left, and the first time we have had 3 straight bowl wins vs the B1G since the mid 90’s. This year our team was plagued with injuries and we found a way to make it. Give me a coach who has had this many injuries in a season and do what Jones did.
None of these kids being recruited ever heard of Chris Weinke.
How bout this Butch?
You hire Weinke then trade him to FSU for Randy Sanders! Lol
Fulmer and UT did Sanders wrong so why would Sanders want to come back? Sanders fell on the sword for Fulmer.
Mr. CowChip…please do 99% of the Vol fan base a huge favor ….and you fall on a sword. Your endless diatribe and grammatical slobber of UT coaches and players is really tiresome.
No coach at any position from any era will satisfy your simplistic football academia. You are a wanna be fan that lives a miserable empty life that only finds inner joy in criticizing the efforts of others while your own life is a complete failure. Your welcome!
And Newgene sits at home on his computer void of any female only his tiny little sausage in his hand to play with. Bet you are a gamer too aint you. With your little headset on thinking your cool playing video games while the rest of the world makes fun of you. You think your smart trying to use correct grammer but all in all you sit at home and jack to porn all day, not even normal porn, that jap made anime shat because in reality your still a virgin and dont even know what a real woman looks like. Now thank you…..b i t c h.
Wow, do you people ever post anything positive? No I don’t think you do.
bryanchip, you had me believing till you said SC never wins more than 7 or 8 games a year. It hasn’t been long ago that they won 11 games 3 years in a row. Now there’s not many teams that have done that, but SC has!!!
And thats the ONLY time they have done that in the SEC. Am I wrong? Most of the time its 7 wins or less since joining the SEC.
Would be much better than Peyton, he actually WON a Heismann. Lol
And not to mention Peyton is too rich to be an OC in Knoxville. Someone worth 250 million does not want to be stuck in Knoxville all year.
While he may have won the Heisman, look at his NFL career over Weinke. Peyton also helped mentor his successor in Indy in Luck who is slowly but surely become a premier QB for them. Peyton also has been known to come in during the summer and work with the QB, WR, TE. he would make a good hire, even without a a trophy saying he was the greatest college QB of his time. The issue is Peyton doesn’t want to coach.
I think he would be a great addition to the staff.