volfannbama
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No. I want a proven winner now!
STOP SETTLING for up & comers.
No thanks. Plenty of Big Fish still on the board. Why on earth would anyone want to take a chance on another "up and comer?"
Dooley and Butch were "up and comers."
2 Good seasons (at WK) is not NEAR enough to want him at Tennessee.
aim higher people
Aren't most coaches former players? Not counting the trumpet player we have on the sideline of course.
What if he wins 8 games in his first season at Purdue? They were 3-9 last year. In my opinion, it would be stupid to ignore that.
So was Kirby Smart. Georgia was the guy's first head coaching job, and lots of non-Georgia fans had doubts about him, including myself (Saban is the one truly running Alabama's defense, he's just the button pusher, etc.). It looks like he's going to be a great coach and is already recruiting the daylights out of his state.
Chip Kelly.
Why?
1. Proven winner at a high level
2. No buyout
3. Wants to coach again.
4. We have players on our roster that fits Kelly's style of offense.
To me, this is a no brainer.
No it would not be stupid to ignore that.
Right now Tennessee needs a proven winner.....after that they need to best option available, and he is not it. Sure he is good, but even if he won 8 games he is a huge unknown (as far as what you will get at a power school). Tennessee has been coach suffering for many years. One way to keep that going is to fire the coach and hire another gamble.
Well they werent wrong
We might have to. Other big schools have hired coaches with no head coaching experience lately, or were a head coach at a school viewed as a small time school: Kirby Smart, Lincoln Riley, James Franklin come to mind.
No thanks. Plenty of Big Fish still on the board. Why on earth would anyone want to take a chance on another "up and comer?"
Dooley and Butch were "up and comers."
Chip Kelly.
Why?
1. Proven winner at a high level
2. No buyout
3. Wants to coach again.
4. We have players on our roster that fits Kelly's style of offense.
To me, this is a no brainer.
He's a name on a list of names. There's more to it than just those two years. He has been a successful coordinator at a P-5 school. Something neither Jones nor Dooley had done. His two primary career influences are Schnellenberger and Petrino. That's a better pedigree than Dooley or Jones.
Brohm is a different kind of "up and comer"... the Urban Meyer @ Bowling Green variety.