a close friend of mine played on the 98 championship team. he says it's the fact that no one wants to work for hart.
not necessarily my opinion, because i don't know and i don't claim to know. just sharing his, for what it's worth.
The stakes and the pressure are high. You win and you may well become a legend. You lose and get canned, and you (esp. as a junior coach) may as well have put your career in the gutter. It's very risky from a career standpoint.
I wish more people would assign blame for the decline where it's due - Kiffin. If he had left us at a less inopportune time, the Dooley problem would have never happened. I honestly believe that the timing of our search had a great deal to do with its underwhelming outcome.
I've lived in Miami and their fan base is every bit as into football as we are. Not saying the ACC is on par with the SEC, but it wouldn't be fair to call them an uninvolved fan base. Also, they hit rock bottom much sooner after reaching their peak. Our decline was slow and steady.
perhaps i should have said overly cocky - when said cockiness does not correlate to the merits of that individual's performance. in that case, it's easy to lose sight of your own mistakes.
edit: i guess what i'm getting at is it's unwise to underestimate your foe and overestimate your own...
On a somewhat related topic, I think there would be many more "hot Tennessee girl" pictures floating around the internet if our licensed merchandise had a little more variety in terms of cute/sexy UT apparel like other schools do. Our merchandise is simply more modest than that of the Florida...
I've not seen this and, to be fair, ESPN is not THE source, but is rather quoting a source. I guess it all depends on how reliable this original source is. In any event, it appears that the current NCAA investigation is focused on Newton rather than Auburn (i.e., the NCAA hasn't charged Auburn...