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Agreed. Once upon a time, beating Kentucky & Candy was about as guaranteed as could be. Not so much these days.

No way we lose to Candy or Kentucky. South Carolina & Missouri are the only question marks left, and even Jones can't screw the pooch that bad.

Certain inferences could be made from circumstantial evidence -- such as the party with better access to information fails to produce it (e.g., the AD and the tape) whereby the failure to disclose or produce it can be used as an evidentiary inference the tape reveals their position is weak.

The same Volquest that has never broken a negative story about an existing coaching staff and hid other negative stories about every coaching predecessor? The same Skeeter who is taking personal attacks on a player, usually a sure-fire sign of guilt by a coach. After all, an innocent coach...

USA Today lists his pay at $5.6M, second only to Saban.

We tried that. We floated huge offers to Gruden (better than Saban type pay), and big pay-raises to others like Sumlin, Sutcliffe, Kelly, Patterson. They all turned us down.

Dantona is already a top-5 paid coach at $5M+ year.

The smart ones script their path to keep themselves on the best destination. Saban skipped a UT type destination. Same with Sumlin, Kelly, Meyer. Even Freeze and Malzahn were careful with what jobs they took. A smart coach will skip Tennessee on that destination chart as too high risk of a...

I agree the recruiting has been promising, but there has been two important caveats. First, much of Butch's talent that has been here more than 1 year was due to a bumper crop of in-state talent/legacy players, not unique ability to land out-of-area recruits. Second, much of Butch's...

Three points. First, the talent we have had recently is an anomaly historically in-state (hopefully a trend, but doubtful, given lack of population changes). Second, we actually have very tough competition for in-state recruits (though not from an "in-state" program) because the school...

His track record was 9-10 wins on average except the two seasons we had OC issues blossom. He NEVER had bad back-to-back seasons in 17 years at the helm. We were likely heading for a cycle of 2 good years, 1 bad year, which would have been a lot better than 7 bad years in a row.

Not true. Only Hamilton was aggressively angling for his firing, and pulled the trigger early (Fulmer getting fired for 6 losses when that is all we have done since his firing is at least 6 losses) to avoid a rally. Haslam and others were not pushing for any firing at all. Read Travis' book or...

Which was a ludicrous requirement for Hammy to impose; Hammy just didn't want Cutcliffe here.

The rankings were legitimate. There are two reasons why they over-state talent currently: first, the large number of 4* players lost from the 2014 recruiting class; and second, the failure to develop/identify a QB to produce at an SEC competitive level.

They were not interested, as evident by the fact they actually turned it down when offered. Dooley was the 5th choice that year. Patterson has said he does not want to leave TCU for some time; he didn't even budge when Texas was interested.