It started with Cutcliffe leaving. Then Fulmer got complacent or lazy after so many years, and let recruiting and discipline slip. Then at least 2 bad hires, possibly more, and here we are.
What do you want, posts of butterflies, rainbows, and sunshine? We just blew a golden opportunity to beat a really bad Florida team. Everyone SHOULD be pissed. Can Butch recruit? Yes. Can he coach? I haven't seen any evidence yet. We will probably win 7 or 8 games in 2015 and 8 or 9 games in 2016 alone based solely on the talent we are bringing in, but I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that he can bring us where we all want to go, which is competing for and hopefully winning championships again. We were all hoping today's game would be evidence that Butch can coach up a team to beat a bad, underachieving Florida team, but instead we saw just the opposite. We saw poor coaching decisions, especially on offense, cost us the game. I hope Butch is the real deal, because if he isn't and we have to hire someone else 2 or 3 years down the road, we will continue to be stuck in college football purgatory for the next decade. But so far I haven's any evidence that he is the real deal on the field. Until he start's winning games that matter, I am agnostic on Butch Jones and his staff.