I think you forgot about the first half of the season. We stopped absolutely noone, even before injuries. As the defensive coordinator, Shoop should have been able to get his assistants to do what he wanted done; he's in charge. Coordinators go to teams all of the time and make an impact immediately, but when that doesn't happen at UT everyone digs into random bleacher report articles for a good reason. " His assistants" work for him right now, as they did all season and he should have been able to make them do what was needed. That didn't happen except for in one half of the Florida game and in the bowl game. Pituful beginning, mid, and end of season. Adjustments to the run were non-existant, and pass defense was really no better. If shoop was a good manager he should have been able to stop vandy and SCar with the backups, period. Byweeks didn't even help and the defense never ever looked prepared except for in that forementioned second half vs Florida. Just admit to the fact that Shoop had a bad year, period. Anything else IS AN EXCUSE. I honestly think that he will do much better next year because he really is a good coach. Just didn't work out this year regardless of the situation handed to him.