Ok. Then answer me this. Would you want Greg Schiano as the Tennessee Head Coach if he wasn't tied to the PSU scandal based off his job performance?
Don't know, never thought about it. See, I remember that report coming out in 2016 that implicated Schiano. Sure, was just hearsay, but it was hearsay from a guy who had nothing to win by saying it.
I actually had a fairly positive (though not overly well-informed) view of Schiano prior to that. I don't follow pro football until the playoffs, so never heard any of the grumblings about his two years with the NFL. What I knew of him was that he accomplished more at Rutgers than most other coaches could. Seemed like a competent coach.
Then the news in 2016, and my opinion of him dropped like a rock. Integrity and character are big to me. Very important. Schiano wasn't a sleaze bag from that point on, but he was a potential sleaze bag. There were questions, serious questions.
And so the minute his name came up on Sunday, I was deeply opposed. Didn't even consider his success or failure on the field, only knew that he was FAR from the type person we wanted as the face of Tennessee football.
I suspect a lot of other folks had similar experiences to mine, over the years. And reacted in much the same way.
So you might want to stop asserting that this fan base was focused on his W-L record. It was far more serious than that, to many of us.