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If you had a choice of any previous UT coach to coach now who would it be? Must be someone from the 60's forward.
 
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Doug Dickey was a really good coach in his brief time at UT won 2 or 3 SEC titles can’t remember and beat Bear and Bama a few times but he left us to go coach at Florida and wasn’t as successful there. He turned us around though from Bowden Wyatt and Bill Battle walked into a pretty good situation following Dickey in 1970.
 
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Majors. But a better question is:

If there is anyone you would want as Voice of the Vols, who would it be?
 
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LargeOrange1 said:
Phil-o-Potamus won because of Cut and Chief.......without them he's Derek Dooley. How many schools came after him when UT canned him?
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Well, the criteria was a Vol coach post 1960.

I wouldn't want Wyatt, McDonald, Battle or anyone post Fulmer. So the conversation really boils down to Phil, Dickey or Majors. Dickey did well but wasn't here long and didn't really show that he could win at Florida. Majors was good but wildly inconsistent. At the end of his tenure, he did less with similar talent to Phil.

I don't feel like having 2 good coordinators and letting them do their thing is a knock on a coach.

Pruitt has one good coordinator and had decided to tie both arms around his back.

Majors did have one school want him post-UT and the results were abysmal.
 
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I have to go with Dickey for the simple reason that I attended all 16 games at Neyland that Dickey coached while I was a student at U.T. He left after the 1969 season, and I started in Fall of 67. I saw 15 wins, one tie, and no defeats while I was in the stands those 3 seasons. I was actually at U.T. for 5 Fall seasons, 1967 through 1971. We were 27-1-1 at home while I was a student. One tie with Georgia (17-17), and one loss by 1 point to Auburn (10-9), led by Heisman Trophy winner Pat Sullivan.
 
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Probably Lane because I’m not sure the style of any of the others would translate into today’s game.

Fulmer would be a close second but would need a killer OC.
 
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Because of the way the game has evolved, has to be Kiffin...although I would be intrigued with what Majors would come up with in this new modern RPO based offense everyone runs now since it is loosely based on the Wing T or Veer pass that was popular back in his day.

Second would be Fulmer but he would need an OC that he trusted 100 percent and would put up points.
 
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