MWAVolfan
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In case you haven't seen this rerun before, the current coach maxes out his potential and the precipitous decline begins. First with inexplicable history making (in a bad way) on-field results and then on the recruiting trail. By the time people wake up you're on your way to losing every SEC game. When there are six games to go and everyone knows the coach is a dead man walking, but just hasn't been fired yet the recruits will jump ship.
" But all this coach needs is a QB and things will get better" and where's that QB gonna come from when recruits are fleeing the program? He doesn't have the ability to convince a top shelf QB to come here now. He's a defensive guru supposedly and he can't keep our top defensive prospects from bolting. How's he gonna get a good QB?
Once the slow moving unresponsive program finally wakes up and terminates the coaching staff, its too late. The body has been cold for too long on the operating table. Too damaged by its injuries.
You then hire a new coach who is given the task of trying to bring a dead program back to life after it's been drained and embalmed. Setting them up for failure before they even had a chance.
The key to ending this cycle is cutting off the coach BEFORE this inevitable conclusion. While there are still plenty of good recruits in the pipeline. DO YOUR COACHING SEARCH NOW AND NAME THE NEW COACH WITHIN A WEEK OF FIRING THE OLD ONE. Don't give the recruits a chance to bolt. Show them a big name coach and they will get as excited as the fans will.
If you have to go into debt to get the right coach, do it because winning again will generate unimaginable amounts of money. the ROI is solid in the SEC. We need to be done hiring coaches who have to "grow and develop" on-the-job. Literally any coach will come here for the right dollar signs. YES TENNESSEE IS NOW IN A POSITION WHERE IT WILL HAVE TO DRASTICALLY OVERPAY FOR A GOOD COACH. Tennessee had soiled itself and made this an extremely tough job. The good news is UT has been shopping in the bargain bin for years, so they should be able to step up now with all the money they've saved over those years, buyouts or no buyouts. The way I figure it, Tennessee will need to pay 7-8 million to get the right coach here immediately. Just call it the cost of doing business once you have given up all your leverage as a premier football program. Those days are gone now. Time to pony up and pay for all your sins.
" But all this coach needs is a QB and things will get better" and where's that QB gonna come from when recruits are fleeing the program? He doesn't have the ability to convince a top shelf QB to come here now. He's a defensive guru supposedly and he can't keep our top defensive prospects from bolting. How's he gonna get a good QB?
Once the slow moving unresponsive program finally wakes up and terminates the coaching staff, its too late. The body has been cold for too long on the operating table. Too damaged by its injuries.
You then hire a new coach who is given the task of trying to bring a dead program back to life after it's been drained and embalmed. Setting them up for failure before they even had a chance.
The key to ending this cycle is cutting off the coach BEFORE this inevitable conclusion. While there are still plenty of good recruits in the pipeline. DO YOUR COACHING SEARCH NOW AND NAME THE NEW COACH WITHIN A WEEK OF FIRING THE OLD ONE. Don't give the recruits a chance to bolt. Show them a big name coach and they will get as excited as the fans will.
If you have to go into debt to get the right coach, do it because winning again will generate unimaginable amounts of money. the ROI is solid in the SEC. We need to be done hiring coaches who have to "grow and develop" on-the-job. Literally any coach will come here for the right dollar signs. YES TENNESSEE IS NOW IN A POSITION WHERE IT WILL HAVE TO DRASTICALLY OVERPAY FOR A GOOD COACH. Tennessee had soiled itself and made this an extremely tough job. The good news is UT has been shopping in the bargain bin for years, so they should be able to step up now with all the money they've saved over those years, buyouts or no buyouts. The way I figure it, Tennessee will need to pay 7-8 million to get the right coach here immediately. Just call it the cost of doing business once you have given up all your leverage as a premier football program. Those days are gone now. Time to pony up and pay for all your sins.
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