We can’t do better than that?? I appreciate your information. But I can’t help but think that boosters and the leadership at UT has killed this program! The fans have been loyal since Fulmer was fired and we still get a **** sandwich. Maybe it will be okay. IDK
Not to pick, and this is just my opinion, but "no, we can't do better than that." Not right now. It is what it is.
The Vols are going to be terrible the next couple of years no matter who the HC is. The alternative would have been to go with Steele as an interim and try to make a splashier hire next year. Had White done that, this forum would explode with people bitching about the wasted recruiting classes, etc., and the "we are paying a gillion dollars to an AD and he hires an interim" chatter. There is no pleasing some people.
I am not directing this to you, but I encourage all Vol fans to give up this sense of entitlement, that the Vols "deserve" a "proven, offensive minded, winning record, coach with previous P5 HC experience, [fill in the blank for fan's demands regarding the coaching hire]. White is one of the best in the business, and he settled on Huepel as the best available option right now.
Again, the best available option right now. This forum is full of armchair, keyboard ADs who would second guess the hiring of anyone not named Nick Saban. And if UT had hired Saban 10 years ago they would have second guessed that too.
Postscript: UT was never going to hire Hugh Freeze. I realize he's (supposedly) available and wants the job, but when the program staring down the barrel of NCAA violations its not the time to hire a guy with that much baggage. JMHO.