In the book Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, he explains how numerous bad or unfortunate decisions timed at the exact wrong times can lead to major disasters or outliers to the statistical probabilities. Think about that in terms of Tennessee Football.
1. Mike Hamilton fired a Hall of Fame coach during the season.
2. Mike Hamilton gives the keys to a young and immature lane kiffin.
3. Kiffin made poor decisions on NCAA rules while at Tennessee.
4. Pete Carroll bails on USC after the Reggie Bush scandal for Seattle.
5. Kiffin decides to leave in our most crucial hour for the USC job.
6. Mike Hamilton hires of all possible choices, Derek Dooley.
7. Derek Dooley coaches, we all got to see those results.
8. Tennessee still being punished to this day by NCAA from kiffin errors.
Tennessee is a proud football program, in the top 10 by all statistical facts. The last 5 years we have lost at unprecedented levels, we are living in the statistical outlier.
In the meantime, Coach Dooley is still working on getting correct number of players on the field. I suppose that is a statistical challenge of some sort...