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No one has ever embarrassed this university like Butch. Anyone involved with hiring/extending him at Tennessee should be run out of Knoxville if they haven’t already.

He set us back one year. Everything that followed after he left is why we went in the toilet. Penn State and Baylor were back in action almost immediately because they didn’t repeatedly let idiots hire other idiots.

Depends on how big of a step backward you want to take after last year. Those guys are going to be a very sizable one.

The idea that it is a done deal is. There’s smoke there and it could still happen. I would imagine UCLA is a little hesitant. They’ve already dealt with the Iamaleava’s and been burned.

We have recently employed Bruce Pearl, Donnie Tyndall, Butch Jones, Jeremy Pruitt, Todd Raleigh, whoever that swim coach was, and quite a few sleazy assistants on those staffs. Kiffin certainly isn’t lowering the standard here.

They chose to negotiate using the threat of harm to the program (leaving at the time that would screw us the hardest) versus using his accomplishments to date as evidence of increased worth. That isn’t someone you want around.

Not going to relist the obvious ones that have been mentioned 100 times, but some good ones... Georgia - 2009 Absolutely rolled them in Athens, seemed to signal that we were back. What could have been. LSU - 2005 I'm not sure we've ever had the world pulling against us as hard as in that...

I mean they had Suh taking over games single-handedly and chose to give it to Mark Ingram.

There have been better defenders not get a sniff in favor of far, far less outstanding quarterbacks. It was a ridiculous year to pull such an obvious media stunt.

Really need to do a better job electing officials that are friendlier to UT athletics.

I would say Slaughter and Charles should have been at safety, but we needed corners and that's just the way it was.

Didn't he rule out Notre Dame because they didn't have waffles for him?

All that character stuff clearly went out the window a long time ago. Hard to imagine many would have an edge on Hooker, even if that stuff still mattered.

And we put up about triple what they did against Mizzou, so some of that stuff doesn't really matter.

The problem is there are so many voters that probably haven’t watched Hooker or Bennett play. They see UGA is #1, hear talk about Stetson, and just include him on their ballot, probably behind the guys they’ve actually seen like Stroud and Williams. The guys covering the SEC felt the...