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What have you done to earn entitlement? The fan base is Entitled to moan and groan, but in reality, Do they do so without identifying the problem? Most of the Blame lies with the Administration and not the Coaches they hired.
There is more to this mess of a team and it didn't start 2 years ago it's been around since Doug Dickey departed. Not sure about the Blackburn situation but he might have been the right guy to replace Hart.
What has happened here has occurred at every SEC program with the exception of a few. Top of the conference to the basement with a few exceptions. Some recovered quickly and some did not based upon the University's Reactions.
Some schools dug themselves into a deeper hole and their recovery lasted longer. Some Cheated to recover. For us, There have been personality conflicts between our ADs and Coaches, there has been too much Booster involvement, we hired Administrators that had no clue on how to run a program, there has been too much conflict been the powers and we have been teased.
Since Fulmer, we have hired 4 coaches that were IN OVER THEIR HEADS.... Yes, all of them. Yes, we were embarrassed when some coaches turned us down, wanted more money than offered, or used us to get a raise.
Add to it the Gruden Fruit hanging from the Trees (x2) to much money and the BUYOUTS. Talking about Self Inflicted wounds. These ADs and the Administrations have taken out a 9mm and continuously shot their toes off one by one at a time over the past 20 years.
As AD, Doug Dickey had control of every aspect and was in HMFIC. You don't have that today and if he was still here we would not have this mess.
Hamilton focused only on Money and boosters.
Cheek wanted smarter football players and raised the Standards beyond SEC Requirements for Scholarships,
Currie, need I say more,
Davenport in over her head which was obvious.
Kiffin not proven and immature at the time of his hiring. (He would have lead us to near-death (NCAA)...Now humbled.
Butch-Snake Oil Salesman,
Dooley was not capable of coaching a Power 5 school and was more of an Administrator.
Pruitt may not be ready for Prime Time, but don't Blame him we hired him.
If they wanted Gruden with staff then they should have paid him what he wanted. Between the buyouts and the team's record, we may have been better off chasing the Shiney Object.
We didn't, don't blame the coaches for coming here, place the blame on the people and Administration that hired them. This is the same group that almost hire Greg Schiano.
Exit that group, fired, hire another and hand them a hot mess.
This is a vicious 360-degree Cycle the appears to be on-going. It's worse than it appears IMO.
You think about all the coaching changes in the NCAA in the past years at the Top programs and you see that these schools did not make the same mistake twice. We made it in 3 successive hires and TBD if we did it in 4. Year 2 of a massive rebuild that probably has to be taken to Ground Zero to get to the top.
It's going to be painful, but we have to stabilize the patient no matter what the costs.
There is more to this mess of a team and it didn't start 2 years ago it's been around since Doug Dickey departed. Not sure about the Blackburn situation but he might have been the right guy to replace Hart.
What has happened here has occurred at every SEC program with the exception of a few. Top of the conference to the basement with a few exceptions. Some recovered quickly and some did not based upon the University's Reactions.
Some schools dug themselves into a deeper hole and their recovery lasted longer. Some Cheated to recover. For us, There have been personality conflicts between our ADs and Coaches, there has been too much Booster involvement, we hired Administrators that had no clue on how to run a program, there has been too much conflict been the powers and we have been teased.
Since Fulmer, we have hired 4 coaches that were IN OVER THEIR HEADS.... Yes, all of them. Yes, we were embarrassed when some coaches turned us down, wanted more money than offered, or used us to get a raise.
Add to it the Gruden Fruit hanging from the Trees (x2) to much money and the BUYOUTS. Talking about Self Inflicted wounds. These ADs and the Administrations have taken out a 9mm and continuously shot their toes off one by one at a time over the past 20 years.
As AD, Doug Dickey had control of every aspect and was in HMFIC. You don't have that today and if he was still here we would not have this mess.
Hamilton focused only on Money and boosters.
Cheek wanted smarter football players and raised the Standards beyond SEC Requirements for Scholarships,
Currie, need I say more,
Davenport in over her head which was obvious.
Kiffin not proven and immature at the time of his hiring. (He would have lead us to near-death (NCAA)...Now humbled.
Butch-Snake Oil Salesman,
Dooley was not capable of coaching a Power 5 school and was more of an Administrator.
Pruitt may not be ready for Prime Time, but don't Blame him we hired him.
If they wanted Gruden with staff then they should have paid him what he wanted. Between the buyouts and the team's record, we may have been better off chasing the Shiney Object.
We didn't, don't blame the coaches for coming here, place the blame on the people and Administration that hired them. This is the same group that almost hire Greg Schiano.
Exit that group, fired, hire another and hand them a hot mess.
This is a vicious 360-degree Cycle the appears to be on-going. It's worse than it appears IMO.
You think about all the coaching changes in the NCAA in the past years at the Top programs and you see that these schools did not make the same mistake twice. We made it in 3 successive hires and TBD if we did it in 4. Year 2 of a massive rebuild that probably has to be taken to Ground Zero to get to the top.
It's going to be painful, but we have to stabilize the patient no matter what the costs.
