Hamilton...if you or your colleagues are checking these boards...listen up. Let's make this real simple like.
You had better knock it off with all these damn coordinators and unproven candidates...Cutcliffe is one of them. There are half a dozen candidates that have consistently proven that they can win as a Head Coach, and do so with less talent. Going after them with a middle of the road contract offer is not going to cut it. You lowballed Kiffin with one of the lowest contracts in the conference, and yet expect him to go head to head with coaches who make twice as much.
Tennessee is a PREMIERE program...not a Budget Rental program. Stop throwing lowball contracts out there to see who bites. Put Urban Meyer and Nick Saban kind of money on the table and let's stop it with the nonsense.
If you don't come back from your search with a Gruden, Lovie Smith, Kyle Wittingham, Chris Peterson, Gary Patterson, or Edsell...just don't come back at all. Seriously...cause your time is done if you don't. Wait and see, if you think we're Bullchitting.