And the thing that gets me the most are all the guys who haven't taken the time to look at his time,results and the circumstances at Vandie, who talk about him as one of the great coaches in the country. He's just not. If you look at what he did at Vandie, it's ONLY impressive relative to what Vandie has done for decades. Truth is, the stars aligned perfectly for him there with regards to a historically bad Tennessee team and an awful SEC East. He never finished higher than 4th in the SEC East, was 11-13 in the SEC in 3 years, lost to all the good teams and only beat the bad teams, while not playing Alabama in either of his 9 win seasons. It was all stars aligning type stuff and smoke and mirrors and now we're seeing that at PennState. He's a fraud who can't do as well 4 years after the whole Paterno mess as OBrien did the 2 immediate years following it. And, oh yeah, he's s dick. An arrogant, condescending, narcissistic, thin-skinned ass who is now being exposed as not a very good head football coach to boot.
. I guess my minor annoyance is with the blanket statement of Tennessee "cheapness". In the relatively short era of million dollar coordinators who have we LOST due to that cheapness? Since we've been rebuilding, who have we failed to hire for money rather than program stability purposes? You brought up Fulmer's financial battles with admin? He got a chunk of money in his golden parachute and we lost Cut twice...to HC jobs. Just don't see your coupon theory manifested in any solid examples. :hi:
