The most alarming thing is that he is beginning to distance himself and talk about his team in the 3rd person and in the abstract. Fulmer was REALLY bad about this in his clappy-grimacy pumpkin days after 2002 or so.
During these pressers, I'm like "gosh, coach, if only there was a person who had the responsibility to address and fix all these problems you mentioned with 'the team' or 'them'"..."Oh, wait.....that's a HEAD COACH....and isn't that YOU?"
He isn't going anywhere, and we can't afford to fire him if we wanted to. He and Fulmer will continue to feed at the UT teat to the tune of 90K and 20K a week as long as they possibly can.
And, if he were to be fired, I STRONGLY suspect Fulmer may simply look in the mirror for his replacement..........
We are hosed.