Poll: Greatest Tennessee Football Coach of the Last 58 years...

Which of the following is the best UT Head Coach of the last 58 years?

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#51
#51
Doug Dickey. He cleaned up the mess left by the end of the Wyatt era, and won 2 SEC championships in a six year run. If we had gotten the right coach to replace Dickey, with the talent he left, then the 70s might have been completely different.
 
#52
#52
MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
Doug Dickey. He cleaned up the mess left by the end of the Wyatt era, and won 2 SEC championships in a six year run. If we had gotten the right coach to replace Dickey, with the talent he left, then the 70s might have been completely different.
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Had Dickey stuck around a few more years, who knows how much he could have accomplished. He left behind a really good program, which Battle wrecked and also which never really recovered for over a decade after Battle's departure.
 
#53
#53
eazyTD said:
Its downright scary to think of the numbers Manning would have put up in Spurrier's offense.
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What if Brees had commited to UK? He was very close to going there instead of Purdue. Can you imagine him in the Air Raid?
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#56
#56
I liked CLK, but in a decade or so, he will be as revered in UT football history as is Jim McDonald (for his role as HFC).
 
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#58
#58
Johnny Majors. He rebuilt the program to respectability. CPF inherited a great football team and returned a mediocre one when he departed.
 
#60
#60
SGMVols said:
Everybody commits secondary violations. Fulmer committed a litany of them. Dooley will commit one at some point. I laugh every time someone says Kiffin was going to land us on major probation had he stayed.
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With all due respect, that's quite the crystal ball you have there, SGM.
 
#61
#61
utmba93 said:
I liked CLK, but in a decade or so, he will be as revered in UT football history as is Jim McDonald (for his role as HFC).
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In all fairness, Coach McDonald did the best he could with what he had. We were awful in those days. No, he was not the man for the job, but he tried his best. He was a terrific man and LOVED the University of Tennessee. His son, Jim, is a fraternity brother and a great guy also.
 
#63
#63
oUTKickedCoverage said:
Don't really see an argument for Kiffin as an individual, but I do think we had the best coaching staff in over half a century last season(at UT).
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Kiffin and staff were just the best recruiters Tn. has ever had. But I voted for Fulmer because of his results on field.
 
#64
#64
VoL BaLL 777 said:
Kiffin and staff were just the best recruiters Tn. has ever had. But I voted for Fulmer because of his results on field.
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Uhhh, Kiffin's staff put together a #10 class. You're going to tell me with that 1 year he has proven more than Fulmer did in the 90s?
 
#66
#66
nbakerld said:
Uhhh, Kiffin's staff put together a #10 class. You're going to tell me with that 1 year he has proven more than Fulmer did in the 90s?
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+1

For the first 15 years of his career, the man averaged better than a #10 class every year... including a couple of mythical recruiting titles.
 
#67
#67
Volfootball55 said:
He will prove how much talent he has for going against the rules. Unfortunately he will win ball games, but it may not matter after the NCAA gets through with them. As long as he is a coach there, the NCAA microscope will be at USC, maybe even more so then before. Everyone wants to see him fail, wouldn't doubt one bit if that included the NCAA.
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I want to see him fail as much as anybody, but I doubt the NCAA does. Maybe some people within the NCAA would like to see it, but overall USC is a big moneymaker for them. I predict a slap on the wrist and nothing more. They won't kill their cash cow.

I hope I am wrong!
 
#68
#68
nbakerld said:
Uhhh, Kiffin's staff put together a #10 class. You're going to tell me with that 1 year he has proven more than Fulmer did in the 90s?
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He very likely would have signed a top 3 class this year had he stayed at UT.
 
#69
#69
SGMVols said:
He very likely would have signed a top 3 class this year had he stayed at UT.
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If's and but's...

You can't draw a conclusion on the Fulmer v. Kiffin debate on what might have happened.

You are certainly free to conjecture what might have happened, but I don't see any actual proof of Kiffin being a better coach than Fulmer. Even if I think he was, I have to admit that my evidence is scant... and mostly based on silly things like losing close.
 
#70
#70
For the record, I think Kiffin's career would have been a near perfect parallel to Dickey's...

A quick turnaround, followed by an exit within 5 years, and a bunch of "what if's" left in his wake... I just didn't expect the exit to happen after one season.
 
#71
#71
I think Phil Fulmer would have supreme control over that claim, until he let it all go at the end. Lost the respect of the team, and they got out of control. They played undisciplined. But at one point of his career he was a great coach. Regardless of what Kiffin did to us, I think he is a pretty good coach.
 
#74
#74
Better than Fulmer? We went 7-6 in one season. Kinda hard to argue he would have been better than a guy with a career record of 152-52 and a NC. As much as I'm pissed he left I think he could have been a great coach here but after one season he can't even be thought of in a "Greatest Ever" poll.
 
#75
#75
Rocky Top said:
Better than Fulmer? We went 7-6 in one season. Kinda hard to argue he would have been better than a guy with a career record of 152-52 and a NC. As much as I'm pissed he left I think he could have been a great coach here but after one season he can't even be thought of in a "Greatest Ever" poll.
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That 7-6 record might as well be an SEC title compared to what The Fired Coach would have put up in '09 had he been retained.
 
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