Remember the great feeling then ho-hum?

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And those of us who tried to express their disappointment and frustration with that hire were deemed nega vols and flamed to hell and back. Now, you can't find anyone who ever thought Butch was the right hire. Interesting.
 
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I thought: “Man, Let me google him to see who it is.” (Kind of praying I would recognize him as a great coach.) “Weird. I’ve never heard that name on Volnation during this whole search.”

I realized it was the guy Dooley actually beat. Major letdown. He was so unknown that even the media called him Butch Davis at first.

He did better than I expected him with recruiting and even wins the last 2 years, so I got behind him...until he laid an egg this year (and at the end of last season.)
 
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I remember being underwhelmed when they announced Butch as coach. I've supported him all along. I am tired of the "complementary football" type cliches and don't feel that Butch has "owned it" enough. He's dodged too many questions and danced around the issues. He has now lost the fan base, so it's time to part ways. I have faith & hope that Currie will get the best coach possible!
 
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slickvol said:
I didn't like the hire from the beginning and I never could buy into the brick by brick and BS cliches.
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This.

But to be fair, he actually did better than I expected. The man just literally slid into good situations created by Kelly.
 
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tastycar said:
I hated the hire from day 1. I was a huge Leach supporter at the time and got destroyed on vn for it.

I wonder if we would be baffled why Currie isn't firing Leach in year 5 if they had hired him.
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I wanted to hire Brian Kelly instead of Kiffin, and that was the offseason before his 12-win season that got him the ND job. Provided we didn’t lose him to ND, Kelly would probably still be here.
But, my father didn’t give me a job, and I’m not worth billions. What do I know?
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
And those of us who tried to express their disappointment and frustration with that hire were deemed nega vols and flamed to hell and back. Now, you can't find anyone who ever thought Butch was the right hire. Interesting.
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You won’t find a post from me praising the hire.
 
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Me either. I paid dearly for daring to question his majesty Bama Dave and his hire prince jones
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
And those of us who tried to express their disappointment and frustration with that hire were deemed nega vols and flamed to hell and back. Now, you can't find anyone who ever thought Butch was the right hire. Interesting.
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This.

I never was crazy about the hire, but I liked him more than I did Dooley's announcement for no other reason than Jones had accomplished more than Dooley did. I never cared for his cliched slogans and all, but he recruited great so I got over it. But he lost me last year against SC and then Vandy.

The same can be said about Dooley; towards the end everyone hated him and acted like they never liked him but that's bs. After his first press conference many jumped on his bandwagon, because he had a thick Southern accent and said "britches". On top of that, I distinctly remember Dooley still had defenders in 2012 up until the Missouri game. I still remember being at the Mizzou game and reading the game thread and when we were ahead, there were people praising his "changes" and how Dooley was turning it around. Only after we blew that game did they finally disappear.

And make no mistake, the same thing will happen again. If we again go down the path of "Google coach", there will many that will hear his first press conference and come out and say "After hearing him talk, I think he is the right man for the job!" Rinse and repeat.
 
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Technically speaking, it wasn't a bad hire at the time. He had experienced success to that point. Limited, but it was success. The fact that he had lost to Dooley doesn't really change that. He'd been a head coach for 6 years and there was reason to believe he might be ready to take the next step. He just happened to be a pretender.

That said, I don't fault anyone who initially "bought in". It was not a Dooley hire. I bought in myself and was fully on board through the end of the '15 season. My opinion began to sway heavily over the course of the '16 season in spite of the 5-0 start (the dreadful starts against Appalachian St, Virginia Tech, and UF were huge red flags to me for some reason). By the back half of that season, I was barely phased by the SC and Vandy losses. I was already 80% certain he wasn't the guy. The remaining 20% was taken care of by this year's Florida game.
 
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VolAllen said:
Serious. This site has been repetitive garbage for the last few weeks, but OP’s post actually made me laugh, cry, and agree all at once.
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Gotcha, agree with all the sentiments.. maybe we will get our next Gen Neyland or Fulmer soon...
 
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The Tall Gguy said:
And those of us who tried to express their disappointment and frustration with that hire were deemed nega vols and flamed to hell and back. Now, you can't find anyone who ever thought Butch was the right hire. Interesting.
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Oh there's still a few on here that are still loyal to Butch; they just aren't as overt in their support at the moment.
 
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Funny, like a lot of others this post describes me to a "T" pun intended. i have been to every single home game since 95 vandy and i said that day i was prob giving up season tix. my buddies said "give it a chance" i did. i bought in. i believed. went to tax slayer bowl. I started to requestion it all after some of the mindless collapses. Florida this year was my last straw. I boggles my mind why he is still on the sidelines up there. I dont believe in emptyneyland, but i will be there tomorrow and every time he is shown on the jumbotron i will boo loudly.
 
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