So it's obvious. We still haven't attracted a top coach.

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Boston Vol said:
Because Tennessee is notoriously cheap. Won't shell out the money needed for a big fish.
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If that's true then you get what you pay for. Paying a top coach returns itself to the program. This can't be a hart decision. This must be a UT admin decision. They obviously don't get it. So basically we lucked out by having Majors and Fulmer who just loved UT enough to come home and stay. Nobody is going to work for minimum wage anymore.
 
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Because this job combines high expectations with high obstacles to meeting those expectations. TV contracts and modern college football allow a lot of programs to offer competitive contracts, so our edge there is minimal, and even if it were more, it would be a high-risk job for the smart candidate. Here is why:

1. The number 1 factor in winning is talent better than your schedule;
2. The number 1 factor in recruiting talent is a local talent base with loyalty to your football brand;
3. 9 of our competitors in the SEC have better local talent bases than we do, including Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Auburn, LSU, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Miss. State, and 2 are close/comparable in Arkansas & Missouri;
4. This means that if we hire a coach as good as those programs, we should still lose 5 to 6 games each year, due to their built-in local talent base competitive advantage;
5. Our program fired a coach who had, for only the 2nd time in his 16+ year career, lost 6 games in a season, a coach who was a HOF local who had appeared in the SEC title game the year before and won a national title for the program, a fan base who believes we should be "SEC title or bust" in our expectations, should beat our much-more-local-talent rivals Florida, Alabama and Georgia each year, and find 8-win-a-season contracts a "joke."

Given that the modern SEC features good coaches throughout, a coach to meet UT fan expectations would have to achieve what no coach has achieved anywhere -- out-recruit good recruiters for their local talent and out-coach more talented teams on a consistent, exceptional basis. That is why only an idiot (or a big-hat-and-no-cattle kind of coach, exactly the kind we have hired 3 times in a row when the better coaches all turned us down) would ever jump to take the Tennessee job. Fan delusions about the reality of where we stand in the college football landscape (lack-of-local-talent-base in a brutal-SEC-schedule with fans expecting titles-or-bust) is why we are here.
 
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Jimmy Cheek - Univ. of Florida
Dave Hart - Univ. of Alabama

As long as these 2 guys are calling the shots you can expect to continue to be mediocre.
They've got us right where they want us.
 
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Every fanbas is whiney. If you make them happy they are loyal to no end!! UT admin...get us a good coach.
 
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estes said:
Arkansas pays their coach $1 mill more than we do...They're not very happy either....Oh and listen to the Georgia fans today.....
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The point is Arkansas was able to lure a guy with multiple big ten titles because they opened the checkbook.
 
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MT LeConte said:
Why? They know how whiney and unsupportive our fan base is.
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Yeah we were real unsupportive when we had 101k show up in the rain after seeing our team blow leads versus Florida and Oklahoma. Or when the fans sold out the stadium versus Western Carolina after the gut wrenching loss versus oklahoma.
 
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#38
No ****. We never will with this fanbase. If a coach doesn't turn around the ten year dumpster fire in 1 or 2 years, we are ready to jump ship. NO Coach wants to step into a place with a fanbase like this.
 
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Spawn said:
No ****. We never will with this fanbase. If a coach doesn't turn around the ten year dumpster fire in 1 or 2 years, we are ready to jump ship. NO Coach wants to step into a place with a fanbase like this.
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Its not that he is losing it is the way he is losing. We should have beaten Oklahoma and Florida but poor game management and play cost us. It is inexcuseable
 
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JohnMcA60 said:
Yeah we were real unsupportive when we had 101k show up in the rain after seeing our team blow leads versus Florida and Oklahoma. Or when the fans sold out the stadium versus Western Carolina after the gut wrenching loss versus oklahoma.
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This all day.
 
#46
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Spawn said:
No ****. We never will with this fanbase. If a coach doesn't turn around the ten year dumpster fire in 1 or 2 years, we are ready to jump ship. NO Coach wants to step into a place with a fanbase like this.
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Dumpster fire is putting it mildly ..... Without regard to Jones. The program was in a state of shambles when CBJ arrived
 
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casetopia said:
Jimmy Cheek - Univ. of Florida
Dave Hart - Univ. of Alabama

As long as these 2 guys are calling the shots you can expect to continue to be mediocre.
They've got us right where they want us.
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lol dude in the real world this type of stuff doesn't matter. This is the most redneck point of view ever
 
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volberry said:
We are freagin UT!!!! We are a historic program with lots of cash. Is there still a reason why no good coaches come here? They all pass up on us. I want the truth!!!
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Where is this lots of cash that you speak of our revenues are 107 million and expenses are 106 million..remember football pays for all other sports except mens bball, We also had to cancel some projects because of lack of money

Here is the full list
NCAA | Finances | USA TODAY Sports
 
#49
#49
Too damn broke to shell out the big coin. Can't get a big time coach on the cheap, but you get what you pay for.
 
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