You support Butch Jones. I support UT football, and right now Butch Jones is damaging the brand with incompetent coaching decisions. Eventually, that illness will infect the staff, and then the team. We saw it last year. It's a matter of opinion as to whether or not the warning signs were there from the beginning.
His record is what it is. Do your research. He has not, and likely will not lead this program back to Atlanta, much less past it. The mind-numbing part of all this is that Butch seems to be oblivious to the fact that he needs to make changes...not with his staff...but with his ego and his mindset, in order to get the most out of all that talent he has recruited.
The sad thing for me is that I really liked the hire. He looked like a tough football coach. He sounded like a tough football coach. He seemed genuinely excited to get the job. He talked about rebuilding, and restoring the program. He embraced the Maxims. He said all the right things. I remember thinking, hoping, that here was the hard-nosed, no nonsense, beat their ass at the line of scrimmage type coach that UT really needed. Rocky Top tough. It hurts to see him struggle to even say the right thing in a press conference now, much less make the right call in a game.
In the end...10 years from now...I think we will look back at the Butch Jones era and wonder what might have been if he had simply checked his ego and made the adjustments needed to win in the SEC.
For me, the honeymoon is over. Butch ain't it. Can he prove me wrong? Yes. Will he? His record to this point says "no". So for me, what must be done eventually should be done immediately. He gets the rest of the season to prove the doubters wrong. I'll concede the Bama game. I'll throw in LSU or UGA just to make it fair. Heck, I'll give him both. But at loss #5, which right now looks like a very real possibility, I think it's time to thank him for restocking the cupboard, and move on.
I'm not Donald Trump, and I approve this message.
Go Vols.
