Tennessee (and Nebraska) in Limbo ?

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Taken from a "14 things we hate about the 2017 college football season (so far)" article on MSN.. Everyone is well aware of the Nebraska effect where once power house schools due to changing social economic factors (Nebraska is isolated and cold with low population) are not able to continue success like in the past.. Is it time for Tennessee to face the music too :cray:

I don't think so, think we can offer a sort of football first environment with the right coach, where we're located close to home of our talent base but still kind of away from it all where football is top priority.


At some point, we need to stop treating these schools like blue-bloods. Tennessee hasn’t been to a New Year’s Six Bowl since 2004, and Nebraska hasn’t been to one since 2006. Neither program is going to make any bowl game this year.
Barring a miracle, both will have new head coaches next year. The sooner we stop pretending these are prestigious football schools, the better, because right now, they aren’t. That can change and it may, but we shouldn’t be surprised when these programs struggle anymore.
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-Ethan Sears
 
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Short memoried story. Every program has their ups and downs. Some last longer than others. UT is still one of the winningest programs all time.
 
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was Nebraska ever high population and not cold? Winning is Cyclical....it is what it is. Florida is high population and warm, Miami, FSU, UCLA, USC,...
 
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Ture its always been cold, but I think its pretty understood that it will never be a great football program again. The factors players consider are just different now and programs like Nebraska get the short end of it all.
 
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There is some truth to this because previous ADs (Hamilton & Hart) hired horrible FB coaches that made UT irrelevant for a decade. All it takes is one good hire. Big question is can Currie get the right guy?
 
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Our "storied past" doesn't produce anything on the football field, we need to stop trying to use it as a sunshine-crutch for bad coaching, and worse athletic department decisions.
 
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At some point, we need to stop treating these schools like blue-bloods. Tennessee hasn’t been to a New Year’s Six Bowl since 2004,...
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The reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated.

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I re3call for a few years, Notre Dame had fallen and fallen pretty hard. Their recruiting was down and yet they still considered themselves ELITE as a football program.
We are doing the same thing!!!

Every program has peaks and valleys. Miami had one. Alabama had one. Oklahoma had one. Southern Cal had one. Texas is having one now. We are having ours.

The only thing we need is the prefect hire as our new head coach.

PLEASE, PLEASE do not get angry or disappointed when the new hire is announced.
I bet no one at Auburn was excited when Gene Chizik was hired. He had a losing record at Iowa State! Yet, lo and behold, he got them a National Championship with Scam Newton, Nick Farley & Gus.
Would any of us be willing to hire someone like Scott Satterfield IF we could get lucky and get a National Championship from him before he bombs out again????????
 
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Nebraska went 20 years in between titles. UT went 30. Nebraska hurt themselves by going to the Big 10. UT hurt themselves by being too gracious to Phil Fulmer and not having a solid coaching hire ready when he flamed out.
 
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Nebraska has recruiting problems with it's location and competition with the
big programs in the East and South. A lot of recruits and parents have said
the distance is a big factor. They are a long way from the days of Devany and Osborne.
 
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VolATLien said:
Taken from a "14 things we hate about the 2017 college football season (so far)" article on MSN.. Everyone is well aware of the Nebraska effect where once power house schools due to changing social economic factors (Nebraska is isolated and cold with low population) are not able to continue success like in the past.. Is it time for Tennessee to face the music too :cray:

I don't think so, think we can offer a sort of football first environment with the right coach, where we're located close to home of our talent base but still kind of away from it all where football is top priority.

Sears has a selective memory, bummer was in in the wilderness from stallings last season(92 or'94?) until saban was hired in '07. oklahoma was in the wilderness from switzer's final year 'til stoops was hired. nebraska hasn't been relevant since osborne stepped down. :question:
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VolATLien said:
Taken from a "14 things we hate about the 2017 college football season (so far)" article on MSN.. Everyone is well aware of the Nebraska effect where once power house schools due to changing social economic factors (Nebraska is isolated and cold with low population) are not able to continue success like in the past.. Is it time for Tennessee to face the music too :cray:

I don't think so, think we can offer a sort of football first environment with the right coach, where we're located close to home of our talent base but still kind of away from it all where football is top priority.




-Ethan Sears
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That guy could’ve written something very similar about Alabama, Penn State, and Notre Dame at different times the last 20-25 years. Every program has its high and low periods, and both Nebraska and Tennessee are low right now. But in our case, a program that’s been around for 120+ and is top 10 all-time in wins (sorry, Ivy League schools don’t count here), to pick out a 10-year or so period and declare us essentially no longer a “blue blood” program and deny our history....that’s just silly imo.

Let’s just hope the next hire gets us to national relevance again and this guy winds up looking even more silly than he does right now.
 
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