GOOD!
I got scolded for bumping old topics last year when I was making my arguments against the head flutist. So I won't - but I did say last year when I was shouting from the highest rooftops that he's never been the guy - that he would probably fool around and go 9-3 this year and that would be his ceiling. This year was without a doubt the best chance this bozo ever will have to win even a divisional title in the SEC and he blew it like a lot of people thought he would.
Keeping him around another year isn't the answer and I'll tell you why. We are losing a lot of players after this season. This was the perfect storm year. Next year it will be a rebuilding year. And when you have a rebuilding year with a guy that trips over his own flute at least once or twice a year it will be disaster. We already have a whole bunch of 3 stars committed for the upcoming class and no 5 stars. If they lose to Missouri, Kentucky, or Vandy that list will shrink. And if we keep him here it will be a down year in recruiting. Then, when the inevitable happens next season and we open up with a loss against Georgia Tech and it goes completely toxic around here and then he loses a few more games and gets fired that will be two years in a row with subpar classes. He could be a lame duck coach after the first game next year. Which will make it more difficult for the guy replacing him to fix.
At this point he needs to go. He's whining about feeling underappreciated. Boo hoo he has 4 freaking million reasons not to feel underappreciated. When you are winless in your lifetime against Muschamp and gave Derek Dooley his signature win against you then I can't feel sorry for you. You sell cliches and smoke and mirrors and eventually it will bite you in the hind end. You only have so many years to use the cliches as crutches until, at the very least, SEC East Championships are expected. Thankfully we got that big trophy against Virginia Tech. And hey, in his own words, we are bowl eligible again so let's pop the cork on that champagne.
I never supported this guy as a hire and he never gave me one indication that he was the right guy for the job. I just hope to God when Blackburn comes (hopefully) that mediocrity will no longer be tolerated at the University of Tennessee. Butch Jones can't get the job done.
Someone says change offensive coordinators. What good will it do? Jones has a system that he is live and die by. No matter who the OC is it's going to be his baby. As he said from jump street, "the process is infallible." ANYONE who believes their process is infallible and not willing to change is an egomaniac. Maybe the saving grace will be that he knows what he is and that he just hit his ceiling here and will bolt for a similar paying job elsewhere claiming he wasn't wanted here and he can sell that same horsecrap to the next school he goes to.
