montanatenn
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The SEC east is the weakest it's been in my lifetime, uet we are still waiting for LSU to beat Florida IF we win out to limp in. BAMA will beat us by 4 TDS at least if we limp in.
We should have NEVER lost to Scar. Hurd's deal should've been dealt with weeks ago. Kelly is a star, and he might have run for 200 against Scar if all the carries went hus way...
Anyone who thinks Butch is a great coach is an idiot. Maybe he can become a "lucky" coach a la Fulmer because of forced hiring of a real OC, recruiting, the history of the program, whatev...but he's definitely not a great HC.
I think one more year like this and he's done. Anybody I know could've made better decisions in the same games he's coached and had at least two more wins.
Is anyone backing Butch up at this point?
I get it, as a fan you don't care about anything other than the W, that's fine. Some of us look at the long term trajectory for the program though, and that sort of mindset for a coach to have is a surefire way to 25+ recruiting class full of 3* players that wouldn't even be second string on other SEC teams. Players are not going to come and play for a coaching staff that is not going to help them achieve higher levels of play. We've seen the exact opposite of that at many positions.
Wtshir
What the sam hell am i readin
Team is soft dbs 4string on teamscalm down nobdy bettr than butchy foe the vols.
We win east wif help from lousyanna ceo still after me gotta run bilow stelth fighter 747
Cakm down jdhoney will help
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Ps talkin to chick fromm santa cruz $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$u #!$$ dig
Does it matter? I'd take the ghost of Buddy Ebsen at this point. We have not developed players here. But if you want a "list" here is a list - in no particular order - of coaches that I think we could get that would be better than Butch Jones.
Gary Patterson
Larry Fedora
Ric Flair
Bob Stoops
PJ Fleck
The Wendy's Girl
Chris Petersen
Paul Chryst
Linus Van Pelt
Mike MacIntyre
Les Miles
Chevy Chase
Jimbo Fisher
Bobby Petrino
The Shamwow Guy
Matt Rhule
DJ Durkin
Teddy Ruxpin
because having a ridiculous amount of major injuries to your teams leaders is a mark of coaching... where do u guys come from really? IN any process there will be bumps in the road unforseeable obstacles. No one in their right mind should expect this team to have won the east with the amount of injuries it has absorbed. the fact there is still an outside chance is amazing.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.
About to win the east.
3 straight years to be bowl eligible for the first time in a decade.
If you thought we were going from 0 to a national championship in 3 years you're delusional.
Good grief man, you act like you invented it. I'm sure there are a lot of others that realize this, that just don't talk about it ad nauseam. Get over yourself. Or don't. I laugh at you mostly.:birgits_giggle: