this comment bears some more discussion.......as it relates to "the grass being greener" so to speak.....
we've, self included, all had our issues with the current staff at ut, and rightfully so.
but as i watch teams play this year, there's not one coach out there that hasn't had a game or series of games, that made you think "huh?".
take some of the guys that we hold in such esteem:
Jim Tressel......OSU loses to Illinois, at home, on sr. day, and it turns out the TO he called was the catalyst for Illinois running the clock out with 8+ minutes to go. and they didn't have to put the ball in the air. Juice williams up the middle, to the right, to the left......5, 6, 7, 10 yards a clip and they couldn't stop him. and it wasn't like they were doing a lot of fancy stuff.....it reminded me of Tebow last year against us in Neyland....we simply couldn't stop it. and they couldn't stop it time after time after time for 8 solid minutes.....
Urban Meyer....loses 2 games they probably shouldn't have against GA and Auburn. and you can look at the play calling with running Tebow in both games as part of the problem, moreso Auburn than GA. where was the down the feild stuff? where were all the playmakers they have? even the crowd at one point during the Auburn game was booing.......then you look at the defense, and by all rights it hasn't developed over the course of the year to make the kind of difference needed esp against the pass.
Steve Spurrier....4 game losing streak including a loss to Vandy cause the OFFENSE simply can't get going and they aren't stopping anyone from running the ball. many will say losing Jasper Brinkley is a big part of that.
Bob Stoops--inexplicably loses to a bad Col team cause their D can't get one stop late in the 4th qtr, and he's supposed to be a def. guru.
Jeff Tefford--upon beating TN and ORe, takes the vaunted bears on the road and can't out score Or St or UCLA and gets beat by USC........again. and he's the offensive genius behind the spread and master qb coach? USC has beaten them 5 or 6 years straight or something.....and this wasn't exactly your older brother's USC either.....
Charlie Weiss.....1-9. offense can't do poo, and he's got multiple SB rings as an off. coord in the NFL. and he's got the golden boy qb, and he still can't settle on 1 of 4 guys, one of which has now transferred.
Pete Carroll--everybody's all american, apparently even he can't overcome the injury bug, despite landing top class after top class.........the cupboard being so full, people are leaving USC just so they can actually play somewhere else.......
Bobby Bowden....FSU is just another team. they are as average as average can be. back to back losses to Wake, lost several to Clemson..the offense can't get going, they can't run the ball, they can't throw the ball......the def is better than average, but it's not winning them any games.
so, i look at all that, and i'm not necessarily trying to justify or defend anything CPF has done, not done, said or not said........and i know most of these coaches have won something, in most cases, whether it be conf. titles, BCS bowls, National titles more recently than we have......but if these are the cream of the crop, and we're always looking at the grass on the other side of the fence.......it bears mentioning, no one is immune to this type of stuff. and does the fact that all these things have happend to each of these coaches make them less of a coach today? no. what they do have going for them is recent success, CPF does not.
take that for whatever it's worth......but maybe just maybe we're not all as smart as we think we are. Which is why i'd just assume we win these next two games, go to Atlanta and take our chances.
CPF won't be here forever, of that i'm certain, and i'm still not convinced that it shouldn't come sooner than later, but until that time comes, at least for this year, i see a lot of coaches going thru many of the same things that seem to have happened to us over the past few years. just not in the volume or regularity that it seems to have happened to us.
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