NO!
THINK people.
If we're willing to spend $6 Million to maybe $8 Million per year then we should be able to hire most anyone we really want and need.
aTm just gave Jimbo Fisher $7.5 Million per year and a 10 year guaranteed contract.
Spending $75 Million just on their HC is making a serious statement that aTm is very serious about getting WINS and lots of them.
Everyone is talking about getting our O much better and we need to do that BUT, we all know that it's the D that WINS Championships.
Forget Les Miles, Steele, Sumlin and others that had a shot as a HC and blew it.
Why not spend the $$$$ and go steal Venables away from Clemson?
His D is awesome, he's WON a National Championship and he's a VERY exciting and passionate coach.
Watch Venables on the sidelines, his D makes a good play and he's jumping up and down along the sidelines and screaming his head off...That kind of passion and excitement does rub off on all the players on both sides of the ball!
Venables also recruits in the same areas we do so he already knows most of the top recruits that we're going after and he just might steal some top recruits away from Clemson and make them Vols.
Give him all the $$$ he needs to hire top Coordinators and position coaches that are also really good recruiters and we'll be golden for many years to come.
There's zero reasons why we need to hire a stopgap coach when we can just spend the $$$ now and forget about another coaching search 3 to 5 years from now.
Every top D player in high school knows who Clemson and Coach Venables is so we need to go steal that top D Coordinator away from Clemson and put him in Tennessee Orange as our new HC and get this show on the road!
VFL...GBO!!!