Most Over/Underrated Vol Coach

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Who is your most Overrated Vol Coach?

Who is your most Underrated Vol Coach?


For me, overrated has to be Trooper Taylor.

For me, Underrated has to be Ken Donahue.

As our RB coach, he never seemed to develop any of our guys. I know Houston and Riggs both ran for a grand each during one season but, it seems like he coached them to get tackled and fall sideways. Other than whooping and hollering and twirling a towel for attention, we could have had better.

Donahue gave us some good times and some good games! His D gave us the Sugar Vols and that Sugar Bowl win. Everyone seems to forget at that awesome’87 season and how important his D was. Majors made him the scapegoat of that ‘88 season but, he was good till opposing coaches figured out how to scheme his defense.

What are your two choices volnation?
 
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Sticking with head coaches...

Over-rated: Johnny Majors. Love the man, really glad he was one of our head coaches, but he never came close to meeting our hopes and expectations after winning a national title at Pitt. He was good, and we sentimentally keep him somewhere in the top 4 or 5 or so on all our lists, but that over-rates his tenure.

Under-rated: John Barnhill. With a win rate even the General couldn't touch, the man is our winningest head coach ever. Sure, he only "filled in" for Neyland during World War II. Nevertheless, he stood on his own two feet for four seasons over a five-year stretch, and didn't miss a beat.

Go Vols!
 
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Head Coaches….

Overrated: Phillip Fulmer. He had great assistant coaches around him that carried him. He also coached when (other than Spurrier) the SEC wasn’t loaded with great coached teams week end and week out. He had great players but couldn’t win like he should have. In reality, he underachieved with one NC. He had teams that should have won at least 3 NC. He also refused to change.

Underrated: Johnny Majors. He came back to Tennessee when we needed him. He brought us back to relevance and had it rolling before an assistant coach made a play for his job. Coached hard, recruited hard and worked hard for every Tennessee fan. Will always be top 3 coaching greats on the Hill for me. Go Vols.
 
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Overrated?….. Chavis and the mustang package comes to mind, but overall he was good…. But had some damn good players.
Not sure he’s overrated as a whole.

Gotta go with Kiffin

Underrated …. Mike DeBord
 
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