LittleCat
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Bringing Fulmer back would be a huge mistake, almost as big as bringing Dooley back another year. Even if you think he should have never been let go, I still believe by now he would have been let go anyway. The SEC passed him by.
I wouldn't count Strong out after one loss-he has done a good job. People make mistakes in life. We hope we learn from those mistakes. It appears Petrino and Davis have harder heads than most. They are good football coaches. Arkansas and UNC are not Tennessee. Those guys would be fools to squander an opportunity like the Tennessee job. Who would you look at as Tennessee coach?Strong got beat yesterday by twenty points by a terrible syracuse team. Petrino has little ethics, Davis cheated at Miami and UNC, and Tuberville made a donkey of himself on the sidelines yesterday. No thanks.
Hart will probably fire Dooley this week and he will coach the remainder of the season. After being forced out, I don't see Coach Fulmer coming back. Petrino will probably get another shot somewhere-he wins too much not to. Hart has to open up the check book and offer Gruden. If he turns us down, he has to look at a Charlie Strong, Petrino, or maybe Butch Davis. Maybe Tuberville. We lost out on Sumlin-what a mistake that was!
What's wrong with Strong?Are you kidding me? Have you actually watched them play this year, do you even understand the game of football or are you just saying that because they are 9-1, because if you had any sense you would see how overrated he is. I would rather have Dooley for life than Strong for 1 year.
Before yesterday, I think even the most hardened Grudinite felt we might still turn a corner sometime. Maybe the bamboo would suddenly spring to life. Maybe we would find Rommel.
But this Saturday was the absolute lowest of the low. It's one thing to seize defeat from the jaws of victory against Florida. It is another to completely throw a game away with a two TD lead against a formerly winless Mizzou. Dooley has simply taught this team how to lose.
I'm a Grudenite. If issues with Cheek have cooled Jon Gruden from coming to Tennessee - I honestly can only see "the nuclear options" being on the table - the return of Petrino or the return of Phil Fulmer.
And I really don't want to see Petrino in Orange. Personally, I'd make Phil the interim this very hour, but I know that will partly divide Vol fans as well. If Gruden is not coming, Hart had better have smoking hot plans B and C, but I think even those took a big hit on Saturday.
We've got to hunker down, VN. Winter is coming.
Mizzou wasn't winless just to say.
I say they start looking for a coach ASAP, before other programs start grabbing the good candidates. To much rests on the next coach being here quick - whether players stay, recruits committing/decommitting , etc.