From an outsider's perspective, the administration would be wise to expand while the support and demand is present. All programs go through peaks and valleys over time; the traditional powers are designated as such because their peaks are higher and more sustained, and their valleys are shallower and less frequent. Tennessee is emerging from the worst 5-year stretch in the last forty years and it has definitely hurt us at the gate. However, once Butch has restored us to national prominence, Neyland will be selling out again.
As for the issue of all-time records, it is, quite simply, a fundamentally different perspective. Florida fans, in all of their smug condescension, have consistently tried to dismiss their backwater status during the pre-Spurrier era (before 1990) as irrelevant. Tennessee's history of success, by contrast, began in earnest with the hiring of, then, Captain Robert Reese Neyland in 1926. From then until 2001, after which the program began its slow decline, Tennessee was first in the nation in winning percentage (.73305) and 2nd in wins (589). See
I-A Winning Percentage 1926-2001. When you have decades of tradition piled on decades of tradition, it is simply a different perspective than the "nothing-matters-but-the-present" attitude of Johnny-come-lately programs like Florida.