It's just my guesses but here goes anyway...
1...Some players, like Josh Dobbs, are very intelligent, learn fast and have the memory capacity to recall things instantly while other players are gifted players but aren't as smart and struggle to learn, make good grades and have to work longer and harder than others to make the grades on and off the field.
2...It's very difficult and sometimes takes years to change the culture and mindset of kids like this that have had several coaches pound different things into their heads.
How can we expect bUTch and staff to get 75% of the players on the team to really BELIEVE they can do some things after CDD and laMe kiffScum belittled them and wore down what little confidence they may have left high school with.
We can learn to adapt and adjust to many things like losing and it becomes the norm and just doesn't bother us as much as it once did except to those few that are really driven to become successful.
I know this to be a fact from my own life experiences and he're's a very short version of why...
Over 30 years ago I was very successful with a home in Brentwood, new car, boat, ect and living the high life.
I made a huge business investment with 2 other partners and I got ripped off because I was young and dumb and in a period of 60 days I lost everything I owned and was homeless and living in a old beatup pickup truck with what little I still owned in that truck.
It took me 3 weeks of working odd jobs before I could get enough money together to move from the truck into a sleazy motel but I got accustomed to living in that truck.
It took me 2 months of living in the motel until I could put a deal together and bought a 28 foot camper and I lived in that little cramped camper trailer for almost 10 months before I was able to move into a house again.
I hated that camper but it wasn't long until I adjusted and called it home despite only being able to take about 5 steps from 1 end of it to the other.
Many of the kids playing for our Vols have come from rough times and situations but they adjusted, worked hard and did well by becoming Vols to play football and get a good education to continue building up themselves and work towards a better future for themselves.
The Winning and other traditions at Tennessee are among the elite of college football history but we're as far down as we've probably ever been and other programs are as far up as they've ever been in their history and it's taken years for those programs to get where they are now just as it took a decade or longer for our beloved Vols to fall this far down and many of our players that were recruited by coaches before bUTch simply HAVE adjusted and become used to losing.
It WILL take several years of excellent recruiting to rebuild our storied football program and it could take several years to also change the mindset and culture of these young kids from thinking they can't win and aren't very good to getting them to really believe that they CAN go out on any given Saturday and get the WIN against most any team in the country.
I honestly have no idea why any up and coming coach would want to take on a 100% total rebuilding job at any school in the daunting SEC when he knows his name and reputation is on the line and he'll probably take alot of butt kickings for many years before he can get things turned around with enough elite playmakers recruited.
I wouldn't do that because I'd know that the odds are stacked so far against me and I'd get fired and end up coaching at podunk U earning peanuts and trying to start my coaching career all over again.
I just don't see good coaches lined up to take over the task at Tennessee, Vandybilt, KenSucky, ect nowdays.
#BrickbyBrick...VFL...GBO!!!
