If for nothing else, his decision to come back home and coach the Vols should be admired. His love for the University really can't be questioned. He left a national championship team and great legacy at Pitt to come home and take over a program that had dipped into the SEC's lower tier. He left a program sitting at the top of the heap, a program that he built from the ground, because of his love for the University of Tennessee. He then proceeded to rebuild the Vols to a point of where they were a national contender.
No doubt he liked his whiskey, but he has never been the drunk that he was portrayed as by so many of our fans. Most of whom that have made that claim based on baseless rumors. Had he been the drunk many claim, he would be either dead by now or in really bad shape. He's 80 years old and in pretty good physical condition, especially for that age. You don't live to be 80 by being a hard drinker.
