Can we finally pass a Tennessee Constitutional amendment prohibiting the Vols from hiring any coach that has any connection to the universities of Alabama or Florida?
Look at the crap we hired. Bill Battle (Alabama) who took 5 years to destroy the Top 5 program that Dickey had built. Pruitt who gets us sanctioned. OMG do not forget the Sunseri defenses during Dooley.
Dickey rebuilt the program but then ran out on us to go home to Florida. Woodruff, the AD who hired Battle (the DL coach at the time, never even a coordinator) over Majors, was from UF.
Can you just imagine what Johnny could have done starting with a Top 5 team instead of the wreck he took over in '77. Not to mention the staff he would have brought in from Iowa State. (Jackie Sherrill, Larry Lacewell, and Jimmy Johnson) Majors might have run the Bear out of the conference.
Besides, just having a Florida or Alabama guy in any of our programs just makes me feel dirty.