Agreed; I still believe we land a top 10 class with 10 wins.
Anything less than 8 wins is a failure this season, and Florida is a must win game. If we can’t get it done at home with nearly the entire offense returning and Napier coaching his first SEC game it’s not going to happen any time soon. So really 9 should be the expectation considering if Hooker opens the season as the starter we beat Pitt and go 8-4
I'm exactly on base.
Go back and look at Arkansas’s record under Chad Morris and tell me Heupel inherited a worse program than Pittman. What Kiffin inherited wasn’t that far off what Heupel got either. My point is with the portal it doesn’t take 5+ years to build the team they want, and if a coach can both take advantage of it as well as recruit well it significantly shortens a team’s “rebuild” and by year 4 the entire roster is composed of players that staff recruited and developed. So if they’re not able to get over the hump and beat every team they play except Bama and Georgia there’s no reason to believe they’ll be able to in another year or two. Florida is only going to be down for so long. Same goes for Auburn and LSU and Texas and Oklahoma joining the SEC isn’t going to make it any easier. I guess what I’m really saying more than anything is that in today’s landscape of college football what you’re getting in year 3-4 with a coach is likely what you’re going to get in the long haul. I thought Heupel was definitely going to get it done midway through last season, but our lack of success in the portal and the apparent lack of emphasis this staff puts on the back 7 of a defense has me concerned. The fact the only LB we got in the portal was a walkon and we got no corners when inferior programs were able to get guys we should’ve went after and been able to land isn’t a good sign. It also looks like we’re only taking 2 LBs again this class and only 1 corner who may or may not pan out at that position. It doesn’t take a P5 coach to realize that isn’t a recipe for success in the SEC either
No, even or especially if you cannot understand my point, you should quit reminding small donors that the tax code treats their donations differently. How does that not cause resentment in people who are bright enough to understand what that says. I could say much more; I have been exercising restraint. Only just notice that the there are people who want the school to keep all the donation money and TV and gate money and pass the cost of NIL along to small donors. They are worried lest a large donor divert some portion of their giving to something that would bring joy to tens of millions of Vols fans everywhere. And further consider that all of those expenditures that the donors are funding make their way to an army of builders, consultants, vendors, administrators, etc. Those people, above all, should be giving to Spyre. What they receive -- since you continually emphasize that the big donors want something back, which while true is not so flattering -- should be the satisfaction of spreading happiness and above all the gratitude of the small donors and Vols fans everywhere who will highly esteem them and emulate them. They can set an example.
