Posted on 11/12/2017 12:29:25 PM PST by C19fan
That would be great....
I was there. Bobby Majors,Carl Pickens & Dale Carter were three of the best athletes to pass thru Knoxville.
How many head coaches has Tennessee had since?!
This is the third. Lane Kiffin lasted a year maybe before quitting. His legacy is the most disliked coach ever at UT LOL. Derek Dooley three years I think. Butch Jones year 5?
Jones is the third...
I’m sure they have; UT’s biggest boosters have been screaming for Jones’s scalp for weeks.
There may be as many as seven head coaching vacancies in the SEC at the end of the season. It’s going to be crazy; Jimmy Sexton, the super agent of the college coaching set, is going to make a lot of money—and so are the coaches he steers to places like Gainesville, Knoxville and College Station, to name a few. Base pay for any SEC head coaching job these days is $4-5 million a year, plus incentives.
Tennesssee’s big problem is that they think they’re a football school like the schools to the South. On the other hand, they have a 20,000 seat arena and basketball fan support second only to Kentucky. They need to emphasize basketball over football. And I’m talking real basketball, men’s basketball, not the girls.
Florida, Tennessee, Texas and Nebraska are all suffering from the same problem. Past success has created something toxic, and I can’t even put my finger on it.
Look at Bama, sure they are thriving now under Saban, but it’s easy to forget all they had to go through from the time that Gene Stallings left to when they landed Saban.
It isn’t easy. I think Tennessee is most like Nebraska, trying to recreate a success that may not be possible with changing times. They can still have a good football program, but I think they have an uphill battle against schools to the south located in better recruiting areas and more football oriented states. Tennesssee resembles Kentucky more than it does Florida or even Alabama.
Tennessee is the 9th winningest program in college football...
True, but since football in the South integrated around 1970, they have usually been a middle of the pack program excepting the few good years in the 90s.
SEC schools don’t mess around, problem is there are only so few quality Head Coaches to go around. Sad that my Team UCLA has a worthless POS Athletic Director and a Stuffy Marxists Admin. That can careless about Sports.
It was a much better world when the Old Ball Coach and Fulmer went at it every year.
I remember Florida under Ray Graves. I don’t think he ever won the SEC but he always had a competitive team. Often one of the better teams in the conference.
Florida didn’t win an SEC Title until Spurrier coached there.
I think Florida did win an SEC title but then had it taken away.
Yep, 1984, under Galen Hall.
I think given the chance, they would have whupped the “National Champions”, BYU that year.
In the 60s the Florida High School State Track Meet was held in Gainesville. In 1964 I competed in the hurdles. Ray Graves had many of the football players run some of the field events.
One of the was Steve Spurrier.
Graves is the one primarily responsible for the creation of Gatorade.
Ray Graves played at the University of Tennessee under General Neyland...
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