Re: Inside the Failing of Tennessee Program Under Butch Jones
UT appears to be condemned to college football hell or purgatory for the foreseeable future. Their current circumstances will only allow moderate success, and that only sporadically. They, along with 30 other programs, can become a power in cfb but first the BOT, pres, admin and athletic admin must become competent and get on the same page. Secondly, they have to find a great coach. Neither one of those requirements are easy. The first because so many entities are involved, the second because there are few great coaches.
Alabama lay in ruins primarily because of her own incompetence mixed with arrogance - a toxic mixture. This led to a perfect storm of naïveté, neglect, arrogance and incompetence at the high levels, as well as arrogance, incomptence, recklessness and corruption at the low levels (boosters and coaches), along with envy, jealousy, fear, hatred, corruption and petulance by her enemies and the NCAA, which resulted in long and crippling penalties with a malicious 10 year overhanging cloud.
Thus, humbled, Alabama become wise, leading to its recovery. The BOT hired the right Pres, who hired the right AD who got the physical infrastructure in place and ultimately hired the right coach. They paid him, got out of his way and gave him free rein. The boosters gave him the funds he needed and lessened their time demands, the fans gave unconditional and enthusiastic support. Alabama was also fortunate, very fortunate that the best fit and best coach in college football was available and wanted to come.
The reason almost no one else will be able to do what Bama s doing is that there is no one else like Nick Saban. That is the delimma that all other programs except a tiny few face. And even they will unlikely be able to match what this marriage made in heaven is producing. It's never been done before.
He is squeezing the life out of the SEC and making it much more difficult for any program in the SEC, including UT, to have any consistent national success.