(09-26-2015 08:06 PM)bearcatmark Wrote: (09-26-2015 07:28 PM)Coopdaddy67 Wrote: Uh, if I were you, I'd wait until next year to judge him at Tennessee.
He gets 4 yesrs. Tubs gets 3
While your point is 100% correct, I've come to mostly look at it from the other angle. Every fanbase has a certain percentage of yahoos who are going to be calling for somebody's job - be it the AD, the HC, a coordinator, assistants, heck the medical team, etc. - or worse. It's just the way it is. They read reasons and they interpret them as mere excuses. And anybody who talks about patience or perspective is deemed by that same group as an apologist or more likely something worse.
UT and Butch Jones is a great example. So you shouldn't be surprised to find the
Fire Butch Jones facebook page featuring the "official" fire Butch Jones t-shirt in orange lettering of course:
Then there's the "clever" artwork:
And of course there's also the well written, mostly anonymous posts on message boards such as this brilliant TN Scout.com thread entitled:
This sucks!!!! Fire Butch Jones now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Quote:"We can't do that everyone loves him because he can recruit, screw the piece of crap he can't coach a dang lick and he should be gone!"
"He is not a game day coach"
"He won't be fired, but for those of you that love him, YALL CAN HAVE HIM!"
"Totally agree. This is two big games where playing not lose lost the game. We will never beat FL. We have coach after coach who plays down to the competition, year after year...I'm done with watching this crap. EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. Wake me when we have a coach who can coach"
"It's the beginning of the end for him. Mark my words."
"This is on DeBord and Butch and they mismanagement of the game/the offensive play set is a losing proposition.
"The only thing worse would be Handsome Dave Hart out there futzing around trying to hire another head coach."
"I'm not usually a "get rid of his ass" kinda guy....but times have changed. He can't coach a damn lick during a game."
"Offensive line, Defensive line, Linebackers.
We are really, really struggling at those spots. Everything else looks bad when those 3 are."
"Butch is a used car salesman. Nothing more. Recruit like Zook and Coach like Dooley. Butch is a loser(where it counts)"
"ONE BIG THING TO THINK ABOUT ..............
UT's problem may be in the AD Department. Hamilton screwed football with NO Plan in place. Hart, via the hire of Butch and approval of the Asst Coaches for football, has screwed football presently. Hart sees the problem as well as a mole sniffing tulip bulbs underground."
"I can't believe what I'm reading....I recall the vast majority of people on here defending him when he pronounced that we had the best coaching staff in college football...."
"He could have had the NE Patriots playing FLA and would have still lost, he's a mid major coach who peaked last year. "
"Not me. I've recognized Butch's recruiting prowess and that's it. I was commenting on here in year one that I didn't like his offense or his decision making. I hoped he would prove me wrong, but I'm not. He just keeps repeating the same mistakes, and at this point they're not mistakes any more. He's just not a good coach."
And all that is just from one relatively short thread I stumbled onto - I didn't even venture into a game thread which is probably much worse (if it's anything like many of ours that I've sampled). But If you want more examples,
here's some collected from the UT twitterverse. Any of that sound familiar? The fact is some have more, some have less, but every fanbase has its share of Tammy from Clantons even if they aren't all quite that extreme. Some people just aren't happy unless they are complaining. It's just the way it is among some sports "fans".