(01-02-2020 04:49 PM)MotoRocket Wrote:  My first reaction is that this may be a good move. Will it free up more money to pay the DC and other assistants? Will UT go on a fund drive for the athletic department to raise money for the programs? Even with the large alumni base and the community as a whole, I would bet the fund raising for UT has been sliding downward. This past year certainly did not help.

This new addition - being a seasoned coach and working with top level talent in HS, may be a very positive step. It all depends on his personality and how he motivates players. Same will be true of the DC we hire. Needs to be an aggressive, young Tom Amstutz type of coach.

Although this announcement has some good to it, not sure I like Candle calling the plays. He better be training someone to be his conscience when things get hectic. Someone that can check him down by having a better view from the tower of the defense. Wasn't real impressed with the play calling this past year. To find out he was doing the play calling is disheartening - to say the least. What was the OC doing?

UT is about to launch major capital funding raising campaign and UT Athletics will be big part of that, hard to say what impact of 2019 football season has been but interesting if you look at last UT Foundation annual report for FY19, allocations of donations designated to UT Athletics is actually small compared to academic scholarships and other designations. Not sure if that is a recent trend, but those annual reports are public if someone wants to review them, may be surprised that within total fund raising at UT, athletics is not as large as one might think.