(01-18-2021 02:41 PM)Kaplony Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 01:21 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 12:48 PM)stever20 Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 12:45 PM)Realignment Wrote:  

(01-18-2021 12:41 PM)stever20 Wrote:  It's at best the #5 job in the SEC- behind Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and LSU.

It's still a Top 25 job in all of College Football.

much closer to 25 than it is 10 even. And there are what 66 P5 schools so being around #25 is pretty much right in the middle. Hardly premiere.

Its a top 15 job. Prior to the latest performance nosedive, they regularly competed for the highest attendance in all college football. Now they are down to average a mere 85,000 or so.

The last time they were nationally relevant was before today’s recruits were born. That’s not a top 15 job by any stretch of the imagination.

It's like the Indiana basketball head coaching job. It pays really well but is incredibly tough because there are a lot of loud boosters who have unrealistic expectations of winning big every year even though things are not the way they were in the program 20, 30, or 40 years ago or whenever they won really big.

And good luck to anyone who takes that job before Tennessee hires an AD, in which case the new coach will have no idea whether the new AD will have his back, or will be trying to knife him in the back to curry favor with those boosters.