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asleep#212036 writes:

in response to BufordTJustice:

I'm sick and tired of hearing Al Golden's name mentioned as a possible coach. He is a zero....had 2 decent years a Temple. Repeat, TEMPLE. In the M.A.C. won some close games against lowly M.A.C. and lower level teams. Any halfway decent non-conference opponents (very few...they scheduled mostly barber schools out of conference) absolutely jackhammered Al Golden's Fightin' HootOwls. He has done NOTHING, ZERO, NADA. Miami fans and national media were speechless when they hired him. We would be replacing Dooley with Dooley. Same for Charlie strong. He's a little above .500 in a pansy conference. Signature win is Cincinnati. As bad as we have been, we have dominated teams on the level of Louisville's toughest competition. Plus, he'sa race card playing cry-baby. While many many many assistant coaches go their entire career without getting a head coaching offer, Strong, while still at a young age, whined publicly a couple of years ago that he wasn't getting H.C. offers because he's black and married to a white woman. Never mind that he hopped around from college to college, lateral moves, etc., showing no loyalty to anyone. If we end up hiring one of these clowns, I'm signing up for the SouthWest European B-League cricket season pass on Dish Network for $1.58.

It doesn't matter whom you beat, it only matters you beat your peer group, something Golden and Strong did and are doing, something Dooley (and soon to be fired Chizik) did not do at any level. Saying a MAC coach shouldn't be hired because all he did was beat MAC teams is silly. That would be like saying Saban can't coach because his Alabama teams would lose in the NFL.... so what? Strong, Golden, Fedora, Jones - they've all shown an ability to take a certain level of players and beat their peers who have the same level of players. Give them better players and they will beat better teams. Kind of like Meyer (Bowling Green/Utah), Tressel (Youngstown State), Spurrier (Duke), and Saban (Toledo) - 'nuff said. I'm not saying we should hire Golden, Strong, or any of these guys but they can all coach. And any coach we get will be a "hopper" - if they aren't, they won't leave where they are....And Strong is 52 years old, 50 when he got his first HC job - not really that young. Yes, he did vaguely attribute the lag to race but that was as much the liberal media putting it out there as a theory as his claiming it. He's winning at Louisville, he was a stellar defensive coach at South Florida and Florida (a 3-time Broyles award finalist), he can recruit Florida, he is black, which at lily-white UT could help with recruiting, and he is squeaky clean, something the NCAA will love. Bottom line, I would be perfectly happy to have him but my guess is that he doesn't have enough HC experience to meet Hart's criteria, whatever they are. Go Vols!!!

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