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asleep#212036 writes:

in response to DwayneElizondoMountainDewHerbertCamacho:

"Golden to UT."

If this is true, then I'm done giving money to UT athletics. Al Golden is a more experienced version of Derek Dooley. You can pretty much disregard anything that he has done at Miami and just look at his time with Temple. He made Temple mediocre instead of horrible...whoopty poop. We might as well have kept Dooley if all we're going to get is Dooley 2.0.

I mean, Bobby Petrino will come in and he will win. That's all he's done at other programs. He's a better Xs and Os coach than any other SEC head coach. He will win with our guys. Maybe he's gone in 3 or 4 years, but that will be a good 3 or 4 years. Al Golden will spend the next 8 years turning UT into a rich man's Miss State. I thought we wanted more for this program.

Waking up to find Golden is our coach would be the equivalent of getting a new Blackberry for Christmas.

Why don't we ask Arkansas or Louisville if the winning for a few years was worth it? I'd say not. And making Temple "mediocre" is quite an accomplishment I might add. Dooley never won anywhere, including UT, and likely never will. Al Golden has won everywhere he's been and in much tougher situations that ours, Temple and probation-loving Miami. He is absolutely an upgrade over Dooley and strictly speaking, he's proven more in the college game than Gruden, everybody's anointed savior. Some want an unproven NFL guy (Gruden), some want a guy with a NC trophy (Stoops), nobody wants a coordinator, and most think a winner from a mid-major is "settling" for less than we deserve. The first two aren't happening so who's left? Only guys that are sitting pretty where they are, ie... Patterson, Fisher, Peterson, etc... So, we're back to Golden, Fedora, Jones, or a mid-major guy. It's just the way it is. To assume that only the few "dream" hires on our lists could win big at UT is not only ignorant, it's arrogant as well. There are fifty coaches out there that could win here, including Golden, and we'll just have to trust Hart to find the right one. Go Vols!!!

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