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vut5686#1405392 writes:

in response to FanNotSheep:

Blame John all you like, but the press feeds off the fan base more than the other way around. I can't count how many times I've heard, "We deserve better than this." Really? Why?

Do other fans of other programs not donate money for their seats? Do they not spend outrageous prices for bottled water just like we do?

Not every team can win. Every game has one winner and one loser. For 17 years, Fulmer won 75 percent of the time, and other than a magical run when that percentage was 90, most UT fans were not satisfied. They said, "We deserve better."

Well, regardless of what you deserve, this is what you got. Whether you hired the wrong coaches or the wrong people to hire the coaches is up for debate. But I've listened to and watched UT games for 45 years and I've seen good times and bad. At no time did I think I was so special that "I deserved better." I pull for the players in orange no matter what. Because they are the ones who bleed, sweat and put their bodies (and lives really) at risk each time they take the field. They deserve better than the sorry fan base that feels a sense of entitlement for turning on the damn TV.

I will read no further as this post says it as close to the way it is..as any will. I hit on Adams as much, if not more, than any; most of his stuff is bush. He is dead on here. The fact we did not get first choices....and there is not one grain of proof in advance they would have fared better than Jones will...is because they did not want to come to Tennessee. Not because Hart did not try; not because other supporters did not support; not because we have never had periods of good, if not great history. They did not come because Tennessee is not the hot opportunity already sucessful coaches need.

Gruden? The most he ever accomplished at the college level was an end or quarterback coach. If we want a talking head or pretty face, why not Denzel Washington or Robert Duval? Better looking and better actors. Gruden's team won a Super Bowl but that is scant evidence he would work twenty four hours a day nursing 85 teen-agers or young adults. We should celebrate a sucessful, experienced coach who wants to be here. He is as good as we deserve and has as much chance of suceeding as any other name out there. There is not one reason to disrespect him until and unless he acts in a way to lose that respect.

I say an apparent good hire and am glad for this sucessful outcome.

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