re: Will TN make a bowl in 2014?

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I honestly think Butch Jones is a good coach-- would take him over Boom in a heart beat-- but your class turnover is just absurd this year. Beat Mizzou, close with 3 straight, make a bowl and 2015 looks good.

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I can't tell if you got downvoted for your Butch comment or for saying we'll beat Mizzou.

At any rate, I honestly don't understand why Boom hasn't been better. My theory is that the locker room environment Urbz created and allowed to flourish was still there when Boom arrived and being a brand new HC he didn't quite know how to deal with it - that's the kinda thing that comes with experience. I think that has overwhelmed him more than anything else - offensive guys grow up heroes/stars all their lives and are a bit more prone to being spoiled egotists by the time they reach college and throughout all the OC's he's tried something should've stuck given the talent level on O. It just makes sense to me that attitude is a problem and Boom hasn't yet learned how to rein guys in when it needs to be done and get more out of his offensive stars.

An example of that is Dooley allowing Bray and others to be so spoiled and entitled that they went into the UK game reportedly saying they "didn't want to go to a shitty bowl." The result was a loss that should never have happened and graduating seniors airing it out that some guys didn't care/perform that game.