re: Is this the make or break year for Butch?

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The first 2 hires (Kiffin and Dooley) were disasters and contributed to the worst period of football in UT history.

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This all on UT with Kiffins help. Kiffin leaving the way he did let all the crap the UT old boys club had been keeping under wraps ooze out. Could have been worse, and Dooley at least stablized it for the 3 seasons. Even when he had to deal with the ncaa, locker room on their 3rd coach, amongst other stuff. WHO knows what the ncaa would have come up with if Dooley wouldnt had been hired. Lawyer, son of legendary sec coach, and AD experience was a mix that couldnt have been found anywhere else with the ncaa leasing an apt in knoxville. Settling with a loss of a couple scholarships for a couple of yrs is pretty much it. He had 23 scholarships to work with, and jones had 30ish for a couple yrs. He better have the program on better ground when he gets paid millions more, and didnt have to deal with a fraction of the shite that Dooley did.

Some of yall really need to go back, and compare what each coach walked into.

Dooley stabilized the program in the 5-6 win range, and making $1.9mil a year. Jones has kept it in the 7-9 win range, and making $4mil a year.