re: Rank the Vol coaches that got away

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chiano is in a distant fourth place. Seriously, he sucks as a head coach, just less than Pruitt does. In fact, Schiano sucks as a defensive coordinator too. Ohio State fans were very frustrated with Meyer for not firing Schiano, and were thrilled with Day when that was the first act of his head coaching tenure.


Yeah I dont get the Schiano love. If hes so good, why doesn't he have a job? fricking dude sucks and would have washed out at UT just like every other shitty coach we hire.

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This is what Vol fans tell themselves to make them feel better about what the idiots running their university did to Schiano.

Schiano took over a program that had been pure shite for twenty years. He gradually built a program that had averaged 3 wins a year the past eight years and gradually built them into a respectable program... his first year he had 2 wins, then 1, 5, 4, 7, and then went 11-2 in 2006 and finished ranked #12 in the country. He averaged over 8 wins a year his last 6 years there. Your shitty program hasn't averaged 8 wins a year for six years at any time in the last 12 years...a span that includes five different head coaches.

In 2006 he was a 3 point loss to Louisville and a 3 point OT loss to West Virginia away from a perfect season.

But yeah, "fricking dude sucks".

Schiano did develop a reputation for being an abrasive bully during his 2 year stint in the NFL. Combine that with the fact that schools usually don't line up to hire fired NFL coaches, and maybe that's why he didn't get a head job right away.