That A & M game. Still can see Dobbs late int into triple coverage and we have a wr at the bottom of the screen with nobody within 15 yards of him, out of the backfield, iirc.
I certainly agree with this, but 2015 was where it should've began. Shouldn't have lost to Oklahoma or Florida, and that Alabama game could've been won. The defense that year performed markedly better than 2016, too.
Yep, the way he lost and the way he handled the aftermath of the the loss should have been his demise had we had any real leadership. Hart wasn't going to fire him because that would have been his end.
Just finished reading it. If UT passed on Patterson because he was “too much of a football coach”, then we truly deserved what we’ve suffered the past decade plus. Thankfully, we have folks running the show now who get that you actually want a football coach coaching the football team... because, football.
Tennessee had already interviewed Kiffin and pretty much annointed him as their guy. They interviewed Patterson because they already had it scheduled. Hamilton told him they were probably going in a different direction at the interview
I mean everybody knows how it ended but I appreciated the attempt with Kiffin. Patterson would’ve been awesome though
I'd be lying through my teeth if I said I didn't love the Kiffin hire and Kiffin experience, but man it was obvious Patterson was a stud coach and I can only imagine what he'd done here.
Patterson was and is highly respected among his peers, but so is Kiffin. In true Tennessee fashion, they went with the guy that was open about using it as a stepping stone instead of the guy wanting to make it a career
Ga fans were jealous of the Kiffin hire. They thought we were going to have their number for awhile. Didnt really work out the way expected
Kiffin at least represented an outside the box approach with a possible high ceiling, not just the usual “hire a guy who won a bowl game in the big east” strategy