The Blue Board

Many USC fans were underwhelmed with Pete Carrol when he was their 3rd or 4th choice and it worked out well. You are familiar with his history? Does that mean you read his wikipedia page? Have you ever watched his teams, or actually done any concrete research on the guy? Doubtful.

UT might have gotten their 3rd choice, but that by no means he is a bad coach. I have no idea if Butch will succeed at UT, but anyone like you predicting certain failure without a lick of knowledge of how the guy runs his teams is funny.

I'd wait and see before calling anything a failure, and plenty of programs have not gotten their first choice before hiring an excellent coach.

I know plenty of Michigan fans were furious about the Hoke hire originally, especially after going for the likes of Miles and Harbaugh and failing. But I'd doubt you find many Michigan fans who aren't for the most part happy about the Hoke hire now.

It can easily work out for Tennessee, and lots of football people seem to respect Butch Jones. I think the guy will work out for UT in the end, certainly better than there last two hires.

Everyone is listing the few instances where coaches came from the big east and thrived, or where teams settled and the coach thrived. For every success story there are ten busts. I'm not saying its a definite that he tanks, but the odds are not in his favor. At the end of the day I expected a better hire out of a school like UTjr. Especially with those new amazing facilities they just built.

Tressel was third choice of Ohio State when he was hired, Mike Belotti and Glen Mason were the first and second choices, Tressel was third choice and he had a nice ten year run that was tarnished at the end, but still a nice ten year run so don't be too quick to judge the third option.

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Haha these USCjr fans have some balls nowadays, once Spurrier leaves it will be back to the same old Cocks. Saban and Miles where both northern guys with no ties, not impressive records before they got an SEC job either...I like how you say UTjr even though we are older than Texas, but no matter, glad y'all have finally won a few against us...traditionally USCjr is a garbage program and UT is one of the most prestigious...lol troll on

Derek freaking Dooley got a top ten class his first year...let that sink in...if he can do it anyone can, all CBJ has to do us be the opposite as Dooley with the coaches of recruits, he will be fine, maybe not top five consistantly but really how much of a difference is there in one and ten. He could fall flat on his face but all the former players love the guy and our team is bought in, that means way more than a name or "ties" to the south. And by the way CBJ had many Florida and Georgia players he brought to Cincy

Whatever.

You know you can't enough CUM.

closer than i thought it was going to be - couple of huge plays in that game made the difference in the end