How has it worked in the past for teams that fire their coach midseason?
My very hazy memory is it means the season is pretty much for naught, but then, it would be for naught already.
The Vol schedule is somewhat manageable after next week (which will be bad, very very bad):
@ UK - plausible win (4-4)
USM - call it a win
Mizzou - call it a win, but it might not be (6-4, bowl eligible)
LSU - 6-5, though that could go either way
Vandy - call it a win, 7-5.
Imagine they find some life at Alabama, and then win 4 of those 5 remaining games to go 7-5, however improbable that seems. Would that save CBJ at all? They do need to score the odd TD from time to time.
ya know, Cincy... this is a good question. I'll answer like this:
My daughter, when she was two'ish, wanted something off a shelf... she couldn't reach it... so, she drug a chair over to it and still couldn't. i was watching, and refused to intervene- actually stopped my wife from doing so... I wanted to see her reason through it... she pulled the barbie jeep like little pickup truck in front of it and put the chair in the bed- at what point i told her "that's not a good idea"- she paused and kept going... she still couldn't reach it... so, she walked away. I thought she'd lost interest until she returned with her little plastic stool she uses in the bathroom to brush her teeth.. she put that atop the chair, which was in the bed of the barbie-jeep-like pickup truck, and then climbed up it like some sort of absurd ladder... all the while i'm struggling not to intervene... my thinking: "some lessons need to be learned the hard way"...
damn it... wouldn't you know she was successful? what that means is she'll
now have to fail a
few times to undo what she did (in her head)... i don't know if that's good or bad... i'm leaning toward bad because i'm a pessimist and super careful where my kid is involved, but at some level i'm proud of her.
anyway... I think it was 93 or so- Majors was out sick at UT and Fulmer took over- and never gave the key's back... that is sorta UT's "absurd ladder" moment... they also cut Fulmer mid season, but let him stick around until after the last home game- that one
didn't work out so well. it's happened that fresh blood mid season has worked though i can't pull any statistics together to prove it, but i don't think that is the goal- the goal, by my reckoning, is to make a big fat excuse for a washed season. it's a cowards exit.