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The assistants who leave do so with promotions.  They don't appear to be leaving because they find the environment too tough.

An assistant coach who gets an HC offer at a major program is going to leave with very rare exceptions, coach in waiting situations.

The current Ohio State HC was obviously an assistant under Urban Meyer and thus far is doing well.  I don't see a particular trend that suggests that DCs or OCs make poor HCs down the road any more than previous HCs may not work out either.

Michigan got a highly regarded (by some) HC and his success to date has been a bit less than expected (by some).  They looked clueless yesterday, and hapless.

I don't know of a formula for success in choosing replacement HCs.  Pruitt might still work out.   This year isn't going to be a success obviously.  I see more as an indication that the Vol program was in worse shape than most expected.  But, it's always easiest to blame the HC for whatever goes wrong.

Since '93, the Vols are 5-21 vs Florida.  Yes, that's cutoff date shows the worst of it, but it's still 5-21.



UGA is 8-18 in the same time frame.
UK and Vandy are 1-25 vs the Gators.


But here's the WOW thing - South Carolina is 6-20.....better than Tennessee's effort.  Who would have guessed that???




Florida has just 21 losses to the East teams they've played these past 26 years.  The Gators are 109-21.  That includes 2 losing seasons, Ron Zook, Muschamp, McElwain, the good and all the bad.  That's pretty sick.

Now if we could only figure out Missouri....

8 more years....