Oh my.
The next coach will have a major challenge on his hands. He just needs to remember the $$$$$$ he will be paid to put up with players that will have a chip on their shoulders and then boosters who will expect an immediate championship. What a mess.
Wonderful comments. “Pull their scholarship, they need to grow up, blah blah blah.” Why, because a bunch of rich old dudes can’t handle that they spent a bunch of money to buy an imaginary championship and they’re not getting their way? A fool and his money really are easily parted.
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Well looks like they boycotted the Kansas game too!
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As much as I hate UT, my ire is directed solely at the administration. By all accounts, Charlie Strong is a stand up guy and clearly his players love him. Some coaches never perform up to standard, but unless they’re from the order of Todd Graham, they don’t deserve to be treated like UT is treating Charlie Strong right now. I understand money talks, at least for some people, but I would never go work for a place that treats its people the way UT treats its coaches. Not for any amount of money.
And for what it’s worth, I think the transfer rules should be changed such that if a school fires a coach, or a coach bails on a school before his current contract expires, all players receiving a scholarship under that coach’s tenure should be free to transfer without having to sit out a year. These players, especially the underclassmen who made the decision to go to a school based solely on a certain coach being there, are left hanging out to dry. I know it’s not a perfect solution, but it sure would slow the coaching carousel, and I would be in favor of that.
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didn’t we kick out a coach whom the players loved because he didn’t win enough…we even had a winning record and a bowl game…what does that say about us?
Like I said, some coaches need to be fired. Levine was never going to be anything other than mediocre at best. But there are right and wrong ways to do it and I think we did it the right way. It wasn’t a public spectacle with “news” being leaked out from non-admin sources before the season ended. If I recall correctly, Levine was fired after the regular season ended. I also don’t recall being embarrassed by the way it went down. Levine and the school came away with reputations intact. That’s the way it should work, but UT doesn’t seem to be able to do that. The debacle that was their firing of Mack Brown has been rivaled only by LSU’s handling of Les Miles.
That said, I stand by my statement above. If any of Tony Levine’s recruits had wanted to transfer when he was fired (see John O’Korn), I would have had no problem with them going elsewhere and not having to sit out a year. If coaches can break their agreements with no consequences, then students under scholarship should be allowed to do the same.
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