CFN’s John Harris Calls for Re-Tooling of the Tennessee Volunteer Football Program
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005John Harris of College Football News chimes in on the woes of the Tennessee Volunteer football program and concludes that it must be re-tooled:
Sometimes before you rise up (back up), you’ve got to hit rock bottom. This program now has the time to be flushed. It’s a bit more difficult with college teams than cleaning house for a pro organization, but there needs to be a retooling in this program because it’s become more about questionable characters and ‘I’ guys than about the team. Where are the Al Wilsons who led the 1998 team wins with more heart than any Tennessee team has shown since? If you’re a distraction, you need to be gone. Find another program. That includes coaches, players, managers, film guys and anyone else wearing a football ‘hat’. There needs to be a pride in putting on the orange and white jersey, not a ‘pitstop-on-the-way-to-the-NFL-feeling’, which is the sense that I get as an interested bystander.
Uh, yeah. Things have certainly spiraled out of the control this year. It’s been like trying to catch a wet bar of soap.
