Hell, he could appoint a fan advisory team to help with game plans and play calls and the legions of the miserable would STILL not be happy.
Am I happy? Hell no. However, I also observed a far different game plan and calls from the OU game. Second guess, it's our main contribution to the discussion.
The two things that killed us Saturday? Offensive execution with the chips on the line and the defense, specifically some "interesting" IMO play calls.
I left the swamp extremely unhappy Saturday night but pleased with the starkly different game plan from the OU game and its ability to get us a two score lead into the 4th quarter against a very good secondary with or WR group and Dobbs, who is not the best passing QB around. I was ecstatic when we essentially imposed our will on the UF defense on our last TD drive. We had not done that in AGES.
I was frankly shocked at the vitriol directed at Butch when I got back to Tampa later that night.
Pirate I agree there was considerable improvement against UF compared to OU. We really went for it in the first half with the trick plays and so forth, and as you point out the grinding drive in the 4th was just awesome. Let's also not lose sight of the fact that we put 254 yards on one of the best run Ds in college football. There is plenty to be proud of.
The only thing is, Butch did make some questionable calls down the stretch and that's something that needs to improve.
For the record, I just watched former bammer QB McIlroy say on SEC Now that "the Vols just need to learn to win" as well as "they seemed surprised to be so dominant against OU".
He and Clint (is that Stoerner?) also said that Tennessee is still loaded with young future NFL talent that continues to improve and they both said "buy Vols" on the "stock report".
So I return to my theme that we need to hope these are the growing pains of a program not used to winning. Winning feels good. Once they get a taste of it the monkey will be off their backs and it will become a habit again.
That's what I hope anyway....