Erik Ainge says goodbye, too.
After the Florida game Phil Fulmer looked as fired as a coach can be, but unlike Bill Callahan he managed to pull the Vols out of their tailspin and drive them into the SEC Championship Game. Job: secure. Coaching staff? Not so much. David Cutcliffe, renowned far and wide as an offensive architect par excellence, took the Duke job.
Okay, well there's still Trooper Taylor, Cutcliffe's right hand man at UT and reportedly a demon recruiter.
Except now there isn't:
Trooper Taylor told the News Sentinel on Wednesday he is leaving Tennessee to take a co-offensive coordinator position at Oklahoma State.This is displeasing to Rocky Top Talk, which put together an impressive case for the internal hire. Evidently UT has higher hopes for Cutcliffe's replacement.
What's the deal with "co-offensive coordinators"? That seems guaranteed to end in disaster, though admittely not as guaranteed as doing anything whatsoever at Baylor, another place he was considering the OC job at.
That would undoubtedly see him unemployed four years from now and trying to scrabble his way to a place at SMU or something. Kind of like Cutcliffe's probable future.
