Unable to land an A-list candidate due to their dysfunction, the Vols turned to the unknown—but did pick a name familiar to their new AD.
When you are Tennessee in its current state, you make a Maybe Hire.
Maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn’t. You can have hope, but no certainty. You’re in no position to lure a surefire, A-list candidate to lead your dilapidated football program—new athletic director Danny White tried that in the past few days, and it didn’t work out. So you keep working down the list—from proven to splashy to maybe—until you get a yes.
It can be a great job, on paper in the top half of the Southeastern Conference and with the potential to compete for league and national titles.
But at the moment it is an iffy job, fraught with peril and clouded by the unknown, with a fan base that could politely be characterized as volatile. That reduces the viable candidate pool to Maybes, and White chose a familiar Maybe.
