Imagine you are the University of Tennessee. You've had a pretty good football program for as long as anyone can remember. Not as good as the fan base thinks it is, but not bad either. You have a coach who's been pretty successful. He's about 150-50 at your school. He also played for you and bleeds Tennessee Orange (or whatever that color is).

But he is getting a bit long in the tooth. And his team is slipping. You look around at Penn State and Florida State, two programs you have wet dreams about. Though they are now mired in mediocrity, their coaches are college football legends. So legendary are they that they coach into their 80s, and their schools cannot get rid of them. You don't want this to happen to you.

So after...

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