Tennessee Football: Top 5 head coach candidates after Greg Schiano debacle

KNOXVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 04: Jarrett Guarantano #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers looks to pass against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles during the first half at Neyland Stadium on November 4, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
KNOXVILLE, TN - NOVEMBER 04: Jarrett Guarantano #2 of the Tennessee Volunteers looks to pass against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles during the first half at Neyland Stadium on November 4, 2017 in Knoxville, Tennessee. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
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Tennessee football fans spoke out and stopped Greg Schiano from becoming the new Volunteers head coach. Here are my top five candidates for life after Schiano.

The Tennessee Volunteers have all but hit rock bottom, a far cry from the 1998 National Champions position at the Rocky Top. The Vols’ administration fired Phil Fulmer and since they’ve gone through quite the lineup of coaches in Lane Kiffin, Derek Dooley and the recently fired Butch Jones. Even their interim coach Brady Hoke couldn’t win at Michigan and was fired at Oregon when the new staff came in.

Tennessee managed to fight off the Grumors (Jon Gruden rumors) and land themselves a good, but not great, candidate in Greg Schiano — and then the blacklash hit.

Schiano, the former Rutgers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers head football coach, was hired and not hired in the same day. He managed six winning seasons at Rutgers including an 11-win season in 2006. Coach Schiano resurrected that program from a perennial cellar dweller of college football into an eight or nine-game winner in New Jersey.

Before Schiano, Rutgers’ last winning season was 1992. Since Schiano, Kyle Flood managed two winning seasons before heading off to the Atlanta Falcons and Chris Ash has six wins in two years combined.

The ugly Volunteer fans reaction was to rumors about Schiano’s alleged “cover up” of the Jerry Sandusky child abuse scandal. I won’t go into Sandusky, or Schiano’s alleged role as I am not an investigator on the case. However, this is now a mess without much of a resolution on the table.

Here are five possible candidates to replace Schiano who replaced Hoke who replaced Jones over the last two months.