Tennessee football: Ohio State firing Greg Schiano another vindication for Vols fans

Tennessee football fans have been vindicated for stopping Greg Schiano from becoming the Volunteers head coach since the Ohio State Buckeyes fired him.

Back in August of last year, we wrote an article saying that the Urban Meyer saga vindicated Tennessee football fans for nixing the Greg Schiano hire. Our reasoning was that in Meyer’s suspension, the Ohio State Buckeyes named Ryan Day, not Schiano, interim head coach.

Well, five months later, they have been further vindicated. After Meyer’s decision to step down, Day was named the full-time head coach. And on Monday, an Ohio State 247Sports website reported that Schiano had been fired as the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator.

So much for Tennessee football fans killing a qualified hire, right? Schiano cost his team a spot in the College Football Playoff two years in a row because his defenses had three games during that stretch in which they surrendered at least 49 points.

Now, to the national media, will there be any apology? As was noted last August, the baggage surrounding Schiano is why he wasn’t named interim head coach and Day was when Meyer got suspended. So the concerns Vols fans had over his baggage were justified then.

The only other question was his coaching ability. Schiano has now been fired for that specific reason after costing the Buckeyes two playoff appearances. And the last bit of success he had was when he was coaching the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in 2011.

Remember, John Currie and failed businessman Jimmy Haslam knew this would be an unpopular hire. That’s why they tried to sneak it through on a Sunday afternoon in the middle of NFL games. And emails from Currie revealed just as much.

Simply put, we can now confirm Schiano would have been a bad hire for Tennessee football. And he would have been a bad hire based on his actual resume on the field along with the major baggage he brings. Vols fans deserve an apology from everybody who ripped them to shreds after what happened.

Sure ,you can laugh at the fact that Jeremy Pruitt went 5-7 his first year on Rocky Top. You can also point out that he lost six games by at least 25 points. But what nobody with a straight face can say is that the Vols would have been in any better shape in 2018 under Schiano. And that is the reason that they have been proven completely right when they killed that potential head coaching hire.