Lemon to TN?
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If you take the maroon glasses off and look at his resume objectively. Not many national championship coaches out there and available.
Do it UT. He's the missing link. Invest in fortified buckets.
Ed Orgeron and Gene Chizik say it's not really that surprising.
A natty on the resume appears solid until you look at what he did immediately after. The only sane reaction to that is, 'next'.
I think Lemonade would perform very well early. He would ride the coat tails of a coach that's leaving good talent, good systems, good culture and thrive until he had his own players and his culture set in.
You also have to objectively look at what time of year it is that they are having to make the hire. Fall practice is over. They are hitting the lull / dead period between fall camp and preseason practices. They have no chance to hire a sitting HC from a high level program at this time, those guys are all pot committed to 2026 at their current schools. This is the same predicament we had when we got stuck rolling the dice with Cannizarro in November 2016.
Devil’s advocate - if they hired Lemonis….and he takes them to 3 straight CWS, maybe wins it or maybe doesn’t (doesn’t really matter) then proceeds to have the exact same last 4 seasons as he had at MSU, there’s no way you wouldn’t still call that a massive success.
An in-house hire who came up under Vitello still might make more sense. But if there’s no one they like…the above scenario also makes sense.