Some of you have forgotten what it means to hate Tennessee. Fortunately, Roman Harper did not.
Former head coach Mike Shula was placed in a nearly impossible position when the Crimson Tide hired him in May 2003 to coach at a level in which he had no experience, in his first head coaching role, with a team that had seen the NCAA levy the harshest post-SMU sanctions upon them, that had lost not one, but two coaches in abrupt, disruptive fashion in a mere five months, and — frankly, one that had lost its way since beloved head coach Gene Stallings retired/was forced out by the insidious Bob Bockrath cabal in 1996.