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RANDY SANDERS Most first-time college football coordinators get their new jobs in the offseason, with plenty of time to prepare for spring practice, more time to teach in the spring and then even more time to work toward the coming season. If they’re really fortunate, they’ll open the season against East Bugtussle State Teachers College so they can work out some of the kinks before it’s time to take on a more formidable opponent. And then there’s Randy Sanders, who became Tennessee’s offensive coordinator in early December, 1998 when David Cutcliffe left to become the head coach at Ole Miss just weeks before the Vols were scheduled to play Florida State for the national championship in the Fiesta Bowl. In all honesty, Sanders will admit he was too busy working to be overwhelmed or intimidated by his new job or the pressure that accompanied it. To keep things as normal as