Why did Davenport, Fulmer say crane was needed to remove Butch Jones image?

So what happened to the crane?

Tennessee officials had said a crane was the hangup in removing the image of former football coach Butch Jones from the video board on the south end of Neyland Stadium.

The image of Jones was removed on Monday, nearly four months after he was fired on Nov. 12. 

It took three workers from a local company on a swing stage suspended from the top of the video board to get the job done. Jones' image, on the left of the video board, was removed in the morning and former defensive star Al Wilson was installed in the afternoon.

No crane was needed. 

Tennessee Chancellor Beverly Davenport responded on Twitter to anxious fans on Jan. 2 to "Please hang on. A crane has been ordered."

UT athletic director Phillip Fulmer talked about a crane need to complete the job when he spoke to the Big Orange TipOff Club on Feb. 14.

Fulmer said at the time UT was “in the process” of changing the images and he was working with Davenport to get it done.

“We will have an announcement,” Fulmer told the audience. “That will be changed as soon as we can. Believe me, I would have done it yesterday if I could have.”

And then the crane surfaced.

Fulmer said the crane needed to make the changes was broken and the images set to be placed on the video board had “resolution problems.”

UT is expected to replace the image of former star defensive player Reggie White, who appears on the right, with former tight end Jason Witten, a source told USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee.

Former coach Robert Neyland will remain in the center of the video board, although a new image will be used.