There are other advantages to making the change at QB. It allows you to dump a bad playbook and simplify things. It also allows you to be more open with who you play and how you use them. UGA and Bama are going to kill us BUT let's make it harder on them to prepare by leaving them with a big ? as to what we are going to do on offense.
Vandy will get up for UT. They always do. A win over UT and their season is decent by their standards even if it's 1-11.
We drop the game at home against Cowbell State, we are staring down the barrel of 1-11. Being 1-6 going into the USC game with 3 30+ point ass kickings in the last 4 games could very well have us looking at a team that has completely quit.
1988 we started 0-6, but opened with Georgia (no 12), Duke (unranked), LSU (no 9), Auburn (no 4), Washington State (unranked), Alabama (no 20). We won out, but Johnny was catching hell. 1978 we started 1-4-1; ended 5-5-1. 1963 started 1-4; ended 5-5. 1962 was 0-4, finished 4-6. 1924 we started 3-2, but ended the season 3-5. 1910 started 2-5, ended 3-5-1. Stopped reading past that. We're about to set a few new records. 1909 start 0-5-1; ended 1-6-2. 1906 start 1-5-1; ended 1-6-2. 1905 2-3-1; ended 3-5-1. 1904 1-5-1; ended 3-5-1. I guess there is precedent to only win one game. Screw it, go vols.
"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are change the ending." -C.S. Lewis
I'm thinking Bryce bolts immediately after his junior year if it's at all feasible Warren Burrell could possibly be all SEC
FOUR teams have open dates before they play us. Georgia (we had no chance anyway) Mississippi St (the one winnable game, before the season started anyway, in this stretch) UAB (already 3-0, projected to come into Neyland 6-1) Kentucky (I'm sure they've forgotten about last year).
Miss St just beat UK without its top 2 QBs and is now back to full strength from the suspensions for the tutor scandal. Kylin Hill gonna run wild on us.