2017 early forecast...

Especially with zero depth next year. Tech brings back 8 on O and 8 on D but do lose their qb.

 

It's a gimmick in today's game.

 

I am going with the ultimate in bad. UT goes 9-3. Wins a 3 way tie breaker with GA and FL and goes to Atlanta. Butch makes it such a big deal, even the national media laughs. It will be a Howard Dean level explosion. We lose to Bama in Atlanta by less than expected...34-24. Butch crows more. The last time Tennessee...it was 1800 and something. Our new AD, not Blackburn, gives Butch an extension and raise and increase in buyout. We win the bowl game against Penn St vanquishing yet another foe for the 2nd season in a row. Butch EXPLAINS that to us. We finish with the #18 Recruiting class. VN drools. Expectations soar.

There's more...We go 6-6 in 2018. 6-6 in 2019. Butch's seat gets hot. 8-4 again in 2020. Butch gets extended. 7-5 in 2021. Butch's seat gets warm. He goes 7-5 again in 2022 then gets the ultimatum. We go 4-8 in 2023 giving Butch another not-done-since accomplishment. He is fired after his 4th loss to Vandy and the nightmare ends. But, the cupboard is bare so no one wants the job. We hire a MAC coach.

 

I hate you.

 

Volnation would again be divided because many would want to keep him for all he's done for UT.

 

It's so probable it hurts.

 

You can sleep at night....Not happening.

Hell let me correct. The 9-3 is not but the other shit could happen.

 

Exactly. There's no reason to think Butch is going 9-3....ever

 

This is the most likely thing I've read. Thanks, [penis].

 

No, it's not.

 

If you consider ability, I agree. But spite is quite the motivator

 

and stupidity the nullifier

 

He's done well as motivator, his teams don't quit. He just can't coach. And BPV nailed it too. Can't fix stupid.

 

Arkansas last year and Alabama this year

 

I didn't watch the game, but I find it hard to believe that we had 22 guys playing hard against Vanderbilt.

 

With a Sugar Bowl berth on the line.

 

Let me clarify, for the most part, his teams haven't quit. Come on
...Yall know that's not the issue with Jones.

 

Quitting isn't the problem for his team's. The problem is that the team never starts in some games.

 

Its not the reason he's a bad coach.

 

And to go back to the origial point, thinking that he's gonna win 9 games because he's gonna use the underdog principle as motivation and go out and prove every one wrong simply doesn't add up. If you can't coach you can't coach. He's proved it over and over.