Still some games to play so the rankings won’t be 100% accurate, but I used per game stats, so they should be very close. 2017 stats on left and 2018 on right. W/L: 4-8 to 5-7 Offense Yards per game: 292 to 333 125th to 120th in the nation Points per game: 19.8 to 23.6 Tied for 118th to tied for 117th in the nation Rushing yards per game: 117.3 to 131.5 113th to tied for 111th in the nation Passing yards per game: 173.3 to 201.6 109th to 96th in the nation Defense Yards allowed per game: 413 to 369 81st to 47th in the nation Points allowed per game: 29.1 to 27 84th to tied for 64th in the nation Rushing yards allowed per game: 251.3 to 159.5 126th to 59th in the nation Passing yards allowed per game: 161.6 to 209.8 6th to 48th in the nation
Game by game. Repeat opponents only. Florida: lost by 6 to lost by 26 Georgia: lost by 41 to lost by 26 Alabama: lost by 38 to lost by 37 South Carolina: lost by 6 to lost by 3 Kentucky: lost by 3 to won by 17 Missouri: lost by 33 both years Vanderbilt: lost by 18 to lost by 25 Total: -145 to -140
You could argue that Jim McElwain was an even worse coach than Butch Jones at this point. Florida had no business being only a 4 win team in 2017.
I almost give them a pass for that LSU game. We weren’t better than LSU, but the weather was so bad at times to have made the winner almost a random accident.
Why don't you just come to my house, use your doctor anatomy skills and just kick my nuts back up to their prepubescent areas?
Unacceptable. Pruitt better win that game next year. If not, he’ll lose what’s left of the true believers. I’m already down in him until he proves me wrong but losing to Vanderbilt is a bad omen.
The stadium has been less and less full each year. This year, Florida game probably had the most UT fans. Kentucky was awful, Missouri was worse. People aren't willing to put in the time and money to go to games. We will either turn a corner with Pruitt, or we are headed for celebrating the one off 8 win season. This is not a fun timeline.
If we end up doing the latter there, it’s time to seriously look at shuttering the program. Too much money being wasted on a shit poor product. UT has some of the nicest facilities in the country, it’s a damn shame they are being wasted on the product that’s been foisted off on us over the past decade. If Pruitt can’t get it turned around we’re never, ever going to be good (much less great ) again. An entire generation is passing us by knowing that Tennessee is an easy win in their favorite teams schedule... that same generation of potential recruits has no reason to entertain the thought of signing up to play here knowing that they’re never going to win anything of significance and that they’d be better off riding the bench at Alabama or Georgia or even Auburn or Florida than coming here and getting their shit pushed in by the likes of Vanderbilt.
