Brick by brick, this is the house Butch Jones built.
In the SEC, you can’t just recruit, you can’t just motivate and you can’t just be an X and O geek. You’ve got to do it all, or else you have no shot.
What’s happening at Tennessee this season isn’t merely exposing the areas where Jones has come up short over this 3⅔ seasons.Tennessee fans have taken the ride with him from blaming Derek Dooley for the shape of the program to finding hope in the young players Jones had recruited to pumping up Atlanta-or-bust expectations for this season in what looked like an otherwise weak year for the SEC East.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nca...oxville/ar-AAjCHw0?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhpTennessee, 'after' losing to South Carolina 24-21 and falling to 5-3, the Vols 'chance to' get to Atlanta 'is' a long shot that will require big-time help from Florida — Jones has all but assured his fan base will deem this season a failure!
Now we’re here and nobody in Knoxville seems happy, even though Tennessee football is in a way better place than it was five years ago and Jones is making millions more than he could have dreamed.
But that’s college football, where a fan base that could experience its best season in a decade still feels like a failure.
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