Happy Friday, everyone. Butch Jones is hoping to emerge from tomorrow’s inevitable bloodbath with enough left in the tank to salvage his job by navigating their upcoming Amen corner of Kentucky, Southern Mississippi, and Mizzou. Should he manage the improbable in sweeping through such a gauntlet, he would avoid the fifth losing season for the Vols in the last decade. Let us not forget the man who started this woeful stretch:
Yep, we have Fulmer to thank for leaving Tennessee in such shambles. Lest we forget, this is a man who squandered the career of the best QB in SEC history, lucked into a national title on the back of an awful SEC that sent an unranked Mississippi State to Atlanta, then parlayed that title into 41 losses over the next ten seasons.