In a losing locker room Saturday night in Knoxville, Florida coach Jim McElwain saw some positive signs.
Pain on his players faces. Tears in some of their eyes.
“The good thing from the standpoint if there is anything to kind of pull from what happened — the mood in the locker room,” McElwain said Monday. “There were a lot, a lot, of hurt guys. I’m not sure a couple of the losses last year I could feel that sense of hurt.
“As I told them, it should hurt. Because if it doesn’t, then something is wrong.