HOOVER, Ala. – There’s no easy way to say this, and no better spot to explain it than the unhinged carnival of wild preseason expectations that is SEC Media Days.
Tennessee, once a proud SEC heavyweight, will never be elite again.
Two decades removed from the golden age of Vols football, second-year coach Jeremy Pruitt strolled to the podium at this football orgy earlier this week and began extolling the academic virtues of his team.
That’s right, the program of General Robert Neyland’s maxims and Peyton Manning and Reggie White and all those memorable fall Saturdays in the Smokey Mountains is bowing its back with academics.