No, there won’t be a trip to the SEC championship game, but Tennessee players needn’t hang their collective heads. UT coach Butch Jones thinks they’re “champions of life,” as he proclaimed during his weekly news conference.
The comment was an unfortunate choice of words that ridiculed what the Vols accomplished in a challenging season. It wasn’t a rallying cry by their coach. It was just silly.
The Vols showed serious moxie in a 63-37 win over Missouri on Saturday, despite a Florida upset of LSU earlier in the day that eliminated the Vols from winning the SEC East.