Tag: Butch Jones

Our current crisis isn’t really about dearly departed Butch Jones. It is about Tennessee football, rich in tradition, elite for decades at a time, back in the ditch, maybe the worst team in the Southeastern Conference. Our...

Before it is all said and done … Some of the loudest critics of Butch Jones haven’t considered what the coach has done at Tennessee. For just $20 million or so, he raised us up from the football dead. He reconstructed the...

“If you can’t say something good, keep quiet” was an early coaching point from my first teacher, my dear grandmother. I searched and searched for something good to say about the Georgia game from the Tennessee perspective. I...

The sign said “The end is near.” The bearded man was carrying it along the sidewalk. I assumed he was a religious zealot, warning us of things to come. My second thought was he might be a Tennessee football fan. Based on that...