Vols Football Needs to…
Stop Underachieving
Tennessee football underachieved under Butch Jones. They underachieved under Derek Dooley. They even underachieved in the last few years under Phillip Fulmer.
It’s time for the Vols to stop underachieving in football.
Jeremy Pruitt has a tall task ahead of him as a first time head football coach in college. He has four national title rings as an assistant and coordinator, but he’s never been the head man in college. And he’s taking over a program that hasn’t won their division in over a decade and is coming off the worst season in program history.
The Vols have won 10 or more games just once in the last 13 seasons. And that’s after winning 10 or more games eight times in 12 seasons from 1993-2004. Tennessee has underachieved severely over the last few years given the amount of talent on the roster, and it’s time to put that to a stop and get the Vols back to their winning ways.
Pruitt and his staff shouldn’t be fully judged on their successes or failures in Year One. But it needs to be evident that this is a different culture and program under him than it was under Jones, and that will show itself in the scoreboard and how competitive Tennessee will be against their toughest opponents.
The one constant of Tennessee football over the last decade-plus has been disappointment. That needs to end, and it starts in 2018.
