Tennessee graduate, recent Vols assistant coach, trolls his alma mater after joining Nick Saban's staff
Jay Graham may have just lost some of the goodwill he earned among Vol Nation coaching for Tennessee in 2020.
The former standout Volunteer running back has now served as an assistant on Rocky Top under two different head coaches but joined Nick Saban’s Alabama coaching staff this offseason following Jeremy Pruitt’s dismissal in Knoxville.
While Graham has been a member of coaching staffs that have lost to Alabama four years in a row (2020 at Tennessee, 2019 and 2018 at Texas A&M, and 2017 at Florida State), the new Crimson Tide special teams coordinator is not afraid to tout his new program’s winning streaks over others — including his alma mater.
When a Twitter troll responded to a Graham tweet by saying, “5,232 days,” Graham was quick to add, “Ago and counting …” in response.
If you don’t get it, that’s how many days it’s been since Tennessee beat Alabama on the football field.
Graham may not have had anything to do with helping the Crimson Tide extend that streak but now that he’s getting paid by Alabama, he appears to enjoy being on the right side of the ongoing battle between the longtime SEC rivals.
Here is a screenshot of Graham’s first tweet, featuring a graphic of recent five-star signee Koolaid McKinstry and Graham’s response below.
Whatever. He is getting paid by Alabama now, so his loyalty should be there. Poking a little fun is fine.
This is almost as ridiculous as Texas milking Coach Sark’s accomplishments this past season at Alabama.
This is indescribably lame.
So he’s taking credit for Alabama’s winning streak while he personally either played or coached for UT teams that Alabama defeated as part of the streak.
Absolutely pathetic. And pretty dumb, too.
Doesn’t look like he is taking credit. Just stating a fact. It’s stupid either way.
That he is. Say, as a Dawg fan, did you personally notice Jay making life hard on the Dawg’s D while Jay was coaching at TN? LOL Imma say no.
What a troll job. Vol Nation will be burning mattresses and painting the rock over this!
Hey Jay, you forgot to add to your tweet, “And I did my part to add to those days!!!!” LOL. Nice Bama, hire the guy that added nothing to TN’s effort to beat you! For many new coaches under Saban, Bama has meant, “Bounced After Maybe A year”!!!!!
yeahhhhhh that “Bounced After Maybe a year” acronym is neither clever nor accurate.
You do know more of the coaches that leave Bama got promoted right?
The Vols are doing more damage to the coaches than these coaches are doing to that trash program…
Huh?
Actually while he was at UT, the series was 2-1-1 in favor of UT. But I agree this is sad
So coach Saban sees more potential in Gramham as a recruiter and position coach than Tennessee? Yet Heupel is hemorrhaging through the transfer portal with 21 players and counting. Doesn’t take long to figure out why.
Yes, he is hemorrhaging transfers due to the previous moronic coach from non-other than….