Butch Jones downplays Tennessee's SEC East expectations with new comments
Butch Jones mastered “coach-speak” long ago, but if he’s not careful, Tennessee fans might start to get irritated (especially if Tennessee isn’t playing up to expectations).
Jones believes SEC East is "most complete it has been from top to bottom in a long, long period of time. Anyone is capable of winning it."
— Rhiannon Potkey (@TennesseeBeat) September 3, 2016
Frankly, I’m not sure many SEC fans would agree with Jones’ sentiments about the quality of the SEC East from top to bottom. South Carolina-Vanderbilt didn’t exactly blow the barn doors off on Thursday night, and Missouri looked average at best in a loss to West Virginia early Saturday.
Georgia and Florida should be decent, but aren’t expected to win double digit games this season.
Tennessee fans, what are your thoughts on Jones’ comments?
Fuente > Jones I expect utk to lose to VA Tech in the hillbilly bowl.
Ole Miss fan predicting a UT loss!!…..oh the horror of it all!
If we can’t win at a NASCAR Speedway, we’ve lost our hillbilly identity along with our tradition
More coach speak! Butch is out-scheming everyone.
It could be worse. We could be LSU. Or Mississippi state.
Hard to figure 18 year old kids. And zebras.
Ya’ll suck sooo bad…can’t wait til VT,who’s not that good either, pulverizes ya’ll next Saturday.Enjoy 7-5.SOOO Overrated.
LOL football noob, make another donation to the slush fund.
Josh78 YOU suck! Being an ole miss fan you are not fit to shine a vols shoes you pos !-!!!
I know ya’ll have Dexter McCluster’s shoes…cause he ran out of them the last time ya’ll saw him.
Ummm….Florida State
Georgia will win the east this year…I see UT going 7-5…after VT blows them out next week,it will take alot out of them,while at the same time…making them realize how sub-par they are.When they realize this,they will start trying harder…on a positive note…they will win 3 of the last 4 games,and prolly their Compass Bowl game against Duke.
Well Western Michigan beat Northwestern today. Same Northwestern a bunch of yall was beating your chest about and bragging about Deboard and all his stats. I was so p!ssed last year about playcalling and how Deboard sucks. Hardly anyone else spoke up UNTIL now. Why? I seen it last year. Everyone drunk on that kool aid? Deboard is the same as Dooley in my book. And how does that D look? Offense is the problem not defense. Jones should of fired Deboard as well. Hell I hope we win 7 right now. The D looked better last year in my opinion. Cant stop the run worth shat.The D did have some bright spots and stepped up late. Mark my words,let Jones lose to a bottom dweller and he is gone like Dooley was. Jones is a hell of a recruiter but cant coach worth shat. What makes Nick Saban the best is he surrounds himself with the best both players and coaches. When Saban goes to hire a coach, its always one of the top coaches. We went a long time with no coach wanting to come to UT. When the OC position came open I had high hopes because of all the big name coachesthay applied. Then Jones hired Deboard and I am scratching my head wondering what the heck Jones was thinking. Then it came out that Deboard been out of coaching since 2007 and gave Jones his 1st coaching job. Buddy hire at its best. Then Jomes bragged about how Deboard didnt seem rusty in his playcalling and I guess everyone bought it. Now his vanilla,same old play after play after playcalling is shining thru. Deboard will be the reason Jones is fired.
Saban hired Kiffin… Anybody that has ever truly been a VOL would never want that prick again. Go be a bammer. Turn your volcard in now. We don’t need or want you. I sure don’t know why everyone is so butt hurt over winning a freaking game. Was it ugly? Yes. But you know what? We DIDN’T lose! Plenty of others wish they could say that after today. You know what? Forget it, I’m tired of trying to talk idiots like you off of the ledge. Crap fire, have you forgotten the Fooley years and what we (real VOL fans) would’ve given to be bowl eligible? Never mind, im sure you are one of the fans that used to be a VOL fan back in the 90’s, then abandoned the wagon the second the wheels started falling off, and conveniently, here you are back- back when all these analysts say that it’s “safe” to get back on the bandwagon. You know what- just go ahead and jump off that ledge. My blood pressure would be better off if you did.
Y’all are eating your own. Disappointed with a win… I love it. Y’all will be talking about firing your coach next. Looks like a loong season in vol-land this year.
Bryanchip is not one of our own. I’ve yet to see any Vol fan here agree with him. He’s just one of this site’s many trolls.
Yeah Mythic was awful quite after that App State game. Chocked on that Deboard kool aid didnt you.
We will see how you feel about Jones and Deboard next week. Truth hurts you dumb idiot.
Its ok, trash talk TN.
We had the hardest season opener than any other sec team. We still won, even with a few bad ref calls. App was no crap team.
Wow…buddy…wake up.
Hey there Ole Miss big mouth. We are about to find out real quick how good your team is. Don’t really have much of a recent winning tradition either, have to go all the way back to the 60’s for that. When your coach gets fired this year for stinking the place up. Recruits will bail, and your next hire will have no legacy players to help rebuild, and you will once again you will join the familiar ranks of Vanderbilt, South Carolina, and Kentucky. A place that you and the rest of the Ole Miss fans know all too well. Have to go back to being Bama fans.Keep running that mouth, it will make the inevitable even sweeter! lmao…
son, the wake up call is about to sound off tomorrow at 5:00 when FSU wipes ole piss up like a stain on the carpet
Wrong
The delusion here is astonishing. What is in the Tennessee water?
Want to know what isn’t delusional? The 38-31 final score UY put up against UGA last year! lmao!!! Mark Richt is 10 times the coach Curby Smart is, Richt is a proven winner. Smart is still just a one non-conference win, wanna be at this point. Talk about blind delusional faith. None more delusional than the UGA fan base!
Calm down preflight bj, the Vols still haven’t won in Athens in 9 years, so please continue to boast about your one victory against them in recent years, while the rest of the SEC laughs at your delusional a$$.
Everyone is gunning for Tennessee this year. Why should Coach Jones give them ammunition? He said the right words.
Stripes with plaid? I don’t get it.
His main audience is the players and it won’t hurt to say it is going to be tough.
Walt
How quickly things change. Muschamp is looking better everyday. LSU is crumbling before our eyes and want to clean house and everyone else either lost or barely won games that should have been cake walks. Who is the only SEC team to win a SEC road game? Who is leading the SEC East? I’m proud of our “All Freshman Team”! Go Cocks!! Enough said.
lmao…..crowing about a road win against Vandy……priceless
When it took a last minute field goal no less… I think that App State team would have beaten both Vandy and USC. But what do I know? I’m just a Vols fan, so clearly I know nothing about football and these Gamecocks know so much more. After all they were smart enough to hire a proven winner in coach Muschamp…
It doesn’t matter what you think, lol nice try at spinning the fact it took the Vols overtime to beat a sun belt team who hasn’t won against a power 5 school in nearly 10 years. What do I know we only hired a coach that is now 29-21 has a sec head coach that is 4-0 against the Vols and 2-0 vs coach Lyle jones. Lyle is 22-17 as a sec head coach which winning percentage wise is 56.4 compared to Muschamps 58.
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Lol taking sh*t after an OT victory against a sun belt team, not priceless, more sad and pathetic.
lol the pathetic thing is the sun belt team tennessee beat is ranked 41 spots higher than south carolina. thats sad and pathetic.
After this week even a TN fan can see these early rankings are BS, what’s sad and pathetic is a team’s fan base making excuses about how sh*tty their team played vs a sun belt team. Quit acting like App State is a tough team, they haven’t beaten a power 5 school in almost 10 years and your team had to get lucky in overtime to beat them.
The SEC east and west are not as strong top to bottom. The east looks even worse based off of week 1 with the west not being much better. His comments are delusional at best and Tennessee needs to realise that preseason hype doesn’t win games on the field. This is why preseason rankings are foolish.
There’s still a lot of football left to play. I still think it’s too early to say how the season will go.
Truth is, we wen’t expecting App ST to be as strong, smart, or as well coached as they were. Those Mountaineers were hungry and no one had obviously sent them the 20 point spread memo.
App ST is for real. I doubt anyone else on their schedule can do the things they do, and as I said,,,,,,they do it well.
When we shove it up VT’s arse next weekend in Bristol, and App ST gives Miami and CMR the ol’ “high hard one” the following week in Boone you’ll see what I mean.
Appalachian State is for real this year.
So is UT
In my mind, you’re still the favorite to win the east. If you guys have regressed, it’ll show soon enough, but one game almost lost.. even to App State… just isn’t an indication of the rails coming off yet. We’ll find out soon enough, but I’m not prepared to say UT is done. Realistically, the schedule is tough for you, and I’ve said you guys could be the best team in the division and not win it, but you get the nod for now.
All the ones Jealous of this attention the VOLS are getting after a decade of getting no attention , remember one day it will happen to you !! The VOLS are real and APP State is real (living 1 hour away from APP State) I know just like many “how good they really are ” – they can beat anyone any given night and will be a top 20 team by season end .. Look at their record the past 20 years … Rated top 30 in most offensive and Deffensive categories… TN did not play up to their ability but again the coaches weren’t planning an all out assault and it about backfired because the game plan was not changed .. The game plan was not to run DOBBS – this is where TN is dangerous and it will come and TN will show all the haters at “the biggest game ever “….Battle at Bristol — of course since TN is getting all the hype, all the ones on here bashing this Bristol game and TN , then I hope you don’t plan on watching even the first second – but we all know down deep that you will tune in just to see how awesome it is !! To bad TN is for real and all the others that used to be are not !!! TN will pull out their guns and again why would they want too last week and take that chance of getting one injured – yes it about bit them , but it’s a WIN against a better team than “most ” of the top 25 played and struggled with !!
App state hasn’t beat a power 5 school in almost a decade they are good by SOCON standards, but not good enough to be hanging with a preseason number 9 team.