Josh Heupel faces criticism for late timeout, called out for loss at Florida
Josh Heupel and the No. 11 Tennessee Volunteers went into The Swamp on Saturday night and got embarrassed by Florida, 29-16.
Even the 13-point loss doesn’t do the game justice, as it felt like the Gators dominated from start to finish.
After the contest went final, there was a ton of reaction on social media, much of it centered on Josh Heupel. The Tennessee coach came under fire for a late timeout and a lackluster performance overall.
Here’s some of the social media reaction to Tennessee’s big loss on Saturday night:
Josh Heupel calling a meaningless timeout with :07 seconds left down 13 and it leads to a fight on the field and personal foul late hit.
Trash.
— Chris Marler (@VernFunquist) September 17, 2023
Josh Heupel after that time out with 9 seconds left down 13.. pic.twitter.com/K6jskyg2BE
— Michael Moscater (@Mmoscater) September 17, 2023
Josh Heupel is an absolute clown. Fits right in at Tennessee
— Not 1985 (@l985) September 17, 2023
I’ll say it.
Josh Heupel is not at UT to score 16 points against Florida.
Joe Milton III has not been mentioned in the national QB talk the past several weeks because of this.
9-3 at best this year.
— Erik Gray (@ErikGray) September 17, 2023
Classless move by Josh Heupel. What possible reason could he have had besides being a bad loser? https://t.co/SyjpytPAOT
— Sidelines Sports Network™ (@Sidelines_SN) September 17, 2023
Josh Heupel should be fired after allowing his team to do that, stay classy Tennessee. Whole team is trash ?@coachjoshheupel @Vol_Football @GatorsFB
— EPiK207 (@pokerdude207) September 17, 2023
Josh Heupel coached teams have scored 16 point or less in 3 games in his HC career.
Twice losses in Gainesville and once in Georgia.
Tons of penalties in all those games.
— Sean Reed (@Sean__Reed) September 17, 2023
Taking a timeout down 13 with 4 seconds left is a joke & directly led to an on field fight between @FloridaGators & @Vol_Football that’s on Josh Heupel both teams need to be held accountable for their players & Heupel the most. Refs did the right thing ending the game.
— John McGuigan (@JohnDMcGuigan) September 17, 2023
That Tennessee timeout at the end of the game was something….why take a shot at the QB, why put your players at risk for a suspension when you just dropped a conference game. Josh Heupel will pay for that one from the league office
— The Two Average Jim’s Podcast (@TwoAverageJims) September 17, 2023
Time for Josh Heupel to clean things up with this year’s team! Must start with better coaching because this team lacked any leadership tonight!
— Nick Morgan (@nickmowest) September 17, 2023
This is a bad SEC East loss for the Vols. There’s no denying that. It’s a great win for Billy Napier and the Gators.
What does this mean moving forward? Can the Vols recover? Can the Gators use this to improve in a hurry? We’ll see how things unfold as an increasingly interesting SEC East race unfolds the rest of the 2023 college football season.
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Horrible, pointless, dangerous time out.. you just told the whole world alot about you!
I agree and the entire world saw it. Then the kids he is responsible for hit the QB taking a knee, resulting in a fight and now suspensions.
Looks like Heupel is “Butching” himself before our very eyes.
I sure don’t understand why he called it
Sorta dumb
He figured that the SEC was going to pass a rule banning all Mertz’s, and wanted to give them some time. Turns out he was wrong
Heup’s last timeout with only 7 seconds remaining was pure Bush League, but that’s Heup.
Huepel was mad and made a horrendous decision. The curtain has fell on him and he knows it. He got out coached by a 30 year old rookie DC in Armstrong
Lol “dangerous “ you moron
Lol”classless” you dumb hillbilly.
Enjoy your meth lab/doublewide while uncle daddy force fu cks you in the az.
Someone is salty that 1998 is even farther away now
Kirkm….You’re back and just as much as a bi-tch as ever
What? Because someone mentions 1998? Lol no. Get over yourself
Guy gave me a vile personal attack, I respond mildly and you pile on by linking me in with a vile poster. Stay classy Vol Nation.
tW, notice how I rag on your team and not individua fans. Sorry this bothers you so much and mentioning your last title is such a sore spot. No run along and lob some schoolyard insults and keep it classy
Classy is my middle name fella.
Kirkm is one of maybe 2 Georgia posters that use 1998 as an insult. So you’re either her, OR you too are just that retarded to where that’s literally the best you can do.
Also, of course 1998 is even farther away now. That’s how time works you fu-cki-ng dunce.
LOl…yeah I doubt that. Anyway, stay classy as always. 4-5 losses incoming for you guys.
Don’t you worry Supra, TN been not good for a long time. You think this loss bothers me you are deada-ss wrong. Little aggravating but it’s whatever. Look at Georgia. Took them 40 years to win a championship. Didn’t turn it around in one year either. I’m a realist fan and I’ll call out TN and other teams when needed. I know we aren’t part of the elite, yet. There is hope in the next 5 years but we need some new coordinators and Milton ain’t the guy. If we can beat Bama, who also currently looks like a dumpster fire, we could potentially have a matchup with Georgia at the end of the season with only one loss.
That last timeout was a punk move but he had the timeout so he used it. Not against the rules but frowned upon by most. I missed it cause I turned it off when they got into victory formation. You should probably conversate with guys like Gwhite because they are the delusional fans that think everything lives and dies with TN football. He’s like a Bama fan.
Last I checked it only took 1 year between titles.
You should probably conversate with guys like RonMexico because you resort to the same type vile personal attack when someone says something you don’t agree with. Why aren’t you calling out the OP? Probably because like Ron you are that sort of poster.
Supra said “conversation” lol
Crawl back to your doublewide
Never mind fuzzdoll……he is an inbred, toothless, uneducated loser
Enjoy that L, Rocky flop WOOOOOO
It was Bush League. If the shoe was on the other foot you would be screaming dangerous also.
I can see doing that if you had the lead and wanted to rub it in (like Urban did in 2008 following the Mark Richt end zone celebration game in 2007) but Heupel must have a screw loose. He didn’t learn that from Saban. I grew up in NW Alabama and have watched the TN fan antics for 60+ years. During football season, they are the raunchiest people in the SEC. Totally classless. LSU is a very close second. Heupel’s momma had to be embarrassed.
Didn’t know Stevie Wonder was on here as a Gator’s fan. Weird. Are you only blind to all things Florida or completely blind in general.
Yup. we once had a couple of TN fans inside Neyland saying that sincerely wish we would die in a car wreck on the way home.
Has he offered an explanation? I would have thought he would have been eager for the game to end so he could do a Krispy Kreme run. I’m sure he was dreaming of an eclair in a g-string pole dancing at that point.
Literally laughed out loud at this one ^
mrtruth…You have won the Coveted “Best Post of the Day” Award. Extra tall trophy on order.
Now that talking season is over and we actually have games to look at versus talk, With Bama and A&M looking terrible and Ole Miss and Auburn not, is Georgia’s schedule tougher than Tennessee’s? Discuss lol
How many times did you copy and paste this? Fu cking idiot. You left out the puppies struggling against high school teams you classless, meth smoking, child ra ping, inbred, uncle daddy having , EBT using POS! Did I forget anything?
Yeah, you forgot the 1998
Oh kirkm…..another name change but still living in your mom’s basement.
Yes, I am sure they are the only one to ever make fun of Tennessee’s 25 year old title. Get over yourself.
In all that though, that is what you zero in on. Classy
Get over myself??? I would never. How about, hear me out, stop sacrificing players for championships??? Enough with the bloodshed. It’s ridiculous.
Again, Classy is my middle name and don’t forget it. Learn something other than 1998. It’s a weak and pathetic attempt at a slam.
Not a slam, just fact. The Vols are awful and have been for 2 decades now.
But if little schoolyard insults make you feel better, go ahead. That loss was pretty brutal. 20 years…wow.
Don’t be getting butthurt because your best clap at TN is shouting 1998. It took Georgia 40 years to get to a championship. I’ll credit the two back to back but 40 year drought sure was a long time.
1998. That is legitimately all you have. You have zero creative bones in your body until your uncle walks in the room.
Yeah, thing is it is a football forum so I keep my trolling to that. You don’t even have that though so you just go with the schoolyard stuff.
With respect to football, there is plenty more than 1998. You have 27-13, 6 in a row, mcDonalds Bag Jokes, champions of life and jokes about everything schools that don’t seem to win anything to name a few. Anyhow, hope you get it out of your system and feel better. It was a brutal loss and I can’t imagine my team being owned in a manner that Bama and Florida (and frankly Georgia) have owned the Vols for a couple of decades. Cry it out man
After an ugly loss and foolish timeout, Josh Heupel is starting to look like a beach bum. Oh, wait…
He probably wanted to makes the Refs stick around a little longer for all the horrible calls and no calls that went Florida’s way….lol.
Saw only one that went our way and we took the risk to substitute
In our defense , most of our fans were screaming WTF?? after he did that. Nobody on our side thought that was cool or made sense either.
Wez…Vol players were already in the tunnel. A totally classless move for a loser.
Fat Heupel will be soon be a high school PE coach just like that other moron Coach Pruitt
How old are you ? 7 ?
What a fat pos sore loser, team full of thugs, cheap shotted all nite, enjoy that dominating loss you wannabes
Raise your hand if you called an opponent thugs after one of your own players was dismissed this week for anal raping an underage girl?
Not much discipline on that Heup team. Orange tears are falling in Vol land. Go Gators !
Alabama struggled with UCF and kicked a player off the team for anal raping an underage girl. Not exactly a great week for Bama to be running their mouth.
Saying a team is full of thugs and took cheap shots is rich coming from a Bama fan. Let’s go ask Jamea Jonae Harris. Oh wait. We can’t because a Bama player took a cheap shot. Let’s check out their mugshots shall we.
Yeah,all that pretentious coach speak has about done it for me. “GOT ME?” What a stupid azz move , Josh.
Bush League by Josh Heupel
And you should probably converse with Ron Mexico. You like to throw around the same sort of 12 year old type personal insults