Why don't you worry about yourself instead of trying to read something in to every word I write?
I grew up cheering for the Vols. They are pretty much the only team I care about (even though my alma mater is #1 in the country right now). Of course following them has been tortuous for the past several years. I would question the sanity of any Vol fan who hasn't been tortured by the absolute buffoonery that has run the program into the ground or the mismanagement that keeps it there.
Some days I wish I could be like the most of the posters here. I wish I could lower my standards with every loss. I wish I could believe all the excuses you guys come up with. I wish I could pretend that the exceptions are the rule, that warning signs don't matter, that records don't matter, and that teams just go from miserable to good based on nothing more than how much time a coach has.
The recruiting class is really the one thing that gives me hope that Butch Jones can make it here. I can't think of a single coach (in any era recent enough to be relevant or at any level of competition comparable to the SEC) who has had such an underwhelming performance in his first year at a school (that is, 5-7 with several blowout losses and a loss at home to Vanderbilt level underwhelming) to go on and lead them to championships. But, on the other hand, I can't think of anyone who had such an underwhelming first year and brought in such an impressive recruiting class either. So, it gives me hope (and I am trying to ignore the little voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me that we've gone down this road before of signing great talent and trying to use it to cover obvious coaching deficiencies and that it doesn't work so well in the long run...)
