You are 100 correct on S&C coaches, perhaps the programs/HC most important hire. The trajectory was headed in the right direction, back to back 9-4 seasons but it was one particular game that changed that momentum. Everything was there, win this game, you play in a Super Six bowl, a NYD bowl, finish 2nd in the East and everything still climbing uphill. (First Sugar Bowl since ?) You are favored, you are more talented, it’s all right there for the taking.
Then you let Vanderbilt take it in 60 minutes. Overly simplistic? Perhaps, but unfortunately for Butch and the Vols, also very true.