re: How did Butch survive allowing 45 in a loss to Vandy

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The Tennessee team that beat ACC runner up Virginia Tech, Florida, and Georgia in the first half of the season was a completely different team than the one that lost to Vanderbilt in November.

There's never an excuse to lose to Vandy, but UT was the #1 most injured team in CFB last season and it showed up in the back half of the schedule.

4th string Defensive Tackles (McKenzie, Tuttle, and O'Brien all out. Walk on Paul Bain forced to play and undersized Defensive ends forced to slide inside because there were no more bodies) No linebackers (Jalen-Reeves Maybin and Quarte Sapp both out. Darrin Kirkland was playing 50% after coming back from a high ankle sprain)

Vanderbilt also played out of their mind in the 2nd half and put together a nice finish to the game.

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Who was responsible to fill the vacant role of strength and conditioning coach when Dave Lawson left? That role was given to a GA or some such right? Pretty sad from April 2016 - Jan 2017 UT didn't have a strength and conditioning coach on staff. That may have had a lot to do with those injuries.