re: Your team's weakest position group?

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Not trying to be an arse but any hope for Tennessee this year?

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Depends on expectations. Do they have enough talent to win 7 games on paper? Yes.

Hooker, Bailey, and Milton need to get separation at QB. Bailey looks and acts the part but is a true SO with 5 to play 4 thanks to Covid and he really needs to be on the roster. Milton is getting the most attention but got a late start. Hooker seems like an insurance policy at this point. But a muddied QB situation likely sees Bailey transferring out as Heupel has a QB in this class for the future. A muddied QB situation is almost a worst case for the Vols this year given they have had multiple years in a row of Gitmo being named a starter, benched, and being named as the starter again.

Oline, RB, WR are going to be fine. Zero worries there.

DLine is a concern but it helps to have Rodney Garner back as their coach. The smallest guy on the line is a USC transfer at a questionable 285 that’s closer to 270ish. The rest are 300-350 with mixed experience levels. They should be good enough to get to seven lines. The couple of transfers in should help immediately

LB saw a couple of transfers that are expected to contribute on day 1. The 1st is up from GMC the other is a Texas via JUCO guy. The 2 best LBs transferred out so the roster is more unknown than a known. Brian Jean-Mary is a proven veteran with success coaching up guys.

DBs the returning starters are solid but depth is a question. Willie “the thud” Martinez is back coaching them and as a position coach he has done a decent job at his stops.


If the QB situation clears up quickly then this years team should be at least fun to watch. Something they haven’t been in the last 10 years for the most part. Even when Butch had them going with those loaded rosters the specter of Butch being dirty was palatable. Pruitt was just hard to watch at times and Dooley should have been a 1 year guy at best.