Episode 137: To the Pit of Misery

GoVols247: A Tennessee Volunteers athletics podcast

247Sports, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteers, Tennessee Football, Tennessee athletics, Football, Colle

Football, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

GoVols247's Wes Rucker, Ryan Callahan and Patrick Brown went into Fort Rucker Studio to break down Tennessee's SEC-opening, 47-20 loss to Florida and the Vols' Saturday trip to Georgia for a game against the second-ranked Bulldogs.

Florida, another proud program in rebuilding mode, was considered one of the more winnable games on this season's SEC schedule, but ... welp. The Vols turned the ball over six times and lost a game that probably will make it tough for Tennessee to secure bowl-eligibility in Jeremy Pruitt's first season.

Saturday's game at Georgia marks the beginning of the nastiest part of Tennessee's schedule. After facing the Bulldogs — who came agonizingly close to winning the national championship last season — they'll play at 10th-ranked Auburn, at home against top-ranked Alabama and then go back on the road to face a South Carolina team that opened the season in the polls and might be back in the polls at that point.

Things get a little more manageable after that, but it's tough to see another SEC game this season where Tennessee will open as the favorite in Las Vegas.

First thing's first, though: Georgia.

We take a look back at the Florida game in this episode, but we pivot — PIVOT! — back to Georgia pretty quickly, and then we discuss the reasons things might get better and the reasons things might not get better this season.

At this point, what's fair to expect from this team this season? We don't dance around it. We discuss the good, bad, the ugly and fugly.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	There was feared.
0:04.0	My goal as the head football coach at the University of Tennessee
0:09.2	it is to get us back to that point.
0:12.0	All right?
0:13.0	You can do it!
0:15.0	Let me just quote the late great Colonel Sanders.
0:18.0	He said, I'm too drunk to taste this chicken.
0:22.0	What is it? I'm too drunk to taste this chip on.
0:23.0	That's what she said.
0:26.0	When you think about running through the tea at Nayland Stadium for the first time in the
0:31.2	Saturday, they give you a little bit of chicken skin?
0:34.0	A little bit of what?
0:36.0	A chicken skin, you know.
0:38.0	You know what I'm making reference to when I say chicken skin?
0:41.0	You're Southern boy.
0:42.0	You got no idea.
0:44.0	Punged up in Lenzo and it's tipped up.
0:47.0	It's covered.
0:48.0	It is corny!
0:50.0	Julian Jennings!
0:52.0	Julian Jennings! Jennings. Brontime, lunchtime, wet week in Knoxville, Tennessee time.
1:05.0	The rain kind of fits the mood time.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 247Sports, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteers, Tennessee Football, Tennessee athletics, Football, Colle, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 247Sports, Tennessee, Tennessee Volunteers, Tennessee Football, Tennessee athletics, Football, Colle and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.