I we never play again: sad news for Tennessee Volunteers

Tennessee Football: Following the Alabama game, I’m experiencing a range of emotions

I’m feeling a range of different emotions as the game is coming to an end. Anger is the first. Of course, the officiating and the garbage show that ESPN produced for the broadcast were the worst things I have ever seen.

Although the SEC officials’ “Alabama bias” was well known to us, this game has elevated it to a new plane. Tennessee had maybe five or six real penalties in the game, but they finished with fourteen.

Whenever Tennessee threatened Alabama with a defensive stop or touchdown, an imaginary penalty would appear. If that tells you anything, it got so bad that some Tennessee haters and non-Tennessee fans were even upset about the officiating.

It was equally frustrating to watch the snotty people in the booth swooning over everything Alabama did well, refusing to give Tennessee any credit and giving Alabama the benefit of the doubt the entire time.

That’s the source of my rage, then. The ire can also be directed towards Barrett Guarantano. I have never seen a worse quarterback than him.

He botched a fumble attempt to have a quarterback sneak into the endzone to end his career at Tennessee, and he also failed to capitalize on a wide-open Jonathan Jennings step from the endzone, resulting in a field goal. He should never play another snap against Tennessee after that play.

There are some positive things to take away from this game, despite the fact that everything that happened pretty much ruined the rest of my night.

I would love to know what you all think about the three main points I want to make about this game. Tell me on Twitter when you get a chance. Please make this game feel better to me.

Tim Jordan was the first aspect of this game that I found appealing. He plays football, is that right? He never gave up on a play that I saw, and he always battled for extra yards when he had the ball in his hands.

I adore the genuine fighting spirit he possesses. Although we had seen some of that in him the previous year, this was the first time it had really stood out to me in my opinion.

Nor do I believe it to be a Tim Jordan phenomenon. I believe that this football team now has a new mindset thanks to Jeremy Pruitt. That’s the second aspect of this game that I enjoy, and I almost feel like I love it.

I have completely changed my opinion of Pruitt over the last few weeks, and following the Georgia game, I was convinced that he is our man. Another reason I think so is that players in this game haven’t given up.

I can’t help but be excited about Tennessee’s future because this team is getting better every week. On the sidelines, Pruitt displayed some emotion as well.

Even though Pruitt had had enough of the officials and may have been prepared to fight them, I was still excited to see him watching the game from the sidelines.

Alabama’s defense isn’t that good, as I mentioned earlier this week, and if you watched the game, you can see that they aren’t as good as they have been. For the majority of the season, I haven’t thought of Alabama as a top-three team, and given their poor defense, I’m not sure if they’re even in the top five.

The last thing I want to mention is that Tennessee’s defense was present even though Alabama’s was not. They gave it everything they had, and even with Tua Tagoviloa’s injury, I thought the defense still performed admirably.

I don’t think Alabama scores thirty points, much less wins by twenty or more, unless the offense had any success in the second half.

Tennessee had to play the first half without Daniel Bituli and Henry To’o To’o due to a non-targeting targeting call against the Vols. Even though Henry T returned for the Vols in the second half, Bituli’s absence still hurt the team and created a gap in their defense.

This game had a lot of happenings, both good and bad, but I’d say the good outweighed the bad. Although a victory would have been nice, the SEC was just not going to permit that.