Hoops
Tennessee found yet another way to win in beating South Carolina 70-63 Saturday night, namely having its bench outscore its starters. If you were for some reason unable to watch, do yourself a favor and watch these highlights of the game. Be prepared to hear the names Lamonte Turner and Derrick Walker a lot:
Unfortunately, the Lady Vols did not fare as well this weekend, falling to #6 Mississippi State, 71-52 at home.
Football
Tennessee appears to be in the mix to land Stanford quarterback Keller Chryst, who’s on the graduate transfer market. Chryst was the third-best pro-style QB in the Class of 2014. He redshirted as a freshman and then played four games (0 starts) as a sophomore, 12 (6-0 as the starter) as a junior, and 7 (all starts) this past season before giving way to KJ Costello after a 5-2 start.
SB Nation has identified Tennessee as the greatest underachiever of the 2017 season as measured by the disparity between talent (8th in recruiting) and S&P+ (107th). Woo. The bright side of that, of course, is that there still appears to be talent on the roster, and presumably, the problem of not having anyone to develop that talent into its true potential has been fixed. Right?
Don’t ever just form opinions on the headlines, folks. Sure, an early tweet made it it look like Vol Shaq Wiggins was recruiting against the team that he played for, but in a subsequent tweet, Wiggins clarified that he didn’t know who the recruit was and that he was merely praising a beloved former coach.
ICYMI: It looks like VFL Montario Hardesty will be joining Jeremy Pruitt’s staff as a quality control assistant. Oh, and it’s looking like Jauan Jennings is going to be given a chance to walk the straight and narrow on this year’s team.
VFLs
Derek Barnett had a huge play in the Eagles’ big win over the Vikings last night:
Derek Barnett forces the #Fumble in #Philly #Philadelphia #Eagles #FlyEaglesFly #ChampionshipSunday #NFCChampionshipGame #MINvsPHI #NFLPlayoffs #NFL pic.twitter.com/1DWAhg6lVy
— @540Jason© (@540Jason) January 22, 2018
Christian Coleman set a new world record in the 60 meter dash.
Tennys Sandgren, having already beaten the No. 9 seed in the Australian Open, followed it up by beating the No. 5 seed, Dominic Thiem in a five-set thriller.
Yeah, once you’ve changed coaches I think it’s actually a great thing to be considered the most underachieving team of the year.
For anyone who watched the former-C BJ debacle, it’s so obvious – why is the underachieving thing a story?
Worst Underperformer in History: Dooley vs. Butch. That’d be a heckuva argument to have. Maybe in the dog days of summer…
I still think Dooley’s first team probably overachieved just to get to six wins, so I’d say that’s Butch by default
Butch had the talent. Was it the right talent for his staff’s selected schemes? Were the schemes relevant and effective in the SEC? Did the talented players receive adequate coaching to achieve the staffs’ objectives. I’d offer no on all three counts grading 2017.