BeecherVol
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I do see those as realistic expectations for years 5-8...averaging 9-10 wins per year is what we expect at Tennessee...if Jones can deliver that's great, but coaching is very much a performance based profession...
Most rational people will give you a pass when you inherit a trainwreck and you do have some years with extreme injuries (like 2016), but the rebuilding is over and having back to back injury plagued years is probably gonna be seen as a weakness in the overall execution of the coaching duties...
I see it as realistic for the program. I don't think Jones is capable of that in this conference.
He got a pass for the better of 2 years. Very, very few were holding him to the standard you posted above during that time, to the point it was almost non existent. Years 3 and 4 given the state of the division opened the door for those expectations to be in play and while its not gonna be a lot tougher next year I don't expect it to stay that way much longer.