The Official #14 Tennessee vs. #18 Oklahoma Game Thread, 7:30 PM ET, ABC

[vols 30]

We’re stuck for at least 2 more. As long as he’s winning 7-8 he ain’t going anywhere. Half the people here want to lick his toilet seat after 7-8 wins a year.

 

[MurphyVol]

This loss is squarely on CJH.

He got solidly out coached. They confused Joey and got a win with what I think is probably a less talented team

 

[Creekcat]

Which in-state bowl will UT go to?

 

[djohnnyg]

Oh well. It sucks when your season is over. It just does. We move on.

 

[MDsweetT]

I really liked heupel but I’m slowly starting to get a bad taste in my mouth

This is unacceptable. Next year he’s on the hot seat. This game was a disaster.

 

[Vol_guy]

I agree, but he did get UT to the playoffs last year. I think he has earned a little leeway.

Remember, he's got a pretty good recruiting classes coming in too

James Franklin was in the playoff last year as well.

 

[C-south]

We learned that Golish was the real coach.

It’s obvious how bad the offense has regressed.

 

[Bollweevil]

Heupel has served his purpose. Another year or so of him helping Tennessee forget the Pruitt years. It socks but it is a winning record.

 

[tn4elvis]

Absolute coaching malpractice. The reporters at the post game presser don’t have a hair on their ass if they don’t call him out on it

 

[Govols23!]

Bottom line as bad as we played, questionable play calling and turnovers - if we make a 37 yard field goal the game is tied with about a minute and a few seconds left. Probably gets the game to OT. Most college teams have a kicker that makes a 37 yard field goal at a high clip.

 

[AllOrangeInOhio]

And just like that Max Gilbert destroyed an entire coaching staff and can base, send him packing.

 

[jtdavis]

He loses both those games and hell wouldn't be as hot as his coaching seat.

White ran off Vitello and coddles Bobby Hill. That is the first position that needs to be fixed.

 

[hardyemt_p]

Dude, it’s year 5.

Yeah I know, fire the entire staff! Lose our players, hire the wrong coach 4 times in a row. Misery for another 20 yrs. Be careful for what you wish for!

 

[Vol_guy]

This staff better land the #1 portal class.

 

[gmoneyvol]

when they converted on that 3rd & 16 that was the momentum swinger !!

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

What a trash, joke sport this is. Dinosaur sport.

 

[GrizzlyVol]

He should be if we lose both. Why should we settle for mediocrity? Penn State & LSU aren't.

It'll have to get bad before Danny would fire him i think, but let's say we go 8-4 or very unlikely 9-3 this season would you fire him if you were AD...I'm not disagreeing with you at all, Heupel has me so damn mad right now just a conversation

 

[OrangeTsar]

If I'm the AD I force Heup to fire defensive coaches.

Defense played the best they have in several games. They held Oklahoma to a low enough points that we should have won. Offense let us down tonight. Turnovers and failure to close out drives early are what nailed us.

 

[VolInNW]

He doesn’t even have the basics of coaching down and doesn’t even seem to be working to get better.

Well yeah. They don’t accept mediocrity. We embrace it.

Heupel is a passive reactive personality who will milk this 9MM job as long as he can. Judging from the folks on here, that is a long time.

 

[Butch s]

Lol yeah let's put one of the young backups in 1st game in the swamp.

I hope Joey in the swamp is better than Joey in the friendly confines of Neyland stadium

 

[bobabuga]

Bottom line as bad as we played, questionable play calling and turnovers - if we make a 37 yard field goal the game is tied with about a minute and a few seconds left. Probably gets the game to OT. Most college teams have a kicker that makes a 37 yard field goal at a high clip.

We lost this game in the 1st quarter.

 

[Volfan8282]

Yeah I know, fire the entire staff! Lose our players, hire the wrong coach 4 times in a row. Misery for another 20 yrs

Or hire a better coach. Some of yall must be afraid of your own shadow.

 

[LLcoolDave]

Cough cough, we played a really good football team tonight, cough, umm we just didn’t execute and that’s on us as coaches and we have to do better. Rinse and repeat standard Heupel post game press

Our nutless press pool will not challenge it either. None of them have the balls to call out the coaches

 

[volpreacher]

I’m now on the fire Tim Banks bandwagon

 

[Carl Pickens]

Just think…. If the blind ass refs had called OU for being in the neutral zone the scoop and score wouldn’t have happened. That was a huge screw up