I feel about Kellie the same I felt about Dave Serrano. I wanted badly for them to win, but it became apparent it wasn't going to happen and it was time to move on. I hope that we have the same kind of luck with Kellie's successor that we had with Serrano's.
When I was an undergrad (Doug Dickey was our coach), the NCAA ruled football with an iron fist. TV was pretty much limited to one network and consisted of a little more than a dozen games broadcast during a season. TV schedules were made up a year ahead and generally based on the previous...
I'm not big on moral victories but a single digit loss is a helluva lot better than a 40 point blow out which this would have been had the Vols not sucked it up in the second half.
I watched the game and was highly impressed by two Vols I'd never heard of. That's happened to me once before, about a half century ago, when two guys named Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King came out of no where. (I recall that King scored something like 40 points.)