If we go 8-5 this season would be.....

[901 Orange]

If we go 8-5 this season would be....

 

[Remy]

a miracle.

 

[IndianaVol]

Known as the season of what might have been...

What might have been if the guys bought in earlier, played harder at key moments, caused a couple more things to fall their way...oh what might have been.

 

[LargeOrange1]

EXACTLY what I predicted from Day 1.

 

[VolunteerCeltic]

It would be incredible, but as the Wizard of catch-phrases Butch Jones would say "we are just focusing on going 1-0 this week"

 

[IndianaVol]

Known as the season of what might have been...

What might have been if the guys bought in earlier, played harder at key moments, caused a couple more things to fall their way...oh what might have been.

 

[unfrozencvmanvol]

1988 all over again, hopefully with 1989 to follow.

 

[AllVols]

Let down, but with a small promise for a brighter future.

 

[volmoon]

Amazing...and negavol fodder.

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Amazing...and negavol fodder.

7-5 and 9-3 to follow

 

[Volinnooga]

...looking ahead too far. Let's just win the next one.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

If we go 8-5 this season would be....

A strange sight and implausible wonder.

 

[BigOrange15]

Pretty damn good considering.

 

[Vol$_Deep_11_9]

Would be a success. Think most of us thought between 6-6 and 8-4 would happen before the season started. Got 4 more games to go though. Let’s get a W over UAB and get ready to handle Kentucky, Missouri, and Vandy.

 

[Special Ed]

finished.

 

[jctenn1]

Tennessee football rising from the fire that has engulfed this program for years....
Tennessee football ready to retake it's place among the elite and never look back on this tragedy....
a 10 win season pissed away also....
GBO

 

[BeardedVol]

Impossible since there are only 12 games in a season.

 

[901 Orange]

...looking ahead too far. Let's just win the next one.

Its just a hypothetical question. At this point in the season we ALL know to take it one game at a time. No game is a given for us but their is light at the end of the tunnel

 

[Remy]

Impossible since there are only 12 games in a season.

The bowl game is included with derivatives of 13.

 

[VFLCodyGBO]

8-5 should be 10-5 and the best season we’ve had since Fulmer.

 

[Elhanan]

Bittersweet.

GA State, BYU, and in some weird arse way Alabama could have all been wins.

This is what a coach who learns on the job does but honestly right now I’m just happy we got a coach that can and will learn.

Hope for big things next season if we pull out an 8-5 record.

 

[Other_Guy]

A miracle.
And the fact this team should have been 9-3.
Which would give us much more hope that Pruitt is indeed the guy for the job.

 

[TBtheGBwiththeTD]

If we go 8-5 this season would be....

We might be ranked in the final poll in that case. Would be an unbelievable sales pitch in recruiting. Long LONG way to go to get there though

 

[HooahVol]

I would eat crow. Admit I was wrong to write off Chaney and Pruitt after the horrendous start and start watching recruiting again like a hawk.

 

[DoyleMcOrange]

Known as the season of what might have been...

What might have been if the guys bought in earlier, played harder at key moments, caused a couple more things to fall their way...oh what might have been.

What might have been had Pruitt given Shrout and Maurer a fair shot earlier. Like the second half vs Georgia State.

But to OP's point, it would be a danged fine turnaround.