Where to start?....
Ok guys, Wycheck is on a radio program in Nashville. Nashville and the surrounding area has its fair share of UT fans, but there are also a bunch of people who couldn't give a rat's ass about UT. I know...shocking. This might come as a shock to some folks, but Knoxville, Tennessee is not the center of the Universe and sometimes people say things that UT fans don't like. Sometimes they say these things because they are the truth. Sometimes they say these things because they are offering up a contrasting point of view. And SOMETIMES they say things just to get the knuckle-draggers' blood boiling. If they were all positive about UT all of the time, they would lose a significant portion of their listening audience. Even if you are tuning in to see what "stupid" stuff they are going to say about Tennessee, then you are tuning in. Guess who's winning when you do that?
I have heard Wycheck speak his mind about Vince Young on multiple occasions. Hell, he even got into a verbal altercation with Pac-Man Jones at practice. I had rather listen to somebody who gives me his unfiltered opinion than some Kool-Aid drinker who only gives me the wine and roses report. I might not like it, but at least it's their true opinion. Doesn't mean I have to agree. Doesn't mean anyone else has to, either. Just take it for what it is. Entertainment. Same as UT football...ENTERTAINMENT.
It could be soooooo much worse. They could have the UT equivalent of the Paul Finebaum (aka Alabama's version of Roy D Mercer) suckling at the teat of the Volunteer football program and never getting anything but homer talk.
This is bad, but not nearly as bad as the people who call in after the game and bitch about the game plan, even when UT won in a rout. It's always some Husky-dipping, backwoods redneck who dropped out of high school to go to work in the woods when he was 13 and sounds like every cliche' there ever was about UT fans who call in with those crazy calls.