{"id":3833,"date":"2017-08-24T13:37:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/?p=3833"},"modified":"2017-08-24T13:47:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T17:47:26","slug":"best-coach-sec-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/2017\/08\/24\/best-coach-sec-east\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Butch Jones the best coach in the SEC East?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Ed Fang, <strong>Butch Jones<\/strong> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepowerrank.com\/2017\/08\/22\/the-sec-east-program-on-the-best-trajectory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best coach in the SEC East<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fang &#8220;uses his Stanford Ph.D. in applied math to make football and March Madness predictions,&#8221; according to his profile.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This got me thinking? Who is the best coach in the SEC East?<\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s Tennessee\u2019s Butch Jones by a mile. The visual shows what he\u2019s done in his four years in Knoxville: taken an FBS average team and made them better.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that\u2019s not good enough in Knoxville. And the Vols struggled in 2016 in response to top 10 preseason expectations.<\/p>\n<p>However, Tennessee suffered from numerous defensive injuries down the stretch last season. This played a large role in their dip in rating from the previous season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He goes on to write that of the top three programs in the East (Tennessee, Georgia and Florida), the Vols are the only program he believes is headed in the right direction.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the article above to see the full graphic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Dr. Ed Fang, Butch Jones is the best coach in the SEC East. Fang &#8220;uses his Stanford Ph.D. in applied math to make football and March Madness predictions,&#8221; according to his profile. This got me thinking? Who is the best coach in the SEC East? I think it\u2019s Tennessee\u2019s Butch Jones by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":3138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-3833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennessee-vols-football","tag-butch-jones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/files\/2017\/07\/unnamed1.jpg?fit=900%2C507&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3833\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/freaknotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}