The Bulldogs were beaten by a Volunteer team that clearly was the better team that day. I take nothing away from Tennessee for that victory; they earned it, and I’m not going to attribute the loss to any cause other than our team’s having been outcoached and outplayed.

However, we stunk, and that was the Big Orange’s only meaningful victory of the season. I think we have a pretty realistic idea of where our program stands and how to improve it. The Tennessee fan base, ordinarily one of my favorites, has caught Lane Kiffin’s disease and is in the process of proving that a fish rots from the head down.

Coach Kiffin fils has brought nothing but unwarranted arrogance to Knoxville. (The recruiting acumen and stout defense were there already.) Man, I’ll be glad when this bombastic unaccomplished jackass is gone from the Vol sideline!

. . . but who cares? He’s turned their program around! He took over a program that recruited well, played good defense, and lost seven games last year, and, in just one season, he transformed it into a program that recruits well, plays good defense, and lost six games this year! Everybody’s talking about ’em, so they must be doing something right! BCS or bust, baby! Woooooo!

(Do you smell that? That’s sarcasm, boys and girls!)