Tonight, Tennessee will travel to Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to play the Arkansas Razorbacks. The Volunteers, who suffered a crushing defeat against Texas A&M, are hoping to recover once more. After defeating Georgia on Saturday, Arkansas is rallying from a terrible start to SEC play.
Well, they defeated Purdue (in an exhibition game), who is perhaps the finest team in the nation right now, according to Rick Barnes, regarding Arkansas. They defeated Texas A&M and Duke. And if you look back at what Eric does, you’ll see that his teams improve. They will engage in combat. They act in this manner. Once more, his teams have consistently improved as the season progresses. We are aware of their fantastic home crowd and arena. We anticipate that it will be the hardest game we have played all year.
Josh Heupel had to deal with comparatively little coaching staff change in his first two seasons at Tennessee. After just one season on Rocky Top, Auburn graduate Kodi Burns accepted the same role with New Orleans, costing him his position as WR coach.
Based on KenPom’s metric, Arkansas is ranked 119th. Considering the defeat on Saturday, Tennessee comes in at number seven. KenPom predicts that the Volunteers will win by 11 points this evening.
Then, following the 2022 campaign, veteran offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Alex Golesh, who was seen as a relatively fashionable name among the next generation of head coach prospects, accepted the position of head coach at USF.
However, in less than a week, Heupel doubled the number of coaches who had left for other positions when Jean-Mary rejoined the Big 10 to coach linebackers and coordinate the defensive run game under new UM head coach Sherrone Moore, and former Tennessee running backs coach Jerry Mack accepted a similar position with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
I won’t go into too much detail because we’ve already discussed the Mack news and its implications for recruiting and player development, but it’s undeniable that Tennessee lost two of its top assistants this week.
Jean-Mary and his physique
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