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Difficult calendar year leaves changes for Vols

photo Janzen Jackson of the University of Tennessee football team poses for a photograph during media day at Neyland Stadium in Knoxville on Sunday.

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KNOXVILLE — Men’s basketball and baseball coaches were fired and replaced.

The iconic women’s basketball coach was hit with health problems.

There was even a change at the top after an athletic director resigned.

Those are just some of the big events that happened with the University of Tennessee’s athletic department in 2011, and that’s leaving out the end of an NCAA investigation and a forgettable football season. Across the board, it was a tumultuous year for the Volunteers both on and off the field. Anything that could go wrong seemed to do just that.