KNOXVILLE – Two national college football media personalities who visited Tennessee in the past two weeks came away from their visits with coach Jeremy Pruitt sharing vastly different ideas of what the Volunteers could accomplish in 2018.
SEC Network analyst Marcus Spears told “The Paul Finebaum Show” he believes Tennessee could reach seven or eight wins this season. Stewart Mandel, editor-in-chief of The All-American, left Knoxville believing the Vols could be headed for a season that mirrors last year’s 4-8 campaign in which they were winless in Southeastern Conference play.
“I got the sense that if they don’t get some really good grad transfers here in the next couple months, they might go 0-8 again,” Mandel said on “The Audible,” his podcast with college football writer Bruce Feldman. “It’s that bad.”
Their differing views highlight the mystery still surrounding a team in transition.
With one week remaining until the spring game at Neyland Stadium, there are plenty of unanswered questions about the Vols, but the first four weeks of spring practices have brought some level of insight into Pruitt’s first team at Tennessee.