KNOXVILLE-Maybe it was the windy conditions, the growing pains of a youthful group or simply a typical first scrimmage in April.
Whatever it was that Tennessee’s offense did inside Neyland Stadium on Saturday afternoon, it didn’t leave its coach in the best of moods.
“You always have some early conclusions when you scrimmage, and the first one is we’re really a bad football team,” Derek Dooley said after the Volunteers scrimmaged for a littler more than two hours.
“I was really disappointed in the first half how the offense came out. The offense went about four straight three-and-outs and got kicked around the yard. The passing game is terrible, the running game is non-existent [and] I’m glad it’s April.”
Quarterback Tyler Bray, a rising sophomore who completed 11 of 27 passes for 172 yards with three touchdowns and two interceptions, didn’t totally agree or disagree with Dooley’s rather blunt evaluation.