University of Tennessee NCAA college football defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri talks to reporters at the indoor practice facilty on the school campus in Knoxville, Tenn.KNOXVILLE – Sal Sunseri is a demanding football coach.
Tennessee’s first-year defensive coordinator also isn’t one to sugarcoat things during practice or a game, and he carried that into his weekly meeting with the media after the Volunteers finished practice on Wednesday morning.
Why Tennessee allowed 555 yards and 13 plays of 14 or more yards in the loss to Florida last week is easy to explain in Sunseri’s view.
“The bottom line was we didn’t execute what we needed to do,” he said. “Everybody can have excuses and all that other bull-[expletive] that they want. The bottom line is we didn’t execute what we had to do.
“We played darn good football for about three quarters. Then all of the sudden we had about eight or nine plays there where it just went to [expletive]. It can’t happen.”