It’s a simple question that is sure to be on the minds of Tennessee football fans during the first few months of 2022.
If the Volunteers were this good offensively in Josh Heupel’s first year as head coach, what can they accomplish with a second season in the system and with so many returning pieces?
Offensive coordinator Alex Golesh already has pondered that thought, even before the Vols wrap up 2021 with Thursday afternoon’s Music City Bowl against Purdue. Tennessee heads to Nashville with a 7-5 record and with averages of 459.0 yards and 38.8 points per game, with its average points ranking ninth nationally and third in the Southeastern Conference behind Alabama and Georgia.
“You will have time to really process your thoughts instead of processing on five hours of sleep and 18 Red Bulls in a day,” Golesh said in a recent news conference. “You can actually decompress a little bit, figure out what’s been good and what hasn’t. I think it will be huge to understand that instead of going into it blind.
“You’re going into it with a really, really clear and concise plan of who the guys are and how you can grow.”