Are You Emotionally Attached to Erik Ainge? If So, Go Someplace Else Today

I have defended Erik Ainge for the majority of his career at UT.

Today, I couldn't be more Anti-Ainge.

You hope that once in every four years or so you get an SEC Title. I mean, you want one every year, but let's be realistic. When your defense gives up 13 points to LSU's offense, you need to win. The Vols defense looked like what LSU's defense was supposed to look like. They were flying to the ball and knocking LSU's heads off. I don't know if I have ever seen a game that was as hard hitting as what the Vols distributed evenly across the LSU offense last Saturday. I have never seen anyone bleed on a football field like Ryan Perilloux did. Mayo and Rico were everywhere and as we all know, Eric Berry is going to be one of the best DB's in history. Even Brent Vinson with his constantly dislocated shoulder was laying shots out on the LSU receivers.

Tennessee's defense was to be the soft spot. Erik Ainge, the senior leader, was to be the strength. Look, UT even stuck with running the ball when LSU proved that it couldn't be done, but the coaches stuck to the plan. Did our offense flourish in the G-Gun? As always. Towards the end of the game, we were even seeing Jones in the slot, but the ball wasn't getting delivered to him. Grant, Denarius dropped a fourth down pass, deep in LSU territory, your quarterback has to play a perfect game against LSU. Ainge was far from it.

Where does UT go from here? I would love to see Jonathan Crompton start the Outback Bowl. What do we have to gain from Ainge playing? He's done. He's lost enough money given his present draft status. Oh, he also lost the SEC Title. It's time to think about the program, and Ainge has proven that he is no longer it.

Moving on to LSU. I can't believe that they got into the title game. I mean I can, but that's just bad. Georgia, sorry. Win your league then talk to someone. LSU is just going to do terrible things to Ohio State. Just terrible things to them. With a month off to recover from their punishment in the SEC, it's going to get ugly.

I can't wait to watch Georgia though. Hawaii? I don't think anyone really wants to play them. You don't know what you're going to expect. They could beat Georgia by 30 or they could lose by 30 and be carried off in a world record setting number of stretchers.