Basketball in Tennessee

Isn't funny how with only 3 losses this season until the SEC championship, the UT fans were already for basketball season. Even the school newspaper were counting down the days until the first game. Now going in to the new year things have not changed.
On New Years Day the Vols will take on the Wisconsin Badgers at the Outback bowl. According to the Knoxville News Sentinel the Vols and Badgers resemble each other both on and off the field. However I will disagree with one comment that is that UT is a second tier team in the SEC. How can this be? Have we fallen this far off of the ball. There was the off year but is one year enough to condim this program has declined that much. No offense to these programs but UT is not in the same category as Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Kentucky, Vanderbilt, and South Carolina. UT always is a contender and always will be.
That brings me to the basketball program and the success of them. Pat Summit always has a top program with a natonal title in her sights. Bruce Pearl has turned the boys program around and brought excitement to Thompson Bolling Arena. His nfast pace coaching style and his teams fast pace of play keeps the fans watching. It is truly an honor to watch these teams when they are on the court.
I know that change is a good thing however how much change begins to sway towards negative ways. Tennessee has lost its offensive coaching staff as it appears today and even several canadiades have fallen through. Fulmer is trying to get a staff together as soon as possible to help benefit the program and I pledge my full support to the coaches he hires to take the open positions. There is a call for some new blood in the program and who is to say that some new blood cant fall into place with the system that UT has in place. The spread option offense has taken over the college football world, however i do not think that it is the answer to the problems within the system. Throughout history you can trace different phases of the game and the spread is a new phase. The offense that UT runs has always produced and looks to keep going as long as it is ran.
I know this is a random collection of items, but it is an example of what I am going to strive to discuss from now on.