Tennessee Football: Vols fans want Butch Jones gone now
Tennessee football head coach Butch Jones still has a job and the Vols fanbase and the national media have made it abundantly clear how they feel about it.
When the Vols were blown out by Georgia at Neyland Stadium two weeks ago it seemed like a formality that Tennessee head coach Butch Jones was done for in Knoxville. Instead, rather than giving the beleaguered coach a pink slip, he was allowed to continue at the helm, for now. Well, that might have been true before he lost to South Carolina on Saturday.
Yet another loss, this time to Will Muschamp and South Carolina, has increased the temperature on Jones’ hot seat from scalding to inferno. It’s becoming harder and harder to distinguish between the differing temperatures of his seat as each weekend seems to bring more and more pressure as the losses mount.
If Jones somehow escapes this weekend without getting shown the door he has to play Alabama next weekend. If Georgia blanked them and scored 41 points, it’s not looking pretty for the Vols against the Crimson Tide.
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It’s not like Vols fans needed any more reasons to be through with their current head coach. Still, they took to Twitter on Saturday to voice their opinion about the job that Jones has done at Tennessee. Hint, it’s not good.
Here are a few of the highlights from a Twitter roasting that has been going on for weeks.
Tennessee has no touchdowns and had 8 offensive third-quarter yards after what Butch Jones called the "best bye week" they've had under him.
— Nathan (@2Fast2Nathan) October 14, 2017
Butch Jones had two weeks to prepare for South Carolina and Tennessee has negative offensive yardage in the second half.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) October 14, 2017
ATTENTION: VolNation everyone Change your name to Fire Butch Jones, we can make a difference we must untie as 1
— Tyler Hixsoñ (@THixs2) October 14, 2017
Current look at Butch Jones on his way out of Knoxville... pic.twitter.com/Jugp0DFvxF
— Todd Fuhrman (@ToddFuhrman) October 14, 2017
How does Butch Jones allow a delay of game when he has THREE TIMEOUTS and there’s 43 SECONDS IN THE HALF?
— Austin Stanley (@AustinStanley81) October 14, 2017
How Butch Jones spent 2 weeks preparing for South Carolina pic.twitter.com/nOSbh8gFZ6
— VOLS🍊🥥 (@VolBlood) October 14, 2017
Take it in folks, this could be the last quarter Butch Jones ever coaches at Tennessee
— zach ragan (@zachtnt) October 14, 2017
Did Butch Jones forget that John Kelly exists?
— Barrett Sallee 🇺🇸 (@BarrettSallee) October 14, 2017
Hell yes pic.twitter.com/iImESYkLes
— Gamecockology (@Gamecockology) October 14, 2017
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You’d better make sure the alerts are turned on through the rest of the weekend on your favorite sports app. The odds of Jones making it to next week continue to dwindle. Regardless of whether or not its weeks, days or hours, it’s safe to say that the Butch Jones era in Tennessee is coming to a close soon. If not, Vols fan might very well break the internet.