There is a big difference between Auburn and Tennessee. When Malzhan was asked did he see this big of a turn around his answer to the media was, "I knew we had some pretty good talent here so we went into the season one game at a time and lets see." The key words there are they had pretty good talent. Fred White on the Locker Room stated that Auburn had two years of really good recruited previously. Nothing turns around pretty quickly. It takes talente, recruting, hard work, and buying in to the program under the leadership of someone who causes players to believe in him and lay it on the line for that leader. Daniel Hood and Marlon Walls both have said that the playesr in the Tennessee locker room would run through a wall for Butch Jones. Tennessee, on paper, turn it around in 2015/ 2016 but not until then.
Agree with all, but when I said hope for next year, I didn't mean playing for the BCS but maybe that we could be 8-4 in the regular season. Which I do think is possible if everything clicks. That's a big step up for us.
Auburn going from 3-9 to a hair of the NC is incredibly impressive. In addition to all their talent, as you point out, they were actually much, much better than a 3-9 team last year. From what I understand their players completely quit after a couple games due to off the field issues and I guess Chizak was just a lousy leader morale-wise.
Whereas in our case, even though we were better than 5-7 last year (or should have been, without Sunseri....
), I think for all that what talent we had (quite a bit offensively actually) performed better than Auburn's..FWIW, lol.
