Chaos finds Butch Jones again, and it may soon come time for Tennessee to say ‘uncle’
September 17, 2017 by admin
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I want to write the book, the one on Butch Jones’ life that begins Saturday night.
It will be called something like, “Where Were The F—ing Safeties” or “Not Again” or “Champions … For The Life Of Me I Can’t Understand Why This Keeps Happening.”
It will be, well, absolutely miserable. Never mind the book, how Jones’ upcoming week? Tennessee lost on an unbelievable, unexplainable, what-the-hell-just-happened Hail Mary by Florida. Again.
For one shocking play, Jim McElwain went all Steve Spurrier and had his redshirt freshman quarterback Feleipe Franks hurl a 63-yard pass to what turned out to be a wide open Tyrie Cleveland.
Ballgame. And for all the Butch haters? Endgame. This game concluded almost exactly the way it did in 2015 at The Swamp.
There was a bit more time left on the clock two years ago, but eerily, there were 63 yards to cover for the win in that one, too.
Sandwiched in between was Tennessee’s Hail Mary win at Georgia last year. Jones seems to be the one coach on the planet who has lived both a Hail Mary and Holy Hell at the gun.
There’s something about Jones and drama. He courts it, oozes it.
It may end him at Tennessee. A guy who has won nine games in consecutive seasons, still hasn’t won the right nine games. This one may cost him the SEC East. Not that the Vols were favored to win the division, but it would have been absolutely the most Vol thing ever to win the East as a darkhorse.
This result will cost him — at least until the next Hail Mary. A large majority of Tennessee fans are begging for Jones’ job and the return of their sanity.
New athletic director John Currie has been adamant about Jones’ job security. It will probably take 5-7 or worse for the monied Vols boosters to pony up the $12 million or so to buy Jones out.
But with every quirky quote, decision and Hail Mary, that job security slips away.
Anyway, I want to write that book that starts with ”Chapter 1: The Butch Jones Show.” The Tennessee coach’s weekly radio show at Calhoun’s on the Tennessee River will feature more questions this week than cans of Bud Light ordered by the live audience.
Where, exactly, were the safeties with nine seconds left in the game?
From its own 37, Florida needed about 33 yards for a field goal, so the safeties had to be deep. Cleveland ran a simple post and got past Tennessee’s Micah Abernathy.
At that point, Florida had one offensive touchdown to its name this season. It wasn’t sure it had a quarterback, a tailback (its best, Jordan Scarlett, remains suspended) or an offense. It must have done the Head Ball Coach’s heart good to see a play he would have dialed up. Or maybe Steve Spurrier would have put up more points. Just sayin’.
To sum up, Tennessee had rallied from a 20-10 deficit against a Florida team that treats visits to the end zone like dinosaur sightings — equally as rare.
What about the play calling in the third quarter?
There were two trips inside the Florida red zone that ended with no points. Quinton Dormady threw an interception at the 1-yard line after he nearly threw one into the end zone a couple plays earlier.
All that and Tennessee/Jones still had the game in their hands late. Dormady missed an open receiver running a crossing route on third down inside the 10 before Aaron Medley kicked the game-tying field goal with less than a minute to go.
How do you practice really, really important field goals?
Jones used two kickers who combined to miss three of four kicks.
Did John Kelly cost Tennessee the game?
The Vols’ junior tailback was about to become the day’s SEC breakout star. He ran for 141 yards, including a 34-yard scoring run in the fourth quarterback that cut the deficit to 13-10.
But Kelly made the boneheaded decision to throw up the Gator Chomp to fans in the end zone. The 15-yard penalty applied on the kickoff gave Florida a short field, which it utilized well as Cleveland returned the ball 46 yards and the Gators put together their first offensive touchdown drive of the season to immediately go ahead 20-10.
You want drama? Jones may endure the current torrent of criticism because his tailback decided to taunt a drunk sophomore in the 22nd row.
That seems about right considering the way Tennessee’s fortunes sway back and forth. The Vols could have taken early control of the East with a win in The Swamp.
Instead, someone should write a book about why they didn’t. The next week of Jones’ career could be a novel onto itself.
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Senators to Tillerson: Expel Cuban diplomats, consider US embassy closure over attacks
September 16, 2017 by admin
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Top Republican senators pressed the Trump administration on Friday to expel Cuban diplomats and consider closing the U.S. embassy in Havana over the mysterious “acoustic” attacks on Americans stationed on the island.
“Cuba’s neglect of its duty to protect our diplomats and their families cannot go unchallenged,” the Republican senators said in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
They urged the State Department to “immediately declare all accredited Cuban diplomats in the United States persona non grata and, if Cuba does not take tangible action, close the U.S. Embassy in Havana.”
The attacks, which generally have occurred at night, have confounded U.S. officials.
Victims – there are at least 21 Americans with symptoms – have reported hearing loud noises or feeling vibrations before suffering a range of aftereffects. This includes everything from hearing loss to speech problems to concussions.
Suspicion initially focused on a sonic weapon, and on the Cubans. Yet the diagnosis of mild brain injury, considered unlikely to result from sound, has stumped the FBI, the State Department and U.S. intelligence agencies involved in the investigation.
Some victims now have problems concentrating or recalling specific words, several officials told The Associated Press, the latest signs of more serious damage than the U.S. government initially realized. The United States first acknowledged the attacks in August — nine months after symptoms were first reported.
The U.S. already has expelled two Cuban diplomats to protest the communist government’s failure to protect Americans serving there. But the U.S. has taken pains not to accuse Havana of perpetrating the attacks. It’s a sign investigators believe that even if elements of Cuba’s security forces were involved, it wasn’t necessarily directed from the top.
But the attacks have revived criticism on Capitol Hill of the Obama-era decision to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba. The letter to Tillerson was signed by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Richard Burr, R-N.C.; John Cornyn, R-Texas; Marco Rubio, R-Fla.; and James Lankford, R-Okla.
“Our officials and their families have been the targets of unacceptable levels of harassment and ‘acoustic’ attacks that, in some cases, have caused permanent hearing damage and other significant injuries,” they wrote.
“The safety of U.S. diplomatic personnel and their families posted overseas remains one of our high priorities and a shared responsibility of those nations that host U.S. diplomatic facilities. We urge you to remind the Cuban government of its obligation and to demand that it take verifiable action to remove these threats to our personnel and their families.”
Asked about the attacks on Thursday, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert confirmed that 21 people have been affected, leaving open the possibility that number could rise.
“They continue to undergo tests,” she said, noting that personnel “are able to leave Havana, leave Cuba, and return back home if they wish.”
“The investigation into all of this is still underway. It is an aggressive investigation that continues, and we will continue doing this until we find out who or what is responsible for this,” she said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.