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Get a clue. What do you expect him to do or say? Would you rather him tell talk about a Tennessee Swagger, which has been missing for a while, or telling the team how impossible next year's schedule is.

Part of turning a program around is setting the tone mentally and physcologically.

There's an old joke the late Jerry Clower used to tell about a rancher that had three bulls and several hundred cows. Well one day the bulls hear the rancher talking to his foreman about how he was going to be bring in a new bull for breeding.

So the oldest of the three bulls says to the other two, "I'm the king of this pasture. I've been here more than 10 years and I've got 50 cows that are mine. That new bull isn't going to get any of them from me."

The second bull speaks up and says, "I've been here about five years and I've got about 20 cows and that new bull isn't messing with my good thing just bring him on."

Finally the youngest bull speaks up and says, "I've only been here two years and I only have five cows, but that new bull had better not try to take any from me either."

So the day comes when the new bull arrives and before it gets out of the trailer the trailer is shaking like it's in a tornado. And then out steps the biggest, baddest bull any of the other three had ever seen a snorting and kicking up dust.

So the first bull speaks up and said, "Maybe I was a little hasty. I think I can share the wealth." The second bull said, "I think you're right. I have plenty of cows that I can miss a few."

About that time they hear the youngest bull making a grunting noise and paw the ground looking at the new bull. The old bull said, "Boy, don't you know that new bull will tear you apart?" To which the young bull replied, "You're probably right, but I thought he'd best know that one of us is still a bull."

Butch Jones is simply reminding the Vol players that they are still bulls. If you go into a season thinking you're whipped, then you are.