The best reason for looking forward to the 2024 Tennessee football season: You might see five-star quarterback Nico Iamaleava play an entire game.
I expect fans will be satisfied with the results.
Iamaleava already has made a favorable impression on fans despite playing sparingly. Tennessee might have had better quarterbacks. But it never has had a backup quarterback who created so much activity in my inbox.
I will weigh those emails when I file my Heisman Trophy vote next week. Nobody says you have to start a game to receive a vote.
Although Iamaleava is wildly popular, most of his adoring fans can’t spell his last name. I know, because I randomly surveyed 10 people. Only two of them spelled his last name correctly.
Daniel writes: Your article about what went wrong this year with UT’s football program and what could be better next year matched my assessment almost perfectly. Not that that’s necessarily a positive thing given my history of assessments.
I’m a huge Josh Heupel fan for lots of reasons, but I can’t quite forget that at one point he thought Joe Milton was a better QB choice than Hendon Hooker.
