Expectations are both exciting and dangerous endeavors for a long-suffering program like Tennessee football.
It can ignite a firestorm of enthusiasm around a football team that can captivate a fanbase, and a young team like the Volunteers can feed off that and excel.
Or, they can materialize as largely unrealistic and cause a overly enthusiastic subset of fans to come after the coach with torches and pitchforks after a subpar season.
Welcome to 2015, Vols coach Butch Jones!
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Following a frenetic 4-1 finish that included a resounding TaxSlayer Bowl victory over Iowa—remarkably the Vols' first bowl win since the 2008 Outback Bowl—and the discovery of a budding star in quarterback Joshua Dobbs, everybody is drinking the orange Kool-Aid entering this season.