The Vols COULD have a winning season and soon obviously, as they have had one in the very recent past. A team can go 3-1 OOC, beat UK, Mizzou, Vandy, USCe, and maybe Arkansas from the West and be 8-4, maybe 9-4, which sounds like a decent year except the team didn't beat anyone with much of a pulse.
I think the near future for Vandy and USCe is not good at all, and Mizzou seems mired in mediocrity at best.
UK seems able to do much the same kind of thing.