Though the Vols fell to the Tigers Saturday, Butch Jones was relentlessly positive during his postgame comments. You can view them above, but here are a few highlights.

Jones’ opening statement:

“We’ve just got to keep working to get better and better and build it. We have an off week to get ourselves ready to go, and then finish strong with two weeks. I want to thank our crowd, tremendous crowd. We’re going to need them in two weeks.”

Jones on the state of the program:

“I will tell you this, and you can write this. We will get it done. This place is too special. The only variable we have is time. Somebody may say, `Why the heck are you doing that?’ Because I believe in it. I believe in Tennessee football, I believe in our fan base. I gave up a lot to come here because I want to be a part of building something special and having that responsibility of getting Tennessee football back. I love Tennessee. Our pride and our passion for this place drives us every day in recruiting, in developing our players, and if it kills me, it kills me. I’m going to put everything I have in it to get Tennessee football back.”

Jones on moving forward:

“I think we just need to focus on one day at a time and winning each day. If we do that, we’re going to take great strides. I said it last week and I’ll continue to say it. I’m disappointed, I’m not discouraged. I try to pick out one, or two, or three positive things and try to build upon that and learn from our mistakes. We did have some individuals step up and play winning football. Not many, but we did have some individuals play winning football for us.”

Jones on the play of Josh Dobbs:

“It was great to see us making a play at quarterback in terms of pulling the ball down and creating some yardage. Again, that is a lot to put on the shoulders of an 18 year old playing against the competition that he is playing against but if anyone can handle it, it is Joshua Dobbs. I thought for the most part he did some very good things, positive things of continuing to move forward.”