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Don't Bet On It!: College Football Predictions Around the SEC
My 6-0 record in the SEC portion of last week’s college football picks left me with a 28-6 mark in conference predictions for the season as a whole. This might lead you to believe that I have some idea what I am doing as a gridiron forecaster, but the wiser course would be for you to assume that I...
Sprints is Still Sorting Through Scandal // 07.27.11
Call it the Cecil Newton Rule The NCAA's Division I Amateurism Cabinet, which we now know is something that exists, has proposed some new legislation to greatly expand the definition of who can be an agent for a player. Take it away, NCAA article: The new definition would include certified...
Sunday Night Dawg Bites: Mike Hamilton, Bill Stewart, Trooper Taylor, and the Latest on the Georgia Bulldogs
It’s been a full week in these parts generally, but it’s been a full week for me personally, too, so I haven’t kept on top of everything the way I ought to have, so this is my chance to catch up on a few news items you likely didn’t miss, but that I felt warranted a degree of attention and...
Gene DeFilippo Staying Put, Will Be Here "For Many Years To Come"
In the past few days, Gene DeFilippo's name has been floated as a possible replacement for Mike Hamilton, the embattled Tennessee Volunteers Athletic Director who announced his resignation on Tuesday. BC's Athletic Director was also associated with the UT Athletics Director search back in 2003, and...
Phillip Fulmer Interested In Tennessee AD Job
With Mike Hamilton out the door, Tennessee is undergoing a search for a new men's athletics director. It's a great job at a great school, and plenty of qualified candidates are out there. Despite the large number of expensive buyouts going out recently, UT will be able to pay enough to get someone...
Phillip Fulmer for Athletic Director?
The conversation on who will be the Vols' next athletic director is sure to go a number of different directions, but among the masses it will start here. It's been less than three years since Phillip Fulmer was on the Tennessee sideline, and now that both the coach who replaced him and the...
Mike Hamilton's Legacy: The Parallel Tracks
Revolutions have a way of running their course, and the nature of the pendulum is to eventually swing back the other way. So while Tennessee's athletic department remains in the midst of turmoil and is headed to Indianapolis to plead its case this weekend, the man who started it all by giving the...
Reports: Tennessee Athletics Director Mike Hamilton Resigns
As first broken by Knoxville's WBIR and since confirmed by others, Tennessee men's athletics director Mike Hamilton has resigned. A press conference is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times here: I have no idea how Hamilton kept his job even this long. He's...
Talking Points: Was the Bruce Pearl Era a Failure?
ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. Many of today's news items use yesterday's firing of Todd Raleigh merely as a place to jump off on Mike Hamilton. Team Speed Kills notes, among other things, that Tennessee is now paying over $7 million dollars to former coaches in all three of its major...
Was The Ticket Violation A Pretense For Bruce Pearl's Termination?
Yesterday, Mike Griffith divulged the details surrounding the March free tickets violation that Mike Hamilton cited as partial justification for revoking his earlier-stated support of Bruce Pearl. Here's what happened, essentially. UT players are supposed to get four free tickets to home games. The...
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