- Morning fam. SEC Meetings continued yesterday, with about as much actual football news as you'd expect from the first week of June:
- Announced to little fanfare last month, in a change sure to to be brought up in totally-reasonable-not-saying-its-a-conspiracy-naw-im-not-drunk tones for years to come, next season on-site officials will consult in real time with officials at the SEC office in Birmingham during replay reviews.
- Butch Jones remains (let's be real here, pretty understandably) unswayed by arguments to emulate the new Ivy League policy of no-contact practices.
- While the overwhelming majority of bored offseason sportswriters have already punched their "Vols to Atlanta" tickets, there's still some skepticism, by other bored sportswriters: as SI's Andy Staples says
"They need to beat Florida for the first time since 2004. It’s still insane to say Tennessee hasn’t beaten Florida since Facebook was in its infancy. It’s mind-boggling because Florida hasn’t been the better team (recently). That’s the hump they’ve got to get over. Or it’s not going to happen."
Penetrating insight.
- Announced to little fanfare last month, in a change sure to to be brought up in totally-reasonable-not-saying-its-a-conspiracy-naw-im-not-drunk tones for years to come, next season on-site officials will consult in real time with officials at the SEC office in Birmingham during replay reviews.
- Roster Stuff The majority of Tennessee's '16 class has now enrolled and begun attending the summer school classes that started Thursday, reports 247. WR Corey Henderson, however, will be attending JUCO Blinn College, and redshirt freshman WR Vincent Perry may also have academic work to do to remain eligible.
- The 247 Mothership has an interesting outsider's breakdown of Josh Dobbs, focusing largely on his performance in the Northwestern game. I'm telling yall, he's a better passer than we (or Butch's system) give him credit for.
- SEC QUICK HITS
Baker Mayfield is going to be playing again for Oklahoma next year (they've really got to stop serving liquor at the Big XII meetings). Good for him- McElwain-style "sorry kid you're exiled from your home state now" rules are awful, and also: it sets up a potentially amazeballs revengematch, yall.
Ole Miss might be in a lot of trouble, you guys.
Verne is leaving us and nothing makes sense anymore.
Bill Simmons has a new joint called The Ringer. GRANTLAND LIVES! Or something. Haven't really dug around much, but this was pretty good.
This is the best tweet:
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We have the technology to make him better than he was before pic.twitter.com/65iKZXJ6jm
— Tre Bills (@trizzytre21) June 1, 2016
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