'And then a couple weeks after I had said on the air that one of the toughest things about coaching at Tennessee would be to find that color tie to go with all your outfits, Bill Murray grabbed an orange tie on an A to Z pub crawl in New York and said to me, "Here's your FULMERIZED tie. It's not that hard to find." - Dan Patrick, Those Guys Have All the Fun

It was great seeing Eric Berry @Stuntman1429 at Saturday's scrimmage and hanging out with all the players. Fight On!

Just ONE more! Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? We just need one more team for the RTT Fantasy Baseball league in order to draft. No challenges or anything, just a straight up 10 team league. I know there is one person that wants a team! Email me at bramseym3@gmail.com for invite or post your email in the comments. [EDIT -- Hooper. Bumped to make visible for those who don't read FanShots but would be inclined to join. There's got to be one person out there who can afford a couple minutes here and there.]

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Tennessee might just be the best 10-11 team in the nation. Fact Check: Pretty close to true Only Nova at 10-12 is ranked higher in the Kenpom top 100

BREAKING : UT source confirms that John Palermo will be next defensive line coach for Vols.

Cuonzo Martin said he couldn't help but notice the scores of blue-clad Kentucky fans in Thompson-Boling Arena on Saturday. "Yeah, it concerns you,'' Tennessee's men's basketball coach, who had a handful of Kentucky fans sitting behind his team's bench, said Monday at media day. "We see 21,000 there, but we'd like to see the 21,000-plus in orange, especially when you say you're going up against a rival.'' The Vols' 65-62 loss to the No. 2-ranked Wildcats represented UT's first sellout crowd of the season, with 21,678 packed into the arena. "If the upper bowl is not packed (with orange), it's one thing,'' Martin said. "But you have the lower bowl ... "There was not a lot of red in that lower bowl when Indiana came to the gym at Purdue.'' Martin played at Purdue 1991-95 and coached there as an assistant 2000-08.

Question For RTT Regulars: I've been trolling VN since the DC thing started and most of it seems to be unsubstantiated garbage, but I am aware that some over there are considered reliable. Does anybody know who or have an opinion on this?

At this stage of the game, I give the Vols a slight chance (20 percent) to come on and make the NCAA tournament and a 50-50 chance at being invited to the Postseason NIT field.

"I keep coming back to the fact that if you want to win championships, you've got to be able to guard in the halfcourt," Calipari said. "You've got to be physical and you've got to have toughness. [Martin]'s doing it by changing the culture."