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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...
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...
Details Emerge on Bruce Pearl's Firing
For a while there yesterday, it looked like Tennessee was gunning for Ohio State's title of worst P.R. day of 2011. Reports came out that Bruce Pearl had been fired, Pearl himself put a message about it on his Facebook page, and nothing but silence came from the school. Eventually Mike Hamilton...
Bruce Pearl Fired According Several News Outlets
The AP and Fox Sports (and others) are reporting that Tennessee has fired Bruce Pearl as its head coach of men's basketball. It's unclear when a formal announcement will be made. Fox's sources are saying that the trigger for the decision to fire Pearl was related to the NCAA investigation of his...
Bruce Pearl's Job Not Likely to Survive NCAA Probe
Bruce Pearl came to Tennessee from Wisconsin-Milwaukee and revitalized its men's basketball organization. It got better on the court, and his off court energy and personality gave a previously nondescript program a recognizable and marketable face. I believe that is why UT has stood by Pearl so far...
Bruce Pearl: Cover-up and Consequences
The job Bruce Pearl has done at Tennessee over the last five years is simply remarkable -- Pearl took over a UT program that had been to the NCAA Tournament four times in the 16 years prior to his arrival; Pearl took over a UT program that had averaged 16 wins and 15 losses in the 16 years prior to...
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