If you weren’t previously aware, the University of Tennessee finally parted ways with embattled coach Butch Jones Sunday. Combined with Mississippi State’s inspired performance against Alabama on Saturday, this fanned the already intense flames of the Dan-Mullen-to-UT rumor mill. Which is totally legit if you’ve been in a coma since 2006.
The only reasonably realistic argument that anyone can make in regard to the Tennessee job being better than Mississippi State is that UT has some high rolling alums willing to spend copious amounts of cash on football. My immediate counter-argument is that one of these high rollers is also famous for owning the Cleveland Browns.