When the Tennessee Volunteers fired Butch Jones as their head coach, then athletic director John Currie received 2,200 e-mails from passionate Rocky Toppers about who should be lead the orange-and-white into Neyland Stadium in 2018.
The Athletic’s Max Olson compiled the choices, which included the names of 67 known coaches and 10 fans who just nominated themselves.
The list included a whopping 160 requests for Lane Kiffin, the Florida Atlantic Owls head coach who led the Volunteers to an underwhelming 7-6 record in 2009 — and then promptly bolted for the head job with the USC Trojans.