The player that Butch "purportedly" slugged wouldn't come out and say anything because he's Tennessee first and a home grown boy from East Tennessee. Trust me, if this really went down and the kid was upset about it, he could go straight to John Adams and Wes Rucker and Butch would be run out of town faster than anyone could blink because the buy-out clause would be history.

I'm connected to a few pivot donors here at my work and everyone I've spoken with seem to think he's given another year. The extension was not very popular, but everyone took heaping helpings of the kool-aid after the Iowa win with the young team since we hadn't won a bowl in so long. And Butch wasn't shooting down any of the "Michigan" rumors which, realistically, there was no freaking chance in hell that school wanted him. Big, big mistake by Dave Hart and company.

The biggest issue, from my point of view, is he can't handle criticism. He's slowly starting to shut off the opinions of former players and big donors coming from the outside — Dooley did that for three years, HUGE no no. If Vols miss a bowl game he's coaching for his life and better win the SEC in 2016. The only way he doesn't come back is if they lose out in the conference slate.

I predicted 8-4... Now it's looking like he'd be lucky to swing 7-5. I'm quite eager to see the dumpster fire in the gray uni's this week TBH.