If I am not mistaken, the Haslams sold the pilot stations to Buffett, but they still own the Flying J truck stops. They are actually two separate businesses now.
Baseball America has the Vols projected as the #1 seed and Kentucky at #3 seed.
2024 NCAA Baseball Tournament Bracket: Projected Field Of 64 (Conference Tournament Week)
I heard on a sporttalk show yesterday that Herring may not have even completed the paperwork to enter the portal and that there have been ongoing discussions about him staying.
If you have watched any of Coach Caldwell's games, they play defense for 64 feet. The players will need as much rest as possible to keep the intensity for the full game.
That can be like the old joke in coaching. A coach decides the last game of the season to let all seniors go out for the coin toss. Once the players line up an assistant comes up and says "Coach I have some bad news and some good news". The coach responds "What's that?". The assistant says...
And Majors did not have the transfer portal to help turn the program around. Back then you had to recruit freshmen to improve the Team. I guess you could say they all had roster problems when they entered, but the biggest rebuilding job had to be what Majors inherited.