"It was the world's first!....I promise."

Ole Miss' old blogging 'punching-bag' and current Tennessee offensive coordinator has accepted the HC job at perinnial super-power DUKE. Turning this program into a winner will be as tough as Billy Martin trying to convince Judge Henry E. Hudson that Michael Vick is truly "sorry". Lucky for Cutlcliffe, when Duke posted the job on their website (not making that up) winning was not a requirement of the incoming coach. So what does this mean for Tennessee? This situation probably echos the Seinfeld episode where Jerry and Janeanne Garofalo break up and claim that it was completely mutual. Cutcliffe did what he was brought in to do, turn Erik Ainge into a quality QB, and that he did (by the way, it's an absolute disgrace that Ainge was not All-SEC last year and 2nd team this year - Andre Woodson is a joke). With Ainge graduating and Tennessee in real need for some new flavor, a change is welcomed. Tennessee was not looking to make any change, but as it is happnening no one is freaking out. From Cutcliffe's perspective, he was in a dead-end job where he was never going to get any promotion. He loves Tennessee and Tennessee will always love him. But when Ronald Regan's 8 years were up, no one tried to change the Constitution to keep him in office, it was time for change.

Tennessee will hopefully promote WR coach Trooper Taylor or lose him to Baylor. If that happens, Fulmer will have to spend his whole off-season finding new coaches and not have any time for recruiting a class that is already lacking. So the future is uncertain in knoxville, but we do know that Cutcliffe is leaving the SEC for the first time in 25 years. So long ol' Cut, Vol fans wish you the best, thank you for your services, and hope you can take Duke out of the basement of College Football. Borrowing the words of Miracle Max, "Have Fun Storming the Castle!"