The Vols, Bowl Fraud, and Bigfoot
Ok, a bit late on this, but standing in the tunnel before the Tennessee-Kentucky game, I snapped off this photo of players waiting to take the field for warm-ups.
I also had a great photo of UT athletics director Mike Hamilton schmoozing with bowl scouts on the sidelines before the game. But I'm a techno-dunce and the picture didn't come out so good. It looked more like that blurry shot of Bigfoot just before he disappeared into the woods. 
By the way, the whole "bowl scout visits your game" thing is a fraud in college football. I'm sure it meant something twenty years ago, but now these guys take up seats on press row and have virtually no say in what really happens.
After the UT-UK game, I asked a bowl scout waiting outside the Tennessee locker room what he thought might take place this season. "Who knows?", was his response. In fairness, upsets and close games on Saturday played into everyone's level of uncertainty.
Hamilton should be (and likely is) schmoozing SEC commissioner Mike Slive. That's where the real decision is made.
Reports are starting to surface about the Vols going to Dallas. I'm all about that. It's a good venue and if it happens, it will match teams from the best conferences in college football.
But if you asked me at the beginning of the season-- Cotton Bowl or Bigfoot sighting?
I'd have picked the big, hairy creature
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Interested in giving your opinion on where the Vols should play in the postseason, give me your thoughts. Dallas, Tampa, or Atlanta. Are you willing to travel?
You can also send you opinions to the bowl sites. Here's two:
