According to Georgia Sports Blog it looks like Trooper Taylor may also be looking at leaving to go take a position as the Offensive Coordinator at Baylor: More Good News from Vol Land: Trooper Taylor Leaving? (sounds like the Georgia folks are less than sad about this). I sincerely hope that Tennessee doesn’t end up losing both Cutcliffe and Trooper in the same week. That would be a major hit on the Vols’ recruiting.

Assuming that Cucliffe is in fact leaving — which is hardly a settled matter given the fact it was previously reported by the Knoxville Snooze Slantinel that Cutcliffe had already accepted a job that he hadn’t even been offered — I wonder who Tennessee will look to have replace Cutcliffe. I imagine that Trooper could use the Baylor opportunity to try and leverage himself a position as Offensive Coordinator. Of course the last time Tennessee promoted a long-time assistant to that position internally (Randy Sanders when Cutcliffe left last time)… well, the graph below pretty much speaks for itself.

Let’s hope we don’t go down that road again…

I hate to see Cutcliffe leave — I am not convinced that Duke is a good opportunity for him, but I wish him nothing but success if he goes. I can hardly blame him for wanting his own program and the huge raise that would follow.

At any rate, the next 24 hours should be interesting in Big Orange Country, and down the road from me in Durham.

— Go Figure … lawvol

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