We are so close to the start of the season, and we have Tennessee unveiling new smoky gray uniforms called the “Neyland Legacy” edition to pass the time in the final non-football week of the year. After posting the introduction video on the Vols' official X account, they got in-depth about the uniform and its stitches, celebrating the 100th year of General Robert Neyland’s first coaching campaign.
It’s a really cool design if you ask me. If anything, the helmet is the worst part; they should have just kept the T on the side and greyed out the helmet. The rest of the uniform is actually really thought out, which Vols fans should be proud of.
They definitely needed something to be excited about after Jim Knowles’ “time will tell” comments about the defense, but I digress. Either way, the uniform is very cool and should be something to see when they play Auburn on October 3rd.
Tennessee will start taking orders for those jerseys on September 1, so there will be almost an entire month that Vols fans will be able to purchase them.
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LSU's turn to rock the college football boat
LSU is trying to pull a Texas Tech-level shameless stunt to see if they can get a player who is now deemed eligible to play due to a new Louisiana ruling. Jack Pyburn, a former LSU starting EDGE who signed an undrafted free agent contract with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers back in May, had two sacks just a couple of days ago. There are three other former Ole Miss players who played for Lane Kiffin who are now eligible as well.
Fans and media are angry across the nation at the latest act against the NCAA. But this is something that they have failed to stop and are most likely going to fail to stop again. Now we have a player who just played in an NFL preseason game going to be "attending" college at LSU again to potentially win a national championship. Then, as soon as the college season is done, he will be an NFL free agent. How can LSU get away with this, you might ask? Well, who is going to stop them?
The Big 12 initially didn’t stop Texas Tech from playing Brendan Sorsby until the Red Raiders gave up under the weight of public pressure, and the SEC most likely won’t stop Kiffin from returning those players. Kiffin doesn't seem to give a damn about public pressure.
So what is it the NCAA can actually do to stop any of this? The answer is very little. Not until they create a rule that says if you sign an NFL contract, you are no longer eligible to play in the NCAA. Charles Bediako already tested this in hoops at Alabama, and he got to play meaningful games. It is the fallacy that they have been selling everyone on for the last 20 years. Saying they are protecting the student-athlete through amateurism while simultaneously handing them a paper bag full of money has always been a joke.
But we will see how it goes. If Lane is bold enough, he may just play Pyburn anyway and stare down the NCAA because what can they really do? Does Kiffin really want to risk a potential championship either being stripped from him or worse by keeping LSU out of the CFP and letting someone like North Dakota State in, which would be a total NCAA thing to do?
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