Good Ole Rocky Top(less?)

Honey, Hee Haw called. You need to be in by 8:00.

I guess y'all have heard about the little scandal brewing at Tennessee. Apparently somebody talked to the New York Times about an organized group of recruiting hos...tesses who get to know the football recruits and persuade them to come on over to Big Orange Nation. A Vol fan friend of mine showed me an article dispelling the rumor and proposing a conspiracy theory between the NYT writer and Florida coach, Urban Meyer. Either way, it's funny.

This all leads me to wonder why UT would need to resort to such tactics. They're a pretty strong, almost powerhouse, football program. And I wonder what other schools are using hostesses. Does Southern Cal have starlet wanna-bes out there ushering around football players? It would probably work. Do you think Kentucky basketball uses hostesses? I would hope we don't need to, but who knows?

I can tell you I never saw anybody resembling a hostess hanging around Wildcat Lodge. Girlfriends, sure. Chicks out in the parking lot? Dozens. If those girls were hand-picked by the athletic department, somebody needs to work on his talent evaluation.

Hey, wait! Maybe we were too quick to judge old Billy Clyde. Maybe that's what he was doing: auditioning hostesses. It's all becoming very clear.