Tennessee Fans Are Infiltrating the Baseball Stadium for a Fall Scrimmage on 'Vitello Watch' as Tony Vitello Still Has Not Made a Decision Regarding the Giants' Managerial Job

If you told me 10 years ago that Tennessee fans would be eager to get inside Lindsey Nelson Stadium for a fall scrimmage on a rainy Tuesday afternoon during football season because their national championship-winning coach was still mulling a job offer to become the manager of the San Francisco Giants, I would have forced you to visit the emergency room and consult a medical professional. And yet, here we are.

Reports emerged Saturday that Tony Vitello and the Giants were closing in on a deal for Vitello to become the first ever college head coach to make the jump to MLB manager with no prior professional coaching experience, but since then, things have pretty much gone dark. And all the while, the Vols have been holding their fall practices like everything is normal. Tuesday's scrimmage is open to the public and it has seemingly become a miniature circus. Every media outlet in Knoxville is there along with plenty of fans who just want to see what's going on for themselves.

The longer this drags on, the better one would think the news may be for Tennessee, given that Vitello could've had this signed, sealed and delivered days ago. But there's just a weird cloud of uncertainty around the whole thing right now and nobody really seems to know anything. It seems like we may get a decision on Tony Tuesday, but maybe this thing just keeps dragging on. The Giants aren't going to wait forever, though.

But doesn't the conclusion of today's scrimmage feel like a perfect time to become a Tennessee legend?