Today On Rocky Top: Kyle Serrano Will Be A Vol, Butch Jones On 4th And 1 And More

Apr 20, 2013; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers fans line up for autographs before the spring Orange and White game at Neyland Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports

From ESPN

"First-year Tennessee coach Butch Jones equates coaching in the SEC to it being fourth-and-1 in the national championship game … every day.“It doesn’t matter if it’s recruiting, if it’s practice, if it’s caravans. It doesn’t matter” Jones said. “Everything is at an all-time level.”Jones has been a blur ever since taking the job back in December, and while it’s true that he’s still in the honeymoon phase of coaching in the SEC (He hasn’t lost a game), he’s endeared himself to the Big Orange Nation with his energy and the way he’s embraced Tennessee’s traditions."

From Go Vols Xtra

"With one tweet from his father — the baseball coach at the University of Tennessee — the first window to play professional baseball closed on Farragut High School right-hander Kyle Serrano.The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Serrano, a Tennessee signee, did not get selected in the first round of the Major League Baseball draft Thursday night. At 11:10 p.m., Dave Serranotweeted: “Well it’s been a long night but Im happy to say @SerranoK34 is going to be a Vol. His dream will happen in 3 years. Still very proud!”"

From Rant Sports

"The Big 12 and SEC will go head-to-head with a good old-fashioned challenge in the 2013-14 college basketball season. However, since the SEC has more teams, there will be four teams left out, with the Tennessee Volunteers being one of them.The Volunteers definitely deserve to be in this challenge, since they will have plenty of talent returning, which includes Jordan McRae. McRae averaged 15.7 points per game this past season and will enter the 2013-14 college basketball season as one of the best players in the conference."

From Go Vols Xtra

"A preseason magazine has offered hope to the rest of college football by projecting scenarios that could end Alabama’s dynasty, now comprised of three national championships in four seasons.Athlon’s “7 Threats To Saban’s Dynasty” left me wondering about the other end of the standings, specifically what it would take for Tennessee to rise to the top in the SEC East after three consecutive seven-loss seasons.In exploring the possibilities, let’s start close to home. Obviously, new coach Butch Joneshas to do a better job than the three coaches before him — Derek Dooley, Lane Kiffinand the new-millennium version of Phillip Fulmer.You probably have already noticed that fans and recruits have an affinity for the personable Jones, who is off to a flying start toward his 2014 signing class. But you don’t know what he can do in the heat of an SEC battle."

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