New UT beat writer in Nashville yet?

Maybe Nashville wasn't willing to shell out for the moving expenses? The way they've been cutting costs, it wouldn't surprise me.

 

I heard Bryan Mullen took the UT beat.

 

The new UT beat writer wasn't going to live in Knoxville, but instead go back and forth.
One day a week for reporting, and then gameday travel. A stringer on the ground would provide the trainers and fill in the gaps.
The thinking was that one solid day of reporting would generate enough material for a Lookahead, mid-week feature, opponent story, notes, game preview and one more story as warranted.
Gameday coverage would have been the quick hit gamer, a sider, a column from Biddle or Climer and some shared notes.
The stringer would handle the Sunday press conference.
That was just for football, hoops was going to be more complicated.
What an appealing gig, a quarter of your week work driving between Nashville and Knoxville. No wonder people passed.








OK, I admit I just made all that up. But who believed it?

 

Sounded pretty plausible to me...

 

But it actually saves money having someone living in town. No paying mileage at all. Wow.

 

Sounds like a shit job to me. Why not just post a sign on the front of the sports page saying, "we don't care if we get scooped."

 

That's what I thought. Maybe they wanted the guy to do something else while UT wasn't playing football or basketball.

Which, of course, would be worthy of another 'wow'...

 

Um, Jay was joking, guys...

 

Omar, don't ruin my fun

 

Sorry. Wasn't funny, especially given the state of our business.

 

Scary thing is, the last place I worked at expected me to do Jay's scenario.
Congrats to Bryan if he did get the job.

 

A lot of places operate that way on college beats...