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FILE - A Tennessee cheerleader runs with a flag before an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee has been in contact with NCAA investigators and a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, the inquiry is into potential rules violations related to name, image and likeness compensation for multiple athletes.(AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
FILE - A Tennessee cheerleader runs with a flag before an NCAA college football game against Vanderbilt Saturday, Nov. 25, 2017, in Knoxville, Tenn. Tennessee has been in contact with NCAA investigators and a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, the inquiry is into potential rules violations related to name, image and likeness compensation for multiple athletes.(AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

By Jay Greeson 6 min read

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Bad day in Knoxville

So what’s left of the NCAA is coming to town.

(Side note: Feel free to insert your favorite NCAA joke here. Mine will always be the “NCAA was so mad at Kentucky, they gave Cleveland State two more years of probation,” as Jerry Tarkanian famously said.)

(Side question on the side note: Tark the Shark, wicked underrated as a coach, but it has to rank among the Rushmore of rhyming nicknames right? Clyde the Glide seems forever applicable. What else?)