Vols Football: Ranking The 10 Best Head Coaching Options For Tennessee

The Tennessee Vols will soon be embarking on their fourth coaching search in the last nine years.

If you’re a fan of the Tennessee Vols, there’s good news and bad news.

The good news is that Butch Jones will soon be on his way out, which means there’s a huge opportunity for the Vols to return to greatness.

But the bad news is that we have no idea who will replace Jones, which could mean another miss for Tennessee.

While we don’t know who the Vols will hire, we do have a good idea of who they won’t hire. So there are some names on this list that you won’t find.

Names like Chris Petersen, Gary Patterson and (gasp) Jon Gruden won’t be found on the following pages.

Here’s a little more insight on why those coaches won’t be options for the Volunteers.

Even without those names as options, there are still a lot of great potential candidates to be the next head coach at Tennessee.

Here are the 10 coaches we believe will be the top options to replace Butch Jones, ranked from least wanted to most wanted.