Let's handle our business on a Friday that has a fall feel in the morning and high school football buzz all around us. Good times. Scratch that. Great times.

Here's today's A2 column expanding on a brief discussion we had earlier this week on the new Coke offering which tastes like your dreams and hits the shelves Monday. (Side question: What happens if I get Chas' can of Dreamworld Coke and take a big swing of "UK winning the NCAA tournament" soda? Those are not my dreams, Coke. I demand a refund.) That takes us to the rest of a loaded TFP today, and I feel obligated to link a few of the stories that caught my eye. First, the TFP prep football preview hits the streets this weekend. You can find the team-by-team previews across the sports landing site of the paper. Excellent work to all, except that goofball who did the Signal and East Hamilton previews. What a chowderhead. Here's Paschall on the Vols. Also, David Floyd, who has hit the ground running covering local government, has a look at Weston Wamp's transition team. Lots of familiar — and impressive — names on that list. One that certainly caught my eye is former Chattanooga Police Chief David Roddy, who hopefully has a spot beyond the transition in a leadership role somewhere in our fair community. Because Roddy has too much life experience, was way too good at his job and is a servant leader in almost every aspect that I have seen. Let's roll with the Rushmores. Rushmore of sports franchise relocations: Lakers from Minnesota to L.A. (Which also brings up the need to change names when needed when a team moves. Sure the Dodgers — who got their name because fans and players alike had to 'dodge' the mass transit trains and trolleys outside of Ebbets Field in Brooklyn — works. But the Lakers, not so much. And let's not even start with the Jazz, which made all the sense in the world in New Orleans, but is ridiculous in Salt Lake City.) We'll do the Colts helmet on the Rushmore to signify coming and going, and then the other two are far more important than just sports. The Dodgers to L.A. is far left, because it opened up the entire country and showed that sports — with commercial airlines and a growing number of night games — could compete from coast to coast. And culturally, the Braves moving to the A-T-L opened up a lot of avenues, eyes and possibilities for sports in the south, which before that was almost entirely a college sports landscape. Because the generation before mine, almost everyone who grew up in that time in the South was a Cards fan, a Reds fan or a Yankees fan, just because of how great New York was. Football was dominated regionally by Redskins or maybe Dolphins fans mostly. Basketball? Yeah, that was UK or the ACC because the NBA was a non-factor. Then the Braves came, and look at the flood of sports teams that followed to the South since. Rushmore food named after famous people (and to be fair, we tried to err on the famous side, so no Sylvester Graham or James Salisbury or the cooks who invented the dishes): Earl of Sandwich, Baby Ruth chocolate bar (named for Lou Gehrig's teammate), Oysters Rockefeller, Cherry Garcia. (And there are a slew of beverages that qualify too.) Rushmore of specific guitars, and this one got difficult quickly: BB King's "Lucille" (and yes I wrongly credited it to Chuck Berry earlier this week),  Eddie Van Halen's "Frankenstein,"   Prince's purple "Cloud" and Jimi Hendrix' left-handed Stratocaster, and that's with huge apologies to Jimmy Page's two-neck guitar, the worn-out guitar of WIllie Nelson (who is my favorite recording artist of all-time) and the iconic red, white and blue guitar Buck Owens made famous on the endless loop of "Hee Haw" shows that my grandparents made me watch over and over again. Rushmore of 88s: Alan Page, Eric Lindros, Tony Gonzalez, Michael Irvin are the number wearers; Delta 88, "88 and out the gate," 88 mph for the Flux Capacitor to send Marty back in time, Crazy 88 from "Kill Bill." Wow, lots of business this morning to the bag. From JTC For the mailbag. Is Dabo @Clemson on the hot seat? Probably not. What coaches are? JC — Dabo? Not even remotely. Heck, Clemson would love a bounce back sure, but another 'disappointing' 10-win season would not be the worst thing big picture so the Alabama boosters who view Dabo as the heir apparent to Saban start looking elsewhere. Dabo has achieved that place. Like Tom Izzo at Michigan State, Swinney has achieved a level of program eliteness that he all-but has a lifetime contract at Clemson. In fact, the bemoaning of such a 'disaster' as last year's 10-3 club could be the thing that forces Swinney to look elsewhere, not unlike how the Gators ran Spurrier off by asking "What happened" and "How we going to fix it" after a 'disappointing' 10-win campaign that was a play or two from winning the whole thing. But the hot seat question is fair, and while the responses mentioned whomever is coaching at Auburn — more on that in a second— I think the hottest seat in America is in Atlanta and has Geoff Collins' buns on it. Wow, what a debacle that has become, and to make matters worse, the last few each faithful out there are going to have to watch Jahmyr Gobbs run for well more than 1,000 yards and score double-digits TDs for the nation's best team in Tuscaloosa and wonder why a) Tech lost him and b) Tech did not use him more in 2021. Next on my list after Collins is Scott Frost, which is a shocking development all things considered.

Frost was the biggest name on the coaching course when he left an emerging UCF for his alma mater at Nebraska, and everyone declared it was a home run hire and the perfect fit.

And it's been a complete train wreck. Frost was 13-0 in his last year at UCF with a Peach Bowl win over Auburn. He is entering year five in Lincoln and has not made a bowl game yet.

Read that again. In a day and age when two years is the new four — which means four years is either the new six or the new eight depending on your math computations — Frost has not been to the postseason and has a 15-29 mark with the Cornhuskers.

There are a slew of other names out there, but I'm not here to discuss the warmth of the seats at Bowling Green, New Mexico or La. Monroe. Those coaches may be in jeopardy of losing their jobs, but hot seats and high-profile mid-season firings only come at higher-profile locales. So here are three more names that, in my view, need a good year — especially early on — or they'll need to find some insulation between cheeks and seats: > Mike Norvell. FSU has been irrelevant for too long. This is year three and after four straight bowl trips with Memphis, he's another 'it' guy from a Group of Five school who has yet to taste the postseason with a school that thinks a late December bowl trip is a disappointment. He's 8-13 in Tallahassee. No bowl in year three? No Norvell in year four.

> Scott Satterfield. I think Satterfield is a very good coach, but Louisville has some Auburn-lite expectations. And it comes from what each program spends and generates, which is surprisingly larger than you think. Stat inherited a Louisville team that was rolling pretty good but is 18-19 in his time. Plus, its biggest rival is rolling while the Cards are teetering in mediocrity and the normal distraction that is basketball has been a debacle too.

> Bryan Harsin. I don't think his seat entering year 2 is all-that-hot to be honest, but goodness knows my alma mater has a quick trigger. Still, he survived a coup attempt in the offseason, and by everyone I have talked to that I know with any inside knowledge of the program, it has really helped him within the building. I think Auburn will be better than most think. But when your two biggest rivals are Alabama and Georgia and that's who your fans measure your success against, in some ways the seat will always be hot.

From a few of you SEC thoughts. Go.

I think Georgia is the best team in the East, and I think they have the perfect guy in place to manage the expectations and the inevitable step back in the attempts to repeat.

It's natural across all sports to regress a bit after winning it all. Happens at every level. It's doubly true when you are dealing with 18-to-22-year-olds. But it's also true of the staff at the college level too. Because the commitment it takes — the hours away from friends and family — to chase the banner is insane. When you get that ring, it's human nature to exhale a bit. Kirby is not Saban — no one is — but he's pretty close in his relentlessness, and as much as anything in this day and age, that's as big a compliment we can pay any college football coach. So Georgia is the best in the East. I think they win every league game — the Oregon opener against former DC Dan Lanning could be intriguing, but Georgia has too many dudes — and only get challenged by Tennessee in a shootout.

The only question about Georgia is how many of those knife-fighters — those juniors and seniors that were absolute studs in the 'it' moments of big games — can be replaced by guys with talent but maybe not the same experience and toughness? And how quickly can it happen?

I think Tennessee is the second-best team because of an offense that will be only better and defense that can't be much worse. And everyone knows how high I am on Hendon Hooker.

UK has been very well built and Mark Stoops may be the best fit for any program not run by Saban or Smart across the country. I am curious how Will Levis does without the security blanket and familiarity of Wan'Dale Robinson and his 104 catches last year on the perimeter.   I think South Carolina is improving, and Spender Rattler was a great transfer addition. I think Florida is the biggest wildcard and could finish as high as second or as low as sixth. Anthony Richards has great upside, but his floor is incredibly low too. I like a lot of what I hear about what Billy Napier is trying to do to reestablish chemistry, but in truth, if the Gators find a postseason ticket this fall, I would call that a success. I enjoy Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz, but man, that's a tough gig in a supremely tough league. And then there's Vandy, which, well, how do we put this politely? OK, how about this: Vandy is now worse than the second-safest bet in the league. The safest: Alabama wins the west; the second-safest, Vandy finishes last in the East.

Jay, love your column. Seriously. I read you every day.

Not sure if this gets to you in time, but what did you think about what the NBA did for Bill Russell (Thursday)? Would love to read them since I can't listen any more.

Thanks and keep up the great work. Josh — Thanks for the kind words Josh and for reading.

He is referencing the NBA retiring the No. 6 across the entire league in honor of Bill Russell, who died earlier this month.

At first, I thought, "Well, that's cool. Really cool." And by all measures Russell was a genuine class act and handled so much with extraordinary grace and discipline and kindness.

And I believe he's an all-time first-ballot Humanity Hall of Famer, but I personally thought it was cool that the only number across the major sports in America that had that honor was Jackie's 42. Because I know Russell was a civil rights champion and there's certainly no debate that Black athletes of that time and generation dealt with extreme forms of racism from all sides. But there is only one Jackie Robinson in my mind and what he did was beyond extraordinary. It was superhuman. So I get the idea, and the want and desire to honor Bill Russell. Just wish it could have been done a) when Russell was still alive so he could have enjoyed it, and b) done in a way that still left Jackie in a circle all his own, if that makes sense. Great question.  

From Jay Jay, great name. Couple of quick things that were not mentioned in the bag, that need to be addressed. Not your best start to the NFL preseason. And how about that Antonio Brown? Oh, yeah flip the laundry. You need a white shirt for football tonight.

Jay — Great name indeed. Thanks for the laundry tip. As for preseason picks, what preseason picks? Oh, the bagel-and-two we dropped Thursday even after FV warned that the Ravens are the early-2000s Patriots in August? Yep, never happened.

Side note, I: Malik Willis is a dude. Ryan Tannehill watch your 6, pal. Willis is a difference maker and looked the part last night.

Side note, part II: How many folks would play in a pick 'em contest or an eliminator pool if we hosted one around these parts? Discuss in the comments or email me at jgreeson@timesfreepress.com.

Finally, it's worth putting out here what Antonio Brown — a dude that I will not mock because I firmly believe he has monster mental health issues — posted on social media in the last 24 hours.

Brown was on a Hall of Fame arc with the Steelers, left Pittsburgh and that structure and became an all-time sports cartoon character so absurd that Dennis Rodman and Bill Lee wondered what was wrong.

Here's his post, and well, just take this in and breathe before responding. "My biggest regret in my career doesn't involve calling my GM a 'cracker,' or showing up to Raiders camp late in a hot air balloon with frozen feet or throwing rocks at that UPS driver, and it definitely doesn't involve taking my shirt off and doing a victory lap around the Jets' stadium mid game while throwing up deuces. My biggest regret is that I'll never get to see me, Antonio Brown, play a game live. Sure, I can watch the game afterwards, but I can't imagine what that was like for you all to see something like that. Like watching the Beatles or Jesus perform at Red Rocks." Wowser.

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