Randy Boyd

So I thought it went about as perfectly as it possibly could.

And thank you to the entire Smoky staff and Mr. Randy Boyd for letting us get our work in over there.

But We were so excited about how it went, which is, again, the flow of the day, our recruits being able to see that park, and seeing so many Vol fans.

We're hoping we can make that an annual deal from here on out.

And I think that's one of the most important things this administration has done.

And I go to Randy Boyd with it, too.

You know, here's the President of the University.

Hey, beating Alabama is a big deal.

But, uh, uh, they're really emphasizing, uh, that component.

They look at that, uh, uh, Chancellor Donde Plowman, uh, uh, and, and this is, this is a theme that, that, uh, President Randy Boyd has hit as well, uh, really emphasize that this is part of the, uh, uh, university's land-grant mission, as a land-grant university, to try to, uh, uh, do things for, uh, Tennessee residents, Tennessee businesses.

And this is a way to, you know, they see that as a way of supporting Tennessee businesses by, uh, getting a better educated workforce out there.

Mm-hmm.

But, uh, uh, uh, Friday they will meet.

Um, and we are taking, um, kind of an over, uh, for those, for those of you, we're getting into the spirit of this betting thing that, you know, that everybody's doing now, and the wagering.

And so we're gonna have a, we're gonna come up with an over and under on how many times Randy Boyd, uh, refers to, uh, this being the University of Tennessee's greatest decade.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, but he benefited.

He benefited from Randy Boyd and Diane Black carpet bombing each other.

He just kind of stood over there on the side going, wow, they're really beating each other up.

And then he stepped out as the only one.

So, you know, right off the bat, within days of us approving it, Tennessee Higher Education Commission, Lincoln Memorial University approved announced that they're going to have a 90-hour program in one of their degrees.

Randy Boyd, great leader of University of Tennessee, has already worked with his board, and they are working to find fields where there are strong workforce demands and figure out how they can get those 90-hour programs in place.

And I know there's other conversations, other four-year schools out there, where they're looking to do this as well.

You know, the key is how do you meet the student where they are? How do you help the student get from point A to point B? And the 120-hour degree goes all the way back to the, you know, the Carnegie family when they incentivized schools to adopt 120 hours simply based on pension programs.

was going to say,

Randy Boyd.

Will be at the high school this afternoon, too.

So, yeah, a lot of things going on in Warren County, as they always are.