There’s been plenty of speculations about Peyton Manning’s future after he rode off into the sunset following his Super Bowl victory over the Carolina Panthers in February.

The latest rumor from Bleacher Report’s Mike Freeman is sure to get some UT fans fired up. Freeman said in a column published on Wednesday on B/R that he continues to hear plenty of chatter about Manning’s desire to return to UT in a coaching capacity.

“I keep hearing that Peyton Manning wants to coach his alma mater,” Freeman wrote. “Over and over, I hear it from NFL people I trust. I don’t know if it’s accurate. It seems too neat and tidy to be true.”

That’s obviously far from a guarantee or even a prediction, but Freeman, a well-connected insider insists that he’s hearing the chatter.

Manning, during an interview on the Dan Patrick Show last September, said it would be “unlikely” that he would coach in the future, but that he would consider coaching quarterbacks at Tennessee. So piecing all that together, it’s way too early to say that this will ever happen, but it certainly seems to be more than just a complete dream for UT fans.

If it would happen, when it would happen and what exactly it would look like is anybody’s guess, but it’s clearly something that virtually every Tennessee fan would want to see.