Giants manager Tony Vitello details differences between coaching college, MLB

The interview process to become the Giants’ next manager wasn’t easy for Tony Vitello. Tennessee’s long-time coach had his hands full running offseason practices and scrimmages with his team in Knoxville when news broke on Oct. 18 that the Giants were closing in on hiring him as their next manager, which caught him by surprise, as he explained in a recent appearance on the “Bussin’ With The Boys” podcast. “How this thing broke was very unconventional, and it’s the day and age we live in,” Vitello told co-hosts Will Compton and Taylor Lewan. “We were not even at a point where I was going to make a decision and this news broke on a football Saturday in the middle of one of our scrimmages that I was going to do this … I had kept any of the conversations out of the locker room, because it can only be a distraction, especially with recruiting. “Now if it was going to get to a point where this is something I’ve really got to decide on, I was going to involve everybody. Well, that all got skipped over by a tweet or [report]. I think Ken Rosenthal or somebody. And I’ve had a couple people...