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Tennessee has 2 more arrested...taken off field with arrest warrents

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MarineTiger Founding Member

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http://tennessee.scout.com/2/369212.html

Freshmen football players Jerod Mayo and Robert Ayers were escorted from practice on arrest warrants Tuesday afternoon, less than 48 hours after freshman quarterback Brent Schaeffer and sophomore receiver Bret Smith were arrested and charged with assault. Head coach Phillip Fulmer said during a 20-minute post-practice news conference that he believes Mayo's arrest to be a case of ''mistaken identity.'' As a result, Mayo will resume practicing with the team once he is released from police custody. Ayers will be withheld from practice until further notice.

The arrest of Mayo and Ayers occurred in connection with a disturbance involving several football players and fraternity members roughly five weeks ago at the University Center ballroom. Fulmer said junior defensive end Daniel Brooks ''was there, and he shouldn't have been there,'' but that Brooks was ''not involved in that particular incident.''

Still, Brooks has been involved in several prior incidents. Although none led to charges, Fulmer has ordered him to perform community service and sit out the first two games next fall.

Forcing players to miss games is the ''ultimate'' penalty, Fulmer said, but he added that it also penalizes teammates ''who didn't do anything.''
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Forcing players to miss games is the ''ultimate'' penalty, Fulmer said
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No, getting kicked off the team, or better yet, going to jail, is the "ultimate" penalty. (Unless you want to consider the death penalty.)

Fulmer is such an ass!

OkieTigerTK, Apr 12, 2005

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what makes u penalize a player for "being there even though he didn't participate in any of the activities?"

fulmer is an ass...

u r tigerbait22, Apr 12, 2005

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cajdav1 Soldiers are real hero's

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u r tigerbait22 said:

what makes u penalize a player for "being there even though he didn't participate in any of the activities?"

fulmer is an ass...
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From what I've heard, the guy had several things and place that were off limits to him because of previous offenses. So he is being punished for constantly not following orders. Saban would have dismissed him from the team. Hopefully Miles will be just as tough.

cajdav1, Apr 12, 2005

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saltyone So Mote It Be

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How come every time a player is benched for misbehaving, they get to come back right before that team plays us? It happend last year with GA.

saltyone, Apr 12, 2005

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From today's Nashville Tennessean:

"In the past, Fulmer has been hesitant to bench a player as punishment for off-the-field transgressions. His rationale is that it's unfair to penalize the other players for something they didn't do".

Now there's some heavy thinking.

Hawker45, Apr 13, 2005

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I don't like Phat Phil, either.

It'll be nice to get him and Mr Meyer in Tiger Stadium this season.

Won't have to go to OT to whip his team's ass this year like we did last time they came to town.

TejasTiger, Apr 13, 2005

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Tenn has sold their sole to the devil and this is what they are reaping. We have 2 die hard vol fans in our Nashville office who tried telling me yesterday that whats going on in Knoxville is no different than whats going on at other schools all over the country. Ya right! These poor misguided soles are completely and utterly brain washed in orange.

Since Feb of 2004 Tenn has had 11, count em, 11 unsavory incidents involving players and the law. Phatso has never run a tight ship and its no coincidence that current and especially former Tenn players have had by far the most serious run-ins with the law. Everything from drug trafficking and rape to murder. This is truly a program that has deteriorated into a slim pit with Phatso leading a cast of unsightly characters.

True Tenn fans ought to be embarrassed over this continuing rash of legal trouble. Phatso should be shown the door and kicked to the curb but it will never happen. The Tenn mentality is only concerned about winning and is willing to put up with these $hit stains on their program in order to do so. How pathetic.

Heres part of an article in the Mobile Register, click the link for the entire thing.

http://www.al.com/sports/mobileregister/nmccready.ssf?/base/sports/111338371197980.xml

The Mobile Registar said:

UT officials face tough decisions
Wednesday, April 13, 2005

One incident is just that -- one incident.

Two incidents usually are coincidental and unrelated.

Three or four incidents establish a trend.

Eleven incidents represent an epidemic.

On Tuesday, two Tennessee football players -- freshmen Jerod Mayo and Robert Ayers -- were charged with aggravated assault stemming from on-campus fights that broke out between Volunteer football players and UT fraternity members last month.

The charges against Mayo and Ayers come just two days after quarterback Brent Schaeffer and star wide receiver Bret Smith were arrested and charged with assaulting a Tennessee student who had been arguing with Schaeffer's girlfriend at an on-campus dormitory.

If you're counting run-ins with the law involving Tennessee football players since February 2004 -- arrests or citations that have included everything from felony aggravated assault to disorderly conduct to misdemeanor shoplifting -- you've run out of fingers and you only have nine toes left. At this pace, some of Tennessee's most ardent fans are going to need a refresher course from that fourth-grade arithmetic lesson they repeatedly failed before their daddies bought off the elementary school teacher with a bottle of homemade moonshine.

Tennessee head football coach/parole officer Phillip Fulmer finally issued a statement Tuesday, saying he is "not happy now."

To prove it, Fulmer indefinitely suspended Schaeffer and Smith from the UT team -- or until he needs them to help win a football game. All of the above will miss Saturday's Orange and White spring game.

Yep, that'll show'em.
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Of course, I bleed black n Gold bias.... but the difference between Fulmer and Ferentz is...

Last year we had a running back, Albert Young, who was all-everything in New Jersey. At the start of the season he was listed on the two-deep behind Jermelle Lewis.
The night before the very first game, Young got arrested outside some bar... the "night-before" thing was a breach of team rules and he was benched FOR THE SEASON.
When Jermelle went down with injury, followed by three more backs, everyone thought Ferentz would find a way to put Young in ...Lord knows we needed something!
Ferentz never waivered. The team just pulled together and worked around it.
There's a lesson here, Phil.

Hawker45, Apr 13, 2005

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wow. that article is really harsh! good for them. i guess there's still a lot of animosity about the fat phil/bama recruiting scandal (although i've never been quite clear of what exactly happened).

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