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Hawker45 · Apr 13, 2005

Q. Why do Tennessee players and fans wear orange ?

A. Because you can wear it to the game on Saturday, hunting on Sunday, and picking up trash on the side of the highway the rest of the week.!

I kill me.

BB · Apr 13, 2005

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.
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Great post - UT fans should be embarrassed and ashamed about the prison riot that is Tennessee Football these days. But, like the Auburn fans who justified all the Tubby nonsense through the years, they will turn their heads and whine about Alabama.

Finally some sports journalists with some balls and some honest insight are starting to pop their heads over the fence. If the media can kiss Phil's ass for being a "master recruiter," they damn well should be writing stories about him being an incompetent leader and disciplinarian for these young adults.

Note to NCAA: There is an big Orange Flag a-wavin' on Rocky Top - you might want to look into it...

Note to Larry Coker and the University of Miami: I'm faxing over my conratulations - you are no longer Thug U (for now).

TigerInTally · Apr 13, 2005

Contained Chaos said:

i've never been quite clear of what exactly happened.
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I think one got out-cheated by the other and ratted them out to the NCAA.

DRC · Apr 13, 2005

Contained Chaos said:

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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That writer for the Mobile Register is definately NOT an Alabama fan. I think he is an ole miss fan if I remember correctly, maybe even a chicken fan but I know for sure he isnt a Alabamer fan.

The recruiting scandal/NCAA Mess/Law suits are completely different and I dont think this article is related in any way. The truth will ultimately come out if the NCAA doesnt settle with the ex-bama coaches. After what happened in the Nuheisal case though I think the chances for settlement are very good so we may never known the whole truth if that happens.

Mystikalilusion · Apr 13, 2005

What else is the man going to do? If he booted all the criminals from the team, plus you add in all the injuries and they couldn't even field a Division 1 J.V. team. . .:hihi:

OkieTigerTK · Apr 13, 2005

Great article! My favortie part:

"...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. "
:rofl:

DRC · Apr 13, 2005

Wow...just got this one emailed to me by a Clemson co-worker. Pretty scathing article on Phatso for a Tenn newspaper. Click the link for the entire article.

http://tennessean.com/sports/columnists/climer/archives/05/03/68163002.shtml?Element_ID=68163002

Cleaning up UT: Fulmer must get tough

Commentary by DAVID CLIMER
Senior Writer

Wonder if the director of the remake of The Longest Yard ever considered using the Orange & White Game this weekend as a backdrop.

OK, it's a joke. A bad joke. But no worse of a joke than the series of crimes and misdemeanors that has overtaken the Tennessee football program in recent months.

The Vols had two players arrested before practice yesterday, which works out to an average of 1.3 arrests per day since Sunday. Hey, it's been a bad week. But it's also been a bad year. In all, 11 Vols have been either arrested or issued citations during the last 13 months

Sometimes you wonder if Phillip Fulmer needs to get rid of an assistant coach and replace him with a bail bondsman.

Maybe the developments of the last few days will get Fulmer's attention. Nothing else has. Even as the police blotter ran orange in recent months, Fulmer often spoke about handing disciplinary matters internally and staying the course.

Here's a thought: Discipline has been handled with such kid gloves for so long that players no longer think twice before throwing down. They've watched several teammates get by with minimal punishment (morning runs, extra study hall, a ruler to the wrist) so they don't even pause to ponder the consequences.

Consider what happened bright and early — or dark and late — on Sunday morning. Vols freshmen Brent Schaeffer and Bret Smith were in an altercation with another student at a campus dorm. The two were arrested later that day.

After the Schaeffer-Smith incident, Fulmer used ''disappointed'' and ''embarrassed'' to describe his feelings. Great. That's a start. Now, coach, how about doing something to prevent future disappointment and embarrassment inside and outside the UT football program?
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red55 · Apr 13, 2005

You know, any team can have a Cecil Collins come along now and then. But 11 arrests in a year is a serious problem.

MarineTiger · Apr 13, 2005

I love the quote on UT's Scout.com site where a fan says that by this rate, every student will get beaten up by a football player at the end of their four years...:lol:

tirk · Aug 2, 2005

update on 2 of these UT scholars:

Prosecutors in Knoxville, Tenn., dropped a felony aggravated-assault charge against defensive end Robert Akers of Tennessee and reduced the charge against linebacker Jerod Mayo yesterday in a case stemming from a fight at a campus party last March.

The two, who redshirted last season as freshmen, were charged with hitting another student when fights broke out between football players and members of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

The charge against Mayo was dismissed after a witness would not cooperate with prosecutors. The charge against Ayers was reduced to misdemeanor assault. He pleaded guilty to that charge and now has nearly 12 months to pay court costs and make restitution to the victim.

Coach Phillip Fulmer announced yesterday that Ayers, who had been suspended, will rejoin the team but will sit out the first two games (damn we're their 3rd game) of the season, complete community service and anger-management counseling and abide by a curfew during the fall semester. Mayo was not suspended; Fulmer has said he believed that Mayo was misidentified. :hihi: :hihi: