Another black eye for a black and blue program. I wish they (the media) would stop patting Phil on the back for his recruiting and start calling him out on all this criminal activity. How many arrests is that in the last year? It has to be approaching 8 or 10 incidents by now... UThugs
But that is the least of their problems: http://utsports.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/tenn-m-football-body.html 21 UT players have undergone surgical operations since January. Several are doubtful for the beginning of 2005 season and UT's SEC East bid will pretty much be determined by October 9th as they play Florida, LSU and Georgia early. Fulmer doesn't even think he can field two teams for their Spring Game.
Volunteer fans and the UT Athletic Dept. obviously don't care, as long as the program keeps winning. But let Fulmer have two losing seasons in a row, and he'll get fired, and they'll say, "Well this was certainly a factor, and it was just an accumulation of on and off-the-field problems that lead to us making this call." Yeah, right.
It's all realtive to how the program is doing at the time. There are no less trouble makers on any team...it just gets reported when a team is down and Tenn is definalty been on a downward trend lately. Look at all the problems we had during the Hallman/Dinardo era. Once Saban got here you didn't hear as much...not that it wasn't going on. This isn't a knock on any one program...just an observation of what happens when things are good and when they are bad.
I disagree. Arrests are matters of public record, and regardless of whether the team is doing well or not, it's going to be widely reported (especially locally.) I venture to say we didn't hear about a lot of arrests under Saban because he recruited higher character kids, not because arrests were being ignored.
totally agree. one of the reasons we became a winning program is b/c we recruited better kids. thus, COramparts argument is backwards.
what i think is funny is how many people say that football breeds violence or it only attracts violent people.. if you compare the crime stats on football players and on the general public, the football players are far better behaved.
yeah but you can't compare football players to the general public. there are a ton of logical flaws in there. i'm not saying that they are more violent, etc. but those 2 just don't jive as comparable control groups at all.
