No offense, but this is the one great similarity that many fans of all the big time football programs share. Everyone accuses everyone else of shady recruiting, especially when a Prima Donna is involved. Sure, it happens now and then with the occasional rogue booster or wealthy unsavory fan, but it gets beaten to death 99% of the time when nothing holds water. This is why I ignore most of it even when it is on a Tennessee forum. Of all the rumors over the years, only a few times has anything come of serious recruiting violations (i.e., Eric Dickerson, Albert Means, Reggie Bush, etc.). Most of it is just slanderous horse****, however. I'll consider any such information when I see it reported by a reputable source. And that goes for any school, even the ones that have a shady past. I hate Nick Saban the coach because he's dominating our conference. But I actually do think his lockdown on recruiting is not due to anything shady. He's just a great coach. Fortunately, for the first time in a long time, I believe Tennessee has a coach that will have the program on the same level. It's going to be awesome being their most hated rival again. It takes a winning streak to do that. Hopefully that starts in 2015.
Ok, wow, I went off in a bit of a tangent there, but hopefully I got my original point across. Now it's time for a bourbon.
