Recruiting Forum Football Talk III

[McGeesPub]

Chris Low on Finebaum's show, just said he definitely sees a post season ban. He said based on a conversation had today there was a "ridiculous" number of violations.

Pretty used to postseason bans tbh.

 

[Dudley Smith]

She brought the NCAA into it.

She had to. That's what you have to do when you are running an investigation, especially when you are intending to use it to fire the coach. Having the NCAA involved along the way gets you the most lenient treatment.

 

[Catbone]

You draw that big line in the sand, you'd better not cross it. UT was searching for an identity; now we have it.

"5 star hearts, 3 star recruits."

 

[HankHill]

Waiting on someone to blame the fans for this

Price will probably find a way to spin it that way

 

[snowvols]

Bill Clark can flat out coach football.

But no one will be excited about the hire.

They would have a hard time selling another Alabama high school coach.

 

[Kingzport]

Dang! I was kinda banking on your Herman posts, but when you chime in on this it gives me pause....

Just a guess? Think he didn’t know what was going on? Haha... if a ship sinks, does the captain also?

 

[Volociraptor256]

Not sure what everyone was expecting Plowman to say. Of course she is going to sound like Mother Theresa given the circumstances. If Pruitt was winning we wouldn’t have self reported. That simple.

 

[MarcoVol]

We played ourselves

 

[RiotVol]

Plowman doesn't sound like she takes a lot of sh!t from anyone

In academia, she's the kind of person you want running the show.

 

[Jimmy Football]

Waiting on someone to blame the fans for this

That’s one thing I’ve been fuming over during my hiatus. That narrative has been everywhere.

 

[pierce60]

I think the Administration got wind of some minimal violations and opened an internal investigation that was like opening Pandora’s box!!! It was much too deep to control and while the Administration would’ve preferred to keep it small they couldn’t because $h!+ kept coming out. And when it keeps coming out, you can’t act like it’s not there because it stinks!!

 

[Jackcrevol]

We tried to implement Bama, UGA, and Jimbo's method of football and we didn't have the internal culture to handle it.

Do you want to win or do you want Haslam's
to run the show? What a ****ing mess?

 

[VolInDayton]

She had to. That's what you have to do when you are running an investigation, especially when you are intending to use it to fire the coach. Having the NCAA involved along the way gets you the most lenient treatment.

LSU disagrees. Arizona basketball disagrees. Florida disagrees.

 

[Ace]

The guy whose wife was selling UT gear on Facebook did not get fired

Correction: did not

 

[Jimmy Football]

They would have a hard time selling another Alabama high school coach.

That guy is 10x the head coach Pruitt could ever dream to be.

 

[HankHill]

We won't win with Plowman in charge. I don't care about Tennessee football following the rules. I care about people wanting to win.

It’s not about following rules. It’s the SEC and Major college athletics. There’s a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Low says Steele will get a serious look.

 

[VolGee4]

Fire him for performance then.

If you are willing to turn a blind eye as long as we are successful, so much for the integrity you just preached about. She just cut off our nose to spite our face.

I was suggesting not paying the $12 million weeks ago might hurt us. Can’t disagree, but the money might have been fuzzy.

But you are taking this too literal. There are also legal ways to recruit that stretch but don’t break the rules.

 

[Tri-CitiesVol]

She had to. That's what you have to do when you are running an investigation, especially when you are intending to use it to fire the coach. Having the NCAA involved along the way gets you the most lenient treatment.

That’s the entire issue. There was enough evidence to fire for performance. Send him on his way with an NDA.

She’s boxed us into a corner where just about the only solution is hiring a service academy coach with a squeaky clean background. Here you all were making fun of SCAR for talking to Monken.

 

[jp1]

Today has been a whirlwind, but after taking a moment to reflect it is quite stunning what we actually just admitted to in a press conference. Plowman and Boyd were very blunt about the severity of the offenses and what this might mean for the program. Meanwhile, Kansas and LSU have hard evidence of their head basketball coaches paying players, they deny, deny, deny, and nothing happens to them.

I wonder if the NCAA shows us some grace for self reporting AND firing the offenders. If not, and we are hammered, this should serve as a shining example to all other universities to continue giving the NCAA the middle finger and never comply.

We should know the answer to that already. We don't need any more evidence to know what is going to happen and how it will work out. The NCAA has shown us time and time again the path we should have taken.

 

[MarcoVol]

Low says Steele will get a serious look.

Andddddddddddd I’m out

 

[mr.checkerboards]

It’s not about following rules. It’s the SEC and Major college athletics. There’s a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it.

Well, we learned hiring strippers for 18 year old kids is the wrong way.

 

[Dudley Smith]

LSU disagrees. Arizona basketball disagrees. Florida disagrees.

LSU football? Check again. Florida as well. Dan Mullen has a meaningless show cause because they involved the NCAA.

 

[SmokeMSJ]

 

[TheDeeble]

Phil’s legacy has moved from “great, but with a blemish” to “very mixed.”

The guy that started the decline of UT football as head coach then, now takes it out back and shoots it in the head as AD with the university mired in violations under his leadership.