Tennessee under NCAA investigation over use of recruiting hostesses

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BasketVolKid said:
this story sounds very very very very very bad.

they already have Lattimore openly discussing the violation. and the NCAA knows there are more.

how is this anything but damning... and a real step or two backwards for the Kiffin era??
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So, tell us what the violation is.
 
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According to Austin Ward, there has not even been written notice of this fishing expedition. According to the NCAA website written notice to the institution is required in order to begin an investigation.
 
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There are already plans for the inquiry to continue on Thursday with a visit from the NCAA to UT commit JaWaun James in Georgia.
 
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utvolpj said:
what violation?
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The NCAA appears to be strongly interested in Tennessee's use of hostesses... In one case, hostesses traveled nearly 200 miles to attend a football game at James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., one of the nation's best high school football programs, where at least three potential Tennessee recruits were playing, according to the report. Marcus Lattimore, a running back who had made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but was not interested in attending the school, said the hostesses brought signs, including one that read, "Come to Tennessee," according to the report.

this kind of thing seems to have happened on more than just 1 occasion. is this not a clear, out in the open, NCAA violation?
 
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Great! I now have a headache from reading and hearing this on the radio this morning. I read the article and it said something about message boards partly to blame. Freak it's your fault you need to shut VolNation down for the good of the program. J/K Freak, but I do have a headache now. Ugh.
 
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This is such crap... a pure fishing expedition and you can't help but wonder about the timing of it all. Right before EE and 2 months before NSD.

Just shameless on the NCAA and who ever threw UT under the bus.
 
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alumvol08 said:
According to Austin Ward, there has not even been written notice of this fishing expedition. According to the NCAA website written notice to the institution is required in order to begin an investigation.
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Thats because the NCAA was backdooring, trying to find something, first, without letting it out. They did this to save-face, just in case it was bullcrap. It got leaked to the NYT and they ran with it, not knowing the whole truth. The media in this country is biased. They do not report facts, only things that will sell papers. The written media is dying and the sooner the better.
 
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Just another story found concerning the interview of JaWuan James tomorrow:
NCAA coming to N. Gwinnett to talk to Vols’ commitment | AJC College Sports Recruiting

When they talk about the use of "message boards," are they thinking that the hostesses are talking to the recruits on FB and Myspace, or do you think they are targeting fans that talk to recruits on FB, Myspace, etc? Does the NCAA really think they can control the use of social networking sites and who communicates with whom?
 
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BasketVolKid said:
The NCAA appears to be strongly interested in Tennessee's use of hostesses... In one case, hostesses traveled nearly 200 miles to attend a football game at James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., one of the nation's best high school football programs, where at least three potential Tennessee recruits were playing, according to the report. Marcus Lattimore, a running back who had made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but was not interested in attending the school, said the hostesses brought signs, including one that read, "Come to Tennessee," according to the report.

this kind of thing seems to have happened on more than just 1 occasion. is this not a clear, out in the open, NCAA violation?
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I have yet to see a bylaw in the NCAA recruiting codes and conduct where this is an infraction of any kind.
 
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CrimsonTide987 said:
This is defiently why your coaches are jumping ship.
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Yea, they were basically crapping themselves with the thought of us getting another secondary violation. I bet they'll really be concerned when our boosters start paying players; I don't know how your coaches stood it.
 
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Admittedly I went to bed last night thinking that NCAA investigators found the information they we using here in the nation and tos. Props to Freak, GAvol, eric and sab for getting that straight. Officially relieved I am...:good!:
 
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SpringBokVol said:
This is such crap... a pure fishing expedition and you can't help but wonder about the timing of it all. Right before EE and 2 months before NSD.

Just shameless on the NCAA and who ever threw UT under the bus.
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cough cough cryer cough
 
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This reminds me of my fraternity days...Whenever we would get the university breathing down our neck about hazing and what not they would need to interview brothers and pledges during their investigations.

So as long as we told all the pledges and brothers what to say and what not to say then they could never bust us with anything.

My only concern is that one of these recruits that are likely to go to another school don't try and screw us.
 
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Apparently this isn't even an official investigation, either, fwiw. Alumvol said that an official notice of writing has to be received by the school if an official investigation is being undertaken. And Austin Ward apparently said that UT has not received this letter.
 
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Does any one have a tally of 2009 secondary violations for SEC schools.....I thought we were....errrrr.. mediocre in that regard?
 
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Since Deadspin and everyone else are looking to VolNation.com for their news. Please do post anything about Florida, Bama , Georgia, Auburn..etc. and see if they take the time to write about that. How many violations did Georgia have compared to Tennessee this past year again? Write about that deadspin. I guess we need a holy man running our program too so that everything is over looked like at Georgia.
 
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