Adams article

#26
#26
The article is RIGHT ON -- no doubt. It's painful but true. I think we should have kicked Colquitt off the team for his blue-zillionth incident with alcohol.

I really fear a coaching change, unless it's a logical one. Nebraska, Notre Dame, Southern Cal, Washington, Colorado, Alabama, Florida, etc., etc., etc. all come to mind when dealing with a coaching change.

I just wish someone would get in Phil's ass and put some mean spirit in there.
 
#27
#27
a month or so removed from playing in the SECCG isnt the time to make this point. Because you can't.
 
#28
#28
TheHill09 said:
a month or so removed from playing in the SECCG isnt the time to make this point. Because you can't.
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A day or two after not kicking Colquitt off the team is an opportune time to bring this up.
 
#30
#30
dickens821 said:
He got it right until he start, like the hack writer he is, brought up incidents by former players after their time at Tennessee.

He's a hack.
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He's worked for at least 20 years at a crappy paper like the KNS; of course he's a hack. If he were any good, he would have moved on to a bigger stage. People complain about him because he's not as much of a UT sycophant as they'd like, but I'd rather have a gadfly writing about my local team than somebody who's just going to talk about how great everything is all the time. My problem with Adams is that his prose is completely pedestrian and he rarely says anything very interesting. I can't see how people find his columns interesting enough to get upset about them.

But in this case, he's right. I'd agree that bringing up what former players have done after their UT careers is pretty useless, but everything else he says in this column is right on.
 
#31
#31
GAVol said:
He makes salient points . . . until he starts dredging up guys like Little, Goodrich, Haynesworth and their post college criminal records. That's pure piling on.
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Agreed. I think Adams' point was to illustrate the "fruit of the poison tree" argument with his reference to the NFL misdeeds.

Like it or not...agree or not...there's no valid argument against the simple fact that Adams is dead on target.

go vols.
 
#33
#33
I don’t like this idiot at all. If he is just giving a bias opinion about this whole debacle then he should give all the facts. He doesn’t mention anything about how CPF took away his scholarship because his article wouldn’t sound as good if he did. He could have tried to put himself in CPF shoes with an off-season like this. Instead it just seems like he is trying to start more drama (like we need any more of that). Sounds like a Bama fan to me.
 
#34
#34
He probably didn't mention the scholarship because it's a largely meaningless punishment to someone from a family who just gave one million dollars to the university. You think that Colquitt is going to have to go get a job selling shoes at West Town to pay his tuition now?
 
#35
#35
Okay, let's look at it from a different angle.....

Take away the fact that the young men who have found themselves on the wrong side of the law this off-season (two whole months into it, I might add) are UT football players.

Would that make a difference how you felt about it?

The next time a bag of dope is found on a traffic stop, can they just get up and run laps at 6 a.m., and all is forgiven?

The next 22 year old who gets drunk, runs into another car, and then drives off. He has to get a job to pay his way through college.

Fair enough?

You, all of you who are defending both Phil Fulmer and the players, are homers. Big time. What if it was your kid that got caught? What if it was your car that got hit? How would you feel about it then?

What if if were Bama, or Florida. Would you be defending Saban or Meyer?

I'm almost 500 miles from Knoxville, and I can smell the stink surrounding the UT football program all the way down here.

This is going to bite us in the butt. Both on the field, and when the NCAA finally decides they've seen enough.

go vols.
 
#36
#36
Rasputin_Vol said:
Unfortunately, he's here until he breaks Neyland's all time win total. All he has to do is keep the wheels on the track for 4 more years.
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I think he'll retire as soon as he gets there. I've always thought that was his goal. He's got 147 now, he needs to make it to 174. All he needs is to average nine wins for the next three years.

Best thing to happen would be for him to go 14-0 two years in a row, and then he'd be there. Of course, then John Adams would be hailing him as the greatest coach who ever lived. :whistling:
 
#37
#37
jsc1973 said:
I think he'll retire as soon as he gets there. I've always thought that was his goal. He's got 147 now, he needs to make it to 174. All he needs is to average nine wins for the next three years.

Best thing to happen would be for him to go 14-0 two years in a row, and then he'd be there. Of course, then John Adams would be hailing him as the greatest coach who ever lived. :whistling:
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............"whose wife threw wine on me once...."
 
#41
#41
GAVol said:
The thing is, I don't think Fulmer is quite as soft on his team as Adams makes him out to be. Maybe Colquitt isn't officially off the team, but suspending him for half the season and yanking his scholly while maybe not as far as he should have gone, isn't exactly a slap on the wrist.
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His parents made a $100,000 donation to the university at the South Carolina game in Oct. Losing his scholarship means nothing. Maybe a little dent in his pride, but that's about it.

A 5 game suspension after his 5th alcohol related offense, being a DUI/leaving the scene of an accident, is shameful.
 
#42
#42
So let's see. Since the end of the regular season -- less than three months ago -- we've had six players suspended for the bowl game for academics, six players arrested, and two players kicked off the team for the ever-popular "violation of team rules." That's a sixth of the team so far. Am I missing anybody?
 
#43
#43
Vercingetorix said:
So let's see. Since the end of the regular season -- less than three months ago -- we've had six players suspended for the bowl game for academics, six players arrested, and two players kicked off the team for the ever-popular "violation of team rules." That's a sixth of the team so far. Am I missing anybody?
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We had a couple of coaches drink themselves to Duke.
 
#49
#49
John Adams' job at the KNS is to write articles that will interest readers and allow them to sell papers which sells advertisements.

It's not to appease a fan base and be fair.

The fact that the man wrote an article that is getting play on here and all the other Tennessee message boards means it was a success.

Pennington's Georgia article was without a doubt a success in those respects.
 
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