A friend of mine's son played for Alabama when Stallings took over. He said that at the first team meeting, Stallings took the previous coach's thick rule book that listed the punishments for various infracitons and tossed into a trash can. Then he told them that if they did ANYTHING that would embarass themselves, their parents, their teammates, their coaches or their school, there would be Hell to pay and that he (Stallings) would be there to collect. He apparently had very few dicipline problems after that.
I think that if Coach Fulmer sent one or two players packing and permanently dismissed them from the team, whether they were stars or not, that the others would get the message that they had better behave. "Suspended indefinitely" is just a slap on the wrist, since everyone knows that they will eventually be back on the team. Something lioke this does not have to be done as a surprise. He should just hold a meeting and tell them all that if they are arrested and charged with a crime, that they should go ahead and start packing as they will be dismissed from the team permanently. Enforce this rule once, possibly twice, and there will be no furhter dicipline problems. There is no need to go through a bunch of due process for this. Due process will be handled by the court system. You have a right to a fair trial in our judicial system. Playing football, or any other sport, for the University of Tennessee is not a right, it is a privilege, and if you don't care enough about that privilege to keep yourself out of trouble and out of places where you could get into trouble, then you should expect to lose that privilege.
