Jeremy Banks needs to be dismissed

[Offset Eye]

Trailer walls

That's the best you can muster as a response? Come on, man. Dig deep. Recruit others to help if need be. You're better than that.

 

[Slydell]

No one cares what you think.

You seem to care what other people think a thug is though.

Some do care what I think. Everyone should know what it is. It's changed in the past 20 years or so. You care or you wouldn't have responded.

 

[m1al]

“Remember this is all over a wrong U turn.”

Could “wrong U turn” be considered a 360?.......

 

[Chipperbones]

Totally agree........I knew at 19 not to threaten cops, but I've been taught to keep my mouth shut and I'm a black guy from a rural area.....not sure I've shared the same cop experiences from a kid from Memphis.....could there be a chance he doesn't view the police with the same optimism that I do?

So because he doesn’t view police in a positive manner it is okay for him to speak this way? Add to that perhaps he didn’t view his teachers in a positive manner either so we can excuse this type of behavior there too. So he only has to be respectful if he respects you? Come on—this is what is wrong! What happened to respecting your elders and authority? Doesn’t mean you have to agree with them. These kids get coddled in school—it is their culture, their home life, you must have provoked them etc. Never about personal responsibility anymore. And then when they act this way we continue to excuse them. Just an immature 19 year old...
My question then—at what age is this no longer acceptable? 21? 25? 40? Or it is always okay because this is society today?
A little bit of common decency and manners goes a long way.

 

[Vfl2407]

Came home to my better half asking me if I watched the video. I had not, and said so. Her eyes flashed (never a good thing in my experience), and she asked me to watch it, so I did. It was bad. Worse than I thought. She knew what I had said about dismissing / suspending / executing JB over this, so she cornered me on my opinion. Honestly, this woman should have been an attorney. She's that good at making her point. I can't remember the last argument or debate with her that I won. In 19 years.

Now, mind you, she has been at my side for a long time now. She has seen me at my best, my worst, and everything in between. Covered with mud after a foot chase that went into the marsh; covered with pepper spray after a pigpile; coming home in tears over a child, animal, or innocent person that got hurt or killed; when I was on the SRT, getting called out at all hours to go sit on a perimeter or make a hot entry into a dwelling to make an arrest; and you name it. God Bless her, she has stood by my side through thick and thin. Never complained. And amazingly enough, when I went back part-time, she simply said "I know why you are doing this, I hate it, but I love you and I'm with you." Good woman. Far better than I deserve.

That video is bad. Ugly bad. I'm going to stick with my original position on this, but I will add a caveat: Jeremy Banks may or may not have NFL talent. But if he does not change his attitude, and his heart, he will never reach his potential. He has God-given talent. He needs to honor God in how he uses it.

Or he will end up being a number in a statistic of where black males who grow up in crime-infested areas end up. No one wins in that scenario.

So Go Vols, and let's hope Jeremy Banks gets it figured out before it's too late.

My argument back to her would be: We lost to friggin Georgia State. We need everybody that can play a lick of football. Lol.

 

[JoAllan]

Could “wrong U turn” be considered a 360?.......

A person need to think.

But when they do.......this is gold.

 

[14VolFan88]

A person need to think.

But when they do.......this is gold.

That'd be two wrong u turns.

 

[OriginalCoach]

Two interceptions. Those haven’t been a dime a dozen...no matter the competition.

Again, 7 tackles in 4 games. No matter the competition. And remember who the competition was.

 

[m1al]

That'd be two wrong u turns.

A 420?

 

[butchna]

Again, 7 tackles in 4 games. No matter the competition. And remember who the competition was.

Started the season at running back...limited snaps at linebacker. I brought up the competition first and Barnett never garnered a sack against that level and last season we didn’t pile up interceptions against that level. Makes plays.

 

[BEATBAMA12]

The warrant was for a failure to appear for a traffic ticket, not a violent crime. Traffic ticket come on man.
Now if he was being arrested for being violent or some other “hard crime” I get it. But it was a traffic ticket.
Blown way out of proportion. Could’ve been handled differently, why was it even made public? Did he endanger anyone’s lives? No. Go home pay your ticket. Have a good night let it be a lesson learned. If you can’t get I straight then bye.

 

[knoxchief]

I'll leave punishment up to Pruitt. He's still a youngen. JMHO

CJP is lucky his statements don't get him fired. They fired Bruce Pearl for having a cookout. It was like Pruitt was trying to intervene in the arrest.

 

[volfannbama]

It doesn’t matter what I think.

The law says it’s not a threat, and the law says it’s protected speech.

Free speech is very important and it highly protected by the constitution and by other laws.

If one takes “angry or bad speech” and expands on it, directly threatening someone that could cross the line.

I can look at a police officer or anyone and say “I hope you die”, I can say “someone might kill you” but I cannot say “I am going to kill you” I cannot say “I’ll make sure someone kills you”

You really need to learn and understand the “fighting words doctrine” it can help keep you out of trouble and teach what a direct threat is.

Or just be a decent person and not say stuff that people may take as threatening...

 

[volfannbama]

CJP is lucky his statements don't get him fired. They fired Bruce Pearl for having a cookout. It was like Pruitt was trying to intervene in the arrest.

Bruce didnt get fired for having a cookout.

 

[JoAllan]

That'd be two wrong u turns.

Yea

A U turn would be a 180.......a “wrong” U turn.....could that be a 360?........thoughtfully funny.

 

[knoxchief]

Wouldn't it be cool if we said "Wait a minute. We have standards. This is the University of Tennessee and we have standards and we have boundaries. You are off the team. You will be welcomed back when you choose to behave like the man we thought we recruited"

instead of...

"Oh, he's 19 and will play good against us if we behave responsibly in this matter and make him mad."

General Neyland would be so proud.

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Two wrongs dont make a right.....but three lefts do.....

 

[knoxchief]

Bruce didnt get fired for having a cookout.

Yes he did. He had a cookout with potential recruits....a violation of NCAA rules.

 

[JoAllan]

Or just be a decent person and not say stuff that people may take as threatening...

Yea,

He was in the wrong.....and the only person in the wrong. No one should make any excuse for it.

Also what he said was threatening (in the general term), but it just wasn’t “threatening someone.”

With what all has been going on......it was the LAST thing anyone needed to see, from anyone within the Tennessee program.

 

[volfannbama]

Yes he did. He had a cookout with potential recruits....a violation of NCAA rules.

He lied about the cookout when asked about it and the ncaa had a picture. He did not get fired for the cookout. Had he told the truth it would have been a minor violation and he would still be coaching here. He lied, that is why he was fired.

 

[knoxchief]

Wait, I thought we were ok settling for thuggery and questionable personality traits in exchange for wins.... left out that part... gotta get the wins part for it to work correctly.

Can't help but wonder if he were a bench warmer instead of a good player, would we even be having this conversation?

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Can't help but wonder if he were a bench warmer instead of a good player, would we even be having this conversation?

Didn't someone say he has all of 7 tackles in 4 games?

 

[JoAllan]

Yes he did. He had a cookout with potential recruits....a violation of NCAA rules.

Technically he got fired for lying about the cookout to the NCAA, combined with two other ncaa violations, and then a player had a drug problem but it was “covered up” using the “he was hurt” excuse........Tennessee said “enough.”

The violation was minor......but when he lied to the NCAA and the other problems were discovered......it made things much worse.

 

[knoxchief]

He was drunk...That is the problem. He said stupid things when he was drunk. Just words... Learn how to not be drunk. Problem solved.

How about just following the laws.....You have to be 21 to drink and you have to have a driver's license to drive. If he had followed the laws, no matter where he is from, this would never have happened.

 

[knoxchief]

No, but they took him in and likely abused him verbally if not physically anyways. It's what the KPD does.

BS