Pruitt dismisses Banks.

[photovol]

I’m guessing that if a young woman walked into the complex and told someone that a player had been harassing her for weeks and then assaulted her in public, she would be able to talk to the head coach after maybe speaking with an intermediary or two.

Probably a safe bet

 

[WoodsmanVol]

Umkay:
Memphis sucks azz. If a kid is high character, he’ll do all he can to get out of that **** hole and not disparage our law enforcement.

Memphis would whip our ass up and down the field right now. Was a time such a thought would be laughable despite that weird loss by a P. Manning QB'ed team. But right now, they'd beat us worse than Ga. State did. That's quite some sucking. Finally, based on your attitude manifested in your earlier post, high character or not, simply being from Memphis all those kids are just thugs best avoided. Your words, not mine. You left yourself no space on that mountain road to back up and turn around to drive in the opposite direction. Own it cause it's yours.

 

[TNDeb3]

Do you have kids?

Kids choosing where to go to college “need” help and advice from parents or loving trusted adults.

I can assure you when it came time for my kids to make one of the biggest decisions in their life (at the time), I helped and it certainly “was part of my business. I tried my best to make sure they made an informed decision, and helped them (in whatever way the needed) make the best decision for them.

Parents know more (most) and make more rational decisions than children (most).....even 18 year old children. They “should” always be involved.

Every major decision my children made (before getting married.....and even in the “marriage” process) I would always help them in order to made the best decision possible.

If people love their children they “need” to help them make sound decisions.

I'm 58 years old and I still go to my parents for advise. I hope your kid(s) appreciate you for being there for them.

GBO!!!

 

[Goober McCornbread]

How in the world did this kid get into UT and stay eligible?

 

[JohnnyJava]

A lot of you are really torn up over the dismissal of a player whose only public revelations have been menacing threats against women and police officers (confirmed), stalking of a woman (alleged), racist proclamations (confirmed), and a clear disregard for the rule of law (my interpretation of confirmed illegal actions). So, you want Pruitt to mentor him and teach him to be a better man? The coach who can’t teach his defensive players how to line up two years into his tutelage? Frankly, I’m hoping that Banks leaves Knoxville. His behavior predicts an increased risk that he is going to either be a victim of violent crime, or a perpetrator of violent crime. Too much anti-social fight in that kid.

 

[CAVPUT]

One less.

 

[ptcarter]

Pruitt screwed this kid over. The warrant that kid had should have been resolved. The school could have paid that ticket off for the kid. Banks did his part the school knew the kid situation, but Pruitt didn't make sure the situation was taking care of. Bad on coach Pruitt part.

Just the opposite. Banks skated on the first offense. Probably told Pruitt not to worry about it. Probably had the attitude he was getting one over on the police by not paying. Laying this on Pruitt’s feet is crazy to me. I think the kid has a poisoned view of how the world works and it not him.

 

[mickey1969]

Sometimes a coach has to get rid of a talented player to keeping him from becoming a cancer to the rest of the team. Banks showed by his conduct in the videos that he can't be a team leader or a positive role model at the University of Tennessee !!! I hopes he loses his " negative attitude " & goes on to have a successful career & a happy life. Nothing happy about his attitude at the present time !!! His infraction was minor, but he demonstrated immaturity & a lack of respect for the rule of law !!!

 

[NCFisher]

I had never watched the whole video until now. The video at the club isnt that bad...I am not proud of it, but in my youth I had to step outside of bars and clubs and settle things a few times. I was never on a 40k a year full ride with food and housing, with a decent shot at making the NFL and millions one day though...but i cant say for sure that I could have held my temper at that age regardless of what was at risk.

The video where he threatens cops repeatedly...calls them names, challenges their manhood, indirectly threaten to beaf or shoot them were circumstances changed...he is a thug. I used to be a thug too, much the same. Just a different skin tone. Then I grew up.

That guy is a timebomb though. Coach made the right call.

Yall will trash him for it...but you trashed him for NOT doing it too. So your opinion is worthless based solely on that fact.

But you didn't step out of bars to settle things with females, I assume.

Somehow, an awful lot of people still think the arrest video was about one comment made to police when it was much more than that, as you've found. I think either event was grounds for dismissal but when it looked at though they'd retain him, at minimum he should have been indentured to the PD for community service hours.

I'm not sure how the bar video is "new information", but really hope it is. If UTAD sat on both, it'll get ugly.

 

[m1al]

Or, the players can behave, Pruitt can hold players more accountable, and they can start beating the GA State’s of the world.

GA State! The new retort to any argument. It’s easy. “Why did you steal that money son?” “Well officer, GA State!” “Why did you cheat on me?” “Well honey, GA State!” Works in any situation for any argument.

 

[apevol]

this is ********

 

[volgrad500]

But you didn't step out of bars to settle things with females, I assume.

Somehow, an awful lot of people still think the arrest video was about one comment made to police when it was much more than that, as you've found. I think either event was grounds for dismissal but when it looked at though they'd retain him, at minimum he should have been indentured to the PD for community service hours.

I'm not sure how the bar video is "new information", but really hope it is. If UTAD sat on both, it'll get ugly.

Exactly. 1) this wasn't about one comment, and 2) if Pruitt or the AD knew about this (and I'll be shocked if they didn't know the police had been called on one of their players) and tried to cover it up, somebody is going to get drug over the coals.

Also, I'm surprised people haven't questioned who was actually filming the second video. Banks clearly strikes either the camera or phone they are holding (if not also their hand/arm), which is assault. Surely the female you can hear on video isn't who was holding the camera.

 

[NCFisher]

He shouted " I've been thuggin"

Which means I better not get any crap for calling him a thug. He owns it. No waaaay he did college school work. We got some academic fraud going on too. I suppose every school must.

But, but....YOUR thuggin' experience may not mirror HIS thuggin' experience.
How pious of you to diminish his thuggin' life simply because it doesn't conform to your parochial, Ivy League thuggin' life.

Let he without thug, slap the first non-reciprocating ho'.

 

[djwes]

Good riddance, nothing but a liability

 

[GVol1966]

Weak move. Either remove him two weeks ago or none at all.

New information from yet another incident surfaced

 

[PG1]

This whole thing is a shitshow

The S__t show starts tomorrow at 7:00!

 

[VolsAgainstTheWorld15]

Exactly. 1) this wasn't about one comment, and 2) if Pruitt or the AD knew about this (and I'll be shocked if they didn't know the police had been called on one of their players) and tried to cover it up, somebody is going to get drug over the coals.

Also, I'm surprised people haven't questioned who was actually filming the second video. Banks clearly strikes either the camera or phone they are holding (if not also their hand/arm), which is assault. Surely the female you can hear on video isn't who was holding the camera.

That's my thought. It's hard to envision the communication being so bad that word never reached Pruitt and perhaps Fulmer as well. If we get to 1-8 and important boosters and university leaders decide they're out on Pruitt, you can bet that they'll revisit this to see if they can fire him with cause. Even if Pruitt has the university's full support, there are some national media members who will undoubtedly dig into this to try to further embarrass Tennessee.

 

[Ancient Reptile]

But, but....YOUR thuggin' experience may not mirror HIS thuggin' experience.
How pious of you to diminish his thuggin' life simply because it doesn't conform to your parochial, Ivy League thuggin' life.

Let he without thug, slap the first non-reciprocating ho'.

I assume that the me this was a joke?

 

[NCFisher]

Total BS

I was on CJPs side with keeping him on the team and helping him become a better man...this reeks of caving to pressure..

I swear i hope he figures out how to win because this "lost as a ball in high weeds" act is getting tiresome.

Sometimes caving to pressure is exactly the moral/ethical thing to do.

 

[MiramarVol]

DRUNK 18-19 year old with anger issues. Nothing good will come of it. In his eyes everyone is the enemy.

 

[NCFisher]

Given the attitude of some of you folks here, I hope every talented Memphis player either plays at MSU, or at one of our SEC rivals programs. We lose quite a few already, I think they all should forgo being Vols. Instead, go where folks don't auto-dump them into a thug basket just because they're from Memphis.

Are they eligible - and we not racists - for auto-dumping them into that basket when they proclaim "I'm thuggin" and live up to it?

Yet, we're to blame and you'd wish we miss on Memphis players because of your misplaced loyalty to a bad apple.

 

[vol445]

So he knocked a girls phone out of her hand who was instigating the situation and all of a sudden he is a wife beater?

Now you can’t tell that any more than they can tell she wasnt

 

[I40flyer]

New information from yet another incident surfaced

I'm SHOCKED (no, just kidding), I wonder how many idiots (Many on this board) will actually be shocked? You know the type that don't live in the real world, had/have trouble recognizing a thug and future trouble to the program, when they see it. I won't be surprised if a lot more information, regarding past "problems" surfaces. I also won't be surprised to read where banks has been arrested (some time in the near future) for a serious crime, one he'll have trouble "so I'ze can bond out", to quote bank's video. When this happens, once more UT's reputation will be smeared, as he'll be associated with the program in the first line of the story.

 

[go hokies]

I’d say a dumazz football player getting his antics videoed pressures this move. Good riddance.

Another reason to avoid Memphis thugs.

racist?

 

[airvols]

Just remember for every kid we lose there are 10 that made it through the same events in their life. Personal responsibility doesn’t belong to the team, coach or university, maybe that’s the lesson he needed to learn.