High 5. I completely agree.
Social media's gift to an impetuous 20 year old is the ability to amplify one's voice AND ones liability in moments. But WAS JENNINGS WRONG? Did this staff lie to it's players? Was he wrong to ask for a better coach (and for ANYONE on this board dare to judge him for that?)?
He shouldn't have said it so publicly but he is now screwed. I don't see how he gets dressers and he has to wait two years to get back on the field. After missing a year.
But let's look at something more bothersome... WHO IN THE HE*L ALLOWED JIMMY HYAMS TO WRITE THAT HATECHET PIECE OF YELLOW JOURNALISM FOR THE A DEPT??
I haven't had time to look through all if the threads but it's no one bothered by a mouthpiece for the athletic department destroying a college students career? Look at this quote:
"Jennings is apparently fighting some demons. He has anger management problems. He has a volatile personality. He has tested positive for drugs at least once at UT.
Its obvious to me that Jennings needs professional help."
WTF? Jennings needs to call a lawyer. If there are any lawyers here who can tell me why Jennings couldn't use this trash article as a means to be reinstated, let me know.
I have never seen an objective journalist make such spiteful, definitive declarations. To sum up, Hyams -
OUTED JENNINGS AS A CHRONIC DRUG USER
CALLED HIM A TERRIBLE TEAMMATE WITHOUT INTERVIEWING, YOU KNOW, A TEAMMATE. HIS ONLY SOURCES ARE THOSE DOING DAMAGE CONTROL FOR THE AD.
NEVER DETERMINED IF JENINGS WAS WRONG ABOUT HIS CLAIMS, REGARDLESS OF HOW IT WAS PHRASED.
NEVER INTERVIEWED JENNINGS
HYAMS SAID -
But for every great play, he seemed to draw an unsportsmanlike penalty and engage in scuffles with opponents
WHERE WERE THESE PENALITIES THAT OVERSHADOWED HOW AWESOME AND TOUGH OF A PLAYER THIS KID IS??
I know this is long but this situation is BS. When I watched that kid play I saw someone who was pushing the rest of the team (especially coaches) to take the game as seriously as he did.
HYAMS IS A HACK AND A BUM. I never had much of an opinion on him before besides thinking he was smug but this is just wrong. I've never seen such a blatent hatchet.