Who was the rat?

[BanditVol]

Brumbaugh has been ruled out, supposedly

I have no idea. Speculation is someone on the compliance staff

 

[PNW Huskie]

I’ve edited this post a couple of times, but also have other accounts of this issue floating around the site. I’ve gotten more clarity on the issue, and added the observation that someone inside did indeed share information with Plowman. After that, the matter regarding Mims was answered in a way that revealed many more similar issues. I’m getting this info third hand, and it involves reputations, and individual accounts about an ongoing investigation. I’m going to refrain from further commentary until the dust settles. I was (at the least) partially incomplete in my first account regarding the source of the first leak. There are too many moving parts to follow this one. As I’ve heard more, The sums of money, and sloppiness of the whole thing make me want to take a step back. I’ll try to provide useful info on the search for coaches and AD, but I’m going to quit being a private detective on the investigation. In summary, I’ll say that the key takeaway is that we were so egregious there will be no way for the ncaa to go easy on us.

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I have no way of knowing if you're right or wrong but if any of the party room stuff is true OMG! Talk about the most incompetent cheaters of all time. How brazen to think that could continue for any length of time. I'm just shaking my head in disbelief.

 

[ftsandersvol]

No she didn’t. She said she couldn’t say but it was someone highly regarded and credible. She never said it was or wasn’t in house, but definitely alluded to in house.

Well, that rules out JG.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

If you want to go the JG route I'm willing to bet you are wrong. Not only was JG kept involved in every way possible, but their family is ingrained in Tenn. and has a lot to lose. They go beyond football.

Jimmy Brumbaugh is a guess, but again, he would be destroying his career.

This was georgia IMO, who tenn. has been pressuring the NCAA to review their recruiting for years.

 

[FalconVol77]

I agree, unlikely JG was in the loop since he was already recruited here when Pruitt arrived. It’s more to do with the Mim’s recruitment.

That was the gas that started the fire. It just took off once it started.

 

[SATX VOL]

JG is my guess. It kinda makes sense as to why he was the starter for so long. That’s the dirt he had. As soon as he was benched, the news came out.

 

[EricberryFAN]

Definitely JG. His silence on his social media about it all speaks volumes to me. Jmo

 

[LordBolton]

The Chancellor said in the presser it was someone outside the program. I think it was Kirby Smart after Mims chose Georgia and spilled the beans on what's going on at UT.

The final straw was when they mixed Mims's bag up wuth Chaney's. Chaney found 50k in cash, and Mims got 4 dozen Big Macs. He was understandably upset, as some sauce got on the seat of the brand new 'Vette Kirby gave him.

 

[utbffan]

No she didn’t. She said she couldn’t say but it was someone highly regarded and credible. She never said it was or wasn’t in house, but definitely alluded to in house.

I was told it was in house. And the person is no longer connected with the program.

 

[Harleydude2929]

Haslem's paid informant to get the two roadblocks out of his way.

 

[GUNTERSVOL]

My bold with zero evidence guess is that the information was found by an inside person doing their job that had enough integrity to not turn a blind eye and forwarded it to the appropriate superior or compliance department and it went from there. I am wondering how closely the two groups that were mentioned worked together. Could there have been two different triggers, one recruiting related and one from daily operations? Did one area trigger the investigation and the other get caught during the following investigation? I hope we find out in the end. The reference at the presser to the efforts or methods (wording used?) to keep the violations hidden has me perplexed.

 

[VolMarine1371]

True, but there is a reason to try to stop the wrongdoing at the HC. That is why there was so much gushing over Fulmer at the press conference by Plowman and Boyd as they were emphatic that the AD was not involved at all with any of the identified infractions.

What else would they say about UT legend. If it was any other AD I believe they would have been buried also.

 

[esarmstrong]

The Chancellor said in the presser it was someone outside the program. I think it was Kirby Smart after Mims chose Georgia and spilled the beans on what's going on at UT.

Georgia just paid more than we did to get Mims. Keep you're eye on Georgia. They may be next.

 

[terrypedigo]

The Chancellor said in the presser it was someone outside the program. I think it was Kirby Smart after Mims chose Georgia and spilled the beans on what's going on at UT.

I still don't understand the Chancellor admitting we are guilty before the NCAA is done, now we can't even lie about it.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

My bold with zero evidence guess is that the information was found by an inside person doing their job that had enough integrity to not turn a blind eye and forwarded it to the appropriate superior or compliance department and it went from there. I am wondering how closely the two groups that were mentioned worked together. Could there have been two different triggers, one recruiting related and one from daily operations? Did one area trigger the investigation and the other get caught during the following investigation? I hope we find out in the end. The reference at the presser to the efforts or methods (wording used?) to keep the violations hidden has me perplexed.

My bold with zero evidence guess is (I love this - it should be a thread unto itself.)

My bold with zero evidence guess is that, sometime in, maybe season two, the toll on his young family became so immense he gave up some controls. The pressure to perform was such that his underlings ran wild playing favorites -pay to play fringe activities, so to speak. All the players knew and there was a divide between at least two camps. The team splintered and that made it impossible for them to play in the way we all know a team needs to play, despite having islands of talent on both sides of the ball. There was bad mojo politics infecting the team and the head coach is home changing diapers or feeling guilty for not being there. I am speculating based on personal knowledge of the complications of trying to balance work and family and doing it in a new job trying to get up to speed quickly while keeping Mommy happy. And I did it while making nowhere near seven figures!

 

[Volfaninfl2]

It could very well could be JG or his father.

Why else would a coach keep playing someone as terrible as JG? JG probably had the dirt on Pruitt and staff. Or his father did. We all saw how his father ran his mouth on Twitter.

Think about it... When HB was officially named the starter.. Not even 2 or 3 games later the news leaks out that there's an investigation (which probably was occurring a couple of weeks prior to the leak)

As I recall, Plowman said in presser that the call came in November 13, and the investigation began November 19. When did the quarterbacks other than JG start playing, and when was he totally benched?

 

[Mrgro]

Idiotic post of the year. That pouting was 5 years ago. If you bothered to watch the late games this year, you would have him seen him on the sidelines helping Bailey and Shrout. No way it was JG. He was too close to his teammates to watch them take the fall.

I don't know who it was, but it wasn't JG. I'd bet on Brumalough.

Not so idiotic.

 

[VOL_Lyfe]

Why does it have to be a Rat? A rat implies underhandedness. Who ever informed Plowman about the infractions done the right thing. Turning a blind eye gets everyone hammered. If the money in McDonald's bags rumors are true, they needed to be fired for stupidity.

You have rats, I have sources. Duh.

 

[Majors]

Brumbaugh has been ruled out, supposedly

I have no idea. Speculation is someone on the compliance staff

He would have been black balled like Pearl

 

[Majors]

Idiotic post of the year. That pouting was 5 years ago. If you bothered to watch the late games this year, you would have him seen him on the sidelines helping Bailey and Shrout. No way it was JG. He was too close to his teammates to watch them take the fall.

I don't know who it was, but it wasn't JG. I'd bet on Brumalough.

I don't doubt he cares for his teammates. With that being said, I don't buy that he was helping either. To me it looked as if he was playing to the camera... he knew who the camera would be on at certain times and there he was all smiles and putting it on. Not a bad strategy if you know you're hitting the portal. Just my two cents on watching the same game.

 

[Volinnooga]

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Not so idiotic.

You gonna interpret that picture and comment to justify the wild leap that he is the rat? Really?

 

[Volinnooga]

I don't doubt he cares for his teammates. With that being said, I don't buy that he was helping either. To me it looked as if he was playing to the camera... he knew who the camera would be on at certain times and there he was all smiles and putting it on. Not a bad strategy if you know you're hitting the portal. Just my two cents on watching the same game.

So he knew when the camera was on him?

 

[Majors]

So he knew when the camera was on him?

You know the camera is going to be on the young QB or back up if you're out and especially if he took your spot. So yes he knows. I noticed it a few years ago when he was rotated in and out. You also know the guy who caught the TD pass or INT is going to get a time. They don't pan to the long snapper or gunner on punt team randomly. When in doubt as he learned years ago, play the part.

 

[DeusExMachina]

Nobody will ever convince me that (*expletive deleted*) Kirby (*expletive deleted*) Smart wasn't the snitch. Think about it: all this started with Mims, there's bad blood between Pruitt and Smart, Tennessee has been after the NCAA for a while trying to get them to investigate GA. I certainly wouldn't put it past that (*expletive deleted*) weaselly little rat-faced (*expletive deleted*) bowl cut wearing (*expletive deleted*) (*expletive deleted*).

(*expletive deleted*) the University of (*expletive deleted*) Georgia, everyone involved with that (*expletive deleted*) program, each and every one of their (*expletive deleted*) moronic fans, (*expletive deleted*) Herschel Walker, (*expletive deleted*) Vince Dooley, (*expletive deleted*) the hobnail boot announcer, (*expletive deleted*) Sanford stadium, and (*expletive deleted*) the (*expletive deleted*) stupid (*expletive deleted*) hedges.

 

[Big Al Orange]

Nobody will ever convince me that (*expletive deleted*) Kirby (*expletive deleted*) Smart wasn't the snitch. Think about it: all this started with Mims, there's bad blood between Pruitt and Smart, Tennessee has been after the NCAA for a while trying to get them to investigate GA. I certainly wouldn't put it past that (*expletive deleted*) weaselly little rat-faced (*expletive deleted*) bowl cut wearing (*expletive deleted*) (*expletive deleted*).

(*expletive deleted*) the University of (*expletive deleted*) Georgia, everyone involved with that (*expletive deleted*) program, each and every one of their (*expletive deleted*) moronic fans, (*expletive deleted*) Herschel Walker, (*expletive deleted*) Vince Dooley, (*expletive deleted*) the hobnail boot announcer, (*expletive deleted*) Sanford stadium, and (*expletive deleted*) the (*expletive deleted*) stupid (*expletive deleted*) hedges.

You sho do talk nasty. Lol