{"id":98,"date":"2007-03-25T23:35:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T04:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.volnation.com\/blog\/2007-03-25\/tony-passley-dismissed\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:12:15","slug":"tony-passley-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/2007-03-25\/tony-passley-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Passley Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scoreboards.aol.com\/images\/basketball\/ncaab\/players\/100x150\/95185.jpg\" title=\"passley\" alt=\"passley\" align=\"right\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"20\" width=\"100\" \/>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a big shock to anyone that <a href=\"http:\/\/utsports.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/mtt\/passley_tony00.html\">Tony Passley<\/a> has been dismissed from the Vols basketball team. However, the story was making the rounds today so I figured I would comment. The official reason for Passley&#8217;s dismissal is a violation of team rules and Pearl cited that there were academic concerns. However, you have to wonder if there were any substance abuse issues considering the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wate.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=4587762\">drug charges<\/a> from last March.<\/p>\n<p>Tony originally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaasports.com\/basketball\/mens\/story\/8750081\">followed Bruce Pearl from Wisconsin Milwaukee<\/a> and transferred to Tennessee in 2005. He saw some action early this season but was rather unproductive and I seem to remember him having an issue with technical fouls, although thats not been uncommon for several on this team (and no, I&#8217;m not complaining). He did not play in the last 13 games.<\/p>\n<p>His younger bother, <a href=\"http:\/\/rivalshoops.rivals.com\/viewprospect.asp?Sport=2&amp;pr_key=39845\">Cordell Passley<\/a>, has verbally committed to sign with Tennessee in 2008. I guess will have to wait and see if this dismissal has any affect on his decision. You have to think it will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a big shock to anyone that Tony Passley has been dismissed from the Vols basketball team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3UALm-1A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.volnation.com\/volsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}