OT: More great PR for Tennessee

[Eric15]

http://www.tennessean.com/story/spo...h-butch-jones-called-player-traitor/80851232/

"University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones told one of his players he “betrayed the team” after the wide receiver helped a woman who said she was raped by two other football players, according to a new legal filing in a sweeping lawsuit filed by six women against Tennessee."

If this actually happened, he should be banned from the NCAA.

 

[orangenirvana]

That's deplorable. And yet I'm barely surprised.

I shudder to think how many times this happens and we never hear about it because the victim (and/or witnesses) never comes forward out of fear of retribution due to these sick environments.

I think I'll push my daughters to all-girls schools.

 

[CuseLegacy]

 

[CuseLegacy]

FootballScoop Staff ‏@FootballScoop 1m1 minute ago
Dave Hart says he was out of town (when Tennessee’s coaches spoke) meeting with lawyers on these issues. // Couldn’t get out of that???

Lawyers couldn’t have come to you. What???? Oh man.

And all he says he was doing was meeting with counsel. That is unacceptable.


Barrett SalleeVerified account ‏@BarrettSallee 1m1 minute ago
So the joint press conference was planned(ish) two weeks in advance, but Dave Hart couldn't change his plans. Is that right?

 

[Finwad32]

If this has any validity whatsoever to it, it deserves an extremely harsh punishment from the School to the Athletic Department. No way your AD or HC should have a job after something like this, IF TRUE, did occur.

It's even more deplorable that they marched all of their coaches into a press conference to vehemently deny that the Athletic Department allows such atrocities.

This world we live in, it's a terrible place at times.

 

[Scooch]

Terrible.

Worse than an athletic department ignoring a player who smacks his girlfriend around.

 

[Finwad32]

Terrible.

Worse than an athletic department ignoring a player who smacks his girlfriend around.

Too bad neither you or I make those decisions. Because in my mind, both would be handled similarly if I found out a coach or AD knew and used their power to bury a kid trying to do the right thing.

 

[NKR1978]

So screwed up on so many levels IF true.

I tend to believe it's true because college football seem to be "team first" meatheads.

 

[kirbivore]

That's deplorable. And yet I'm barely surprised.

I shudder to think how many times this happens and we never hear about it because the victim (and/or witnesses) never comes forward out of fear of retribution due to these sick environments.

I think I'll push my daughters to all-girls schools.

Or just tell them is God forbid something like that happens to go to the real cops.

 

[orangenirvana]

Or just tell them is God forbid something like that happens to go to the real cops.

If it were that simple, would this be an issue?

 

[kirbivore]

If it were that simple, would this be an issue?

campus cops are a joke. Their job is to protect the brand, your kid's case isn't as important. As we saw in Tallahassee, the real cops may not be much better, but you've got a better shot at justice with the real PD as opposed to the rent a cops.