Lol damn, was really banking on you being a Game Of Thrones fan. I'd like to think it was a semi-decently clever metaphor there for anyone familiar with that show. Otherwise if you have never seen that show, that will read as total gibberish.
1. Cheat better 2. Don't treat everyone around you like trash. 3. Especially don't treat everyone around you like trash when they have the ability to ruin your life because of #1.
I don’t exactly know which thread to put this in but I need to say it, after seeing some video of the celebration in Storrs, the more time that goes by, the more comical the media reaction to mustardgate looks
Yea if you aren't literally Nick Saban maybe refrain from bringing the cheap knockoff dickhead imitation of Saban's asshole energy until you actually gain some credibility on your own first...*COUGH COUGH*...looking @ you Pruitt and Dooley! #1 mistake many Saban disciples make: thinking they can forcibly be the insufferable jerk as only Saban can be and actually make it work.
They and any other assistants who get jobs due to their standing next to an all time great are in a tough position, even if they don’t deserve any sympathy. They knew they were impostors. Saban or MJ or people like that don’t rub off on you. They just drag everyone around them along, and in Saban’s case, cheating your balls off to build your career doesn’t hurt either.
Kirby Smart, *Lane Kiffin, and Jimbo Fisher before the game passed him by are the only coaches that have ever had any kind of success as a head coach. With Kiffin being someone who doesn't even have a championship ring as a head coach yet and who had already established himself before a pit stop at Alabama. Otherwise everyone else fails it seems like. Hard to just show up somewhere and "be Saban". Jimbo Fisher said it best..."I know where his skeletons are buried and how he made himself into an excellent coach".
Well, it looks like we're either going to get off or do our part to bring down the NCAA according to Wallace - https://www.outkick.com/tennessee-jeremy-pruitt-ncaa-set-for-battle-over-investigation-penalties/
Key quote - Tennessee is not going to agree to a bowl-ban, which has been the athletic department’s stance from the beginning. No matter what the other penalties were, the Vols were not going to punish the student-athletes that had nothing to do with the infractions. So, if the NCAA decides they want more blood, the school will take this investigation to a court room.
Good. Draw the line. If the coach is fired, the AD retired, and everyone involved is gone, self-imposed penalties made... then that should be it.
The failure to monitor charge is the hold up apparently. If an agreement can be made on that and the NCAA finishes with the proper procedures this will be over sooner rather than later.
I’ve said it here before and I’ve said to anyone I’ve talked to about it, if I were AD I’d burn down the NCAA building before I’d let them railroad me. Because I have no AD experience I can’t speak to what exactly doing that looks like in a practical / non ham fisted way. But I’m glad the current leadership gets it and isn’t afraid of a fight.
Unless they can fine us for playing or take away wins if we play and win, screw em. Hell screw em anyway.
It’s not healthy and I know that, but it legitimately bothers me that there’s a universe where Tennessee gets serious penalties while nobody would dare look at the other two in conference powerhouses, who built their programs by cheating their asses off and everyone who knows anything knows it. And the guy who did it 1/10th the dirt while at Tennessee learned the game from the coaches at the other 2 programs.
Amazing what happens when you have a school president like Randy Boyd who actually cares about and understands the importance of college athletics as much as anyone on this message board does. Dude is just an average ole Tennesseean like us who managed to become really rich from figuring out how to make electric dog fences a thing and now happens to find himself as the President of his alma mater as a consolation prize for barely losing the GOP Gubernatorial primary a few years back.
Dr. Danny's dad despises the NCAA. I would bet the apple didn't fall far from the tree. I think he would love this war and welcome it.
