Tennessee! And of course there’s the University of Texas too. The two schools are linked in today’s news stories because like virtually all sports factories, they’re both corrupt as hell. No one cares. Some random professor complains about some player in her class and, you know, people start sniffing around, but nothing comes of it. Coaches leave for similar salaries at slightly more sordid schools (but they’re all sordid); players disappear into obscure junior colleges.
Tennessee also had coach Donnie Tyndall, just the sort of appointment for which that august institution is known:
During [a] single season leading the Volunteers, reports surfaced that Tyndall was involved in a messy NCAA violation situation at his previous school, Southern Mississippi, and while that’s never good, it was triply bad for both Tyndall and Tennessee.
That’s because Tyndall already had been found to have committed NCAA violations at Morehead State a few years earlier. And also because Tennessee had been forced to fire the popular Bruce Pearl after the NCAA slammed him for violations as coach of the Vols…
And, you may ask, what is Donnie Tyndall up to now that he’s an ex-coach of the Vols? Managing a pro wrestling match Saturday. If that doesn’t secure sideshow status for Tennessee basketball, I don’t know what does.
The article says nothing about the Vols players, a number of whom, when doing armed robbery one night, wore clothing with University of Tennessee written all over it, giving witnesses a real leg up in identifying them.
June 12th, 2015 at 12:50PM
http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/notre-dame-coach-brian-kelly-on-academic-issues-all-of-my-football-players-are-at-risk/ar-BBkYm80?