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“If you’re scoring at home, here’s what Tennessee’s basketball program has done since 2011: It fired one coach for lying to the NCAA about violations while coach of the Vols; it fired another coach for likely NCAA violations committed before being coach of the Vols, although he was hired despite already having an NCAA rap sheet; the guy who was fired for lying to the NCAA was the popular choice to come back, at the expense of the one coach who had no major violations on his record; and now there are allegations of academic malfeasance at the previous place of employment of the incoming coach of the Vols.”

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.

Margaret Soltan, June 10, 2015 10:41PM
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  1. dmf Says:

    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?

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