NCAA Rules: Tennessee Has More NCAA Woes
by Glenn Logan on Sep 27, 2011 6:47 AM EDT
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PrintYahoo! sports strikes again with yet another reported NCAA violation, this time another leftover from the Tennessee Volunteers failed Lane Kiffin Experiment:
An assistant coach during Lane Kiffin’s tenure at the University of Tennessee wired $1,500 to a talent scout in July 2009, funding the airfare for an unofficial recruiting trip by then five-star prospect Lache Seastrunk and his mother, Yahoo! Sports has learned.
Yikes. And just when the Vols were thinking they had put that sordid past adventure behind them. I really can't express how badly the Kiffin-Tennessee thing seems to have worked out for the Volunteers. I'm sure they must be weary of all this bad news, but one wonders if even this report is the end.
The good news, at least in my opinion, is that this should be considered part and parcel of the earlier investigation by the NCAA into the football program, it's just something both the school and the NCAA missed. That should hopefully keep out the possibility of a "repeat offender" charge with its associated raft of horrible penalties.
But then again, this is the NCAA, as mercurial as Britney Spears. Logic and consistency are two concepts that NCAA enforcement feels no compunction to embrace, so for all I know, Tennessee could have their entire athletic department banned under a "show cause" penalty, Neyland Stadium razed to the ground, and the earth salted.
UPDATE: By way of a response to this latest revelation, Rocky Top Talk throws up their hands.
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Ruh-roh...
Keep picking at that one string and the whole ball of yarn falls apart… I would think that this would fall under the previous violations too, but I guess it depends on what the COI has had for breakfast today!?!?
If your wings don't sweep....
Seastrunk again?
Wasn’t he the one at the center of the mess at Oregon (where Chip Kelly supposedly paid $25k to a “recruiting service”)? The kid has too many pimps.
The same Lyles "service".
"Indirectly I played a pivotal role in [Seastrunk signing with Oregon]," Lyles said.
Lyles provided the Ducks with recruiting assistance that may have violated NCAA rules.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
Lane Kiffin......the gift that keeps on giving.....
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Sep 27, 2011 8:40 AM EDT reply actions
Lane is a miracle worker:
He has actually been able to make me feel sorry for UT.
And that’s doing something.
by bob in bg on Sep 27, 2011 10:47 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Most interesting part to me:
Lyles said he only agreed to speak to NCAA investigators if they guaranteed Seastrunk immunity from any penalties associated with this incident. Lyles said immunity was granted on the condition that both he and Seastrunk were completely honest and forthcoming (Lyles said Seastrunk has already spoken to the NCAA).
I love the selective NCAA enforcement. The big-time prospect that directly benefited from the whole Lyles deal looks like he’ll get off without so much as a slap on the wrist. A-may-zing.
Same case with the Miami scandal. Players that transferred were given immunity for testimony, but players that were at Miami got hit with suspensions. Huh?!?
I am beginning to think that Indianapolis is not a nice place to be.....
which is surprising, because I have friends that love it there…….maybe they have a curse on the building or something…..lol
I am now and shall forever be the Cat in The Hat, The Artist Formerly Known As ABC!!!
by Greg Alan Edwards on Sep 27, 2011 9:25 AM EDT up reply actions
Let Tennessee off the hook on this one and stick it to Lane Kiffin instead
I wish the NCAA would do more to punish out of control coaches, and if there was ever an out of control coach it would be Lane Kiffin. Was USC’s AD on drugs when they hired that freak?
+1, cb
God Bless Our Troops............Especially Our Snipers!
by bigbill992001 on Sep 27, 2011 11:26 PM EDT up reply actions
By the way
Gotta wonder what else Lyles told the NCAA and what programs are under new (or additional) scrutiny. Already Oregon, LSU, Tennessee…wouldn’t surprise me if he had dirt on other programs.
Off Topic
Want to see what I think is absolutely dumb? (see next post)
Dayman, Fighter of the Nightman, Champion of the Sun
whas dis bawx fer?
holy hell! uhnutherin!!
I have kleptomania,
but when it gets bad,
I take something for it.
Yes, I am sick of the NCAA
.
And yes, I did completely skip the entire Bruce Pearl episode and that latest news on South Carolina because “NCAA Rules Enforcement” has dropped down to about No. 2,143 on my personal list of topics I still care about…
but even I wouldn’t mind seeing something stick to that Lane Kiffin guy. Not necessarily UT, but Kiffin.
Darn. That probably makes me a hypocrite… :-)
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"I watch (UK) every night... I am going to support them for the rest of my life. I'm a Wildcat for the rest of my life." -- JWall, 2/8/11
They should have put Yahoo Investigators on Bin Laden
and we would have found him a long time ago ;-)
Slower Traffic Keep Right!
Not UT football
But Gary Parrish looks at what happened because of recent changes in Knoxville.
While Pearl lives in luxury, his ex-assistants go through upheaval.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
Not sure how much merit to put in this new article from timesfreepress.com's Mark Wiedmer
It says this could get a little worse in Knoxville.
Blue... there is no other color to Bleed !!!
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