Foster about to throw us under the bus on ESPN...

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When does Taco Foster get his advertising endorsement from Taco Bell?
 
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ZoSo0789 said:
NO NCAA sanctions will come out of this, you idiots. He got the proper lawyers and paperwork done to where everything he said would could never be pursued by the NCAA, specifically so that way UT was not harmed in any way. Ya'll are really making too damn big of a deal about this.

And I would never blame him for holding a **bit** of a grudge against UT because he only returned for his senior year to help out the team, and the offense screwed his stats... thus diminishing his entire draft stock. He was a 2nd round projection the year before. So yeah, I'd be a little bitter. I don't know how you guys can't see that. But bottom line.... Arian loves UT. Why else would he come back here in the offseason?
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Yea, he loves us. He used UT on ESPN 30 for 30 as a motivation tool to become the "best RB in NFL" while stating things like he was just "misunderstood" here and that he was mistreated in terms of the amount of carries he received his senior season. Poor Fulmer was on there hearing this crap and as nicely as he could said look dude has talent but he made mental errors in huge games. Take the orange sunglasses off and lay down the democratic views for a minute and realize what you some of you guys are saying. You can't connivence anyone with a brain that Foster came back his senior year to help the team. He ranked only sixth in the SEC for YPG his junior year, and he had an outrageous number of carriers. He padded his stats against terrible teams, and he had a fumble issue. Lets not act like Foster was a lock first rounder here, or act like he passed up millions to come back here. He's no Peyton Manning.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
UT players are amateur athletes. By definition that means they don't get paid. Free room, free school, free food. I've eaten at campus facilities and the food isn't bad. The problem arises when they have wives and kids. Those are real world problems. Made by real world decisions. Personal accountability is underrated...or nonexistent these days depending on who you ask. Don't want to try to support a kid or 2 while living in a dorm? Don't get anyone pregnant. I fail to see how its the responsibility of the U that a kid attends to support their family.
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What was wrong with slavery? A free trans-Atlantic cruise, free room and board, get to work outside instead of being stuck in an office. Stupid Lincoln!
 
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volfanbill said:
So what if they have families or when the cafeteria is closed or they need to dress up for something but all they've been given for free was some adidas climalite t shirts?
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I've even heard harsh rumors that sometimes they would actually like to go to a movie or, you know, something frivolous like that. The Idea!
 
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Tux said:
Thinking out loud.......Taco Foster had a penchant for laying the ball on the ground in key situations of some big games......could he have been involved in a point shaving scheme? Took cash for losing games?

It makes a lot of sense when you look at when he fumbled, against whom he fumbled, and the end result....afterall, he said he was starving.
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Like the way you think Tux. You hurt one of ours, we kill two of yours so to speak. He wants to selfishly throw around accusations that could potentially hurt UTs program, here's an accusation coming back at him. His "untimely" fumbles are the stuff of (negative) legend at UT. Maybe there was more to all of them.....and I do mean ALL of them.
 
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volfanbill said:
So Fulmer deserved millions while Foster deserved cafeteria food, athletic gear and an education. Fantastic.
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Yes...exactly.

He had a shot at an NFL career, and has done very well. Fulmer holds one of the best records in college football as a head coach, he may have let it slide at the end but for a decade he put up numbers that no coach really had save 2 or 3......

Absolutely a head coach deserves to be paid well when successful.
 
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MSCE09 said:
What was wrong with slavery? A free trans-Atlantic cruise, free room and board, get to work outside instead of being stuck in an office. Stupid Lincoln!
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THIS IS THE STUPIDEST EFFING POST I'VE EVER READ ON VOLNATION! What the hell is wrong with you? Comparing the horror of slavery to a kid playing major college ball, getting his education and all related expenses paid for, training tables, training staff, world class facilities, on and on and on..... Slavery? Your ridiculous post is an embarrassment!

Are you also one of the Einsteins that thinks professional athletes who get paid millions ( justifiably so) to play football, baseball, basketball, hockey are slaves and the team owners are their masters? Jeez. Unbelievable.
 
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volfanbill said:
So Fulmer deserved millions while Foster deserved cafeteria food, athletic gear and an education. Fantastic.
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What a moronic statement. These kids are getting compensated at nearly 80k per year. Cafeteria food???? I bet the football players eat better than you do. I would have killed to have gotten to eat at Gibbs when I was there. Kids that age don't give a crap about it being cafeteria, that want quantity. And about dressing up when the cafeteria isn't open???? Sunday night.....that's it. Walk to the f'ing strip and go to McD's or Krystal.

I think that the NFL needs to let kids burn their eligibility right out of HS. You go to school and play 3 or go right from HS. It would weed out some of the worthless characters. I would sacrifice a small amount of game quality to get personal quality.
 
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VeryBest said:
I am for student-athletes getting paid, but I do think it opens up a can of worms when deciding a formula on if athletes from revenue producing sports get paid more or if BCS level programs get paid more than other programs. With that being said, to posit Arian as a "normal college kid" isn't accurate. I had my fair share of Ramen noodles weeks in college too, but I was not literally making my school millions of dollars during that same time. Something needs to be done.
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He knew what the deal was when he signed the LOI. Scholarship offer by the school, acceptance by Arian, and he would receive a free education to play as consideration. If the rule itself is broken, throwing the institution that gave him the opportunity to succeed under the bus is not going to fix it. Regardless of what Arian may or may not have monetarily produced for the university while he was there, he's not the only one who has made the university millions. Some "normal college kids" go on to make millions and give back to the university without asking for a thing.

Let me be clear, it's not that I disagree with him, it's that he is taking a terrible approach to meet an end.
 
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KBVol said:
THIS IS THE STUPIDEST EFFING POST I'VE EVER READ ON VOLNATION! What the hell is wrong with you? Comparing the horror of slavery to a kid playing major college ball, getting his education and all related expenses paid for, training tables, training staff, world class facilities, on and on and on..... Slavery? Your ridiculous post is an embarrassment!

Are you also one of the Einsteins that thinks professional athletes who get paid millions ( justifiably so) to play football, baseball, basketball, hockey are slaves and the team owners are their masters? Jeez. Unbelievable.
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You're right! There is nothing remotely similar to slavery as a bunch of predominantly white guys making lots of money off of the broken bodies of predominantly black kids who they barely pay with benefits that the school gives away to rich white kids in nonviolent sports at a loss despite those sports provide nearly no revenue to the school at all.
 
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MSCE09 said:
You're right! There is nothing remotely similar to slavery as a bunch of predominantly white guys making lots of money off of the broken bodies of predominantly black kids who they barely pay with benefits that the school gives away to rich white kids in nonviolent sports at a loss despite those sports provide nearly no revenue to the school at all.
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You're a big democrate aren't you?
 
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MSCE09 said:
What was wrong with slavery? A free trans-Atlantic cruise, free room and board, get to work outside instead of being stuck in an office. Stupid Lincoln!
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Being a college athlete is now equivalent to slavery. The absolute dumbest thing I have ever read.
 
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MSCE09 said:
You're right! There is nothing remotely similar to slavery as a bunch of predominantly white guys making lots of money off of the broken bodies of predominantly black kids who they barely pay with benefits that the school gives away to rich white kids in nonviolent sports at a loss despite those sports provide nearly no revenue to the school at all.
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He is right and this is getting dumber.
 
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