Last night I posted a quick blurb after the Alexis Johnson arrest about how the incidents of this nature make it harder for me to be a fan than anything else that proceeded those events. I was quickly eviscerated, somewhat unfairly, I might add by flowd with a real snappy "Well... Bye..." gif. Here is my rebuttal and a clarification of my comments.
This is the 9th incident that I can count in ~18 months where a football team member or recent graduate has had an alleged incident with a female victim that was either A.) sexual in nature or B.) violent in nature. As much as I disagree with the current Jane Doe lawsuit and the wide net it has casts, I have to say that there is a disturbing trend in Knoxville.
The UT football program has handled each incident the way that I feel it should be handled and immediately suspended any party alleged to have committed any wrongdoing. The sheer number of incidents, however, gives me pause. I don't know. I'm sure I'll be fine by August or so. It's just disgusting as heck right now.
I would love it if my child gets to have the Tennessee Volunteers as childhood heroes instead of having them be childhood precautionary tales. Maybe the same stuff went down when I was young and I just never heard about it. It seems like it's been pretty bad the past year and a half or so. I don't have all the answers, obviously. I wish we could go back to simpler times when the good guys wore orange and the bad guys wore red. I won't ramble any more about it.
