Tennessee requests 30 day extension

#128
#128
stolitonic said:
Not exactly. In this case, it would be more like your roomie took your car, dressed like you, and robbed a bank. Your license tag is on the security cameras.

Now, if you don't have a good alibi then yes you're probably screwed.

Now, if you happen to work at somewhere with security cameras every 10 feet and can show you were at work, knew nothing about it, blah blah blah. Then the police go after someone else, correct?

Basically that is what UT has done here. Shown that Pruitt and cos little giveaways we're not university sanctioned and as soon as finding out, investigating then dropping the hammer.

Does it work? Guess we will find out. At this point and all things considered, the NCAA cannot feasibly do much to us in terms of severe penalties.

If we were still hanging around with the Missouri's of the world in terms of success then we may be in trouble.
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You bring up a good point...Tennessee returning to elite helps tremendously. The NCAA hates punishing the cash cows. And the ESPNs of the world hate it more. They carry weight.
 
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#129
whatever happens with this it is going to be VERY interesting for multiple reasons:

- TN self reported and got rid of EVERYONE associated with that mess
- NCAA praised TN in how they handled this and mentioned it should be the model for all if/when this occurs
- NIL is part of the game now
- TN is very good now with a huge fanbase and alot of attention
- media may question why X punishment in the world of NIL and how TN handled it themselves and NCAA get a lot of backlashm themselves
- NCAA has to be careful because of potential super conferences and many tired of the NCAA

I personally don't see it hurting TN much if they lose scholarships or a bowl ban next year. NIL could pay for the scholarships and if we go 12-0 screw the bowl games...we can declare ourselves champions like UCF did :) lol
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
Probably because the law firm representing us told UT they need more time. It really can be that simple.

Lawyers love billable hours.
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Let's hope so. Not sure Tennessee wouldn't look at that and try to save money but maybe they're fine with letting the lawyers handle it and have the process drag on.
 
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peachtreecornersVOL81 said:
Let's hope so. Not sure Tennessee wouldn't look at that and try to save money but maybe they're fine with letting the lawyers handle it and have the process drag on.
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I think the university leadership are probably pleased with the law firm that has done most of the heavy lifting over the past year and a half. Expensive, I'm sure, but seems like they've done a thorough job, and have done it in a way that protects the University's interests, and those of our student-athletes.

The process was always going to drag on. I mean, this is the NCAA still, right?

But at least it is dragging on in a way that minimizes pain to us and ours.
  • We're not getting a bowl ban, or any type of post-season ban.
  • We're not sacrificing any more scholarships than we already have.
  • We may pay a fine. Probably will. The NCAA loves $$.
  • Pruitt & some assistants will likely have long show causes.
  • We will probably have to vacate wins. I confess I do have my fingers crossed that there wasn't quite enough evidence to clearly implicate enough of the lads that we have to vacate all 11 from 2019 and 2020. I really, REALLY don't want to fall behind Georgia and out of the Top 10 all time. Maybe the players confirmed to have accepted money were backups and redshirts in 2019, and we escape just giving up a few Ws.
A fella can hope.

Go Vols!
 
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The only reason I can think of why we would want to push the punishment out is if we think it's bad (postseason ban?), and pushing it makes it so they can't give us that this year. Not good.
 
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#137
If you really want to address this in the future, impose fine on schools that cheat. Bowl bans punish current players and future players, none of whom had anything to do with any violations. Scholarship reductions eliminate opportunities for high school kids. Everyone involved is already gone so I don't know what else the university is supposed to do.

This whole situation to me is like prosecuting someone who was busted for weed two years ago even after it was legalized last year.
 
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Worst case scenario. We go to championship and win it. They go back and retract the W!! We'd still be Champs with the chip in my heart!!!!
 
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#143
I suspect all players and any coach/administrator who was involved are no longer with us. The thought process was/is, if we have cleaned house, please have mercy. Mercy is exactly what I think they get. I think we even gave up scholarships. JMO, it'll be fine...no bowl ban.
 
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VFL-82-JP said:
I think the university leadership are probably pleased with the law firm that has done most of the heavy lifting over the past year and a half. Expensive, I'm sure, but seems like they've done a thorough job, and have done it in a way that protects the University's interests, and those of our student-athletes.

The process was always going to drag on. I mean, this is the NCAA still, right?

But at least it is dragging on in a way that minimizes pain to us and ours.
  • We're not getting a bowl ban, or any type of post-season ban.
  • We're not sacrificing any more scholarships than we already have.
  • We may pay a fine. Probably will. The NCAA loves $$.
  • Pruitt & some assistants will likely have long show causes.
  • We will probably have to vacate wins. I confess I do have my fingers crossed that there wasn't quite enough evidence to clearly implicate enough of the lads that we have to vacate all 11 from 2019 and 2020. I really, REALLY don't want to fall behind Georgia and out of the Top 10 all time. Maybe the players confirmed to have accepted money were backups and redshirts in 2019, and we escape just giving up a few Ws.
A fella can hope.

Go Vols!
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I like your optimism. I dunno what will happen, but this seems plausible enough. Not worth worrying about what we can't control anyway.
 
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Only thing that concerns me is we beat Bama....Ole Miss knows what happens when you beat Bama....Jimbo Fisher stood up to Satan and now A&M is imploding....Maybe we need to sacrifice a chicken or something. ;)
 
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#147
As someone else already mentioned on here, I can see the NCAA going back and vacating all of Pruitt's wins.
Issuing a no show and ban against Pruitt and those under him that were involved.
Perhaps some kind of penalty specific to the AD - not sure what that would be since the house was cleaned.
Then they will take into account our already self-imposed sanctions and call it a day.

I think the 30 day extension by White and Plowman is absolutely BRILLIANT !!!
That puts the response deadline in the Vandy week, so the SECCG will be all but decided by then.
If we are headed to Atlanta, there is no way the NCAA comes down any harder than what I laid out above...it will actually add to the narrative of this team's story.
Two years from the historically worst team in UT history to the SECCG !!!
 
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