Vitello suspended.

#101
#101
mr.checkerboards said:
Our biggest rival has someone who should be charged with accessory to murder playing, and goes oh well.
The AA only has teeth if you let them.
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The Alabama thing is a criminal investigation. The NCAA is not a court of law. They have no judicial power. I agree it’s ridiculous, but the fact that the Tuscaloosa PD immediately backed off their statement that he was present at the time of the murder, really gives insight into who really runs Tuscaloosa. Makes me think all those times Saban said discipline was “being handled internally” was just code for saying we told the police to make it go away. Sucks to be a victim in T-town if a football or basketball player is involved because ain’t **** happening to them.
 
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#102
#102
mr.checkerboards said:
Thats false, if the NCAA truly had power they could tell Bama to sit Miller until the case is resolved. However Bama knows the AA is a toothless tiger and treats them as such. Where as TN is terrified of them and gives them the power they crave.
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We'll have to agree to disagree on this one. If you've seen an NCAA bylaw that addresses guns and accessories to murder, I'd be interested in reading it. Maybe they have a morals statute that I'm unaware of? Could be. Hell, it seems like they've got no end of minutia in their reg book(s). In any event, UT...I hope...is simply doing damage control with this suspension. I can't believe they'd make such monumental mistake and do or allow anything to jeopardize Coach Vitello as coach of our baseball program. IMO, there's not a brighter star or a more popular coach on that campus than Coach Vitello. Losing him would be a death blow for this baseball program and it would certainly decimate any good will the chancellor and AD have built up in how they navigated the football trials. You simply cannot.....CANNOT....allow Vitello to leave this program.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
I agree with all of this, and I don't see this "tampering" issue involving Ahuna becoming a serious matter. That kind of thing is happening everywhere ... but having said that, Battered Vol Syndrome doesn't arise purely from delusions.

Remember during the regionals last year when Troy Eklund of ESPN said on-air that Evan Russell had been suspended for PED's and the NCAA was forcing the rest of our team to be tested before we could take the field again?

We are not imagining things. At times, it seems like somebody really has it in for us.
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The whole Evan Russel saga is very odd…that’s for sure. I don’t believe we’ll ever know what truely happened.
 
#104
#104
AllThingsTN said:
The whole Evan Russel saga is very odd…that’s for sure. I don’t believe we’ll ever know what truely happened.
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I think the most obvious explanation is someone fed the false PED suspension story to the broadcaster who then repeated it on air before corroborating it. Pretty stupid all around.
 
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AllThingsTN said:
That would make sense if he didn’t go MIA and miss a game…
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Evan Russell's dad explained that Evan missed the Alabama State game due to "anxiety, stress and pressure." I wouldn't refer to missing one game as being "MIA." He played the next day against Campbell. His absence would not have created a buzz at all ... if Troy Eklund of ESPN hadn't made the false claim concerning PED's. That was irresponsible.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
Evan Russell's dad explained that Evan missed the Alabama State game due to "anxiety, stress and pressure." I wouldn't refer to missing one game as being "MIA." He played the next day against Campbell. His absence would not have created a buzz at all ... if Troy Eklund of ESPN hadn't made the false claim concerning PED's. That was irresponsible.
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Yes I know. It was still odd. Nothing fishy but odd. I do believe they issued an apology during the next game…or am I remembering that wrong?
 
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#116
turbovol said:
And now 50 pages of "everybody hates us" talk---and let's not forget to include ESPN!
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You mean "5 pages" ??? LOL.

.... and sometimes it's legit. Can you think of another example of an ESPN announcer running with such serious, false speculation on the air, like Troy Eklund did with Evan Russell? I can't.
 
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#122
AllThingsTN said:
Yeah I was pretty sure he apologized. Doesn’t take away from how shatty of a thing it was to do. But at least he did.
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He apologized per an ESPN canned statement. Very unapologetic and zero remorse. His hatred for Tennessee was implicit in his announcement to viewers of something totally false and a defamation of a good guy’s character. I’m pretty sure there were legal ramifications for Eklund.
 
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