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by Orangefreak » Mon Jul 25, 2011 3:51 pm
Well, GBJ. That is your opinion and you are certainly entitled to it. I'm not sure we need a larger knife or why. I really don't feel as if they are going to do to us anything worse than this, or at least not much worse. I haven't read the article, yet. Are we going to give up a scholarship or two during this self imposed probation period? If so, then I'm thinking we are doing roughly the same as what the NCAA would've done to us. If not, they may make us give up some scholies.
I'm not ready to label what is happening BS. The fact of the matter is we did it. Yeah, we had two shit brain coaches do it for us. Both were told to stop and one flat out lied about it (and was fired for it). Plus, our AD left over all of this. The NCAA knows this so it's got to help. The wild card in all of this (in my feeble mind anyway) is: when we found out Kiffen was still doing his violations, what was UT going to do to punish Kiffen? Recall Kiffen had been busted, multiple times if I recall correctly, for recruiting violations earlier in the year/season. Toward the end of the season, it was shown he was still having problems and told to stop. If it can be shown we weren't going to do anything beyond telling him to stop and/or if we don't have documentation to back up any punishment, then we could be in trouble. That's like someone caught shoplifting multiple times, told to stop each time by the police, but never actually put under arrest. Telling them to stop isn't enough. That's what worries me.
I'd like to think we all do fair and can all play on an even playing field. It's not fun for either of us, as fans, if the other team is serving a death sentence. One team might as well not show up for the game the moral of the players will be destroyed such. It's just not fun to play under those circumstances. But if a school deserves it, even my beloved UT, then they deserve it.
Time will tell.
Let the Jones era begin
