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It's arraignment time in Tennessee!
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11/13/2009 12:02:00 PM
The thrill a minute Lane Kiffin reign in Knoxville just got the kind of headlines no fan wants to read about. Prize recruit and functioning idiot Nu'Keese Richardson and two other Vols players nabbed for attempted armed robbery? Tennessee fans wanted to make a splash, win press conferences, get those top recruits. You asked for it, you got it. Now in defense of Kiffin the Richardson punk was coveted by the Gators too. Remember Lane running his mouth about Urban Meyer violating some rules about contacting a recruit while he was visiting another campus. Urban was calling Richardson. Lucky for Florida Nu'Keese chose Knoxville for his inconsistent play and nefarious activities. As an FSU fan I'm kind of bummed. It would've been interesting to see how Meyer (who is just as hypocritical as any other football factory coach when it comes to doling out discipline) might have handled Nu'Keese trying to take down a 7-Eleven in Ocala.
Initial reports say that Nu'Keese and his accomplice Mike Edwards were wearing UT gear when they poked a pellet gun into the car of two unsuspecting rednecks outside a convenience store on Cumberland Ave. just down the street from campus. By the way if you're gonna stick somebody up you want to look for someone with some cash, all these dudes had in their car were some Marlboros and Copenhagen. Janzen Jackson a blue chip recruit with his own discipline issues came out of the store, saw the stick up in progress and told his team mates "we gotta go", so he may not be as culpable as these two idiots. Two idiots who never play football again at Tennessee. Their next stop other than County Jail, is if their lucky Pudwacker Junior College.
This ain't kids getting in fight, drink tickets or even a D.U.I. which most college football fans will brush off as simply young college kids showing some poor judgment. Premeditated sticks ups aren't honest mistakes. Bleeding hearts will say this incident is a by product of this corrupt system. The NCAA and the SEC make billions of dollars from college football and the student athletes don't see a dime. A kid like Nu'Keese from dirt poor Pahokee, Florida still gets three hot meals and more and clothes and a nice dorm room plus an extra couple grand from his Pell grant. There's is no way to justify or rationalize this. I starved in college, we all did. We got part time jobs we ate Ramen noodles, we didn't pull stick ups.
Let's see how Lane Kiffin handles this one. His feeble attempt at rationalization, "UT had gone 11 months, 11 days without an off field incident" just sounded silly, Ooohh 11 months, what you want a cookie? Maybe Lane can replace these numbskulls. Perhaps hop in his magic recruiting chopper and fly over some chain gangs working by the roadside, or is that a recruiting violation?
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Mike Bell
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