Tennessee Looking Into More Recruiting "Improprieties" By The Ogre

by Nestor on Jan 19, 2010 6:03 AM PST

Joel from Rocky Top Talk has some new info re. the liars from South Central:

GVX is reporting that Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton is looking into the contact that former UT coaches had not only with Vols' committed and enrolled prospects but also with personnel still employed by the athletic department.

You will recall that there were reports that Ed Orgeron contacted mid-term enrollees the night Lane Kiffin (and Orgeron and Monte) took the job(s) at USC. Orgeron later admitted that he'd contacted "some" of them, but said he broke no rules and only answered their questions. Kiffin also said that they would not contact any UT commitments unless they were contacted first.

We knew last week that the first part of that wasn't true. Players and their families have said that the mid-term enrollees were in fact offered scholarships to USC and told not to go to class so they wouldn't jeopardize their ability to accept.

Now we learn from former UT commitment Brandon Willis that Orgeron was the first to make contact with him. And Orgeron wasn't just calling former UT commitments (by the way, there's no "rule" against that, but there are rules about how many times you can contact a recruit, and that's what UT is looking at), he also called UT athletic department employees and got irate when they would not give him access to recruiting materials and files. Hamilton is scrutinizing athletic department employees, some of whom came with Orgeron when he joined Tennessee's staff, presumably to make sure that on Orgeron, who's known for his persistence, didn't just call someone else on staff and get it all from them.

So tacky and classless but such a perfect fit for the sleaze factory cross town. Joel wrote that the Vols will have no qualms reporting all this nonsense to the NCAA. Sure hope that is true.

GO BRUINS.

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Tennessee is going to work with the NCAA on this one

I suspect that this is going to turn into a whol new can of worms for Lamey and the Ogre.

by Ajax on Jan 19, 2010 10:10 AM PST reply actions

LA Times piles on

The Times has a piece on the UT compliance investigation.

http://mobile.latimes.com/inf/infomo;JSESSIONID=4F9FA5122E75D032E3B3.4881view=page3&feed:a=latimes_1min&feed:c=sportsnews&feed:i=51740192&nopaging=1

For some reason, I think Ogre and will be treated less charitably by the UT staff than he would be by the ultra-competent lawyer-led trojan compliance squad.

Incidentally, check out the Times article. Most of it involves a UT investigation of a Lexus lent to Kiffin. It ended up wrecked in the middle of the night while the most ethical coach in America was passed out in his office.

by peggysue69 on Jan 19, 2010 8:47 PM PST via mobile reply actions

I guess even the fishwrap has a "Smell-O-Meter"

This started as a lawyer joke, but I think there are plenty of other professions which deserve it more. I’ll go with politicians. You know the difference between a rat and a politician? There are some things that a rat just won’t do.

It appears that the fishwrap is closer to a rat than a politician. When something starts to stink as bad as Inheritance Hall is stinking, even the ‘wrap has to take notice. I believe that this will have a bad fall-out for UCLA. The ’wrap’s decades-long love affair with everything trOJan will ultimately prevail, meaning that at some point they will turn their “journalistic” guns toward UCLA for something. In fact, I predict a series on Sam Gilbert.

by Fox 71 on Jan 20, 2010 4:54 AM PST reply actions

Or a Wretch-O-Meter

My sense of it is there has been a shift in the Times reporting particularly since “somebody’s” Land Rover was parked next to a trojan practice field. But let’s see how they cover the NCAA sanctions hearing. So far, barely a peep.

by peggysue69 on Jan 20, 2010 6:05 AM PST via mobile up reply actions