U Tenn self-reports 10 violations

[cferraro04]

Louisville put up a billboard to try and get her. Is that a violation?

Oh, I see the ole' "they did it too" defense...

 

[Icebear]

Oh, I see the ole' "they did it too" defense...

Yeah, how many parents bought that excuse from their kids.

 

[UConnChapette]

Well well well....perhaps those glass house residents might want to think twice before throwing more stones UConn's way - or anyone else's for that matter.

 

[pinotbear]

point taken, Fairview, but we were discussing Tennessee, and U of L was also included!

'sides which, while I was born in New England, and live in New England, I was reared..'scuse me, I wuz brung up in Kentucky and began married life in Virginia. In the words of the late, great Molly Ivins, I'm "bi-ignorant".

Lastly, for me, almost anything is either a cue for a song, or for a line of movie dialect..., or, often, a line from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon!

 

[Alydar]

IMO this entire subject isn't about a bunch of secondary violations. Rather it is about a clique of LV fans who, for years, have castigated other programs as being "unethical" and in a couple cases, of outright cheating while putting their own program up on a pedestal as a model recruiting program. It is their good vs evil view that has stuck in my craw. If it's not Maya Moore then it's Diamond DeShields or Kaila Davis, but anytime a recruit goes elsewhere there are charges of tampering and vague, undocumented references to other programs as "unethical".

Nothing in the latest report listing the old Tenn violations is very egregious. But when your own school dances on both sides of the line of legality wrt recruiting you shouldn't be wishing that opposing coaches "burn in Hell" because they do the same.

 

[EricSD]

I'm with Alydar. It's the holier than thou Tennessee fans who have gone on and on, ad nauseum, about how UCONN has to cheat to get kids, and yet they have a whole ton of violations now that are way more in volume than any UCONN has ever perpetrated.

I agree - the violations are totally minor, but if we are UCheat then they are UTrash.

 

[vtcwbuff]

Don't forget holier than thou St Pat who had the courage to accuse but not the courage to prove. In my mind her actions were just as egregious.

 

[Icebear]

Don't forget holier than thou St Pat who had the courage to accuse but not the courage to prove. In my mind her actions were just as egregious.

Amen.

 

[connboy77]

Louisville put up a billboard to try and get her. Is that a violation?

No, it only counts as a infraction if you get a verbal!!!!!!

 

[maddoggy]

Amen.

I don't have any problem sneering at those UTenn fans who have gone on and on ad nauseum. In light of Pat's since-diagnosed disease, however, I'm inclined to give her at least a partial pass. Early in my mother's Alzheimer's, she went through a paranoid phase in which she sounded entirely rational to anyone who did not know her well and completely irrational to anyone who did know her.

In mom's case, it was mostly about blaming a cleaner for objects mom couldn't find (and -- when we found the objects -- claiming the cleaner was sneaking in at night to put them back). She'd never exhibited anything like that before, and it was an early behavioral clue that helped us realize something was wrong, even though she still seemed to be quite normal in all other respects.

I'm not saying this was the case with Pat, but I could see how losing a recruit and not understanding why might have the same kind of impact on her as losing an object and not understanding why would have on someone else. If that was the case, I wish those who knew her the best had picked up on the clue. But it wasn't a case that her assistants could disprove the way we could disprove that the objects had been stolen, so maybe that's asking too much of them. And I'm sure they have been second-guessing themselves a lot -- it ain't fun.

But yeah, those fans who have stoked the fires deserve every sneer they get.

 

[Icebear]

I don't have any problem sneering at those UTenn fans who have gone on and on ad nauseum. In light of Pat's since-diagnosed disease, however, I'm inclined to give her at least a partial pass. Early in my mother's Alzheimer's, she went through a paranoid phase in which she sounded entirely rational to anyone who did not know her well and completely irrational to anyone who did know her.

Amen to this, too. Pat's actions were completely wrong but indeed there may well have been an underlying cause based in her Alzheimers.