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GoDawgs says the SEC and NCAA cannot allow this type of "unreasonably dangerous behavior," and I agree. But the fact is that there are eight or nine officials on the field and more in replay booths whose job it is to spot and penalize dirty plays. In this game, their failure was glaring. I already mentioned the two helmets ripped off on the first play. Only one of those was flagged and that was offset by penalizing one of the two helmet-less Vols for continued participation. In a later play a Vandy receiver ran 15 or 20 yards down the sideline yanking Bryce Thompson's facemask. That play was flagged. The refs called pass interference on the player who was being dragged along by the facemask! So when you have this going on for 56 minutes you can't focus on one play during the last 4 minutes of the game and rain all your crap down on one guy. That is not a reasonable or fair response.

So if this was a dirty play (and I am not at all convinced that it was), then it came in response to a whole game filled with dirty plays and all you Vandy fans should stop hating on Jennings and instead focus your efforts on getting mentally prepared for another three decades of unrelenting domination.

From the video, I can't tell whether the foot/face contact was accidental (the result of a lot of bodies pressing into Jennings when the Vandy players rushed the sideline) or a perfect execution of "unintentional" intentionality. But I do know this, in football, you reap what you sow, and it is only to be expected that an uber-passionate player like Jennings will be the one to bring in the harvest.

Being the punks that they always are, the Vandy players came to play dirty from the outset. On the game's first offensive play, they ripped off not one but two separate Tennessee players helmets by the facemasks - on the same play! So for all you Vandy mind-readers out there, can you divine intent from that, or was it just a remarkable coincidence?