Trying to be Tolerant

Wow. Lots of jealous people on here. I'm coming out of retirement to go into the keyboard manufacturing business. GO VOLS!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. If players can get paid now for their skills and likeness, why the heck are we giving them scholarships? That's my alumni donor dollars. That's like being able to work and get Social Security both at the same time. I will never again give to my college's sport. I am now putting my alumni dollars towards my college's building funds. If the players can now afford to go to school, NO MORE SCHOLARSHIPS. Pay your way, big boy. Unfortunately, I'll still be paying the players. If I can't pay the big bucks to come to the stadium in person, my cable company will charge me to watch the game on ESPN and the SEC Network. SCHOLARSHIPS HAVE TO END. NOW.

What's next? Paying them to come to the school? Remember them shady deals around the kitchen table under the light bulb at 10 PM with Daddy and Uncle Elroy? Why do the kids even need to go to college? Just come out of high school and go straight to the NFL, the NBA and MLB. The colleges and universities can save scholarship money to give to more deserving students who can't afford the high cost of tuition. I'm not for giving athletes a free ride to school, when obviously with NIL money, they can already pay for school. But I do like the proposed NIL Scholarship Tax Act, would only affect student-athletes who earn more than $20,000 annually through endorsements and other deals. Those players would have to report their athletic scholarships as taxable income. Heck yeah.. tax it like everything else. Introduce the boys to the Internal Revenue Service. Part of their money would go to taxes, part would go to accountants, part would buy Mama that new house and they can keep the rest. And right off the bat, that scholarship free ride through college would go away. Think of what colleges could do with that extra dorm space.

I, too had my doubts. I stopped following Tennessee football when they hired Derek Dooly back in 2010. I just didn't see any spark, no motivation in the team. They did not want to win... they looked like a bunch of panty-boy whusses who didn't want to get hurt before they went to the NFL. Same thing through Butch Jones.... same thing through Jeremy Pruitt. It took Pruitt being exposed as a cheating snake and summarily dismissed, to take the program to rock bottom. I'd heard about Heupel and his method of operation and thought, 'well, we're already at the bottom, we can't go anywhere but up. The transfers needed to leave.. ain't missing them at all. All of a sudden, the spark came back to the players' eyes. The drive to "finish what you start." They've given me personally a reason to start paying attention again. Whatever snake oil Heupel is selling, the players have bought into it. With Hooper QB'ing next year hopefully, that magical season that has eluded Tennessee for many years may be on the doorstep. After that, recruiting will give some good players a chance to play for a quality program. Go Vols.

Lame Kiffen turned his back on Tennessee when the football team and the school needed him most. Understandable, since there was a Tennessee cheerleader riding on it. It even caused him to wreck his car. My sister has a better chance at becoming Tennessee's new head coach than Lame Kiffen. He is where he is, he needs to stay there, it is what it is, and that's that. And if I hear the Gruden train start promoting Jon Guden to "come back to Tennessee," I'm gonna throw up. In my mouth. Again.

Suing won't get him reinstated. And yes, the punishment fit the crime. He got what he deserved, especially after being warned that his outbursts were offensive to others around him. Here we have a young man unfamiliar with the social graces, who obviously was not taught at home what might be offensive and what is not. Or.... maybe he was taught at home. Some people learn the hard way and in the process, sacrificing a promising career because his parents failed him. Oh well, someone will step up in his place. Nothing else to see here, folks. Move along.