Ed Orgeron to Vol Recruits: "Don't Go To Class."

To be fair, at this point it isn’t really an assumption.

nothing but class boys, nothing but class.

someone asked me which i thought was the worse person: kiffin or calipari?

i went with calipari because he ditched two separate schools in the midsts of actual scandals, but the blatant arrogance and prickishness of kiffin is mindblowing and infuriating

Go figure. Now lets snag some of these Tennesee commits starting with Delvin Jones!

How is this different than what Tennessee recruits are normally told? Isn’t this an SEC selling point?

Obligatory Orgeron ad:

Maybe he meant “don’t let the guys we were paying to go to class for you, go to class”.

I will just continue to enjoy watching all of this stuff explode while we continue to cheer for the best program in all of college sports.

Jeez, The Orgeron really is a neanderthal isn’t he?

Orgeron is Farmer Fran from The Waterboy

While watching the Hummer commercial, for no particular reason I tore off my shirt and began a tribal chant.

I assume we’ve all seen this, but for anyone who has not:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a78/nursetpd/USC/Late-Night-with-Lane-Kiffin.gif

Really calm yourselves people. There is nothing to see here at all. Move along.

Also, that Lloyd lake/Reggie Bush thing is just a bunch of smoke & mirrors created by the laughable US legal system. When will these people ever learn that compared to us the Bilderburg Group are a bunch of amatuers.

Go Trojans! Money does truly make the world go around!

Fan-damned-tastic. This will be fun to watch.

USC really has some cajones – hiring Kiffin, et al, strikes me as a big middle finger to the NCAA, daring them to pursue enforcement.

If I was a small directional state school – particularly one with a Native American mascot – I’d be worried.

The complete lack of scruples from these guys is shocking…..almost to a Switzer like level. That is bad….very bad.

When it comes to college sports, education takes a back seat, unfortunately.

Levander is right, The Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders are going to have their shit pushed in by the long dick of NCAA compliance for this.

Wow. Just wow. If I were Tennessee I would go after these guys for every cent they were paid last year.

Wow. Just wow. If I were Tennessee I would go after these guys for every cent they were paid last year.

you mean the coaches or the recruits???

Muschamp’s name is very public in Tennessee discussions now…

http://www.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/6270202/19551971

Class is for losers.

“Muschamp’s name is very public in Tennessee discussions now…”

And a lot of Barkers prattle on about getting Jessica Alba in the sack. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

Parlin: if you win with class, you get a long-term contract at $5mm per year.

Levander-the Barkers actively engage in “mind over matter”. They don’t “mind” what people think of them- because it doesn’t “matter”.

texastough……Really? Class, as in school. Not the manner in which one carries themself.

Can we put this Muschamp shit to rest so as not to jitterfy Jordan Hicks and Jackson Jeffcoat?

Props to Trips. I’d post it on his Babyblogforum, but I don’t have my super secret random ass code handy and it would take Clarence Gilyard from Die Hard to crack it. ‘Henry James Right’ has a nice ring to it. Or maybe ‘Baberized.’

I appluad Orgeron’s honesty. It’s the University of Tennessee. And they’re football players. They’re not there to learn.

Hugehardcock: subtlety is the beauty of art and great literature. I gave parlin credit for that and went with the meaning along the lines of “Kiffin and Orgeron could have class and stay at Tennessee, or at least not try to take Tennessee’s recruits with them, but they want to win so they’re headed west and taking as many troops as possible. Win at all costs like most coaches, players, and programs are doing these days, to beat the classy losers.” Then I tried to get rid of some more ennui by commenting on how we have the best possible situation – the classiest and also winningest coach/program. Maybe I attended too much class.

If USC skates through, then ANY smaller school who EVER faces sanctions tougher than may (not?) be leveled against USC should SUE the NCAA before acquiescing to any punishment. Is the NCAA going to come down on USC or not? ‘Not’ seems to be a safe bet now with Kiffin’s hire. If that’s the case, then it’s time member schools threw all pretense aside and started bidding for players. Who could outbid Texas?

It seems that the ‘collegiality’ of the NCAA community is showing serious cracks as it is, with crap like this Kiffin thing.

I don’t know if anyone mentioned this, yet since I read this the first time, but when Mack Brown left UNC, he called every recruit to tell them that UNC was a great program and that he believed it was the best place for them to be at that time – Texas would be a rebuilding process and UNC was built. That was a classsy move and it has paid off for him big time.

I hope Kiffy sucks ass at USC.

GESIS, its been 5 years since the Reggie Bush stuff at USC. If the NCAA does anything now it effects a bunch of people that were not there at the time. Makes no sense.

As for being classy, that’s fine, but I prefer winning to being classy. Winning is what I like best about Mack Brown. The classy stuff is just a bit of icing.

According to this, just being on campus means you’re enrolled.

Hamilton met with the eight recruits who enrolled early and told them to “go to class.” He said that though he didn’t have an attendance sheet with him, since the recruits were on campus at 12:01 a.m. that means they are enrolled at Tennessee.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/01/13/tennessee-search.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

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