Speaking of Tennessee being a low-class outfit without dignity. Check out this recap of the post-game in Knoxville after their loss to Vanderbilt.
"As senior offensive tackle Albert Toeaina left the field following Rick Clausen's interception to end the game, he angrily hurled his helmet and then cursed and spat on one of UT's JumbroTron cameramen, Scott Liston.Very nice. UT not going to a bowl is about the best news of the weekend.
Toeaina's helmet was one of nearly 10 that Tennessee players threw down in disgust and left on the field for managers to take into the locker room."
In a non-funny news item. Georgia Tech elected to play Reuben Houston this weekend. I really felt for their program in an honest and non-obnoxious way when they were forced by the legal system to let Reuben back on the team. It's another to let him play.
As a refresher (from published wire reports):
Houston was arrested June 21 in Atlanta in connection with a marijuana distribution operation based in California. According to a criminal complaint filed in Fresno, Calif., Houston conspired to possess and distribute about 100 pounds of marijuana, which has a street value of about $60,000.I can't decide what's more amazing. That they let him play AT ALL. Or that they let him play with only 4 days of practice. Or that some of their fans are justifying it.
I'm sincerely embarrassed for the state or Georgia. When one of our best linebackers showed his ass in 1990 or so and was arrested for drug distribution Dooley kicked him off campus and off the team. Even if we had to re-instate him, there is no way in hell that we would've played him.
If I EVER hear another smart ass techie shoot off about how Richt only suspends players for small games, I'm going to laugh in their face. Houston was brought back just in time to play the #3 team in the nation with a 100 lb felony drug charge hanging over him.
It isn't a question of quantity of off field issues. It's a question of how you handle each individual one. You can't tell the world that you stand for "something more" and then let a guy with a felony drug charge play. Not like this.
I actually hoped that Karma was going to step in and make this thing right when Houston gave up the long Miami TD reception. But Coker's stupidity and the Tech defense overcame Houston's bad mojo.
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I could barely watch the Miami game. I hate those thugged-out felons and criminals. And I'm not wild about Miami either.
Despite the fact I think Chan Gailey is the personification of mediocrity, I'd always considered him to be a fairly upstanding guy. However, I have compelete revised my opinion of him in the wake of the Miami game. It's one thing to be ordered by a judge to reinstate a player with a felony drug charge. But, I could not believe Reuben "Pablo Escobar" Houston made it into the game in the first quarter.
Let me be clear--I think Judge Brogdon's order to reinstate Houston is wrong-headed and wholly without precedent. It essentially stands for the proposition that an institution cannot establish behavioral standards for athletes.
However, complying with the reinstatement and ACTUALLY PUTTING THE [alleged] FELON IN THE GAME are two completely different things. The judge never said Tech had to play Houston--he just had to be reinstated.
What a shameful act of cowardice on the part of Gailey. He displayed situational ethics, and I had thought him to be above that kind of behavior. Perhaps the institutional culture of cheating has permeated Gailey's brain[e], and he sold out his integrity for the chance to win a game.
Either way, I'd better never hear a North Avenue nerdling tell me about the quality and character of their program. It's amazing you could play Miami the week after their players' underground gangsta rap recording became public, and steal the public condemnation spotlight.
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