Another UThug gets off

[bamapeppy]

Charges dropped, reduced against UT players over fight at party
August 1, 2005

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Prosecutors dropped a felony aggravated assault charge against one Tennessee football player and reduced the charge against another Monday in a case stemming from a fight at a campus party last March.

Tennessee defensive end Robert Ayers and linebacker Jerod Mayo, who both redshirted last season as freshmen, were charged with hitting a fellow student when several fights broke out between football players and members of Omega Psi Phi fraternity.

The charge against Mayo was dismissed after a witness would not cooperate with prosecutors.

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[CHATTBRIT]

Same song, different verse.

 

[TIDE-HSV]

Sorta...

besmirches their carefully crafted image with the NCAA as the "holier than thou" whistle-blower." Seems that only the Alabama SEC members can keep their players out of trouble...

 

[trenda]

The "witness" just happened to be a former UT football player.

Right after he gave his statement, Fulmer was quoted as saying the former player was "mistaken" and "didn't see what he thought he saw."

Isn't this all convenient?

 

[Tide Rev]

Again???

So Phil now is on a par with God??? He (Phil) was not physically there but he knows his player did not see what he thought he saw???

Please...

 

[bamahuey1]

I realize that WINNING (and not making the NCAA mad) is the only thing that matters. Tyrone Willingham, Johnny Majors, Ron Zook, and others are a testament to that fact. If Tennessee beats Alabama and wins 11, 12, or 13 ball games this year no one up on Rocky Top or the media will probably care about the number of football players with criminal records. Football coaches and programs in big-time college football are judged by the number of wins they have. Not by the character of their football team. There's probably a lot of fans who would rather be like Tennnessee, Florida State, and Miami and win with trash than be like Vanderbilt and lose with class. However, when Alabama is back on top again I hope that we will do it with class and with players who play with class. It seemed like Coach Bryant always emphasized class and respect. Yes, I know things have changed since Coach Bryant walked the sidelines, but if CMS is the kind of man he appears to be I think we will. JMO.

 

[IH8Orange]

Knoxville Chief Investigator Fulmer: "Judge... I don't think that the witness saw anything. (to the witness) Did you see anything that might cause a goat's head to end up in bed with you?"

Witness: "My memory is really fuzzy, your honor. I'm not so sure that I saw anything."

Knoxville Chief Investigator Fulmer: "See, your honor. He didn't see anything that might cause a brutal beating of his favorite sheep. (to witness again) I think that the judge needs to hear you say that you didn't see anything that might result in your trailer being overturned and your girlfriend's tooth being knocked out."

Witness: "I really didn't see anything, your honor."

Knoxville Chief Investigator Fulmer: "Your honor... I'm really worried about this young man's safety after his memory loss. He might accidentally slam his head into the side of a metal shed or be hit by a large SUV driven by an innocent football player leaving the scene of a party where no beating has taken place. I think that I should have some of my thug...er... players escort him home to make sure that he doesn't accidentally run headlong into a Skoal delivery truck."

Judge Doug Dickey: "I agree Mr. Chief Investigator. You make sure that this fine young nice fella makes it home without accidentally being thrust into a hottub and sexually assaulted from behind by an old, drunken, coonskin-cap-wearing invalid."

 

[davefrat]

"Ayers also was suspended from summer school and placed on indefinite probation by the university, Fulmer said."

heaven forbid...suspended from SUMMER SCHOOL!!! i'm sure the kid was destroyed by that sanction.

but, if he was planning to BE in summer school, then isn't it likely that he HAD to be in summer school in order to maintain eligibility?

things that make you go hmmmmmmm.

 

[GA Bamafan]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Ima Tennfan of Knoxville called the Knoxville Police Department on Saturday evening July 30 to report that a vandal had broken the window in her 1973 Chevrolet Pick-up and was trying to remove her vintage 8Track stereo. She requested the police come as quick as possible. The police dispatcher informed to Ms. Tennfan that the police department was extremly busy since most of the UT football team was in town and that Ms. Tennfan could do her civic duty and record the vandal's jersey number so the police could visit the study hall on Monday to arrest the vandal.

 

[BAMMAR]

One more Chair stacker goes astray.........
How many Krispy kremes does Phyliss have to eat till all little Vols don't break the law........( Sung to the tune of "The answer is blowing in the wind")
Sorry it was old for my generation but it fit.