The University of Tennessee is quickly becoming the new Florida State of college football. The weekend DUI arrest of punter Britton Colquitt (this is like his 7th run in with the cops for drinking) has pushed the number of Vols’ players who have had confrontations with the coppers or have been kicked off the team in the past 38 days to 9. You know your team is in trouble when the punter starts to get in trouble. For the most part…punters are only known to their family and very close friends. If you were to ask me who the punter for Auburn was last year…I would have to Google it to find out. They usually play second fiddle to the place kicker/field goal kicker and are not on scholarship very often. If you do know who they are, then you either need to get a life outside college football, or they are in the news for stabbing the punter who they are backing up.Britton was suspended for the first 5 games of the season and lost his scholarship. Scholarship?? UT is giving scholarships to its punters…maybe they need focus more on giving scholarships to players that actually affect the game on a regular basis. They might also want to try to recruit players who won’t get kicked off the team for DUI, drugs, cheating or anything else that might be grounds for dismissal. How is it that Phillip Fulmer (who lost the distinction this past year as fattest coach ever to Mangini from Kansas) still has a job? His teams perennially disappoint and his players are always getting bailed out of jail. Keep up the good word UT...Vandy is quickly becoming the best team in Tennessee.
That reminds me of the old joke about why Tennessee is that ugly bright orange:
So that on Saturday they can go to the game; Sunday they can hunt; and the rest of the week they can pick up trash on the side of the highway.
Hilarious.