Tennessee AD Danny White releases statement, goes HAM on NCAA

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I’m sure he had similar statements when info was being leaked left and right during Ole Miss’s case, right?

I like making Tennessee and a few select others examples. UT and Florida way over offered for mid quarterbacks. Their desperation can’t effectively become market making in the new ecosystem. Mid programs can’t crash the market with unsustainable contracts to achieve temporary success. So they have to get the lash so everybody else can offer reasonable salaries. Their hubris is the violation.

Only way to handle a bully is to bully the fricker. That said its a helluva gamble given UT just settled another violation.

This is the problem with whats going on. The NCAA is obviously using UT as a scapegoat. Big, high profile program who has struggle of late so destroying them doesn't cause a lot of backlash, or so they think. On the other hand EVERY program and EVERY university President and EVERY AD, including UT, has publicly expressed their desire that SOMEONE regulate CFB in some manner. The only entity who has ever attempted to do so is the NCAA...and membership in the NCAA is strictly "voluntary"...its really not but strictly speaking it is. Despite clamoring for some guardrails being in place and enforced as soon as the only entity in a position to place some guardrails and enforce them everybody whines like a mashed kitty. It is a high stakes chess game...if, for some convoluted reason the courts side with the NCAA (hard to see it but who knows) UT is in a helluva predicament.

Damn, that's crazy. Death penalty for Mizzou incoming

I'm glad the NCAA is going after someone.

The big problem with NIL is that it's used for recruiting. NIL contracts are by rule not supposed to be dependent upon attending a certain school. It's one of the few regulations that exist for NIL

Tennessee openly bragged about offering a player millions out of high school to attend their college. If it were working as intended, the player would get the money regardless of where they attend school... because their being paid for their advertising potential, not their joining a particular team.

That's obviously not how things are working. But if the NCAA can show some teeth and change NIL to NOT be pay for play (since the rules say that's not allowed) that would be nothing but a good thing.

Now does UT have a valid complaint that everyone is cheating so they shouldn't be singled out? Sure. But it doesn't change the fact that pay to play IS against the rules. Enforcing that rule should happen as soon as possible.

The NCAA will have a pretty hard time in court explaining why they let Kansas and the biggest cheater in college basketball skate, and then why they randomly went after other P5 schools after NIL.

I'm seriously so conflicted.

I've been saying for a while I thought the NCAA was at risk of having conferences/big schools calling their bluff and essentially saying "you need us waaaayyy more than we need you."

So in that sense this is cool.

Alternatively, Danny White sucks and seeing Tennessee get leveled would be entertaining.