re: Name Former Greats Who Would Have Been Kicked Off the Team Today

For UF, has to be Cam.

He isn't a former "great" but I doubt Otis Mounds would have been recruited to AU or any D1 school today. Pat Dye recruited the kid even after a conviction for dealing crack cocaine. But once at Auburn, he took full advantage of the opportunity and really turned his life around.

Off topic: Mounds is the subject of one of the greatest, but little know Auburn anecdotes: "Shut up, bitch!"

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“It’s funny how the truth vs. the myth is always confused in football stories,” said Atkins, who knows a little something about blending truth and myth himself.

“Someone told me… that it’s a famous story of how Terry Bowden came to the locker room at the Arkansas game and said you guys can be 8-1 or 9-0, or something like that,” Atkins said. “Anyway, it’s told as that being the turning point of that game.”

“Not true.”

“The turning point came when we had been berated the entire first half by the Arkansas homecoming queen — yep, we were so bad in ’92, we were picked as homecoming — and finally… Otis Mounds had had enough,” Atkins said.

The Homecoming Queen’s name? Kym Polite.

She was a varsity cheerleader. She cost her team the game. Because Otis Mounds had had enough.

“He turned around to the young lady – decked out in a fur coat and tiara – and yelled at her in the third quarter ‘Shut up, bitch.’”

“Now, that is what made the whole sideline pickup and we won the game,” Atkins said. “The girl was trying to get down to the field to slap Otis but she was held back by her court, her tiara falling off her head.” “True tale.”

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I know, I know. TL:DR.

Doug Atkins...The guy would even give the staff of General Neyland horse cussings according to former Vols who were on the team with him..

I know many of Pat Dye's players were completely illiterate. I had a professor who would give an assessment to see how stupid his players actually were. Great stories...this didn't mean they were kicked off...just too stupid to qualify in today's game

The great pro DL John Matusak was kicked off a team and landed at Univ of Tampa back in the early 70s....Tampa had a reputation as a small private school where dads money bought you a diploma...or of a star athlete...got you a scholly. Sammy Gellerstadt(sp) the Bama lb ended up there after being kicked off team by Bryant.

Art Cantrelle was a bad man: https://www.ottawasun.com/news/columnists/earl_mcrae/2009/11/03/11625811.html

Trouble: https://helmethut.com/WFL/Cantrelle.html

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Jamal Lewis Travis Henry probably donte stallworth

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Nah...Fulmer would've taken the DA out to a nice restaurant, thus leading to the subsequent dropping of all charges.

Travis Henry was a beast......

Michael Dyer