Clawfense

Again, in terms of the booster definition, spyer or whatever it is didn’t fit in that definition. It could be run by boosters, it could be funded by boosters, it could be owned by boosters, but the collective itself is an independent entity. As long as they are not promising pay for play at a specific school they were free to fly whoever they wanted for whatever reason.

That changed in May 2022, with more rules on collectives as boosters, but the trip in question happened in March when there was no rule against it.

Are we all in agreement with the NCAA applying rules retroactively?

I’m looking and I can’t find what the exact rule was on booster/NIL activities were….and this is important…at the time the trip happened. The NIL guidance from the NCAA has been a constantly changing mish-mash of unclear rules, guidance, and policies. Charlie Baker even said as such not even 3-months ago admitting there are no rules and was calling for national regulation. At the end of the day, any control the NCAA wants to put on it is in violation of the Sherman act.

As far as the lawsuit, it doesn’t look good for the NCAA. Their batting average in court is abysmal, and I doubt the AG of two states would sign on to a lawsuit that was a loser. Maybe I’m wrong, who knows.

We’ll see what happens, but I’m betting the NCAA loses this.

Tennessee beat 3 of the last 4 national champions this year. Unreal.

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The ncaa was out to get Alabama due to items that happened in 1992-1994. Fulmer was not the only one to make things up about Alabama, but he also was doing things that the ncaa accused Alabama of doing. To cover it up, Fulmer gave the ncaa what they wanted and the ncaa looked the other way.

Yes, for a very short time, Tennessee was able to win against Alabama. However I wonder if that short term success (and 1 NC) was worth the destruction of the Tennessee program. I guess I need to ask a Vol fan for that answer. As an Alabama fan, and everything was reversed, I would say "no"

What Fulmer did tanked the UT football program for 15 years now and it is still going. Alabama may run the streak up to 20+ before UT wins again.

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If you are saying Fulmer turning in Bama is what tanked the program 10 years after the fact, that is some next level stupidity.

If you are saying Fulmer got complacent and rested on his laurels and that is what kick started the comedy of errors that Tenn has gone through, then you will get no argument from me. Most don't remember, but Kiffin had UT headed in the right direction and was a gnat's hair away from beating Bama in Tuscaloosa with 285lbs lineman. What really kickstarted the UT downfall was him bolting literally in the middle of the night for USC.

After that, UT mismanagement was the cause of everything.

That aside, read up on the Albert Means scandal outside of something other than a Bama website. Fulmer was a very, very small part of that. Houston Nutt and others were the ones that actually truned Bama in. Fulmer just gave one deposition about what he knew, thats it.

I still say the Bama hate for Fulmer has to do with is record against them and impotence of Bama not being able to deal with him. The means stuff is the birdie you all want to focus on.

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It would have stayed a good natured rivalry if not for the donut king. Tennessee's fault. Sorry.

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It’s amazing that the Bama fans still can’t get this right. I’m no fan of Fulmer, but it wasn’t just him that was a part of that Means fiasco. It was a handful of coaches and at the end of the day, Bama was, in fact, cheating.

You Bammers just single Fulmer out because he was your daddy in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.

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If that's the first time you've seen favorable homefield clock management, then you must not have watched much football in your lifetime.

It was a bit much, and bad management, but if that's the only complaint, then cry more.

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The clock management, phantom time out when UT was about to run a trick play, complete BS personal foul (that wasn’t called against Bama when they did worse to Fromm) that kept the drive alive and Bama eventually score.

You write a lot about how Bama gets drive killing penalties and it doesn’t happen more at the end of games...but you can never back it up with facts.

Want more facts? What about when USC was called down and there wasn’t even a review to confirm? What about the blatant offensive pass interference that Danielson, of all people, could see.

The one side missed calls in the SEC championship games last year.

It’s never ending and it is willful blind homerism you don’t see it.

I get it, you guys are going to defend your team. But pointing back to the stat that Bama is the most penalized team has zero context. During the Bama/Tenn game there was a graphic showing that Manning and Guarantano have the same completion percentage at Tennessee. Without context and other stats you would conclude they are equal college QBs. How silly is that?

You guys laugh it off all you want, but this is rotten and everybody sees it.

In other news water is wet.

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Because they're either whiny bitches or utterly clueless fricks when it comes to the rules of football.

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You are a special kind of stupid aren’t you?

I bet you are outraged, utterly outraged it wasn’t called here:




Us clueless fricks just want consistency, but I understand why your clueless inbred *** likes things just the way they are.

Yet, Bama doesn’t get called for this.



The double standard is the outrage here. You Bama yahoos are willfully blind.