N.C.A.A. Scrutiny Seen on Tennessee’s Recruiting

[MahxFahn]

The N.C.A.A. is conducting a wide-ranging investigation into the University of Tennessee’s football recruiting practices, according to interviews with several prospects, their family members and high school administrators. A significant part of the investigation is focused on the use of recruiting hostesses who have become folk heroes on Tennessee Internet message boards for their ability to help lure top recruits.....................................................

In one case, hostesses traveled nearly 200 miles to attend a high school game in South Carolina in which at least three Tennessee recruits were playing.
Marcus Lattimore, a running back who made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but said he would not enroll there, said multiple Tennessee hostesses attended a game at James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., in September. He said they brought signs, including one that read, “Come to Tennessee.”
“I haven’t seen no other schools do that,” he said. “It’s crazy.”
The hostesses are considered representatives of the university, which would mean they could not recruit players off campus. Therefore, the visits may be considered violations of N.C.A.A. recruiting rules.
Two of Lattimore’s teammates, Brandon Willis and Corey Miller, have orally committed to Tennessee. Lattimore described the hostesses as “real pretty, real nice and just real cool.” He said he thought they had “a lot” of influence in Miller’s and Willis’s commitments to Tennessee.
Because of their influence on recruits, the recruiting hostesses have become popular with Tennessee fans. Bryce Brown, the country’s top running back recruit last year, who is a freshman at Tennessee, was pictured on a social networking site last year with a hostess. Other Tennessee hostesses have publicly conversed with prospects through Facebook and MySpace.

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[O-town Gator]

The Walls of Jericho are starting to come tumbling down on Lane Kiffin, and I doubt there are those who can't say that he had this coming.

Thank God Urban Meyer brushed off his latest immature jabs with "no comment" before the SECCG and refuses to stoop to his level.

Just my opinion, but I think it's time that SEC commish Mike Slive sits Kiffykins down for a serious one-on-one, and addresses not only this but his behavior in general. We didn't have all these issues until he took over for Phil Fulmer, and since then it seems as though we've been treated to practically a weekly segment of the "SEC Follies starring Lane Kiffin", based on his egging other coaches on to get into a battle of words. This has to come to a screeching halt.

 

[Leakfan12]

Will UcheaT fired Kiffin (the younger one)?

 

[O-town Gator]

Will UcheaT fired Kiffin (the younger one)?

Probably not yet, but don't think that Mike Slive is taking this issue lightly. Neither should the administration at UcheaT either; Kiffykins was already nailed for 6 minor NCAA recruiting violations and publicly reprimanded by Slive twice. He's compiling quite the "rap sheet", if you ask me.

 

[O-town Gator]

More from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/sports/ncaafootball/10tennessee.html?_r=2&ref=sports

 

[O-town Gator]

Things are really heating up in Rocky Top, based on this NY Times article posted yesterday: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/sports/ncaafootball/12tennessee.html?_r=2&ref=sports

 

[MahxFahn]

Also on Friday, Keith Easterwood, a veteran summer basketball coach, said that on a visit last year with his son, a football recruit, he had to ask a hostess to stop brushing her breasts against both him and his son.
He recalled saying, “Young lady, if you don’t stop doing that, we’ve got a problem.”
Easterwood said that he took a group of basketball players to a Western Kentucky football game at Tennessee this year, and that the presence of the hostesses had his players “literally reduced to blubbering idiots.”
“I’ve been up there five times, four for football and one basketball visit,” Easterwood said. “My observation is that this is a very organized operation. These girls have obviously been groomed. There’s a lot of eye contact and touching.”

Pretty blatent if you ask me....

 

[ArkansasGator]

Tennessee is already throwing the hostesses under the bus. The powers that be are saying that they acted independently of the athetlic program

 

[Leakfan12]

Did they hired Hookers to be Hostesses?

 

[JvilleJohnny]

Did they hired Hookers to be Hostesses?

haha thats what it sounds like to me!:confused0082:

 

[O-town Gator]

What gets me is that Kiffykins is denying any of this took place......if he's telling the truth, then there's actually a man in the moon.

He can try to hide it as much as he can, but it all comes out in the wash.

 

[gator1960]

This was found on Cockytalk forum

Was Channing Fugate enticed by a hostess in 2009. Read the Facebook log below from Courtney Hitchcock. Looks like she was taking care of Channing. She is also talking to other players and a former coach. I had to sub a few letters. This has also been sent to the press and the SEC compliance.

Facebook | Clint Dowdle - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:05:57
User: Courtney
life..
thats all ive ever wanted to say to you
now my life ambits ambition has been achieved
hungover drive backs are the WORSSSTTTT
i really hate those!
im sure it was worth it though

Facebook | Clint Dowdle - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:07:37
User: Courtney
really.. please teach me your ways oh master
i get hungover ALL the time
yeah its my thing, remember

Facebook | Confirm Requests - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:09:03
User: Courtney
really bc all my b


Facebook | Courtney Hitchcock - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:09:07
User: Courtney
oyfriends loooove my skills if i recall correctly
and i have a near flawless memo ry


Facebook | Courtney Hitchcock - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:10:11
User: Courtney
idk w at youre talking about
whats a gagger
lol so true... i always love eating so i think ill be up for that
im gonna try that this weekend !!!

Facebook | Lance Vickers - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:26:30
User: Courtney
hahaha
well im a manipulater so im sure i could persuade you very well.. i win already
yeah im excited to booze this game day
i never get to

Facebook | Lance Vickers - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:28:01
User: Courtney
ohhh i sure have you fooled lol
dont trust allye, shes a fugly sl_t
she lies and puts on this bahaha i did not
theres no way
oh none at all
we dont like each other we just live together
shes a disgrace to human kind
she sucks at wii too

Facebook | Channing Fugate - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:39:53
User: Courtney
my moms everyones type
shell let you bend her over
haha it is a teeny tiny car
its a chick car for sure
oh they have crazy hot s_x
wait im sorry, you dont know what thats like


Facebook | Channing Fugate - Microsoft Internet Explorer provided by Comcast
10/19/2009 21:42:24
User: Courtney
ive had quite some practice this spring so im almost porn start level right now
thats what jared told me this morning at least :9 )
I havent heard any complaints from you on my skills