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Tennessee May Get the Hammer from the NCAA Just One Year After Being Awarded for their Conduct · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  All right, Stuart Mandel has put out on xcess. Now we have some
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  details on the Tennessee stuff via the New York Times. Quote, the investigation
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  is focused in part on the use of a private jet by a so called
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  donor collective to fly a high profile recruit to campus. There's nothing in the
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  bylaws that said you can't put a guy on a jet from the collective.
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  It's nothing, absolutely nothing. Courtesy of the AP and the New York Times.
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  Chancellor Don Dave Plowman told the NCAA president that allegation's Tennessee violated rules overseeing
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  name, image and likeness are factually untrue and procedurally flawed, according to a
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  letter released today, Plowman wrote Monday and a letter to Charlie Baker, shortly
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  after Tennessee officials met with the NCAA to discuss the allegations that it was quote
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  intellectually dishonest considering the leaders of the Coal Sports oh it owes it to the
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  students and their families to act in the best interest with clear rules. Quote.
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  Instead, two and a half years of vague and contradictory NCAA memos,
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  emails, and guidance about name, image and likeness has created extraordinary chaos that
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  student athletes and institutions are struggling to navigate. Plyman wrote a letter in short,
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  the NCAA has failed, and they are failing. Plyman wrote that she
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  appreciated NCAA staff listening to Tennessee's arguments and agreeing to elevate them, but she
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  also noted that they're intellectually dishonest for NCAA enforcement staff to pursue infractions in cases
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  as if students have no Nile rights or institutions quote willfully violating a clear and
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  unchanging set of rules. The inns of a policy is to refrain from commenting
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  publicly about current, pending or potential investigations, with rare exceptions. The Nile
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  collective that supports Tennessee Athletics Spyry Sports Group was among the first and most well
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  organized to emerge around the country after the NCAA lifted its ban on athletes making
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  money off their fame. Plymate made it clear she wanted to talk to Baker
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  in person. I would too, especially since the NCAA president recently testified before
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  Congress about wanting to meet with as many members and athletes as possible about the
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  issues surrounding college sports. She wrote the letter after her December requests for Baker
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  to meet with her at Tennessee athletics director Danny White was denied. Now think
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  about that, Charlie Baker says, Yeah, he gets up there in front
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  of Congress and all his political buddies. Co Remember this guy was a former
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  politician for his entire life. We want to meet with as many people as
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  possible. We want to meet with athletic directors, we want to meet with
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  players. We want to hear your stories. Okay, Charlie, when can
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  we set up a meeting? You're not you're denied. Can somebody get in
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  the ring with this guy? Can we get him in the ring? That's
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  the question, she said. Tennessee worked well with the NCAA and recent investigations,
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  cooperating cooperation cited by the Division I Committee on Infractions. It goes through
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  Tennessee's stuff under Jerry old prew It. There only Tennessee's early cooperation with the
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  NCAA kept the program from a postseason ban. Four former staffers were given show
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  calls and orders. Quote, it is inconceivable that our institution's leadership would be
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  cited as an example of exemplary leadership in twenty twenty three in July, then
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  as a cautionary example of a lack of institutional control on the Six months later,
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  Plowman wrote a letter obtained by the Associated Press. Can you believe that
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  Tennessee was given an exemplary leadership award in twenty twenty three July of last year
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  by the nc DOABLEA. Now they're saying that it's a lack of institutional control.
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  The NCAA found most of the violations were related to a paid, unofficial
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  visit scheme used consistently by the football program over the two years and involving at
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  least a dozen members of the football staff. Tennessee just wrapped up his third
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  season, but I'm getting to the end of this thing, so that's it.
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  Tennessee is mad as I mean, the NCAA is mad as hell.
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  They put Nico Iamalava on a jet through the collective and flew him there more
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  bully. The NCAA doesn't comment because they are cowards and no one and don't
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  want to get grilled by anyone. There is that for sure.