Corey, Tennessee fans in the know understand what happened last year. I don't know how many Tennessee fans are aware of this but this is what happened last year. During the Florida game, a drunk crazy woman was fighting and both she and her "dance partner" were escorted out of the stadium. One of them left without a disturbance. The other was dragged out kicking, screaming and biting. The team was not aware of this until after the game was concluded. That ignorant poor excuse for a female just happen to be the mother of Jalen Hurd, the supposed God's gift to the running back position. He went berserk when he found out that the University of Tennessee did not show his mother favoritism and escort out only the woman with whom she was fighting. At that point, he became a cancer on the team that affected others. He was the number one reason that our performance dropped in the following games. No, he was not the cause of the Vandy loss. Injuries to 3 key starters on defense was the cause there. Butch Jones increased the number of wins each year he has been at Tennessee except for last year. That was supposed to be a SEC East championship year. If it was not for a spoiled brat named Hurd, that may have happened. Is Butch Jones on a hot seat, I think not. But the media looking for an explosive story is paying it up to be rather warm.
Tom, wow, that was a well kept secret. That does explain Hurd's abrupt change in attitude. How did this not hit the college football media mainstream? :shock:
KP, Tennessee had more respect for the privacy of their student athletes than that particular athlete had for his team. There was nothing to gain by dragging him through the mud although I don't mind doing so. When he made his official exit, the belittled Alvin Kamara calling him a second rate running back with whom we would never win another game. I have respect for Jones for not calling attention to it. I'm sure that seeing how Hurd acted, the team respected Jones for not blowing it out to the media. What happens within the team, stays within the team. Hurd wrote a letter to the university and to Vol fans and claimed it was a mismatch between his abilities and the offensive scheme at Tennessee combined with injuries that kept him on the sidelines that was the reason for transferring. However he also said to not believe other motives and I am sure that was his view of the event with his mother. What happens in the stands gets out to people who know those sitting fairly close to the person in question. 8)
I guess the Knoxville media went along with it too. Kind of surprising, but like I said it explains Hurds radical change.
Wow.... that truly is some inside info explaining the Hurd mystery.... because it has seemed like a mystery. I think injuries last year for the Vols were a key contributor to allowing UF to basically steal the East away from the Vols who beat UF in Sept. I have been seeing a lot of things posted so far this preseason that the Vols are again incurring many injuries.... is that a special concern heading in to the season?