UT walkon Justin Jackson arrested Tennessee football walkon Justin Jackson was arrested Wednesday night, charged with selling crack cocaine in East Knoxville, UT sports information director Tiffany Carpenter said. More details as the story develops online and in Friday's News Sentinel.
You're right. Partially at least. All doper dopes are worth stinging. Gator... Vol... Domer... it just does not matter.
A crack or herion user/seller just differs in my book and that of many...many others in comparison to MJ users. Just a fact.
I will admit that there is a difference between crack and a doobie. However, both are illegal. Until legalized, throw the offenders in jail. I don't want them anywhere near my team.
Yepper, fill the jails with both guys buying < .8 oz of weed and the guys dealing coke. And considering the fact driving an auto (especially an auto which is not properly maintened in excellent condition) at excessive speeds is generaly much more dangerous to others than two guys buying and smoking a few grams of reefer, I say put all "speeders" in jail, too. Tom, while I respect your desire to have anyone affiliated with drugs "away from your team" ... IMHO, there's no call to incarcerate anyone .... college athlete or not ..... who smokes a little weed. Now selling is a bit different, espcially stuff like coke, crack, heroine, c-meth, etc
I break it down this way. Does your team handbook say " smoking a little weed is OK "? Is smoking weed legal in our society today? If the answer to these two questions is No then deal with it. I'm sure Fullmer will.
Perspective. The issue, question, point under consideration is whether or not someone possessing 20 grams of weed - actually 10 grams per person since two were in possession of the total - should be incarcerated. What a university does to a student cought with a small amount of weed should be up to that university .... its governing board. IMHO, they should not. I say fine them ..... as far more serious crimes (including the unsafe operation of a motorized vehicle the condition of which itself may be a "crime") do not result in jail time.
I think this was handled just right.... Tennessee football walkon Justin Jackson was arrested Wednesday night and charged with the alleged sale or possession of crack cocaine in a Northwest Knoxville housing project. On Thursday, Tennessee coach Phillip Fulmer said Jackson, a 21-year-old sophomore, has been dismissed from the team. “One of our walk-on players was arrested last night and is facing very serious accusations,” Fulmer said in a statement released by UT. “By even being near this type of behavior, Justin has embarrassed himself and his team. We expect all our players — scholarship or walk-on — to be good citizens. I regret it whenever any university student makes bad choices of this nature. The legal and university process will be followed, but Justin is no longer a member of our team.
So we go from respecting Fulmer for his volunteering to total sarcasm in his decision to do the right thing. If this had been set at Florida, you would be singing praises of anything orange and blue for getting rid of the trash that obviously walked on with the encouragement of Tennessee.
This really seems to be a bunch of posturing, guys. Fulmer did the right thing...Meyer would have as well...nobody deserves any lack of respect here nor are they getting it other than our lack of respect for each other.:? I mean c'mon... Crack cocaine is absolutely worse than MJ...having said that I don't particularly want the football players on my team smoking dope...any more than I want them hitting bars at 3:00 AM. I would absolutely want anyone doing Crack kicked off the team...I would want a player involved in the other issues to be disciplined...I would leave the particulars up to the head coach as long as he did not wrist slap them or look the other way.
Well said Stu...and that is what I was trying to refer to. The guy sold crack cocaine.....he didn't smoke a joint. The type of punishment for a player caught using MJ is not a knee jerk, no brainer. Kicking a player off the team for selling crack is absolutely a no brainer. I don't think there is a team of any sort in America that would accept a player back after that...except maybe the Ravens?
Stu, I am afraid that this exchange is my fault. I must learn that other people are not going to be as concerned as I on any issue, especially on legal issues. I have a certain tenacity about me to do the right thing and mistakenly try to force that tenacity on others. I just received my annual review at work. It spells out this revelation. In areas for improvement it states: “Interactions with some instructors can be contentious at times as not all employees exhibit the same dedication to the job or flexibility as Tom does.” I expect others to perform at the same level that I do. I guess that I express the same on this board by trying too hard to police actions of others. You can ask Bill, until provoked, I can be as cordial with a Gator as I can with a Vol. I tend to expect that from people that are not capable of, or find it difficult to express, the same respect. I know plenty of Tennessee fans that are guilty of this lack of respect toward Florida. I am not one of them. Is Florida the enemy on game day? You bet they are. But the rest of the year, the fans should be able to show mutual respect. When this does not occur, I feel that I must call them out on it. Maybe I should just let Bill police his own. Bill, the ball is in your court now.
Tom, FWIW, I think you'd be surprised how many folks on this board share the traits that your review pointed out. Including moi. If it's a fault, so be it. No one's perfect, right?
Sid, Actually my manager, the head of global operations for Applied Materials, verbally stated: I have been in very good standing with Applied since I arrived in January of 2000. Being a former employee of our largest customer, I have contacts that help me stay abreast of what they need for training. The training classes I have developed for Intel have met with rave reviews. In 2002, we went through some massive reductions in force. Being a relatively new employee, I was concerned. I asked my second line manager (now my first line manager), what my chances of being caught up in a RIF would be. He told me then and reminds me with every review that I would receive my walking papers the day they close the doors forever. He has made good on that promise.