Why the hell are college athletes so dumb these days?  Why do SO few of them appreciate the incredible opportunity they’re given?  It seems like Tennessee just gets so many damn kids that just came here to drive around, smoke pot, and hold kids up with illegal guns.

We’re actually recruiting people to come here, smoke pot and hold us up? We’re giving them a free education (which they don’t give a shit about) so they can point guns at us?

I try to be as forgiving as I can.  I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt and say that these kids need second chances.  Everyone makes mistakes after all.  I know I sure have.  But sometimes the mistakes that are made just display how apathetic these kids are to the opportunity they’ve being given.  They just want to get theirs and get the hell away from campus.

Now lets be fair.  There are a lot of good kids in college sports.  There are players like Eric Berry, Dane Bradshaw, Myron Rolle, and Tim Tebow.  They work hard and appreciate everything they’re given.  But it seems like for every one of those there’s 10 Nu’keese Richardsons.

I’m currently ranting because the latest problem is four Tennessee basketball players who were caught speeding with an open container of alcohol, pot, and 2 handguns.  It’s about time Mike Hamilton institute a much much stricter policy of conduct.

If a player is caught in possession of ANY illegal firearm they should be gone.

If you are caught with drugs (or test positive for it) once, you can’t play for a year.  If it happens a second time, you’re done.

Any sort of serious violent assault should be MINIMUM a year suspension, and most likely done for their career.

Drinking and driving should also be a year suspension

Kids can make mistakes.  Miss curfew.  Oversleep for a meeting.  Have a little too much to drink.  Maybe miss some classes or struggle in a class.  They shouldn’t happen and should result in discipline, but they’re forgivable.

But this crap of guns and pot and we can do whatever we want is just absurd.  If other schools want to have kids like that, go for it, but I would ABSOLUTELY rather lose every game than win with kids with those attitudes.

If I keep going I’m gonna start getting incoherent, so I’m gonna stop.  But Mike Hamilton, it’s about time you make a SERIOUS stand before your program goes to shit.

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