Two Tennessee Players Arrested; More to Come?
Tennessee's Da'Rick Rogers and Darren Myles have been arrested following a bar fight in Knoxville. Additional Vols players may have been involved in the incident.
The details are still a bit sketchy, but here's the quick on what we know so far: The players were involved in a bar brawl when UT campus police got on the scene. When the police attempted to take control of the situation, Rogers and Myles resisted arrest, sending one of the officers to the hospital with facial wounds. Myles fled the scene and was eventually located hiding under a bush. Rogers is being charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest and Myles for assaulting a police officer and resisting / fleeing arrest.
As ESPN's Chris Low points out, this incident will test Derek Dooley's claim that he will rebuild the Tennessee program around the concept of character. Dooley has already dismissed Myles, showing that, at the very least, he's willing to exceed the precepts of the Urban Meyer School of Discipline. However, if the charges stick to Rogers (one of the 2010 recruiting class's most highly touted receivers) and / or other players are named in the incident, Dooley's actions in regards to those players will also be scrutinized.
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Quick update...
The Vols players had ViP status at the club where this went down, which may be a major violation.
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You gotta hand it to Dooley. He seems to mean business, which I hope Vols fans find refreshing, as hard as this must be to stomach for them.
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well its about damn time
maybe now some of the other SEC teams can stomach the program… but I know im not one of them (being a former gator and a current gamecock)
I can't stand the Vols...
but I’ll admit that it’s largely because I didn’t like their coaches. Fulmer was running a juvenile delinquents camp and Kiffin…well, no need to explain that one. The Tennessee fans, on the other hand, generally seem like decent enough people to me, as opposed to Georgia and Florida fans, the former of which take out their massive inferiority complex about playing third fiddle to UF and UT on Gamecocks fans and the latter of which, while generally nice people, think they’re God’s gift to sports and are so addicted to winning that they put up with Urban Meyer, who is unquestionably one of the biggest bastards and class-A douchebags in the college football world. However, Vols fans did put up with Kiffin, so I guess they had a lot of this coming to them.
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by Gamecock Man on Jul 9, 2010 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions

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