Dustin Dopirak   @TennesseeBeat 


Confirmed that Alexis Johnson was arrested tonight on charges of aggravated assault (strangulation) and false imprisonment

Boom!

http://www.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/peyton-manning-newest-target-of-fake-internet-outrage-brigade-021316

Yet when said player that was supposed to have a hit out on him testified to grand jury, he said no UT player had ever assaulted him. He did not dispute other players confronting and yelling at him, but no physical assaults. The lawyer also claims UT hired Don Bosch to defend the accused players. On local TV, Don claimed that UT never hired him or directed the players to him and any claim like that was categorically false (I think that was his words). So do not believe everything the media spouts off. All media (liberal and conservative) are just into salacious gossip for ratings. No media is interested in the truth any more. Besides most Americans only want to hear about and believe anything bad broadcast about any school, politician, or celebrity. They do not care about it unless it involves sex and/or violence. Is it ugly and bad for UT image? Yes. Is everything in the suit true? I would doubt it.

You have to understand that a lawyer filing suit is going to make all sorts of claims (true and false) just to claim that a case is justified. The suit does not have to prove a single thing and he can made any statement in it that he wants. At discovery, both sides will plow through the claims and some will be dropped when proven false or inaccurate and some will continue. The suing attorney can go before media and make any statement he wants and will continue to do so until a judge tells him to shut up. He is attempting to try this case in the glare of media just to get a large out-of-court settlement. I believe every Title IX suit so far has been settled out-of-court for at least $1millon and most for more.

Exactly....With Lawyers getting the bulk of it. Hope UT fights this......somebody has to or this will spin out of control.

More and more recruits are doing the same.....

Kingbo is a VOL.

Great!!!

And agree 100% Creek.

I don't feel sorry for him. I get that defeat is tough. Defeat in the Super Bowl (especially when you were considered a virtual lock to win it) is even tougher. To have to go face reporters' sometimes silly questions just minutes later? Yeah, I get it. If Cam were an ordinary player, no one would say much. But he's no ordinary player. He relishes the attention when he's winning...invites it; encourages it. So it should be no surprise to him or anyone else that the attention is being heaped on him in defeat. (Or, I guess another way to say it, if he wasn't such a pompous ass when he is doing well, people would be quicker to excuse his juvenile temper tantrums when he isn't doing well.) I don't buy the immature part as an excuse. He's 26. He's a franchise player. It's time for him to act like it.

Speaking of temper tantrums, why was Colquitt slamming his helmet off the bench with just a couple of minutes left in the game? He had just punted. Was it a bad punt? I took my eyes off the TV for a minute and when I looked back up he was apparently very pissed at himself or someone else.

This!!!

Front runner we use to call folks like him.

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CRIT
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 Peyton Manning high-fived Papa John, mentioned Budweiser and thanked God. He's now the GOP frontrunner in New Hampshire.

Great!!! Now walk away with that Super Bowl win, Peyton.

Man....what a defensive effort by Denver.

He and Jim Rome can kiss my a$$.......and Peyton's Super Bowl ring too.

LOL

Go Peyton.....Go Denver

Only thing I would have liked is a couple of High School D linemen and a power RB. We don't have anyone in Hurd's mold and he'll be gone after next season most likely. Got to have some D linemen next class and probably a couple of JUCOs.

Florida can recruit a top 10 class on a tank of gas.......Ole Miss I agree with.

Man...what effort! Great Win

Amazing how one person could screw up a program as bad as he did. And  Hamilton.

I hope K-Mac gets his a$$ in shape this off-season and is able to play more than 2 plays at a time without going to the sidelines for a breather.

Getting to be a pattern.

NFL covering their butt. Prevent down the road a player/players saying why are you investigating me and you didn't investigate Peyton.

In 2 weeks PM is done playing, IMO.

Punter got into foul trouble which didn't help. Best player sitting on the bench is never a good thing.

As Barnes said in his postgame presser.....we quit playing defense the last 6 minutes and stopped competing.

Not having a big and a true PG has hurt us in nut-cutten time this season. We shot way too many 3's last night too.

Congrats!

I think it's 3-2 in the playoffs, but 3-1 in AFC Championship games.

Yep....Manning is 3-1 against him in the AFC CGs.

VFL came through today!

Yep...Peyton is 3-1 against him in the playoffs

Postgame they said Brady was hit 20 times......Most hits on a QB all season.

But thankfully unlike in football, you don't have to stuff the roster with five-stars to win and win big.  Just get 1-2 really good players, surround them with the right role players, and get them all to stick around for 2-3 years.  Look no farther than the Wisconsin team that knocked off Cal's pseudo-NBA roster in the Final Four last year.
 
I don't think Barnes will ever recruit like Cal or Coach K, but if builds his roster correctly, I think he'll succeed in Knoxville. 

Agree 100%. Also, 3 of the 5 recruits he's got coming in have been bumped up to 4 stars. Looks like Barnes and staff have a eye for talent.