Tony Jones speaks about the situation.

[Inspector Vol]

http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2011/aug/09/staff-was-told-not-to-elaborate/

If true it sounds like some bad legal advice at best. Jones admitted to making most of the impermissible calls. He qualified it and it could be true but it sounds like rationalization.

Specifically, Jones and former Vols coaches Jason Shay and Steve Forbes didn't offer background information about a photo capturing an impermissible contact between former coach Bruce Pearl and then-committed Aaron Craft taken at Pearl's home on Sept. 20, 2008.

"(Attorney) Michael Glazier advised all of us coaches to just answer the questions that were being asked and do not elaborate on anything,'' Jones said Tuesday. "The question that was posed to me was, did I recognize where this grainy photo of Bruce Pearl and Aaron Craft was taken; there was a microwave in the background."

Jones' settlement with UT restricted him from commenting on the case while being paid through July 31.

"We have a microwave in the Pratt Pavilion, where Aaron was also around Bruce, so I could not say for certain that the picture was taken at Bruce's house,'' he said. "I was being truthful, and I answered the question to the best of my recollection.''

[MIAUTIGER]

http://www.govolsxtra.com/news/2011/aug/09/staff-was-told-not-to-elaborate/

If true it sounds like some bad legal advice at best. Jones admitted to making most of the impermissible calls. He qualified it and it could be true but it sounds like rationalization.

I was worried for a second. I thought this was going to be a Jersey Shore post.

[Inspector Vol]

 Egads man! Have you no decency?!   

[101stDad]

Tony is a good guy, but it's just time to get past this.  If Bruce Pearl doesn't lie about what was an insignificant secondary violation, he, Jones, Shay, and Forbes are still the UT basketball coaching staff. 

This is old news, and nothing good is going to come out of the continual rehashing of the situation.  There is no news until the NCAA makes its ruling public. 

[Inspector Vol]

All of that is true but I find some of details that are just now coming out for public consumption interesting. Pretty sure I didn't give anybody a pass on anything.

Tony is a good guy, but it's just time to get past this.  If Bruce Pearl doesn't lie about what was an insignificant secondary violation, he, Jones, Shay, and Forbes are still the UT basketball coaching staff. 

This is old news, and nothing good is going to come out of the continual rehashing of the situation.  There is no news until the NCAA makes its ruling public. 

[101stDad]

All of that is true but I find some of details that are just now coming out for public consumption interesting. Pretty sure I didn't give anybody a pass on anything.

No, and I didn't mean to infer that you did.  My point is that anything that comes out now has the smell of sour grapes.  Nobody from the UT side is going to comment on Jones' comments.  It is all pointless.  There is nothing newsworthy until the NCAA/UT make the penalties public, in my opinion. 

[BanditVol]

No, and I didn't mean to infer that you did.  My point is that anything that comes out now has the smell of sour grapes.  Nobody from the UT side is going to comment on Jones' comments.  It is all pointless.  There is nothing newsworthy until the NCAA/UT make the penalties public, in my opinion. 

And when will that be?  Any day now I suppose.