Vol Brawl

[Mean Green 93-98]

. . . a wild bar brawl that sent two people to the hospital and specifically implicates at least six UT players. Besides Rogers and Myles, police records show three other players – receivers Matthew Milton and Denarius Moore and defensive tackle John Brown, a one-time Florida signee – have been questioned (though not charge) in the severe beating of an off-duty Knoxville police officer who tried to intervene in an apparent seven-on-one assault inside the club and was later found laying unconscious in the street. . . .

The Tennessee compliance office may be forced to sort out the arrangement between the owners of Bar Knoxville and UT athletes, who apparently got in free based on their "VIP status." If so, according to the anonymous compliance pro who unravels NCAA rules on the Bylaw Blog, that's a pretty heavy violation:

Statements from the bar owner like the fact that "all" of the UT student-athletes visited the bar and at least some were on a first-name basis with the owner (meaning they were presumably regulars) means the total value of the benefits could be up into the thousands of dollars even if the benefit was only $2 to $5 a pop. The key issue will be time and how far back UT can find evidence of the extra benefits.

If this has been going on for longer than just this summer or involves more than the handful of student-athletes who got into the brawl last night, UT is likely looking at a major violation

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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/blog/dr_saturday/post/Vol-brawl-puts-off-duty-cop-in-E-R-Tennessee-i?urn=ncaaf,254968

Edited July 10, 2010 by Mean Green 93-98

[Mean Green 93-98]

Tennessee's response:

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley dismissed Myles from the team Friday evening and indefinitely suspended sophomore linebacker Greg King and sophomore defensive tackle Marlon Walls, though it was not clear what their alleged roles were in the matter.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/13622815/tennessee-dismisses-one-suspends-two-after-bar-brawl?tag=headlines;other