🏈 NCAA looking into UT use of recruiting hostesses

[Roll Tide Rev]

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A significant part of the investigation is focused on the use of recruiting hostesses who have become folk heroes on Tennessee Internet message boards for their ability to help lure top recruits.

In one case, hostesses traveled nearly 200 miles to attend a high school game in South Carolina in which at least three Tennessee recruits were playing.

Marcus Lattimore, a running back who made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but said he would not enroll there, said multiple Tennessee hostesses attended a game at James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., in September. He said they brought signs, including one that read, "Come to Tennessee."
"I haven't seen no other schools do that," he said. "It's crazy."
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[BamaHeat]

do these "hostesses" provide the players with a "good time" ? :shock:

I wonder if offering gifts or "things of value" may be the actual offense. :halo::lol:

 

[UAgrad93]

I will say that when I was being recruited by the University, I had a smoking hot hostess and I was more than willing to come to BAMA just to see her walking around again. How can anyone not think this is illegal for them to drive 200 miles to see some high school kid play a game?

 

[JoshB]

Here you go.

:rofl:

 

[crimsonaudio]

LSUFreek rules:

 

[ExiledTidefan]

Man, that LSU Freek is on it! He never misses an opportunity. I'd love to see his take on Les Miles and Jordan Jefferson screwing up the Ole Miss game.

 

[BamaJay73]

do these "hostesses" provide the players with a "good time" ? :shock:

Well they are HOstesses. Emphasis on the Ho.

 

[Bo]

It's a staff full of foulmouthed scumbags, it was only a matter of time until something of this nature occured.

With that being said, I saw a picture of some of them and it was indeed an unfair advantage. :lol:

ostpics:

 

[capooth]

ostpics:

Whitney Bell

Courtney Hitchcock

Genna Cox
This girl is my friend so I will not post her picture

Ashley Sizemore

Amanda Grinell

Lacey Pearl Earps

 

[Roll Tide Rev]

Pic from last year off VN.

 

[Bo]

capooth, you are Da Man!

 

[ExiledTidefan]

Pic from last year off VN.

Well, you either have to be smoking hot or have an extremely suggestive last name, or both.

 

[bamaupsman]

Hitchcock, Pearl and Sizemore? You couldn't make up names like that. Who's next? Alotta Fagina?

 

[KRYMZENTYDE]

do these "hostesses" provide the players with a "good time" ? :shock:

My first thought was who sprang for this trip.normally highschool games are played at night .Did they spend the night (motel expense)
Did they have meals the night of the game and the next morning.
Gasoline for a round trip .Thats what the NCAA is going to look into.
Hey maybe they are lil rich girls ,But i know when my son was at Bama
he and alot of his friends couldnt afford to takeoff on trips like that without help from someone .HMMMMM:headscratch:

 

[Bamabacker]

interesting related article

http://deadspin.com/5422547/a-brief-history-of-campus-recruiting-hostesses?skyline=true&s=i

 

[Swamptick]

I hope UT fries in the fires of Hades. Oh the joy and wholesome goodness it would bring to my heart.

 

[TheChief]

In 1998 at the end of the calendar year as I cleaned out my desk to leave the job I had at the time, my boss said, "You know how Bama won in 1992? They cheated. Tennessee is going to win next week, and it will be earned."

If I remember correctly I had the last of my things and I walked past him and said, "See ya." I don't think I even entertained a response. I'm glad I was on to bigger and brighter things during the Fiesta Bowl the next week. Guys, if anyone ever wonders why I hope we beat ut every year, look no further than this response. And, if the ut athletic program as a whole got the death penalty, I would throw a party.

Things go on "up on the hill", and they will come out eventually. Maybe this is the beginning.

 

[bamadezz]

Pretty interesting link I came across on SI.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/writers/andy_staples/12/11/tennessee-recruiting/index.html


Here's a nice shot. lol

 

[bamafan4ever]

I guess Andy Staples won't be getting the keys to the city in Knoxville anytime soon. His camera was at the right place at the wrong time for the UT "hostesses".