It’s the benches at the baselines. It’s trying to be Florida six nights a week at Mojitos and act like Tennessee on Saturday. It’s “For when the One Great Scorer comes/To write against your name,/He marks-not that you won or lost-/But how you smoked the fatty.” It’s Florida.
(What a perfect picture of Coker getting Bomared!!)
LaMarcus Coker [Coker’s stats] was the definition of “Home Run Back”. He had the explosiveness to score every time he touched the ball. Now Coker has fallen to prey to the hunter that is known as UT’s substance abuse policy (link). We figure the odds of Coker being reinstated are slim and none with Fulmer (Note, use of the word “slim” and Fulmer in the same sentence). Fulmer has taken a tougher stance after having a Trophy named after him that recognizes a schools arrest program. Scoff if you wish, but that is fact, fuckers.
The question asked was: can we (Tennessee) not invoke the “Marcus Thomas Rule” and have Coker running drills tomorrow? More importantly WWHMD? Herban Meyer would immediately execute his complex player suspension algorithm. The algorithm fooled opposing coaches. They could not know prepare because they didn’t know or understand what Coach Meyer would do next on suspending his players for their crimes.
What you folks need to realize is that this isn’t Gainesville. In Knoxville we got standards. It kinda matters how we get “there” (to the national championship). So what if it has been 10 years since we been there? What cost can Fulmer afford these days? Does Fulmer care if one of his players is caught in bed with a live boy or a dead girl? It might be OK as long as the player dresses out and shows some class on Saturdays. Look, this isn’t like Coker was arrested buying weed from an undercover narcotics agent, and wearing a Gator football jersey for pete’s sake.
We will miss him. We will watch the Vol message boards begin the heady debate of the legalization of marijuana and the validity of piss tests. But at the end of the day Coker is probably headed to where most drug challenged and troubled athletes go…..to Louisville.
Of course it isn’t like Tennessee doen’t have other backs, ARIAN F’N FOSTER, go get your 20 carries per game and anothr 1000 yards.
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