By: The Greek
College football recruiting is an art. The factors that go into include; height, weight, speed, agility, strength, athletic/play making ability, personality, versatility, intelligence, maturity and most important character. With all of these factors it is hard to find the right fit for your program, especially when you get a late start like Lane Kiffin and his Tennessee staff did when he got the job last December. On Tuesday May 5th the Vols signed Dan Hood, a solid 6’5 255 OT/TE/DE who met all the above mentioned criteria, except for maybe the most crucial…character.
http://insider.espn.go.com/ncf/recruiting/tracker/player?recruitId=60567&action=upsell&appRedirect=http%3a%2f%2finsider.espn.go.com%2fncf%2frecruiting%2ftracker%2fplayer%3frecruitId%3d60567
(A good looking kid on the football field if you ask me)
ESPN.com reports, “According to court records, Hood and another teenager were charged in 2003 with assaulting a 14-year-old girl. The victim's legs and wrists were tied and her eyes and mouth were covered with duct tape before she was raped at the Sullivan County home of Hood's father.” Yeah, that’s right the Tennessee Vols signed a convicted rapist. Ohh did I fail to mention that the victim was also a relative of the Hood family? The article failed to mention the relationship between hood and the victim. The most disturbing part of this whole situation is Tennessee was one of a long list of schools that offered the incest rapist. Auburn, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, Virginia and Kentucky all offered the 6’5 Hood.
http://auburn.scout.com/a.z?s=6&p=8&c=1&nid=3624914
The weird thing is, how can you blame the kid for taking a full ride to play football in one of the best football conferences in the nation? I blame the coaches who are recruiting him. Honestly, the kid duct tape a 14-year old relative down and raped her with a 17-year old, Robert Sanico, who was charged as an adult and is serving a 10 year sentence for aggravated kidnapping and aggravated rape.
You make me sick Lane Kiffin, first you take over a historically ethical football program in Tennessee and before playing a down you taint the morals that the pervious staff under Phil Fulmer worked years to obtain. Seriously, let’s take a look at what you have done since you got the job…after you cried on ESPN when you got fired by the Raiders...you first tell the press that Urban Meyer, head coach of the National Champion Florida Gators, was calling recruits that were on a campus visit at Tennessee which would be a violation of the NCAA recruiting restrictions. After an investigation by the NCAA and being questioned you came clean and said it was a lie. Then you tell Sport Illustrated that you are so committed to recruiting that you took a call from a recruit when your wife was giving birth. When you wife was asked by a local newspaper she denied that you ever did that. And finally after losing a recruit from South Carolina to South Carolina you told him quote, “You made a bad decision and I hope you are happy with working at a gas station in South Carolina for the rest of your life, because that is all you will do after graduating from that school” then promptly hung up on the kid. You are a fucking joke Lane. College coaches have very few ethics and morals, at your level, and you seem to have broken every written and unwritten code of conduct before even coaching a single snap at Tennessee (except for spring ball). You make me want to puke and I hope you and your convicted incest rapist go 0-fer for the next 5 years and your ass gets FIRED…I enjoyed seeing you crying like a little bitch last time you got canned on sportcenter….
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4148579
(Article from ESPN.com)
