now this just makes me sick
 

Lane Kiffin should be smacked over the head with a newspaper for this decision.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4148579



First off, I dont understand how someone makes a mistake and rapes a 14 year old girl. Second, by the quotes in this story its like... oh well look how great this young man turned out after he helped rape his cousin! makes me want to purge my lunch.

I would be very embarrassed to be a VOLS fan today and I would be very embarrassed to have that scumbag Lane Kiffin as the head coach of a major program.

I'm all about kids getting second chances, unless they are rapists or murderers. If that sounds harsh I dont care!!!

I hope the Vols never win a game while that kid plays there and I would not be happy to be the mother of a young girl attending Tenn. though I realize their are bad apples at every school, this is just sick.

I don't think it should be overlooked that the victim in the case wrote a letter in support of him. We don't know what the situation was in that house.

I'm not going to post it but you can look up State of Tennessee vs. Daniel Allyn Hood and read about the situation.

Its sick...

Would you want a guy like this on your favorite team? Would you want him to be your teammate if you were playing? Would you want your daughter to live in the same dorm as him?

I think the 17 year old is the real problem here. What the 13 year old was involved in was awful but I'm sure it was an incident that never would have occurred if the 17 year old wasn't there.

After reading it I really think it was a case of an impressionable 13yo doing terrible things cause of the influence of the 17yo who was someone he looked up to. The 17yo belongs in jail for a hell of a lot longer than 10 years but I think the 13yo deserves a second chance.

i agree that the 17year old was probably a little more at fault, but they both planned it, the both carried it out, and they both laughed the whole time and acted like nothing happened afterwards.

The thing is also its was Hood's FIRST cousin... someone I'm sure he grew up with. Hoods a huge guy and in the report it said he was a very big 13 year old. I would have killed someone before letting them do that to my family member, let alone helped him and enjoyed it.


Edit: and its not just about the situation and the kid serving his time (how bad could the sentence be if he was allowed to play football at a major high school, win a championship and be named Mr. Football for the state).

Its also about Lane Kiffin signing this guy to be a member of a major college football team. How proud could you be about this if you were a student, alum, or fan. It just disgusts me. If I was an AD and my head football coach even really considered signing this guy I'd fire his ass.

That's the way it feels to me. I don't get the feeling that this kid would have done something like that on his own. Doesn't excuse it one bit. But younger kids often do some very stupid things when led by older ones. We'd expect the 17yo to know better. I don't know for sure that I'd expect the 13yo to. I mean, he knew it was wrong. But, well, I have a 13yo son and I know how stupid they can be. You'd hope that they realize their mistake, take responsibility for it, try to make it right in whatever way they can, and be better people later. When you read some of his comments, especially how he doesn't want to just run away from it and try to act like it never happened because that wouldn't be fair to her, that's a sign of maturity to me. I'd give him a second chance. I do not think my daughter would be any more at risk than she would with some of the other players. And I think I'd absolutely want him as a teammate because he knows he's been given a second chance and is on a thinner rope than others and he's more likely to work hard to justify the support that he's been given. It's not an easy situation by any means but I don't have a problem with Tennessee giving him a shot.

Vols fans are used to it. this kind of crap has been going down there for along time. look at some of the nfl criminals ut has put out.