Oh Rocky Top, you sure do know how to make a recruit, uhh, excited (in more than one way). You have an electrifying new coach and a proud tradition. Today,
we learned that you also have a bunch of girls lining up to greet prospective players. The University of Tennessee football program is currently under investigation by the NCAA for its use of "hostesses" to help in recruiting. Now, to be fair, the use of hostesses to help with recruiting is both legal and widely used around college campuses. However, it is against NCAA regulations to have hostesses tied to the university travel off campus to help recruit athletes. The investigation is young and it's not yet known for certain whether this was the case, but I know a couple of guys who find it hard to believe the University of Tennessee (or any other public university for that matter) would ever sign off on having university "hostesses" travel several hundred miles to prospective football players' high school games to hold signs. Kind of makes you wonder what else these "hostesses" have been doing for the good of the cause, and just who has been putting them up to it (interesting side note: Tennessee has been charged with 6 recruiting violations in the 1 year since Lane Kiffin took over). Beyond that, it's had us wondering: If there were no recruiting rules, how would the landscape of college football be changed?
