Four hundred years we have waited.

Tennessee fans got a rude awakening again today as two football players were arrested with more to come I’m sure after a late night brawl in a bar when witnesses say at least 7 and possibly as many as 10 players pounded on one customer. After security managed to push things outside they proceeded to knock out a off duty police officer and kick him in the head after he was out. They could have seen it live last night on Crime Scene Knoxville but needed their sleep so they could dream about a basketball championship.

“Four hundred years we have waited”, said Joshua in the Ten Commandments in 1956. It seems like its been much longer than that for Tennessee fans waiting for their athletics department to be brought under control by the administration who has backed them for years no matter what their athletes did.

This incident is probably the proverbial straw that broke the camels back as far as the athletic department is concerned. If they don’t step down hard on this group of young men who didn’t even have the balls to go one on one man to man style there won’t be a person left in the country except for those who figure that they are being racially mistreated.

Derek Dooley worked quick. Sophomore safety Darren Myles has been dismissed from the program after his second arrest in three months and sophomore defensive tackle Marlon Walls and sophomore linebacker Greg King were both suspended indefinitely by Dooley, who backed up his dedication to discipline with swift action less than 24 hours after two players were arrested outside Bar Knoxville on Cumberland Avenue.

The Bar of Knoxville is going to feel a lot of heat over the lack of surveillance video and the owners saying that things like this don’t happen there. A quick search on you tube found a video out front of it from 2008.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvReON_12g

Throw in the fact that one of the students arrested was only a freshman and another a sophomore and unless they spent a few years in the 5th grade they weren’t old enough to play in front of the bar at that time of night much less than be in the bar. OK, OK I know they could be out front but kids as immature as they acted should be put to bed at 8pm.

Tennessee fans are upset, ashamed and defiantly angry from what I have read so far on twitter and at various forums. I would feel sorry for them except for the fact that it was their university who really let them down by ignoring forgiving multiple offenses by the same player and covering up things for years. As Popeye once said you’s is who you’s is or something along those words.

My biggest regret about this is that this didn’t happen on Lane Kiffins tour of duty.