[gatortalk] Re: Tennessee-Pahokee rift resolved

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:00:15 -0700

How much would it cost to place these quotes on billboards in Pahokee?  I understand that the opportunity for someone from Pahokee to get a full-ride scholarship is not something that should be taken away.  However, I do think that the leaders in Pahokee, especially the football coach, should be counseling these young men on character.

What Kiffen said shows a lack of class and character, do you really want your son playing for him?

It would be nice to have a reminder up all year round, of course it could be updated with the score of one particular game in September.

Ken K.
MNGator

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Subject: [gatortalk] Re: Tennessee-Pahokee rift resolved
From: John Vega <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, May 20, 2009 9:20 am
To: [email protected]

What was wild to me is that UT and Knoxville epitomize Southern rural poor. I've had family and friends graduate from Vanderbilt, they tell UT stories like it was one step above Boudreau's School of Auto Mechanics and Catfish Frying. Heck, its fight song is about a moonshine still.

For UT to pull rank and accuse another Southern town of being poor and incestuous would be irony of the highest order, if it weren't for the fact that the residents of Pahokee are predominately black and the Appalachian rural residents predominately white. Instead it plays like a racial insult.

-Zeb


On May 20, 2009, at 8:14 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:

<<"Someone at the school was going to screw it up. The fax machine wouldn't work, or they would have changed the signatures, all the things that go on in Pahokee," Kiffin said at the time in announcing the signing of star receiver Nu'Keese Richardson.>>
 
<<quoted Kiffin as saying, "For those of you who haven't been to Pahokee, there ain't much going on. You take that hour drive up from South Florida, there ain't a gas station that works. Nobody's got enough money to even have shoes or a shirt on.">>
 
 
After what he said about them - I can't believe the town and school let him off so easy ...
 
In today's day and age - I can't believe that the town and school did not sue the University of Tennesse for "hate crimes", discrimination, or some other such thing. 



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