In the six seconds it took him to cover the 54 yards of Fiesta Bowl turf, Goodrich’s life peaked.

Really should have been written as an indictment of the NFL as opposed To The Univeristy of Tennessee. I know Clay Travis isn’t the biggest Vol fan, but it is a little silly to place blame for any of the actions of these three on anyone at the university.

The reason I say the NFL is the league’s continuing pattern of failing to educate the rookies on how their lives will be changed by money and fame, see “Pac-Man”. You can’t go to strip clubs, you can’t party all night, and you certainly can’t father 9 kids by 8 woman (I think that’s the correct number). But, the actions of Stallworth, Goodrich, Little, Henry, and Jamal Lewis in no way reflect upon their education at Tennessee. I am also surprised Vol Maniac Clay Travis didn’t incorporate those last two in the article somehow.

Maybe the characters of certain players should be looked at a little more closely in recruiting, but that isn’t even necessarily productive given the pre-incident character reputations of the three listed in this article.

I liken this to someone indicting the University of Texas because Charles Whitman and Vince Young both attended and both used firearms or attempted to use firearms for suicide (as Young was rumored to have done). I know it’s a stretch, but so is this article by Travis. And that’s the point.

On a side note: Stallworth, in terribly tragic fashion, certainly proved the rumor that you can get a DUI the next morning even after “sleeping it off”.

But I don’t know that you can use math to establish causation. Yeah, the odds of those particular circumstances happening is astronomical, but so is winning the lottery, and that happens all the time. It’s not necessarily because somebody did something non-trivial to make it happen — it’s just plain old rare.

I don’t know if that makes any sense. Hooper? Can you correct me or clarify?

It has come to my attention that Clay Travis IS actually somewhat of a Tennessee supporter/fan/whatever you want to call it.

So, I was wrong in some my above assertions.

My bad. :)

Still somewhat skeptical of how this situation may be inferred to be Tennessee’s fault. But, I’ll let Hoop take that one in his new write-up about the piece.