Coach Fulmer is dishing out more discipline to his criminals, I mean Volunteers. The son of a former player was dismissed for a DUI arrest on campus (he was way drunker than Mel Gibson), while another player received a four game suspension for his felony aggravated assault arrest. The dismissed player is white, the suspended player was black.
So at UT: DUI = dismissal
felony aggravated assault on an officer = 4 game suspension.
From the Tennessean:
"Smith, who signed in February and was already enrolled in summer school, was arrested early this morning by UT police and charged with drunken driving after he was observed driving his truck on the sidewalk near the UT football complex and Gibbs Hall dormitory.
Also, Fulmer announced that he's suspended redshirt freshman defensive back Marsalous Johnson for the first four games. The former Smyrna High star was arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault on Sunday night after an off-duty Putnam County Sheriff's Department deputy said Johnson waved a plastic pellet gun at him on Interstate-40 near Monterey.
The DUI arrest of the 6-foot-6, 245-pound Smith occurred at 4:39 this morning after a security guard reported seeing a truck driving on the sidewalk at Johnny Majors Drive and Pat Head Summitt Street, according to the arrest warrant.
A UT police officer responded to the call and saw a truck parked on the sidewalk at the corner of Johnny Majors and Pat Summitt. The truck drove off and initially did not respond when the police officer turned on his blue lights, according to the officer.
Police said the truck pulled over to the side of Johnny Majors Drive. As the officer approached the truck, it shifted into drive and hit a parked vehicle in front of the truck.
Another officer arrived, and they were able to help Smith from the truck. The officers smelled a strong odor of alcohol, and the report said Smith's speech was slurred and he was unsteady on his feet."
