Tennessee’s Itinerary for Official Recruiting Visit

All official visitors to UT are accompanied by a Volunteer student-athlete and a hostess from the university. Each hostess must submit a report of the visit to the University of Tennessee Athletics and Compliance departments, and it is then forwarded on to the NCAA for records.  Somehow, I came across an abandoned copy of the itinerary while rummaging through the trash outside of NCAA President Mark Emmert’s office in Indianapolis. I would’ve shown you guys earlier but I completely forgot I had it until today’s Tennessee Hate Day.  Enjoy…

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Date: 6/13/2010

Recruit: *****  ***********

Accompanied By: Jennifer Wolcott (Hostess) and multiple student-athletes

Report of Events

9:00 AM – Plane lands at McGhee-Tyson Airport, where recruit and his family are met by hostess and UT student-athlete.

10:35 AM – Recruit, his family, and hostess depart McGhee-Tyson Airport.  (Student-athlete detained at airport security check for carrying a concealed weapon and possession of marijuana.)

11:00 AM – Recruit arrives on campus and is assigned new student-athlete.

11:15 AM – Tour of campus.

11:45 AM – Recruit and family arrive at Athletics Department office to meet with Tennessee Athletic Director, Mike Hamilton.

11:46 AM – Hamilton cancels the meeting, says he is “too busy with phone calls and damage control.”

12:05 PM – Recruit and family arrive at Bruce Pearl’s house for cookout with team and coaches.

12:05 PM – Lunch.

1:30 PM – Recruit and family check in at Super 8 Knoxville.  Family stays behind for remainder of the visit.

2:00 PM – Tour of athletic facilities (Thompson-Boling Arena, Neyland Stadium)

2:25 PM – Hostess returns to offices for paperwork.  Recruit and student-athlete rent a car at Hertz Rent-A-Car in West Knoxville.

2:50 PM – Recruit and student-athlete meet up with other student-athletes at K-Mart.  The group purchases powered pellet guns.

3:05 PM – A robbery is reported at a 7-Eleven on the West End.

3:07 PM – Student-athletes are arrested and booked by police.  Hostess picks up recruit and returns to campus.

3:20 PM – A new student-athlete is assigned to the recruit.

4:00 PM – Recruit meets with representatives of Bornova Belediye, Efes Pilsen, and Besiktas Cola Turka of BEKO TBL to discuss future playing opportunities overseas.

6:15 PM – Steak dinner at Ye Olde Steakhouse with family and Tennessee athletic boosters.  Recruit wanted the bone-in filet and lobster tail but ordered the cuban sandwich because boosters say, “frankly, no one from the University of Tennessee not named Peyton Manning has made any money.”

7:45 PM – Social gathering at “Bar Knoxville” on Cumberland.  Recruit stars as a background dancer in Swiperboy’s “Get D-League Money” music video, filmed on-site.

8:10 PM – Fight breaks out.  Three stabbed, two shot, and 23 wounded.  Two police officers are assaulted in the melee.  UT student-athletes are arrested and booked.

8:20 PM – A new student-athlete is assigned to the recruit.

8:34 PM – Recruit, hostess, and student-athlete are pulled over on Papermill Drive.  Student-athlete is arrested and booked for outstanding warrants stemming from a previous drug arrest and failure to pay child support.

8:45 PM – A new student-athlete is assigned to the recruit.

9:35 PM – Recruit, hostess, and student-athlete arrive at “The Dripping Lollipop” Gentlemen’s Club.  Hostess is 35 minutes late for work.

11:15 PM – Recruit and student-athlete leave the club and go to an on-campus house party. Hostess stays behind because “she’s paying her own way through law school.”

11:40 PM – Recruit meets former UT athletes who never left Knoxville at the house party.

12:06 AM – Recruit tells former and current student-athletes at the party that he loves the University of Tennessee and will commit in the morning. Student-athletes tell the recruit, “we have a surprise.”

12:15 AM – Recruit and student-athletes arrive at “Rocky Top Ink” tattoo parlor.  Recruit receives his first teardrop tattoo below his right eye.

12:55 AM – Recruit and student-athlete return to campus for the night.

1:30 AM – Police are called to North Carrick Hall.  Three UT student-athletes and the recruit are arrested and booked for breaking and entering, assault, and robbery.

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Happy Tennessee Hate Day, everyone!

Go Cats.