Do the police usually call the Head coach of a player that gets arrest?
Jeremy Banks was arrested back in September for having an outstanding warrant after being pulled over for a traffic violation and the arresting officer calls his head coach (Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt). Pruitt tries to talk the cop out of arresting his player. This is golden, and I'm not sure why this isn't getting more attention:
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:21 PM ^
no.
don't ask me how i know.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:26 PM ^
How do you know?
The question had to be asked. :)
October 3rd, 2019 at 11:52 PM ^
How do you know that is the question that has to be asked?
That is the question
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:27 PM ^
Tehehe ... ;-)
Is this where we insert “if you see something, say something”?
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:38 PM ^
Heh, heh. He said "insert"....
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:30 PM ^
Not usually, but mind you, this is U of Georgia and Pruitt. In fact, that call was pretty darn long everything considered. This program is allegedly ramping up its corruption game.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
This is Tennessee, but i get your point
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:43 PM ^
Sir, this is a Wendy's
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
you're thinking of the wrong corrupt former Alabama defensive coordinator, brah.
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:03 PM ^
No. Don't ask me how I know. Oh wait a minute I'm a Penn St. fan .......or am I ?? Don't fear what you don't understand.
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:05 PM ^
Did you know Gerald A. O'Connor????
October 3rd, 2019 at 4:23 PM ^
I agree with XM. My experience says no. That call isn't typically made.
October 3rd, 2019 at 4:47 PM ^
4+ hours later and still waiting...
October 4th, 2019 at 7:47 AM ^
My question: is it an impermissible benefit for Pruitt to pay this kids ticket, as he said he did at 1:42?
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:32 PM ^
Was this at 8:00 am? Pruitt sounds like he's sleeping, drunk, or high.
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:33 PM ^
Time stamp says 08:08:45Z. That's Zulu, Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), Greenwich Meridian Time (GMT). It was 4 am EDT.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
Coach at my friend's alma mater was the first contact when some HS players were caught drinking and vandalizing. Parents weren't told. Coach got fired. Cops should have been fired too IMO.
Family should always be the first contact. If the parents give permission to contact coach that night, then cool. If not, they should find out like everybody else. Personally, I think there should be a person that is part of the athletic department but not part of any individual team's office that is a contact person for this to ensure some independence. Kind of like how doctors make the call for players and not the coaches.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:39 PM ^
I like the idea of an independent liaison between local police and the AD. I would suggest that to be even more independent, it should be an employee of the University at large, not the AD, so it's accountable to the school, not athletic director or athletic department. That is even more independence of an AD incentivized to bury these issues.
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:36 PM ^
At this point, though, these kids are 18+ and legal adults. They don't need their parents' permission. While they probably should be the first contact, the legal adult can likely put whomever they want as the contact - and if that's the head coach, then it is what it is. The bigger question is whether the HC tries to unduly influence the legal process. There should probably be a set procedure which applies to all athletes which has greater oversight, though.
I am not a lawyer, nor have i ever been arrested. But I have watched over probably hundreds of episodes of L&O, L&O:CI, L&O:SVU, and L&O:UK
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
There is no such thing as a first contact when you get arrested. It is not policy for any police officer to call someone on behalf of the person they are arresting. Once you're booked and brought back to the station you are either given a chance to call someone or they have a phone in your cell that you can use.
The only exception I can see to this if it's a minor. But in this case it was not. Clearly the UT player tried to use his college football status to get out of this incident and the fact that a call was made at all is already preferential treatment.
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:24 PM ^
”Hey Coach Conrad, remember me.....2nd period...........gym class..”
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:34 PM ^
probably not getting more attention because UT football is a joke.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:54 PM ^
yea most of my cousins, aunts and uncles live in or near nashville and knoxville and are huge UT fans.
you think we have BPONE .... those guys are just defeated
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:35 PM ^
And they play UGA and Bama 2 of the next three weeks
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:16 PM ^
But the real question is whether banks needs to turn in his Life Champion's ring?
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:36 PM ^
"Do you know who I am?" -JT Barrett, slurring his words at a DUI checkpoint
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
What???? Sir, pull up a little further. You are not quite at the checkpoint line so I can't hear you.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:53 PM ^
He was short by an inch.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:58 PM ^
Bagging groceries now
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:40 PM ^
I can imagine this goes on in certain college towns. It may have been even more common in the pre-internet era. It's harder to keep quiet about this stuff nowadays.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:59 PM ^
East Lansing anyone?
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:02 PM ^
I've been told that Bo would get notified by the police when one of his players got in trouble. I'm not suggesting he intervened in the process, but he sure as hell would want to know ASAP so he could get out in front of the story, and I bet the punishments he gave exceeded the fines and community service that come with misdemeanors.
Bo, Urban, Tressel, and Dontonio are all offshoots from the Woody Hayes coaching tree. I'm not claiming guilt by association, just they share a common influence.
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:41 PM ^
While they may be from the Woody coaching tree, Urban, Tressel, and Dantonio are so far removed that any actually Woody influence is minimal.
October 3rd, 2019 at 4:48 PM ^
I think the only Woody influence is that all three of them coached under Earle Bruce at one time or another, and Earle coached under Woody in the late sixties and early seventies.
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:09 PM ^
Daily.
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:03 PM ^
Urban Meyer at Florida?
Cop - "Coach, we think one of your players might have killed someone."
Meyer - "These aren't the drones you're looking for."
Cop - "These aren't the drones we're looking for."
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:08 PM ^
Droids Yo.
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:24 PM ^
Don't think they have the internet in sec college towns just yet, and when they get, will take a while to get use to using a 28.8k modem with AOL.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:42 PM ^
I'm not going to say "don't cast a stone from a glass house" on this one, but back in the day, someone could "injure" themselves in practice and miss a game or be limited in game action, and no one would question it.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:45 PM ^
"GIVE ME YOUR SUPERVISOR"
"Uh, hello coach? I have someone in custody who'd like to speak with you."
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:02 PM ^
Just got to repeat supervisor like 100 times and there will be some people who will say the officer should have deescalated and was unprofessional for serving the active warrant.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:49 PM ^
Whatevs. Not much here. When I was that age I didn't take a minor traffic violation that seriously and got Failed to Appear turning a $50 ticket into a $400 one. Whether or not a warrant was issued I can't recall. I won't throw stones. I think these days if cops are being cool they will let you call someone to see if they can get your car to avoid towing/storage all that scam.
And it doesn't look like cops called coach the player did. The vid does cut out just in time to not show the beatdown down they are about to administer for some perceived attitude problem.
October 3rd, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
Criminals should stop taking it personally that they are arrested for breaking laws then no problems.
October 3rd, 2019 at 4:09 PM ^
Surprised anyone would neg this comment. The cop did NOT initiate the call. FAKE NEWS at its finest.
As for the beatdown comment, I assume that wasn’t a serious one.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
It shouldn't be, but it clearly is sometimes.
This is a big part of what happened with PSU. Cops were involved, but they were looking to JoePa on what to do, as he was clearly the most powerful figure in Happy Valley, and he was going to direct the next steps on Sandusky.
This is why it drives me nuts when people say "Joe Pa didn't do anything wrong...". It's like yeah. He didn't do anything at all, that's the whole point.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:55 PM ^
If Joe Pa didn't let Jerry near his kids/grandkids, that should be telling enough.
October 3rd, 2019 at 12:52 PM ^
Maybe it's not getting a lot of attention because most of us really don't give a sh*t?
October 3rd, 2019 at 2:20 PM ^
You can say "shit" on the Internet.