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I mean look at MacBeth!

I think this would have been the appropriate time for Tees first Butch slap :)

Funny, no doubt, but still not strong enough to fend off a woman. She would be like, "Yeah, well your son, that I gave birth to, middle name is named after you too so get out of that DAYUM car. We are staying."

She wins. Always.

I don't get why anyone would be mad at Tee. If you're in a position to make that kind of money, you're going to make the best decision for yourself and your family(even if that means he's not wearing the pants in the family.) Tee gave his all for UT... Without Tee Martin, there would no 1998 BCS championship for Tennessee.....

I'm very dissapointed Tee is not joining us and wish him the best in his career. That said, he's the one wearing the pants in his family and I'm sure he took his wife and families desires in his decision but make no mistake Tee made this decision. He obviosly feels it's best for him and his family to stay at SC. As he said he feels no significant draw to come back to the southeast and may well picture his path to OC, then to HC being faster and easier out there. We need to value what Tee did for UT(including going to UT and not ALA> or Auburn).He will always be a VFL and we need to consider him as such.Who knows, he may end up back here as OC/HC but I hope HCBJ stays with us both for his sake and ours---it means we are happy with him! For now I'll wis Tee Martins reputation builds but tha we win more of the battles for receivers tha he does and that as good as I hope he does, I hope SC does a lot worse.

Here's a picture to serve as a reminder for those of you that hate Tee Martin now!

Plus he was committed when he got the call. I would have no problem if he turned it down then. In fact, the respect i would have for him would grow for honoring a commitment. He didn't need the trip and the hoopla to say, hey I made a commitment. He made the Vols look bad by coming here. Rename the street.

Actually AO, I believe it is Faith, Family, Country, Big Orange football and then everything else . . .

+1

It's Bro's before H*'s. If Kiffin has another bad season or two Tee may be looking for a job. Hopefully, Butch will tell him to call Kentucky back. He wouldn't be welcomed on my staff, he's not the definition of a VFL. JMO.

Renaming the street is stupid. So is making any sort of comment about his kids in the area.

Anyone psychoanalyzing him without knowing him is doing so with an agenda.

All I know is it sucks. He would have been a huge asset to the team and the fans would have put him even higher in the pantheon. He had his reasons and nothing will change it now.

The rumor has been out for a while that Tee wanted to come back even before our coach was hired. Sorry but the wife thing is a smokescreen. Hard for me to believe that her wishes were not known way before this. I am sure Tee knows his wife and she knows the area so if she really wanted to stay in LA then he knew that. Tee voted no on our coach and was unsure of the direction of the program even while Kiffin is on shaky ground at USC. I kind of wonder if BJ really wanted Tee in the first place or was this a suggestion from above like keeping Graham. Seems like if BJ had his preference then he goes with a Cinn guy. Sad times.

I also have both of them framed, as well as the front page of the newspaper from the national title.