about those two UT professors

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3. i believe in the tenure system, on balance; but it is subject to abuse. once upon a time, football coach woody hayes

punched a clemson football player after he made a decisive interception which carried him into the ohio state university side of the field.

woody hayes was pissed in the first place playing the gator bowl as they didn't make the more prestigious rose bowl that year, and that play spelled the end of a disappointing year. but of course, nothing justifies violence, certainly not in a game and certainly not from a coach to a player on the other team just because you're not happy with what happened.

anyway, there had been stories for ages about hayes hitting his own football player, and honestly, i've heard this about quite a lot of football coaches. they just have the sense to keep that crap in the locker room and not on national television.

they promptly fired him from his coaching job, ending his football career, but they couldn't fire him as a tenured professor of military history.

i don't know if he was any good as a teacher in the academic sense; but i did hear many, stories that all the football players took his courses and he always gave them whatever grade they needed to stay on the team.