Tennessee football coach Butch Jones has, for the most part, chosen his words quite carefully and correctly this week regarding the suspensions of linebacker A.J. Johnson and cornerback Michael Williams for their alleged rape of a UT coed.
“The thing I want to do is I want to be right rather than fast,” the coach said when news first leaked of UT players possibly being charged with rape following a party at the Woodlands apartment complex in Knoxville early Sunday morning.
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He also said at some point, “Every situation that occurs, just like in life, I treat it as a teaching opportunity, a teaching moment. We spend an inordinate amount of time on that in our Vol for Life program, our character education program, all that.”
Then he said what most coaches thrown into this situation will say, do or both: “We’ll discuss it, but it’ll be business as usual.”