Staff Photo by Angela LewisUTC coach Russ Huesman
No one yet knows how University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football coach Russ Huesman’s Monday decision to suspend running back Keon Williams for the entire 2011 football season will play out.
It may cause Williams, the former Red Bank High School running back, to turn his life around following his guilty plea on charges of possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Or it may not.
As Huesman told our John Frierson of the multiple conditions the player must meet to return in 2012, “[Williams] has got his work cut out for him. If he’s back on the football team, he came a long way and did a lot of things to get back on it.”
But at least Huesman stood by his principles. He didn’t buckle under to what may have been temporarily better for the Mocs’ upcoming season rather than what could make Williams a better person in the long run.
At least he wasn’t former Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin half-heartedly disciplining defensive back Janzen Jackson during the 2009 season in order to win an extra game or two for the Big Orange.