Terrell RobinsonSOUTH PITTSBURG, Tenn. – Vincent Robinson sat on his living room couch Thursday with a television remote in one hand, a cell phone that buzzed incessantly in the other. Each new call went unanswered.
His shoulders slouched as he let go a deep sigh, glanced down at his buzzing phone and rejected yet another call.
It wasn’t as much the day’s work as the previous 48-hour whirlwind of emotion that had Vincent looking and feeling physically drained. In the background the local evening news had two segments discussing his son, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga sophomore quarterback Terrell Robinson, who abruptly had left the football program Tuesday but returned Thursday.
“This has just been crazy,” said Vincent, who played basketball for UTC in the late 1980s. “I think everybody involved is just worn out from it and ready to move on, man.”
Since former football Moc Russ Huesman returned as coach and began turning the UTC program around four years ago, it has become a source of pride for the city that had been missing on fall Saturdays for more than two decades. The positive feeling surrounding the program had reached new heights when B.J. Coleman transferred in as quarterback, and it appeared as if the Mocs’ next step toward reaching the FCS playoffs would be led by two area products — Terrell Robinson and Huesman’s son, former Baylor star Jacob — taking the snaps.