Tennessee Investigating if Coaches Kept Player in Kentucky Game with Concussion

 

On Saturday Tennessee offensive lineman Brett Kendrick, a redshirt senior, sustained a concussion and was eventually pulled from the Kentucky game for that injury. But according to multiple sources inside the Tennessee program who reached out to Outkick under the condition of anonymity Kendrick wasn’t pulled from the game until there were only 22 seconds left in the fourth quarter and that was only after he threw up on the sideline.

 

According to these same sources Kendrick suffered the concussion late in the second quarter and was unable to remember the entire second half of the game. Indeed, Kendrick was so out of sorts that he suffered a procedure penalty for being unable to line up properly on the line of scrimmage, something that never happens to the fifth year senior.

 

 

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According to sources inside the Tennessee program Brett Kendrick will not play against Southern Miss as even four days after the injury he still has not passed the concussion protocol.

 

The same concussion protocol that he never received on the sideline at Kentucky.

 

If this is true, could this be the final straw that forces Tennessee to fire Jones immediately? Would imagine this would also give them "with cause" and allow them to avoid a buyout.

I would think this would be on the medical staff more than the coach, college coaches have almost zero say in this stuff anymore.

Should be gone regardless, but this is really bad.

Wonder if they may be reaching for a "with cause" termination.

Wonder if they may be reaching for a "with cause" termination.

I'm not sure that would be reaching. I think that's a firable offense if it's found that Butch knew about it. Now how they would prove Butch knew would be the reaching part.

If Butch isn't fired he better fire whoever in the hell screwed this up.

Jones won't be back, just negotiating the buyout at this time.

Tennessee fans are putting together #emptyneyland for Saturday's game. If this would happen combined with a Southern Miss, should be the end.

 

Joker's 40 point loss to Vandy to a empty Commonwealth was his swan song.

They could just use performance.

The kind of stuff that comes out when you're losing and the fanbase wants you fired. If they were winning, everyone would have kept this in house.