SEC Suspending Tennessee WR Jauan Jennings for Vanderbilt Incident Makes No Sense
By Mark Powell
Leave it to the SEC to somehow punish a student-athlete without taking a stand.
Jauan Jennings may or may not have intentionally stomped on a Vanderbilt player's face at the end of a skirmish. The video is fairly inconclusive. Yet, despite having cameras and resources to get to the bottom of such a dilemma, the SEC has decided to punish Jennings for half of a football game, which will occur during bowl season.
BREAKING: SEC announces half-game bowl suspension for Jauan Jennings.
— SEC Mike (@MichaelWBratton) December 4, 2019
“If subsequent review of a game by a conference reveals plays involving flagrant personal fouls that game officials did not call, the conference may impose sanctions prior to the next scheduled game.”
A college football conference ought to have more say, and this level of indecisiveness answers none of our questions.
If Jennings didn't stomp on the player, he should be cleared. If he did, the senior wideout shouldn't play another game with the Vols. It's that simple, what's the point of beating around the bush?
Was able to recover the announcer audio of the Jauan Jennings hit pic.twitter.com/yVJkfvhmMa
— gmannVOLS (@gmannVOLS) December 1, 2019
Jennings is a Tennessee favorite, and fans are grateful he'll be able to participate in one last game for the program, but this decision should've been black and white.
Instead, they're doing both Tennessee and Vanderbilt no justice by allowing Jennings to play, but not totally swaying one way or the other. It's madness, and the type of ineptitude we've sadly come to expect in college sports.