Tennessee 'Hostesses' Used to Lure Recruits; NCAA Investigating
The NCAA has opened an investigation into the famed "Tennessee hostesses" which are essentially hot women used to lure potential recruits into coming to Knoxville.
It's not that surprising of an investigation, really, when you consider that women -- clearly -- are a big selling point to 18-year-olds interested in attending college. I know they were a selling point to me, and I suck at sports (playing them anyway), nor do I have any sort of remote fame that would allow me to "get hosted." Still, not good news for Tennessee when people are openly talking about it.
Marcus Lattimore, a running back who made an unofficial visit to Tennessee but said he would not enroll there, said multiple Tennessee hostesses attended a game at James F. Byrnes High School in Duncan, S.C., in September. He said they brought signs, including one that read, “Come to Tennessee.”
“I haven’t seen no other schools do that,” he said. “It’s crazy.”
Lattimore's case is particularly astounding -- it turns out that some of these hostesses traveled nearly TWO HUNDRED miles in order to watch one of his high school games in South Carolina while holding the aforementioned signs. It should also be noted that Lattimore described the hostesses as “real pretty, real nice and just real cool.”
These ladies, in fact, are so cool -- even with the school! -- that they made their way to the media guide:
Of course, now, the NCAA is involved and making some visits of its own -- which almost assuredly will be less friendly than the women who have been swinging by the recruits houses. Additionally, most experts believe that the hostesses might have stayed under the radar, except for the fact that Lane Kiffin has been flaunting recruiting rules in the NCAA's face ever since he got to Knoxville, and, oddly enough, that managed to cheese some people off.
One of the girls, who was not, ahem, prudent enough to keep her social networking pages private, is Lacey Pearl Earps. She can be seen below with former recruit and now freshman Bryce Brown. Ms Earps claims, according to her Myspace page, that she "recruits champions."
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