There's been a lot of animosity within and directed at the Tennessee football team over the last month or so. Former players have both come to support and call out the program for the lawsuit filed against it claiming the institute "encourages" a culture of sexual assault.
The newest development is that former Vol Drae Bowles tried to help two women who reported being sexually assaulted and claims that coach Butch Jones called him a "traitor" in the process. One former team captain called into the Finebaum Show and defended Jones while also taking a shot at Bowles.
Former UT Captain @MarlonTankWalls says Drae Bowles' story isn't true & "playing time" may have been a motivation pic.twitter.com/fiN2FaEtFS
— Paul Finebaum (@finebaum) February 25, 2016
You can find the entire interview here. Walls also took to Twitter to voice his frustrations and to vent about how he feels about the whole situation.
This has given me the biggest headache I have EVER had #JustWanttheTruth #VFL
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
Wow the "Culture"?? This really does makes me mad because I way their everyday and never seen or heard anything they are talking about smh
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
I mean where did this whole thing come from and as an athlete you have no voice and you just have to simply SIT ANDTAKE THE BASHING
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
Because if you speak then the media says you are just defending the Univ and it means you do not care about the Alleged victims
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
And let me make this clear I can't speak on the Alleged victims because no one know who they are and I wasn't their but the Culture?
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
"Cold Red"?? Butch was the first guy to approach the team and told those guys if anyone bothered Bowels they would immediately be kicked off
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
This hurts man because I know the man that's being BASHED, CBJ who loves his wife and family and taught us right from wrong
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
The man even implemented new team policies that wouldn't allow us to go out to try his best to keep us on the right path #NoVoice
— Marlon Tank Walls (@MarlonTankWalls) February 25, 2016
There's much more where that came from but you can certainly find it all on his timeline. This situation has gotten very messy and the sooner it can get settled in or out of court, the better.
[h/t CollegeSpun]
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