Tennessee Hostesses: Making High Schoolers, Very, Very Happy

Not that this should come as too much of a shock, but apparently Tennessee has gotten into some hot water with the NCAA because of its well-known, hot hostess program. Using hot girls to land top recruits, what a novel idea? Maybe other colleges and universities should try it out…oh yeah, that’s right, they already do. More after the jump.

A flag on the fore-play for Tennessee. The NCAA has launched an investigation looking into the University of Tennessee’s use of co-ed hostesses to entice players to play for the school. The New York Times did an in-depth piece about the impending scandal, saying:

N.C.A.A. officials have visited four prospects and are scheduled to visit two others this week in an investigation covering at least three states. The inquiry is unusual in its scope and its timing. It is rare that the N.C.A.A. looks at this wide a swath of one university’s recruits before the players have signed with a program in February.

Well damn. While the piece skirts around the issue of what exactly these hostesses might be doing to encourage recruits to sign, the article does say that hostesses have been known to go above and beyond the call of gridiron duty, traveling 200 miles to cheer on potential recruits at a high school football game. That’s commitment!

Via: Deadspin via The New York Times