Tennessee football: 4 reasons beyond Sandusky Vols should have avoided Greg Schiano
4. Greg Schiano has too many questionable red flags with his players.
Tennessee football just fired a coach in Butch Jones who had questionable clashes with far too many players. Why would they replace him with a guy who carries the same issues?
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Schiano’s players hated playing for him when he was head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Just read this 2013 report on NFL.com about it.
But it’s not just that issue. You also have his issue with Josh Freeman. Freeman was a quarterback for the Bucs at the time, and as you can read in this report here, the NFLPA accused him of leaking information on Freeman’s involvement in the NFL’s drug testing program.
According to the report, Freeman said he never tested positive for any illegal drugs and willingly went through more testing due to a positive result caused by him switching his ADHD medication without letting the league know. To be fair, Schiano denied the report.
But when you have the report of the Penn State abuse scandal and this report, a suspicious pattern emerges that seriously calls into question integrity.
Schiano’s antics and burned bridges in the NFL are enough red flags without the Penn State scandal to question him.
On top of that, he has the issues with allegedly cheap-shotting other players. Remember, this is the guy that tried to blitz the New York Giants on a kneel-down after a loss and caused a stir with Tom Coughlin. His antics there actually lead to our next reason Tennessee football should have avoided him.