Perky Propaganda for all your football needs

Written by Grubby | 10 December 2009

Image via Tennessee Football Media Guide

The longer the UT Hostess saga continues, the more we're going to learn... and not just about the pretty girls from Knoxville.  Like it or not, every major program that has a dedicated student ambassador group filled with perky coeds is going to catch fallout from this.  And it's going to be most of them.

The Knoxville News-Sentinel, today, is doing some preparatory propaganda as we find out who's guilty in the eyes of the almighty NCAA.

Campus hostesses have been part of the recruiting landscape for decades, at least back to the 1960s. The general idea is that they make recruits and their families comfortable during campus visits.  Groups of attractive coeds used to have catchy names like the "Gator Getters" (Florida) or the "Hurricane Honeys" (Miami).

But that landscape has changed in the 2000s.

Sex scandals, particularly a notorious one at Colorado in 2001, have led to a more defined role for recruiting hostesses.  In 2004, UT renamed the Vol Hostess program the Orange Pride and made other changes. About the same time Alabama dropped the "Bama Belles" designation of its program. Most schools made similar adjustments under the urging of the NCAA and various conferences.

Oh, and this jurisprudence-esque revelation,

While hostesses leaving campus to help recruit is unusual - and possibly an NCAA violation - it is apparently not unprecedented.

In a published account in 2002, an Arizona State University hostess said she travelled to a high school to visit a prominent recruit.

Interesting.  But will it hold up in a court of la...hahahaha.  Couldn't do it.  Come on people, it's college kids having sex.  It  happens.  Some college kids are whores.  Some of them are school ambassadors.  That group can't be any more mutually exclusive than the Glee club or soccer team, right?

Let's not lose sight of the fact that this is nothing new.  Hell, didn't you guys watch The Program?