Boo Carter breaks silence amid his departure from the Tennessee football program
The talented Tennessee defender’s time in Knoxville is coming to an end.
The Tennessee Volunteers defeated New Mexico State in a relatively pedestrian fashion, 42-9, over the weekend. However, one of the biggest stories in Knoxville was who wasn’t at the game – cornerback Boo Carter.
Carter missed the game and wasn’t in attendance for what Josh Heupel said after the game wasn’t meeting the program’s “standard” to be in the locker room. One day later, Carter is now heading elsewhere, as he and the school are parting ways.
Carter offered his position on the situation via a post on Twitter (X) on Sunday afternoon.
Boo Carter says on Twitter that he is dealing with an injury and that he will enter the transfer portal
Carter is apparently dealing with a hip flexor injury, but the underlying reason for his breakup with Tennessee goes deeper than that, and it could be felt in Heupel’s words after the game on Carter and the program.
“At the end of the day, there’s a standard that you gotta to meet to be in that locker room,” said Heupel during his postgame press conference. “So, he was not out on the field with us. That will be my last response to anything related to that for right now.”
Carter’s name was in the middle of a bright spotlight during the team’s training camp. After missing a number of offseason activities, he was confronted by the team’s leadership and, ultimately, with the transfer portal window closed until the end of the season, had to work his way back into the team’s good graces over camp and into the start of the season.
It was at least a public distraction, but with the upside that Carter had shown, Tennessee clearly gave him the patience to try to earn his place on the roster.
It appears that time has run out. And while Carter didn’t explain the disconnect with the team, it felt like the split between the two sides was a matter of when rather than if.
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