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University of Tennessee football coach Phil Fulmer has established an office of the state board of probation and parole in the athletic dorm where football players live.

“We’re going to have two officers stationed in the dorm so that players who are required to check in may do so more conveniently,” Fulmer said in a statement last week.

“This will cut down on the constant problem we’ve had with players missing all or part of practices due to checking in with probation and parole officers.”

Just in the past few days, Fulmer has thrown defensive lineman Raymond Henderson off the team and placed linebacker Marvin Mitchell on indefinite suspension after the burly student-athlete was arrested in an early morning altercation at an all-night market.

At least one observer of the Tennessee athletic scene is impressed with Fulmer’s in-house probation office idea.

“Let’s say that Mitchell gets reinstated but has to check in [with an officer] every week,” the source says. “Having the probation office right there in the dorm means he’ll be spending more time on the practice field and less time sitting on hard plastic chairs in some government office. That makes good use of the young man’s time.”

The move makes Tennessee the fourth SEC school to have a dorm-based corrections office. Alabama pioneered the idea in 1997, followed by Auburn a year later and the University of Georgia in 2003.

“This will just be so convenient, and we really want things to be convenient for our players,” Fulmer says. “It’s after they’ve used up their eligibility that they find out about how inconvenient things can be.”