Palmer says a whole lot ... of nothing

THE BRENT Musburger-Jesse Palmer team, relegated to ESPN’s SEC Network, remains insufferable.

Thursday during Appalachian State-Tennessee, Palmer — who still hasn’t been told by ESPN to, plainly put, occasionally shut up (or has ignored the good suggestion) — spoke steady nonsense.

With UT, a 20-point home favorite, down 13-6, Palmer repeatedly voiced the Vols’ needed strategy: “Someone has to make a play.” Any volunteers among the Volunteers?

He also told us to go easy, to know that UT’s primarily composed of “18-to-21-year-old studentathletes.” Appalachian State isn’t?

As for Tennessee’s “student-athletes,” its football and basketball programs are among the most regularly scandalized. At the start of last season, 20 UT football playing studentathletes were arrested in the previous five years.

At least three more have since followed — one for aggravated assault and imprisonment of a female, one for assault with a deadly weapon, one for “improper contact with a minor.”

In February, a 2014 UT player, wide receiver

Drae Bowles, filed suit against the school, alleging he was threatened and beaten by teammates after he came to the emergency aid of a young woman who claimed she had just been raped by UT players at a party.

Bowles’ suit includes a police report in which former UT defensive back Geraldo Orta says he told one of the alleged assailants, defensive back

Michael Williams, “that the football team ‘has a hit out on Bowles’ for betraying the team, and where he [Orta] comes from, people get shot for doing what Bowles did.” Is this a college team or a street gang?

But the antisocial, diseased condition of bigtime college ball has become the norm.

Also Thursday, with :08 left in the half against Charlotte, Bobby Pe

trino’s Louisville team threw a TD pass — to make it 56-0. Louisville would throw two more TD passes in the second half to win, 70-14. Why not finish the job and slash the tires of the visitors’ bus?