Orangeslice13
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From yesterday, found this interesting when I first saw it:
wesrucker247 Wes Rucker
Vols true freshman WR DeAnthony Arnett confirms to 247Sports his decision to 'leave Tennessee' for a few reasons
"for a few reasons".......sounds like it's not just about his dad's health.
Wait til the second half.
there is no second half. you don't understand. dooley runs this team. not deanthony. so that little wanna be "super star" better learn from this life lesson. Writing to ESPN? posting pics of his dad? seriously, how desperate can you get? just all signs of lies and manipulation so he can get what he wants which is to go to a big time school. What a precedent that would send to our players. Hey your homesick? Hey your girlfriend wants you back home in Florida..SUREE! we will let you have a unconditional release and you can play for florida! this is a slippery slope and dooley is handling it the right way. DA has only hurt himself by trying to pull some DATELINE horse**** and get the public to plea to UT to release him. Thats just absurd, immature, and nothing that represents the University of Tennessee. AGAIN
DOOLEY 1- DA-0
there is no second half. you don't understand. dooley runs this team. not deanthony. so that little wanna be "super star" better learn from this life lesson. Writing to ESPN? posting pics of his dad? seriously, how desperate can you get? just all signs of lies and manipulation so he can get what he wants which is to go to a big time school. What a precedent that would send to our players. Hey your homesick? Hey your girlfriend wants you back home in Florida..SUREE! we will let you have a unconditional release and you can play for florida! this is a slippery slope and dooley is handling it the right way. DA has only hurt himself by trying to pull some DATELINE horse**** and get the public to plea to UT to release him. Thats just absurd, immature, and nothing that represents the University of Tennessee. AGAIN
DOOLEY 1- DA-0
Didn't Dooley just s\ign Alex Bullard who was released from his scholarship at Notre Dame to be closer to home after his father passed away?
Alex Bullard Granted Release, Set To Transfer
Didn't Dooley just sign Alex Bullard who was released from his scholarship at Notre Dame to be closer to home after his father passed away?
Alex Bullard Granted Release, Set To Transfer
He walked on and payed his way this year. He will have a scholarship in 2012. Notre Dame has their policy and Tennessee has theirs. The decision is not made only by Dooley. This is the way things have been before he ever got here. As much as I hate to say it again , it's not like Bullard's father was a stranger to his family. I believe that if Arnett had the same relationship as Alex had with his father , things would be different. Remember , Arnett said Tennessee recruited his family. During this process , his father wasn't around and hadn't been for a long time. This is the problem with Arnett. This staff knows how close he actually was to his father and that it means very little compared to football. It just so happens he would like to use this excuse so he won't have to sit out a year or pay for anything. If Arnett left for the real reasons , he would sit for a year. 2 if he doesn't finish his year at Tennessee. This is what the staff knows. They gave him what he asked for and it's not good enough because football is much more important than someone (admitted by his family in many articles) that never knew how to be a father and was never around. Now I wish his father the best , but the sympathy he is seeking is more important to his football career than being close to his dad. I'd also like to add , since people keep bringing up Bullard , if depth wasn't such an issue here , I doubt we even care what Arnett does. Personally , I don't care anymore because he won't be playing here after running his mouth and burning his bridges so he can have it like burger king. It's not really about him leaving at this point. It's more of a message to the other players. It's not easy to leave and it shouldn't be. We can't afford to lose players. With all the drop off , this place needs to be named the fountain of youth because we keep geting younger and younger.