Bryce Brown decision (merged)

Will Bryce Brown return to play (be listed on a gameday roster) for Tennessee?

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#1,328
#1,328
volwarrior33 said:
He was making fun of that thread...
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#1,330
#1,330
oklavol said:
If you think Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, etc gets treated the same as a 3rd string player your clueless.

I've heard coaches discuss this. Jimmy Jones said if an undrafted free agent showed up late for a team meeting he would usually dismiss him from the team. If Troy Aikman did he wouldn't say anything. That's reality, it's a hard fact of life. People don't get treated the same depending on who you are.
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There is zero logic in your argument. Those are professional athletes who have earned every ounce of respect that they get. We are talking about college kids on a college team. You've been listening to Kiffin for too long. The only hard fact of life is this kind of philosophy breeds the same "doesn't get it" mentality that has festered at usc til now and the same kind of mentality that caused miami to become irrelevant for so long. It's a cancer to any team on any level...especially college. Thankfully for the Vols, Dooley has a little more sense than you.
 
#1,332
#1,332
kptvol said:
OK. The point of my post was that it's not a foregone conclusion Kiffin was screwing Poole over. Evidently the previous staff didn't feel he was the best back on the roster, either. And actually, he might have been fifth string had Toney Williams not torn an ACL.
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you do realize that Poole was a freshman then? you had Foster(Sr) Hardesty(Jr) and Creer(So) ahead of him. you also realize that they(Fulmer) moved another running back that was ahead of Poole to the defensive side. i remember last year all of the naysayers saying Poole had all his runs in scrimmages against the 3rd and 4th string defense. now this past year all of his long runs came against the 1st string "D" in the scrimmages. i have to wonder why all you so called Vol fans harbor so much angst against a player who has given his all to UT has stuck thru thick and thin, works his butt off all the while half of the fanbase wishes a guy like BB would return to save UT. if it were up to all of ya'll the position would be handed to him even though he has not worked out with the team since last football season and even then his work ethic was at best questionable. simply unbelievable!
 
#1,333
#1,333
Currahee506 said:
a player who has given his all to UT has stuck thru thick and thin, works his butt off
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that's debatable since he left once

Currahee506 said:
wishes a guy like BB would return to save UT. if it were up to all of ya'll the position would be handed to him even though he has not worked out with the team since last football season and even then his work ethic was at best questionable. simply unbelievable!
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don't believe I ever heard that about BB
 
#1,336
#1,336
Currahee506 said:
you do realize that Poole was a freshman then? you had Foster(Sr) Hardesty(Jr) and Creer(So) ahead of him. you also realize that they(Fulmer) moved another running back that was ahead of Poole to the defensive side. i remember last year all of the naysayers saying Poole had all his runs in scrimmages against the 3rd and 4th string defense. now this past year all of his long runs came against the 1st string "D" in the scrimmages. i have to wonder why all you so called Vol fans harbor so much angst against a player who has given his all to UT has stuck thru thick and thin, works his butt off all the while half of the fanbase wishes a guy like BB would return to save UT. if it were up to all of ya'll the position would be handed to him even though he has not worked out with the team since last football season and even then his work ethic was at best questionable. simply unbelievable!
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Not quite everyone. I'd say half. I would be the other extreme that wished Poole had been playing last year and BB had of sat. Now I'm oddly in the mood for some Billy Joel.
 
#1,339
#1,339
oklavol said:
First, why does everyone says we don't need him? Bryce Brown has more carries in a college game then the rest of the running backs on the team combined. Not to mention, based on his 40 time, he's also the fastest running back on the team and the biggest. We need him. A new QB needs an experienced RB to take some pressure off.

Second, you don't treat your star players like everyone else on the team. That's bs. He's a future star and that's how he expects to be treated. If UT doesn't, someone else will, that's guaranteed. At least Kiffin for all his faults, recognized that, I don't think Dooley does. :twocents:
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I was with you until the last sentence. No player is above the team and no player should be placed above the team. If he wants to come back, fine. We will facilitate it. If not, good luck. But we aren't going to come running after you, and we will not afford you special conditions or guaranteed carries.

You earn everything you get on this team. Promising a player that you've never even worked in pads a Heisman campaign is ludicrous. Many players cannot make the transition to the next level. Why would you support a Heisman campaign for a third or 4th string back?

Orgeron was already burned once by making unrealistic promises to recruits to get them to commit. You would have thought they'd learned that lesson. It's stupid. You're building the foundation of your program on sand, as they say.
 
#1,340
#1,340
Volfan76 said:
There is zero logic in your argument. Those are professional athletes who have earned every ounce of respect that they get. We are talking about college kids on a college team. You've been listening to Kiffin for too long. The only hard fact of life is this kind of philosophy breeds the same "doesn't get it" mentality that has festered at usc til now and the same kind of mentality that caused miami to become irrelevant for so long. It's a cancer to any team on any level...especially college. Thankfully for the Vols, Dooley has a little more sense than you.
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That same mentality that Jimmy Johnson used to win multiple championships and super bowls. If you think the starting QB or RB on a football team is getting treating the same as everyone else, well like I said your clueless of how the real world works.
 
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#1,343
Of course we don't have the full story but with nothing else skipping spring practice isn't really so indicative of a work ethic.
 
#1,344
#1,344
NMVol said:
Of course we don't have the full story but with nothing else skipping spring practice isn't really so indicative of a work ethic.
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I get the knock on him because of spring but the poster I was replying to said he had a bad work ethic during the season. Just like to know the source on that one
 
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#1,345
oklavol said:
That same mentality that Jimmy Johnson used to win multiple championships and super bowls. If you think the starting QB or RB on a football team is getting treating the same as everyone else, well like I said your clueless of how the real world works.
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Remind me again what team your beloved johnson has coached for the last 11 years?
 
#1,350
#1,350
utvolpj said:
I get the knock on him because of spring but the poster I was replying to said he had a bad work ethic during the season. Just like to know the source on that one
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It's insane to criticize his work ethic. His work ethic the week of the AA game was such that he secured the #1 spot in the rankings. Coaches praised how hard he was working.

The guy played through a nagging injury last year as well. That says a lot about his resilience.

I would love to have him on the team, but it won't make or break anything. To sit there and try to demean the guy or talk down on him just because he's likely headed elsewhere is juvenile and petty.
 
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