Paul Bain named Burlsworth Trophy nominee

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Tennessee defensive lineman Paul Bain was announced as a nominee for the 2018 Burlsworth Trophy on Tuesday afternoon.

The Powder Springs, Ga., native was one of 69 players from Division I (FBS) schools named by the Burlsworth Trophy in conjunction with the Springdale (AR) Rotary Club.

In its ninth year, the Burlsworth Trophy is given to the most outstanding college football player in America who began his career as a walk-on and has shown outstanding performance on the field.

Each nominee must have begun his first season of participation with an FBS (D1) football program without financial aid of any kind from his university's athletic department. The award is named in honor of Brandon Burlsworth, former University of Arkansas walk-on and All-American offensive lineman. Recent winners include Washington State quarterback Luke Falk (2017) and former Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma, Baker Mayfield (2015 & 2016).

Bain started his collegiate career at Division II Tusculum College before deciding to transfer after one season to join the Tennessee football program as a walk-on prior to the 2016 season.

The redshirt senior played sparingly during his first three seasons with the program but impressed the Vols' new coaching staff this spring and summer. Bain's hard work was rewarded earlier this season when he was put on scholarship by head coach Jeremy Pruitt the Tuesday prior to UT's home opener against ETSU.

As a regular on special teams and in the Vols' defensive line rotation this season, Bain has set career highs with 10 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss and a fumble recovery while seeing action in all eight games this year.

The Brandon Burlsworth Foundation, in conjunction with Springdale Rotary Club, will host an awards ceremony on December 3, 2018 in Springdale, Ark., to honor the three finalists and to announce the 2018 winner.
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kyvol98 said:
Paul Bain will one day scare your cavities away!
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Cavity Creeps beware!

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"Look out! It's Paul Bain!"
 
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A man like this does not come along too often this day and time. His ability as a football player were less than great from the start. It has made no difference, he is now a great TEAM player. A great representative of the U of T and I have confidence will make a great doctor. There have been many less than kind (I hope tongue in cheek) commits made on his behalf over the time he has been in this program by we less than kind posters. To this Mr. Bain has been the better man by his continued team and school support. We owe him an apology and all the support we can give....
 
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savannahfan said:
A man like this does not come along too often this day and time. His ability as a football player were less than great from the start. It has made no difference, he is now a great TEAM player. A great representative of the U of T and I have confidence will make a great doctor. There have been many less than kind (I hope tongue in cheek) commits made on his behalf over the time he has been in this program by we less than kind posters. To this Mr. Bain has been the better man by his continued team and school support. We owe him an apology and all the support we can give....
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Name one. I don't remember ever seeing a single negative thing written about him on here. Only celebrations of badassery.
 
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This is great to hear. Mr. Bain has quickly become an all time favorite Vol for me. He deserves any and all accolades he receives. I'm incredibly happy to see his hard work continue to pay off. I wish I could bottle the man's work ethic and gumption.
 
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On a side note, Paul DLs more often than not have large hands and broken fingers who have played at the collegiate level, so poking around in folks mouths could be a challenge. I'm thankful you're not going into proctology. I had a former college OL as my MD years ago. He gave me my first finger wave prostate check. Basically ruined me. To this very day I choose doctors that are female first and with asian appearing names just for the hopefully scaled down hand sizes. True story bro.
 
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Remy said:
On a side note, Paul DLs more often than not have large hands and broken fingers who have played at the collegiate level, so poking around in folks mouths could be a challenge. I'm thankful you're not going into proctology. I had a former college OL as my MD years ago. He gave me my first finger wave prostate check. Basically ruined me. To this very day I choose doctors that are female first and with asian appearing names just for the hopefully scaled down hand sizes. True story bro.
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savannahfan said:
A man like this does not come along too often this day and time. His ability as a football player were less than great from the start. It has made no difference, he is now a great TEAM player. A great representative of the U of T and I have confidence will make a great doctor. There have been many less than kind (I hope tongue in cheek) commits made on his behalf over the time he has been in this program by we less than kind posters. To this Mr. Bain has been the better man by his continued team and school support. We owe him an apology and all the support we can give....
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that is soo true!\
 
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