Pickens insisted on redshirting.
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The situations of Pickens and Worley are somewhat similar, but their attitudes about their coaches asking them to give up their redshirt seasons seem fundamentally different . Let me spell it out. Pickens wanted to redshirt, and now Worley wants to redshirt too. Are you following so far?
Pickens refused to play when Majors called upon him during his true freshman season, but Worley seems willing to play if called upon. Did you see how I did that? Worely finds himself in a similar predicament as Pickens, but he has a different attitude about it . Novel concept. Two situations can be kind of alike but how people handle the situations can be completely different. Wow!
Worley will lose his redshirt season if Sims is injured against the likes of LSU and Alabama. It's not as much of a stretch as people are making it out to be. I'd say it's a less than 50% proposition that Sims will be able to take every single snap for the rest of the season. Alabama alone has injured three straight quarterbacks. I had hoped that Dooley would insert Nash Nance if the unfortunate scenario arose. However, Dooley has made it resoundingly clear that Worley, not Nash, is one snap away.
My Carl Pickens reference was intended to shed light upon Justin's Worley's preference to redshirt but his willingness to enter the game if called upon for the good of the team. Pickens refused to give up his redshirt season. Instead, he packed up his belongings and moved home. Coach Majors was forced to compromise or lose a valuable future player. Worley, by all accounts, would prefer to redshirt this season. Redshirting was his plan from day one during his recruitment. A redshirt season gives Worley three seasons to play if Bray jumps to the league a year early. If Dooley burns Worley's redshirt and Bray decides to stay his senior year, Worley will only have one year of eligibility to quarterback the Vols after Bray matriculates.
Here is a quote from Earnest Hemingway about minimalism in writing. It's referred to as Hemingway's iceberg theory.
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water"
Pickens refused to play when Majors called upon him during his true freshman season, but Worley seems willing to play if called upon. Did you see how I did that? Worely finds himself in a similar predicament as Pickens, but he has a different attitude about it . Novel concept. Two situations can be kind of alike but how people handle the situations can be completely different. Wow!
Worley will lose his redshirt season if Sims is injured against the likes of LSU and Alabama. It's not as much of a stretch as people are making it out to be. I'd say it's a less than 50% proposition that Sims will be able to take every single snap for the rest of the season. Alabama alone has injured three straight quarterbacks. I had hoped that Dooley would insert Nash Nance if the unfortunate scenario arose. However, Dooley has made it resoundingly clear that Worley, not Nash, is one snap away.
My Carl Pickens reference was intended to shed light upon Justin's Worley's preference to redshirt but his willingness to enter the game if called upon for the good of the team. Pickens refused to give up his redshirt season. Instead, he packed up his belongings and moved home. Coach Majors was forced to compromise or lose a valuable future player. Worley, by all accounts, would prefer to redshirt this season. Redshirting was his plan from day one during his recruitment. A redshirt season gives Worley three seasons to play if Bray jumps to the league a year early. If Dooley burns Worley's redshirt and Bray decides to stay his senior year, Worley will only have one year of eligibility to quarterback the Vols after Bray matriculates.
Here is a quote from Earnest Hemingway about minimalism in writing. It's referred to as Hemingway's iceberg theory.
"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water"
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