Brittany Jackson waived

That’s right, today’s blog post is about former Lady Vol basketball player Brittany Jackson. Why? I’m not sure any Lady Vol aside from Candace Parker has ever been the recipient of as much message board and blog chatter as Brittany Jackson [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” background_image=”” background_repeat=”no-repeat” padding=”” margin_top=”0px” margin_bottom=”0px” class=”” id=”” animation_type=”” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_direction=”left” hide_on_mobile=”no” center_content=”no” min_height=”none”][a quick search of the Volnation forums returned 92 threads]. The Brittany bandwagon was starting to stir again this week as VolNationals learned that Jackson was currently playing in the WNBA. Sadly, it appears that her WNBA run was short lived as she was waived by the Atlanta Dream yesterday.

The Atlanta Dream has waived former Tennessee Lady Vols basketball player Brittany Jackson.

Jackson did not play in the WNBA last season. After playing her final season at UT in 2004, she played for the San Jose Spiders of the WNBL in 2006. The past two seasons she has played for an all-star team in exhibition games against college teams and she has also played professional in Europe, according to information on her MySpace page. She has also pursued a modeling career.

The discussion of Duke Crews and Ramar Smith being dismissed continues in the forum. If you haven’t had enough, and apparently people haven’t since the thread has almost 12,000 views, feel free to jump in and add your two cents.

At this point, I’m wondering if the absence of Crews could affect the decision of Ryan Childress. It’s been rumored that Childress could be thinking of transferring or maybe even giving up basketball. If he remains at Tennessee, and we have no reason to believe he won’t at this point, without Duke on the roster he may see more action next season than he did last year.

Ramar’s departure leaves the Vols incredibly thin at point guard. Daniel West will be an incoming true freshman and it’s questionable if J.P. Prince could ever be effective at the position, even with an entire offseason of work under his belt. The answer very well may be JUCO Bobby Maze. We just learned that Maze will be on campus today visiting with Tennessee.

Verdell Jones was a name that many were throwing around as an available point guard that hadn’t committed as of yet. He committed to Indiana yesterday.[/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]