re: Tennessee WR DeAnthony Arnett denied full release by Derek Dooley

Sounds pretty shitty, mainly because it is so illogical.

Saginaw is 85 miles from Ann Arbor (Mich) & just 65 miles from Lansing (Mich St).

MAC schools:
Central Mich is 44 miles away
Eastern Mich is 95 miles away
Western Michigan is 115 miles away.

So Dooley would let him transfer to Western Mich 115 miles away from his sick father, but won't let him tranfer to Mich St just 65 mles away???

I'll even give Dooley the benefit of the doubt that while MSU & UM are not on the schedule, maybe he is projecting an unforseen matchup with one of them in a bowl, and doesn't want a former player to come back & haunt them. Well, the major problem with that you can't predict your bowl matchups.

Example: Tenn was too awful this year to even qualify for a bowl with their 5-7 record. Had Dooley won just a couple more games, his Vols might have qualified for the Little Ceasars Pizza Bowl and had the honor to play...guess who??? Western Michigan!!!!..... one of the teams Dooley is OK with allowing a former player to come back & haunt them!

If I'm the father/mother of a current recruit, no way in hell I let him sign with Dooley.

I've seen Dooley throw players under the bus, act immature and run out on a handshake, and now wants to frick over a kid's future because it might hurt his little feelings over the game of football.

While Dooley is getting paid millions and didn't honor his commitment to LA TECH, I guess he feels it's okay to frick over a kid's future by making him play at a small school and hurting his NFL stock. OR he can stay at UT and possibly not have his father see him play again and probably ride the bench because Dooley's butthurt.

Dooley is a thug POS

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He wants to leave because Coach Baggett retired and that's the only reason he came to UT.

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Even if 100% true it doesn't matter. Perception is reality and the perception is that Dooley is keeping him from going to a big school close to his father and family.

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Explain his mother saying this during his recruitment:

"I had heard how recruiting would be, but to be in it, it was like, 'Wow,' " Virginia said. "I felt like I handled it pretty good. DeAnthony did very well, I think because his brothers kind of got involved."

DeAnthony's father "never knew how to be a father," Ralph said, so Virginia relied on her sons to serve as de facto father figures for one another. Ralph looked up to Eric as a father and DeAnthony does the same with Ralph.

He wants to leave because Coach Baggett retired and that's the only reason he came to UT.

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has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Don't get me wrong, I don't 100% agree with the way the situation is being handled. But if you look at the details like Arnett's mom's statement about the father, the father being sick before Arnett signed with UT, and Coach Baggett being the #1 reason Arnett came to UT, things don't add up the way the media is trying to make them. IMO, I let him go just to avoid the negative attention. But it's not like he wasn't given an option by going to a smaller school. Alex Bullard, UT's starting center, went through the same situation. He wanted to be closer to home to be closer to a sick family member. Bullard paid his own tuition to UT this year because he wasn't unconditionally released.