re: Latest article about Butch Jones processing players

Serious question...

What happened to the 4 year scholarship thing?

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If these kids want to start getting paid, they should be subject to processing.

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this was said twice, both times it neglects that the players are not getting paid yet are getting the shaft by coaches that can't seem to spot talent

4 year scholarships are a fairy tale. Doesn't even exist for academic scholarships - need to make grades or else

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Finally, a reasonable Bama opinion. A lot of us were questioning sitting Dobbs until the Bama game, but from what I understand he promised Dobbs and his folks that he'd try to redshirt him for academics. After Worley got hurt he was unable to follow through on that promise, but he tried

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I've heard that a few times. You can look at it from different perspectives, but it can get dicey making promises like that to individual parents. When you promise parents a redshirt year, basically you're promising them a masters degree. Don't know if that's true of Dobbs...some kids are at the other extreme and can need the extra year to make the adjustment to college academics. But when you start promising a fifth year, you're in effect promising them two degrees, if they're good students. You're hired to win football games. This was Tennessee's chance to end the UF streak, and although UT will be better next year, I wouldn't be surprised if beating Florida just got more difficult.

You know a tenn fan will bring up a twitter feed. They follow those players religiously on social media like bama fans kill each other

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've heard that a few times. You can look at it from different perspectives, but it can get dicey making promises like that to individual parents. When you promise parents a redshirt year, basically you're promising them a masters degree. Don't know if that's true of Dobbs...some kids are at the other extreme and can need the extra year to make the adjustment to college academics. But when you start promising a fifth year, you're in effect promising them two degrees, if they're good students. You're hired to win football games. This was Tennessee's chance to end the UF streak, and although UT will be better next year, I wouldn't be surprised if beating Florida just got more difficult.

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Honestly, Dobbs was inconsistent in practice in Spring and Fall camp. Worley had balled out against Georgia, I can't really blame Jones for not playing him then.

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Every program does it, I don't understand the big deal. If the players want college football to be treated like a business and be paid, then they need to learn they are expendable like every other profession.

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Except they aren't paid and it's not a profession, and even the current speculative model for paying players isn't treating it like a profession. It's some kind of bogus "stipend."

But you already knew that. You're just a moron running your mouth on the internet.