re: Alabama QB Blake Barnett is transferring (or maybe not so fast)

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If I'm a college coach...and of course it depends on how bad I need a QB...I probably pass on him just because of his timing. Yes, he quit on his team rather than suck it up and deal with his personal adversity. Instead of being on a practice field right now working to get better, he's off doing God knows what. I wouldn't touch him unless I was really desperate. If I'm a college coach, I'm asking him what he was doing today that he thought would be of more benefit to his development than being on a practice field with Lane Kiffin.

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If you'll carefully read the last part of Saban's statement about the coaches being concerned with the players who want the team to be successful, I think you can read between the lines and see that's what Saban's actually saying....I'd say Barnett has "burned his bridge" regardless of what he now does.