re: Athletic Statues Across The SEC

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Why do football players have statues anyway? They're only there for three, four years tops. And it's especially ridiculously for Cam to get a statue. He was there for one year. It would be like Anthony Davis getting a statue at Kentucky.

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Outside of maybe a football complex or stadium it doesn't seem right unless there are very special circumstances warranting it (winning isn't enough imo). But keep in mind we only recently put up a statue of Neyland at the stadium and he was dead 50+ years before we did so. The only other one we have is Pat Summitt Plaza near TBA which under the circumstances only seemed right to put up while she was still alive.

If we were to be put up a statue of any athlete I'd want it to be because they did far more for the university or world than be good at their sport. But even putting one up in a complex or stadium kinda seems wrong unless we start putting up statues of students who excelled in their field, wrote the great American novel, won a Nobel or Pulitzer, became a respected entrepreneur and philanthropist etc. and soon we'd have statues everywhere.