re: Blake Barnett enrolled at JUCO

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It's not the transfer... its the quitting the team midseason

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It was a business decision. He was rated one of the 2 best pro style qbs in his class and while he was redshirted at Alabama we kept hearing good things about him, in spite of the revisionist accounts of it now. It's not surprising that he thinks he has a possible future in the NFL. Evidently other people that make a living at such things think so too. The immediate interest of other programs is also a pretty good clue that he may in fact have a future getting paid to play. Obviously, if he sat on the bench most of his college career, it would affect his chances of being drafted.

If Barnett had won the position then I would have expected Hurts to transfer. There were posts on this board, preseason, that both might stay. I said then, and you can look it up, that there was no way the 2nd guy was going to sit on the bench for 3 years waiting to play. It just wasn't going to happen and given the talent of both kids, it was very unreasonable to think it would. That Barnett realized leaving now would allow him to play for a major college next season is just, as noted, a business decision, cut and dried.

The kid recruited hard for Alabama, and I like that. We're going to play another guy this Saturday that came to Alabama, copped a bitter attitude, and then dissuaded other recruits from coming, and then he transferred out. His staying at UA was actually a negative thing, or easily could have been that. Which scenario do you think was better for UA? It's a no brainer.