re: Blake Barnett enrolled at JUCO

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I'm guessing he got some crappy advice from someone like his dad and panicked. Leaving mid-year when you are the top back-up is just bush league and he should have told whoever his advisors are to shove it until after the season.

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Assuming the starting qb gets the majority of playing time now that we're in the SEC schedule, the 2nd guy will get only garbage time, which often means handing the ball off to a running back. So from the perspective of a player that thinks he's good enough to start most places, and hoping to play for pay someday, sitting on the bench except for garbage time is a waste of time. Then you transfer at the end of the year, and have to sit out anohher entire year if you want to play for a major college program. Now you've wasted 2 years.

The way Barnett is doing it, though, wastes much less time. He'll get more playing time this year, albeit at a jr college, and then after 4 or 5 games next season, he can play major college ball again.
Sounds like a solid plan to me. My biggest regret isn't that Barnett is doing it this way, but that it may become a regular thing, kind of like the graduate transfer rule.

edit: It's really a moot point, anyway, for UA football. Hurts beat the kid, fair and square, for the starting position at The University of Alabama, and it looks like Hurts is improving, so good for us. Play ball. uhh, football that is.