Don't Let the Door Hit You

Generally speaking, I don't keep up with recruiting and transfers ping my radar to an even lesser extent. But the Bryce Brown saga has been avoidable in my great state. He was supposedly the number one high shcool recruit last year, and Lane Kiffin nabbed him on behalf of the Vols. Then Kiffin split, and Brown has apparantly spent the past six months being emo about it (at least, that's the impression that's stuck with me from the various media I've scanned about the subject and have no desire to try to find and source). In a move worthy of his never-to-be coach, Brown texted Dooley asking for release. Dooley declined, quoting his three point test for granting such requests, which Brown presumably failed on the third point of character/integrity. This has caused Daddy Brown, who one might suspect of trying to control this whole thing from the word go, is pitching fits. Yawn.

Now, I don't know anything about granting releases and what a program gains or loses from their handling of the situation. I do know I don't like it when the integrity of our program is unfairly impugned, especially when one tries to use Kiffin as a moral pillar. Although it's gotta sting to be told "No need to come back."