Filed under: Kansas State, Tennessee, Big 12, SEC
Bryce Brown went the dishonorable route of telling Tennessee coach Derek Dooley he wouldn’t rejoin the Volunteer program — via text message — following the script of how the wrong kind of people go through breakups. The tailback had skipped spring practice while remaining enrolled at Tennessee, mulling over whether to stick with the football program or transfer. With fall practices looming all around college football, a decision from Brown was imminent.
Derek Dooley told a Rotary Club luncheon that “I said that I was open to Bryce coming back on the condition that he wanted to unpack his bags and put his heart into this program. I fully expect Bryce not to be on our team.”
There was speculation Brown was to meet with Dooley, in his office, this week, but that face-to-face meeting appears be on hold — forever.
Between conference realignment talk and Tebow-draft mania, it has been an offseason in which distraction was a constant partner. And so it has been easy to lose sight of the fact that college football is about to take a huge hit in terms of charisma this autumn.
