Bryce Brown May Be Adding K-State To List Of Schools He’s Spurned

Even considering Brown’s travels, that’s disappointing. The former five-star has had the talent to catch on with any team in the country, but what NFL team is going to take a chance on a player who’s changed his allegiance three times since 2008?

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Bryce Brown has expressed his desire to transfer from the Tennessee football program, and has since made no further statements to contradict that desire. This news is exactly two months old today, so you can understand Derek Dooley’s frustration at still being asked about it twice a day:

”There’s been no new news on Bryce. Everybody loves creating the story. Here are the facts: The facts are we reached a point prior to the spring when we said he was going to leave the program. And there’s been no indication that he was coming back, since that time. And, so, this has been just tremendous fodder for the fans, to speculate. I don’t know what else to say on it.“But your polite indignation is new to them, Coach! It’s new to everyone who has never gotten to ask you his-or-her own self, every, every time. There’s always the chance you’d choose to withhold news concerning your team’s highest-profile get in 2009 just for funsies, after all, and we’ve all got column inches to fill.

According to newly-minted Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley, Bryce Brown’s self-imposed exile could end any time Bryce Brown wants it to. Emphasize the latter part of that condition one more time for us, Coach:

“I don’t think he’s coming back, but if he wanted to, the first thing I’d do is talk to our team to see if they’d want him back,” Dooley said. “I think at the end of the day, our team would welcome Bryce back, if that’s what he wanted to do.

“But Bryce is going to have to want to come back. He’s not going to be easy. He’s not going to be handed anything. I’m not going to make a recruiting pitch to get him.”

This may seem a bit icy, but make no mistake: Dooley’s detachment is cool relief to both a team and a fanbase sick of a coach who showcased Brown in scoring drives as a recruiting tool at the expense of playing time for Tennessee’s stable of green but talented backs who weren’t fortunate enough to come to Knoxville equipped with their own “manager.” The sooner Brown gets off to someplace where his presence can be overappreciated again, the better for all involved.

Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley has made a statement to the media, in which he ascribes Bryce Brown’s possible departure to “a lot of personal and family problems”:

“They’re concerns that I believe stem from — and what he told me stem from — some of the reasons why he came here, and his experience over the first six months that he was here.It’s the “reasons why he came here” part that gives pause, because nobody had their motivations on Signing Day and beyond questioned more than Brown, but if the kid’s gotta go home, he’s gotta go home. SBN’s fine Tennessee crew at Rocky Top Talk already have their heads on straight regarding Bryce Brown: