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Pennington says what a lot of us have been thinking: Pitching Tennessee's program as an NFL developmental league may bring along players more concerned with themselves than with their team. Question: will Kiffin take the names off the jerseys, like they do at Southern Cal? I'd bet he will.

about 3 years ago Gameday_depot_hat_guy_190x190__no_drop_shadow__tiny Joel Hollingsworth 8 comments 0 recs  | 

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You have to wonder...

Selling the NFL at USC worked well against Pac-10 competition where they could out-talent the conference and still get up for the one or two big games every year. The margin of error will be much thinner (more thin?) in the SEC…those lulls you get from recruiting players focused on the NFL will bite us more often than they did the Trojans. Hopefully we’re all assuming too much here.

by Will Shelton on Dec 28, 2008 3:25 PM EST reply actions  

Sounds good to me.

I’ve never went to an English class to watch a football player answer a question about …. English. Just beat Florida, Baby! And Bama too.

by wvvol on Dec 28, 2008 11:41 PM EST reply actions  

Simple solution to all this...

Either the kid buys into the system or he doesn’t. I don’t think Lane will have a problem benching a kid who isn’t on board with the team

by BigBeefe on Dec 28, 2008 11:55 PM EST reply actions  

I thought the simple solution was grammar check.

The problem here isn’t going to be just one guy, more than likely. It’ll be four or five guys acting like that, and the risk of that seeping through the rest of the team.

by Chris Pendley on Dec 29, 2008 9:26 AM EST up reply actions  

I wonder

if actively guarding against the me-ism was also part of the culture at USC. No names on the jerseys may be just one aspect of that. Who knows what else they might do to make sure it remains more of a positive than a negative.

Go Vols!

by Joel Hollingsworth on Dec 29, 2008 10:29 AM EST reply actions  

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