Kiffin KO's Brandon Warren

It's a week later and I don't see the mutiny, anywhere. As a matter of fact, I see recruiting headed in a better direction than with the previous administration. You sound emotional and if you've been there and done that you would recognize that when a player becomes emotional to the point of affecting their mentality, any control or edge is lost. Personally, I think we should be 6-0. I hand the first loss to UCLA to the coaches. Playing Jones when he was not ready and not getting Marsalis involved in this game were huge mistakes. You take away a favorite receiver and you affect the QB's confidence...natural at any level. Jones later admitted in a KNS article that Teague ran a much crisper route than he and he needed to work on being in the place that was expected. I give the Florida loss to not paying attention to details and discipline...Jones not being aware of where he was in the end zone was worth 7 points and Rico trying to run through his own player and not taking the angle would have stopped the drive and saved another 7. That's 14 points...we lost by ten. The last loss I give to JC and the receivers. Throwing behind on quick slants is ridiculous, but not unexpected. You can't knock down the pass thrown to Zach Rogers and the defense was in the right place at the right time...7 points. Can you imagine being on the field and getting beaned in the head because you were not looking for the ball. If you are a receiver and on the field, you have to be expecting the ball. It's much like baseball, where every player in the field has to be expecting that the ball will be coming to them every play. Fulmer was getting soft, wanting to be everyones dad, give them 4 and 5 chances...he lost his edge. Kiffin doesn't want to be their dad, and rightfully so. First year athletes should be given some amount of leash, but the old addage of fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me sure seems to be dead on here. Warren was not new to the biz and probably knew he had a shorter leash, not just on football, but also about class attendance and academics. He appears to be an athletic specimen that could warrant another chance, but there's a history to that. If you are going to play any sport at a D1 school in the SEC, you have to understand coming in that you have the opportunity of a lifetime and that you have greater responsibilities than regular students, because your actions will be magnified greater than normal and the university benefits or takes a hit based on how you conduct yourself. I don't think a lot of the kids coming in understand that, given that they have usually been coddled and not necessarily been held accountable for their actions previously.

I'm sure these decisions are not made in a vacuum. I'm also sure that NFL experience from the coaching staff does play a part in the decisions made. Having been at the collegiate and professional level and knowing the path it takes to get from point A to point B, it would appear that there are some issues that have not been made known. I would bet dollars to doughnuts that academics had something to do with this, also. Would you want to have your team used to relying on someone only to have them missing from pivotal games because they didn't keep the other aspects of their lives in order. It's better to take care of business early. Brandon has a chance to play again if he gets his house in order.