FSU Won't Release Brandon Warren

You left out the part where Warren helped recruit a player away from FSU and towards UT. Bowden may be playing hard-ball but bad behavior??? C'mon, Bobby has let players go before and would have let Warren go if it weren't for the recruiting garbage. That's bad behavior!!!

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I am a ut fan but i think if he wanted to go to UT he should have went there in the firs place that being said i think bowden knows he needs all the players he can get

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IF this was ten years ago bowden would not care but he knows these days he needs all the good players he can get

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Bobby Bowden is a freakin bum,what is this kid 19 yrs.
old & this over rated shyster is going to hold his
feet to the fire,classy Bobby!Bowden's so called
success is a product of playing a powderpuff
schedule for years,& ESPN propaganda.If FSU's program
has sunk so low that he has to worry about the impact
of a freshman tight end,Bowden has finally come to
the end.

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Bowden needs to retire! They finally got rid of Jeff and then gave him Alumni gave him lots of money.....maybe they will come up with some for Bobby too! He is going to stroke out on the sidelines and traumatize 100's of children. TIME FOR HIM TO GO!!

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Pretty rough stuff from Bowden on this one. Sour grapes.

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Hey, what about the money spent on warrens scholarship, if u.t. wants to reimburse f.s. o.k., besides 1 man can't make that much difference. also there was another coach a few years back that pulled some kind of a kaper wasn't there.
FSU will be back

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Personally -- I think football has a certain level of honor involved. I think Brandon sorta crossed that line. I don't like to see this sorta wishy-washiness... You stick to a team and you stay with them through thick and thin... and you definitely don't go around talking about it. Its not like Warren was denied a chance to play incredible football at an incredible program. I can't feel too sorry for him -- he squandered his opportunity. If there were real family issues -- he could've taken a hiatus -- but no he's gonna still focus on the full-time job of being a student athlete at a top program? I'm not saying Bowden is infallible -- but I'm more inclined to side with the Hall of Fame coach on his decisions that I am on a 19 yr old upstart.

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I don't see how FSU is the bad guy here. The kid made a commitment to play for this team. They put time and money into recruiting him, time and money that could've been spent on a dedicated player who wasn't going to just screw the team over the second he decided he wanted to go home. They're supposed to release him just cause he wants to be released? That's stupid and completely unfair to the institution. If he wanted to go to Tennessee, he should've went there to begin with. He should be a man and honor his commitment.

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I don't see how FSU is the bad guy here. The kid made a commitment to play for this team. They put time and money into recruiting him, time and money that could've been spent on a dedicated player who wasn't going to just screw the team over the second he decided he wanted to go home. They're supposed to release him just cause he wants to be released? That's stupid and completely unfair to the institution. If he wanted to go to Tennessee, he should've went there to begin with. He should be a man and honor his commitment.

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I hate Tennessee.
I have a lot of Respect for Bowden, mainly because of how he sticks with his guys through thick and thin.

This case, however, doesn't sit too well with me, as far as FSU is concerned. You are not talking about a coach getting paid $4M (Nick Saban), a seasoned veteran who wants to renegotiate (Half the NFL) or even a young rookie who is drafted and wants to go to a different city (John Elway).

You are talking about a 19-year-old kid who quite possibly is just plain homesick or either is worried about being near his family. It really doesn't matter, especially with the way grown professionals change their mind all the time in sports, and all of a sudden you want to take a kid and "hold his feet to the fire!" Everyone is so super-quick to judge these guys by standards they wouldn't judge an average guy their age by... How many kids get academic scholarships and want to transfer? Be for real!

They have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO GAIN from holding a scholarship, and eveything to lose when it comes to future recruits looking at this treatment. They can no longer enjoy the arrogance of telling recruits "We're interested in you. Take it or leave it."

Besides, if they know what I know, they had better get all the new help they need because:

The U will be BACK!

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An academic scholarship and an athletic scholarship are different. Many academic scholarships are given to students who automatically qualify or apply for the scholarship. They don't spend the same amount of time recruiting kids for academic scholarships the way they do athletic ones.

Going to college is stepping into the adult world. It means thinking about your decisions before you make them. It means meeting responsibilities and expectations. A 19-year-old is not a little kid, he's a young man and needs to act like one. Being homesick or tired or unhappy isn't an excuse to just quit something or not take care of your responsibilities.

People aren't holding him to different standards, they're holding him to the same standards. If the average freshmen were to call their parents in the middle of the semester and say "hey I'm homesick I want to drop out and come home" the majority of parents would not coddle them and say "okay do whatever you want". If a student is sick of going to class, you're not just going to give him a pass. But yet people think that Warren should be given passes that other students aren't.

Being homesick is tough, but he took on a responsibility. If he wants to leave that's fine, but he IS screwing FSU over and he shouldn't expect them to just comply with whatever he wants nor should he think that they are wrong for no complying.

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