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Since I started covering Florida State in the fall of 2006, Brandon Warren is the one player no longer here that I’d like to have seen play more.
As a freshman tight end for the Seminoles, Warren showed the kind of natural ability that makes recruiters spill their coffee when they first see him play. He started shortly after arriving on campus and showed why on the field, hauling in 27 passes in his only season with FSU.
Shortly after leading the Noles out onto the field for the 2006 Emerald Bowl in San Francisco, Warren left school and returned home to be closer to his family. While physically gifted beyond most 18-year-olds, Warren displayed a kind of immaturity that made you question whether he was ready for his time in the spotlight.
The answer turned out to be no. He left FSU in February 2007 and enrolled in at Pellissippi Technical School near his Knoxville-area home with hopes of one day enrolling at Tennessee.
According to The Chattanooga Times Free Press, Warren crossed another hurdle toward his ultimate goal on Friday when he won his appeal to the NCAA that officially released him from his national letter-of-intent with FSU, giving him three more years of eligibility.
Warren still must enroll at Tennessee and be declared academically eligible to play in 2008, but he is now closer to that than at any time since he departed FSU.
If Warren has matured and stays healthy, Tennessee has landed a future star.
Why do you think FSU coach Bobby Bowden was so determined to keep him, and refused to release him from his scholarship.
Posted by Gary G, Tennessee on 05/07 at 09:02 AM
The reason why Bowden did not release Warren (which he has willingly done so for other kids), is because of the alleged interference by the UT program or it’s boosters.
I live in TN and there are all sorts of interesting revelations going around about why Brandon had a sudden change of heart after telling the world he was not home sick and his mom’s cancer was in remission or no longer critical.
Bowden can not prove this interference (if he could he would have went to the NCAA), but that coupled with what I hear there is no doubt as to UT’s dirty hands in this.
The affect of the ruling taking this long is the same as if FSU had released Warren, and he would miss one year then play the next.
Posted by Bill From Tampa, on 05/07 at 08:42 AM
Big surprise the NCAA would overrule FSU on this one. More payback for the Seminole name issue.
Posted by Mike Hallett, NC on 05/06 at 07:11 PM
The can of worms is now open!
LOI means nothing now!
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Posted by Eric Pepper, Atlanta, GA on 05/07 at 11:52 PM
Bobby as much as said at the Atlanta Bowden Banquet that he believed there was tampering by UT and/or boosters. It is interesting that when Auburn and Bama got nailed by the NCAA, UT was always in the background. Bobby said he would grant the release if Brandon wanted to go anywhere else. Considering that Bobby has granted releases in the past to players who went to UF, I tend to think that was the facts as Bobby believed them to be.