'14 JUCO DT Davonte Lambert (Auburn Commit 12/18/13)

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I hope Davante gets cleared if there are any issues with his grades. i hate hearing things like this. Yeah he may have lied to the coaches to go to a different team but these are just young men who are trying to make something of themselves. Good luck Davante! GBO!
 
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kentuckianavol said:
I hope Davante gets cleared if there are any issues with his grades. i hate hearing things like this. Yeah he may have lied to the coaches to go to a different team but these are just young men who are trying to make something of themselves. Good luck Davante! GBO!
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If he was trying to make something of himself, he would go to class and do his school work. They are STUDENT-athletes. Get it? STUDENT
 
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wU-Tang Vol said:
Agreed. Very few Nick Fairley like impact players coming out of JUCO.
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Nick Fairley was one dirty azz mean mofo at Auburn. That's one way to make up for a lack of experience at a position and even close a talent deficit. A mean player on a d-line or o-line can be less talented physically than the other guy and still wind up the better player because he goes over the top and just don't give shizz. Fairley was obviously both talented and mean.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
If he was trying to make something of himself, he would go to class and do his school work. They are STUDENT-athletes. Get it? STUDENT
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not everyone is college material. Unfortunately guys like him are forced into that system in order to pursue their dreams

cheering the failure of a 19yo guy is low rent
 
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utvolpj said:
not everyone is college material. Unfortunately guys like him are forced into that system in order to pursue their dreams

cheering the failure of a 19yo guy is low rent
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No everyone is not college material, but there are many other avenues that he can pursue to be successful. If his dream is to play football, there are many avenues that he can pursue to play football. He could have gone Division III and played. Don't act like he is a poor victim. If he wants it bad enough, and he is good enough, he will make it. Look at London Fletcher.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
No everyone is not college material, but there are many other avenues that he can pursue to be successful. If his dream is to play football, there are many avenues that he can pursue to play football. He could have gone Division III and played. Don't act like he is a poor victim. If he wants it bad enough, and he is good enough, he will make it. Look at London Fletcher.
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ummm D-III is still college ball right?
 
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sigchig said:
Because Bammer loses....DUH! Don't you know that outside of the Vols WINNING, the only thing we care about is Bama LOSING?
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The more relevant picture is head-to-head recruiting battles. We recruit against the Barners more often than Bama.

Barner beating our arch-rival while we cannot is not a good thing at the end of the day.
 
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UTProf said:
Nick Fairley was one dirty azz mean mofo at Auburn. That's one way to make up for a lack of experience at a position and even close a talent deficit. A mean player on a d-line or o-line can be less talented physically than the other guy and still wind up the better player because he goes over the top and just don't give shizz. Fairley was obviously both talented and mean.
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And dirty. Fairley was a good player, but he made several dirty plays at Auburn, and the worst was on Aaron Murray. I hate UGA, but it was bad.
 
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titansvolsfaninga said:
Yep, but the demands are not quite are rigid. ALL colleges are not the same. Smaller school, with smaller class sizes tend to help student athletes.
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so a person who might not be college material should go to a college without a scholarship on the off chance he might be good enough to get a scout from the NFL to watch him? Good grief, people need to quit acting like these players are all competing for Rhodes scholarships and just accept the reality of what college football truly is
 
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utvolpj said:
not everyone is college material. Unfortunately guys like him are forced into that system in order to pursue their dreams

cheering the failure of a 19yo guy is low rent
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So is lying to people who are offering you a free path to pursue those dreams. The majority of the ill will expressed in this thread really is over his lying and not his decision to attend Auburn. If it is true that he waited until 30 minutes before his announcement to inform our staff of his true intentions then the ill will here is more than justified. Lambert is an adult and his actions scream entitlement.
 
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DaddyChad said:
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Why doesn't this have 100 likes, lol. This is awesome! :salute:
 
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utvolpj said:
not everyone is college material. Unfortunately guys like him are forced into that system in order to pursue their dreams

cheering the failure of a 19yo guy is low rent
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Going back on your word at the last minute after making promises to people is low rent too. Nobody should be going online to hassle this guy directly, but I've got no problem with the general level of schadenfreude on VN about it.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
So is lying to people who are offering you a free path to pursue those dreams. The majority of the ill will expressed in this thread really is over his lying and not his decision to attend Auburn. If it is true that he waited until 30 minutes before his announcement to inform our staff of his true intentions then the ill will here is more than justified. Lambert is an adult and his actions scream entitlement.
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when our staff does it they are celebrated and the player is showered with boom, #VFL, etc. When it gets done to us the other staff obviously paid him off, he's a traitor and we should hope he fails out of school. Not to mention the situation where our staff offers a kid and then rescinds that offer in hopes of getting someone else

I get it but it doesn't make it any less hypocritical
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Going back on your word at the last minute after making promises to people is low rent too. Nobody should be going online to hassle this guy directly, but I've got no problem with the general level of schadenfreude on VN about it.
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and when our coaches do it to a commit I assume the reaction is the same? Of course it is
 
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utvolpj said:
so a person who might not be college material should go to a college without a scholarship on the off chance he might be good enough to get a scout from the NFL to watch him? Good grief, people need to quit acting like these players are all competing for Rhodes scholarships and just accept the reality of what college football truly is
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He may not be major college material. Put it like that...geesh. You know what I was saying but you want to act like he should be given a pass on his grades/work ethic. He will need to do something to become a productive member of society. Playing football does not last forever.
 
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