He will make someone a hell of a qb, i hate to see him go. Like others I wish he would have toughed it out until seasons end. Best of luck to him where ever he lands.

Blake had daddy issues. His daddy was very demanding about Blake's playing time, actually a real pain in the ass about it, problem was that Blake wasn't the best Qb on the team. Sometimes it is best for everybody if he moved on.

I've heard the same thing about "daddy issues".Barnett could deliver a pretty pass but his release was long/slow and it seemed as though he needed a perfect pocket to deliver a good ball.I think he definitely should've stuck out this season,but if he's not committed to the team he did the right thing.To me it speaks of this current generation,where if I don't get my way then I'll take my ball and go home.

He's Gone...
Good Luck...
WHO CARES.....

I think Blake might be the first that could but look at how many kids have transferred from Alabama and has MADE a HUGE IMPACT on their next team or has turned into a Top Round NFL talent, unless I am missing some I can't think of any (at best Kamara at UT). Saban hasn't had the success he has had by choosing the wrong kids to lead his team.

I wanted to see Barnett get the starting job, as I had my doubts on Hurts because he is a true freshman. However, Barnett had the opportunity and did not perform when he needed to and Hurts took the role and made the best of his opportunity. I would like to see Barnett stay around but I know the kid wants playing time and I don't blame him. I figured either Barnett or Cornwell would have left at the end of the season when Hurts got the job. Good luck to him where ever he ends up.

One of the addition by subtraction cases is what your saying? May be best for the team but I think it would have been wiser for him to stay the season in the long run.

I read somewhere that if a Junior College take's him now then he only has to sit the first 4 games next year, 5 if it's next week and 6 the next and so on.

on the news this morning it said he was going to a juco

Was thinking about this just now.

Some folks including the LSU admins see firing Les in midseason as "ripping off the Band-Aid, getting it done, moving forward" and so forth. Painful and momentarily disruptive, but the coaching staff gets the players re-focused and busy and they move on. Usually sounds worse than it is. Sort of like a company firing a CEO or CFO or top brass.

Some folks see it as good, others see it as terrible.

A football player leaves mid-season because it's clear to him that he's not in the picture, even if the coaches maintain (publicly) that he is. He believes he's put in the time, work, etc., and for whatever reason it's not in the cards for him. Or he has something else going on -- perhaps a girlfriend, fiancee, etc. across the country -- and just believes it's best to make a change.

Some folks shrug and say OK, but a lot of us (me included) look at him as a quitter. All he sees is, like the LSU admins, that it's time to make a change right now and not drag it out.

Why the disparity?

Because a player is just a player.Admins responsible for whole athletic department.

Look for him in East MS.

College ball at that level is a business. A multi million dollar business for some of them with the talent. I don't begrudge him making a change if it benefits his future in his eyes. He's an adult.

Lots of JUCO/Community College Football in California

Just saw Sabah announced he has officially withdrawn from UA

Just saw on ESPN an interview with one of the NCAA gurus and he knew the rule that covers him enrolling in JUCO and he says that it is broadly worded and open to interpretation as too when he will be eligible. Some read it to mean when he graduates from JUCO. Others go by the 4 games into the season. Some still think he will sit out all of next year. I guess it will all depend on what Saban tells Emmert he wants.

Hate that he left. Who knows what would've happened if he'd stayed around even though he lost out the starting job. Maybe he should've picked up the phone and called Jake Coker and asked about the benefit of hanging around year as the number 2 guy. Not exactly the same situation but similar.

Dr. B

O Chit brother. Gmac played as a graduate student. Sometimes you gotta take you time and put in your dues. Leaving now, in the middle of season tells me you ain't got what it takes. Hit the road jack and don't you come back. The third string QB has more moxy than you did. We will figure things out without you.

I thought "y'all" had it figured out already? That's why he left isn't it?