re: Travonte Valentine

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This is bullshite, he is a freshman, let the kid play football, this is the type of shite that makes the SEC look bad! This conference is only going to get worse since it will be able to govern itself in the future. you SEC

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I'm with the SEC on this. I remember Oklahoma States Dexter Manly played four years of college ball and had an outstanding career with the Redskins. He couldn't read.

These academic clearances were put in place to end the most egregious cases of players who didn't belong in college. It's hard to prove, but I'd bet these hurdles have caused hundreds of kids to focus on learning, at least in their senior year.

Lastly, Valentine is, and would have been, a non-entity this year. In this modern era of LSU football (since Saban) there has never been a true freshman dlineman who made a meaningful contribution.