Lots of different sources are saying that at some point last week Tubby Smith went on a rant with this team, going off on the Sophomores and saying he cannot understand why they wont work harder.  The story goes that he looked at Rondo and basically said "son if you want to go to Louisville, go ahead."  And then, depending on who you ask, it is said he made similar thoughts to Crawford and Bradley.

As with all of these things, it should be taken with a grain of salt, but this is being said by some reliable people on message boards and I have received three emails aobut it in the last few days.  Very interesting stuff and it may suggest that Tubby has decided he will not be beholden to any player on this team, no matter how good he is.

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