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The hype and accolades continue to come for UK’s Bud Dupree and he was named on yet another list as one of the country’s top “under rated players”. The buzz for Dupree is building but it is quickly becoming a chicken or the egg type debate. With so many experts proclaiming him “under rated”, is he really underrated?

"4. Alvin Dupree, DE, Kentucky. Mark Stoops is busy trying to infuse young talent into a roster for a team that has gone 4-20 the last two seasons, but he did at least inherit one of the SEC’s best defenders from the previous staff. Dupree finished with seven sacks last season and 6 ½ the year before, and at 6-foot-4, 267 pounds, he’s an explosive, disciplined edge rusher who can make plays all over the field. In fact, he finished second on the team in tackles each of the last two years, with 91 in 2012 (when he was listed as a linebacker under the previous regime) and 61 last year. Stoops’ rebuilding project in Lexington requires patience, but between Dupree and fellow senior Za’Darius Smith, the Wildcats have an impressive, disruptive pair of defensive ends."

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James Franklin is long gone from the SEC and plans to have a long career in Happy Valley. However, much as he did while at Vanderbilt, he is still a thorn in the paw of other SEC coaches. In fact, some would say he has the SEC “whining like teenage boys” with his satellite camps.

"And therein lies the problem. You better believe Franklin, the coach whose staff recruited elite players to Vanderbilt of all places; whose staff won 18 games the last two seasons at Vanderbilt, of all places; who proved he could compete (and beat) the SEC heavyweights at Vanderbilt, of all places, is going to do the same thing at Penn State. That’s why SEC coaches are beside themselves, pleading their case to commissioner Mike Slive to do something, anything, to stop this unfair practice of satellite high school football camps. By unfair we mean they see the future with Franklin — and the still strong, still dynamic brand of Penn State behind him — rolling into their geographic footprint and landing their recruits. As sure as those daily summer thunderstorms roll in from the Atlantic and douse this tiny campus at Stetson University, Franklin will land recruits from the state of Florida. Just like he’ll land recruits from the state of Georgia, where he was (at Georgia State in Atlanta) a day earlier coaching high school players at a satellite camp and, in the process, spreading the Nittany Lions word. The only question is, how many recruits will he land and — more important to those in the SEC — which teams will lose because of it? “The thing for me,” says Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin, “is everybody should be able to do it or nobody should be able to do it.” This argument begins, of course, with a silly NCAA rule that prohibits schools from running football camps at an out of state location more than 50 miles from campus. But that’s not the silly part."