Tennessee QB Tyler Bray: "I'm paid to win football games"

Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY Sports

Tyler Bray gets paid to play quarterback at Tennessee. His words, not mine.

"I'm paid to win football games," Bray told reporters Tuesday. Such a statement led to the inevitable follow-up question: Um, what? 

"I mean... my education. That's what the SEC likes to call 'getting paid,'" Bray said.

I must confess: I have never, ever, ever heard any SEC player, coach, official or university administrator call a scholarship "getting paid." That's a new one.

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Watch Bray's brain go from zero to 60 in the span of two sentences. In the first, the junior uttered a statement sure to draw the NCAA's attention. In the second, Bray deflects and parries quicker than a left tackle handling the blind-side blitz.

But for at least a few minutes, people were paying attention to Tennessee's quarterback (if for the wrong reasons), and not its head coach, defense, special teams, 0-6 record in SEC play and uncertain future.

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