Certainly not the first to get this, but I just got off the phone with Clinton Durst, who confirmed he is leaving the football team.

Durst said he was told he would be awarded a scholarship if he won the starting punting job. After beating out Ryan Shoemaker in August, Tommy Tuberville's staff told Durst he would get a scholarship after the season. Obviously, things changed on the coaching front.

Durst said the new staff gave him the option of competing for a scholarship over the summer, but he has to find a job to help pay for tuition as he enters his final year at Auburn (he can graduate in December if he takes enough summer courses).

"I’ll respect the coaches," Durst said. "The coaches are good coaches and good people. They’re just doing their job. It just sucks how it works out, you know?"

As for the future, Durst said he's working with a "guy who worked in the NFL" to see if he might not get a tryout with some team in the future.

"Everybody may laugh, but they all laughed at me before when I said I was walking on at Auburn," Durst said. "Who knows what can happen? They could tell me I'm not good enough or something could happen. Who knows? So I figured I'd give it a shot and then I can say I tried, you know?"