I'm a little late to the party with this, but I'm in Myrtle Beach enjoying a short golf weekend before the SEC baseball tournament starts.

The news: redshirt freshman running back Dontae Aycock was dismissed from the football team for a violation of team rules. Auburn didn't give any other specifics in an e-mail sent out this morning.

Aycock was a four-star recruit out of Tampa, Fla., in 2009. He chose Auburn after Georgia Tech pulled his scholarship.

With a deep backfield, he didn't get on the field last year. Coaches got a better look at him this spring. He had five carries for 16 yards and a touchdown in the A-Day scrimmage. But he was expected to move around once two-a-days began, playing some H-back as well as running back.

His departure doesn't appear to hurt Auburn too much. Mario Fannin and Onterio McCalebb were ahead of him on the depth chart at tailback, with incoming freshman Michael Dyer expected to jump him as well. Eric Smith has the H-back position pretty well locked down.

Even after this year, once Fannin has graduated, it doesn't look like Auburn will be in too much of a bind. If anything, it just opens up a scholarship and a spot for a running back in the future. As the Tigers have shown by landing Dyer and nearly getting Marcus Lattimore, they can lure some big targets too.