Uh, Clowney? The #1 pick in the entire draft? With today’s mindset, he had every incentive in the world opt out. But he went and played. In today’s world, he would be mocked and scorned for playing.
Integrity does, though. You get to see the guys who have it and the guys who don't.
You don’t know what they would have done. This is a different time as someone said above. Integrity has nothing to do with this. What’s best for the Team< what’s best for the kids future.
Integrity has everything to do with it.
Integrity has everything to do with it.
Ignorant. Rogers, Clowney, & Sharpe were all top 10 draft picks. Jeffery was 2nd round. Wadiak was 3rd round. All could have & had plenty of "reason" to, but they chose "we before me" & played it until the end.
Mercy. I sure hope you aren't raising children with that selfish stance in life.
The lessons do stay the same.....
A clowney did take a lot of plays off that year. It was talked about in the media. Secondly Roger’s and sharpe are not even in this conversation. Do you have any idea what a first round draft pick got back then. It not comparing apple to apples sir. You can also bet your sweet tail I would advise my kid to skip the bowl game that means nothing if he is moving on anyway. No need to risk it and the backups could use the experience for next year.
You need to find yourself a nice Division 2 team to support. Certainly nothing higher than FCS, where "meaningless" bowl participation isn't an issue. I'm being sincere, not snarky.
It's important to win and it won't be easy. Bielema has his kind of team at Illinois.
You should probably find another sport to watch. College football players are primarily mercenaries now with NIL. Do you think Stewart fell in love with Columbia and the University of South Carolina? No, he came for the money.
I think Rattler was 100% Rattler. He followed Beamer looking for a place where he could start and improve his draft stock. Carolina had basically no qb at the time and Rattler knew he could come in and play right away. On that level, yes, Rattler was something of a mercenary but you could say the payment was "in kind".
Rattler wouldn't come back to Columbia and still be part of the program if his decision was purely "100% Rattler." Obviously his coming here helped both parties; no athlete is going to go to a situation that's not beneficial.
Right. Even recruits out of high school pick their school based on what they think is beneficial and a good fit.
It’s comical you think rattler wasn’t a mercenary. You do realize mercenaries still live, die and fight for their team. However at the end of the day they are hired guns. Which is what rattler was. Lmfao. Man the delusion around here.
I saddened me to learn a few years ago that the service academies now allow players to leave without any obligation to pay back the cost of their education for up to two years after they start. In the old days, if any student left the academy before they graduated they were required to pay back the full cost of their education, room, board, training, everything.Then may I suggest
Yes, it's huge, but none of us have any control of what these kids decide. We line up and play with whoever decides to make the trip. I know I won't waste one bit of emotional energy on kids that would be classmates of my own kids.
I belive that D-III is the purest since they do not offer athletic scholarships.
