🏈 High School RB Opting Out of Senior Season / U. of Texas HS Recruit to sit out Senior Season

[BamaFan334]

I agree, but I think there is another issue with teams keeping strict control on their players during their time in college. Yes, it keeps teams from having incidents and, if you remember stories of Saban as an assistant at MSU calling Ingram's dad to make sure he got up and went to class, it's been this way to some degree for a long time. However, I think too much control potentially stymies their development as adults. I'd like to think I matured a little bit during college, and the poor choices I made bit me and decent choices moved me in the right direction. A kid under the thumb of many major football programs doesn't get the same freedom to screw up and learn from their mistakes. Most don't move into the more liberal, but still controlled framework of an NFL team, they just roll out.

That structure develops some kids into their next career, but it does concern me if some who show up without having had any structure truly have a chance to experience the maturation that comes from the freedom most have from 19-22.

RTR,

Tim

I definitelt have to agree with you here. I do feel the way society moves like zombies and sheep that structure is the only thing saving most of them. Not Socialism type structure, but something to keep them honest and on the right path. The "I don't care" attitude is killing this world. That being said, maturing like you stated should be happening as well at that 18-24 age level. I understand falling on hard times and we all need a helping hand at some point in our lives, but all these stories years ago with adult children living with their parents with no deadline for when they'd leave just had me shaking my head.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

You will not have to OVERTHINK it Cowboy...it will be plain as day. I assume you're a golfer, if so then you're to watch the PGA today and report back to me on the commercials.

Not a golfer...so dont know about commercials...mostly cell phones I assume..
Cars...cell phones...drugs...make up most...

Had awesome ride Sunday...no tv...even missed bama softball....

 

[RollllTide!]

Just a minute thinking like a lawyer. How can anyone go to college without a degree from high-school. If he can, every kid can.

 

[Crtuneman]

Just a minute thinking like a lawyer. How can anyone go to college without a degree from high-school. If he can, every kid can.

I thought about that too. But I think he is opting out of football, not school. As far as I can tell he will still go to class. It's still a classless thing to do to your coaches and teammates, but he has to finish his high school degree. He's probably finishing early since he is an early enrollee. If I had to guess I would lay even odds that he has been skipping class and paying someone to take his tests. He obviously doesn't care about his education, because all he sees are dollar signs.

 

[Tidestalker]

I thought about that too. But I think he is opting out of football, not school. As far as I can tell he will still go to class. It's still a classless thing to do to your coaches and teammates, but he has to finish his high school degree. He's probably finishing early since he is an early enrollee. If I had to guess I would lay even odds that he has been skipping class and paying someone to take his tests. He obviously doesn't care about his education, because all he sees are dollar signs.

Damn... Those are some strong ass assumptions

I'm sure the kids who are playing their senior year all don't skip class or cheat, ever!! And of course they all care about education, and don't value money either.

I get where you are going, kinda, but just taking it a little extreme. Could be a great kid... Just sayin'

 

[TideatMileHigh]

I know this is a sports forum, but good God Almighty, I am sick to death of how soft our society is becoming.

It's hyper-individualism. It's a product of our atomized neoliberal society. No one has any duty to any community or group anymore, only themselves.

 

[TideatMileHigh]

College football peaked years back and we're a slow downward slope. The east button crowd will F up everything they touch and the folks behind the curtain are more than willing to speed this along. They F up everything they touch but by design.

Just enjoy Nick's last years and even these will tend to be a struggle.

Agree 100%. I think College Football (and even the NFL) peaked around the mid 80s through the mid to late 2000s. Money culture and the regulation of defense has completely eradicated the soul of football.

 

[Bama Guy]

Yeah, Derrick Henry is a prime example of the effect too many carries can have on a running back.......oh, wait.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Yeah, Derrick Henry is a prime example of the effect too many carries can have on a running back.......oh, wait.

But...Derrick Henry isnt a real human....