🏈 Ingram on NFL draft

[TerryP]

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[UAgrad93]

Kid will be successful for a VERY LONG time!!!!

 

[Hoos4Tide]

He is SO interested in what Mark will be wearing!!

 

[JoshB]

If he wears a crimson jacket like Dont'a did at SEC Media Day I'll mark out lol

 

[c5vetman]

how can you not just love him? He has the work ethic, he has the personality, and he has the skillz! What's not to love?

 

[Hoos4Tide]

I know, I couldn't pick a better person I'd want to represent Alabama winning the Heisman and all the other stuff he has done.

 

[russb8903]

He really isn't always very friendly in person. I mean, we should be proud of him and all, but let's remember that what he says on T.V. isn't necessarily how he truly is. I think some of the worship about how great a person he is might go a bit far. I've met far nicer players on the football team.

 

[JoshB]

^^ u mean to tell me sometimes he might be in a bad mood! oh my god....you mean like a normal person! SHOCK!

 

[russb8903]

Exactly. People act like he is the nicest person on Earth and stuff, and I was just reminding people that on the one occasion I tried to talk to him, and several others when other people did, he wasn't this gift to earth people seem to think. Just cautioning people on going a little far with the hero worship.

 

[Hoos4Tide]

Yeah, I bet no one ever wants to talk to him either and therefore he's always up to talk to fans about the games etc., the fact that he apparently blew you off is definitely an indication that he's just an A-hole. I mean, you deserve his respect, what has he done to make him think he can blow YOU off!? P.s. the one example I can show he was a very nice guy-- a few friends of mine saw him at a restaurant after the Capital One bowl and asked him for a picture and he he went outside w/ them, took a picture, complimented one of my friends on the shirt he was wearing (it was a Mark Ingram Heisman shirt) and was just a nice guy to them... but I'm sure that's just an exception

 

[bamadezz]

I wish Mark the best. :a:

 

[russb8903]

Dude, you need to take a chill pill. I didn't say he wasn't a nice guy. And I'm far less concerned with him blowing me off as I was how he treated someone while our class visited DCH. What I was saying is that he shouldn't be treated as the nicest player UA has ever had when he wasn't even the nicest on the team. This insistence by some people *cough cough* that he is just the nicest person in the whole wide world needed to be checked with reality, that he is in fact, just a normal person personality wise.

 

[GeorgiaTider]

Maybe it was you having a bad day. Fans can be not the nicest people on Earth too.

 

[russb8903]

I have at least half a dozen, probably more, stories of him not being that friendly to people. I'm not going to go into detail about them. All I'm saying is that I think he puts on a bit of a show for the cameras, and I would imagine all would, I don't see why it's so hard to believe he isn't nice all the time.

 

[Hoos4Tide]

I have at least half a dozen, probably more, stories of him not being that friendly to people. I'm not going to go into detail about them. All I'm saying is that I think he puts on a bit of a show for the cameras, and I would imagine all would, I don't see why it's so hard to believe he isn't nice all the time.

It's not hard to believe that, but it's stupid to say what you're saying b/c jerks are jerks on TV, nice, sincere people are nice and sincere on TV... Jerks don't cry and thank the teachers of their school when accepting the highest award given to a college football player. It's your word against what we see from him on TV and stories of friends interacting with him... tough luck kid

 

[Hoos4Tide]

Oh yeah, and the reason I got on this thread in the first place: is it ironic to anyone else that supposedly the Patriots are taking him and, if'n that happens, he'll be playing for his former coaches mentor in Bill Belichick?? I think that is quite the coincidence!!

 

[russb8903]

It's not hard to believe that, but it's stupid to say what you're saying b/c jerks are jerks on TV, nice, sincere people are nice and sincere on TV... Jerks don't cry and thank the teachers of their school when accepting the highest award given to a college football player. It's your word against what we see from him on TV and stories of friends interacting with him... tough luck kid

Actually, that isn't remotely logical. Though I guess that isn't surprising considering nearly everything in your post, and most posts you make, is utterly wrong.

 

[russb8903]

As evidence: he doesn't give a crap about the teachers at the school considering that in the class I had with him he sat in the mandated front row with his backpack on, playing with an iPod the whole time, every day. In comparison, Julio at least had the respect to take notes and pay attention.

 

[Hoos4Tide]

As evidence: he doesn't give a crap about the teachers at the school considering that in the class I had with him he sat in the mandated front row with his backpack on, playing with an iPod the whole time, every day. In comparison, Julio at least had the respect to take notes and pay attention.

Well considering how smart you seem, exemplified by your highly intelligent analysis of current issues and rhetorical ability, I'm sure the class was really difficult and there's NO WAY he didn't already know what the prof. was saying... Hahaha, but again, what you said originally and as proof is "the one time I tried to talk to him he was much less than the gift from God that people try to portray him as" and that, now that you have also let on that you are a college student, tells me that you were like any other fan and said "good game Mark!!" and all of your highly intelligent friends have probably said the same things and he doesn't want to hear that everywhere he goes, but that doesn't mean he isn't a great person in terms of his character-- I mean, the guy is very obviously pretty quiet already and just doesn't have the ability, nor wants, to be the center of attention all the time... He's a great guy, we all see that whenever he's interviewed as well as in many other settings, give it a break Russ, you just go on thinking what you want, we'll do the same.

 

[russb8903]

Oh, give me a break, he's brilliant now too ? And judging by the GPA I'm graduating with, and post-graduate course I'll be pursuing, I think I'm intelligent enough to notice that someone behaves differently when the cameras aren't on him. I feel like I've made clear that my personal interaction had no bearing on my view, but if you insist that I'm out to get him because he blew me off once, so be it, I'll agree to let it rest.