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Does passing = Positive?If they had drug tested the 1990 national championship team, I wonder how many would have passed.
Would Calvin Johnson have passed?
Does passing = Positive?If they had drug tested the 1990 national championship team, I wonder how many would have passed.
http://www.espn.com/nfl/draft07/news/story?id=2842833Does passing = Positive?
Would Calvin Johnson have passed?
Most of my posts are under appreciated. I think it is because I'm just that much smarter than the rest of you.A very underappreciated post. Kudos sir.
No he was a receiver.Does passing = Positive?
Would Calvin Johnson have passed?
That's not the point. After you've been caught once you stop. After you've been caught twice you hire somebody to follow you around and kick you in the nuts everytime you reach for a blunt.If they had drug tested the 1990 national championship team, I wonder how many would have passed.
You are only disappointed the first few times that you have to do it. Then you start to realize that people make irrational decisions all the time. You get used to it if you have been around awhile as CPJ obviously has.Imagine the disappointment of having to look at your star BB and tell him he's done because he ööööing did it again.
Exactly. I doubt CPJ agonized over it much. I bet he wasn't even surprised. Dedrick did this to himself. Time to move on.You are only disappointed the first few times that you have to do it. Then you start to realize that people make irrational decisions all the time. You get used to it if you have been around awhile as CPJ obviously has.
I don't know (or care) what this kid did. But as important as he thought FB at GT was to him, obviously he decided that something else was just a little more important. At the end of the day, you don't need these kind of people in your organization. All things considered, the negatives outweigh the positives. This guy didn't want to be at Tech bad enough to change behaviors. Wish him the best but it's time to look ahead to the guys who do want to be here and on the team.
Were any of us really surprised?Exactly. I doubt CPJ agonized over it much. I bet he wasn't even surprised. Dedrick did this to himself. Time to move on.
IIWIIWere any of us really surprised?
There's a lot of this attitude going around the board right now. I don't much care for it.I don't know (or care) what this kid did. But as important as he thought FB at GT was to him, obviously he decided that something else was just a little more important. At the end of the day, you don't need these kind of people in your organization. All things considered, the negatives outweigh the positives. This guy didn't want to be at Tech bad enough to change behaviors. Wish him the best but it's time to look ahead to the guys who do want to be here and on the team.
This, a thousand times.There's a lot of this attitude going around the board right now. I don't much care for it.
Mills was a great player. We have no idea what's happened. We can all be disappointed without having to be morally judgmental about Mills' self-centeredness or whatever other moral flaws we assume lie behind this. You don't know enough about the situation to justify having that attitude in your head.
I don't think my post is judgemental. I have to believe that the young man had to be made aware of both the rules and the consequences for failure to comply given his prior track record. (If this assumption is incorrect, and I highly doubt hat it is, then shame on the coaches and GTAA).He either made a decision to ignore the advice or to not be aware of the rules (ignorance of the law etc.) Which is a lapse of judgement if you are really serious about maintaining the scholarship. Doesn't make him a bad guy. Just sends a message about where his priorities are. I've seen it many times at work with people much older than this kid. Didn't make them bad people. In fact, I liked (personally) quite a few of the people I let go. I get the sense that CPJ likes the kid as well. Again I don't see how this can be construed as judgemental. OTOH, I can't really control what others think either.There's a lot of this attitude going around the board right now. I don't much care for it.
Mills was a great player. We have no idea what's happened. We can all be disappointed without having to be morally judgmental about Mills' self-centeredness or whatever other moral flaws we assume lie behind this. You don't know enough about the situation to justify having that attitude in your head.
Being judgmental has nothing to do with the judgment and everything to do with the attitude, spirit, and tone with which it is delivered.I don't think my post is judgemental. I have to believe that the young man had to be made aware of both the rules and the consequences for failure to comply given his prior track record. (If this assumption is incorrect, and I highly doubt hat it is, then shame on the coaches and GTAA).
This.....You are only disappointed the first few times that you have to do it. Then you start to realize that people make irrational decisions all the time. You get used to it if you have been around awhile as CPJ obviously has.
I don't know (or care) what this kid did. But as important as he thought FB at GT was to him, obviously he decided that something else was just a little more important. At the end of the day, you don't need these kind of people in your organization. All things considered, the negatives outweigh the positives. This guy didn't want to be at Tech bad enough to change behaviors. Wish him the best but it's time to look ahead to the guys who do want to be here and on the team.
I can. There are lots of them lately. Maybe not involving weed, but think Cam Newton, Isaiah Crowell (starting in the NFL now)... plenty of players who got in trouble and then succeededThis.....
Also follow his career after transfer. Can't remember the last time someone was successful after something like this.