Rysheed...

[redfanOO0098jj]

This kid was going against the odds from the beginning and they caught up to him. I feel for him and it is a textbook example of the kid with potential dragged down by people who only care about using him and discarding him when the train stops.

The country doesn't care about these kids or the chances they face in life from the get go. We hear all the time about income inequality as it is some sort of new thing that has appeared on the landscape. Poor people have always been around and with lack of funding or caring about the community things like this will continue ad infinitum.

Rysheed there should be time to turn your life around if the criminal justice system throw you in the trash but that is another story.

MJJ Out

 

[redfanOO0098jj]

Honestly this is an ignorant post and your mindset is what is wrong with this world. Also, the proper use is "a while" "awhile" means "for a while"

DoodyNY33 wrote:
Some people are just lost causes. No one is arguing that he came from a tough situation. But to be fair, how many chances do you need to give someone before they start taking ownership of their actions? RySheed wants to say we know his story. Ok, I get it. Mean streets of Philadelphia. I also know you got a full scholarship to a great school. That you had the opportunity to play D1 basketball on national TV. That despite acting like an idiot all through college, the coaching staff bent over backwards to look the other way. You completely skipped going to classes your last year cause you had an irrational thought that you were ready for the NBA. And then didn't want to do the work to clean up the mess you made.

I'm a sympathetic person to most people, but after awhile come on. I know a lot of people that came from bad backgrounds who knew the difference between what to do and what not to do. I hope for his sake this is a wake up call and he cleans up his life. But personally I subscribe to the belief that once a moron, always a moron. in the end, people don't like to change because change is hard.

 

[jumbo_peanuts]

This kid was going against the odds from the beginning and they caught up to him. I feel for him and it is a textbook example of the kid with potential dragged down by people who only care about using him and discarding him when the train stops.

I agree with this statement 100%. Many people only care about these kids when they are beneficial to them. However, and this is not a jab at you, if we are going to criticize those people, everyone on this board must also look in the mirror, because they do the exact same thing.

Some posters here follow a recruit like it's their job....they know what they do, where they go, what they eat, and probably even when they sh*t! The posters talk like these kids are gods, and how we desperately need them....but the moment they pick another school, thats it, they are no longer relevant to anything and we move on.

That's the nature of the business. You miss out on a recruit, and you go to the next one. But to criticize other people for using these kids and then discarding them is extremely hypocritical, especially on this board.

 

[bamafan]

Can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped. See IE. Johnny Manziel who's life seems to be spiraling out of control. Even his father can't help him. Neither can his agents who have the self interest of makinf money off of him if he could get his life together.

 

[redfanOO0098jj]

This is not about a recruit or basketball player. This is an indictment of the world we live in. Those who haven't had their true talent tapped by their environment will latch on to those who have and have had that talent nurtured to its highest potential. Unfortunately, kids from lower incomes have a harder time tapping their talent due to the lack of funding that goes toward their education.

Johnny Manziel is a prime example of a spoiled kid who never really faced any adversity in life. This is the problem with those who have and those who have not.

Kids born to those who have and are not nurtured never see what it is like to truly have to fight for little or nothing

The kid is a human not a play toy for others nor should any fan ever treat them without the respect the deserve as a person.