(06-28-2014 04:23 PM)GoApps70 Wrote: Keep thinking I am hearing someone else's words he is using. Either some other recruiters, some article, or even FAU fan board.
http://www.upressonline.com/2014/06/high...-from-fau/
“I felt like FAU wasn’t the best decision for me academically and out on the football field,” Scarlett said. “At my position, you need your body and at FAU, I would need to carry the team, and I’m trying to get my body ready for the NFL.”
I have no issue with someone decommitting at all, but an 18yo high school kid talking about "getting ready for the NFL"......yea right pal
it is fine to have hopes and dreams, but attempting to say that FAU was not right "academically" and then saying you would have to carry the team and that you would be too physically worn out for the NFL after all of that.....please
1. ok so now you go from FAU where you "carry the team" against CUSA type programs for 12 games a season to the SEC SEC SEC where you get the living hell beat out of you 9+ games a season
2. in the SEC SEC SEC or at a similar "top" program you are going to have to EARN your playing time on the field and that means doing it in practice as well as on the field......this kid sounds like one that thinks practice is for the other guys because he is "a gamer and saving it for when it counts in game time" and "there are no scouts at practices"
3. in the SEC SEC SEC and top ACC and Big 12 and Big 10 programs you play EVERY play and you block for your QB and you lay out for the pass even as a running back......if not there are 3-4 other guys that have been practicing hard and that will do the hard work even when they know they are not getting the handoff or when they are the 4th or 5th option for the pass
4. kids that are in high school "getting their body ready for the NFL" often forget to get ready for the test this week much less pass it or making it to class
5. kids that are in high school talking about "carrying the team" think they are going to walk up and have a spot handed to them and even if they do manage to get a spot if the pass is not perfect and they do not lay all out for it or they miss a block or do not sustain a block in the backfield they are the one that tells others to throw a more accurate pass or to get rid of the ball sooner or for a lineman to not let that gap be so big and slow down the LB or DB before he has to rub up against them and call it a block
other players will put up with that for about 1-2 games at most and then when they see you are "saving it for the NFL" or "saving it for the big games that season" and they call him out well that is when your team has rectal cancer and then it is all downhill from there especially if there is no one good enough or prepared enough to step up and get him sent to the bench
and remember there are plenty of attitude filled "future NFLers" that did pretty well in college even for a year or so until someone else beat them out or until their team started playing a tougher schedule......then we never hear from them again even in college or even if they start 3-4 years their lack of effort and the fact that they were surrounded by others that were playing hard every down becomes apparent to scouts and they never sniff the NFL
look at Tebow he did not fully "carry" Florida, but he damn sure had a lot of freight stacked on his back and he damn sure worked hard every play and was a LEADER in practice and he was not "saving a little back for the NFL" and he still struggled in the NFL
Vince Young......NOTHING "saved for the NFL" he laid it out there every damn down and even had a good year in the NFL one year and still struggled
so maybe this kid can even perform at their level in COLLEGE for even a year before he starts worrying about getting it ready for the NFL......much less actually getting in the NFL or "saving anything" for ANYTHING
real LEADERS step up and demand to lead and then actually GIVE IT ALL when they EARN the chance.....anal cancer talks about how they don't want to have to do it all and they have to hold a little back for their future NFL career
6. this kid I bet 99% ends up being the perfect example of why college should NOT pay players and should resist all attempts to make college a minor leagues for "future NFLers"
he would be MUCH better off getting the chance to go ahead and "go pro and get paid" somewhere else besides a university and then he can learn some real life lessons