(04-24-2017 08:07 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: (04-24-2017 07:19 PM)Pervis_Griffith Wrote: Well that sucks, because our goal in life is to have Georgia Tech fans finding us "tasteful".
If you're going to sell out academics and reputation for talented convicts ... at least win big. If you onboard blue chip recycled convicts only to get blasted by SEC East teams you should house ... then you're just the UGAg of Kentucky. Right down to the colors. But without the (fraudulently won) 1980 NC and faded glory of Herschel to incessantly talk about. But at least you don't pee on visiting fans from the upper deck of the stadium ... so uh ... you got that going for you.
Kidding aside, there aren't a lot of choir boys in football. It's a physical sport in which most players play with an edge. Do we need to get into the struggles of some youths in America again? I'm glad that there are programs out there like Louisville & others that give these the guidance to become positive members of society. When you become a Cardinals you often visit sick kids in area hospitals. You learn discipline & how to be a man. Lorenzo Mauldin grew up going from foster home to foster home & trouble. At Louisville he found a family & what it means to be a positive member of society. Great kid & now professional player. Lamar Jackson this past year fulfilled the dying wish of a local high schooler with cancer & brought her to a game. She has since passed. These are examples of what it means to be a Cardinals.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/syndication...8.amp.html
"We're so quick to judge a young person," Strong said. "I told him, 'Yes, you've been dealt a tough hand. But still other people have been dealt a harder hand than you. You can overcome those circumstances if you handle it the right way.'"
Could it be simple as that? After so many foster homes, Mauldin has lost count—was it 10? Twelve? Sixteen?—and anger issues, trust issues and constant fights, Mauldin wasn't sure.
But fast-forward three-and-a-half years. Mauldin graduated from Louisville this past December with a degree in communications and is projected to be as high as a third-round pick in the NFL draft.
Based on what some draft experts say about Mauldin, there is no hint he'd ever been in trouble. On his NFL.com profile, Mauldin, a 6'4", 259-pound defensive end/outside linebacker, is praised mostly for character and work ethic.
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And the site quotes an NFL North scout saying, "He overcame a tough childhood and developed a mindset that nothing is going to stop him. ...I'm cheering hard for this kid, and I'll bang the table for him when the time is right."
Still, he is exactly the type of kid who typically falls through the cracks or is labeled a bad kid by people who don't know him. He is the type who disappears; he becomes a statistic instead of a person. But that fate didn't befall Mauldin, thanks to a handful of people who were there to catch him and push him back into the game, into life.
http://usatodayhss.com/2016/teen-with-ca...ar-jackson