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Duke thinking about staying for his senior season

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wtf is with people and "getting a degree" in these situations

multiple millions of dollars per year

OR

a degree where you'll be real f*king lucky to get a $50,000 salary hate-my-life desk job somewhere in this garbage economy

parents these days are soo brainwashed

Go to the NFL guy, if you blow that ACL out next season........
 
He needs to go do his thing. We'll be fine at RB as long as long as two of three current commits end up sticking.
 
Gonna be really happy for him when he gets his contract and takes care of himself and his family. Kid deserves it, works unbelievably hard and is, in my opinion, one of the greatest Canes ever. Between the way he stuck with us, recruited for us, and played for us, he's got it all.

Would love to see him come back, just pray his health holds up if it does. If I were him, I'd go. I think he should, and luckily we should be more than fine at the position with Yearby and the haul coming in this recruiting class.
 
If he stays what does that do to recruiting class of running backs, does anyone of the back out of an already crowded backfield? It would not be to bright too when they can learn from a seasoned back as Duke who has been doing a great job with Yearby and Gus has been coming around lately. The only reason he should stay is if has a legitimate chance at winning the Heisman, an ACC Championship, and a Playoff appearance or NC.
 
I selfishly want him to stay for another year, but he needs to go and start making bank, RB's have a short shelf life in the league, make the money while you can.
 
The kid is a great and loyal Cane and I'd love for him to be here but he should make money and avoid injury and go pro if he's projected in the first 2 rounds. A 3rd round projection becomes iffy...
 
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Would love for him to stay but thats not in his best interest mama duke. Get your money from having fun while you can.
 
No reason for him to come back next year.

Whatever unfinished business he feels he has won't get accomplished with one more year at Miami. He's done everything he possibly could to get the U back, but one more year of wear and tear on him in college won't further the cause.

Go, get paid, and if a degree is that important come back later.
 
pat4redick said:
After his spectacular 249-yard rushing performance at Virginia Tech on Thursday night in front of a national TV audience, Miami running back Duke Johnson finally got his 1,000-yard season.

With 2,903 career rushing yards, Johnson needs 58 more to surpass Edgerrin James as the No.2 all-time UM rusher.

He already is UM’s career leader in all-purpose yards.

Now, the question is this: Will Johnson leave Miami for the NFL after this season?

Johnson doesn’t know yet, nor does his mother, Cassandra Mitchell, on whom he will lean heavily for guidance.

He previously said his goal was to get his degree this year as a junior, so as to make the decision easier when the season ended.

But Monday, Johnson, an Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Week, noted after practice that he likely won’t be able to earn his degree in sports administration until after the fall semester of 2015.

“I probably have another semester after this [academic year],” he said.

How does that affect his decision as far as leaving early?

“Cassandra. It’s all on Cassandra,” he said of his mother. “That’s a decision we have to make — majority her. I always have some say in my decision. But for the most part it’s her, because she wants to see me get my degree, and she wants to see me be successful after football.”

When contacted Monday by phone, Mitchell told the Miami Herald that she was also conflicted.

Knowing her son might not graduate until next year, how does that affect her decision process?

“Wow. I thought he was, like, right at the door,” she said. “I’ve been talking to Duke about staying because I saw the Duke game when he tweaked his ankle a little bit. So, besides getting his degree, I’m like, OK, maybe he gives it another year. That ankle would heal completely, and I think he’ll be a little more confident.

“I think sometimes he babies it and favors it. Then I think sometimes it’s mental with him. When he thinks about it, then he might start limping a little bit. I’ll be like, ‘Why are you limping? Is it hurting?’

“‘No,’” he’ll say. … I think it’s a mind thing with him sometimes.”

Johnson ranks eighth nationally in yards per carry (7.45), rushing yards (1,036) and all-purpose yards (1,157.5).

He’s 10th in rushing yards per game, averaging 129.5.

Ahead of him nationally in rushing yards are Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah (1,249), a senior; Marshall’s Devon Johnson (1,203), a junior; Indiana’s Tevin Coleman (1,192), a junior; Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon (1,168), a junior; Western Michigan’s Jarvion Franklin (1,148), a freshman; Minnesota’s David Cobb (1,131), a senior; and Pittsburgh’s James Conner (1,079), a sophomore.

On Thursday, Johnson twisted the right ankle he broke last season, but he said it was fine Monday. He, along with freshman tailback Joe Yearby (hamstring), are healed and ready to go for the Canes (5-3, 2-2 ACC) in the 12:30 p.m. homecoming game against North Carolina (4-4, 2-2) on Saturday at Sun Life Stadium.

“No problems with it,” Johnson said.

His mom said the injury issue will be factored in their decision.

“While I want him to heal,” she said, “you never know if he’ll get hurt again. I don’t know. It was good seeing him out there really tearing it up. That’s something I haven’t been able to see this year. Thursday he enjoyed playing football and it showed … We don’t know what the rest of the season may hold.”

Mitchell then weighed the injury concern against the degree issue, saying she knows once her son gets into the NFL, the demands on his time will be even greater.

“It was hard for him [at UM],” she said. “He wanted to be an engineer, but because of their workload, he had to major in something else. I can only imagine at the next level, how much time would you really have?

“The degree isn’t something I want him to keep putting off. I tell him it’s ultimately his decision. I’m going to tell him what I feel, but right now I’m mixed.

“I think another year would give him more confidence and put him where he really wants to be at, and then he’d have his degree and everything would be right there. It sounds too good to be true, right?”

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article3407709.html#storylink=cpy
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For selfish reasons, I would love for him to stay. But he should go pro and make the money while he can. The football life of a RB is way too short to waste an additional year in college.
 
would be really dumb for him to stay. we are pretty ****ed at RB without him. gonna be all Yearby and true FRs
 
I could see if they had redshirted him and this was his 2nd year playing, but hes been pounding that rock for us for 3 straight seasons.

NFL RB have shorter careers so I would declare for the draft. You can always come back in the offseason, workout in Miami and work on your degree.

I can just see him as being a smaller version of a Matt Forte or Lesean McCoy....catching passes out of the backfield or breaking runs. You put him in a good offensive system in the NFL and watch out
 
“It was hard for him [at UM],” she said. “He wanted to be an engineer, but because of their workload, he had to major in something else.

The operative word is WAS !

She won't say so, and won't more than she is mixed .

But the fact is that there really is no real accomplishment for Duke to achieve... He IS the all purpose yard gainer in UM history, and piling up on that anyway. At year's end that might well be a record that's hard to break.

Inasmuch as I would selfishly want Duke to stay, the fact is that by the end of the season, we will be saying that "He was"...
 
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