"Thug".....What makes him a thug? i love how that is now a trigger word. dont like anything a kid is saying, write him off as a thug. "oh, he smokes weed...hes a street thug" "he's wearing a hoody, he's a thug"
And yes, there are kids. lets not forget that. When they sign and show up to play they are entrusting their safety and future in the hands of the coach. So if you have all the potential in the world, put in all the work and heed to your coaches' words and end up a bust...guess what thats on the coach! and that is a recurring pattern here. If you can make it on an NFL team, a league that consists of the best of the best, then there is no excuse of how a coach cannot find a way to utilize you on the college scene. A few have made it through - Sam Shields, Richard Gordon, Chase Ford, Dedrick Epps, Laron Byrd, Seantrel Henderson - and all under performed here. These are the ones who got lucky, who's to say how many others fell by the wayside because of the horrendous coaching? player development? I mean is which the reason? what happens to our kids during their tenure here???