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Luke Caneswalker said:
@BoxingRobes Bandy’s play speed may be slow compared to NFL talent but in no way is running a 4.5 40 slow. Thats just ridiculous.
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Everything is relative. On my fastest, fittest day I never ran anywhere near that fast. That would easily have made me the fastest kid in my high school football team. As an NFL cornerback, that would make me average. As an NFL cornerback under 5’8”, that would make me borderline unplayable. There’s plenty of corners who run in that range but they’re usually bigger, more physical guys or they’re guys who get moved to safety. Bandy was too slow to not be a big, physical guy.
 
This is another sad story of the cruel business of cfb.
I tell every parent I see regardless of sport. Focus on the scholarship and forget about everything else.

Even if you get drafted it doesn’t mean you stick in the league. Plenty of day one picks were out of the league in less than 5 years.

Anyone saying they are set for life after one nfl contract is lying to you.
Unless you developed good financial skills and ar surrounded by business savvy people, that money is gone.

But the reality of 99% of cfb players is that they will have to rely on a career outside of football.
And most of these players don’t prepare or seek guidance about anything else but football.
And when it’s over they face an extremely uncertain future with nowhere near the lifestyle and glory they dreamed about since a child.

And being in sofla doesn’t do these kids any favors because so many of the friends they played with are living the dream they had for themselves.

Use the scholarship, take advantage of the system. Not too many people can say they got a full ride to a p5 program. Network. Get business mentors.

If football is in your future, it will take care of itself if you combine the talent and work ethic.
And even then it’s not guaranteed.

Many of these kids place their future on circumstances beyond their control. Getting that diploma and taking full advantage of everything that comes with playing at Miami should be a high priority and something that you can fully control and exploit to your advantage and financial security.
 
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DTP said:
Everything is relative. On my fastest, fittest day I never ran anywhere near that fast. That would easily have made me the fastest kid in my high school football team. As an NFL cornerback, that would make me average. As an NFL cornerback under 5’8”, that would make me borderline unplayable. There’s plenty of corners who run in that range but they’re usually bigger, more physical guys or they’re guys who get moved to safety. Bandy was too slow to not be a big, physical guy.
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No doubt. I should have expanded on my response. Your breakdown is spot on. I don’t push back on the realities of Trajan as a NFL prospect. Your and Boxing Robes critiques are on the money.

As a fellow ball player who never ran a 4.5. I cant sit here and front like running that is deemed slow. Put that time on prototype measurables and no one is mentioning speed as the issue.
 
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Cookie917 said:
Yeah but I think a few things can be mutually exclusive here. I am all for calling a spade a spade and yes regardless of what Zo has said or done, if Bandy was good enough a team would take a flyer on him. Yes it sucks for Zo to tell someone he is slow and small but this is also Zo's job.

Where I have the potential problem is it seems like Bandy was screwed by an agent (shocker) and likely was given some advance or a gift or something the agent expected back. I have heard wilddddd stories from personal friends where an agent "buys" a luxury gift for the player, then when the player looks at his cost breakdown the gift is included as a cost on top of the agent's cut. That is dirty pool.

It also seems like perhaps Zo told Bandy a half truth or maybe pacified him (or completely possible he told Bandy the truth and Bandy only took what he wanted to hear) but after so many years you dont still reach out to this dude unless he hinted or told you that you would get an opportunity or a try out. Then to tell him that he needs to go raise his brothers and that he is doing a poor job of it, like come on man, be bigger than that. NO 25-28 year old should be forced to take care of their siblings and he clearly is due to some family issue why take a shot at a kid trying to get to the league to provide for the family which I also believe was the reason he left early. Sad all the way around.

However, I seem to recall Bandy bleeding orange and green. Begging for an offer when he was committed to West Virginia I believe then flipped to us, I seem to recall him holding some signed gear he got as a kid in his commitment then gave us one of the top 5 moments in Canes history for the last 20 years. Sucks it didnt workout and bad look to air laundry on the internet but I wouldnt be quick to write him off as completely unfounded.
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i think he left early cause he grew up impoverished and was kind of responsible for a bunch of siblings right behind him.

But i think he has that thing where it was a dream and he feels AH who might have just told the truth on him...he feels being part of the columbus mafia should look out and for whatever reason it hasnt happened. His dumb decision is putting this online as if it would help.

I know its bad because some of those text exchanges is close to alonzo likely attacking TB if he ever saw him. smh.

Your 5'8 and aint play in 3+ years man...go cfl or afl and try that route again...or he couldve gotten into coaching by now...but looks like TB is on another route.

Bad look all around.

This generation uses "gaslighting" entirely too much..but i can say i have guys that i went to high school with an played ball with that have done similar stuff like this on fb about our old high school coach and thats from early 2000s and a kid who played a grand total of like 2 years of spring football maybe 1 szn and hes complainiing about our hc hating on him and not getting him div 1 offers still holds the grudge to this day.
 
the yutes have no discretion because they live their lives online and in the public. they think everything is ok to be put online.

who gives a **** about their lives? i surely don't.
 
Felonious Monk said:
Richard Pryor ran the 100-yard dash in 4.3. That was as a 40-yr old in 1980. I heard him say it himself and it's on film somewhere.
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[Pam Grier] wrote about how a visit to her doctor led to her breakup with Pryor. Her physician had told her about a medical condition involving a “buildup of cocaine residue around the cervix and in the ******.”

Her doctor asked if Pryor had dipped his genitals in cocaine before he had sexual intercourse (both oral and vaginal) with Grier. However, she refuted that claim to her doc.

“Not that I know of. It’s not like he has a pile of cocaine next to the bed and he dips his ***** in it before we have ***,” she told the medic.

He then asked if perhaps Pryor was doing coke before going to bed and Grier noted that that was a possibility.

“Oh, my God,” the doctor said, according to her memoir. “We have a serious problem here. If he’s not putting it on his skin directly, then it’s worse because the coke is in his seminal fluid.

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Pam Grier on rocky love affair with Richard Pryor: I saw him ‘ruining his life’

The “Foxy Brown” actress talked candidly about her relationship with the comedian.
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He’s at it again and coming for everyone. I feel for the kid but not sure how much of this true.
 
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pacusmc said:
This is another sad story of the cruel business of cfb.
I tell every parent I see regardless of sport. Focus on the scholarship and forget about everything else.

Even if you get drafted it doesn’t mean you stick in the league. Plenty of day one picks were out of the league in less than 5 years.

Anyone saying they are set for life after one nfl contract is lying to you.
Unless you developed good financial skills and ar surrounded by business savvy people, that money is gone.

But the reality of 99% of cfb players is that they will have to rely on a career outside of football.
And most of these players don’t prepare or seek guidance about anything else but football.
And when it’s over they face an extremely uncertain future with nowhere near the lifestyle and glory they dreamed about since a child.

And being in sofla doesn’t do these kids any favors because so many of the friends they played with are living the dream they had for themselves.

Use the scholarship, take advantage of the system. Not too many people can say they got a full ride to a p5 program. Network. Get business mentors.

If football is in your future, it will take care of itself if you combine the talent and work ethic.
And even then it’s not guaranteed.

Many of these kids place their future on circumstances beyond their control. Getting that diploma and taking full advantage of everything that comes with playing at Miami should be a high priority and something that you can fully control and exploit to your advantage and financial security.
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Amen to all of the above.
I wonder how many of these athletes truly appreciate and exploit the opportunity to get a free ride towards a college degree, that many other people of their age could only dream of. It makes one wonder, especially someone like Bandy who also attended a school like Columbus, with its many connections.
 
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