Betts is done at NU
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The point was to support the fact that just about every person makes bad decisions whether it is in their education, career or personal life. High school and college kids seem to do it most frequently. For a kid who struggled to qualify and who wouldn't have without NU's academic advice and guidance, it seems pretty stupid to give up a full ride scholarship. His future without football probably holds either standing beside a conveyor belt or driving a forklift. Not that there's anything wrong with that. His choice. His consequences. Personally my good fortune at many points where I made horrible decisions, kept me from my lifelong goal of being a heavy equipment operator. That's what I want to be when I grow up.
Joseph has commented that the WRs were competing just for playing time. They were competing for roster spots. You weren't going to half *** it for 3 years on scholarship and be allowed to stick around. Paraphrased.
The only problem for Xavier is that I don't think he's going to be found working in a hospital unless he's mopping the floors.
This is pretty tough, even for a phD who appropriates friends/spouse’s medical training whenever possible
do you also insist your friends call you doctor, a la our First Lady? Lol
If Betts doesn’t want to play football anymore then so be it. There are a million jobs out there where you don’t need a college degree and can still be successful.
Most of us don’t understand the decision because we think we would give our right nut to have that opportunity that he is giving up on. So the thought process is how do you give that up. I would rather this take place than watch a kid who wanted to play football piss it away because they beat and sexually assault women, got busted with drugs or DUI or stealing ****. At least he is making the decision to step a away
Most of us don’t understand the decision because we think we would give our right nut to have that opportunity that he is giving up on. So the thought process is how do you give that up. I would rather this take place than watch a kid who wanted to play football piss it away because they beat and sexually assault women, got busted with drugs or DUI or stealing ****. At least he is making the decision to step a away
Betts' situation is just another reminder of what makes ultra-successful athletes, guys like Michael Jordan and Jerry Rice, so rare. They possess that unique combination of insane athletic ability and insane motivation/work ethic. 99.999% of the population lacks one or the other, or both.
I don’t know. A top 150 recruit with his size, skill & athleticism would be a top 3 weapon for most, especially in a conference bereft of playmakers.
Someone that this kid will listen to needs to help him understand just how much he is giving up if he walks away. He has the athleticism to be at least a signed NFL draft pick. 3 years in the pros would be a nice chunk of money to start off adult life with, while also being assured of getting a free college education. The problem with a lot of youth today is they truly do expect that they can just expect to live comfortably without really working hard and sacrificing. somehow they will have money and a job doing whatever they want. Unless your parents are multi-millionaires, that is not the case.
The problem is not Betts, it's football fans who never amounted to **** in high school and look at the potential million dollar contracts and think every football player wants to play in the NFL! He doesn't want to play football, period! Not every 20 year old wants to be an NFL player.
And rather than giving a half hearted effort on the practice field this spring, he did the right thing and stepped away, thus letting other kids get those reps. Maybe he finds out he misses it. Maybe not.
Football fans who didn’t amount to **** in high school was due to not having the ability/talent of a Betts. You can apply it to any career, if you have the skills/talent to be successful in a career for a short period of time to make a significant amount of money in the short term to help you get started on your long term goals, you either absolutely hate it or are just wasting the opportunity. If Betts hated football I’m glad he left and wish him well, but if it was just mildly inconvenient for him and he’s sitting at home in a bean bag eating Cheetos fingering his bellybutton with no next move, he may regret this decision.
MY son had similar experiences.
By the time he was 14, he had played in 8 different countries.
From the time he was 9, he told his Mom and I, he would live in either California or Florida where it's warm and near the ocean.
He played D-1 baseball and really enjoyed it. He had always said he played athletics to attain a scholarship as a challenge, but didn't envision that as a day-to-day job professionally.
After he graduated, he came home and 3 days later said he was moving to LA and had a job lined up. In 2001, my son says he's starting at 150K plus, it's time for Pops to step aside and let the son do his thing.
He homeschools his boys, he works at home and goes into his office twice a week.
He's been a very happy, productive young man, with zero regrets.
He's living his dream and athletics was his vehicle. Their dream is the one that matters now.
Nope. They call me by my first or last name. Business acquaintances often call me "Doc" or Dr. IF introducing myself to someone I never use Dr. PHDs who insist on being called "Dr.s" nauseate me. I have a similar gut reaction to chiropracters. Sorry chiropracters. I just know what goes in to becoming an M.D. or a chiropracter and chiropracters don't go through anywhere remotely close to what an M.D. does to get their license.
She's as much a Dr. as Dr. Pepper. I totally agree dingle. It's one thing to have a PhD, with some people it's their whole identity. You notice I call you "dingle?" It's because I respect the way you post, and you're not all hung up on the title.
If I'm addressing a board or council, and there's a MD or PhD (even in Ed), I will play the game and address them as "Dr. whatever." Before or after the meeting, I'm calling them Joe or whatever.
I am a helluva lot more apt to address someone as "Dr." when they aren't putting it in people's faces. My mentor had multiple PhD's. I called him Ben, unless we were among people, then I addressed him as Dr.
I think some kids excel in high school with natural ability. It's fun and easy.
But the amount of work and discipline required to play division 1 is a culture shock to some.
The odds of him ever getting to the NFL were slim even if he stuck it out. As someone who paid his own way through college though, it disappoints me when somebody has a full ride and pisses it away. His earning potential is much greater as a college graduate. That said, if a trade is what he aspires to, so be it. Some of the highest earning people I know are contractors with degrees from the school of hard knocks but they busted their asses to get to where they are. I'm not sensing that kind of will do attitude from Xaiver.