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Originally Posted by Goldenfleece
I don't really think Talib will fall to us. Manningham probably will, but I think this will affect our valuation of him. In Mario's case, though, I think the bigger problem is that he apparently lied about it at the Combine, and that's a terrible first impression to make on your future head coach.
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Agreed on both players and, particularly, on the fact that, regardless of the individual, it makes a terrible first impression on the future coach.
To me, college drug issues -- as Thoey put it -- raises a bright red flag (not a little one) and it waves strong. Sure, there are MANY players in the NFL that have had these issues and yet have also had a long and/or successful career in the NFL.
But it's time the league put a stop -- or at least, curtail -- the ease with which said youngsters enter the big time big picture with little or no consequence for their illegal "
experiments".
I do not condone the so called '
college experimentation' as if were an excuse, or even a '
normal expectancy' given the average age of students and their level of maturity.
No! NO!
IMO, this is a but a small indicator, only a semblance of the stubborn situation many societies suffer. Specifically in this collegiate sports scenario, why would we want to j-u-s-t-i-f-y the imbecile tendency of "experimenting" with drugs just because the kid is now in High School or ... wow... in College! Indeed, that is the one typical, small indicator that is, oh, so effective in producing derelicts, divorces and/or drunk professionals!
Claude Wrotten. Pacboy Jones. Michael Irvin (HOF). You know what I mean.
Yes, I understand many of these athletes come from broken homes and are already certified candidates for crack, meth or pot usage. Again, my point is to
DISCOURAGE these foolish practices in college rather than making them a way of life; to educate and edify; to emerge, for crying out loud, from that week "it's okay" mentality!
I've said it before. I'm glad Mr. Roger Goodell is working on elevating the standards and policies related to substance abuse -- as are the rest of professional sports organizations doing. If Randy Moss got away with being a pot head and is now a millionaire superstar, well, may he be a dying breed (read it only as an expression, don't sue me).
Maybe Moss, and his fellow gang of supposedly ex-user successful sport icons will have the courage and the brains to somehow participate in educating HS youth to avoid the damning magnet of drugs.