Rashan Gary’s Contract
Rashan has endured a whole lot of unnecessary b.s. through the past year or so. I think it’s fair to say he can give a big eff you to all the haters (Including Chris Frey). I am totally overjoyed for him AND his mom. Here is his contract summary:
https://twitter.com/robdemovsky/status/1124406397809172480?s=21
People are accountable for their actions and really don't affect me either way. As long as they're held accountable, I'm good. I don't personally feel people like Ted Kaczynski give MSU women's golf some sort of off the course victory. Shrugs shoulders.
Kaczynski was an unwitting subject of a psychological study of humiliation while an undergrad at Harvard. Your analogizing him with Nassar further demonstrates your ignorance.
Both pretty low on the evolutionary scale.
Don’t sweat it jud. Being a sharty fan you haven’t had a reason to be proud of your athletes or the institution they played for so the concept is foreign to you.
Good for him, but I’m much happier for Devin Bush. He earned his contract at Michigan.
Couldn’t be happier for that kid. He worked for everything he got, and he should feel damn good that Pitt sacrificed so much to jump up and get him at 10. Go on and produce, young man.
The difference for me is it seems Bush had an outstanding mentor as a father where Gary wasn’t as fortunate. I could be wrong but I have only seen Gary’s mother involved in his life. I can only imagine he endured some tough ass times. Would love to know more of his story.
If you remember, the conversation between Rashan and his mother on the Amazon series was pretty rough. I wonder if it was best to include such personal and painful material to the public. Clearly -- and obviously -- it's a big issue to him. It would be to anyone.
The difference for me is that Devin improved and played above his rankings, and Gary didn’t. Father, or no father, this is a football blog - not a reality show.
It’s seems like some criticize Gary for exactly what you said, not playing above his ranking. He was rated higher than Nick Bosa and Ed Oliver, both of which were game changing players.
What these people don’t seem to consider is that ranking HS kids is far from being a science, they are not exact. You also have to account for coaching, scheme and injuries. I don’t think Gary was “incredible” or a game changer but he was a top 15 draft pick chosen by people who do that for a living. I don’t get how anyone can say he didn’t earn his draft position or not celebrate a career that resulted in being a top 15 pick.
What a monster Ed Oliver is!!
Who are you to decide that Rashan didn’t earn his contract? Green Bay obviously thinks he was worth that pick. Rashan didn’t steal that selection from someone else that Green Bay would’ve otherwise picked. Green Bay chose him, straight up, when they could’ve chosen anyone else still on the board.
No, Rashan didn’t have the dominant career here that all of us thought he would have. But a lot of first round picks are made based on the player’s potential, and regardless of his collegiate production, Gary has as much potential, if not more, than any other defensive lineman in this year's draft class.
He definitely earned it, just not based on his time at Michigan. He got that contract for his physical tools, in spite of being injury prone in college.
It sounds like you agree with me, despite trying your best to have a problem.
Your initial comment implied that Bush earned his contract and Gary didn’t. You stopped just short of saying it directly. That’s what I disagreed with. If that’s not what you meant, then you worded your thoughts poorly.
I don’t disagree that Gary had an underwhelming career here, relative to expectations. But he earned he everything he got.
At the end of the day, DEs are judged by sack numbers. Rashan had only 9.5 sacks in 3 seasons, I was flabbergasted when I saw that stat. He’s a great young man and Wolverine, but his time here was underwhelming. Go get paid Rashan!
How about them apples!!! I hope he tears it up in the league.
He didn’t tear it up in college, so there’s not much chance he’s going to tear it up in the league.
Right, because nobody in the league has ever performed better than they did in college.
Clearly you have little to no understanding how talent benefits as it moves to higher levels of play. And just as clearly, GB has an idea about how to use Rashawn-and it was likely more than somewhat confirmed when they met and worked him out. My guess is that they plan to use him on the weakside to limit his in-space responsibilities and at the same time allow him to attack more. It should be interesting.
Curious to see what he can do in the NFL.
Criticism is unnecessary BS now? The reality is, yes, he was a good player at Michigan but was absolutely a disappointment given the expectations placed on him from the beginning, whether those expectations were fair or not.
Have you similarly posted on the Brandon Peters and Ben St Juste threads about how they never lived up to their potential here either? No? Strange. Why is it just this player we feel the need to disparage? Kids come and go but it’s like the board gets off on calling Gary a disappointment. Welcome to your opinion s but why it needs to brought up so often is mystifying.
Brandon Peters and BSJ weren't the consensus top overall recruit putting up NFL combine numbers out of HS. Why it gets brought up so often, I don't know, but the reality is his Michigan career did not live up to what his recruiting profile suggested. Not debating whether that's fair or right or something that should be hammered away constantly.
So what did Chris Frey say? Im assuming he said something since you included him in the OP as a hater?
Right about now I bet he's saying "I'll be lucky to make a small fraction of what Rashan is going to get. I should run my mouth a little more and see what happens next."
Took me a bit to find it but Frey joined in on the making fun of the (9) test score:
https://twitter.com/cfrey_23/status/1120490058660896771?s=21
Thanks for posting. It's worth it to visit that twitter thread for the awful tweets Frey has posted in the past: predictably racist and misogynistic
Frey is an almost archetypal Sparty douche. For the moment, though, he's tied with Rashan in one area:
"This player does not have any statistics..." LOL
Interesting. Frey is on which NFL team? Oh he’s in the CFL? What a jackass.
Congratulations, son. You've just pulled down more with your signing bonus than I've earned in my entire life so far. Here's to a good balance of enjoying life with fiscal responsibility.
Not many of us have earned more than $9,567,136 unless you're Steven Ross.
I was with you until the Stephen Ross bit. I'm not saying that 9 million is insignificant to him, but he is worth close to 1,000 times that amount. Obviously, most even upper middle class may not see that amount in their lifetimes, but I don't think you realize just how much money the super-rich - like Ross - actually "earn. "
You do realize "rankings" are based on a players ability to be a first-round draft pick. Gary being a top 12 pick even with underwhelming production shows we got exactly what we were promised with his 5*s.
This is the down side to higher "ranked" players, sometimes they're just waiting for their draft, trying not to get an injury that will cost them millions of dollars.
And I don't blame them one bit.
My favorite part is that he represents himself, so his agent is getting 100% of that $10 million signing bonus!
congrats and well done Rashan!
He doesn't represent himself. A paid employee of his agency negotiated his contract.
‘His agency’ is the operative phrase in your sentence. I am happy for Rashan! Are you? I am going to guess no by your past history of passive aggressive pro Sparty comments. Your existence here is - pathetic!
I'm not happy or unhappy. Surely not "proud". Never been "proud" for Cousins either. Very good on Gary for getting paid though. That's good money. I'm sorry if my existence here hurts your feelings.
No apology necessary - your existence here does not hurt my feelings. It’s just embarrassing and pathetic to go to a rival team’s fan blog and pretend that you are not actually a closet sparty fan until someone calls you out.
I'm pretty sure my screen name and posting history doesn't indicate "closet" Sparty fan. Let's not try to over think this.
I can honestly say that there was not a Jud memorable enough for me to realize that you are an open sparty fan.
Then you're really not much of a sports fan. Shrugs shoulders.
Or he's under the age of 35 or so. Heathcote retired in 1995, for crying out loud.
I'm glad you're "totally overjoyed". Looks as though he will be making lots of money.
It’s so typical that in this unfortunate mini-era, expressing an honest and reasonable opinion equates (to some) with being a “hater.” It’s simply a fact that Gary’s play at Michigan never matched the hype with which he arrived. To believe, based on his performance in college, that he’s not going to be a dominant NFL player is a perfectly reasonable opinion. We’ll see what happens, but no one is hating Gary. I blame participation trophies.
This thread is about contract. Just sharing your opinion on how he didn't live up to his hype multiple times in the thread about a contract sounds like hate. Start another thread about how Gary was not worth the hype.
Don't give him ideas. We've had 20 such threads. We get the point some people are disappointed. But the fact remains, him doing well in the NFL only helps Michigan and if we ever want another #1 overall recruit we should be congratulating and cheering for Rashan.
The thread most certainly is not just about his contract. The OP implied the criticisms of him were unnecessary or possibly even false, and that his contract proves that.
First you say that you’re expressing an opinion, then you state your opinion is fact. Which is it?
It's your opinion, which you're entitled to. Calling your opinion "simply fact" doesn't actually make it a fact, though.
NFL does not share your opinion