AJ Barker quits Minnesota FB & obliterates Kill on way out

thats alot of words.

tl;dr

Who?

Minnesota football has not been on my radar since Rickie Foggie left.

The sad thing is that he would have gotten a lot of attention from big schools if he didn't post this rant and just quit the team.  Now there are going to be questions about his intangibles.

Moral of the story: Jerry Kill is not a good football coach.

There are two sides to every story. The thing is that we will probably never get the other side of this one. 

He wrote all of that without including a joke about Kill's mustache or gopher like appearance or creepiness in the B1G coaches video? And he decided to break his serious rant on tumblr?

double post- But any way best of luck to Barker and I hope he has a successful career at another school. Funny how not getting a scholarship was a blessing in disguise. 

forget the wisdom of the old cliche..."brevity is the soul of wit."

Count me in the tl;dr camp.

I gotta say, with the language that young man used, fuck Jerry Kill.  I know it's just one side of the story.  But it's hard to believe that kid (after reading what he had to say) is some meathead who has a problem with "the state of things" in the Minnesota program.  

I will probably always have the default setting of siding with the player in situations like this.  I mean, on one hand, who cares?  Right?  It's just football.  But on the other hand, it's everything 18-21 year olds absolutely cherish when they are capable of playing for a D1 program.

To be fair, fuck anyone who takes that away from a kid.  And yes, to me, 18-21 year olds are respectfully "kids."  

Wow.  Now maybe I can understand why Sparty is favored over them by so much.  Their locker room is going to be a mess this week.  This is going to be tough week to manage for the Minnesota coaching staff.

1. College coaches yell and push kids to play with pain, even at lowly Minnesota.
2. Players should exit with class b/c the Internet never forgets (future employers, etc).

Back to our regularly scheduled program ...

Any chance this kid is a psych major? He could turn this in as a class assignment as long as there is a 5000 word requirement.

This was uncomfortable to read, because it's a reminder that some part of what goes on in college football coaching and training is like sausage-making:  if you could actually see the process you would be less happy with the product.  I don't know how many coaches belittle their players, mess with their heads, and downplay injuries, but I'm sure it's not just Jerry Kill.  

Anyway, IMO Barker should not have published it.  I suspect the negative fallout it will generate will not be worth the catharsis he felt when he posted it.

snap.

I read most of his tirade, and just couldn't help thinking it reflected more on Barker than on Kill.  He just came across sounding like a whiner who has convinced himself (with the help of his mother and father) that he's an indispensable star on the team (or as one of the readers of the article posted, he's "a special snowflake").