OT but draft related: This guys is one big SICKO!
Sounds like he is dong punching himself by giving up.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Scott-Sicko-will-…
What an idiot.....and spare me the "but he's getting an education" garbage because the only reason he won't play is because he didn't get drafted. This guy must have quite an ego.
plain and simple
This is something he may end up regretting the rest of his life
Like a premature knee replacement or full body arthritis from 7 years in the league?
...my friends. Read the testimony of one, Jarrett Irons on the decision he made not to pursue the NFL after going undrafted and one short camp as an undrafted free agent.
While he did sign on with the Cardinals, when he was cut, even though he clearly had chances to sign with other teams, he chose to resume his graduate studies at Michigan.
The point is, athletes who are on the cusp of an NFL career (i.e., undrafted free agents) are equally logical when they choose to pursue the NFL or a career outside of the NFL.
Reading the whole story, Irons brings logic to the situation though. He tried out and got cut...then decided it wasn't right for him. He didn't set some stupid ultimatum that if he didn't get drafted he wasn't going to play. Guy just sounds like a baby (not Irons).
Irons could've signed with other teams after getting cut as well. He decided he'd rather go back to the school than play in the NFL. Who's to say when a player is allowed to stop trying to make a team without being called a baby on the internet?
Keep taking the only parts out of the article you agree with and you'd understand my viewpoint. We wouldn't even be having this conversation if the guy had been drafted because he would be playing right now...it's like he won't play for a team because they already had chances to take him and didn't as if it was some disrespect to him. I'm not hating on him for getting an education, just his reasoning for abandoning football.
Not to mention you can totally tell by reading the Irons article that he had been conflicted during college about how much he really even cared about the game.
I like his decision. You can tell he doesn't have a passion for football. Better to give an opportunity to someone who loves football and is motivated for the nfl.
The cut-off point is definitely arbitrary, but this is pretty straightforward: "The thing that will make me the happiest now and in the long run is to pursue my education." Some people, even those who are really good at football, just don't want to play in the NFL as badly as you might think. He should do whatever makes him happy.
The posts taking this guy to task for deciding he didn't want to pursue a football career strike me as incredibly condescending.
He might end up regretting it, and he might not. Maybe the guy's really not that excited about playing in the NFL, and not getting drafted is just the excuse he was hoping for.
Not that I know one way or the other. I'm just not quite so quick to assume I know better what's the right decision for the guy than he is himself.
Anyway, follow the link in the blog post and read the full story on him, rather than just the post that throws out one quote and then moralizes about it. It actually paints a pretty reasonable picture of someone who came to the conclusion that playing football just wasn't his highest priority, regardless of what others thought about that decision.
I know I read the article.
"If I were to be drafted I would have had more confidence of a much longer career in the NFL". Really, Scott Sicko? So if Detroit had gone with you with the last pick you'd have a whole different mentality about your chances in the league? Come on. If you don't realize that this guy sounds bitter about not being drafted and instead of doing something about it he's going to walk away like a coward, you're crazy.*
*- Again, I GET IT. Education is good. I hope he gets A's on all of his papers. Seriously.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:18 PM ^
the next time he has a big one to make.
He probably should be thanking his lucky stars that he wasn't drafted. If he was going to pursue an NFL career only because of the draft, then he likely would just be subjecting his body to the brutality of the NFL for little likelihood of success.
April 25th, 2010 at 11:05 PM ^
I didn't neg you, fwiw. That one sentence does sound a little bitter out of context, but that's not the impression I got from the interview as a whole. I guess it's a possibility, but it's not obvious from the article at all.
But basically your stance is that we must judge this kid!!! I'm perfectly content not to judge him, and I propose not to hold the ritual internet tirade about what a bozo he is for making a life choice that some of us disagree with. Not that he's likely to know or care one way or the other, I'm just not convinced he's a coward or crybaby and I vote for no tirade.
April 25th, 2010 at 11:19 PM ^
If you negged me it's no big deal lol...I understand if you disagree with my stance.
FWIW, yours is the only one I disagreed with that I didn't neg because you are the only one who looked past the fact that I wasn't down on this guy solely because he decided not to try out for the NFL. It's just the principle behind his decision. What makes getting drafted the only reason why he would have played? If his heart really wasn't in it, why did he even make himself eligible to be drafted in the first place? Why didn't he come out and say he was going to get his education and say screw the NFL? I just get a strong impression that this guy is taking the sour grapes approach to not getting drafted. He is, as the article says, taking his ball and going home.
April 25th, 2010 at 10:16 PM ^
He just wants to do that NCAA voice-over: "There are over 400,000 NCAA student-athletes..."
April 25th, 2010 at 10:27 PM ^
And just who the fuck was Scott Sicko?
Get your education, kid. You're going to need it. You're not done with football. Football is done with you.