Reminder: Not everyone will get drafted/be a star and that's OK
Just your friendly MGoBoard reminder that this weekend many of our Wolverines will not hear their names called in the NFL draft. And that's OK. There are 120ish D1 programs or approximately 13,800 "jobs" for people to play college football. In the NFL there are 1590 jobs (on the "active roster, which doesn't mean you'll get to suit up on Sundays).
Many of our favorite Wolverines are done with Football. Some might become NFL stars, long-time special-teamers, have a cup of coffee, make practice squads, play arena league, or somewhere in between. And that's all awesome. How many people do you know that took a year or two off after graduation? Some travelled the world, some just bummed around, some saved up money for grad school, etc. Making a practice squad is nothing to sneeze at. None of these kids are failures, even if they don't get drafted.
Here's hoping that all of our Wolverines have great football experiences going forward. Go Blue.
Okay mom.
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I think you need to add close tags for the italics and bold in your signature.
Did I close the bold and italics tags?
Edit: Nope. This pimpmobile just keeps on going.
This is so bad.
In b4 unitalicization
Just want to see if my post ends up being bolded.
Thanks for pre-emptively talking me off a ledge that I was nowhere near, I guess
This OP just makes me sad that I never got to take a year or two off after graduation to "bum around" :(
wait...what's going on? bold? italics?
Bum around the world two years? No huge responsibilities? Where do I sign up! Seriously, the cameraderie, esprit d corps, brotherhood and bonds built, are all incredibly valuable, and I'm glad they had the experience of being part of Michigan football, regardless of what the future brings.
I'm just sayin' that of those 1590 jobs it would be cool if 85 of them every 4 years coming out of Michigan would be pretty sweet.
Even if that only happens in my XBox360 Dynasty.
AHH. Formating! Y U NO?!
Shrek Is Love, Shrek is Life.
possibility that the Big 10 may not have a player drafted in the 1st round.
It would be the 1st time since 1953
WOW!
Taylor Lewan ruining that streak to come back for his Sr. year? G'Bye streak!!
What about Hankins? I thought he was supposed to be a first rounder.
Woo!
Hines Ward, Antwaan Randle El, Denard Robinson.
I've checked out a few mock drafts and the only one that went 7 rounds had Denard in the 5th round to San Francisco.
It'll be much better for Michigan Football as a program when all we are talking about this week is "how high in the 1st round do you think X, Y, and Z are going to go?" The fact that we're talking about our best player MAYBE going in the third round is a problem, and a sign of why we haven't been all that good for a number of years.
April 23rd, 2013 at 10:42 AM ^