OT: Titus Young arrested for third time
Not good. He needs help.
but yet the Lions still drafted this dope with a 2nd round pick
Mayhew is clueless...and a bad GM, lets face it it is true.
Pacman and by most accounts Jeff Fisher is a good coach and evaluator of talent. You take risks and this is what happens. It should be interesting to see where the Cardinals are at in a few years time with Honey Badger.
This could turn ugly, he needs help before he ends up getting himself killed or doing something that puts him in prison for a long time.
"Could"??? Isn't it already ugly? Arrested for third time in a week, this time for burglary, assaulting a police officer, and resisting arrest - I'm surprised they didn't taser him.
I don't get it...
My theory regarding guys who implode when they get into the NFL after relatively incident-free college years is a combination of suddenly having a bunch of money in their pockets + the sudden freedom from the structure & discipline inherent with most college programs. Let's face it, the NFL coaches don't have the time or inclination to solve personal problems of their players. They assume they're adults and going to act like them. I'm not sure that theory totally explains Titus Young's crime spree and bizarre behavior. You'd have thought this would have shown up sometime at BSU and that the Lions would have checked it out. Wait, strike that last part /dumb
you make some good points, but some are just bad seeds from the start
I agree, and I also get a sense that college coaches focus on their stars more. At Detroit, Young was a decent player but not one you'd treat as a top dog. That can mess with guys if they were a stud at smaller schools for years.
Jim Schwartz doesn't seem like he has the personality of a mentor, either.... to correct a troubled young man.
The Yahoo! story (HERE) has a few quotes from his former high school coach who is (quite correctly) worried and said (also correctly) that football was simply out of the question and it has to be about getting his life in order. The sentence that Yahoo! ended their piece with expresses this very well:
"Young needs a lot of help (or some time away from general society), and he needs it very, very soon. Stories like this don't generally get better -- they tend to end in tragedy."
/lock thread.
This kid needs some serious help, and I hope he can find it because if he doesn't I think he'll be dead or serving a lifetime jail sentence within 2-3 years.
Young definitely has problems upstairs. He may be one of those guys who ends up in prison for a long time, or dead. Let's hope he does not hurt any innocent people along the way.
He blew his NFL money already?
He seriously needs to get some help, this goes beyond sports. He is going to end up hurting someone else, in jail or worse. I am praying that he finds the support he needs to get his life back on track. He has all the talent to make a lot of money, but he is a head case
yes, it's awful of me to expect people to not get arrested 3 times in a week. this guy is scum, will always be scum, and shouldnt be walking the streets. has his crimes been real serious? no, but as most in law enforcement will tell you this is a pattern to much worse. staying out of trouble isnt hard, if you cant stay out of trouble then you should not be free to commit crime after crime. cali has it right, 3 felonies you get life.
Titus is going to tell all his homies in jail he is still better than CJ
but I haven't seen any confirming details anywhere.
How else are you going to make logical sense out of anything that he does? And this is just stuff that we're HEARING about. Who knows what goes on in his life that doesn't get reported/ seen by the media.