BleedBlueGold
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Clearly no distractions so he can work on getting his grades up...
'11 FL OT Jordan Prestwood (Arizona Western C.C.)
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Clearly no distractions so he can work on getting his grades up...
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lol one of the comments from that article:
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What a waste of god given ability.
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Tony Mitchell, Jr.
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If there is a star lineman moving from AWC to a top four-year school over the last four years, chances are his success has been guided by Tony Mitchell. Mitchell’s ability to gain the respect of his charges has been readily evident by the maturation that his pupils show throughout the season… and beyond. Mitchell heads into his 5th year on the Matador Football coaching staff having split his first four years coaching each side of the line. In 2008 & 2009, he coached the defensive line, getting the best out of guys like NJCAA All-Americans Joel Walton and Ben Swarts, and putting the building blocks in place for Jesse Williams to be recruited by Alabama and start for their national championship team last year. In 2010, Mitchell shifted to the offensive side of the ball, and since then, his blockers have opened gaps to allow Matador rushers Reggie Bullock & Damien Williams to each win WSFL rushing titles and WSFL Offensive Player of the Year awards. He’s groomed 2 NJCAA All-American linemen in the last two years (David Ke’kuewa & Aaron Douglas) as well as four linemen (and a tight end) to All-Region I & All-WSFL honors. The partnership between Mitchell and AWC Head Football Coach Tom Minnick has been a long and prosperous one-one that began in Mitchell’s native state of Illinois when they were coaching mates at Joliet Junior College. Mitchell helped lead the Wolves to a pair of bowl appearances in four years of coaching both linebackers and defensive linemen. Mitchell also spent his time in between his final season with JJC and his first season at AWC in Hamburg, Germany, coaching for the Blue Devils German Football League. Like Minnick, Mitchell learned from NJCAA Hall of Fame Coach Bob MacDougall as both a star player and an up-and-coming assistant. Mitchell was a star linebacker for two of MacDougall’s bowl-bound teams at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, and then started for two more years in the Kentucky State University linebacking corps in 1993 and 1994. Ten years later, Mitchell adjusted to being a coach, reuniting with MacDougall and Minnick on Joliet’s coaching staff. Mitchell earned his Bachelor’s degree from Governor’s State University in Illinois after earning his Associate’s degree while at the College of DuPage. In addition to his coaching duties on the field, Tony is also a coach and mentor to the students who live on the AWC campus as the hall director at Kino Hall.
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Thanks Panda, I have to spread reps, can someone rep this man.
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Ke'Kuewa signed with Bowling Green.
Douglas signed with Alabama and died shortly thereafter of drug overdose.
If I'm reading my internet properly, this coach may know how to polish up linemen, but not grow up adults. Ke'Kuewa OK?, Douglas total failure.
Also, this guy doesn't seem to be any kind of pipeline to any particular school.
And, relatedly: this doesn't seem to me to be what our young immature Jordan exactly needs now. Marine boot camp might be more appropriate.
Douglas signed with Alabama and died shortly thereafter of drug overdose.
If I'm reading my internet properly, this coach may know how to polish up linemen, but not grow up adults. Ke'Kuewa OK?, Douglas total failure.
Also, this guy doesn't seem to be any kind of pipeline to any particular school.
And, relatedly: this doesn't seem to me to be what our young immature Jordan exactly needs now. Marine boot camp might be more appropriate.
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thumbs broken so he cant tweet 24/7
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Gotcha covered
He was impressed by the 21% Graduation Rate.
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Get in where you fit in
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Michigan State?
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Ole Miss it has to happen
Three months ago he couldn't get into academic powerhouse UCF.
Three weeks into his season at Western AZ C.C. he's got offers from Cal, Miss, and FSU.
All, no doubt, impressed with the results of his first round of take home quizzes.
No one questions his football abilities.
No one questions if he's smarter than a fifth grader either.
Three weeks into his season at Western AZ C.C. he's got offers from Cal, Miss, and FSU.
All, no doubt, impressed with the results of his first round of take home quizzes.
No one questions his football abilities.
No one questions if he's smarter than a fifth grader either.
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Bravo, BGIF.
I was contemplating the exactness which this demonstrates that at least Ole Miss, FSU [both longtime defenders of the no-need-to-be-able-to-use-your-mind theory of higher education] and, of all hypocritical places, Cal, have no care whatsoever about the alleged larger aspects of college.
I was contemplating the exactness which this demonstrates that at least Ole Miss, FSU [both longtime defenders of the no-need-to-be-able-to-use-your-mind theory of higher education] and, of all hypocritical places, Cal, have no care whatsoever about the alleged larger aspects of college.
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Cal = Oakland CC when it comes to football
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Truth.
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FWIW, he was offered by So Car today.
Per his twitter
Per his twitter
The NFL needs a real developmental league for this type of individual who has NO chance in any college.
He has real talent and needs coaching and experience; his only chance for success is pro football or flipping fries at Burger King.
If the university presidents were really serious about "student athletes" they would pressure the NFL billionaires to supply one.
Right one his best bet would be arena football or the CFL.
He has real talent and needs coaching and experience; his only chance for success is pro football or flipping fries at Burger King.
If the university presidents were really serious about "student athletes" they would pressure the NFL billionaires to supply one.
Right one his best bet would be arena football or the CFL.
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Delany (BigTen commish) said something similar yesterday, along the lines of "you sign up to play CFB to be an amateur athlete, if you wanna mess around and get paid go to the IMG Academy for 4 years, train and then sign an agent and **** off and leave us alone"
Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany: Let players bypass*college | SI Wire
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Why? Society doesn't owe these kids anything, just because they have athletic talent.
So ... does that make the NFL, society?
I don't often agree with Delaney but his comments on play for pay do seem appropo to '58's comment.
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Love this. College sports should not be a minor league for the pros. If you wanna get an education and play some football while you are doing it, great. If you aren't interested in an education, don't come to college.
I have always thought that college football players should get a modest "laundry stipend" so they have a little spending money, but they should NOT be able to negotiate payment for playing football from boosters or schools or to make money off their status as football players on the open market. If you wanna do that stuff, then stay out of college.
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No, I just don't think that we owe kids who are athletically talented "extra" opportunities to break into an organization that allows them to make a significant income. There is a path to becoming an NFL player, just like there is a path to becoming a Professional Engineer. If someone can't cut it, somewhere on that path, then they simply need to find some other profession. No one feels sorry for the kid who could be a great engineer, but acts like a dumba$$ and doesn't finish school.
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If someone wants to be an engineer, do we say.."Hey you have to take at lest 100 extra credit hours in something that does not apply to engineering in order for you to sit for the FE Exam or you won't graduate, but a theater major does not have to do this."
This is what CFB player's essentially have to do versus baseball or other amateur sports. If you want to play in the NFL, you have to go to school for a minimum of 3 years. If you don't your chances of getting into the NFL are significantly low to nil.
There really is no other option for someone coming out of high school as there is no amateur level private teams or for 18 year old to develop for 3 years outside of CFB.
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^This x like 1000
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As an old prof, I probably have a surprising reaction to this:
1]. I have seen many athletes in my classrooms who are totally wasting their time no matter how hard the teacher tries;
2]. In America, going to college is a choice not the law;
3]. I would view a football development program similarly to a trade school. You attend; are presented with the opportunities to develop skills; emerge as a good or bad "plumber" or "electrician" and go out on the job market. If you can't get a job, you do what everybody else has to do: retrain for something else;
4]. If a large organization wants to bankroll such a skill-feeder mechanism, like a dedicated GM practical engineering school, then why not? If that large organization decides later to close its relationship there, that's business. If this is done according to contractual agreements, then it is legal [probably never moral] and the affected parties should have recognized the possibilities --- this is not much different from how things are now especially in places like the SEC where a more legalistic than moral approach is common.
The side story is: don't we as a society owe something to extremely immature and perspective-poor children, i.e. better {albeit forced} guidance? Well, yes. But that is the parents' and high school counsellors' and churches' job. If none of those elements in society have done their due diligence, forcing socially and/or morally deficient teenagers to go to college will probably "save" a very small percentage of them, and then almost via miracles.
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One further, perhaps off-tune, point: if such a program were really widespread, Notre Dame would play Stanford for the National Championship most years. { while The Birmingham Red Tide would play the Northern Florida Wild Warriors for the development league title}.
1]. I have seen many athletes in my classrooms who are totally wasting their time no matter how hard the teacher tries;
2]. In America, going to college is a choice not the law;
3]. I would view a football development program similarly to a trade school. You attend; are presented with the opportunities to develop skills; emerge as a good or bad "plumber" or "electrician" and go out on the job market. If you can't get a job, you do what everybody else has to do: retrain for something else;
4]. If a large organization wants to bankroll such a skill-feeder mechanism, like a dedicated GM practical engineering school, then why not? If that large organization decides later to close its relationship there, that's business. If this is done according to contractual agreements, then it is legal [probably never moral] and the affected parties should have recognized the possibilities --- this is not much different from how things are now especially in places like the SEC where a more legalistic than moral approach is common.
The side story is: don't we as a society owe something to extremely immature and perspective-poor children, i.e. better {albeit forced} guidance? Well, yes. But that is the parents' and high school counsellors' and churches' job. If none of those elements in society have done their due diligence, forcing socially and/or morally deficient teenagers to go to college will probably "save" a very small percentage of them, and then almost via miracles.
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One further, perhaps off-tune, point: if such a program were really widespread, Notre Dame would play Stanford for the National Championship most years. { while The Birmingham Red Tide would play the Northern Florida Wild Warriors for the development league title}.