LPD Players playing in college

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: UTVols2</div><div class="ubbcode-body">To me it just comes down to dedication and the desire to play at the next level. I don't think there are many kids out there willing to put in the time during the summers that it takes to play at the next level. They are worried too much about being at the pool chasing skirt. Not saying that is a bad thing, just if you want to make it at the next level you have to have the desire to do so, and it just seems like not enough kids put in the time and the ones who do come during the summers and off seasons to lift and condition, they are the ones that don't really have the talent, just the work ethic. Hope that makes sense. </div></div>

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Could you imagine what this thread would have already turned into on the main forum. It would be 10 pages long on how at least 10 players from each school should have went D1 but it is the Coaches fault for not helping them. I hate the [censored] excuse, I hear it all the time. Well Coach so and so didn't help me at all, it is his fault I didn't go to UT, Bama, Florida, Va Tech or hell, UVA-Wise and Emory & Henry for that matter. Bullsheite, it is you fault for not working your ass off and not setting yourself apart from the rest of the field. If your not going to put in the time, why should a Coach go out of his way and waste his when he knows you aren't going to make it because you couldn't put in the time at the HS level.

OK, sorry for the rant, I just hear it way too often and that excuse is played out.

You are right Vols2...

The kid has to want it so bad he can taste it on his own...

Let's start this thread on the main forum...it would be great..lol

yea, on the main thread we can hear why some band nerd didn't get to be the Peyton Manning he was born to be

PVFAN put it on the main board, lets the fun begin.

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral88</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
That is all it comes down to....I played with several talented atheletes in high school, but the only one strapping on the pads on Sundays right now had a desire that I have never seen in anyone before or after....He wasn't no where near the best player in highschool, but by the time he left UNC he was the best deffensive back in the ACC... </div></div>

really? Gerald was better than Jimmy Williams and Antrel Rolle?

Gerald wasn't even on the 1st or 2nd team all-conference teams, so that's a pretty bold statement

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: vthokie22</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: neutral88</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
That is all it comes down to....I played with several talented atheletes in high school, but the only one strapping on the pads on Sundays right now had a desire that I have never seen in anyone before or after....He wasn't no where near the best player in highschool, but by the time he left UNC he was the best deffensive back in the ACC... </div></div>

really? Gerald was better than Jimmy Williams and Antrel Rolle?

Gerald wasn't even on the 1st or 2nd team all-conference teams, so that's a pretty bold statement</div></div>

Thank you. I wanted to say something to that effect but was too lazy. [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif[/img]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> To me it just comes down to dedication and the desire to play at the next level. I don't think there are many kids out there willing to put in the time during the summers that it takes to play at the next level. They are worried too much about being at the pool chasing skirt. Not saying that is a bad thing, just if you want to make it at the next level you have to have the desire to do so, and it just seems like not enough kids put in the time and the ones who do come during the summers and off seasons to lift and condition, they are the ones that don't really have the talent, just the work ethic. Hope that makes sense. </div></div>


ABSOLUTELY. And I love the parents that think because their kid has just a little bit of talent they should play college ball, even at a small school. But when you give them workouts or encourage them to put in some off-season time, they say, "Well, they need a break....they've been working hard for a couple of months now."

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CoeburnCane</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Call me nuts--but I've been calling it since the first time I've seen Alec Osborne play that he'd go play somewhere on the D1 level. He's got that speed you can't teach. If someone can just put some more bulk on him, he'd at the very least make a D1 squad as a reserve RB or OLB and a special teamer. There are smaller D1 schools in the country that could very well offer him a scholly because they can't get those big guys with speed, so they settle for smaller guys with speed--so there's a market out there for him, recruiting-wise. I think he could go to Appy State or another DII school and do well if he doesn't go D1. If guys like Chris Robinson & Derek Robbins focus in on football and want to--they could go to the next level as well...but Alec's ceiling, to me, is much higher due to his speed.

I also think Shane Bright has the athleticism to at least play somewhere around here on the next level as a LB or FB. </div></div>

I don't mean this in a bad way, but it's pretty much the only way it's going to sound... the kid doesn't have the heart or the desire. When you refuse to play because you get a cold or you wont go back in the game because you've got a bruised arm, that says alot. The kid has lots of potential and tons of speed and lots of other positives, but he's kind of soft.