Baby Gronk to Pitt
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How you spend your expansive amount of free time never ceases to amaze.
It’s actually pretty sad. This kid’s like, 13 years old, and his dad has basically decided to make him an internet celebrity by branding him as “Baby Gronk” and turning him into this child prodigy/hypebeast of sorts. If you look at the “kid’s” Twitter feed (and I put that in quotes because the dad is the one running it) you’ll see that the kid has “flipped his commitment” multiple times per week. It’s Todd Marinovich but amped up to a million because of the social media factor.
The dad even named the kid “Madden.” It’s totally unhinged, and the dad should be ashamed of himself.
pittdan77
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I really don't think this is a part of any trend. It's a mentally ill dad leading his son down the path that will, at best, make the kid resent him for the rest of his life if not end up far worse.
I think he means that Baby Gronk is enormously famous with the "Skibidi Ohio Rizzler" generation. I'd say pretty close to 100% of boys that age know who he is. Its sad but its where we are as a nation. Thanks Biden.
I remember when Woodland Hills recruited Gronk and he "moved' to the district. Pitt thought they had a chance.
An overbearing dad living vicariously through his kid IS NOT a new phenom
He was a no-name recruit. I literally had no idea he even went to WH until he was several years in the league and I paid fairly close attention to recruiting back then
Do you think Novak drove up to Buffalo to find a TE?
Gronk's dad still has stores in Pittsburgh.
Gronk's dad brought him to Woody High.
No. But having social media exponentially giving this attention and notoriety is.
I read where he changed his commitment 10 times in a week. His old man must be a sick mofo.
It's really not. The study guides those tutors give them are so easy to digest that my ten year old could get a criminal justice degree at Pitt. Far dumber guys than Gronk stayed eligible.
If you can learn and understand an NFL playbook, you can easily get through college, no matter where you go.
pittdan77
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See, I wasn't and had no idea. It's almost like you can just pay attention to what interests you and ignore BS.
Actually I am not. If someone who obviously didn't post a thread on it, and I see it got many responses, I would have never clicked on it or head of it.
There is social media making it widely seen
That’s the only difference
This crap has always gone on with parents and kids as long as there has been sports . Just ask Andrew
He's really good at football for his age. But he's also like 3 years older from a physical/developmental standpoint than kids his age. Sometimes kids like that stop growing and they're done. But sometimes they keep growing and become those 6'5 beasts. So hard to say what he'll become
He's been starting to get exposed at some of these 7 on 7 passing camps. So, I'm not so sure he's the blue chipper his dad thinks he is.
I remember actual kids like that, at age 12 they dominated everyone, but by 16 they couldn't make the varsity.
Yea, those kids that have facial hair at 12 and look like grown men. Some are completely done growing/maturing by then. But some continue to grow and become big-time players.
Reminds me of a kid I played with, a monster, he had a beard and full chest of hair in middle school. By his senior year he was just a guy. He’s bald as a bat and looks 20 years older than me now.
Yea that's the thing with those dudes who look 18 when they are 12. They also look 60 when they are 40.
Also, Baby Gronk just flipped to Kentucky.
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I knew a kid, on the 8th grade football team he was like 5-7 170 pounds dominant DT and had a full beard, 10th grade he was still 5-7 and just fat and never grew again and never made the high school team.
It’s certainly going to make for one heck of a Netflix documentary. I feel bad for the kid, though.
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