Question about Taleni
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Well shit what is he waiting for? Dude has been here for 4 years and those guys all take summer classes too...
Like most "scholarship" football and basketball players in P5, their primary activity outside of practice and conditioning and games are eating, sleeping, guzzling booze, smoking weed, video games, and of course sweet sweet poon. Not necessarily in that order. On occasion they make an appearance in a class, typically at the start, when warned by an assistant about a "surprise" roll call, and perhaps at the end to turn in papers their tutor wrote (though I imagine even that is done electronically now). Until their final season of eligibility ends, when they abandon the pretense of the school thing completely so they can work out full time in prep for NFL or NbA draft/free agent signing.
This isn't 100% the case for 100% of top players in 100% of schools. Walk ons and low depth chart guys are likely doing legit work. But for the top guys, it's far closer to 100 than to 0 (or even 90%, likely). And for those where it's closer to 100%, their team rankings are likely correspondingly much higher.
Taleni likely blew off the school pretense entirely, and/or the weed part too enthusiastically (and he simply isn't good enough to get away with it).
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That just really isn't true. A very high percentage of football players are engaged in their education and work very hard. That doesn't mean they are top students or even in challenging majors, because many are ill prepared for the scholastic requirements, but most are working toward the degree earnestly and take their studies very seriously.
I think you have a very extreme and incongruent view of the "bagmen" and "paper class" prevalence.
So PITT dismisses Taleni and another P5 picks him up? If this happens PITT is a ship adrift without leadership or direction in the area of D1 athletics!
Maybe they should try their hand at something else!
Note I took pains to qualify top players, and that it's not 100% for all, everywhere. And I'll particularly grant its not as close to 100% at Pitt ... because our teams aren't very good!
But come on, you can't possibly believe for a nanosec that that top players at a Bama, OSU ... And especially not UNC, as was irrefutably proven ... fall into your description, and not mine. And by the way the Bag Man reference is TOTALLY true as well... alas not at Pitt.
Can't we face the ugly truth that these are dog eat dog pro sports at the highest level, in some ways far more ruthless than the "real" pro sports?
I went to Alabama and am a donor for Alabama. Both are wildly exaggerated.
Better story ... PSU should take him in retaliation of our taking their DL who got booted!
Indeed. I suppose three debauchery is far more than i could even manage to describe...
Why? This happens with dismissed players quite often. Now will he go P5? Seems unlikely because this is late in the process and he isn't a stud, but if he can graduate and be eligible somewhere else, he should be able to find a place to play. All a matter of need vs headache.
Taleni isn't a stud? You must be thinking of someone else!
He was our stud D tackle projected to be a high NFL draft choice????
Maybe you're thinking of Nix and the other sport?
This really is an example of folks who are obviously very, very far removed from both the athletes and the programs.
He is certainly not a stud. He is solid, but he didn't even play (only started 4 games) until the 2nd half of last year, despite a dearth of talent on the DL.
Taleni was absolutely not projected to be a high NFL draft choice. He hasn't even been projected to be a draft choice, at all, by anything I have ever seen. Where did you see him projected as a "high NFL draft choice"?
