I feel that way about Park as well. It’s young Mr. Scates I’m standing up for. The young man has a chance to put it all together, and if he does it could help us to a special season.
I’m hoping he takes Xavier Hutchinson’s work ethic to heart.
Jacob Park Update/Controversy
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I’m hoping he takes Xavier Hutchinson’s work ethic to heart.
I agree with you there as well! Many student-athletes in Scates' situation would have bailed out and left the team. I commend Coach Campbell for disciplining the group and I commend the young men who made a mistake, owned it and stuck around to better themselves as people and football players. Love that Joe Scates is still in Ames!
Weed was an issue if you are still flunking tests and you know when the tests are coming (spoiler alert: the starters probably do, across all programs I’ve heard)
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Don't compare Scates to Park. Scates did something dumb as a true frosh and got past it.
If Park was getting baked before games and into coke and opiates to boot (this wouldn't surprise me at all), Campbell would catch on to that pretty ******* quick. Scates seems (pretty clearly) to not be mixed up in that, and just has some issues putting it all together on the field. Not from being a **** head, or lack of effort.
If Park was getting baked before games and into coke and opiates to boot (this wouldn't surprise me at all), Campbell would catch on to that pretty ******* quick. Scates seems (pretty clearly) to not be mixed up in that, and just has some issues putting it all together on the field. Not from being a **** head, or lack of effort.
I hope you're talking "in theory" here. Or I sort of hope you aren't. Can't quite decide.
Yeah, I think Scates mis-steps are pretty typical dumbass college kid level stuff. Realistically there's a ton of real estate between being a complete dumbass and being a Campbell-level disciplined and dedicated player. And I would say the fact that Scates plays a fair amount on a Campbell team means he's taking care of business in practice and in the classroom at least at a pretty good level.
Not to mention I hate that every time a guy that is highly recruited takes a while to (or never) quite lives up to that ranking on the field people always attribute it to a guy not being smart or dedicated. There's a lot that goes into being good at the highest level of CFB. A guy can have one elite physical trait and dominate HS and get a high ranking, but be limited in other ways that keep him from being great. Sometimes a guy gets over-ranked. Sometimes a guy is very talented but has a hole in his game that isn't easy to fix. Sometimes a guy just simply gets passed up by somebody else.
It's a semipro league. Why would you laugh? I can't imagine those teams are rolling around in money; I wouldn't expect their website to look like it belongs to an NFL team.
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Talented guy at the most important position. I understand taking the risk. Especially if you believe in your culture and think you can get him to buy in.
Re-hashing the Park fiasco and his new hairdo was fun, but time to move on.
And if you want to talk about Scates, start a new thread on the positive impact he will have in this breakout year.
And if you want to talk about Scates, start a new thread on the positive impact he will have in this breakout year.
You have to think someone will break out. It’s not like there isn’t talent there. Between trying to stop Purdy, Hall, Kolar, Hutchison, Allen… someone’s gotta be getting open.
Rumor was he was as high as a kite at UT game where it all went wrong. No idea if that is true or not.
And yet, I still hold onto a belief in my head that we win that game if it wasn't for the somersault giving Texas a fresh set of downs early in the game.
I completely forgot about that, I had to check the replay. I don't know if it would've guaranteed a win, but definite huge swing early - getting turnover already in FG range, then UT ended up scoring on a long TD drive. Lame penalty call.
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I don’t disagree. I think Jaquan more than made up for that in his career. If we win that game, I don’t think Oklahoma happens a week later though.
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