In fairness, every person ever busted for PEDs has claimed something like this.
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In fairness, every person ever busted for PEDs has claimed something like this.
Don't have nearly enough info to convict him in my mind or have him brain damaged or strung out on opioids.
Man....quick to judge around here
Man....quick to judge around here
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I'm not claiming he wasn't taking banned substances. I just don't know if he received bad advice (and followed said bad advice) or enhanced the advice he received to try and get back in the game quicker, so to speak. As someone else mentioned, when you are a rookie and on the edge, you can't be out of the action or you are very quickly forgotten.
And sure enough I go on Facebook and immediately see a "Should've gone to Iowa" post.
**** heads
**** heads
That would make a good step number one but breaking an opiod addiction alone is extremely tough. After that he needs to ditch main stream doctors and get some intensive nutrition and supplemental help. I'm about 99% sure that CTE is not really a football only injury. It is simply brain damage that can be caused by numerous factors. Drug use and football together likely make for the combination that resulted in the 100% result for the football players testing positive for CTE.
I agree that brain damage is being caused by more factors than hits to the head.
Since I was still in high school during his career, Jake was at "hero" status for me as an ISU football player. Still in the top 5 of my favorites. Hope he gets his life turned around.
No, I don't think he would fit on a moped.
CycloneErik
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Right. A guy can be caught with a needle hanging out of his arm, he'll still say "Bad test. I was using supplements."
Ditch the drugs, yes. Supplements will do nothing except make supplement makers and sellers rich. It's likely repetitive head trauma that causes it...not specific to football at all.
I'm about 99% sure most of what you said is wrong. I will agree though, there are other things that can cause it other than football, but football puts someone at possibly the highest risk.
Don't be offended, but I don't think you played football. So what numerous factors were responsible for your injury?
I tolerate you and occasionally agree with you, but this is not the thread to make into another push for your alternative "medicine" quackery. If people want to believe in the healing powers of silver colloids and crystals for entertainment purposes, they can go right ahead, but I am married to a physician, and junk like this causes people to actively harm themselves, misinterpret placebos, or not seek the help that they need every day, even if modern medicine has its limitations and complications that good doctors try to improve on every day.
Back to the main topic...
Obviously, not the pro career that Jake (or any of us) hoped for, but that is not a bad start in life for having a cup of coffee with playing on Sunday for the young man. Roughly half of that is going to evaporate to taxes and agents and the like, but even keeping half of it (after a full-ride athletic scholarship at a great university) is still starting out ahead.
I hope this becomes rock bottom, and he can rebuild from here. I know there have to be some Cyclone fans in Central Iowa that would give a young man like him, one that we saw had infinite passion and drive, another chance at work and life, whatever he wants to do, assuming he will work hard and be an upstanding citizen despite past mistakes like we all know that he can be. I hope he has at least one more good comeback in him.
Well, back to school. You don't just get to say you're an athletic trainer.
Can pretty much guarantee some kind of dependency. Whatever is at the root of his problems, he has to make the decision to change. Even if no addiction is present, people can only help themselves when they are ready. Be it cigarettes, heroin, stealing, cheating, whatever is your ailment, it must be you that makes the change inside. Here's to hoping that he finds the light in the dark of life. You can poison your own mind with repetitive negativity. He needs to figure out his head, before he can move on with his life.
