Rhoads' comments on the dismissal of David Irving
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It was indeed the only thing Paul could have done since the administration will be expelling Irving and several other students who played active roles in the riot.
Irving should carry in his wallet that picture of him grinning while carrying the stop sign as a reminder that there are consequences to every choice he makes in life. With his natural gifts and NFL potential, his last choice could end up being incredibly expensive. I wish him the best.
Im really curious to see which D-ends get moved inside. Pierson committed to us fully expecting to be a DE. Seems likely he will get moved inside though. Not sure if he will appreciate that. Guess he wont have much choice!
No kidding. We won 3 games last year with a healthy Rodney Coe and David Irving. These guys weren't all that good. They had tons of potential, yes, but likely were never going to live up to it because neither guy wanted it bad enough obviously.
If you can't show up to practice, and you're willing to risk your scholarship by going into the middle of a riot and hold up a street sign right in front of the police and about 500 students taking pictures and video... then you're not going to ever see success on a football field either IMO. You just don't have what it takes IMO.
Let these hungrier young guys show what they can do when given an opportunity. And if it's not good enough, then so be it. Baylor put up 70 on us last year, and UNI ran all over us... WITH Irving and Coe in there. Not a big loss at all IMO.
Defensively, yes. Most likely.
But at least I won't have to try to force myself to cheer for Irving out there.
How is it Irving's fault that Rhoads has recruited projects for every member of the defense? How is it Irving's fault that like 5% of those projects have paid off? The defense sucks because of Rhoads.
i understand you're trying to defend Rhoads, but really every season we've had is his fault. The good and the bad.
Are you serious? To answer your question...basically every pro superstar in any sport.
Dude is partially responsible for cancelling the University's biggest event, and you want him to wear the University's football jersey next season? I guess CPR was going to catch flack no matter what he did, but the flack he would of caught if he let Irving stay on the team is much, MUCH, greater.
If he didn't I would be surprised. He made his own bed and now has to deal with it.
I agree for the most part with you. Rhoads is responsible for either.....
1. Not recruiting talented enough players
OR
2. Not developing talented players
OR
3. Not being able to keep players on the team for 4 years before quitting or getting kicked off.
However... the discussion was about David Irving getting kicked off the team. That is not Paul Rhoads' fault. Rhoads cannot babysit nearly 100 football players every single night. It's called personal responsibility, and most of our players have it, but some do not, and they pay the price for their stupidity.
Irving might have been able to make the NFL someday and make millions. Now he will likely struggle through life just to get by. Especially with an arrest record like his. He's not very employable. But you make your own bed. He's had chances, but he's squandered them away unfortunately.
The defense did suck last year with both Irving and Coe in there. Yes. I said that.
I said Irving had the potential, meaning when he set foot on the ISU campus he had unlimited potential to become whatever he wanted to with hard work and discipline. He squandered that opportunity and that potential. It's too bad.
I've never been that impressed with Irving since he's been here. At DE, he was below average. After moving inside, he showed some potential when he wanted to, but it wasn't very often.
He was overhyped on these boards ever since he got here. There was talk of him leaving ISU early someday to go pro all over this site. I'm on record all over the place on here telling people at the time that it doesn't do a kid any good to put those kinds of expectations on him. He had showed nothing, but yet people on here thought he was the next Jadaveon Clowney or something. It was ridiculous.
David "could" have been special with hard work and discipline. I don't think he had much of either from what I can tell. At least by his actions.
Yeah, don't care. I'm not going to anonymously lie and act like anything outside of the results on Saturday afternoons really matters to me when it comes down to it.
