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Dawg Nation has your back Arik, praying for you and your family. GO DAWGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I understand and I certainly haven't said anything negative about Arik... BUT, you have to understand that we're human beings. We can't just pray for someone and give warm wishes when it's a generic "personal issue". Guess what? We ALL have personal issues and my boss needs to know more than that to get time off, your local school sports coach isn't going to accept that the star player can't play because of "person issues" and even your church members aren't going to pray for someone without knowing why.
I'm not trying to be harsh, but I'm just being realistic here. Jamie Newman had "personal issues" last year, should we have prayed for him?
I get that we don't have a right to that info and I hope for the best for him, but it's also frustrating when you don't know why.
Jamie Newman had personal issues last year? What? Newman responded to 2 things ignorantly. 1) No one knew what the pandemic's level of risk and seriousness was so he made a business decision to opt out. 2) He listened to the hype and the wrong people who mistakenly said he was a 1st rd draft choice and decided the risk was too great. He made a (bad) business decision. It was not about "personal issues". Personally, I was excited to see him play for UGA and I think he would've done well had he worked and stayed healthy. He didn't want to take any risk. Mostly out of ignorance.
I pretty much agree with you @kirkhilles. I do believe I can say a prayer for someone without knowing exactly what their issue or concern is (and have done it many times), but it is simply human nature to wonder or speculate what a person is going through. That's especially true of a high-profile athlete on a high-profile college or pro team, especially when it's YOUR favorite college or pro team. I think when people take their own speculation or rumors and spew them out as definitive facts, that can be dangerous. But simply speculating about what's going on, that's just the way it is. And when someone says "personal issues," that can range from mental health to physical health to even legal issues, and everything in between. As fans, I don't believe we have a "right" to know everything that's going on, but we are certainly entitled to speculate about the situation without being judged for it by Terrence Edwards or anyone else.
Social media is nothing more than innuendo and rumors. A persons personal life is their business and no one else's. If you can't say something positive about UGA players, then why say anything at all? 99% of Dawg fans are praying for you AG. Please consider the other 1% are rude and inconsiderate.
"all of this ‘next man up’ crap. He’s a person, at the end of the day.”
I'm sorry that Arik is having personal problems and anybody that disparages him for that is basically an idiot! BUT, the first thing coaches and other players are going to say is ' next man up' because that has to be the mentality! Otherwise, why would we recruit more than one player for each position. To say 'next man up' is not demeaning Arik Gilbert, it is just what the team/fan attitude has to be!
One has to wonder when Gilbert is going to step up and take ownership of this. Some people want to pretend this is all new and it is not The idea that transferring from LSU to UGA was going to fix this is/was just ludicrous. This has been going on for at least a year.