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Your first sentence pretty much nullified everything that came after it. Given everything that's gone on with his situation and how little any of us knows about it (for good reason), there's no reason to think this is anything that can be resolved by becoming a younger teammate's protégé.
I hope the kid gets his life together. That said, he needs to play football or give up his scholarship and all the other perks that come with being a Dawg.
Never said I'd "resolve" anything. Maybe simplify and focus. And just maybe be better off than he seemingly is now. My comments are as valid as anyone's. Certainly as valid as your comment that said nothing except that my comment was "nullified".
Since you singled me out for a benign comment and missed the point I will try and explain it to you. Granted inferences can be hard for some to comprehend.
When you are a 21 yo CFB player life is pretty simple. Everything is taken care of for you. You have a place to eat, place to sleep, people to help with your schoolwork, place to workout/practice, a stipend and NIL $$ on top of it all. You have your friends/teammates. IF you follow the program the wave will carry you to graduation and the NFL (for stars like AGilbert). There are about 176,000 D1 student athletes and about 118,000 D2 student athletes. The vast majority have seemed to have figured out how to ride the wave, make it work and enjoy the experience. We all did it.
It is pretty simple especially at that age in that situation. Just follow the structure. We all **** it up every day and carve out and grind out a life for ourselves. And we do it w/o the promise of a golden egg at the end of the rainbow. That's life.
What we do with our own life is on us. How bad do you want what you want. AGilbert has had a year and a half to work out whatever issues he's had. If they are that serious he should be getting professional help (for quite a while). Honestly, it is hard to imagine any young person with the opportunity and potential before him that AGilbert has NOT having figured out the plan already. It defies logic. Execute the plan and retire a millionaire.
The only logical reason to derail a very promising CFB career leading to a very lucrative NFL career is academics. In college you still must take care of the academic business before you take care of the football business. The rest of the season will be very interesting to watch regarding the TE room.
Saw this from ESPN, but they were focused on E.J. Warner (Kurt Warner's son). Went looking and found this from 24/7:
"Temple sophomore D'Wan Mathis is now practicing at wide receiver, Coach Stan Drayton confirmed at his weekly press conference on Monday.
The 6-6 sophomore started Temple’s first two games at quarterback this season but was pulled in favor of true freshman E.J. Warner in the second quarter of the team’s home-opening victory over Lafayette on Sept. 10.
Mathis was not in uniform for the Owls’ 16-14 loss to Rutgers this past Saturday at Lincoln Financial Field. During pregame warmups, though, he spent most of his time congregating with the receivers.
Mathis completed 14 of 29 passes for 125 yards in five quarters of action this season. He fumbled four times, which is what led Drayton to make the switch to Warner.
“I just felt that two balls on the ground is something that you think about,” Drayton said after the win over Lafayette. “It’s a tough decision when it’s your quarterback, but just thought that two balls on the ground was something that probably forced me to that decision.”
Asked after practice last week how Mathis responded to the switch, Drayton offered nothing but positive comments.
“D’Wan has been phenomenal,” Drayton said. “He’s a guy that wants to win. He’s all about winning. And he trusts us as a coaching staff that we’re going to put our players in the proper position to win. So when things weren’t quite going his way, his response wasn’t that of disappointment, it was that of, ‘OK, who’s next man in and what can I do to help him have success, for the team to have success?’ So it’s been a great response by D’Wan.”
Mathis started seven games at quarterback for the Owls last season, missing the other five with injuries. This year’s season opener at Duke marked the third straight year that Mathis had started the first game of the season. Last year he opened up for the Owls in their first game at Rutgers. The year before, he started Georgia’s season opener against Arkansas.
Without Mathis at quarterback, Warner was backed up by North Dakota State transfer Quincy Patterson in the loss to Rutgers. Patterson directed a few plays on offense, mostly running the ball in short-yardage situations, and scored a one-yard touchdown in the first quarter. He also played the last two series in the season opener at Duke. The number three quarterback is sophomore Mariano Valenti, who saw limited action for the Owls last year.
Mathis has some experience at wide receiver going all the way back to his days playing youth football in his native Detroit. In fact, Valenti described last year how he played quarterback on a youth team that featured Mathis at wide receiver.
The Owls are fairly well-stocked at wide receiver with veterans Jose Barbon and Adonicas Sanders and redshirt freshman Ian Stewart getting most of the work this past Saturday. Smaller targets Amad Anderson and Malik Cooper have also been in the mix this year. Besides Stewart, who stands 6-3, the roster lacks anybody close to the size that Mathis offers as a 6-6 receiving target."