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So they can get the financial kickbacks
Is an author contacting you to write about you doing this?
I’m sure they haven’t, but I’m sure Mr Oher hasn’t either. Sound like a situation where the “love” of money is the root of all evil. For both parties involved
Again I’ll defer to the one who didn’t grow up with the money
I hope not. I’m sure there is something we did wrong that we are unaware of
Yea because being poor at an early age makes you a heck of a honest person…. As well as on the other side neither does being born into wealth
“Poor man wanna be rich. Rich man wanna be king. King ain’t satisfied until he rules everything.”
-The Boss
Well it doesn’t seem like you’re seeking financial incentives for what you’re doing, so that’s a start.
Bottom line is, lawyers will hit the lottery on this, Mr Oher wil get a fat check because knowing the little about legal matters as I do, all sides will settle out of court to keep status… unless they have hard evidence to the opposite of what he’s claimed. I’ve been bit too many times with these story’s, heck I believed the BW story until I walked outside and saw the same rope hanging from my garage door🤷🏻♂️
The issue the Tuohys are probably experiencing right now is that a conservatorship actually places a huge burden on the conservators if the contract is upheld properly. They have a fiduciary responsible to their ward and any deal they make has to benefit him. They also have to file yearly financial reports for him. They can be in some serious trouble if they haven't been doing that or worse they made deals that aren't in his best interest. At that point you start looking at prison time.
Is that how the relationship started? Or were they genuinely trying to help a young man? Did Michael benefit from a family stepping in and helping?
I certainly can’t see how the Tuoeys (I can’t spell their dang name) thought there could be any financial gain when they first got involved.
Maybe things went wrong when book deal and then movie deal came into the picture. I really don’t know.
But seems like the help may have been genuine at the beginning or there wouldn’t have been a story to tell.
Is it true that Michael was living in a Memphis project, likely attending a horrible Memphis public school and living with a drug addicted mother?
If that is true….likely Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw significantly helped improve the young man’s life.
If that part isn’t true then it’s a crap story that doesn’t make sense.
We still get accused of stuff all the time.
Mainly, what’s in it for us? And it’s usually his family members who have never…and likely will never…step up and help. Which we would gladly accept.
Helping young people…I mean really helping someone that is not your own child…is difficult.
He was already at Briarcrest and a HS All-American by the time he started living with them permanently his senior year of high school. He had been staying with several families from the school including the Tuohys before that. He was already really good at football before they were involved
So the Tuohys had nothing to do with Michael getting into Briarcrest? Then who was responsible for Michael getting to Briarcrest?
And was Michael a high school All American before Briarcrest?
And do you believe it’s adequate for a kid to be attending a private school and living with multiple families? What does that feel like as a high school kid? How did the families share the duties of clothing him and making sure he was fed. How did all these families help him with the recruiting process? Because I can assure you it is impossible as a high school kid to do on their own.
And if he was living from house to house…which sounds awful…isn’t it great that a family was willing to provide him a home. At likely a tremendous sacrifice. Providing a home for a high school kid…that isn’t part of your family, didn’t grow up with your family and happens to be a different race….ain’t easy.
Seems those throwing this family under the bus aren’t taking into consideration everything that was involved.
Did the family screw Michael during the book deal and movie. Maybe so…I have no idea.
But a tremendous impact was made on his life…possibly life saving and certainly life changing…or there wouldn’t be a book to write.
I think a great project would be for everyone on Dawgnation to go out and find a talented high school kid…that is in such a bad situation that it is unlikely that kid will ever see his talents come to fruition.
Athlete, musician, scholar…whatever. A kid that has a crap family and living situation.
But because of your willingness and ability to help… the kid has a chance to completely change the trajectory of his life.
Take the kid in…but you better be in a good financial situation because it will be extremely expensive.
Deal with the criticism and accusations.
And then your opinion of those that actually did try to make a difference might change.