re: Will the curse of John Curtis strike again?

Like many are saying, lots of kids want a new experience and getting away from home in your "best years" on someone elses dime is a great time to do it. Now some kids, like Nick Brossette for example, had family issues, so they chose to be close to home. Most people do not understand, but as a college football player at a program like LSU, you hardly get to go home. You stay nearly the entire Christmas break on campus doing bowl prep and maybe get half a week to go home and spend it with family. Almost all summer is spent in the weight room conditioning for the upcoming season and attending summer classes. Some kids see that and put more value in being closer to home/family, while others simply want to get away. To each their own really, and neither is the always correct answer, but Allen sounds like a kid who may just want to get away. I hope not, but only time will tell.