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re: Louisiana Bootleggers will no longer participate in IMG events
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:02 pm to southeasttiger113
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:02 pm to southeasttiger113
There may be one big positive from these kids moving all the way to Florida for one year...finding out they really miss home. If a teen like Drake got homesick enough, he might just welcome the opportunity to come back to La. & play in front of his folks...hopefully, the same for Moses.
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Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:03 pm to Jester
Do you want me to strap a go-pro on my head and walk through campus or something? You're sharing your stupid fricking worthless opinion so I'm correcting it for you with my first hand knowledge that I gained from experiencing the difference between living and training in New Orleans until 8th grade and living at training at IMG from my freshman year of high school until I graduated. Do you want me to write a dissertation on why you're a clueless idiot backed with scientific facts? That's not how these discussions go, champ
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:06 pm to kpsoileau
quote:You'd be shocked at the percentage of kids who eventually end up moving back home. I'm literally the only person out of my group of 5 or 6 close friends who still lives in Florida and didn't return to his hometown. And I'm going to move back to Louisiana as soon as I can
There may be one big positive from these kids moving all the way to Florida for one year...finding out they really miss home
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:09 pm to southeasttiger113
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Do you want me to strap a go-pro on my head and walk through campus or something?
Absolutely.
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You're sharing your stupid fricking worthless opinion so I'm correcting it for you with my first hand knowledge that I gained from experiencing the difference between living and training in New Orleans until 8th grade and living at training at IMG from my freshman year of high school until I graduated.
Dude, your blood pressure is reaching unhealthy levels this morning. Congrats on your parents wasting a bunch of your inheritance.
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Do you want me to write a dissertation on why you're a clueless idiot backed with scientific facts?
Yeah, get to it. Yelling will never get your point across.
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That's not how these discussions go, champ
Um, if you plan to change anyone's mind about IMG being a blight on amateur athletics, that's how you need to take it.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:12 pm to Jester
quote:Ok, I'll play: why exactly do you think IMG is a "blight on amateur athletics" and I'll explain why it's not. Be very clear and specific and don't use opinion, only fact. I'm sure your response will be very intelligent and in-depth with all of the firsthand experience that you have with the place
IMG being a blight on amateur athletics
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:16 pm to southeasttiger113
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why exactly do you think IMG is a "blight on amateur athletics"
I think it's a blight on amateur athletics because this board specifically deal with amateur athletes and you shite up every thread related to IMG on this board.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:18 pm to southeasttiger113
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why exactly do you think IMG is a "blight on amateur athletics"
1. They provide expensive benefits not available to everyone else to develop a professional relationship to ensure future contracts with their agency.
2. They convince student athletes to sell themselves to the devil and renounce loyalty to their teammates in order to put themselves before all others.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:19 pm to ProjectP2294
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I think it's a blight on amateur athletics because this board specifically deal with amateur athletes and you shite up every thread related to IMG on this board.
But YOU should leave the thread if IMG pisses you off so much...
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:21 pm to ProjectP2294
I forgot, people like you and Jester want to be free to speculate about the place and say dumb shite in peace right? These threads don't even need to exist. They're filled with so much misinformation that it's not even funny, the admins should get a filter for the word "IMG" and automatically whack every single thread that contains the word. Only on tigerdroppings will someone tell the only person that knows anything about the topic being discussed that they're "shitting up a thread"
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:27 pm to southeasttiger113
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southeasttiger113
You have less credibility in an IMG thread than a female duck has balls.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:28 pm to Jester
quote:Welcome to the real world. I guess it's unfair that people who graduate from the top of their class get the opportunity to go to Harvard on scholarship for an education while the dumbest person in the class gets to go to community college right?
1. They provide expensive benefits not available to everyone else to develop a professional relationship to ensure future contracts with their agency.
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2. They convince student athletes to sell themselves to the devil and renounce loyalty to their teammates in order to put themselves before all others.
what? I can guarantee that 5* athletes have more than a few teammates who would cut them off at the knees solely out of jealousy. You act like random high school kids who just happen to go to school with Dylan Moses are supportive and have his best interest in mind. They don't, and good for him for going to a situation where he can find thatPosted on 1/15/16 at 12:30 pm to Jester
I lived on that campus for 4 years and you've never been within 100 miles of the school and you're sitting here trying to argue with me about the place. Jesus Christ some of you have issuesPosted on 1/15/16 at 12:33 pm to southeasttiger113
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I lived on that campus for 4 years and you've never been within 100 miles of the school and you're sitting here trying to argue with me about the place. Jesus Christ some of you have issues
Yes, I'm not blinded by obsessive loyalty.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:40 pm to Jester
But blind speculation and pushing your incorrect positions on other people is better right?
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:42 pm to southeasttiger113
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But blind speculation and pushing your incorrect positions on other people is better right?
Welp, southeasttiger113 declared my position incorrect. I guess I lose this argument.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:43 pm to southeasttiger113
I'd say you guys ruined the thread but I think it already served it's purpose.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:44 pm to Jester
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1. They provide expensive benefits not available to everyone else to develop a professional relationship to ensure future contracts with their agency.
Soooo.... Just like a really good private school.
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2. They convince student athletes to sell themselves to the devil and renounce loyalty to their teammates in order to put themselves before all others.
Not at all true. I never attended unlike southeast, but I did get flown in to IMG twice for recruiting visits for T&F during my sophomore year in HS. They made their recruiting pitch and I was strongly considering making the jump before my junior year started. However fate intervened. I developed non life threatening health concerns, but serious enough I wanted to stay close to my doctors for treatment. Bottom line is this. You say they have a me first attitude, or one could develop. We were shown all facets of the school. Including psychological sessions that would aid in fueling our drive to succeed in life and athletics. Would we be exposed to agents? Of course, they were part of the learning process. They preached during visits and recruiting that they would show us how to speak in public and how to deal with the business side of the proffession. Now T&F is much more individual achievement as opposed to other team sports, and when I visited they didn't have FB yet. They were in the process of renovating and construction of the facilities for adding it a few years later. Bottom line is, unless you know don't downgrade the institution because you think they're gaining improper competitive edges. Athletes from that background and exposure to those resources are more likely to develop a persona you actually want in an athlete. They are taught how to handle negativity in life, pressures and decisions, as well as what to be on the look out for when it comes to being taken advantage of by people out for their own personal gain off your achievements. On top of that they actually receive a pretty damn good education and are required to maintain set GPA standards. Those might have lax some since their expansion though.
Posted on 1/15/16 at 12:45 pm to Jester
Someone with firsthand knowledge said that you're wrong about something you've never had any experience with before? Yea actually that does make you incorrect
Posted on 1/15/16 at 1:08 pm to southeasttiger113
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southeasttiger113
You need to take a step back and chill my man. I know you get upset about the misinformation spread about a place you love, but you are going about it the wrong way. You are attacking people instead of building your case (which you absolutely know more about). Just some friendly advice
Posted on 1/15/16 at 1:16 pm to southeasttiger113
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southeasttiger113
Congrats, you completely ruined the thread.
Also, you keep talking about your experience attending there and are only repeatedly talking about the facilities and the instruction, but not what the discussion is about which is the impact on high school football programs and true amateurism.
If you really attended, I understand the passion but you are not educating or even engaging in the discussion. Instead you are simply trying to stifle and shut down any negative discussion about IMG by blathering on about how great the facilities are and the instruction (which seems to be instruction on how to become a professional athlete). I don't believe anyone has suggested that IMG doesn't have great facilities or instructors, rather they have questioned whether it is degrading high school amateurism.
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