Anyone Who Thinks College Athletics Can't Save A Kid's Life...

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hatvol96

hatvol96

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needs to take a look at where Michael Oher's life is now compared to the path it was on 7 years ago.
 
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Good stories are hard to find. Am always glad to see when someone takes the chances given to them and makes the most out of it.
 
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hatvol96 said:
I think so. Putting Michael Lewis books on film is all the rage.
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This one has got to be better than the Moneyball movie, interesting read but I can't really figure out who the hell decided it would make for a good movie.
 
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He's a great story. Good for him. I hope he reaches out to help others like him.
 
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:ermm: Michael Oher is a lucky kid, but his story isn't as great as The Blind Side and ESPN want to pretend.
 
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For the record, college athletics had nothing to do with it. If it weren't for the family in Memphis that got him into and continued at Briarcrest, college would have never happened. College athletics was nice, but that family is what saved Oher's life.
 
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Won't this put a lot of extra pressure on this kid, considering he's JUST coming into the league? I find it sort of weird that they are making this movie now. Wait until he's retired or something.
Plus, I'm not sure that it was college athletics that saved his life as much as it was the care and guidance his adoptive parents gave him.
Maybe you could sum it up that athletics in general helped to teach him lessons of leadership and responsibility.
 
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crusse10 said:
For the record, college athletics had nothing to do with it. If it weren't for the family in Memphis that got him into and continued at Briarcrest, college would have never happened. College athletics was nice, but that family is what saved Oher's life.
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Yeah, because Sean Tuohy didn't see the payoff for Ole Miss. This was strictly out of the goodness of his heart. Stick to telling us how Chris Lofton is as good as JJ Reddick.
 
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hatvol96 said:
Yeah, because Sean Tuohy didn't see the payoff for Ole Miss. This was strictly out of the goodness of his heart. Stick to telling us how Chris Lofton is as good as JJ Reddick.
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Are you saying Sean Tuohy's motivation was selfish and he was only interested in using Michael for the betterment of his alma mater?
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Are you saying Sean Tuohy's motivation was selfish and he was only interested in using Michael for the betterment of his alma mater?
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No, I'm saying anyone who thinks Tuohy's only motivation was altruism is terribly naive.
 
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hatvol96 said:
No, I'm saying anyone who thinks Tuohy's only motivation was altruism is terribly naive.
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Business had a great line about this the other day.

"If he were a 5'7" 140 lb kid with amazing math skills, do the Touhy's take him in?"
 
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justingroves said:
Business had a great line about this the other day.

"If he were a 5'7" 140 lb kid with amazing math skills, do the Touhy's take him in?"
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I think if he was walking down the street in the winter wearing a t shirt and shorts, then yes.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I think if he was walking down the street in the winter wearing a t shirt and shorts, then yes.
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Interesting. In the roughly 25+ years Sean Tuohy had been living in Memphis since leaving Ole Miss he had never encountered an underdressed, underprivileged child during the winter before he came upon a kid all the street agents in Memphis had already identified as a potential athletic phenom. How convenient.
 
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He must really love Ole Miss to take a kid of another race into his home and raise him as his own son. I think his wife was a major factor in adopting him. She must love Ole Miss as well.
 
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