Cormani McClain

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HoleInTheRoof said:
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This is no longer about any one team or even football. If he does not conquer these behaviors now, while he is surrounded by people and structures that want him to succeed, they will consume him with such existential misery that he will despise of life itself. And act accordingly.

I knew a HS player whose life circumstances were the exact opposite of the stereotypical "ghetto" athlete. His physical skills, size, and speed were freakish. He would have been recruited by the top college programs. But he could not make himself do things he didn't feel like doing. Couldn't make himself study, do classwork, focus during class... nothing. Except football.

Learning more about his growing up, despite having all the material comforts of life, there was just enough chaos in the home--and at critical moments in his emotional development--that by HS he was in key ways still trapped in the inner world of a neurotic six year old. Great guy. Great personality. Not a selfish person with others. But volitionally atrophied.

The tragedy is not that young men like these are going to miss out on a successful football career and the white collar career that could have followed. It's not that they will live more meagerly, fit by lack of education for only blue collar jobs. It's that they won't possess enough self-discipline to hold even those jobs (which are daily getting rarer).

No longer do the "lost boys" of Pinocchio's Pleasure Island turn into load-bearing blue collar donkeys. They will settle into just enough social safety net to trap them in addictions. Or, they will act out their frustrations through violence: first domestic, but eventually towards self. And another life, which a mother and so many adults along the way wanted to invest in, will end needlessly.

Screw the ritual rivalries. This is real life.
Challenge: if you care enough to read once or post once about Cormani... then pray just once for him. See if God can turn him around.
 
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In defense of Lawrence Wright's post, his diagnosis was accurate, it just needed another line about hope for a cure. We've all probably got a story about someone coming into our life at the right time with some hope.
 
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Lawrence Wright said:
Cormani McClain is a terrible human being.
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When people are severely repressed, the small few see a financial way out of the repression, a few of those act out. In a way that is socially considered inappropriate.

wts he may be an a****** pure and simple. lol
 
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Some people just do not like themselves and there is not much that anyone can do about it.
 
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This is what happens when you are praised for you abilities against inferior talent in middle and high school. Kid literally thinks he is above it all. Show up on time, nah, go do my punishments, nah, all that is for the crappy players, I’m a star ⭐️ don’t have to go to class as can show up to practice whenever I want cause that’s how it was until they hit college.

This fall on all his youth and high school coaches that let his **** fly cause they wanted to win and needed him because they actually suck as coaches.
 
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Or maybe this is what happens when a program rushes to rebuild back to prominence, grabbing for best available talent and hoping to shore up the culture as they go--or depending on upperclassmen to enforce the culture.

This is why I'm so glad we have Danny White, and coaches down the line who are establishing the culture first, then recruiting the best talent that fits the culture. What you ultimately build is a destination where the best people want to play and coach and pursue national championships.
 
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BruisedOrange said:
This is no longer about any one team or even football. If he does not conquer these behaviors now, while he is surrounded by people and structures that want him to succeed, they will consume him with such existential misery that he will despise of life itself. And act accordingly.

I knew a HS player whose life circumstances were the exact opposite of the stereotypical "ghetto" athlete. His physical skills, size, and speed were freakish. He would have been recruited by the top college programs. But he could not make himself do things he didn't feel like doing. Couldn't make himself study, do classwork, focus during class... nothing. Except football.

Learning more about his growing up, despite having all the material comforts of life, there was just enough chaos in the home--and at critical moments in his emotional development--that by HS he was in key ways still trapped in the inner world of a neurotic six year old. Great guy. Great personality. Not a selfish person with others. But volitionally atrophied.

The tragedy is not that young men like these are going to miss out on a successful football career and the white collar career that could have followed. It's not that they will live more meagerly, fit by lack of education for only blue collar jobs. It's that they won't possess enough self-discipline to hold even those jobs (which are daily getting rarer).

No longer do the "lost boys" of Pinocchio's Pleasure Island turn into load-bearing blue collar donkeys. They will settle into just enough social safety net to trap them in addictions. Or, they will act out their frustrations through violence: first domestic, but eventually towards self. And another life, which a mother and so many adults along the way wanted to invest in, will end needlessly.

Screw the ritual rivalries. This is real life.
Challenge: if you care enough to read once or post once about Cormani... then pray just once for him. See if God can turn him around.
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Damn. Thoughtful post.
 
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JFBanicki said:
This is what happens when you are praised for you abilities against inferior talent in middle and high school. Kid literally thinks he is above it all. Show up on time, nah, go do my punishments, nah, all that is for the crappy players, I’m a star ⭐️ don’t have to go to class as can show up to practice whenever I want cause that’s how it was until they hit college.

This fall on all his youth and high school coaches that let his **** fly cause they wanted to win and needed him because they actually suck as coaches.
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Seems like most teams end up with one or two of these players every few years.

Glad that UF coaching staff was not going to put up with it, no matter how talented he might be, because going light on him but hard on the 3 stars is terrible for team morale.
 
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