'18 TN DE Emmitt Gooden (Tennessee signee)

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bignewt said:
I dont think this generation is soft per say but their sense of entitlement is off the charts.
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There's a definite inability to cope with adversity in a large portion of them.

Not trying to start a whole different conversation here but, I wholeheartedly agree with you about their sense of entitlement, that is beyond out of control.
 
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AngryButchJones said:
Whose fault is that, though? They weren't just born with a sense of entitlement. The previous generation -- their parents -- are the ones to blame for that.
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Agreed. I see it too often. My generation is responsible for 80-90% of it. There's far too many parents and not NEARLY enough moms and dads.

How many of these kids didn't know their mom or dad or both? If this generation is soft, it's because my generation was irresponsible and selfish.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Agreed. I see it too often. My generation is responsible for 80-90% of it. There's far too many parents and not NEARLY enough moms and dads.

How many of these kids didn't know their mom or dad or both? If this generation is soft, it's because my generation was irresponsible and selfish.
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I think that's fair. And don't get me wrong, the millennials have plenty that's their fault too. But I think this is a fair assessment.
 
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Also, I love their center. Dude may not be talented but, what he has overcome and his determination to do it...

I hope nothing but the best for that kid. If he so desires, he would make an EXCELLENT coach.
 
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Don't forget this generation gets everything at an instant. Internet keeps getting faster as well as processors. But something online is 2 days or less to your front door. Everything saying "you deserve this" or "everything should bend to your will". Many freak out when someone tells them something they don't want to hear. It's something they need to learn to get over.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
About to start 8. I'm on the fence on JB. Dude is straight up street thug on the field, regardless of whether it's practice or a game but, off of it, he tries (maybe not his best) to show that he cares about getting these kids graduated and on to bigger and better things.

But he has some straight up knuckleheads on this team, Malik Henry being the worst, imo. He has an uphill battle with them, and they're not making it easy on him.




I would make Henry completely un-recruitable. He's like 4th stage cancer--you can treat the symptoms but it's incurable. I get that he has some legitimate mental health issues and his dad seems like he's trying to cash in on his son's talent, conveniently coming back into his life when he was in high school and tricking him out to three or four different big-time high school football programs, but he has no respect for the coaches, he's a lier, he's the worst leader you could ask for in a QB, and he admits to shutting down when things get tough.

There will be a coach to take a chance on him, guaranteed, but it's a higher risk than reward, imo.

I hope he puts it all together, but JB isn't wrong when he says this team, and generation, is soft. Not all of them, but damn...the vast majority of them.
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Pretty much spot on.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Agreed. I see it too often. My generation is responsible for 80-90% of it. There's far too many parents and not NEARLY enough moms and dads.

How many of these kids didn't know their mom or dad or both? If this generation is soft, it's because my generation was irresponsible and selfish.
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Bring it and preach it. I saw so much of this in 12 year old baseball. My kid messed up and we would work on correcting it. Learning from it. Regardless if it was a baseball or life lesson. Other parents would be telling them it's ok what you did. You keep doing it the way you want and feel good about it. When your kid misses the cut off man and almost throws the ball over the third base fence, that needs to be corrected NOT excused and the kid petted. It makes me sick. I am no where close to Coach JB. I am a million miles from that but if I had his situation of idiots on their last chance then maybe they need that.

What I see out of parents is how their kids are great, do nothing wrong, and egos just have to be stroked. You don't have to trash a child's self esteem that is wrong. But teaching them to get and do better is what we as parents should be doing on and off the field. Sorry but we had a great team that finished second in the state but had some very fragile kids who will not make it in high school if some things don't change. Coaches at that level do not put up with it if they are worth a crap. It just concerns me to where we are headed with our kids as a society.
 
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Rishvol said:
Don't forget this generation gets everything at an instant. Internet keeps getting faster as well as processors. But something online is 2 days or less to your front door. Everything saying "you deserve this" or "everything should bend to your will". Many freak out when someone tells them something they don't want to hear. It's something they need to learn to get over.
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This is big too. The amount of change in the past 30 years due to technology is crazy. Parents are raising kids in an almost completely different world than the one they grew up in
 
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bignewt said:
I dont think this generation is soft per say but their sense of entitlement is off the charts.
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I shudder when I realize this marshmallow generation will be running this country before I die. There are always individuals who buck the trend, but my three grown children 23-26 despise their own generation as a whole.
 
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orangeblood79 said:
Agreed. I see it too often. My generation is responsible for 80-90% of it. There's far too many parents and not NEARLY enough moms and dads.

How many of these kids didn't know their mom or dad or both? If this generation is soft, it's because my generation was irresponsible and selfish.
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I also 100% agree with this. As a whole my generation sucks also.
 
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After seeing the episode with Henry's dad the kids mental issues make sense. No clue why mom let dad take over. Ruined him. Bailed him out everywhere and wouldn't let him play baseball. It felt like watching Basically a kid forced to do things and then I saw that episode to realize he absolutely was forced. Forced to focus only on football. Forced to play at 3/4 different HS then forced to go to FSU then forced to go to Indy. Heck let the kid be happy and go do something else.
 
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Nashvegas31 said:
After seeing the episode with Henry's dad the kids mental issues make sense. No clue why mom let dad take over. Ruined him. Bailed him out everywhere and wouldn't let him play baseball. It felt like watching Basically a kid forced to do things and then I saw that episode to realize he absolutely was forced. Forced to focus only on football. Forced to play at 3/4 different HS then forced to go to FSU then forced to go to Indy. Heck let the kid be happy and go do something else.
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Yeah I feel bad for the kid
 
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orangeblood79 said:
To me, that's where his problems began. He said he wanted to stay with his friends and play baseball.

Dad pushed him into a business (his own words), not a sport...and pushed him away from his friends in doing so. What a terd.
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Did they say he went to 4 different high schools? That dad could’ve screwed him up and he’s sabatoging his career on purpose because that’s the only thing he’s in control of.
 
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tim said:
Did they say he went to 4 different high schools? That dad could’ve screwed him up and he’s sabatoging his career on purpose because that’s the only thing he’s in control of.
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Whatever his original was, Westlake HS, IMG, and then Cal Poly...so yeah.
 
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