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'23 TNFR WR Jimmy Horn Jr. (Signed to COLORADO)
- Thread starter WasianCU
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The idea that you can’t have fun while working extremely hard to be your best is absurd.
They see a 15 minute video of these kids joking around in between sets and decide that's all they do. Apparently expectations are for these players to be robots.
It absolutely is. The hard work is what makes it fun. Hell, you even forget it is hard work after awhile.
Don't know the back story on his dad being in prison and frankly it is none of my business but this is powerful far beyond football.
Incarceration tends to become multi-generational. I had students who do to their family upbringing fully expected to end up doing time, that was the norm in their families.
Even in families where the father is the first one to go there is a high tendency for the son's to follow. Incarceration rates correspond directly to a families socio-economic situation and incarceration almost always pushes families into a much worse socio-economic situation than they would be otherwise.
What Prime is doing in this specific situation is taking a kid who has a lot of factors that could lead to negative outcomes and instead giving him both opportunity and more importantly guidance and support that is very likely to result in him not only not following his dad into the criminal justice system but to put him into a socio-economic situation where his kids are highly unlikely to end up there either.
We get excited about winning football games and I enjoy us being good on the field as much as anyone but it never hurts to remember that these players are real human beings with whole lives outside of football.
When Coach Prime finally does retire and sit back to look at this accomplishments all the things he accomplished as a player and a coach and even a broadcaster will be significant but I hope and expect that he will be able to enjoy even more the fact that he changed a bunch of lives for the better as he was doing all that.
ATONEMENT!!
Medford M.
Well-Known Member
Definitely not something on your announcer bingo card
Definitely got his holidays mixed up. Yom Kippur is 2 weeks away.
Okay Rebecca
That dude had a serious vocabulary. I think he might have been making up some of those words but I can’t be sure.