Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of sportsmanship

I'm curious as to what he did to get in trouble.

That said, this is a nice little (kind of longer than it needs to be) story.

http://arkansasvarsity.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=992976

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

Somebody's gonna be pissed if they didn't cover the spread. ;D

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

Here is a similar story, but focuses more on the game and not the Morgan kid.

http://ar.coachesaid.com/Article/2009/9/19/Yellville-Summit-plays-after-losing-one-of-its-own

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

You joke about it here, but ... ;D

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

Not sure I'd call this gamesmanship.

1)The game was out of hand, so why is the star player even in the game?

2)If the kid really wanted to be a good sport, why not just kneel when he received the kickoff and then let the offense run out the clock?

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

Actually, sportsmanship would be the appropriate word here, not gamesmanship.

"Gamesmanship" generally refers to one team trying to gain an edge over its opponent.

 

Re: Nice story on Arkansas prep football player and a display of gamesmanship

You are correct, A-QB.

 

Both stories linked suck journalistic cheese.

The first is a too-long jumbled mess.

And the second doesn't even mention the kneeling moment, if it happened.

 

Second story also mentioned one of the kids in the accident being placed in a drug-induced "comma."

 

I hate myself for being this cynical, but:

This quote gave me pause (emphasis mine):

"Before I screwed up and got myself into trouble, I had some schools like Arkansas, Florida State, Ole Miss, and some other big schools looking at me,'' he said. "Now they are not looking at me, but I have no one to blame but myself for that. Hopefully I can get on someone's radar, even if it is a lower level D-1 or D-2 school."

Well, doing something like this, he's suddenly on a lot of radars. Smart move. Maybe not calculated, but I would guess that he now understands just how much that will help him.

 

I'm not certain he described Yellville-Summit accurately. That's been a straight-up consolidated district for Tebow knows how long. And so hard to get to that talk used to be they were better off joining a Missouri district.

 

That quote stood out to me as well, but more for the fact that he took responsibility for what happened, rather than blaming peer pressure or being a victim of circumstance. Good for him.