Maurice Clarett: Good RB, Disrespectful Assmunch

If the Texans have the first pick in the draft and he does not play next season, would you select him?

At what point would you select him?

 

1. And that makes it okay? I should hope that if someone leaves during a final, they fail the class.
2. Sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if I got kicked off the team either.
3. Yes it does. And look at what happened to the old Fab Five team at Michigan - completely stripped of all awards and recognition.

Also, I went to school with guys like Quentin Jammer, Mike Williams, and Leonard Davis. They were all living in normal lives in Jester or off Riverside, driving plain cars under after they graduated. The Longhorns run a very clean program, and don't resort to sleazy tactics by boosters to get recruits. We're Texas.

4. So it's okay to break the law, because "everyone else does it?"
5. Probably too busy to give his story, right?

 

Clarett simply has no respect for the game, nor does he have any idea of how little he has accomplished. Allen was one of the best college players of all time. Allen was a Hall of Fame running back in the NFL. Clarett has yet to complete one full season of college football (due to injury). He has accomplished nothing. His accomplishments and his ego are not in alignment. Snubbing Marcus Allen is classless. It's telling Marcus Allen, one of the greatest ever, that his time isn't as important as that of Clarett. This type of arrogant, egotistical attitude is why many fans are very sour on the modern athlete. Accomplish something first, then you can talk the talk.

 

Yeah you're right, the people who actually make money off his performance have no responsability in this. I never said he didn't, but it just amazes me that in all this mess you never here the coaches name or the adminstrators who clean up off of free labor. And again, if a professor offered basically a free pass in college, a dealership let you have a loaded car, would you turn it down, I think not.

 

See this is just stupid, Lawrence Phillips drug his girlfriend down a flight of stairs. There's a big difference. And what did Tom Osberne get for recruiting numerous questionable student athletes, a seat in the U.S. Congress.

 

I had no idea that's the rule you were referring to, you never mentioned. So let's say Maurice challenges that rule, how does that affect your life, but more importantly what bad example is he setting by maximizing his earning ability.

 

Like leading Ohio State to a National Championship when virtually everyone picked them to lose??

 

1. It's written in the class syllabus anyone who was having problems could ask for help
2. Taking money from a friend is not an NCAA violation unless that friend is a booster
3. So you are saying OSU and Duke are dirty programs compared to Texas. Yeah right.
4. It's not ok but I won't criticize him for something most people have done. Again even apolice man was quoted in saying inteh Columbus paper that they won't pursue it. he had not filed insurance papers, if he had done that then it would have been a more serious offense.
5. You know his priority should be gettign things straight with the NCAA and Ohio State before he worries about meeting with other players.

 

Hasn't the same thing been said about 80% of the young athletes (included teh Franchise). He's 19 years old. Most of the guys coming out of college are 20-22 and they have no respect for the game or the other players.

 

Yawn, another misrepresentation set forth by the King of Exaggeration, pgabriel. Clarett rushed the ball 23 times in the Fiesta Bowl for a grand total of 47 yards. A pathetic performance. Football is a team sport. Last I checked, Maurice Clarett didn't receive the championship, Ohio State did.... and if you knew anything about college football, you would know that their defense was what carried them.

You will stop at nothing to defend arrogant, classless, egotistical athletes, won't you, pgabriel? I wonder why....

 

Can you name any other athlete I've defended for doing something arrogant, or is that just another one of your ignorant assumptions? And talk about exaggerations, only an idiot would claim Clarrett had little to do with Ohio State's success last season to help make their point.

 

I was comparing the 2 because MC is a talented college RB who might let his attitude keep him from being a great NFL RB...like Lawrence did.

 

Knowing that I could lose my eligibility and get my school in trouble, no I wouldn't.

For argument's sake, let's say I did take those things. One thing I wouldn't do is file a police claim regarding the car that was "loaned" to me as a "test drive" and claim $6000 worth of money and goods were stolen.

Clarett easily ranks as one of the dumbest athletes of all time.

 

You're reaching. You have no idea how Maurice Clarett would play on Sundays, and just in the case of any other knuckle head athlete, Michael Irvin, Randy Moss, Jeremy Shockey, if that player succeeds on the field, that team's fans will be happy to have him on their team.

 

Again,

If challenging the rule is your big deal, then I am not going to argue with you, because I feel nothing wrong with someone wanting to maximize their ability to make money, and if an owner wants to draft a 19 year old kid, so be it, who I am I to tell that owner not to draft him, or that player not to take the money. Only a person with a large ego would want someone not to try to make the most money they can just because they don't want to see someone that age playing professionally.

 

First of all, we don't know MC's side of the story. This isn't a Kobe Bryant rape case deal: it's not that big a deal. Athletes disrespect the past all the time. Sure I hate it, but some of them learn about it the hard way their first year of pro ball.

The Longhorns program is clean, I agree. But even Cedric Benson rides in a luxury escalade (i think) wit the spinning blades. Things happen; you're 18-22, people are giving you stuff, you want to keep it.

MC didn't call his coach because he knew he would be mad. Maybe he's waiting until coach's temper goes down a little before explaining himself.

If Clarett wasn't on that OSU team, the Buckeyes definitely do not get to the Fiesta Bowl. And at the Fiesta Bowl, he does a lot more than rush. He caught that swing pass from Krenzel to set up the Maurice Hall TD. Whenever he's in the game, it opens the passing game up.

He's a great athlete, and I agree there's no excuse for acting like an asswipe. Still, get out of their personal lives. Give him some privacy. This isn't shattering like he raped a girl. It ruins no ones lives. Get over it.