Former University of Texas stars face difficult tr

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nra1775

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Now that Tennessee Titans coach Jeff Fisher officially has handed his team over to backup quarterback Kerry Collins -- until former starter Vince Young can get his injured left knee and his head right -- it's time to ask a legitimate question: What is it with former stars from the University of Texas?

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I call ********.

Sure, Texas has had some busts but our ratio is probably around 50% when you look at the total picture. Sure, there have been high profile busts but let's look at USC:

Matt Leinhart -- Borderline bust
Reggie Bush -- Bust as a RB
Mike Williams -- Huge bust

Where's the article about USC's busts?
 
The difference between those guys and say Ricky, Ced, and VY is that there was not an emotional/mental aspect to their busts.
 
I think it's a very fair column, given the fact that there are a lot of quotes from actual players and execs.

It's not just an editorial opinion monologue. So if some of you blast the article, are you basically refuting what some of our own players' said?
 
What a stupid article.


Leonard Davis
Shaun Rogers
Casey Hampton
Priest Holmes
Nathan Vasher
Quentin Jammer
Ced Griffin
Michael Griffin
Michael Huff
Bo Scaife
David Thomas
Chris Simms
Kasey Studdard


I know I'm missing a lot more Texas NFL players under Mack Brown. You can't take a small sample size and declare a rule from it. That's just stupid.
 
If people will take time and read the whole article it's actually pretty well thought out and possibly an accurate analysis. I think he misses a little bit with his assumption but I'd say it's a fair assessment.
 
how about this, at the game on saturday lets just boo the players no matter what they do. 70 yard td from mccoy to buckner, BOOOO. Fozzy breaks a long td run BOOO. That article is stupid.
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This is a ******** article. Another attempt to sell ink following V's knee injury. 40 active former Longhorns in the NFL and this ******* calls out five? Including V?
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Stupid article.

Sean Rogers does not belong on the list. He is such lazy *** that teams were falling over themselves to get him in the off season. Leonard Davis is on the list and he was a pro bowler last year and got a huge free agent deal. Was he a "bust" in Arizona, or just playing out of position for a crappy franchise?

It seems that Vince needs to grow up a little. So what? The same program that VY came from also produced Chris Simms who was tough enough to sacrifice a bodily organ on the field and still lead a drive to take the lead.

Cory Redding has been tough enough to not only transition from D-end, to tackle and play with a lot of class for a really bad organization.

Selvin Young was tough enough to take not getting drafted, and in one year go out and take the starting tailback job for one of the best running offenses in the NFL.

If you look at the schools that are in top 15 for putting talent in the NFL, you will find examples like this. USC has plenty. So does OU. Both OU and Nebraska have had quarterbacks win the Heisman and just quit the NFL.

It's just stupid turd flinging.
 
how many Texas Longhorns are on current NFL rosters right now?

There are plenty of big time Longhorns players that are doing well in the NFL, off the top of my head I can think of three....Roy Williams, Selvin Young, and Michael Huff. None of those guys that I know of have had any off-the-field stuff going on. I'm sure those guys were just as coddled as the Longhorns who had problems in the NFL. So someone will have to do better than just 3 players (Red Eye Ricky, VY, Cedric Benson) or whatever for a school that probably has at least 20 NFL players currently. I bet much more than that but even if Texas only had 20 right now, 3/20 is not a high number. You get that from every school.

Oh by the way, red-eye ricky left for the NFL in the late 90's, so if you include him you'd have to include every Texas player in the last 10 years or so, I bet it's a small pct that had some issues off the field. And being a bust is not what we're talking about here.
 
oh thanks. I thought that was their NFL careers but they all looked fairly short, those are their years at Texas.

well there you go....what pct of that group has had off-the-field issues? not that many.

I don't see enough chronically lazy Texas examples either to make it a problem within UT's program.

USC has a 'chronically lazy' player too who never panned out....Mike Williams. He accrued so much in fines his last year, he basically played for free, he was always out of shape and overweight. He was a truly dominant college WR, absolutely unstoppable, even if he wasn't fast enough for NFL, he could've been an All-Pro, hall of fame TE.

Funny thing is when that pinhead followed Maurice Clarett, he blasted SC players for not working hard enough.

Waste talent.

Anyway, I'm not really seeing the point of this article. I don't think there's nearly enough evidence to suggest Texas players become a mess off the field and not that good on the field once they leave school. There's been some high profile guys, 3 of them, which is unusual but that's where the heat is coming from. Big deal. You can find 3 SC guys who have done the same. Probably every other big time school too.
 
The author's point is that UT is just too awesome. Way more awesome than the NFL. I can't disagree with that.

The obvious solution is a pro team, in Austin, dedicated to the drafting of former Longhorns.
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Thing is people are jealous of us and will take shots whenever they can. So what if their journalism is not professional. That, like the standard media in general is a thing off the past.

Why bother putting players not having issues on the forefront as well? That does not sell or get the BBS's going.

I have no doubt that VY shuts people up, again. I don' know about Cedric. He has a full turnaround ahead to do so.
 
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