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Originally Posted by ken0042
Reading the responses earlier, I was pretty much laughing and agreeing with all of you.
But then the more I thought about it- this may be the best part of this guy's life; the first time he belongs and people like him for who he is, and it may be the only time in his life. Some people lead very simple lives; in a way who are we to judge what this guy did with respect to making his "glory years" just that much more glorious. If he is destined to be flipping burgers and living in a trailer for the rest of his life, why not have one part of your life to cling to?
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I disagree, largely because I think it's sad to pigeonhole someones glory years when they are 20. I'm not naive enough to think that for some people that ends up being the case, but it's not very responsible on anyones part to assume that to be the case.
To me there is no bigger punishment than to just assume he's currently living the glory years which is synonomous to saying the next 60 are all downhill from here.
If his coach didn't know in advance ok, nothing he can do, but I think if I was the coach I wouldn't play him after that. And yea he's old enough to make his own decisions, and could very well be extrememly articulate, but he has very little perspective. So it may be that he has cajones ... or just that he's not very bright.