Gilbert Arrested

RedDenver said:
Why? Why even have transfer restrictions? It's definitely not to help the student-athletes.
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Exactly!

knapplc said:
Georgia fans are saying he was kicked off their team after he got caught stealing from a teammate. 

I may have missed it when this came out, but where did we get the idea that he has mental health issues?
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The waiver request cited the reason for the transfer to Nebraska had to do with "mental health" issues.

 
knapplc said:
Georgia fans are saying he was kicked off their team after he got caught stealing from a teammate. 

I may have missed it when this came out, but where did we get the idea that he has mental health issues?
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That's been the rumor since he was at LSU,, but neither him nor his family has ever said he has mental health issues.

 
Decked said:
The NFL is a grown man’s game. Sheer physical talent only gets you so far. The mental is arguably equally as important. 
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Turns out college football is a grown man's game, too. Inasmuch as grown men are making billions of dollars off it. 

But it's built on 18 year olds who were the biggest stars on their high school team and likely celebrities in their town. They've never lived anywhere else until they show up on campus and find themselves in the same boat as every other high school superstar fighting for playing time. They still carry that sense of entitlement, and frankly most of them are still treated like celebrities in Lincoln. But if you have any weaknesses or doubts or insecurities or certifiable mental illness, the college football expectations will double them. 98.5% will never see the NFL, so the realities come hard and fast by that junior year. Your life may have topped out at 20 years old. 

What Gilbert did may have been something really stupid. It may also have been self-sabotage. People with tons of talent and lots of supporters sometimes throw it away on purpose, just to speed up the inevitable. They know they are f#&% ups. 

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
Turns out college football is a grown man's game, too. Inasmuch as grown men are making billions of dollars off it. 

But it's built on 18 year olds who were the biggest stars on their high school team and likely celebrities in their town. They've never lived anywhere else until they show up on campus and find themselves in the same boat as every other high school superstar fighting for playing time. They still carry that sense of entitlement, and frankly most of them are still treated like celebrities in Lincoln. But if you have any weaknesses or doubts or insecurities or certifiable mental illness, the college football expectations will double them. 98.5% will never see the NFL, so the realities come hard and fast by that junior year. Your life may have topped out at 20 years old. 

What Gilbert did may have been something really stupid. It may also have been self-sabotage. People with tons of talent and lots of supporters sometimes throw it away on purpose, just to speed up the inevitable. They know they are f#&% ups. 
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The vape shop owner said he saw him looking in the window of the shop earlier in the day...he said had he known who he was (Husker FB player) he would have given him s#!t for free.

Sad situation all around.  

 
RedDenver said:
Why? Why even have transfer restrictions? It's definitely not to help the student-athletes.
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It would be pretty difficult to be advancing towards a degree with a transfer every year.  Collegiate athletics isn't supposed to be the same thing as club sport programs.

 
307husker said:
It would be pretty difficult to be advancing towards a degree with a transfer every year.  Collegiate athletics isn't supposed to be the same thing as club sport programs.
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But that is on the college, MOST colleges require a certain amount of credits from them to graduate.  So the college could/would just say "no" unless it was an advanced degree but the player should still have the freedom to shop around.

 
307husker said:
It would be pretty difficult to be advancing towards a degree with a transfer every year.  Collegiate athletics isn't supposed to be the same thing as club sport programs.
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Yeah, I'm not hearing a ton of discussion about whether the college transfers affect the credits, credentials and trajectory of the athlete's chosen field of study. 

 
teachercd said:
But that is on the college, MOST colleges require a certain amount of credits from them to graduate.  So the college could/would just say "no" unless it was an advanced degree but the player should still have the freedom to shop around.
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Which becomes a race to the bottom in academic standards just to get athletes.

As long as the teams are affiliated with colleges, some academic requirements should be maintained.

 
kengel2 said:
Sounds like it could have been a good NIL opportunity for both. Lol.
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"Do you sometimes need to hit a vape so bad that you have thought about breaking into my Vape Store on O street, well, listen up, that won't end well for you but it did end well for Arik Gilbert, when he wants to hit a vape, he stops by my store...without a brick but still wearing the mask":

- Cue to store owner and Gilbert laughing...fade to black, show vape shop address. 

En Fin

 
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