Ryan Anaya- Natrona recruit quits

[Slow Hand]

Word is that the only Wyoming scholarship kid from last year hung it up today. This pisses me off, we have a hard enough time trying to get viable looks at the Wyoming kids and when we get one....he is soft and quits!

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Word is that the only Wyoming scholarship kid from last year hung it up today. This pisses me off, we have a hard enough time trying to get viable looks at the Wyoming kids and when we get one....he is soft and quits!

Do you know the reason he quit? It may be a bit premature to call him soft as there could be other reasons. Hopefully he reconsiders.

 

[Wyolie Coyote]

Word is that the only Wyoming scholarship kid from last year hung it up today. This pisses me off, we have a hard enough time trying to get viable looks at the Wyoming kids and when we get one....he is soft and quits!

Eric Pauley anyone? Wyoming kids need to suck it up and stick it out.

 

[McPeachy]

Do you know the reason he quit? It may be a bit premature to call him soft as there could be other reasons. Hopefully he reconsiders.

This. BUT...if I were the coach (etc.) I would never allow him to reconsider. You quit, you are done. Good luck.

 

[PokeOLoco]

Drew Martinez, Andrew Meredith... join the club son! :thumbdown:

 

[Slow Hand]

However,there are some players on the roster who are from Wyoming who are working their ass off to get the job done. I would like to see one or two of them get recognized for sticking it out and be rewarded. Isn't the Simpson kid a walk-on? How about the Wise kid from Powell, Spencer Bruce, was he a scholarship kid from the beginning? We have had a few good ones....Prosinski, Wendling are both great examples of hard working Wyoming kids.

 

[jarhead]

Yes, Tanner Simpson is a walk-on. I know because I pay his tuition! LOL

 

[OrediggerPoke]

Do you know the reason he quit? It may be a bit premature to call him soft as there could be other reasons. Hopefully he reconsiders.

This. BUT...if I were the coach (etc.) I would never allow him to reconsider. You quit, you are done. Good luck.

18 to 20 year olds are known to make rash decisions. I would let a player that quits come back (so long as they are a decent person) provided that they make up for it (i.e. extra duties for a period).

 

[CowboyNV]

How about the Gosar kids from Pinedale, all great examples of Wyoming kids sticking it out and making it at UW.

 

[McPeachy]

Do you know the reason he quit? It may be a bit premature to call him soft as there could be other reasons. Hopefully he reconsiders.

This. BUT...if I were the coach (etc.) I would never allow him to reconsider. You quit, you are done. Good luck.

18 to 20 year olds are known to make rash decisions. I would let a player that quits come back (so long as they are a decent person) provided that they make up for it (i.e. extra duties for a period).

I hear you...and agree...they do make rash decisions. That said, they need to learn from those rash decisions though - and what a lesson to learn, when you piss away a college education (etc.) on a whim.

Maybe that way, when the kid gets his first career/job, and the shit hits the fan, he will remember not to just quit, as he will know the repercussions of making rash decisions usually are no good.

:twocents:

 

[zappinpoke]

Wondering if his shoulder is the reason. Sad to see when a Wyoming scholarship player quits vrs. a walk-on.

 

[McPeachy]

Wondering if his shoulder is the reason. Sad to see when a Wyoming scholarship player quits vrs. a walk-on.

Could be...but the timing wouldn't indicate that.

 

[zappinpoke]

Wondering if his shoulder is the reason. Sad to see when a Wyoming scholarship player quits vrs. a walk-on.

Could be...but the timing wouldn't indicate that.

Yeah, weird this happens after 8 games into the season. We've had several of these during the DC era.

 

[Slow Hand]

Wondering if his shoulder is the reason. Sad to see when a Wyoming scholarship player quits vrs. a walk-on.

I highly doubt it. Sounds like he had a hard time juggling all of the demands put on a student athlete. Class and practice eat up most of your free time. If you aren't in it for the right reasons it is pretty easy to lose your focus and desire to withstand all of the crap they put your through! It is hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel....in this case playing time as a redshirt frosh!

 

[BeaverPoke]

Matt Edington was another Wyo kid that quit.
Walk on from Evanston, quit after red-shirt freshman year.

 

[Slow Hand]

Matt Edington was another Wyo kid that quit.
Walk on from Evanston, quit after red-shirt freshman year.

Yep, I watched him in the Shrine bowl....he really didn't seem like a D1 player anyway.

 

[BeaverPoke]

Matt Edington was another Wyo kid that quit.
Walk on from Evanston, quit after red-shirt freshman year.

Yep, I watched him in the Shrine bowl....he really didn't seem like a D1 player anyway.

Yeah I think that was more of DC saying "See look I give the Wyo kids a chance".

He's a nice kid and was amazing at RB his senior year for Evanston, but without a doubt, not D1 material.

 

[BeaverPoke]

Matt Edington was another Wyo kid that quit.
Walk on from Evanston, quit after red-shirt freshman year.

Yep, I watched him in the Shrine bowl....he really didn't seem like a D1 player anyway.

Yeah I think that was more of DC saying "See look I give the Wyo kids a chance".

He's a nice kid and was amazing at RB his senior year for Evanston, but without a doubt, not D1 material.

Which really puts it into perspective sometimes how athletic and skilled D1 athletes really are.
The kid was a freak athlete and dominated people at the highschool level, but still isn't D1.

I think we lose sight of how good these kids are sometimes.

 

[Slow Hand]

Matt Edington was another Wyo kid that quit.
Walk on from Evanston, quit after red-shirt freshman year.

Yep, I watched him in the Shrine bowl....he really didn't seem like a D1 player anyway.

Yeah I think that was more of DC saying "See look I give the Wyo kids a chance".

He's a nice kid and was amazing at RB his senior year for Evanston, but without a doubt, not D1 material.

I am sure he is a great kid.......Some of these kids realize they can't play and they throw in the towel. I would love to see them go to a smaller school and be successful. Chaderon, BHS, Rocky, Perhaps Dickinson State.......

 

[BeaverPoke]

I think what gets to them is how dominant they were in high school, where the HS coaches glorify Friday nights and college ball is not an option for most of these kids, so they get hyped up. They think they are some bad ass football players (because they were) then get to spring ball, or fall camp and are served the biggest piece of humble pie they have ever had.
I couldn't imagine thinking I was all that--and I'm not even saying they are cocky, just they were so dominant in HS----then doing drills with someone like Brett Smith or Shaun Wick and then thinking "holy shit...I'm nothing compared to these guys".