Tuesday Question: Bigger Waste of Talent?

Mico you do not have to respond to stuff like this. For someone to sit back and measure your past accomplishments in such a skeptical way. Saying that you were a “waste of talent”. It’s obvious that he is not paying any attention to your present situation with Tennessee. He’s an idiot. The world has not even seen what you are about to accomplish. Im looking forward to seeig you do great things. “Tunnel Vision” my friend. Congrats! R. Hines

Is the original post incorrect?

Taking into account facts only. Simple, honest, facts. YPC, total yards, receptions, total yards from scrimmage.

There is no mention in the original post about what kind of man you are, or were. There is no mention of how you take your tea. There’s no mention of how you handle conflict. There’s no mention of how you live your life, period. There IS mention of how you were presented with the opportunity to succeed at a DI, SEC school and that you did not do so. Not that it was all your fault. Trust me, anyone and everyone with eyes and a brain knows that O was a massive, colossal fuck up who stores his intelligence from the brain stem down. The only thing the fans have to go on is what they see on JP Sports on Saturdays in the fall and what they are offered at VH on those same afternoons. I don’t think it’s your place to berate people for “not knowing you or your personal struggles” when truthfully, it’s none of their business. Your personal struggles are your own, and the rest of us are not, nor should we ever be, involved in your personal life. From a fans perspective, you failed to take advantage of what could have been a very, very good opportunity for you. That’s what the original post was about.

Had the original post been a personal attack on your character, or life style, or personal choices, then you have every right to stand up and bitch slap the punks. But in this case, I fear that you have mis-interpreted the original post as an attack on you personally. Trust me, the only thing OM fans want for all past, present and future players is success. Both here at school and in the pros. Don’t you see how an OM fan might look at your performance at UNA as a “what should have been” at OM? How can you begrudge an OM fan the feeling that you SHOULD have been playing that way for us? If anything, the original post laments the fact that a culmination of different, terrible, awful circumstances caused you to miss out on what could have been an amazing career at OM. If your head wasn’t right due to personal stuff, that sucks. The fact that you’re doing better now is great. But it doesn’t change the fact that some fans may feel cheated that you weren’t the player we all hoped you’d be while you were here. That’s it.

In the same vein, we have a current player, battling his own personal demons, trying to make something of his life and this opportunity. He is struggling with it, badly. We ALL want him to make the right choices, turn his life around and become a success, both on field and off. BUT, if he does NOT make the right decisions, and fails to capitalize on the opportunities God has placed before him, his life will NOT be better for it. And that makes fans sad. Sad for his missed opportunities, sad for the skills he’ll never learn, sad for the development he’ll never gain, sad for the success he’ll never experience and worst of all, sad for the hell his life might become. And in 5 or 10 years, we might look back on his time here and wonder what might have been if he could have gotten away from the bad influences in his life in South Panola. What if he had been able to recover from his problem. What if he had been able to keep his head right and develop his God given raw talent to become a truly great CB? What if he had graduated from an SEC university with a degree and a road map for personal growth and familial success?

And when we DO look back, and discuss what he could have been, it’s not because we’re angry with him, or resentful of him, or hateful towards him. It’ll be because we wish his life had turned out differently. That’s not to say that yours hasn’t turned out well, because it sounds like you have handled your life well and taken the situations you were given, learned from those and become a success measured by more than YPC and signing bonuses. I applaud you. But don’t try to make us feel like dicks because we wish you had set rushing records at OM. It’s all we have.

Or, I could be totally wrong. This blog might just be filled with slack jawed, diaper wearing, vindictive fist fuckers who really are trying to hurt your feelings…

And for you like i said in the top post your not right bc i didnt nore have i wasted my talent i dont know wht Brent is doing but im continuing to work hard and as for motivating kids i do tht everyday bc my stuggles to get here is motivating for kids to keep pushing and to never give up on there dreams bc im a living witness tht through everything tht comes your way and n matter wht ppl say about you keep striving to make it so when you stay dont be another Mico think about it im where alot of ppl never have the opputunity to be. And your kids might come home one day and stay i want to be just like Mico then wht you goin to say Mico made it to the NFL i dont want to be like him lol boy ppl today are something smh!