Amari Cooper why he didn't put on for his city

[Republicane]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

This is the kind of softminded gibberish that was spewed about LeBron. Why does something have to be done "the hard way" if it doesn't have to be? To please you? Did you drive over a bridge today? Or did you park your car at the edge and swim across? You live in a nice house with AC and carpet or a log hut with a dirt floor? They should elect to put obstacles in their own way to success, because you didn't get to choose the ones that were put in yours? RickRoll had a winning PowerBall ticket, but he threw it away because he didn't want to take the easy way to financial security. "Three hundred million dollars? Pfffttt I think I'll just work my nine to five until I'm 67. I have too much respect for myself and for my family, to just let you give me money, thank you very much."

 

[Jassid82]

Lets keep things in prospective, kendallcanes..Andre Johnson came in 98' after the 9-3 season. Willis MaGahee came in 99' after the 9-4. Vernon Carey came in 99' after the 9-4 season. Kevin Beard came in 98'. McKinnie came in 98'. McDougle came in 99'. See the pattern here? These were top rated guys in the country! And they came because we were SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE. They didnt come after 7-5 seasons. **** we had 9 wins and everybody knew we were one or two great classes away from the ship'. We go 9-3 this year and our fortunes will turn immensely in our direction.

 

[RickRollU]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

This is the kind of softminded gibberish that was spewed about LeBron. Why does something have to be done "the hard way" if it doesn't have to be? To please you? Did you drive over a bridge today? Or did you park your car at the edge and swim across? You live in a nice house with AC and carpet or a log hut with a dirt floor? They should elect to put obstacles in their own way to success, because you didn't get to choose the ones that were put in yours? RickRoll had a winning PowerBall ticket, but he threw it away because he didn't want to take the easy way to financial security. "Three hundred million dollars? Pfffttt I think I'll just work my nine to five until I'm 67. I have too much respect for myself and for my family, to just let you give me money, thank you very much."

If you dream of working for Apple and they offer you a job for 50K and there's Microsoft who offer you a job for 80K a year. Will you take the highest paid job because you'll make more money or you're going to take the Apple job, because that's where you wanted to go even if the salary if slightly lower? If you take the 1st option, you take the easy way out.

 

[Canemang]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

This is the kind of softminded gibberish that was spewed about LeBron. Why does something have to be done "the hard way" if it doesn't have to be? To please you? Did you drive over a bridge today? Or did you park your car at the edge and swim across? You live in a nice house with AC and carpet or a log hut with a dirt floor? They should elect to put obstacles in their own way to success, because you didn't get to choose the ones that were put in yours? RickRoll had a winning PowerBall ticket, but he threw it away because he didn't want to take the easy way to financial security. "Three hundred million dollars? Pfffttt I think I'll just work my nine to five until I'm 67. I have too much respect for myself and for my family, to just let you give me money, thank you very much."

If you dream of working for Apple and they offer you a job for 50K and there's Microsoft who offer you a job for 80K a year. Will you take the highest paid job because you'll make more money or you're going to take the Apple job, because that's where you wanted to go even if the salary if slightly lower? If you take the 1st option, you take the easy way out.

Terrible analogy. For starters, right now Bama is like a $500,000 job compared to Miami's $50,000 offer. So yea, I would take the $500,000 job. Plus Cooper said winning a ship was his priority, if that was the case, then it was a no brainer. Cooper is likely a 3 & out player, chances of Miami winning a ship in those 3 years was/is far less likely than Bama.

 

[fastcane]

Yup, I can respect that, doesn't mean I agree with his thinking, but it's his life. Bottom line, Miami needs to win this year to turn things around in SF for recruiting. We need to start with a win against ufi, we need this big time. Here is a big chance to beat a team in the SEC and one of our most hated rivals. I'd rather lose to anyone in the country but the gators. It's time, we have enough team to beat these guys, now just win baby.

At least he was honest.

 

[jw410]

It's funny seeing people act shocked, SHOCKED! that a kid would want to go win at currently the premier program in college football. He didn't spurn Miami for a USF or an NCSU. He went to 'Bama. Jeesh.

Some of you guys are putting him in a no win situation. He wants to win? He's a frontrunner. But if the roles were reversed and it was Bama that was coming off 6-6, had an NCAA investigation looming, and he went there people would say, "Afraid of competition, doesn't want to win, would rather be a big fish at a crappy program. No heart."

Take off the orange and green glasses for like two seconds and you'll understand that not every HS kid should, or does want to go to UM.

I'm seriously so sick of this comment, and general attitude. We are on a UM message board, everything here (besides our resident **** gator) will come through the perspective of a UM fan. If you have a problem with that there are tons of other sites you can post on. If you want to post here then just accept this as a give and get over it.

Nobody has to accept anything.. who the f are you!!! Just because we associate ourselves with the team doesn't mean I'm some blind *** homer. Grow up and stop speaking for me; speak for your **** self.

 

[LA'Cane818]

Well, not to mention that at the time, the NCAA situation with the school looked bleak. Plus, coming off a 6-6 season in which a highly disappointing senior class was on the way out. Can you really blame him?

Uh, yeah I can.

 

[JHallCanes]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

This is the kind of softminded gibberish that was spewed about LeBron. Why does something have to be done "the hard way" if it doesn't have to be? To please you? Did you drive over a bridge today? Or did you park your car at the edge and swim across? You live in a nice house with AC and carpet or a log hut with a dirt floor? They should elect to put obstacles in their own way to success, because you didn't get to choose the ones that were put in yours? RickRoll had a winning PowerBall ticket, but he threw it away because he didn't want to take the easy way to financial security. "Three hundred million dollars? Pfffttt I think I'll just work my nine to five until I'm 67. I have too much respect for myself and for my family, to just let you give me money, thank you very much."

Ermon Lane is the same way this year IMO. He is making a business decision, and no I dont mean getting paid off. These kids can be great anywhere and be royalty anywhere, so some of them aren't satisfied playing for mediocre teams or hoping they can play in some ****** bowl game.....if they arent banned from it.

I mean, how can you blame them?

 

[CANE1775]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

This is the kind of softminded gibberish that was spewed about LeBron. Why does something have to be done "the hard way" if it doesn't have to be? To please you? Did you drive over a bridge today? Or did you park your car at the edge and swim across? You live in a nice house with AC and carpet or a log hut with a dirt floor? They should elect to put obstacles in their own way to success, because you didn't get to choose the ones that were put in yours? RickRoll had a winning PowerBall ticket, but he threw it away because he didn't want to take the easy way to financial security. "Three hundred million dollars? Pfffttt I think I'll just work my nine to five until I'm 67. I have too much respect for myself and for my family, to just let you give me money, thank you very much."

LOL

 

[Republicane]

Ermon Lane is the same way this year IMO. He is making a business decision, and no I dont mean getting paid off. These kids can be great anywhere and be royalty anywhere, so some of them aren't satisfied playing for mediocre teams or hoping they can play in some ****** bowl game.....if they arent banned from it.

I mean, how can you blame them?

Fans harp on these kids for being entitled, but all the while ignoring the fact that they want those same players to make decisions based solely on what they, the fan, want. And then you have adults throwing tantrums, acting the same age as some of the kids they are criticizing, when they don't. "Who cares if it's the decision Cooper is happiest with? Why should that matter? He should be out here trying to make ME happy. Derp."

 

[LA'Cane818]

I hope miami makes it to the championship and whoops alabamas ***.

by then Coop will be starting for an NFL team and Lane may already be taking his place...maybe even Randolph on the other side of him

 

[UMFarArcher]

Winners like to win. Winning attracts winners.

If one can't understand that basic tenet of human behavior, life is going to be very difficult to understand.

Three kinds of folks: Those loyal to the U regardless of win/loss numbers, and those who want to win more than loyalty to the U. Then there's those who aren't worth a siht at either, and are eat up with the dumbass game playing.

Duke and others exhibit Loyalty and want to DO the winning. Others will have to wait until the winning starts, and will pile on. The third group we don't give a **** what they want.

At least Amari was honest.

 

[FullyERicht]

Aka my mom is a crack ho and pimped me out. Next.

 

[caneaddict]

Bama doesnt win the ship w/o Cooper last year, he wasnt riding coattails, he was a key contributor especially in big games.

 

[jerzeycane]

As Al has said on many occasions, it's easy to hop on the train while it's running full tilt, but it takes a different type of person to have a vision and want to build something of their own.

Nothing wrong with Amari not being the latter, but it does make the Duke Johnson's of the world all the more special. Shows just how different Duke, Tracy, Perryman, Coley, and Bush are.

I know it hasn't shown up in the win column yet, but I truly believe we have a special group on our team. If a kid doesn't have the personality to want to build from the bottom, then he probably wouldn't have exhausted his potential here anyway.

Once again, this doesn't say much about Amari to me. It just tells me everything I need to know about guys like Duke Johnson.

 

[thebutcher]

Life on campus is also different. At SEC schools the football teams run the campus. Half of Miami is rich ******/foreign kids who couldn't give a **** about the football team. They can go to bama where everyone worships them or Miami where 50+ percent of the student body doesn't give a ****. Things might've been different when we were winning but right now that's the atmosphere on campus

 

[LatinCane]

Winning solves a lot of problems.

Lets keep things in prospective, kendallcanes..Andre Johnson came in 98' after the 9-3 season. Willis MaGahee came in 99' after the 9-4. Vernon Carey came in 99' after the 9-4 season. Kevin Beard came in 98'. McKinnie came in 98'. McDougle came in 99'. See the pattern here? These were top rated guys in the country! And they came because we were SHOWING SIGNS OF LIFE. They didnt come after 7-5 seasons. **** we had 9 wins and everybody knew we were one or two great classes away from the ship'. We go 9-3 this year and our fortunes will turn immensely in our direction.

 

[gogeta4]

Our fans actully think he was coming here. Shannon wasnt pulling him here.

Dudes on grassy then were saying they didn't want him.

some were wondering why we were recruiting him @ the time because of his jr stats...and the fact that he went to MNW...and everybody HATES mnw kids for some **** reason.

 

[AUcane]

Ahhh, gotta love elite kids taking the easy way out!

So wait, if they don't sign with us while we're down they're taking the easy out and if they sign with us with we're up they're taking the easy way out?

Hmm, ok.

If you wanted to stay home but you go away to a program so you can win a **** ring, yeah it's the easy way out. And yes, if a elite Alabama kid who wanted to stay home come to Miami so he can win a ring instead of building the program he grew up loving than he's taking the easy way out.

Not bashing the kid or questionning his character, but he did take the easy way out.

I would argue the opposite. Going to Bama is NOT the easy way out whereas going to Miami is. Bama's roster is FULL of 4-5 star kids and one can argue that the level of comp there is as high as there is in the country.

 

[LatinCane]

We are all wired differently. Cooper would have rather put in the hard work at a more polished product. There is nothing wrong with that. Some people would rather work at Apple than Nokia. Same thing Matt Patchan said a couple of years back as to why he chose UF over UM. Some kids would rather go into a situation that is more predictable than one that is unpredictable. If we win we will solve a lot of problems. Let's not worry about why a kid did not choose UM. Winning will solve a lot of problems.

Now let's analyze his decision. Cooper has continued to put in the hard work and not only did he start, he had a great year, became their go to receiver as a freshman and will more than likely be a highly drafted junior. So far, let's be fair and say he made the right choice. Patchan has been nothing but injury prone, and when he has played has not been an exceptional player. Could this be chalked up to work ethic and entitlement in some senses? Maybe, but we aren't asking Patchan on Twitter why he chose UF and not UM. I am sure we can find examples of players actually from Miami-Dade that chose to go elsewhere but a player that leaves MDC will only be criticized if he is successful elsewhere. I don't lose sleep over the Amari Cooper's or the Teddy Bridgewater's. If we win with the current players we have, then we will have the attention of all future ACs and TBs from MDC. Winning solves a lot of problems.