I don't quite look at them the same, but I hear ya. To me, they are still Tar Heels and I'll pull for them to do well at the next level.
Yep. Good riddance to the douche-wad and his momma/poppa drama. I will never look at him as a Heel, and won't care if he sucks for the rest of his career.
I don't like Kessler as a person, but at least he finished the season. Those guys quit during the season.
Good thing he sat out the orange bowl. Would have been undrafted if he would have made the mistake of playing.
I think early on in the season he was. As the season went on, he passed him. I believe Carter was still expected to go higher than he went through. I think the consensus was mid third round.
They say RBs should go if they get a projection for the top 3 rounds. I don't think it was worth skipping the orange bowl, but I think his ceiling was probably mid 2nd even if he comes back. RBs aren't as valued as they use to be.
i don’t get the etienne pick at all...they have an elite back already and if they’re going to let trevor be trevor, they better keep him upright.
Wowsa.
Do you need the football players to be seen as being "better or worse" than Kessler?
Okay... but, that's just a relative comparison. It's opinion. I don't care if Chazz Surratt becomes a nuclear physicist at UNC. He, and the other three former football players, will be seen as quitters... FOREVER. They quit on UNC football when UNC football needed them the most. If I were him, or any of them, I'd be ashamed of myself.
The Orange Bowl has cache. It's not the Meineke CarQuest Bowl. I get what you're saying, but I think Dazz Newsome's assessment put it best: "There's no way I was going to miss that game."
Opting out? That's a euphemism for: Quitting on my teammates when they really needed me. Quitting on your teammates isn't a very good trait for a football player.
good thing it’s not part of the recruiting process...how do you think the conversation would go if a college coach asked a 16 year old if he’d sit out a bowl game to prepare for the nfl?
Of course Mack is going to publicly support them. He doesn't have a choice. I'm betting that he didn't think that way though.
This would be true for Alabama, NY6 for UNC is a huge deal. Maybe the biggest bowl game we've ever played. Certainly the biggest since the 50's. They could have kept some of my respect if they would have been honest about why they were sitting out. Just say "thanks guys, but I'm not finishing the season because I want to get paid and I don't think the bowl game helps. It's not about injuries because I'm playing in the senior bowl." If Carter says that, I still have respect for him. Lucky for him, he shot right up the draft boards.
i’ll support/cheer for them because i want those guys to be successful in life...i would’ve loved chazz as a pick for my team because need.
Good for you. I'll give you the brownie points you want for being a wonderful person. As for me, I wish them no harm, but I couldn't care less about what they do now.
Or, say he comes back for a 5th year and then tears his ACL. He'd be a 23-year-old rookie RB (by the time the 2022 season begins) coming off a major injury. The lifespan of a RB in the NFL is the lowest of all positions. Get your $ while you can because the team will cut you for a cheaper/younger player quickly.
Well, if those teammates had my back with a nice insurance policy where they'd collectively pay the difference in lifetime contract value lost if I blew out my ACL in the Orange Bowl, I'd be glad to have their back and play in the game.
If you require such fictional nonsense, then you have no business even playing any kind of team sport. There is no such insurance.
Right. And since there's no such insurance policy, the players need to self-insure. They do that by removing the risk portion of the equation.
