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The reason Joey Thomas hates UW

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  • CaptainPJ
    CaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986

    http://seattlemedium.com/coach-joey-thomas-inspires-youth-totally-optimize-potential/

    During his freshmen year at the University of Washington, Thomas thought about quitting football, the game that he has loved since he was a little kid playing for CAYA. But a conversation with his best friend, former UW football player Paul Arnold, got Thomas to refocus and pursue his life’s dream at Montana State University.

    “It was a frustrating time for him. He loved football so much and he put everything he had in it,” said Arnold, who also played for UW at the time. “I don’t think it was an ability issue, I think he just didn’t fit into what they were looking for. That probably was the lowest point in his sports career.

    According to Thomas, Arnold encouraged him not to “let these folks break your spirit,” and to go somewhere else if he had to but to keep grinding. He went on to play for Montana State, but the impact on his life is something that helps motivate him to encourage his players to keep working and make a way to live out their dreams.

    “They broke me,” said Thomas of his time with the UW football program. “They weren’t feeling me and I got no love.”

    “To be that broken to feel like I had to quit the game that I loved… that was a huge low point for me,”

    Snowflake POTD
  • CaptainPJ
    CaptainPJ Member Posts: 2,986
    Also, what sort of grown Man goes by “Joey?”

    Christ
  • LoneStarDawg
    LoneStarDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 13,775 Founders Club
    Black guy with a soft white guy name who doesn’t love UW? What is going on?
  • UW_Doog_Bot
    UW_Doog_Bot Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,625 Founders Club
    Passion said:

    Passion said:

    Meek said:

    http://seattlemedium.com/coach-joey-thomas-inspires-youth-totally-optimize-potential/

    During his freshmen year at the University of Washington, Thomas thought about quitting football, the game that he has loved since he was a little kid playing for CAYA. But a conversation with his best friend, former UW football player Paul Arnold, got Thomas to refocus and pursue his life’s dream at Montana State University.

    “It was a frustrating time for him. He loved football so much and he put everything he had in it,” said Arnold, who also played for UW at the time. “I don’t think it was an ability issue, I think he just didn’t fit into what they were looking for. That probably was the lowest point in his sports career.

    According to Thomas, Arnold encouraged him not to “let these folks break your spirit,” and to go somewhere else if he had to but to keep grinding. He went on to play for Montana State, but the impact on his life is something that helps motivate him to encourage his players to keep working and make a way to live out their dreams.

    “They broke me,” said Thomas of his time with the UW football program. “They weren’t feeling me and I got no love.”

    “To be that broken to feel like I had to quit the game that I loved… that was a huge low point for me,”

    there are tens of thousands of players saying this about hundreds of schools. it's unfortunate if this is still a personal issue. even my grandfather, who got shot down in his P51-A Mustang and hauled off to Stalag Luft III in WWII where he had to dig fucking tunnels to get out eventually stopped being pissed at Germans.
    My grandparents lived in German occupied France and watched people get randomly shot and Jews get hauled away.

    They hated Germans ‘’til they died.
    I'm trying to think of a nationality that French people don't hate... Coming up blank.
    Certainly not Norwegians. Pretty tough to hate vanilla ice cream, even though it’s plain.
    Ask southern Frenchman what they think of Normans and Normandy. #stillbitter