Damn... Joyner and Pulu

WeakarmCobra said:

animate said:

Hey, how does this work?

If a guy is on schollie does he get to ride out the rest of the time on medical retirement 'shipped?

How about walk ons?

Can you 'ship a player and then reward him with a medical retirement later?

Should I even be talking about this?

Just wondering...

Medical means the kid gets a free education but no longer counts on the scholarship limit for the team.

Walk on are not on scholarship, so they don’t really matter in this case.

Yeah, but what i mean is can you put a guy you know who's probably going to get a medical retirement onto scholarship ... You know, as a reward?

So the guy gets a free education and you get good karma?

HillsboroDuck said:

animate said:

WeakarmCobra said:

animate said:

Hey, how does this work?

If a guy is on schollie does he get to ride out the rest of the time on medical retirement 'shipped?

How about walk ons?

Can you 'ship a player and then reward him with a medical retirement later?

Should I even be talking about this?

Just wondering...

Medical means the kid gets a free education but no longer counts on the scholarship limit for the team.

Walk on are not on scholarship, so they don’t really matter in this case.

Yeah, but what i mean is can you put a guy you know who's probably going to get a medical retirement onto scholarship ... You know, as a reward?

So the guy gets a free education and you get good karma?

Can't see why not. There might be a rule against blatantly doing it but it would be very hard to prove as long as you timed things right.

Well .... Good for Jared then.

WeakarmCobra said:

If I am joyner, i would seek second opinion and graduate transfer. Kid has the ability to play on sunday, should be given the chance to do so. IMO

I highly doubt they just retired him with no say from him.

WeakarmCobra said:

HillsboroDuck said:

WeakarmCobra said:

If I am joyner, i would seek second opinion and graduate transfer. Kid has the ability to play on sunday, should be given the chance to do so. IMO

I highly doubt they just retired him with no say from him.

but i highly doubt, the kid wanted to retire. He worked so hard for past 5+ years to get to this point. I pretty sure he want to fulfil this childhood dream of playing in the NFL

Of course he wanted to, what kind of throwaway non point is that?

Kid's had one too many head injuries. I'm guessing he's aware of that.

WeakarmCobra said:

HillsboroDuck said:

WeakarmCobra said:

If I am joyner, i would seek second opinion and graduate transfer. Kid has the ability to play on sunday, should be given the chance to do so. IMO

I highly doubt they just retired him with no say from him.

but i highly doubt, the kid wanted to retire. He worked so hard for past 5+ years to get to this point. I pretty sure he want to fulfil this childhood dream of playing in the NFL

Joyner has been extremely injury conscious since high school. Most schools, including us initially, wanted him at RB but he insisted he wanted to play defense instead because of the high injury rates at RB. He was known as a hard-hitter in HS and as many have mentioned already, had several concussions in HS and has had multiple since being at UW. I'm sure he's been really aware and frustrated by of all of this for a while and it's not like he and his family don't get a say in the decision to medically retire. Sucks to have something you love taken away from you for things out of your control, but it's disingenuous to claim he hasn't already thought all this through or should fight the outcome.