Burn. But seriously, your program sucks and that was the kind of candy ass stuff you would expect from them. Spurrier doesn’t even like you and quit right before it went I complete shit and you still shamelessly parade him around any chance you get. It’s sad.
wait what no he wouldn’t. he played multiple conference games for us before getting suspended. who is telling y’all this nonsense edit: he played 9 conference games aka half the schedule last year. he’s not gonna be eligible next spring even if he decides to keep playing college basketball which i doubt
Damn...so I haven't really looked into the situation much but I just tried to look up the professor's page and it's gone from Poli Sci's website. So I googled his name and he popped up as the author for a site called "The Imaginative Conservative." Interesting
i glanced through his ratemyprofessor reviews. apparently he refuses to answer emails or answer phone calls so it is impossible to reach him. i respect the move
That appears on tons of people's pages. In some cases it's true, but in some cases it's undergrad for "I emailed the guy the night before the paper was due and 5 minutes later he hadn't gotten back to my very lengthy/poorly and unprofessionally composed message, WTF"
i agree. like he shouldnt have made the joke but i got more of a "i was just making a joke about a phone going off based on the welfare discussion being had" vibe than a "lol youre black so i bet youre on welfare" one. getting fired seems a bit much for that
Tape looks pretty good against a high level of competition in California. Could be a riser in the rankings because he's been MVPs at a couple camps and it looks like he's been invited to the Elite 11 finals.
Just made the connection that his older brother was the QB at Wazzu that committed suicide in January--Ty Hilinski
Yeah. He started a foundation in his honor and it's why their whole family is going somewhere together. His older brother is going to try to go to med school here and his mom is moving out
That is sad. Speaking of emotional back stories, anybody read the long piece CNN did on Hayden Hurst? Never knew the whole thing about he had to leave baseball bc of the "yips"
Dabo has never done anything remotely similar to that guy. I know strength coaches are generally weird, but that shit is beyond terrible.
I can say with near absolute certainty that I'm sure Jeff Dillman has never typed in lower case letters
Apparently Ron Rivera said he thinks the patriots moved up in front of the Panthers because belichick knew they liked Hurst and he does too
Here's that Hurst story I was talking about http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...ball-flameout-to-potential-1st-round-nfl-pick Spoiler How Hayden Hurst Went from Baseball Flameout to Potential 1st-Round NFL Pick DAN POMPEIAPRIL 4, 2018 B/R JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The big redhead takes the baseball from his old black mitt. The yellow stitching on the outside of the left thumb reads, "Tomorrow's Another Day." He looks at the ball and pauses for a second. He's standing in his backyard, in between the pool and the pond, where he used to play catch when he was younger and untouched by failure. He is facing a new wooden fence. He thinks about it and moves to the opposite side of the pool, where an errant throw wouldn't do any damage, as one of his throws did to the old fence long ago. He has not thrown a baseball since 2015, when he walked away from the sport after a three-year battle with the yips. But now, with his father on the other side of the yard, he cocks his arm, steps with his left foot and… In the schoolyard, Hayden Hurst was the first one picked for whatever sport he played. And he played them all—baseball, football, basketball, hockey and wrestling. As a high school freshman, he was the winning pitcher in the state championship game. No wonder. He stood 6'3" and threw 90 miles per hour. By the time he was a high school senior, his parents told him he should give up football because a Major League Baseball career was at stake. In the stands at his games, radar guns outnumbered video cameras. He was named an Under Armour All-American and pitched in the all-star game at Wrigley Field. He was offered a full ride to play baseball at Florida State. On the night before the 2012 MLB draft, Hurst's adviser told him to be ready for a call near the end of the first round or at the top of the second, and for a signing bonus between $8 million (if he went at the top of the first) and $1 million (if he went at the bottom of the first). But both rounds came and went without Hurst being chosen. So did the third round...and the fourth...and every other round until he was finally chosen by the Pirates. In the 17th. Hurst's father, Jerry Hurst, did some investigating and found out teams were worried Hayden intended to put his pro career on hold to attend Florida State. He also heard the adviser put the word out that Hurst would not sign for less than $1 million, even though neither Hurst nor his family members had ever said that. Faced with the possibility of drafting a player who wouldn't sign, teams backed off. Hurst was disappointed, but he planned on enrolling at Santa Fe Community College and re-entering the draft the following year. Then the Pirates called and asked what it would take for him to sign. Hurst asked for $400,000. At the eleventh hour before the signing deadline, the Pirates agreed. By the time he joined the Gulf Coast League Pirates in Bradenton, Florida, Hurst stood nearly 6'5" and was throwing 97 miles per hour. The Pirates had every reason to believe they had a steal, and it appeared Hurst would be on a fast track to the major leagues. Then that fall, he was playing catch with a teammate on the foul line. He overthrew his partner. Then he overthrew him again, and again. The fall league was almost over, so Hurst went home for the offseason and put it out of his mind. He came back the following spring pitching the best he ever had, buzzing fastballs by overmatched batters. But then he injured his biceps and missed a week. When he returned, everything had changed. He was skipping throws in the dirt at 45 feet, airmailing it over the catcher's head and sending balls into the lake behind the field. He started feeling something funny in his hand when he threw. Day 54 April 12th Saturday 2014 Threw with [Tyler] Glasnow on field 5 in between 2 guys AAA guy and Vance Worley and I was not able to throw it well. I kept missing high because I was flying open. I got to the point when I just stopped throwing and started lobbing the ball back. I got very discouraged because of the bad throws. I was pissed off and embarrassed of what I was doing. I thought about switching positions and or quitting all day long. It is tough at times but I have to stay focused and positive to get what I want one day. I'm only 20 years old I can do it. Keep grinding away at it. One day at a time. —From Hayden Hurst's journal The pitching gurus who spend their days on throwing motions initially thought his problems were mechanical. They made adjustments to his delivery. Try this. Do that. One compassionless old-school coach's idea of helping was, "What the f--k are you doing? What's wrong with you? Why are you throwing like that?" Most of his teammates offered little support. His closer friends just ignored Hurst's struggles, acted as if they didn't exist. Others just acted as if Hurst didn't exist. One day in a bullpen session, Hurst hit the screen behind the catcher. The pitcher who was throwing next to him stomped off, telling the pitching coach, "I'm not throwing next to him. That's contagious, and I'm not getting near it." Wild throws were begetting insecurities. Insecurities were begetting wild throws. He was still in his home state, but Hurst was feeling a long way away from the Yum Yum Tree, a diner a few blocks from his home where the waitress will give him a hug and apologize if they are out of the cheese spread he's been ordering since he was five years old. Some prospects would have packed up and headed home for comfort. Hurst persevered. He didn't want to waste his gift. He didn't want to let down the Pirates. Day 73 Monday June 15th 2014 Today I was locked in confident and focused. I started out slow and controlled from 60ft then when I got out to 90ft and 120ft I put a little something on it. I was able to block out the nervousness and tentativeness. I was forgiving and self compassionate on my mistakes. I felt the badass/controlled craziness come on when I brought it back into 60ft in my "flat ground." I was in a groove throwing hitting spots. I took my risk of reckless abandon today and asked Scott to throw a bullpen tomorrow. I am not nervous about it, not anxious about the anticipatory side of it. I am going to do what I have been doing and do my best in my bullpen tomorrow. Keep grinding and working hard. One day at a time. —From Hayden Hurst's journal In the spring of 2014, a kind, caring coach was assigned to work with Hurst. He was a big flamethrower once, too, and was chosen in the first round of the draft when he was 18 years old. He lasted a decade-plus in the game, going from the Astros to the Rockies to the Indians to the Royals to the Indians again to the Charlotte Knights to the Lehigh Valley IronPigs. He went 17-7 in one glorious season. He went 3-11 in another, not-so-glorious season. Scott Elarton had seen it all, and his perspective was exactly what Hurst needed. Elarton and Hurst would wake up before the rest of the team and take the field so they could work in privacy. Whatever Elarton asked, Hurst would try. Elarton used distraction techniques and external focus methods"—anything to get your mind off the little man who grabs your hand at the release point," he says. For instance, a five-step pitching delivery—the pitcher counts each step so theoretically he doesn't overthink the actual throw. Once, Elarton had Hurst try to hit the batter's eye—the wall that's about 50 feet wide and 40 feet high. That was the objective of the day—just hit that wall. Then, the next day, the target got smaller. It kept getting smaller until he was trying to throw through a hula hoop. Another time, he had an exercise called "ring the bell" in which Hurst was told to hit the foul pole with his throws. "He was able to do what he was asked to do for a while," Elarton says. "But without fail if we got anywhere near a pitching mound, it would just blow up again." Dan Pompei ✔@danpompei This is what the yips looked like for former MLB prospect Hayden Hurst, now projected by many to be the first tight end taken in the NFL draft. 8:33 AM - Apr 4, 2018 53 24 people are talking about this Twitter Ads info and privacy Hurst's throws were rattling him. And they were rattling batters who had to face him. He was pitching in a spring training game against the Orioles when one got away. He hit the batter in the head. "He was unconscious on the ground," Hurst says. "It shook me up pretty bad. Ninety four at his head. After that, it got a lot worse. That fear of guys making fun of me, of hurting someone, of looking like a clown…all of it got to me." By now, Hurst was having panic attacks. Shaking hands. The sweats. Fear of a heart attack. Urges to run. And he was depressed. He would stay in his room at the Pirates complex, avoiding people. When his parents would call, he'd fake it. "Yeah, everything's going great, Dad." Day 74-75 Tues-Thursday June 18th-19th 2014 Bad series of days. I do not know why but I feel as though everything has gone to s--t. I feel nervous and unable to focus. I can't get remotely close to obtaining the badass in me. And I have been doing a poor job at separating it on and off the field. I am lost, losing faith and searching for answers and stability in my life. This is getting hard to face each day and to be honest I feel like giving up. Why me? What have I done to deserve these 2 years of confirmed hell? —From Hayden Hurst's journal The Pirates sports psychologist suggested Hurst try journaling as a way to get his feelings out. Hurst kept the journal for two years, writing in it every day. There are pages and pages. Many other mental health professionals would come into Hurst's life during his struggles. He sat through more than 75 appointments with eight doctors and spent thousands of dollars. The Pirates sent him to a psychiatrist who diagnosed him with attention deficit disorder. Hurst said she pushed Prozac. He said no thank you. Richard Crowley cured Steve Sax of the yips in the 1980s. Surely he could help Hurst. The psychologist told him to think of what caused him emotional distress. Then he told him to create an image, say, a tree. Then picture the source of the distress as the image. Finally, destroy the image. There was a hypnotist who tried to put him under. "Bizzare," Hurst remembers. Another psychologist tried an emotional-freedom technique called tapping, which is supposed to release negative emotions or thoughts by tapping on energy meridians on the body. Through it all, his aim remained scattershot. He tried to switch positions to first base, but he was just another player off the mound. It was a lost season in 2014. Then came 2015. One last shot. "When he was leaving that last time for spring training, we almost had to push him out the door," his mother, Cathy Hurst, says. "He didn't want to go. But he did because he's strong, and he said he was going to try it one more time. As a parent, it was awful. It broke my heart." Elarton remembers working alone with Hurst one day that spring. Nothing was going right. It was another in a long string of horrible, awful workouts. Right there on the field, they wept together. "We were so at a loss for what to do, because we both were just trying so hard and it wasn't working," Elarton says. "You just get tired of fighting it. I couldn't imagine being in his shoes. He had all the ability in the world, and it was just gone." Things seemed to be improving one day when he was working in the bullpen. Then he threw a pitch that sailed and hit the fence. He let his glove drop in the dirt, left it there and walked into the clubhouse. Elarton followed him in and found him sobbing. "I think that was when I realized I wasn't going to keep trying to make this work," Hurst says. "I kind of lost it. This is it for me." By then, Hurst had started using the "F word"—football. Day 51 April 9th 2014 Wednesday I threw with Jon again today and did well again. I could tell today I was a bit more nervous than usual for some reason but when we got to 60ft and I started to let some go I did fine… Today for some reason I had thoughts of quitting and playing football. I still feel like I am at a confusing time in my life and I don't know what I want. It's scary for me but I'm not giving up on baseball. Keep on grinding and busting your ass. Take it one day at a time and it will all work itself out. —From Hayden Hurst's journal Hurst's father tapes inspirational quotes on Hayden's bathroom mirror. One is from Randy Pausch's The Last Lecture. "We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand." As baseball had become more and more burdensome, Hurst thought a lot about football. "I started thinking it would be a lot easier just to go hit someone," he says. "What are you passionate about?" Elarton would ask him. "Football," Hurst would say. "He had poured everything into baseball," Elarton says. "He was completely beat down. We exhausted all avenues. We had a lot of heart-to-heart conversations. The long and short of it is I think his heart was on the football field. Somewhere along the way, we both knew it wasn't going to get any better." But by this point, Hurst was 22. Could he really start over as a football player at that age? His mother told him she thought he had no chance. "Almost everyone I told except Scott and my father thought I was crazy," Hurst says. "My teammates said, 'You're terrible at baseball. You aren't going to be good at football.'" Elarton believed in Hurst's dream. Hurst's father did, too. Dad had seen him win too many athletic challenges to doubt him. So Elarton and Jerry Hurst encouraged him. Elarton asked Jerry if he could drive to Bradenton to discuss Hayden's future. The three of them sat in the clubhouse and made a plan. Shortly after, Hayden called Pirates minor league director Larry Broadway and told him he was done. "Well, Hayden," Broadway told him, "I hope there's something you can stick to in your life." There would be. Season tickets for Florida football had been in the family since 1961. Becoming a Gator was Hurst's first choice. He was told the school had a preferred walk-on spot for him. But ultimately Florida gave the spot to someone else. Hurst's friend Perry Orth was a backup quarterback at South Carolina, and he talked assistant coach Steve Spurrier Jr. into taking a look at Hurst. Spurrier liked what he saw and offered him a preferred walk-on spot. As a wide receiver in the fall of 2015, Hurst wasn't a typical walk-on. He was as gifted as any scholarship athlete. And despite having no idea what he was doing, he was beating starting defensive backs in practice with regularity. "My basic football knowledge was elementary—run a route really fast and catch a pass," he says. "Everything I did my freshman year was raw. I had no idea what a defense was doing schematically. I couldn't ID a single coverage." That began to change in the offseason after Will Muschamp replaced Steve Spurrier Sr. and Hurst moved to tight end. "I owe a lot of my success to those coaches because they enabled me to take my ability to the next level," Hurst says. It was quickly apparent to Muschamp that Hurst was a football player. "In the first spring we were together, I knew," Muschamp says. "He was an explosive athlete, and then as I saw his work ethic and willingness to compete, the more excited I got about how good he can be." Hurst worked out with weights twice daily and went from 225 pounds to 250. His maximum bench press went from 250 to 405. Muschamp says anytime the weight room was open, he knew where to find Hurst. He wanted to do everything the right way. He hasn't had alcohol in three years. Instead, he goes through four gallons of milk in a week. He also tried to meet every day with coaches to catch up with his teammates and opponents, most of whom had years of experience on him. "I did probably 10 times what the next guy was doing, if not more than that," he said. Sean Rayford/Associated Press Hurst became the only sophomore in South Carolina history to be voted a captain. "He earned it day to day with his work ethic, drive and competitive edge," Muschamp says. "With him, all of those things are off the charts." Over the next two seasons, he caught 92 passes for 1,175 yards. Last season, he was voted first-team All-SEC. He had 100 catches in his college career, and only two drops, according to Sports Info Solutions. In two years, he turned himself from an MLB bust into a projected NFLfirst-round pick. Tues Feb 18th 1 p.m. Strive for excellence. Excellence is doable. Perfection is not attainable—no one is perfect. —Remember this feeling of happiness—There is more to your life than baseball. Don't let what you do on the field define you as a person. Treat it like a game as you have been and keep not giving a s--t what happens. You are damn good. Believe in yourself. —From Hayden Hurst's journal The Pirates had a rule—hair could not touch the collar. So Hurst's hair was cut off around the middle of his neck. Now when he takes his hair out of his bun, it falls over his shoulder pads. Hurst isn't just a different athlete. He's a different man. He is his own man, the man he was destined to be. The sport that has broken so many has healed Hurst. "Everyone told me growing up I was a football player who plays baseball," he says. "As a pitcher, I wasn't as concerned about throwing strikes as I was lighting up radar guns. I wanted to throw as hard as I could. When I would get mad, I'd try to throw even harder. And that doesn't correlate to success. In football, there is a mental side to the game, which is huge. But there is also that raw aggression. If I get pissed off, I can put my facemask in this guy's chin. That's where a lot of my success comes from, that pent up aggression from baseball." From the time he was in high school, Hurst associated baseball with money because everyone told him there was so much to be made. He associated football, meanwhile, with freedom. Baseball, with its slow pace and anticipation between plays, was draining. Football, with its explosive bursts, is exhilarating. "It's a beautiful and perfect game," he says of his new sport. "At its purest form, it's I'm going to be better than this guy for three-and-a-half hours and kick his butt up and down the field." It's an enticing combination for NFL teams—of unrealized potential, high-end ability and rare passion. Though he will be 25 before the NFL season starts, he is a puppy of a tight end. "He has played this position for two years," Muschamp says. "He's in the infantile stage of his career. That's why I think he has tremendous upside." His mother apologized long ago for doubting Hayden. "To go from such a high in baseball to such a low, and now to have another opportunity, it's almost like, Pinch me, I'm going to wake up and it's all going to be a dream," she says. Hurst had to go there to get here, and he knows it. All of it—football being taken from him in high school, falling in the baseball draft, the nasty pitching coach and the callous teammates, the hypnotism and tapping, having Elarton come into his life, being snubbed by Florida, Muschamp becoming his coach—all of it happened for a reason. "I understand now what it's like to be at the bottom," he says. "I don't judge a lot anymore. I don't make fun of things. I know what it's like to go through something there is no explanation for. What I went through I wouldn't wish on anybody. I dug myself out of it and put myself in this position. Everything I've been through in my life has made me who I am. So I have no regrets." Hurst understands failures can become the seeds of creation. He wants to become a dominant two-way tight end. He wants to lift the Lombardi Trophy in the air. He wants to inspire others. And he wants to start a foundation for mental health. Photo by Dan Pompei The big redhead in his backyard unleashes the throw, his first in three years. It finds his father's mitt, not the dirt, not the pool, not a window on the neighbor's house. So he throws another into the mitt. And another, another and another. Now he backs up. Another good throw. He starts throwing harder. All good. The ball feels a little funny leaving his hand. But the throws are good. His mother can't believe what she is seeing. "Maybe," he says, "it's because it doesn't matter now."
Interesting. Didn't know lack of hydration could lead to hamstring injuries like that Spoiler Muschamp had a message for Rico Dowdle after spring practice Collyn Taylor • GamecockCentral.com @collynptaylor Will Muschamp has exit interviews with everyone on the team, but he got a head start this week with Rico Dowdle. Dowdle, who missed the majority of spring practice with a hamstring injury, sat down with the head coach to see what he can do to get healthy and stay healthy his junior season. Rico Dowdle || Photo by Chris Gillespie “Rico and I had a long conversation today,” Muschamp said. “A lot of the soft tissue issues go back to hydration, they go back to continuing to strain the muscle all the time. Him and I had a very productive conversation today.” Also see: Five-star defensive back really impressed after South Carolina visit The Gamecock coaching staff puts an added emphasis under Muschamp on hydration and putting good strain on muscles to keep them from ripping or getting pulled. Muschamp explained putting strain on a muscle is just working out on hit and using those muscles every day so they don’t lock up come time for practice or games. It worked for Deebo Samuel, who didn’t have any soft tissue issues last season before fracturing his fibula after being hampered by those his first two years on campus. Dowdle will now have to follow in Samuel’s footsteps and work on drinking more water and stressing his legs more. “Rico agrees. He’s a mature guy,” Muschamp said. “He’s a guy that understands that. He practices extremely hard when he’s there. He pushes himself extremely hard. He’s got to continue to be there.” Also see: What are the Gamecocks getting in Ryan Hilinski? Through two seasons in Columbia, Dowdle’s had his fair share of injuries. He was limited his freshman year with a groin problem before bursting onto the scene the last half of a 6-7 season. “He came to campus with a groin issues, and that was before he ever got to South Carolina. He really struggled with that early on and was very healthy and productive for us his first year.” After fracturing his fibula and missing the last five games of the regular season, he came back fully healthy before tweaking his hamstring in bowl practice. He’d play in the Outback Bowl, scoring a game-changing touchdown, but the hamstring wasn’t fully healthy and that injury has lingered into the spring. Also see: Inside Ryan Hilinski's commitment Missing almost all of spring practice, including Saturday’s spring game, A.J. Turner and Ty’Son Williams are taking all of the first-team reps in practice. While Muschamp said he’s impressed with Dowdle when he can practice, but it’s about playing the guys who coaches have seen on the practice field that week. “At the end of the day,” Muschamp said. “We’re going to play the guys that practice.”
Captain Munnerlyn used to have a bunch of cramping issues and stuff like that because he ate a shit load of fried chicken
Hilinski just said on 107.5 that jaylon mccollough texted him before his announcement and said "hey are we going to south Carolina" he told him yes and he said "cool I might be making that move soon too"
I don't know. I would assume they've met at camps or on a visit or something. Doesn't sound like they know each other very well but i thought it was interesting mccollough was the one to reach out