Les Miles said Ja'Marr couldn't play WR

[MileHighGrowler]

(01-26-2022, 06:28 PM)pdub2005 Wrote: Thats one argument, and its valid. But IMO college (athletics or academics) should exist to prepare people for whatever comes next. In the case of college athletics, the individual goal is to get to the next level. The great systems manage to accomplish both. I do see the side that Urban Meyer and his peers won't keep their job if the only thing they are doing is turning out NFL players, but not winning games. 

With the amount of money in collegiate sports, and football in particular, unless a coach is trying to set himself up to succeed in the NFL, I don't see college football trying to prep guys to play in the pros.  Especially when considering how many college athletes actually go pro.  

The other side of that is that these programs focus so much on athletics that a lot of the kids aren't getting great academics as well.  Some of them are super smart and pull that off.  Some schools are more demanding.  But there are a lot of athletes scraping by with an easy pass and then hopefully they make it big in the pros and move into media work or can use their name after their career is over.  

But looking specifically at the OP, I think it's really interesting to see how people progress and grow.  I don't hold it against either coach on either player.  There's a lot of development over the years.  But it's amazing to see people who just a few years ago weren't considered to do well in their position turn that around and become some of the best at it.