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If YOUR kid was offered a scholarship to a rival school....

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grnvllbuck;1088073; said:
Let's say it were your son who was trying to choose between tOSU, PSU, or dare I say......TSUN. As a father (or mother), how would you handle it if he were leaning towards playing for one of the "other" schools........and possibly wearing that school's jersey when he plays.
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my son would be raised well

so he wouldint even think of choosing scUM


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but I wouldint make him go anywhere, I would let him choose where he wanted with full support (even if for some odd reason it was scUM)
 
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We had an undersized OL...WAAY undersized. 5'11 250ish but he was a 4.0 kid with an Ivy League SAT score. One of those kids that was like a sponge...he ate up and applied every syllable of coaching given, was constantly learning the game's intricacies, came in on coach's meetings to watch film with the staff, and was a true leader. Got some attention from a few Ivy League schools but just didn't want to do that...he wanted to go to Georgia all of his life. The family was about as fanatical about the Dawgs as you could imagine...season tickets, house decorations, the car flags and stickers, just the works...

Then Tommy Bowden came to school to visit another of our kids who was committed to Clemson. The OL was an office worker that period and delivered some packages to the HC's office. After he left, Bowden asked about him and heard about his grades, work ethic, and work in the church (Preacher's kid) and Community. He immediately offered him a Walk-on spot...which was accepted after some deliberation.

That changed everything...the UGA stuff disappeared...the season tickets were sold...the trips to Athens changed to treks to Clemson. The first time the kid ran down the Hill after rubbing Howard's Rock, tears were flowing from the parents. He is on full scholarship...academically and if he sets foot on the field, that schollie is stripped immediately. Therefore, not only does he know he is redshirting, he knows he is unlikely to see the field unless they put him on an Athletic ride or he decides to pay his own way. Yet, every day, he is outworking guys twice his size...OL Coach Brad Scott loves him.

I asked his Dad one day about the Dawgs...we used to have some great talks about tOSU, SEC, UGA, etc. He replied that he barely follows them now...still keeps track if they win or lose, but he was 100% Clemson now. He brought out a great line..."There are things in this world that make ME happy...but nothing compares to seeing those things that make my SONS happy."
 
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osugrad21;1088508; said:
He brought out a great line..."There are things in this world that make ME happy...but nothing compares to seeing those things that make my SONS happy."
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As a parent, I could not agree more with this quote.

I doubt either of my kids would choose my Rival in the first place. My Son was saying "Michigan Sucks" without any prompting at 2 years old.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1088545; said:
As a parent, I could not agree more with this quote.

I doubt either of my kids would choose my Rival in the first place. My Son was saying "Michigan Sucks" without any prompting at 2 years old.
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He is only allowed to say "Michigan Sucks" one day out of the year, the remaining days he is permitted to say, "Michigan Stinks."

The whole raising kids right thing, ya know....
 
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BuckeyeRyn;1088547; said:
He is only allowed to say "Michigan Sucks" one day out of the year, the remaining days he is permitted to say, "Michigan Stinks."

The whole raising kids right thing, ya know....
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My kid's know they've had it if they were to say "Michigan sucks", I do not allow them to swear. They know, under pain of corporal punishment, to say "that school up north sucks". :wink2:

As far as the original question goes, I honestly would probably fall into the Sonny Spielman school of how to handle that assuming my son had an offer from both.

If somehow his only offer were to scUM well then thats a no brainer and not just from the financial aspect.

Also, I'd put this out there. It would depend a lot on who was coaching the two programs at the time.

If the coach at scUM were a true molder of young men that I knew would care about my boy and continue to improve upon the young man I sent him while say OSU had another Coop or even worse a Dick Rod, then rooting loyalties be dammned, he's going to the coach that is a better parental figure.


As a matter of fact, it looks like in a few years my family will be dealing with this with my oldest in womens golf. Maybe I'll blog about it or whatever it is we'll be doing then, better yet I'll let O8CH do it for me. :)
 
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OK, so she'll dye her hair blonde
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If I knew FOR SURE that my kid was gettin into OSU on a full ride to play ball..... then yes, I would for sure do that hoss!

On a side note... I'll vbet she's a texas fan.
 
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Would have to think any kid that has played enough football in his youth and played well enough to even be offered by scUM, then he could pretty much go anywhere he wanted. Obviously my son would know where I would dream of him going but his dreams are what would matter the most to me. I would have to have a damn good reason to say, "I forbid you to go there." (Rich Rodriguez for instance.)

Seriously though... if my son dreamed of playing at scUM I would send him with my blessings but when The Game comes around I would still have my scarlet and gray on.
 
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Anywhere BUT TSUN

This is totally different. You are weighing the happiness of your child versus what you hold to be true for YOU. You must be a parent here, as much as this may hurt. You weigh his happiness and his future first and do what is best for the son or daughter. All of this being said, if he goes to TSUN you can always disown them after the fact. Ok just kidding. :osu:
 
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For myself, if it were any other sport besides football, it wouldn't bother me so much. Turning down a (football) schollie to tOSU to play for TSUN would be the most difficult (for me) to deal with. I'd wish him success, but would never be able to comprehend it.

TSUN :mad2:
PSU :roll2:

FLA/USC :cool: or most SEC schools (just for the girl watching aspect)
 
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