Quote:Agree.  You commit to the school, to carry a tradition, to build something together.  Miami was his home town school.

 

He simply hitched a ride and followed a friend after the coach he liked got fired.  I'm not his biggest fan by any means, but Tebow committed to FL and stuck with it.  Didn't matter who was going to be his coach or whether or not he'd start day one.

 

The greater challenge would have remained dedicated to rebuilding a program, rather than taking the easier route (no QB competition, no on the field competition.)

 

All I can relate to is my own situation.  Sure, I had a backup plan in case it didn't work out, but I went to my home town school, the school I'd wanted to go to practically my whole life.  I couldn't imagine backing out on a whim.  I all may not mean a hill of beans in the end, but it does show lack of conviction.

It also matters why you went to the school. Maybe Teddy went to Miami because he thought it was the right situation for him, and not cause of some 'hometown loyalty'. I think it is clear from his actions that he never felt like it was Miami or bust. He went there cause of the coach, and the coach left. Its not a bad character trait at all.

 

Going back to the Manager, I took the job cause of the manager in the unit, she promised to let me move up to a different unit that I wanted to work in, if I stayed a year. Well, she left, and there went that promise. New manager didn't care that I had an agreement, in fact, she didn't want me to work there at all. Is it some sort of moral flaw to not have loyalty to a company (or a school) that you chose because of a supposedly good situation, that goes bad? Of course not. This is normal in jobs, why would it be different in a players job(i.e. playing football)?

 

Teddy is not a fan, he is a player. He went where he could play. It had nothing to do with loyalty because he didn't pick the school based on loyalty in the first place. He picked the situation that would let him play, was made promises, then the guy who made all the promises left, and a new guy comes in who wants 'his guys' before Teddy can even get on the field. Of course he left.  Teddy was never a diehard Miami guy. Tebow was a Florida guy, always. Kelvin Taylor is a Florida guy. But some people are not diehards, and do care about the situation.

 

It has nothing to do with character, and people feel that way because they don't look at it from the players perspective. Or to be even more fair, how they themselves would feel in that players shoes if it happened to them. School is much closer to a job for a football player than just picking the local U. I think the problem is that people have loyalties to certain schools, and can't understand that other people don't feel that way about University. I went 4 years to the same school for my associates and Bachelors, I would consider myself only slightly loyal to that school at all. It isn't a life-changing fraternity for me. School isn't on par with religion for a lot of people out there. I think the frevor some have for their local schools programs blinds them to this. Colleges are business's, just like the NFL, don't kid yourself thinking about them another way.

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