The Fake Lonnie Finch

Exactly. And, ever visit a VA hospital? They are awful. My dad thought he'd go down there because he's a vet. He went once and never went back. Thankfully, he's been successful enough to not have to use these government run atrocities. The FDA? You must be kidding. It is the apex of political hackery and backroom machinations.

In other words, you're saying we already prop up the lawbreakers and the lazy. Unfortunately, they are reproducing at a faster rates than those of us who work and play by the rules. Here's the most disgusting part of the whole thing - Democrats campaign against "the rich." Fine. They run around now putting even more regulations on the banking industry as whole due to the sins of a few. Then, they go out and say that they are working for "the ordinary American." Really? Who is hurt most by the credit crunch created by government interference in banking? "The rich"? Hardly. They already have theirs. Oh, so they may make a few million this year instead of 10 or 20 million. Meanwhile, small business people, entreprenuers, and families who formerly relied on credit are losing businesses, jobs, and homes. As a commercial insurance agent, I've seen it personally. I've watched a customer who owned 10 restaurants shut down five of them over the past two years because he couldn't get credit lines the way he used to. I've seen a doctor who aided cancer patients close two of his three offices due to his inability to get more credit. I've seen a developer have two office buildings foreclose because he couldn't get lines of credit to continue. These guys were, in ObamaWorld "rich" because they took home more than $250k per year. But, none of them made more than about a million. They own small businesses and provided good paying jobs at one time. But, because the Democrats were so eager to punish bankers and "the rich" because of the mortgage crisis (which was fueled in the first place by government forcing banks to take on bad loans from people who had poor credit histories), they now have closed operations - thereby putting people in the unemployment line. The problem with socialism is always the same - there is no equality of result. You can't force it. The industrious and risk-takers will always gain; the lazy will always fail and be poor. Caught in the political crossfire is the middle class - and, they always foot the bill as they are driven, by their government "saviours," to the poorer side of the ledger.

The querstion will be who takes their place in the Big 12. I think, at minimum, Missouri bolts. Nebraska could stay. They'd really be tearing apart good, traditional ties if they left. But, the money is so much better - even if the quality of football isn't near what the Big 12 currently puts up. Missouri has already proven that even in their best years they can't get near OU or Texas. Nebraska's almost 10 years irrelevant since their last BCS bowl bid in ... 2001? 2002? Outside of Arkansas, who I say is going nowhere, I don't really see any fit for a new player in the Big 12. I'm talking size of the college and stadium in addition to tradition. A loss of Missouri would be fine is Arkansas could be picked up. But, it can't. TCU is competitive now - but, it doesn't really play the best competition week in and week out. Our stadium won't be near big enough. Houston or SMU? None of it really rings right. Too bad there can't just be a tournament like in basketball that gives everyone equal shots at bigger money. If that were the case, I'm sure conferences would make better sense geographically. For us, we've got to just keep chopping the wood. No sense is crying over the past. We've truly got to start felling giants on the football field year in and year out. We need to be the rebel program that gives big fellas a black eye. If we can do that over the next few years, people will take us more seriously in these discussions. From a purely "on the paper" standpoint, we should be included, but because we are uncompetitive...well. If we were competitive and had better facilities, we'd have in favor, to wit: -Enrollment would be bigger than all but Texas and Texas A&M -Public school, like 11 of the current 12 Big 12 teams -Realistic driving distance for all Big 12 South opponents -Good proximity to DFW airport thanks to the Bush Tollway -Another place to showcase a team in front of Texas preps I wish like hell we were players in this conversation. We really do need to become The Little Engine That Could among schools our size. We just need that on the field success so badly to get it in gear.

I wouldn't put it quite like that. I will say that the nine returning defensive starters in 2007 were wasted on a high school coach as coordinator and businessman as secondary coach (great hires). The problems since then was that the defensive side of the ball was largely neglected in recruiting. It's one of the areas I think Dodge severely underestimated when he came up here. You need really good athletes on the defensive side of the ball at this level. Dodge spent too much time signing receivers who never panned out his first two seasons when he should have been giving another scholarship or two to the defensive side of the ball - especially on the line. That being said, I don't see how DeLoach doesn't continue the improvement. Dropping the points against by 11/12 point in 2009 was excellent. 2010 will show a full year under Charr Gahagan in strength and conditioning as well as a second full season of only college coaches on that side of the ball. If one season with a full compliment of college coaches accounted for an 11/12 point drop, I suspect a second season, with the coaching stability, will lead to another tightening of the defense. I also expect 10-15 more points per game on the offensive side of the ball when all is said and done. Any regular poster on here should recognize that I'm not historically a sunshine pumper. But, what I believe in and have preached - longtime college experience in the coaching staff - is here. The rubber will meet the road one way or the other. I'll either be right about coaching playing the deciding part at this level, or I will not. And, again, the Sun Belt ain't the SEC or Big 12. So, the hole has never been as deep as some here have claimed it was. We can get out of it in short order; that parts are now in place.

Yes, if they become FBS, I'd rather have them than the Florida schools. The Sun Belt games are simply too far to realistically make road trips. Plus, having been to the FIU campus and Miami, I'd rather hit San Marcos or San Antonio. Miami is a hole and FIU...you wouldn't know FIU was a university if there was no sign marking it. The campus is void of even a shred of architectural thought. It's like the U.S. Post Office designed all of their buildings. So, f'ing bland. Part of what I miss about New Mexico State - other than I considered them a good, true rival - was that even in their barren land, the campus looked unique. I looked like a Western university. FIU is like UTD with a football program, campus-wise. Also, let me address the chick-factor. Let's not kid ourselves, both Miami and San Antonio have heavily hispanic populations. But, for all of the hype about Miami, I can honestly say that the Mexican gals are, on the whole, easier on the eye than the Cubans, Hatians, and Dominicans that infest Miami. I will say the that a couple of the Colombian gals we met in Miami were, indeed, hotter than fish grease. But, give me the Mexican/Texican gal over the Miami Latina - if we're choosing. And, it kind of goes without saying that the women at Texas State are Texas hot already, yo. And, they're more giggly.

I was in the Kool-Aid the minute Dodge said he was turning over game planning, quarterback coaching, and play calling to Canales. I'm 164% into the Kool-Aid this season! Join me! I'm totally jacked up about Kansas State being the final game at Fouts. The reason is that Kansas State fans always point to their 1989 win over North Texas as inspiration to springboard them to higher heights. At the time, they were on a 30 game winless streak dating back to October 18, 1986. They didn't win again until their September 30, 1989 game against us. They had tied Kansas 7-7 on November 7, 1987. The 'Cats have memorialized the North Texas win in a DVD that they still sell: https://www.nmnathletics.com/sellnew/ViewItem.dbml?_IN_STORE_=YES&DB_OEM_ID=400&ITMID=321665&ITMCATID=0 It's bit much, in my opinion, because they went on to lose the remaining seven game that season to finish 1-10 on the year. Still, eaking out that 20-17 win versus our then I-AA squad has been a big deal to them. I'd like for us to shut Kansas State down on Fouts' last day. I'd like for the UNT athletic department to then make that DVD available for the ages as well. Beating Bill Snyder, the architect of Kansas State's 1989 win versus us, would be icing on the cake. So, dadgummit, jump in the Kool-Aid and lets get this thing going!

Look, as soon as a full compliment of college coaches was on board, the charade had to end. Todd Dodge telling Todd Ford that his son should start is one thing; telling Chico Chanales, a guy entering his third decade of college coaching, is quite another. Ford, as almost every defensive coordinator outside of Western Kentucky proved, could be fooled about what elements should compose a college offense. Canales cannot be fooled. Injuries (which were unfortunately predicted here) or not, I don't think Canales would have stuck with Dodge as the starter. What makes me happy is that Riley Dodge will now be used in a position where coaches with college credibility, such as Mack Brown, would have used him from the get go. His athleticism was never in question. And, really, outside of Denton, neither was the issue of where to play him. I'm still throwing out there that his shiftiness and open field running ability would make him a great punt and kick returner. The return game isn't 100% about speed, but also about field vision, agility - and plain, crazy-as*ed bravery! And, Riley also adds the speed to it. No matter which side of the fence you were originally on with where to play Riley, I think we can pretty much all agree that hopes for 2010 are as realistically high as they can be since the early 00's conference title/bowl run.

NO 3,000-YARD PASSERS IN DECADE (37) ACC (4): Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, Virginia Tech Big 12 (1): Baylor Big East (2): Syracuse, West Virginia Big Ten (4): Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio State, Wisconsin Conference USA (2): East Carolina, SMU Independents (2): Army, Navy Mid-American (5): Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Northern Illinois, Ohio, Temple Mountain West (5): Air Force, Colorado State, TCU, UNLV, Utah Pac-10 (2): Oregon, Stanford SEC (4): Alabama, Auburn, Mississippi State, South Carolina Sun Belt (6): Arkansas State, Fla. International, La.-Monroe, La.-Lafayette, Middle Tennessee, North Texas Admittedly, it's not surprising that we didn't have any 3,000 yard passers under Dickey. But, it does cause you to raise an eyebrow that no 3,000 yard passer emerged in the three years of Dodge/Ford offense...which was supposed to be "wide open." I like that Alabama is also on this list. And, I will always love that they won the 2009 national title game by throwing just 11 passes. A reliable run game and a stout defense are still very viable gameplans - even in the 21st century. We've got the making of an excellent run game in 2010. A plethora of starting lineman returning; their backups have experience as well. And, Dunbar. Our run game will be all the more dangerous, too, with an offense game plan that seeks out the middle of the field as well. I think we'll be fun to watch on offense for the first time in several years.

Sure, why not? Missouri is always as overhyped and underachieving as any Big 10/11 team. They'd fit right in.

Exactly, dude. I've been given traffic tickets throughout my life by white cops, black cops, women cops, etc. (let's just say that in my youth, I had kind of a heavy foot out on the highway). And there was one common denominator to every encounter - each cop asked me for I.D. and insurance, some for registration as well. Were they racially profiling me? I'm white as sack of biscuit flour. There's a hulking, big black highway patrol cop who used to work the turnpike between Oklahoma City and Tulsa while I was in law school. He stopped me once and I know I saw him with others pulled over at least a dozen times. Never once did I think the black cop had pulled me over because I was white. Nor did I think twice about him asking me for my I.D. or insurance - it's the law! Same here. Within a few weeks of moving to Frisco, a lady Frisco cop pulled me over on Main Street just under the tollway. And, I'll be dadgummed if she didn't ask me for license and registration as well. Was she profiling me as a white male? Doubtful. She was doing her job in protecting the rest of Frisco from my speeding. The law is the law. You've got to have a license to drive. You've got to have proof of financial responsibility/insurance. These laws aren't meant to harass you,but to protect third parties who you might injure or whose property you might damage. If someone is in this country illegally, I want them off the streets. I want them gone. If they aren't playing by the rules and injure someone, the injured party has no recourse. And, I can tell you as a raving stark mad property and casualty insurance professional there is far too much of these types of incidents today. Applaud Arizona for stepping up to protect it's citizens.

gangrene, Agreed. My wife is from Mexico and came here legally. And, it isn't easy to come here or stay here legally - even if you are married to a U.S. citizen. Sometimes when her brothers come to visit, they can't bring all of their families because getting the visa paperwork renewed is tedious and precise. And, that's the way it should be. I've got a real problem with people who think a "pathway to citizenship" should be opened to those who came here illegally. Is the government trying to find a way to sell a cars cheaper to auto thieves? If I trespass, does the government try to find a way to give me part of the land I trespass upon? When people are here illegally, they are here illegally. I don't want to put the cart before the horse for anyone here but illegal mean "not legal." Stop me if I'm going too fast. The idea behind the visa is that only people who have jobs and can support themselves in Mexico (or whatever country) can apply for and receive the visa. The assumption is that if they are already making a living in the homeland, they aren't going to try to stay here illegally. And, that makes sense. If another country - insert Mexico here - has an economic/unemployment problems, we should not be the default safety valve to get them out of that government's hair. Arizona's new law aside, the problem always has been - and continues to be - that our stupid government doesn't apply the law already on the books! Why not? If I steal, rape, or murder, they would apply the law to me, and with great measure. So, why not just enforce the laws against people here illegally? It's so damn simple that it's maddening. And, it's costly to States to have to take care of these people while the federal government sits back in Washington, D.C. not giving a crap in most cases and getting in the way of actually enforcing immigration law in others. It is not fair to people like my wife who played by the rules to get here either. I understand the economic situation in Mexico isn't great. But, it's way, way past time for the Mexican government to take care of its own house. But, look at it. It's so corrupt and incompetent that druglords rule whole swaths of the country in the northern parts of the country, and they are making inroads into traditional tourist territories. Mexico needs to privatize many of its industrial sectors - mainly in the areas of energy and technology - and allow it's citizenry to have a shot a developing a true middle class. Everything else is bullsh*t. The American hispanics who foment protest against common sense immigration law are the worst. They are true traitors in every sense of the word. This country gives them more opportunities than they can ever know and all they can do is spit on it. And, spit on those, like my wife, who followed the rules to get here. I know things will get worse before they get better in this endeavor, but I'm all for what Arizona and other Mexican border states do to protect the economic and safety interests of their citizens.

I was thinking the same thing about Vince Young. But, the hype on that guy was so huge after Texas' first national championship using a racially mixed team that his ability to learn wasn't questioned. And, here's where we examine the overused, but little understood phrase "athletic ability." To some, and it seems many, "athletic ability" for a quarterback simply means that he can run when under pressure. Yes, you hear it all the time. Everytime there is a quarterback who can't throw worth a lick or has no touch on his passes or is wildly inaccurate, he is given a pass if he has the "athletic ability" to run out of the pocket. Well, the problem there is, you're playing football, not running track. And, at the NFL level, most defensive ends can outrun any quarterback - yes, even Vince Young. So, then you have to dig deeper into a quarterback's "athletic ability." I argue that part of that "athletic ability" includes the ability to learn different offenses. Learning is an ability. Or, at least that's what we've led to believe by people who say that some have learning disabilities, right? You either have the ability to learn at the same pace of the masses, or you don't. At any rate, whatever this Brown guy's beef is, it's ridiculous from a number of standpoints. We've pointed out the obvious (what mom and dad read and heard as a basis for expectations). Another is, either one of them will be a longshot to make the roster and begin their career of turning their cap backward, holding a clipboard, and polishing up some new approaches to the higher brand of gold diggers in and around the greater Nashville area. So, if you are Tennesse, and you've had your little failed experiment with believing that "athletic ability" just means the guy can run, you are probably going to make your quarterback choices based on whether or not the guy knows a real pro-style offense and whether or not he can added to his existing knowledge thereof...at least for your clipboard holding quarterback. Hey...look at Jason Garrett. The guy parlayed the role of intelligent clipboard holder into a pretty good coaching career.

Good point, and one I hadn't thought of. I took Botany years ago at NT from that professor who had Parkinson's Disease (can't remember his name). I recall preached very heavily on the importance of having the right fertilizer for you yard.

Yeah, Frisco has the water restrictions for sprinkler systems...but, you can hand water it after 6 p.m. every night. Is that weird, or do I just not know enough about sprinkler systems to understand how much water it uses versus just watering with a hose. Anyway, you guys sure know alot about grass. I really love the feel of St. Augustine (I may put it in the backyard), but I've got to keep peace with my neighbor. He's a nice guy. But, he's an engineer, so...you know, he maybe obsesses about stuff. A couple of you suggested ground cover for the shade. I have considered just making another bed around the tree and maybe putting asian jasmine in it and ringing the tree with some small bushes. But, I haven't consulted Roger the Shrubber yet. If I do the ground cover, I'll go with bermuda. If not, I'll probably go with the fescue. It seems like a really strong grower. In the front bed, my dad keeps pushing me to do knockout roses. Anyone else familiar with these things. They seem to have a cultish following. When I ask about them, people rave. But, do they draw pests the way a real rose bush does? Even as lazy as I am about yard work, I am considering giving real roses a go on the side of my house that gets constant sunlight.

I like the look of the two-deep coming out of spring. Craig Robertson should be on the brink of a breakout for his swan song season. The defensive line may have seemed disheveled at times during the spring, but it looks deeper than it's been in awhile. Cook and Smith back at safety. Questions at corner mainly, but I trust in Carlton Buckels to have the thing ready. The offense looks really good. Starting with the O-line, experience all over the place. The top six receiving leaders are back and should thrive even moreso in Canales' offense. I was pleased to see a South Florida wide receiver taken in the draft. His offense, then, is doing enough to get guys noticed by the pros. Overall, I feel 180 degrees different about this thing than I have since 2005 coming off the four consecutive conference championships and bowls. This thing has the look of a winner if the guys can really do the off-season work during the dog days of summer to prepare for it.

Dear fellow GoMeanGreen.com posters, Two years ago my wife and I purchased a foreclosed home in Frisclosure. Needless to say not only did the people not have money to pay the mortgage, they appeared to have sunk zero dollars and zero cents American into the landscaping. I was too busy to jack with it when we moved in because the inside was basically destroyed by the prior owners, their children...and their three dogs my neighbors tell me that lived inside the house with them. This year, I'm ready to jack with it, even though I detest lawn work nearly as much as I detest the designated hitter, smaller ballparks, and the rise of the middle inning relief pitcher. By some twisted measure, the people who owned the house prior have bermuda grass in some areas and St. Augustine in others. For kicks, I spread a little rebel fecsue under a tree in the front yard where the bermuda had died off in the shade. My question is this: The little area of fescue is growing like crazy. I've got to make a choice about which grass I want permanently. I've already ruled out the St. Augustine because one of my neighbors is so freakout by it that he killed the grass between my house and his to keep it from going over there (seriously, there is a line of dead grass where he put the grass killer between our houses running from the sidewalk in the front to the alley in the back!) So...fescue or bermuda? Or, something else? I like the stuff to be able to grow in the shade, so that's a factor. And, I'm not crazy about high maintenance stuff. Hear me now and believe me later when I tell you that I'd rather be inside drinking cold Pepsi Colas straight out of the can and eating hotdogs and pecan pie than to be out in the yard jacking with the scenery. Life's too damn short, yo.

[Mark Levin voice]I'm glad Todd Dodge put Derek Thompson in the Arkansas State game. There! I said it! I was glad then when I heard it on the radio, and I'm glad now as I sit at my desk and savor the victory of writing another local restaurant chain's insurance. Victory, I tell you! Nothing feels as good as a victory in any endeavor! And, Todd Dodge was trying to get a victory late that afternoon when all of his other quarterbacks were either sick or beaten to hell, I tell ya! And, I'll guaran-damn-tee every last mother's son in here that Derek Thompson feels the same way, too. All of them do! They're football players! American football players. And, these American football players aspire to win. Not like these namby-pamby liberals in Washington, D.C. trying to take our country apart by giving everyone a trophy or ribbon just for showing up! I mean how else are American football players molded except in the crucible of the field of battle? What? Do you think Obama and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and all of their liberal cronies in Austin, Boston, Boulder and Berkeley can just wave a magic wand and make these guys ready to play? The only place you should be rewarded for just showing up and participating is Goldline.[/Mark Levin voice]

"There were a lot of things in the paper that my parents read that said they were interested in me and a lot of stuff on talk radio. Then, they take a quarterback from the same conference as me, not the guy from their own back yard." Dear Mr. Brown, NFL teams don't generally take draft advice from newspapers and talk radio stations. Shut up and prove you can run an NFL-style offense against NFL talent and speed. Then, all doubts will be erased. Love, The Fake Lonnie Finch Sheesh...how is this guy going to handle real pressure if he can't even take a guy being picked ahead of him? Wonder if this dude goes in for manicures and pedicures as well. Awfully catty for a man to carry on in such a manner.

He looks alot different than when he's touring with the Stones.

The impossible is what nobody can do, until somebody does it. I don't know who said it first, I've seen many attributions (of couse, Hornfans.com would claim that Darrell Royal said it. At that site, they attribute everything from 'Let There Be Light' to 'It's A Quarter After One, I'm A Little Drunk, and I Need You Now' to him). Anyway, it's a good little saying. Many people would say it's impossible for us to win the Sun Belt this year, but I sez otherwise! Also, I'm going to put it here at my desk so I can see it while I'm wrangling with underwriters who forget why their insurance companies exist.

Dallas Football Classic? That's it? That's all those guy could come up with as a name for a bowl game? What...did they call and ask the Houston/Texas Bowl, Fort Worth Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, Hawaii Bowl, and New Mexico Bowl for advice on naming? Okay, I know...Fort Worth Bowl has changed it's name. But, damn...don't any of these guys have a creative bone in their bodies? How about: The JFK Real Death/Badu Fake Death Memorial Bowl The New Cotton Bowl Game at the Old Cotton Bowl Bowl The Hey We Got ACU To Play Here A Couple Of Years Ago Bowl The We're Fighting Urban Decay With Nouveau Yuppie Uptown Mixed-Use Projects Bowl The Lots of Cheap, Foreclosed Condos Available Nearby Bowl The Plenty of Cheap Commercial Office Space Available Nearby As Well Bowl The Don Hill and Sheila Farrington Dealmaker Bowl The John Wiley Price Windshield Wiper Bowl The Craig Watkins We Know 'Tough On Crime' Doesn't Work Bowl The This Was Almost Where Jerry Jones' New Stadium Was Going To Be Built But We Had A Woman Mayor Bowl The We're Catching Up With San Antonio In The Illegals Demographic Bowl The Lupe Valdez It's Not My Fault Bowl The Constable Cortes Cartowing Bowl The Tom Leppert How Did A Boring, Generic, Vanilla White Male Get Elected In This Town Bowl The Can You Believe We've Had Tom Landry and Barry Switzer Coach In This Town Bowl The Have You Seen A Scene With More Cocaine And Boob Jobs Than In This Town Bowl The Cityplace Was Supposed To Be Two Towers Stretching Over 75 Bowl The Suburbs Are Stealing Our Population Bowl The Lookout Detroit, Philadelphia, and Cleveland, We're Right Behind You Bowl The Press One For English, Press Two For Spanish Bowl The Tom Hicks Didn't Borrow Any Money To Help Pay For Anything Associated With This Bowl The Our Area Transit System Is Deeper In The Red Than Your Transit System Bowl The We Have A River You Can Neither Swim Nor Fish In Bowl The That Hunt Brother In Fort Worth Is Still Laughing At Us Over The Reunion Arena Deal Bowl The For Pete's Sake Frisco Landed The FCS Championship Game And All We Have Is This Game Bowl The Were You Robbed Or Assualted In Deep Ellum or Lower Greenville Last Night Bowl The You Should Have Been Here When The State Fair Was Going On So You Can Understand Why This Bowl Is Where It Is Bowl Those 25 or so are much better than just the Dallas Football Classic.

OU had recruiting limits, one fewer coach could visit recruits for 2007 and 2008. And, they had their scholarship limit reduced to 83 for the 2008 and 2009 seasons. So, this is the first year OU will be at the full 85 scholarship limit since the Bomar incident.

The X factor, of course, is politics. Remember, the reason Baylor got into the Big 12 in the first place was political. C-USA commish Britton Banowsky is an OU grad who lives in Dallas and is a member of the church of Christ. He worked in the Big 12 legal office for awhile back in the day. His dad, William, was at one time OU's president. Just by happenstance, SMU's president, Gerald Turner, is also a church of Christ boy. It may be a long shot for SMU, but don't underestimate the power of long time family/political ties. It would really sting, but the ingredients for an Ann Richards-style political play are there for SMU. And, SMU has shown it will throw money to get marquee coaching in place.

To me, a quitter is someone who bolts in midseason for no reason. Prime example - 1983, Marcus Dupree leaves Oklahoma when his sophomore season wasn't going as swimmingly as his freshman season. There, a guy walked out on a team in mid-season when a whole offense had been built around him. That's a quitter. A kid not getting playing time, riding the pine at a big university, with almost no hope of cracking the two-deep = not a quitter. Rather, he's just being realistic about how much eligibility he has left and how he wants to use it. Those we don't talk about: the kids who don't start or play very much, but nonetheless stick to it. Those guys are the backbone of the squad. You need them for practice and locker room "glue." These guys play their parts, take their degrees, and move on. I've got no problem with anyone unless they are rule breakers or quit in midseason. But, if a kid really wants to play, I don't see the harm in him leaving a program.

I'd welcome them both. Also, the "quitters" thing needs to die. These guys don't get "four year rides" like most casual fans believe. Their scholarships are either renewed each year or not. Coaches go into these kids' homes and do their sell job on them. If the thing isn't working out and a kid is sitting on the bench, he's just as much in his right to move on as the athletic department is to not renew his scholarship. And, don't kid yourself, sometimes a coach will keep guys sidelined hoping they will leave, for whatver reason. Ask former players and their parents. It's a business in the 21st century and a kid's only got five years. If whatever the coach sold him isn't what is happening in reality, or the kid just isn't living up to the hype, it's fine for him to leave - it's a two-way street.