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I hardly ever get on here but a friend of mine was telling me about this forum. First of all i would like to thank everyone who has been supportive of me and CAK, it takes a lot of wisdom to speak kindly and not rash about a situation even though you don't agree with it or think it is fishy. As far as the negative comments- i don't care what you guys say about me it has absolutely no effect on my opinion of myself, so say how you feel or what you think is best. The reason i had to write on this forum is for someone that i deeply care about G. Some of you guys have spoken rashly and have nailed G for what he has done. This seems completely unfair for it was I who has put him in this situation so i will definitely stand by him. How can anyone on these boards bash G and say they have lost respect for him. We all know with out a doubt that G has the more class than anyone on these boards. i have never seen him bring ANYONE down in his comments. So how can you rip him for what he has done when has never done spoken an ill word towards any of you. If you have problems with the situation take it out on me. I'm the one who created the situation. I would like to share some of my thoughts as well. someone hit it right on the mark earlier in the forum. i have played so much soccer in my short life. when i think back i can't ever remember having a season of the year off. so when i finished my club season this past winter i was very tired of soccer. i decided to take a break and just enjoy my senior year of high school and be a normal kid. as some predicted, including G, i got 2 months into my period of doing nothing and i realized that i missed soccer in general. i'm all about soccer and i love the sport as much as anyone out there can, and it took me a while to realize that i would miss it but i finally did. I didn't know what to expect when G and i talked but he said he would consider it and talk to the other coaches and the captains. It really was not something that they all took lightly, we even had an hour long meeting to discuss my coming back and what that would mean to others, we talked about others way more than we even discussed me being back on the team. I respect how G and the captains handled the whole situation and how they generous they were in allowing me to come back to the team. G, i believe, handled the situation well and he didn't decide quickly but took a bunch of peoples advice. I will be danged if i sit here and let him take crap for all of this so cut it out and say whatever you have to say to ME. As G has said before, he and i have a close relationship unlike most coaches and their players. i consider him one of my very good friends. Our relationship also has a lot to do with me coming back too. We have been through a lot during our high school years with winning big games and losing games and other personal stuff that doesn't even have to do with soccer. as i sat in the crowd watching the CAK games, i began to think to myself is this really how i want to end my high school years. i knew G supported me but was obviously somewhat dissappointed too. i know i dissapointed some of the players too. so i decided i didn't want it to end like this and called G to talk it over. So either way this year i was going to disappoint G by not playing or disappoint and anger all you other people who are didn't want me to play. so either way i was gonna disappoint someone i guess. So logically i chose to play who cares if i disappoint all you people i don't know you guys have no part in my life. One thing i wanted to clear up is the thing that cincyred said about me ditching my odp team. This is a great example of someone irrashionally speaking out on a situation they have no clue about and i'm sorry to call you out cincy but its really perfect. During that spring when the odp team was going to nationals, i was down in the residency program with the national team. now down there, they are 100% soccer and its very serious. it was pretty much like a job for us residency boys. Being so serious, the coaches let us go home twice during the whole year other than christmas, so once in the fall and once in the spring. it just so happened that the one week they let me come home was the week that the odp team had nationals. that was a tough decision for me too at the time but ultimately i decided i missed my family and friends too much to not go home so i finally decided to go home. so can you really blame me? if you hold resentment towards me for that than i'm sorry and and there is nothing i can do about it except wish you didn't feel that way. Another thing i would like to clear up is the fact that some might think i'm a prima dona or whatever. Think what you want but in no way do i try and act like that. i think there was a time in my life where i was like that probably as recent as freshmen year but that has all changed. when i got invited down to florida i was honored and it was a great experience but it put me in the middle of the soccer world and i was amazed. guys there are players down there that are just amazing and at no point down while i was down there did i consider myself to be in the top 15 players of the residency program. Some people think i'm good but the guys i played with would blow your mind. 10 of them have already gone pro including the late josmer altidore (he really is incredible). so i in no way think that i am all that at all. i'm just completely honored that i was able to live and train with all those guys. So all of you who question about USC next year, know that i know my place and i'm going to work my butt off to help that gamecock team. I have said all i want to really say and i've pretty much put it all out there guys. i'm sorry this is so long but i know people wanted to hear what i had to say. I will probably not post for a while because i rarely get on here but i just wanted to try and clear some things up. To end i would ask that you guys stop attacking G or the CAK program but if you still feel resentment say what you must toward me. Thanks your time and you might wanna take breaks during reading all of this haha.

hahahaha people never cease to amaze me. i don't know who this ricardo kid is but i heard he can play.....so my question is why do people always assume that someone who can play or does really well is older than he really is, maybe people are just that good

Geez take it easy Ezion, d1 is definitely better but there are def teams form naia that can hang with some of the d1 schools

no ucs i don't remember the score of that game but i'm pretty sure we lost and i don't know if they played their reserves. my team is in nashville and i'm from knoxville so i didn't make the drive over to see the game. hahaha bowling....lets just say if usc had a list for people that they wanted for their bowling team, i would be dead last, right behind big g as far as ucs, i think you make very good valid points about naia. some of their teams could play with d1 schools. i also agree it is a shame that most kids don't pursue their career if they can't go on to d1. as far as my class of 08 though i think a lot of kids have committed to play at the next level more than usual with the help of tnfc and crush. i know other players from other teams have too but those are the only two teams i know really well, so this year is a good year for players continuing their careers. there is another forum talking about this somewhere if you are interested

thank you ucs, i'm very excited about usc. hopefully steve and i can make an impact in the next couple years there. i definitely agree with you, the perfect player should always be pumped up for every game and be ready to play but that is harder said than done. i would say most people have a hard time pumping themselves up for those smaller games. ask anyone i'm probably one of the worst at doing what i just said haha. so the reality is though the d1 guys don't come prepared mentally to play some of those smaller games b/c it doesn't really affect their season or for whatever reason, they should though as you have pointed out since some of the naia schools have given some d1 teams good games. but i would still say and most would say that d1 is at a different higher level than naia. moving on ucs did my tnfc team play you guys? i think we lost but i'm not sure i was sick

its been a while since iv posted so i think its finally time that i do. ucsoccer im gonna have to disagree with you. everyone holds d-1 soccer at a high level like they should. there is no way that the top naia teams could beat the top d1 teams. d1 is definitely stronger than naia. part of the reason some naia teams manage against d1 teams is a mental problem with d1 teams. i think and i have talked to some d1 guys that play the smaller schools and none of them ever find the motivation to play against these schools. its not as exciting to them so i think that is part of the issue. but take the good d1 schools on their best days and put them against naia schools on their best days and d1 wins 99% of the time. with all that being said i have nothing against naia, there are good players that play in that division i know plenty of them. but the naia cannot compete on a regular basis with d1 in my opinion. i think you are right though in saying that d1 soccer is not always the prettiest soccer. it can be very physical and not very pretty at times so d1 is not anywhere close to perfect. the real reason i wanted to post is to say that i absolutely hate the topic that this forum is on. title 9 ticks me off so bad and i agree with what many of you have already said.if more d1 programs had soccer for men (especially the SEC). if the SEC had soccer, it would be a very high level conference b/c in my opinion the best players come from the southeast and these players would stop going up to the acc to play with them. but of course none of this can happen b/c we have a stupid rule called title 9. i wish the people who thought up this rule had never existed

bro your post is a low blow and completely unneccessary. don't bring all that crap about divisions up again, its an argument that goes absolutely nowhere

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYY!!!!! another hater....i guess we'll just have to try and shut him up tonight......looking forward to it

ya ya dean myers whatever, all i care about is if his girlfriend will be there...will she be?? hahaha

I play for TNFC with a bunch of guys like darsinos and morrissey and myers and all them

i won't laugh in your face or anyone elses if we win state

i'm not impressed and i'm not gonna say anything bad for all those that are worried out there haha. dins8 i really don't care that much that you spoke your mind because a lot of the stuff you said was pretty ridiculous, but you did go back on some of the stuff like with number 2 on our team, i'm glad you went back on that because out of anything you said that made me the most mad. he is a good friend of mine and one of the best defenders in the state and i would take him on my team any day. he plays with more heart and emotion than anyone. as far as what you said about me.....where do i start.....well first of all i really don't know what you want me to do bro, i'm hurt thats obvious, and the day i put myself through unnecessary pain for a fan will be the day the sun doesn't rise (never). im sorry you had to drive a long way but what do you want me to do?? maybe you should email me your phone number so i can call you and tell you if i'm playing or not, would that solve your frustration??? as far as warmups, can't ever recall not warming up with my team, i know and G knows and my whole team knows that G doesnt stand for the prodigy stuff and i have never been treated special and thats fine with me because i don't want to be. heck i'm not a pro yet and i haven't scored any professional goals yet, nobody owes me anything and i know that. i don't want to make you mad, thats why i haven't attacked you at all in this post, i've just defended myself (something i have been doing a ton lately for who knows why). you have a right to speak your mind and i respect that but your comments about me seem pretty far fetched. i don't know what i could have done about anything you said. oh and also why in the world would i sit out of one of the biggest games of the year unless i truly couldnt play. i love the cak/catholic rivalry, its truly one of the best along with bearden/farragut. no one in their right mind would miss it unless they truly had to and i did. if you have questions about my heart then ask my teammates or coach. i don't always do but i would definitely say that most of the time i work my tail off, maybe not as hard at forward but heck thats just a curse all forwards have i guess. but when i play center mid i will go up for everyball i can and win everything that i can get my body on. so to doubt my heart is crazy. anywho i don't want to start a fight with you at all i'm just simply tellin you how i feel about what YOU said, i'm not mad at you at all, just trying to tell you my thoughts

honestly in my opinion the newspaper doesn't really matter. ya its nice to be recognized for a win in a big game but its even better to share that joy with your teammates. i could care less if the CAK/Catholic game was in the paper, its gonna be a good game and everyone knows it. we don't need a paper to tell us that

Oh yeah sorry Brandon, we both just read into eachothers post a little too much..mistakes its fine bro

wow thanks a lot coach, i don't know why people are going nuts lately but honestly come on pinball i have never said anything agains you or any of your comments. your boy hutch is actually one of my really good friends so i don't know why i would feel the need to bring down one of my good friends. i'll admit i did misread your comment and i'm sorry for that but you went a little too far with it. oh and lets be serious do you really think i would try and hint that i led the region premier league, i don't know who would get on coacht and brag so that they can feel better about themselves from a little website. if you ask me, thats pretty lame. as far as hinting that i led the premier league....your definitely wrong, whoever even posted the premier league results are you sure thats right?? because i'm pretty sure that brad from my team led it and he had a lot more than me hahaha though brad....you scored like 6 goals against alabama or something which shouldn't count. so i wasn't trying to seek credit in that at all pinball, i don't think i led the premier league in scoring and if i did, then i just found out a little bit ago haha