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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
In the case of Dickerson you didn't, because SMU just gave him more than aTm, and he kept the car.
I agree with what you're saying though. It reminds me of a line from Mass Effect 3 of all things. When the protagonist asks why he's been chosen for the mission, his commanding officer tells him, "You can pay a soldier to fire a gun, you can pay him to take a hill, but you can't pay him to believe." That's what the open system of payment and athletes as employees has laid bare-a transactional relationship where the players are mercenaries not part of the campus. You can pay a guy like this kid, but you can't pay him to rep the school the way Sean Weatherspoon did.
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It's why you love a guy like Darius Robinson. I'm sure he got a few bucks at some point, but he was a
Tiger.
And Ennis Rakestraw -- same story.
And...{sigh}...Brady Cook. Kid's gonna be a 5 year player and 3 year starter who's probably going to throw for 10,000 yards as a Tiger. He'll be comfortably 3rd all time in passing yards for the program.
But I worry we'll get fewer and fewer of those guys. And hey, a TON of credit to Luther Burden. He's gonna give us 3 years and go in the 1st round, which is all you could ever ask. And Theo Wease, who didn't start here but was a huge mentor for the young WRs and is coming back for 2024. Mookie's never quite broken out the way I expected but he's gonna play 4 seasons here.
The current Mizzou squad has quite a few guys that seem to love the program. The new NIL laws in Missouri help us get guys in the door out of HS, but once they're here we're on the same footing as anyone else. And Drink deserves a bunch of credit for apparently having these guys really buy into the program.
My next "trueson" candidate is gonna be Brett Norfleet. I think he's a guy the fans are going to love and he's gonna be here for the duration.