re: Regrets over dumpster fire…

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One day years from now Manziel will regret the choices he made while at Texas A&M. If he had just kept his mouth shut and prepared for this season and jumped into the draft in 2014 he could have come back to College Station for the next 50+ years and been treated like a god… He could have walked by a galloping statue of #2 for the rest of his life.

For some reason, that just wasn’t in his cards. Instead he chose to make an arse of himself on a weekly basis, post idiotic comments on twitter, provide ample photo ops of poor decisions, criticize the town and the University, give his idiotic parents a platform to criticize him as well as the University, and just kept feeding the media beast with egotistical negative shite.

As it turns out, waaaaaaay before everyone in college football thought he was complete arse, he might have been taking cash for autographs only a few weeks after receiving the most coveted trophy in college sports and joining a very elite fraternity of Heisman Trophy winners. Not sure I ever remember anyone going from college penthouse to outhouse faster than Johnny Manziel.

What about the collateral damage? What about the fans? One of the coolest things about college football or any sport is the high expectations and excitement leading up to the first game of the season. How good do you feel right now? After the Cotton Bowl most Ags couldn’t wait until next season. As the months passed with Manziel most of us were thinking “the season can’t get here quick enough” because this guy is selfish social disaster. Now… so much uncertainty and dreading of the NCAA investigation. Expectations and excitement have been thoroughly crushed and overtaken by the latest fiasco. How would you feel if you were Jake Mathews??? He came back in part to play with his younger brother but also came back because “he wanted to be part of something special at A&M next season”. While Jake was trying to figure out if he was staying at A&M or going to the NFL, Manziel was in a hotel room signing 300 autographs ... interesting.

Does anyone really think he is innocent? He might be. His biggest problem is he has absolutely no goodwill in the bank with anyone including Aggie fans. Just about every single Ag I speak with aren’t sure if Manziel took cash but no one would be at all surprised if he did. It’s all about expectation now. Everyone expects the worst from him. INCLUDING his freaking family.

No matter what happens, he can’t take away the memories I have from last year and he can’t take away the memories I will have once his playing days in College Station are over… whenever that happens. Texas A&M will roll on with him or without him. Too bad he has thrown so much away but won’t realize it until it is years too late.

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This was a bad post when it was written, and it looks even worse three weeks later.

Tridentds, come back down from the ledge and start posting again. Today is a new day.