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Why are idiots better football players?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:21 pm
It is widely assumed that stupid people are better football players than intelligent people. Why is this?
Teams like Yale, Vanderbilt, Harvard, etc..., jn modern times, don't have good teams and the reason given for that is because they don't allow stupid players to participate. They have higher standards, supposedly, and smart people can't play football very well.
Teams like auburn, that used to regularly put mentally retarded individuals on their team were good at one time. Their school motto used to be that auburn players didn't come to the plains to play school.
Are stupid people stronger, like with stupid strength or something? Can the idiots run faster because their brains don't work right? Are dullards somehow better able to grasp the integral details of football strategy than more intelligent players?
If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
Teams like Yale, Vanderbilt, Harvard, etc..., jn modern times, don't have good teams and the reason given for that is because they don't allow stupid players to participate. They have higher standards, supposedly, and smart people can't play football very well.
Teams like auburn, that used to regularly put mentally retarded individuals on their team were good at one time. Their school motto used to be that auburn players didn't come to the plains to play school.
Are stupid people stronger, like with stupid strength or something? Can the idiots run faster because their brains don't work right? Are dullards somehow better able to grasp the integral details of football strategy than more intelligent players?
If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
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Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:28 pm to Smokey Okie
In order to be good at most positions in football, you have to be at least a little reckless. Smart people are less likely to be reckless and violent than dumb people. Obviously that is a huge generalization and doesn’t always hold true.
For Ivy League type schools specifically, the bigger issue is that they are only looking at the top 1% academically, and there are not many people within that subset who have the athletic traits necessary to be an elite football player. When Alabama, Georgia, etc. are open to taking a far less qualified student, that opens of the pool of possible athletic prospects by a huge amount.
For Ivy League type schools specifically, the bigger issue is that they are only looking at the top 1% academically, and there are not many people within that subset who have the athletic traits necessary to be an elite football player. When Alabama, Georgia, etc. are open to taking a far less qualified student, that opens of the pool of possible athletic prospects by a huge amount.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:30 pm to Smokey Okie
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If everything were equal and you had a full team of smart, athletic people vs. a full team of dumb, athletic people, why do the morons always have the assumed advantage?
In this example, the smart and athletic people would win, but nobody can assemble a team of that many elite athletes who are also very smart. There aren’t that many people like that in the population.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:30 pm to Smokey Okie
Reuben Foster matriculated at Bama lol.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:31 pm to Smokey Okie
It’s more about putting an emphasis on sports vs just not. Sports at all costs vs academics at all cost.
The goal is to strike a balance. You want to graduate kids and not be in news for stupid stuff and you want compete and win at a high level.
The goal is to strike a balance. You want to graduate kids and not be in news for stupid stuff and you want compete and win at a high level.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:31 pm to Smokey Okie
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stupid people are better football players
Holy shite Stephen must be an All American
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:33 pm to Smokey Okie
So people talk about the down side to.mental illness or not being well adjusted, which is the goal of mental health is for people to adjust and fit in, not carrying allows for the egos of people to be really good at certain things, sports, politics, ceos etc.... a little narcissim and sociopathic ways tends to put people in the penthouse or prison.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:34 pm to Smokey Okie
Why are idiots better at a sport where they effectively turn their bodies into weapons and risk life altering injury on every play? Great question
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:35 pm to Smokey Okie
Reuben Foster says hi
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:39 pm to Smokey Okie
quote:Whoever assumes this hasn’t spent much time around NFL players. There are always freak athlete exceptions, but pro football’s generally a high IQ sport.
It is widely assumed that stupid people are better football players than intelligent people. Why is this?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:44 pm to Smokey Okie
For this generation kids with less resources play outside more compared to a suburb area, and then football/athletics is the ticket for income. If they’ve had to fight a lot with others/domestic stuff then there’s no hesitation for aggression.
I remember those highschool football bus rides to a sketchy part in Houston like Northshore or Hightower and thinking these kids are playing for jobs lol.
Players/familes are still recruited in those sketch areas and paid to move from schools like Katy, The Woodland. Happens everywhere in Dallas/Austin and I’m sure in Florida too.
I remember those highschool football bus rides to a sketchy part in Houston like Northshore or Hightower and thinking these kids are playing for jobs lol.
Players/familes are still recruited in those sketch areas and paid to move from schools like Katy, The Woodland. Happens everywhere in Dallas/Austin and I’m sure in Florida too.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:44 pm to Smokey Okie
The smartest people don't play football...
They just post on message boards and watch stupid people play football.
They just post on message boards and watch stupid people play football.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 4:45 pm to Smokey Okie
Widely assumed by whom? I've never heard that.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 7:23 pm to Smokey Okie
If you ever get a chance to go to an Ivy League football game, do it. It’s good football and the talent is good and the teams evenly matched. You will see a few guys in each team that are really good. And yes they do have a few guys go to the NFL.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 7:40 pm to Smokey Okie
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Teams like auburn, that used to regularly put mentally retarded individuals on their team
Like that Leto clown. He uses deflection to distract from his own mental special needs.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 8:09 pm to Smokey Okie
Speaking of mentally retarded, remember this Mensa member?
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:01 pm to Smokey Okie
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It is widely assumed that stupid people are better football players than intelligent people. Why is this?
College football is a recruiting nuclear arms race farming system. You recruit as many good players as you can. You get the players you harvested. Some are as good as advertised. Some are better. Most aren’t as good as advertised bc recruiting isn’t an exact science. Most football players mass recruited are not intelligent individuals. Just like getting a mass group together randomly, you won’t find many intelligent individuals.
The best players are smart though. The best players in the NFL are smart. Ed Reed was smart. Ray Lewis, although a murderer and not a good person, was smart. Tom Brady was smart. Luke Kuechly was smart. The best are smart. You won’t see that in mass in college though.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:21 pm to Smokey Okie
You’d be VERY surprised how well spoken the big guys generally are. We’ve been to a bunch of SEC recruiting events and it’s almost the opposite of what you say…these athletes generally aren’t the thugs or dumbasses you think they are.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:42 pm to Smokey Okie
Joe Burrow and Jaden Daniels were smart because they decided to ditch their broke dick schools and come to LSU.
Posted on 8/1/24 at 9:51 pm to Smokey Okie
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Mississippi State - Pig Prather
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Florida - Chris Leak
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