ESPN reports the San Francisco 49er's first round draft pick Michael Crabtree, a Texas Tech standout and a Texas Longhorn "wrangler", is prepared to sit out his first season so he can get redraft to make more money. David Wells, Crabree's Advisor, said in a statement, "We are prepared to do it," Wells said. "Michael just wants fair market value. They took him with the 10th pick and you have Darrius Heyward-Bey [the seventh overall pick by the Oakland Raiders] getting $38 million? This week is crucial. Michael was one of the best players in the draft and he just wants to be paid like one of the best players. This week is very crucial."
-ESPN Report-
Michael Crabtree has been a superstar even since coming on to the scene back in 2007 with Texas Tech and lighting it up. He was this highly touted receiver that would be the next great thing, a good role model for kids perhaps. The next great receiver huh, as far as I can think back, I do not remember a "great" wide receiver missing an entire season for money. You put your "heart" into the game your whole life to get to this point, this dream that kid's have when they are throwing the ball around in the yard. Role model, that is a sporadic saying that people use that is an opinion to a lot of young kids. The definition of role model in the dictionary is...a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, esp. by younger people. When you throw some of the biggest athletes out there today into the mix of potential role models not many shake out. Throw the steroid users out of the discussion, I do not care when or why they used. Take the people who hold out of camps and sometimes seasons for more money, not to mention the off-field violence/mishaps. When you take those three subjects out of the role model discussion you are left with very few superstars to look up to, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, Payton Manning, and Tiger Woods, that is where it about stops for me.
-ESPN Report-
Michael Crabtree has been a superstar even since coming on to the scene back in 2007 with Texas Tech and lighting it up. He was this highly touted receiver that would be the next great thing, a good role model for kids perhaps. The next great receiver huh, as far as I can think back, I do not remember a "great" wide receiver missing an entire season for money. You put your "heart" into the game your whole life to get to this point, this dream that kid's have when they are throwing the ball around in the yard. Role model, that is a sporadic saying that people use that is an opinion to a lot of young kids. The definition of role model in the dictionary is...a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, esp. by younger people. When you throw some of the biggest athletes out there today into the mix of potential role models not many shake out. Throw the steroid users out of the discussion, I do not care when or why they used. Take the people who hold out of camps and sometimes seasons for more money, not to mention the off-field violence/mishaps. When you take those three subjects out of the role model discussion you are left with very few superstars to look up to, Derek Jeter, Tom Brady, Payton Manning, and Tiger Woods, that is where it about stops for me.
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