Have any regrets about football?

[GiantRutgersFan]

I kind of regret that I never was anything but a lineman on offense.

I was a very good center and DT in HS (1st team all league junior/senior year at center, could have gotten $ to play college ball) but I think that I could have been a really great running back.

I am a fast guy, especially for my size. Plus I think I could have run over a lot of guys in HS ball at RB. It never happened cause we needed linemen, I was always a lineman, and I was good at being a lineman.

But I wish I could have gotten an opportunity at RB. I think I could have been really good at it, just from drills and stuff that we did. Honestly, if they just gave me the ball 3 times, I dont see any way I dont get a first down. All day long.

I also regret not playing college ball, to a lesser extent (came down to scholarship $ they were giving in football vs quality of the education at the school). But then I see Ben Patrick as a sure pro, and think that I could have gotten a scholarship to play at the same school, and maybe, just maybe, made the NFL....


But thats just me. What, if any regrets do you have about your career in football?

[someone447]

Not switched from QB to safety during my sophomore year, instead waiting until the very end of my junior year. It possibly has cost me playing somewhere the past 2 years. But at least I am going to play somewhere this next year.

[themaninblack]

i have very similar regrets to yours actually. I also played center and was all-city/all-conference my senior year and was given the opportunity to play some defense and i just didnt do as well as i should of. i wanted to play ILB but they would only let me play DL even though i had more than enough speed at 265. i wish they wouldve just let me come in and rush the passer on obvious passing downs, i think i wouldve excelled in that area. im also deciding whether or not to walk on to a BCS conference team or just play D2 or D3 ball. I know im gonna regret it if i don't at least try to walk on.

[Man_Of_Steel]

Played quarterback for my freshman and sophmore season, during summer drills broke my arm. It was in the drill where the person with the ball has to stay on the line and the defender gets to chase you down from an angle. Since it was summer drills i had to participate. First time I ran off the line and had to run laps. When I got back i was put at the front of the line, I ran down the sideline and the guy hit me. It wasnt the tackle, his facemask drove through just above my wrist when we hit the ground. I had a big gully. Needless to say i didnt get to play a single down my junior campaign. After it healed hockey season was up so I got serious in that. Didnt play my senior senior. No regrets thats just how I stopped playing organized football.

[doingthisinsteadofwork]

I didnt know you hade gone through HS.

[Man_Of_Steel]

accidental double post.

[etk]

You should have taken the university education. You need it.

[Man_Of_Steel]

I didnt know you hade gone through HS.

Im a HS senior right now.

[Caddy]

I've never had the opportunity to play so I guess that is kind of a regret. Gridiron isn't big at all in Aus so it isn't really surprising.

[KCJ58]

dont make a post overall what u should have done or ur personal life

[bored of education]

I have no regrets. In H.S and Prep Ball as a WR/SS I was 5'9, 165 got about 7concussions in H.S. football. I wasn't afraid of no one. I was one of the msot respected player because of my relentlessness. 4 Concussions before that. Then played 4 years of collegiate rugby, 3 more concussions.

DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[Caddy]

dont make a post overall what u should have done or ur personal life

Speaking of education, this sentence makes no sense.

[doingthisinsteadofwork]

Im a HS senior right now.
I wasnt talking to you I was talking to GRF.

[TH3]

i regret not moving to mississippi to challange Kickmikehass for the sweet house deals avaliable in the are for 20 something playboys

[AdrianWilson12]

I regret never being able to play even a tag game because of it not being popular here. A little throwaround is the extent of my experience.

[Vikes99ej]

Yes. I wish I would have played it in high school.

[frogstomp]

i regret not moving to mississippi to challange Kickmikehass for the sweet house deals avaliable in the are for 20 something playboys

Kickmikehass wasn't 20... was he? I thought he was like 14.Didn't he say his dad kept his junior stats, or something?

Anyways, if he's 20, he's even sexier than I originally thought...

[Space Ghost]

I regret playing football for the past 3 years. My coaches were all dicks and had no idea how to coach a team. I'm returning grade 12 next year for my 5th year of high school because I'm not going to University and want to take more credits before I go to college. A bunch of my buddies are doing the same and we are coaching the team ourselves as well as playing.

In grade 10 our coach called one play and only one play for 4 games in a row, somehow we almost won one of those games. Then the other games he pretty much called that play plus a QB sneak and a hail mary.

Grade 11 our guidance cousilor was our coach as well as a former CFL player. They would be great coaches for a middle school because they are great teachers, but they pretty much got us out of shape and didn't motivate anyone, they just taught us how to do stuff and then made us run it for the entire 2 hours of practice.

Grade 12 we had a terrible coach, perhaps the worst talent evaluator ever. He said, hey you are big, you can be an offensive lineman. I ended up at defensive tackle for a couple games as well as starting running back. He just picked the fastest kid on the team to be the quarterback and we completed maybe 10 passes all year and had 5 interceptions and 2 touch downs. Our defense was incredible but the **** wouldn't listen to us and made our offense look like a complete joke.

The thing I regret the most, showing up to practice because I was absent for the last 2 weeks of practice this year and I still started. My school's football program is a joke. My school is dedicated to music, golf and rugby pretty much and our rugby program only started when myself and a couple guys from the rugby club got to the school in grade 9.

[DChess]

no, i dont live in the past

[fenikz]

my only regret is tearing my MCL & ACL and breaking my left foot, not much i can do about it but as soon as it happen all the scholarships just went away, i tried passing a physical to play some JC ball but i would need 2 more surgeries and i dont have the heart to go through more

[bantx]

my only regret is tearing my MCL & ACL and breaking my left foot, not much i can do about it but as soon as it happen all the scholarships just went away, i tried passing a physical to play some JC ball but i would need 2 more surgeries and i dont have the heart to go through more

I didn't know they could take scholarships away from being hurt.
Because a kid from my school tore his acl and didnt play his senior year and still got his scholarship.

[UKfan]

I regret never being able to play even a tag game because of it not being popular here. A little throwaround is the extent of my experience.

When you get to uni, there is a full BCAFL League against other uni's throughout the country, if you go to warwick ( i think you said you might go there ) they have a decent team.

[Craigo]

I regret sucking so much.

[VoteLynnSwan]

I didn't know they could take scholarships away from being hurt.
Because a kid from my school tore his acl and didnt play his senior year and still got his scholarship.

he's talking about scholarship offers most likely... that kid you know probably had already signed with that school...

[YAYareaRB]

Not running track all 4 years of school.. I only ran it 2 years but it really would have helped my speed

[yo123]

i regret playing last year when i hated it two years ago

[art vandelay]

I don't regret playing in high school, it was a blast.

[AdrianWilson12]

When you get to uni, there is a full BCAFL League against other uni's throughout the country, if you go to warwick ( i think you said you might go there ) they have a decent team.
Quality, I'll look into it when we get to uni. Do you play for Warwick then?

[LonghornsLegend]

yea i do, im not going to sit here and say i was destined for stardom because even if i was, im not the first, and everyone has different reasons it didnt work out...


but i was a hell of a WR, walked on to university of houston because of my size, and was moving up the depth chart, learned alot from vincent marshall out of ennis texas, but i broke my collarbone and never recovered properly from it....cracked right down the middle, and now it just sits overlapping on top of the bone, either way i was confident by this year which would be my RS-Senior yr that i would of broke rotation, and playing time would of been enough satisfaction for me...trust me i was no blue chip, 5 star player, but i was sure handed and took pride in running great routes, it would of been great to see how i ended up in an offense that threw the ball not run the option


but ill be ok, it could be alot worse, i could of went pro and ended up like david pollack, just sucks to wonder what if all the time

[UKfan]

Quality, I'll look into it when we get to uni. Do you play for Warwick then?

I did, but I blew out my knee so haven't been able to, played LT, G and a bit of DE, but not much. It's a blast travelling the country playing the game and then getting hammered on the coach back.

[MichaelJordanEberle (sabf)]

Well I've only played 2 years, but, it would have to be false starting on the goal line at the end of the half. We woulda scored a TD on that play, but instead we had to settle for a field goal. We were driving to take the lead late in the game and we failed on 3rd and goal from the 10 or 15, well within our kicker's range, and we lost 13-9. If I didn't false start, it woulda been 13-13 at that point, and then we woulda kicked the easy field goal to win 16-13, finish 1st in the league at 7-1, whoop the 4th place team, not have our best player tear his ACL, beat the team we lost to by a point in real life in the first round(with our best player getting a torn ACL and our next best player having the worst game of his life), and won the championship for 4 years in a row.

[ny10804]

no, i dont live in the past

Living in the past is for cowards. Live in the past, you die in the past.

[gbpackers0065]

Living in the past is for cowards. Live in the past, you die in the past.

i regret the fact that i had to quit after freshman year to focus on bball