Your comments are an absolute joke. Most cornerbacks have the body type to play tennis. Do you actually know what a cornerback is? they made the right decision to play football. Like i said, you know ZERO about sports. it's sad that you are tennis snob. I love tennis as much as anyone, Isner and Anderson made it because of their height. they could never win over 9% of their return games.
They can have all the brain damage they want. If that’s the right decision, good for them. As you pointed out, 99 percent get the brain damage , and messed up bodies, and don’t make a dollar.
Now it's the brain damage issue. just proves my point about your lack of knowledge. obviously you hate something you know nothing about. Your last sentence is implying that tennis players are not athletic. That's how some people see tennis players and you feed into the non athletic narrative.
touché, LOL
You can play in the NFL without even playing football in college, Renaldo Nehemiah is an example. He ran track and field at the University in my backyard, the Terrapins, U. of Maryland, and played in the NFL without even playing football in college: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaldo_Nehemiah
Private institutions can do whatever they want as long as any taxpayers do not go to subsidize foreign players. That also includes donations because they are tax exempts. Public universities take money from taxpayers so they should not be allowed to do this. If foreign players want to attend these universities and are willing to pay three times the tuition as state residents, they are more than welcomed to come. Otherwise, NO!
You know you can play tennis without playing in college too. lol. horrible example. Dude was horrible. He caught 43 passes in three years.
Moving the goal post? Here is what you said "Show me the example where a kid ran a 4.4 40 and poof a D1 scholarship"
Dude i never mention the NFL. it clearly says D1 scholarship. Nehemiah was a bum that made it to the NFL because he was fast and he was well known. I remember him clearly, could not run the route tree. After that hit, he went back to track. A lot of bums made the NFL. I have a better chance of being on practice squad than you. asked anybody who watched him play. I read the Swann bio, no need to repeat it again.Moving the goal post? Here is what you said "Show me the example where a kid ran a 4.4 40 and poof a D1 scholarship"
Swann did play in HS and about to play in college but rule academically ineligible. Nehemiah didn't play football in HS, at least not officially.
Well Nehemiah played in the NFL and without playing football in college and he probably under 4.2 40 at the NFL combine before they started tracking that thing. What you said "he is horrible" is relative. Anyone making it to the NFL gets my respect. I doubt you even make it to the practice squad
Here is your problem. Nehemiah received a scholarship at the University of Maryland to run track and field. So he did run under 4.4 40 and got a D1 scholarship.
The 9'ers picked him up based on potential only. He didn't do much in 3 yrs and rightfully stated was not a good FB player. The 250th ranked tennis pro earned his way to that spot by winning matches. There's the difference.
During his three years as a wide receiver Nehemiah caught 43 passes for 754 yards, a 17.5 average, and four touchdowns. While that is not Tyreek Hill's number, it is a respectable number. David Tyree 2007 season, Tyree had four receptions for 35 yards with no touchdowns. Therefore, David Tyree must be a bum too.
Here is your problem, actually, he ran a 4.1 for a track scholarship not football. The topic was football not track until you mentioned it. You like switching topics randomly. Based on his YPR he only ran one route.
The 250th tennis player spent 10,000 hours just playing tennis to develop that skill.
You call David Tyree, a 2005 Pro Bowl player and an All Pro, a bum. Interesting.
Jamarcus Russell was the first overall pick in the 2007 NFL draft. Nehemiah, the bum as you called him, was a 6th round draft pick, a big difference. The average career is 3.3 years so Nehemiah career, 3 years, is average but he is no bum.
You have gone over the deep end. Jamarcus Russell was a bum and so was Nehemiah. read the stories on Russell.
We're saying the same thing.
But his kid didn’t make the QF as a mediocre junior player, so the system is rigged I tell you!
Great. I was just listening to 100 responses that Americans are lazy, not as good, foreigners are better, our best athletes don’t play tennis. Only if nfl cornerbacks played tennis… Etc etc
Guess you don’t understand English and are trying to be a smart ass.
Omg stop. So funny and original. I can’t take it. Can’t stop laughing at how witty and funny you are.
Neither. If your son was better this thread wouldn’t exist. Which, while it would be a tragedy for us all, is the truth.
All 7 were in the top 10 of their class from soph-sr year. They all played junior ITFs so they had experience playing international players before college. There are 150K boys playing high school tennis-35-40K per each class year. There are 1800 boys listed in the junior class of 2025 for TRN. So out of US junior tournament players, there is about a 1/200 chance of reaching the level of these US QFs. Out of guys who just play HS tennis, 1 in 4000 chance of reaching that level really less since almost all the top players are home or virtually schooled. On the bright side, almost 1/3 of the guys who committed to d3 tennis in 2023 had no TRN stars-meaning there is a great chance for high school players to join a D3 team. There is a very low chance of a player under 4 stars (top 200 per class in nation of tournament players) joining the roster of a P5 team. If they do, they are probably the son of a booster or tennis alumni. Yet in recent years the #1 of a SEC school was only a 4 star (#76-200) junior. He was not homeschooled either, played for his HS team and played most of his tourney events in the summer. Another young man who had 4-5 siblings played #1 on a MM d1 didnt even play UsTA in HS. He played #1 for a GA HS that usually reached QFs of state, summer circuits, and some Futures.
And 4 of the 8 women's quarterfinalists. 5 of the 8 combined semifinalists are Americans.
Per class year per gender 0-25 blue chip, 26-75 5 star, 76-199 4 star. Now in u18 u could have 500 4 stars and up if u also count the kids 15-16 playing up. However TRn ranks per recruiting class based on graduation year. So what is your expectation?
Even if it were true that any significant amount of federal spending went towards this college golfer - good - rather my taxes go towards his success than military spending or countless other examples of unchecked federal waste
So you would be ok if foreign students come to the US to train/learn about high tech and/or military trainings at colleges/universities courtesy of American taxpayers, and use those skills they acquire here in the US to harm Americans or American companies when they returned to their home countries.
Could you delineate how his collegiate golf skills are endangering me and my fellow Americans? Is this like the Happy Gilmore thing where he’s practicing long drives in the middle of neighborhoods?
Well I said that last week the '24 NCAA D1 women golf champ is from France, 2nd place finish is from the UK, and 3rd place finish is from Spain, all of them at the courtesy of American taxpayers....
So you would be OK that he gets the the nuclear submarine training here at GT, one of the best universities in the US, subsidizing by the American taxpayers, then go back to work for China to build better submarines to hunt down US submarines with American sailors in the tube? Can't make this stuffs up.
And where's the breaking news that Ohio St. has a couple international golfers?
Tai is from Singapore. Your xenophobia is showing.
So he is now one of the leading minds in the world now in nuclear sub technology??? - that’s what I was trying to confirm - yeah definitely going to nominate for him for Time ‘man of the year’ if he accomplished all that in undergrad, sick resume - at the very least he should get a Dos Equis ‘most interesting man in the world’ commercial
To be fair a lot of folks are talking about a lot of different things - we’re 490+ posts into the second thread that was created on this topic - ranging from Dustin Brown playing college tennis, to the 6th round of the 2007 NFL draft, to undergrad student athletes potentially being the brightest nuclear scientists in the world
You need to stop the xenophobia nonsense.
