Glen Coffee retires!?!?!?
by Siggy778 on Aug 13, 2010 2:44 PM CDT
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Coffee issued the following statement about his retirement: "This has been a tough decision for me, but at this time in my life I feel it's best for me that I move on from football. I appreciate what the 49ers, my teammates and coaches have done for me, and I wish them a blessed season and all the best in the future.
That's so unfortunate. Really thought he could be a great NFL back.
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Todd...
Dig deep and find that epic pic of Coffee after the Iron bowl. One of my faves of all time.
I understand hate. I'm a Alabama fan.
this one?
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by Todd on Aug 13, 2010 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is there really...
…not a single local coffee shop that serves ‘Bama Coffee 38’? Some entrepreneurs just don’t want to put in the effort it takes to win….
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 13, 2010 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
That
is an awesome pic of Coffee.
A picture says a thousand words unless it is a picture of the Alabama football team then it only says one word.........CHAMPION!
by AlabamaTitans2009 on Aug 14, 2010 6:52 PM CDT up reply actions
WTH? Why? To become a pastor?
Someone do some digging. You just dont walk away from your dream job after all the hard work for the past 5 yrs…..
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;ylt=AhKd585to7BDAsKgQ2RZ7ndzTrt?slug=ap-49erscamp
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If that’s what he wants to do with his life
then I wish him nothing but the best.
Good Luck Glen, Roll Tide Roll!
Not terribly surprised...
Passionate people usually find football (and other sports) simply a means to channel their energies and satisfy social needs. It appeals to the warrior mentality and feeds intellectual aspects of this (strategy, X’s and O’s, etc) but overall is largely meaningless in itself. Also, it can be a good way to earn a salary. I’m actually surprised it doesn’t happen more often. It’s common in other (usually less lucrative) careers to have that moment of reflection, “What the hell am I doing with my life and why?” His last few years at Alabama seemed to be a purpose driven quest where football was something he projected his new found ‘spiritual’ zeal. Of course, I’m speculating; there could be other issues at hand, but like other comments, I’m guessing this has something to do with his religious faith. It’s a Ricky Williams moment without all the hemp, alternative medicines, and marijuana.
By the looks of things, I'm pretty sure God doesn't care how you do in sports.
Exactly
You get it. Some guys play for years and years, and some just lose the fire for the game. People point out that he only played one year in the NFL, but they’re not considering that he’s probably put so much energy into football since his pre-college years (maybe since middle school) that he lost himself along the way. And you’re exactly right about passionate people using football as a channel. It is meaningless and PROVES almost nothing of great value about you. As a person grows spiritually and intellectually, he might realize this & wonder why he’s killing himself for a GAME. That’s all it is. Playing it doesn’t make you better or more important than any other person on earth. Of course when you’re on the team you think that, & you should since confidence and the team mentality is everything.
I mean, players can reach that moment of reflection, the “What the hell am I doing with my life and why?,” and they can completely turn against the game. I’m speaking from personal experience here. Others won’t get it. Outsiders will think you’re a quitter, but come on, everybody quits things they don’t want to do. No one on here ever quit a job? Broke up with a boyfriend or girlfriend? No one ever changed churches or moved houses or quit fixing up a piece of crap car & junked it and bought a new one? When you look at it like that the same people say, “Well…that’s different.” No it’s not. Those things are just as significant as football; they’re all minor, just like football.
We all quit things. Even Bear Bryant quit things. Didn’t he leave Maryland in a huff? I’m not judging him, but I’m just saying. Our perspectives are often intensely hypocritical (and that’s not excluding me because I’m not different from anyone). Shit, if you put Bryant or Saban in a hip hop dancing class that met every day for four years they’d probably quit that in a month.
Are they quitters? Is Coffee a quitter? Was I? No…we simply were too engaged in something that wasn’t what we truly wanted to do. For Glenn, Ricky Williams, and anyone else who quits football, they should know the people who count understand and don’t think any more or less of you. They certainly know you’re not a quitter & that you left on your terms for your own reasons.
Because honestly, that question, the “What the hell am I doing…” is avoided by football players. You spend 365 days a year training. I passed up on so many experiences so I could hit the weight room and bench 400 and gain 25 pounds and run a faster forty that I finally just snapped. People couldn’t believe it because I’d been so hardcore for so long, but when the game leaves you it leaves you and you take your life in another direction.
After all, it’s just a game, and if our substance as humans were measured by our performance in the eye-opener drill or the SEC championship game, how many of us would really matter?
Just a game.
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by Bamagrad on Aug 13, 2010 6:28 PM CDT up reply actions 5 recs
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I don’t know anything about what it’s like playing football, but I do know firsthand what it’s like to be involved with something, and years later ask yourself the tough question of whether you really want to continue it. It was a really tough decision, but I’m glad I didn’t keep putting off the question.
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by billycthulhu on Aug 13, 2010 6:53 PM CDT up reply actions
Yes
You know, I’ve seen women who were married to nasty, abusive men stay in the marriage because they didn’t want to be perceived as a divorcee or sinner or quitter and it’s just nuts. I grew up in one of the most screwed up, dysfunctional, nasty, mean, etc. families in America and I tried for years to fix things that I couldn’t fix. I grew tired of always trying to explain them, to talk around their issues, to so many normal people who just didn’t get it & wouldn’t get it.
There’s nothing wrong with loving football or anything else if you really love it—and I really did at one time, poured my ENTIRE soul into it for about five straight years—but you should never stay in something just because you’re worried people will think less of you if you leave it. And you should walk away from something you no longer want to do when the time’s appropriate (I say that so some soldier doesn’t read this, have a sudden epiphany, and abandon his post…an APPROPRIATE TIME, like when you have the option to reenlist, not in the middle of battle or sentry duty).
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I...
…just quit reading this thread.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 13, 2010 10:56 PM CDT up reply actions
That's very well said,
and you have to keep your priorities straight, but…
damn, how do you leave that money on the table? I don’t know what he was making, but did he make enough in that one year to be set for life? Maybe he got a big enough signing bonus that the second year wasn’t doubling what he already had, but still it had to have been a chunk of change.
I’m not saying he had to do it indefinitely, but only one year of getting paid? That’s rough.
I would rather...
…be healthy and earn $40k than hobble around in pain after earning $4 million…but I have no idea as to what Mr. Coffee’s motives are.
"High standards come from passion within...." --Coach Nick Saban
by NiceLittleSaturday on Aug 13, 2010 11:28 PM CDT up reply actions
I understand what youre saying
But almost every person in the world can ask that “What the hell am I doing and why?” question. Your barber. Car salesmen. Businessmen. Etc, right down the line. So this isn’t really a football player’s story I dont think. I think its a human story. The fact that he’s stepping down from football just brings the light down on him harder and brighter. You burn out doing reps in the weight room… others burn out filing quarterly reports. Thats why through it all, we shouldn’t seek gratification or fulfillment in temporary, earthly things.
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Oh but,
The FCA better keep away from Trent!
By the looks of things, I'm pretty sure God doesn't care how you do in sports.
i hate...
when people say its just a game. that is the single stupidest saying i think anyone on the earth has ever come up with. just a game? you think its just a game to saban? you think its just a game to all those extremely gifted athletes who have nowhere else to turn in life but a sport?
fucking please. dont get me wrong, if retiring is what the man truly wanted to do, then im all for it. but people put their blood, sweat, and tears into this “game.” personally, i dont know where i would be without football. its the only constant in my life, and i can always count on their to be a Bama game on every saturday no matter how the week goes. Its my release, a way to flush out all my bottled up anger, something to enjoy when you cant find anything else to enjoy, win or lose.
dont say its just a game, and that these athletes are worthless based upon what they do for a living. Yea well, i could say that all in all, its just life, and we all end up dead no matter what, so what does it matter what we do with our lives. you think these kids and men arent bettering the world, but you would be so wrong. my world is bettered just because of this so called “game.”
by CrimsonTide229 on Aug 13, 2010 11:52 PM CDT reply actions
You're missing the point
It’s not just a game to Saban because he still loves it. He still needs it. When he doesn’t, he’ll retire to Lake Buford.
If Coffee still loves football and has a passion for it he should continue to play. If he doesn’t want it any longer, if he has lost the passion, he should move on and we should respect him for this decision.
I don’t think anyone has said the athletes are worthless for playing; that was not communicated. And it is just a game, just like the book I read this morning was just a book. I can get enjoyment from it, but is it really that important? Honestly?
Still, I respect it enough as a former player and as a former coach to know that neither I nor anyone else should ever half ass it. You either do it right—with every bit of your soul—or you get out because you’re cheating yourself out of what you want to do and you’re cheating the game by playing for the wrong reasons. Bill Parcells said the same thing. When you don’t want it anymore it’s time to get out and there’s nothing wrong with that. Because both players and coaches can easily push themselves to the point of burn out. Both can lose their identity and when they do they deserve the right to move on and they should. I’ve turned down coaching jobs because I didn’t want the game bad enough. I would have been wrong to accept them. It would have been like marrying my ex just because we dated for three years. I didn’t want it, she didn’t want me, and it just would have ended up bad for everybody. Remember when Madden quit coaching? He said he’d lost his passion to coach, but he still loved the game and would make the rest of his contributions as a fan.
I mean, nobody would ever tell you not to enjoy the Tide or not to look forward to the season. I would say, though, if you’re using it to “flush out” your “bottled up anger” you’re using it incorrectly. What happens when Alabama loses? What happens if we go on probation again or Saban’s replacement sucks? Just saying. You’re setting yourself up for disappointment at some point.
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No I think you are missing the point
You are talking about how in the grand scheme football doesnt matter, which is funny because maybe your existence doesn’t even matter. I mean if you enjoyed that book you read, it must have meant something to you to sit down and read it. Maybe it isn’t important, maybe you aren’t important. I don’t see what you are trying to say when you say things “don’t really matter.” If it means something to you, then it matters.
I totally respect any decision to quit something that you don’t enjoy and/or don’t get any meaning out of doing it. Everyone is like that, and that is perfectly fine, but to say that football “doesn’t really matter” is just flat-out disrespectful to all those players who it does mean something too.
And the who the hell are you to say that I am using my Tide football fandom incorrectly? That just screams “pretentious asshole” to me when you say that. I use the games however I want and I would say there is no one on this planet who loves the Tide more than I do. And win or lose, I am still right there behind them, because it means something to me. I enjoy watching the Tide play more than anything else in the world, and I am never disappointed just because we lost. Not putting forth effort is one thing, and I do get disappointed by that, but who doesn’t.
by CrimsonTide229 on Aug 14, 2010 7:01 PM CDT up reply actions
I think the importance of things is what you make of it
A book is important to you if it changed the way you think somehow, but it’s just a book. What matters is how it affects you, and how you feel about it. Same with football. It’s just a game. Yes, if you’re really passionate about it and love it and put everything you have into it (and want to do that) it is more than “just a game” to you, but that’s more about you and less about the game itself I think.
When I decided to quit my music major after 4 years of college, it didn’t change the fact that I love music and appreciate it. I just realized that I’m not passionate enough about it to make it my entire life. It felt like a late time to do it, but if I hadn’t, I would have had to wait even later to realize it wasn’t for me. So now I’ve found something that I feel I am passionate enough about to spend the rest of my life doing. Sounds like the same has happened for Glen.
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by billycthulhu on Aug 14, 2010 8:17 PM CDT up reply actions
That's just it...
Everything is just something, and I really understand what you are saying, but I just don’t like when people use that “it’s just this or that” phrase. To you it may be, and thats fine, but to me it may be way more than that, and I really feel that it is very disrespectful to to belittle things and label things as “unimportant” that mean so much to other people.
And I do agree that if Glenn is happier stepping away from the game, then I am happy for him too.
by CrimsonTide229 on Aug 14, 2010 10:58 PM CDT up reply actions
i didnt mean to be mean
I just love this stuff man
by CrimsonTide229 on Aug 14, 2010 10:52 PM CDT up reply actions
It's cool
I can respect that. I really wasn’t trying to say the players or coaches are wasting their time or you’re wasting your time or that our lives are meaningless or anything similar to that. I was looking at Glenn’s retirement from a perspective of not getting down on him for walking away now if his heart isn’t in it anymore. I mean, believe me, if I were still playing or coaching, I’d be the first one to go with everything I’ve got, cutting no corners. There’s nothing wrong with being passionate about your passion.
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call to the ministry
and I don’t know if it is or not, trumps everything else. Watch Chariots of Fire again. We are all proud of Glen’s accomplishments on the field. But, like all of us, one day he will give an account for what he did with his life. Apparently, he has another path he needs to follow now.
I'm not that convinced
that Coffee is leaving for the ministry inspite of what his facebook may say. I’ve got some information from some people who know him etc, but I’ll let it go at that.
However, his anyone considered that maybe the real reason he is retiring is that as an NFL player Coffee was just not that good? I know he only played one year but his numbers were not that great. And you have to even wonder if the reason he left Bama early was because he could see the handwriting on the wall regarding Ingram (and even TR.)
Nevertheless, whatever his motivation, finishing his degree is a very good thing. Personally I’d like to see him in coaching.
As much as I hate Auburn I hate Tenn. that much more.
maybe god's plan for glen...
was carrying the ball 20 times for 144 yards (not to mention a 41-yard TD run) to give auburn it’s worst iron bowl beatdown in almost half a century.
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I wonder how much MIke Singletary had to do with this
If Glen really left the game for the ministry, I think thats certainly something that Coach could understand and would offer 100% support on.
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any idea
how his contract is written and what he will have to pay back from his signing bonus etc? are you allowed to ‘retire’ suddenly like this and there not be any monetary repercussion?
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Early retirements
They’re fairly common in the NFL. I had a buddy that played in the NFL for a couple of years and he just decided one day he was done with it. He didn’t like the constant travel, the being away from his family, the physical toll on his body (which I’m sure is MUCH worse than college), etc. He still loves the game and watches all the time but just reached a point where it wasn’t worth it anymore, especially when you aren’t making millions.
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