2016 Vols commit Darel Middleton disappears?

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#177
I don't have a dog in this fight but all I have read in this thread is what he has done to cause problems at Powell, my question is what caused him to want to fight the coach and what has the coaches or the administration done to this kid to make him have such hard feelings. There is always two sides to every story and only one side is being told. I have read that all the coaches and administrators and community have done their best to help this kid but there is a reason he has tuned them out. One problem might be that other kids on the team run home and tell parents whats going on and then it gets blown out of proportion ie, came to practice high. Like I said I have no dog in this fight but both sides of the story is not being told. Im done and feel free to blast away cause I am a man and I can handle it.
 
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truevol8 said:
I don't have a dog in this fight but all I have read in this thread is what he has done to cause problems at Powell, my question is what caused him to want to fight the coach and what has the coaches or the administration done to this kid to make him have such hard feelings. There is always two sides to every story and only one side is being told. I have read that all the coaches and administrators and community have done their best to help this kid but there is a reason he has tuned them out. One problem might be that other kids on the team run home and tell parents whats going on and then it gets blown out of proportion ie, came to practice high. Like I said I have no dog in this fight but both sides of the story is not being told. Im done and feel free to blast away cause I am a man and I can handle it.
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I can only tell you what I witnessed regarding the fighting incident. He was not dressed for practice because he was dinged up (or suspended - can't remember which). Rather than being on the field watching practice, he was sitting a few rows up in the bleachers talking on his phone. The coach told him to come down to the field and Darel ignored him and didn't hang up. Then the coach yelled at him to hang up and come on the field. From there I didn't hear what else was said because he started making his way down but there was a heated exchange on the field and they had to be separated - meaning Darel was getting up in the HC face very angry and upset.

I don't obviously know what was said between the two of them, but at the beginning of the altercation, the HC was making Darel do something he didn't want to do.

The rest of the incidents I only know hearsay because I didn't witness it, but a lot of it was him being held accountable. Keep in mind this was a new HC and the previous HC pretty much let him get away with anything he wanted. It was probably the first time in his life coaches didn't bow down to him and I suspect he didn't know how to handle it. Of course, that is all pure conjecture.
 
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UTProf said:
How so? What did they do to help? And what exactly was the problem to begin with? So far I haven't seen anything other than 'bad attitude' and 'lazy' and while that might sound like all there needs to be said to you. It really doesn't make any sense to someone outside of the Powell community. It's like we're all supposed to just know and nod our heads and maybe we would if we were from Powell but we're not.

Kids have bad attitudes all the time and plenty of kids are judged as 'lazy' by adults. They even get into trouble, mouth off, and throw fits. That's pretty normal teen behavior. What makes him so special? Or rather why is his case so bad?
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Listen-what part of this are you not getting? If you want to babysit him go ahead. But straight from his momma's lips he's had a male therapist trying to help him. Even lived with him to give Mom a break. Within a very short time therapist was done with him. Done. The kid throws tantrums, thinks he's better than everyone else, really something special and no rules, regulations or requests apply to him. He wants favored-nation status in all things. If he doesn't get it, he threatens (or so he thinks) with punishing those he faults by depriving them of his "super-star" abilities. He's beyond ridiculous. You want to continue to be argumentative about what at least three other posters who personally know this kid say then I say you make yourself available to the kid and do your therapeutic best! This is NOT normal teenage stuff. This is way beyond that.
 
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Headfootballcoach said:
Listen-what part of this are you not getting? If you want to babysit him go ahead. But straight from his momma's lips he's had a male therapist trying to help him. Even lived with him to give Mom a break. Within a very short time therapist was done with him. Done. The kid throws tantrums, thinks he's better than everyone else, really something special and no rules, regulations or requests apply to him. He wants favored-nation status in all things. If he doesn't get it, he threatens (or so he thinks) with punishing those he faults by depriving them of his "super-star" abilities. He's beyond ridiculous. You want to continue to be argumentative about what at least three other posters who personally know this kid say then I say you make yourself available to the kid and do your therapeutic best! This is NOT normal teenage stuff. This is way beyond that.
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IF, IF, IF what you're saying is true, I have an idea. he think he's all that and tough and so forth, eh? Throw his butt into the toughest juvenile facility we have. leave him there for a year or two. he'll learn what tough is and likely have a greater appreciation of the folks who tried to help him in the past. I consider myself pro-player. But when one exhibits a refusal to learn from their experience, I mean refuses to, it's tree shredder time.
 
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#182
Take the kid down to the local Jiu Jitsu/Tae Kwon Do/UFC training facility and let him get his butt kicked in repeatedly.

Nothing should humble him more after being man handled with nothing he could to do about it. Kid should quickly learn humility and "his place"- or should.
 
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Officially no longer part of the Powell basketball team as of yesterday, which was the first day of school after the break.

He's now been booted from both the football and basketball teams at Powell.

So those of you trying to find fault with Powell, do you think there is some Powell conspiracy to get rid of a student athlete with the kind of God given athletic ability he possess, or could it be that the problem might actually be coming from the student-athlete, himself ?

If one will think about it for a second, being booted from both teams should be a sign that it's not the school and the school's coaches that are the problems.
 
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jps2194 said:
Darel was back at Powell this past week because his transfer to Bearden "fell" through.
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I wonder how willing the coach there would be to let him come back for next year. Pretty low I'd say. Lack of commitment to team, possibly.
 
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"I feel like I'm better at tight end, but everybody around me, my coaches at high school, think my money's at D-end."

I wonder how long it has been since he chatted with his high school coaches??

With the bama recruitment, it doesn't seem that saban has learned his lesson.
 
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Letting a kid come in for a visit is a long way from letting him on the team. We should hope he does sign there so the midget wastes a scholly.
 
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