Da'Rick Rogers Calls Out Nico

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VolPack22 said:
I had a damn near 4.0 GPA, not because I was the smartest but because I actually worked hard and did everything that was expected from the professors. I have this thing called work ethic where I don’t want people saying I’m a crappy worker and I actually show up for my job even whenever I don’t feel well. Been that way ever since high school whenever I was working at a fast food place making minimum wage. Whenever you get into the real world you have to take these things called drug tests to get a job so I knew not to smoke weed or else that could have prevented me from getting a job. It’s really not that hard to stay away from it if you know it’s going to affect your career. Da’Rick clearly did not care enough about making money or making a career out of football. It’s called discipline. But you know, that’s just my opinion on the matter.

Edit: BTW, I’m the same age as Da’Rick so I’m not some old head scorning the younger generation. I just have higher expectations for people with God given talents like he had. Not everyone is blessed with that. Literally could have had a nice 10 years in the NFL and made enough to never worry the rest of his life. He was one of the best performers at the combine so everyone knew he had the physical traits but they didn’t want to draft him because they couldn’t trust he would be available due to the off the field concerns. It’s just sad man.
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I wish we'd quit calling 20 year olds "kids"
 
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dduncan4163 said:
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Things went very differently for Tennessee's current and former starting quarterbacks on Saturday. Joey Aguilar had a good debut in the Vols' opener against Syracuse, which Tennessee won 45-26.

Things went very much the opposite for former UT QB Nico Iamaleava in Pasadena in his debut with the UCLA Bruins. The Utah Utes blew the doors off of the Bruins in the Rose Bowl 43-10, and the struggle on the field reflected every bit of that lopsided scoreline. Iamaleava was 11/22 passing for 136 yards with a touchdown and interception. He also ran 13 times for 47 yards.


Iamaleava has become a lightning rod of controversy and commentary on social media, even as he took the field for the Bruins across the country. That includes comments from former players like ex-Tennessee WR Da'Rick Rogers, who claims he knew when Iamaleava was "hot garbage" before he even arrived in Knoxville.




First I heard about this.
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DIdn't Da'Rick get kicked off the Vols for doing drugs all the time and ended up at like TN Tech or something? He isn't wrong though.
 
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dduncan4163 said:
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Things went very differently for Tennessee's current and former starting quarterbacks on Saturday. Joey Aguilar had a good debut in the Vols' opener against Syracuse, which Tennessee won 45-26.

Things went very much the opposite for former UT QB Nico Iamaleava in Pasadena in his debut with the UCLA Bruins. The Utah Utes blew the doors off of the Bruins in the Rose Bowl 43-10, and the struggle on the field reflected every bit of that lopsided scoreline. Iamaleava was 11/22 passing for 136 yards with a touchdown and interception. He also ran 13 times for 47 yards.


Iamaleava has become a lightning rod of controversy and commentary on social media, even as he took the field for the Bruins across the country. That includes comments from former players like ex-Tennessee WR Da'Rick Rogers, who claims he knew when Iamaleava was "hot garbage" before he even arrived in Knoxville.




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Must think he’s seeing a lot of himself in Nico. I don’t know why anyone would care about Da’Rick’s take on Nico’s pajamas…. I actually think Nico is a good guy. I admire that his family is extremely important to him but being brought up in a patriarchal controlling culture with a narcissist father is something he has to deal with in his own time.
 
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Was Da’Rick the guy who caught the TD while being crushed from both sides, and he just, like, sat down Indian style with the ball as the two dudes collided to drop under the brunt of the contact?

If so, big fan. 😎
 
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Da'Rick smoked the ganja and seemingly threw away his shot at the NFL with a DUI charge. Did he do anything else? He's gotten treated like a felon since his days at UT. He probably wouldve been remembered as one of the greats if he had stayed at Tennessee another year. He was as talented as Hunter - if not more.

To think we could've had CP, Da'Rick & Hunter as our starting receiving corps in 2012. That is insane.
 
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Sheik Yerbouti said:
Was Da’Rick the guy who caught the TD while being crushed from both sides, and he just, like, sat down Indian style with the ball as the two dudes collided to drop under the brunt of the contact?

If so, big fan. 😎
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He's was literally one of the best ever WRs to don the O&W. 1st team All SEC as a true SO. He just has a few things that nuke his legacy around here. 1. Dooley teams sucked bad 2. Only 1 year as a starter 3. Liked illegal hippie lettuce > football. 4.Kicked off before Jr yr and xferred 5. No waves in NFL career ... But regardless of the big picture, his talent was elite for us. The game winner vs Vandy is one of the all time Vol great legendary plays. I think because we sucked so bad and were even in it to the last play against a horrible vandy team makes people think it was irrelevant. But if he drops that one-handed catch, we lose! Imagine losing to a vandy team that bad. Finally, after seeing Patterson light up his one year here, just imagine Rogers was kicked off the team just before the season started. The receivers we had were absolutely unreal, and DaRick would have made it absolutely ridiculous had he been able to stay for his junior year.
 
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VolPack22 said:
I had a damn near 4.0 GPA, not because I was the smartest but because I actually worked hard and did everything that was expected from the professors. I have this thing called work ethic where I don’t want people saying I’m a crappy worker and I actually show up for my job even whenever I don’t feel well. Been that way ever since high school whenever I was working at a fast food place making minimum wage. Whenever you get into the real world you have to take these things called drug tests to get a job so I knew not to smoke weed or else that could have prevented me from getting a job. It’s really not that hard to stay away from it if you know it’s going to affect your career. Da’Rick clearly did not care enough about making money or making a career out of football. It’s called discipline. But you know, that’s just my opinion on the matter.

Edit: BTW, I’m the same age as Da’Rick so I’m not some old head scorning the younger generation. I just have higher expectations for people with God given talents like he had. Not everyone is blessed with that. Literally could have had a nice 10 years in the NFL and made enough to never worry the rest of his life. He was one of the best performers at the combine so everyone knew he had the physical traits but they didn’t want to draft him because they couldn’t trust he would be available due to the off the field concerns. It’s just sad man.
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He was certainly no angel, and it was frustrating to watch him waste all that talent to be sure… but if you went to college and got that 4.0 you probably took a psych class or 2 and learned that humans (especially males) don’t typically mature into adulthood until at least their late 20s/early 30s when they have both gained some valuable perspective and physiologically matured. Anecdotal life experience has probably reinforced this as well. I just find it hard to admonish a youngster for poor choices like smoking weed, no matter how talented they are. Not everyone is going to be a polished professional as soon as they enter legal adulthood, for most, it takes time and experience. I would say if you talked to him now, he would have plenty of regrets. That’s life.
 
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OHvol40 said:
He was certainly no angel, and it was frustrating to watch him waste all that talent to be sure… but if you went to college and got that 4.0 you probably took a psych class or 2 and learned that humans (especially males) don’t typically mature into adulthood until at least their late 20s/early 30s when they have both gained some valuable perspective and physiologically matured. Anecdotal life experience has probably reinforced this as well. I just find it hard to admonish a youngster for poor choices like smoking weed, no matter how talented they are. Not everyone is going to be a polished professional as soon as they enter legal adulthood, for most, it takes time and experience. I would say if you talked to him now, he would have plenty of regrets. That’s life.
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Maybe you are missing the point. I truly don’t care if someone smokes weed and honestly don’t consider it a poor choice if they are on their own time. The only time I have a problem with it is if you have a job that requires you stay clean to be employed. You’re just being a dumbass at that point, especially whenever you have already failed multiple drug tests prior. I don’t have empathy for someone that blatantly chooses their recreational activities over their career. If you are in college then I consider you a grown adult. Mistakes do happen and have empathy for someone screwing up big time once or twice because we are all human but what Da’Rick did was straight stupidity.
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
They talked about him on The Sports Report or whatever that UT focused show is with like 6 guys on the panel including "Sterl the pearl" and WIll Overstreet (love that dude). They were discussing who was the best player that never panned out at UT. They said even with Hunter on the team, Rogers just dominated at practice. He was unstoppable. Sad he screwed it up. If only we could have averaged 60 points per game, we could have run the table with that terrible defense.
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If that 2012 D was just average, we could have won the SEC
 
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VolPack22 said:
Maybe you are missing the point. I truly don’t care if someone smokes weed and honestly don’t consider it a poor choice if they are on their own time. The only time I have a problem with it is if you have a job that requires you stay clean to be employed. You’re just being a dumbass at that point, especially whenever you have already failed multiple drug tests prior. I don’t have empathy for someone that blatantly chooses their recreational activities over their career. If you are in college then I consider you a grown adult. Mistakes do happen and have empathy for someone screwing up big time once or twice because we are all human but what Da’Rick did was straight stupidity.
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^^^ maybe it is you who is missing the point…
 
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VolPack22 said:
I had a damn near 4.0 GPA, not because I was the smartest but because I actually worked hard and did everything that was expected from the professors. I have this thing called work ethic where I don’t want people saying I’m a crappy worker and I actually show up for my job even whenever I don’t feel well. Been that way ever since high school whenever I was working at a fast food place making minimum wage. Whenever you get into the real world you have to take these things called drug tests to get a job so I knew not to smoke weed or else that could have prevented me from getting a job. It’s really not that hard to stay away from it if you know it’s going to affect your career. Da’Rick clearly did not care enough about making money or making a career out of football. It’s called discipline. But you know, that’s just my opinion on the matter.

Edit: BTW, I’m the same age as Da’Rick so I’m not some old head scorning the younger generation. I just have higher expectations for people with God given talents like he had. Not everyone is blessed with that. Literally could have had a nice 10 years in the NFL and made enough to never worry the rest of his life. He was one of the best performers at the combine so everyone knew he had the physical traits but they didn’t want to draft him because they couldn’t trust he would be available due to the off the field concerns. It’s just sad man.
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The bills got him and he failed.
 
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