(S32) PT 1 - Mentor

[Goat_Whisperer]

I'm a strong believer in tough love. The very first thing I would do is sit down with the relative. I would tell the relative what I think is going to happen if they keep doing what they are doing now. They will never make it to ISFL. They will never get a decent job. They will never get into a meaningful relationship with anyone. Then I would one by one explain why. They will not make it to the ISFL, because they are not determined and focused enough. The competition is intense, only the best will make it. Kokot family line is not talented enough to rely on skill alone, everybody in the Kokot family needs to be extremely hardworking to make it. Even then nothing is guaranteed.

Ignoring school is a recipe for disaster. If and when the relative fails in sports, they will need a real job. You need some kind of education for that to happen. I would perhaps take the kid to meet local drug addicts and force the kid to ask some questions from the drug addicts. That should open the relative's eyes a little bit. Finally, the attitude of focusing on sports alone and ignoring school is going to translate into failed relationships. It takes a lot of work and patience to make any relationship work. If the kid can't sit in school and feel uncomfortable, every relationship will fail as the kid will think they can just give up and nothing will happen.

That is a simplified response, but the point is I would talk to the kid straight up.

[Minnesotafine]

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[LANEFROST]

Lane was in his car one day when he got a call from a old friend. It was his brother Cillian who he hadn't heard from in over 3 years. He wanted to inform him that his 9 year old son, Jamall, was starting football and he needs some help catching passes and punt returning. Lane was very busy, seeing as he was just drafted to the Minnesota Grey Ducks. Lane took the next flight straight to Vancouver, where they were staying. Lane got right to work helping his nephew and he was making a lot of progress in the 3 days he was available. Lane promised Jamall that he would come back soon as he gets a break from his team. But Lane and Cillian worked together to get Jamall to a Grey Ducks Game. Lane gave Jamall a early birthday present in a ticket to the season opener of the season 32 Grey Ducks. Jamall ended up making the school team with his help.

[TheCC]

I feel like this is probably an issue that happens a lot in real life. It would be hard to tell anyone that has a dream that is very important to them that they need to focus less on working to make that dream of theirs a reality. I think that there’s one approach that I can think of that you could take that might be effective. That approach would be to make it relate to that dream. If you don’t know what I mean, I’m saying that I would tell this young relative that in every sport, being smart is always an advantage. You hear people talk about football IQ, basketball IQ, etc. all the time and how important it is. Another way to relate it to sports would be to tell them that without good grades, they may never be able to make it into a big Power 5 school to showcase their skills to pro teams.

[Bubba]

Zane was heading over to Kansas City right after the draft whenever he got a phone call from his Aunt saying she wanted him to talk to Trey about grades.  Trey. Trey wanted to go to the league just like Zane was doing. He was starting to do excellent in football getting better and better each day but while this was happening, his grades were dropping bad.  Zane told trey “ Trey look you gotta stop doing bad in school. School is much more important then football. In football all it takes is one injury and you could be done for. That’s why you need an education to fall back on. So you gotta start taking school work more serious”. Trey thought about what Zane said I realized that it was true and how important school actually is. Trey ended up doing better in school while he continue to get better in football. He ended up going to the university of Oregon just like his older cousin did. 


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[zeagle1]

Well this PT prompt is basically Burrow and I's friendship haha. It is extremely simple, grades are incredibly trivial things that have a huge impact on the rest of your life. Is that assignment pointless? Yeah, probably, but you still have to do it. Your grades in school, especially high school, determine your entire life, from what friends you make via what classes you end up in, to what you end up being when you grow up. It is much more difficult to be successful in life if you had bad grades. Not impossible, just harder. College is a big one. It is not for everyone but college can be extremely beneficial and to go to a good one you need to have good grades. Even Chuck Roth, famous football defensive tackle, got pretty solid grades in his time in school! If football did not work out for him, he would have needed a backup plan, which grades provided for him.

[thevoicelesscreator]

We have another turtle in the ISFL pipeline? Honesty, that probably wouldn’t surprise me. Turtles have been a common theme as of late – beats me as to why honestly. I created Franklin just to meme, but I’m glad that we have some more turtles on the way! I would love to accredit this achievement to Franklin’s amazing environmental work helping to establish safer breeding grounds for many future generations of turtles. At first, many thought that Franklin was working on a pipe-dream. And to be honest, it’s turned out that way, but not in the way many suspected. Franklin’s pipe-dream turned into a pipeline, pumping out at least dozens of turtles every year that aspire to be professional athletes!

It makes sense that with a program this early into it’s infancy would have some hiccups. Turtle education has always been a hot-button topic for Franklin. While he was afforded an opportunity to pursue his dreams through the American Public School program, he was the only turtle in his high school, and first turtle to attend a post-secondary institution. Franklin has always asked himself why this was, and in doing so founded the Franklin Foundation, a non-profit organization that stresses the importance of helping young turtles survive to adulthood, and helps them flourish by providing them unique opportunities. To any young turtle struggling with anything, the foundation is an incredible resource.

[StadiumGambler]

Saleem Spence's cousin, Shakir Spence, is an aspiring athlete of some repute. Having made it over from South Africa to Canada, Shakir attended the same high school as Saleem (Southside High in Winnipeg), and developed a reputation for amazing athleticism. He played football and basketball briefly, but his real passion lies in track and field, where he set a national junior record for the high jump and long jump. Shakir was heavily considering a career as an Olympic decathlete, and was developing his other skills in preparation for a scholarship athlete's life in the University of Manitoba.

But disaster struck. Shakir found struggles in his schoolwork going into Grade 11, as his mandated arts and crafts class, Construction 11, turned into an absolute trainwreck. Shakir tried drilling a screw into a piece of wood, and caused an explosion that almost cost an innocent bystander their thumb. He tried cutting wood with a bandsaw, and almost sliced the entire classroom floor in half. He tried sanding down wood with a piece of low-grit sandpaper, but lit his work table on fire in the aftermath.

Unable to get the required credit for high school, Saleem Spence came by to help his cousin with his shop class project. Unfortunately, Shakir proved to be beyond help, as the mere act of shovelling sawdust into a trash can almost caused an outbreak of tear gas (somehow). So Spence gave his cousin a great piece of advice, which was "Try welding instead bruh."

The lawsuit over Shakir's welding class exploits is still making its way through the court system as of press time.

[kmatt]

My young cousin is dedicated to following my footsteps and playing in the ISFL. Unfortunately he has not focused enough on school and so his parents got mad and asked me to tell him that he needs to focus on school. 

I went to his house and talked to him, the conversation went this way:

Me: "Hey man your parents asked me to talk to you. I know you are very dedicated to making it to the ISFL and playing pro football as an adult and in college but you have to focus on school. The pros you see playing focused a lot on school, they got good grades. They had to get good grades to get into a college that they could play football for."
Him: "Dude I know that but how is school going to affect how I play out on the field?"
Me: "It will affect how you play because it will affect if you will ever even be able to play."
Him: "Ok fine so what your telling me is I wont even make it to any football teams without good grades?"
Me: "Yes, exactly. Most teams look for people with good grades in the first place."

After that he decided he would play football after school. He would do school first and then play football and play as much football as he can without getting bad grades. His parents then thanked me, and that was it.

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