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I think Johnny Football is in for an epic sophomore slump.

I would be really surprised if Coach Sumlin would sit Manziel. He is to important for them to win games if you ask him. RTR!

You could be right on the suspension but I'm like some of the other posters, TAM  doesn't want to lose and are riding high these days, who would be brave enough to discipline him. This is where I think the problem lies, he feels he has them obligated to keep him on the team if they are to be successful, which is probably right.

I just read where A&M is claiming Manziel left the Manning camp due to severe dehydration. I call BS. He did not show up until the afternoon and never let any one know he was not feeling well. The most dehydrated I have ever been is after a hard night of drinking and partying.

I had read this earlier and this is what I based my opinion on. He was seen partying in both places, Louisiana and Texas. It reminds me of the Scam Newton case, the Barn didn't care if they got caught as long as they won a National Championship and I think this might be the mindset at TAM, win the NC and worry about the repercussions from the players later. :dunno:

In an interview on SportsCenter, Manziel was asked directly if he was drinking alcohol during his time at the camp, and he answered, “I’m not going into details about what happened at the Manning camp. We had social events every night.”

Manziel said he’s not going to apologize for the way he lives his life.

Basically it boils down to this: Manziel apparently lied to his own mother about his reason for missing camp meetings on Saturday morning, misled the media on SEC Media Day and threw Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron under the bus by forcing him to answer questions about why he didn’t wake Manziel up on Saturday morning. What McCarron had to avoid saying was the truth: he couldn’t wake Manziel up, because Manziel wasn’t in their room.

No one knows for sure where Manziel slept on Friday night, and the exact location is probably none of our da#@ business. But we do know it wasn’t at a Nicholls State dorm with roomie McCarron. It was reported to Archie Manning that Johnny Football was last seen somewhere on Bourbon Street in New Orleans at around 4 a.m. (The Nicholls campus is about an hour drive from New Orleans).

But the alleged escapades at the Manning camp, and Manziel's performance at the SEC media days last week, piqued the interest of some league personnel people. "I was especially interested in his comments about being just a '20-year-old' kid," said one regional scout who primarily works the SEC schools. "I'm tired of that excuse. If I had (Manziel) in an interview, and (suggested) to him that he was just a kid, he probably wouldn't react well. He's a 20-year-old man, he'd (protest). Well, he needs to start acting like one."]

Asking him whether or not he had alcohol during his time at camp isn't really a fair question (if you're going to indicted him for a simple yes).  There was a photo of Eli, Peyton, and AJ out drinking one of those nights as well...it definitely wasn't Eli's first one judging by his face.

What is the legal age for drinking in Louisiana?

21, like most places these days.  Federal funding requires it.

We also seem to be guilty of holding some people to higher standards than we did ourselves when we were in college, our kids, or non-athletes in general.

I'm not condoning his actions, particularly if he lied about what he was actually doing, but I'm not ready to throw him under the bus for having a few beers just because he's shy of legal drinking age by a couple months.

I hear this excuse all the time. I guess I was  weirdo. I had been in the Army FOUR years before I had a drink at the age of 22, even though soldiers could drink at age 18. In fact, the Army posts had their own liquor stores. Underage drinking is a disaster in many cases, that's why you hear of 19 year olds falling from balconies at Panama City during Spring Break. Condoning or looking the other way is not the answer to the problem. My son just turned 21 and he drank before he was legal, but I never approved of it.


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I don't think anyone is holding him to higher standards, he has done this to himself. He thinks he is much bigger than he is and if he doesn't make some adjustments to himself he will find out the hard way. Handling success isn't easy in many cases and he sure hasn't done a very good job handling his success.

We also seem to be guilty of holding some people to higher standards than we did ourselves when we were in college, our kids, or non-athletes in general.

I'm not condoning his actions, particularly if he lied about what he was actually doing, but I'm not ready to throw him under the bus for having a few beers just because he's shy of legal drinking age by a couple months.

Legal drinking age was 19 when I was in college at Alabama, the age you still are considered a legal adult here.

Really, the knock on Manziel him is maturity, mostly a concern for an NFL franchise considering shelling out the bucks. 

One place in the Lone Star State where people definitely have mixed feelings about Manziel, however, is in Austin. The A&M QB has been having an epic weekend at the University of Texas, and the school's students have had mixed reactions to his presence

This kid is either seriously stupid or drunk.




http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/johnny-manziel-heckled-out-of-university-of-texas-fraternity-party-072713

How will he handle failure, he's really destroyed the road to success so far? :-\

"Johnny Manziel tossed from UT frat party"


http://www.fannation.com/truth_and_rumors/view/396750-johnny-manziel-tossed-from-ut-frat-party?xid=si_ncaaf

How will he handle failure, he's really destroyed the road to success so far? :-\

While Nate explains the insanity of their lives, as if on cue another negative story breaks, this one about Johnny almost being suspended for the season last year after his arrest and coming within five days of transferring. Nate reads the news on his phone and looks concerned.

"How'd that get out?" he asks. "Less than 50 people know that. That's someone in the school talking."

He's suspicious about this story, which credits an unnamed source. Nate thinks Texas A&M is leaking on its star quarterback, and in the end it doesn't even really matter if that is true or not. There's been a growing rift between the school and its most important student. It's not just Nate's paranoia about the story, or Johnny's frustrations with the nonfootball, marketing expectation of the school, or his father's sense of injustice that everyone makes money off his son but his son. The rift is more profound. Many people close to Johnny Manziel no longer believe in the integrity of the institutions charged with protecting him.

Lost faith is one more casualty of the fishbowl.

They're concerned. Paul thinks Johnny drinks to deal with the stress. After his arrest, Johnny's parents and Sumlin mandated he visit an alcohol counselor; Johnny saw him six or seven weeks during the season. About the only place they still see the real him is on the football field. Mostly what they see is the emotional byproduct of whatever is chewing him up inside. "I don't know where the anger comes from," Paul says. "I don't think he knows. If it comes from his drinking, or if he's mad at himself for not being a better person when he fails, when he fails God and his mom and me. If it makes him angry that he's got demons in him. You can only speculate because you can't go in there."

Now Mommy and Daddy Manziel are getting into the fray.  They need to stop enabling him and bust a paddle across his back-side. (http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/live_at_9_with_kevin_scarbinsk_12.html#incart_more_sports)

I think mommy and daddy are the root of his problems.

I think mommy and daddy are the root of his problems.