PiPress: Seantrel Henderson dealing with painful past, uncertain future

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Poor guy just can't catch a break.
 

Curseislifted33 said:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24551560/report-former-miami-ot-seantrel-henderson-fails-drug-test
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This also isn't the first time Henderson has been tied to marijuana. With the Hurricanes, he was suspended three times during his career for violating team rules, and he later told the South Florida Sun Sentinel that it was for marijuana use.

"I felt like I had a lot of maturing to do and I feel like I have,” he said, via the Florida Times Union, in January at the Senior Bowl. “Now I'm ready to move onto the next level ... I've been taking interviews since I've been here and I've let them know exactly what happened and that the past is the past. Eighteen years old, ranked super high, expectations from everybody to play the best you can. Some people think you're supposed to be mistake-free, but you're still a kid.”

Though it's not out of the realm of possibility that a team could take a late flier on Henderson -- because he still has the talent and athleticism to be intriguing -- this latest reported transgression certainly won't help his cause. Particularly since everybody who's attending the combine has to know that he will be drug-tested. And to fail would be a particularly bad piece of planning.

Go Gophers!!
 




all of this could have been avoided if the players were paid.
 

It's interesting, I just got to speak with Ra'Shede Hageman at the NFF dinner last night and felt like he had matured and grown up so much in the past 5 years. I was so proud, just speaking with him. Interviewing him as a 17 year old kid, I had no idea if he could avoid trouble...and he agreed when I brought that up. He could have gone down a very different road, and instead, he's worked very hard and is sitting in an amazing spot a few days before the draft.

On the other hand, you look at Seantrel, who oozes potential, and has been given chance after chance...and just can't seem to get it together. I think it would have benefitted Seantrel to come to the U as Coach Kill could have given him a lot of tough love, like he did Ra'Shede, and could have maximized his potential. I always hope for kids to be able to get their acts together, and hope Seantrel does too. His talent should not go to waste.
 




Dean S said:
I'm just disappointed that he did not achieve to his reported potential.
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My parents told me I had high potential too. And I ended up working for government. Disappointment abounds...
 

Curseislifted33 said:
http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/eye-on-football/24551560/report-former-miami-ot-seantrel-henderson-fails-drug-test
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Dang, there are some truly dumb SOB's in the world, especially when they know without a shadow of a doubt that they ARE GOING TO BE TESTED FOR DRUGS AT THE COMBINE! :confused:

Amongst the other numbskulls to fail their drug tests at the Combine, three from FSU (Timmy Jernigan, Telvin Smith, and Christian Jones, so there must having been some really good smoke circulating around Tallahassee), and LSU QB Zach Mettenberger (due to a diluted urine sample, though his agents claim (of course) that there are mitigating circumstances behind that).

Anyway, wow. Some fricken people...
 

Seany said:
Dang, there are some truly dumb SOB's in the world, especially when they know without a shadow of a doubt that they ARE GOING TO BE TESTED FOR DRUGS AT THE COMBINE! :confused:

Amongst the other numbskulls to fail their drug tests at the Combine, three from FSU (Timmy Jernigan, Telvin Smith, and Christian Jones, so there must having been some really good smoke circulating around Tallahassee), and LSU QB Zach Mettenberger (due to a diluted urine sample, though his agents claim (of course) that there are mitigating circumstances behind that).

Anyway, wow. Some fricken people...
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To be fair to Mettenberger: I've had to take drug tests for jobs or client engagements and "failed" the drug test due to dilution. I've got some OCD tendencies and one is that I generally always have a beverage and drink fluids religiously (water, soda, alcohol, etc.) and twice mine have come up as too diluted though I haven't done a drug of any kind since college. Fortunately for me these 'fails' were marked as due to dilution and I was just forced to do it again ASAP where I consciously made the decision not to drink anything for several hours prior to the test.
 






Isn't it obvious?

Seantrel really doesn't want to play football.

I don't think he ever has.
 

Studwell55 said:
Isn't it obvious?

Seantrel really doesn't want to play football.

I don't think he ever has.
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Always looked that way didn't it? By all accounts, including his own, he loved basketball. That's what he wanted to play at a "higher" level. Just couldn't do it.

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There's the old "18 years old = still a kid" BS again. The next time I hear that crap I'm going to shoot my dog.

(I'm not going to shoot my dog.)
 



GopherLady said:
It's interesting, I just got to speak with Ra'Shede Hageman at the NFF dinner last night and felt like he had matured and grown up so much in the past 5 years. I was so proud, just speaking with him. Interviewing him as a 17 year old kid, I had no idea if he could avoid trouble...and he agreed when I brought that up. He could have gone down a very different road, and instead, he's worked very hard and is sitting in an amazing spot a few days before the draft. On the other hand, you look at Seantrel, who oozes potential, and has been given chance after chance...and just can't seem to get it together. I think it would have benefitted Seantrel to come to the U as Coach Kill could have given him a lot of tough love, like he did Ra'Shede, and could have maximized his potential. I always hope for kids to be able to get their acts together, and hope Seantrel does too. His talent should not go to waste.
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I agree with a lot of what you wrote but as a parent, I think Mr. & Mrs. Hageman deserve a lot more credit than Jerry Kill. I have met both of Rashede's parents and they are wonderful people who have always been there for Rashede through thick and thin. I know you meant no disrespect, but I feel like the Hageman family is getting the short end of the stick when it comes to Rashede's development as a man.
 



Pretty incredible spiral for a guy who was a consensus top 10 recruit. hope he can straighten his life out for many more reasons than just those that translate to the field
 


lakesgopher said:
I agree with a lot of what you wrote but as a parent, I think Mr. & Mrs. Hageman deserve a lot more credit than Jerry Kill. I have met both of Rashede's parents and they are wonderful people who have always been there for Rashede through thick and thin. I know you meant no disrespect, but I feel like the Hageman family is getting the short end of the stick when it comes to Rashede's development as a man.
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No disrespect, but he didn't really turn it around until he was under the scrutiny of Mr. Kill. The Hagemans gave him the love of a family and bought him everything he would want, but Coach Kill gave him tough love.
 

highwayman said:
No disrespect, but he didn't really turn it around until he was under the scrutiny of Mr. Kill. The Hagemans gave him the love of a family and bought him everything he would want, but Coach Kill gave him tough love.
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I agree. Were Eric and Jill not his parents when he almost got kicked off the team?
 


highwayman said:
No disrespect, but he didn't really turn it around until he was under the scrutiny of Mr. Kill. The Hagemans gave him the love of a family and bought him everything he would want, but Coach Kill gave him tough love.
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Yup. We were lucky he turned things around. Not that Kill couldn't have worked his magic with Seantrel but I think we were lucky he went somewhere else or he could have easily poisoned the water here.
 

Buffalo is probably a good landing spot for him, few distractions.
 

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