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Should I quit?

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Jaskittin
Posts: 5606 - Karma: 195
I have a serious dilema. For the past 8 years of my life, I have been playing football for the sole purpose of making varsity and getting a state championship. I will be a senior next year, but unfortunatly, we just got a new coach. He is really, really hardcore about winning and shit. We have practice starting TOMMOROW, and a scrimage the day after school gets out. I should be getting wasted off my ass that day. Anyways. After that, we get 2 days off and then a week long football camp. Then lifting every day at 6 am. Another camp in the middle of july, another at the end of july and the season start on August 9. I really, really do not want to play. The only reason that I am considering it is the obligation to myself and the team I guess. That's the only reason I have to stay. My reasons for quiting: Don't want to get injured (Graduating early to ski all winter.),I HATE the kids that play. They are all arrogant assholes that are incapable of treating any person outside the team with any respect whatsoever. I need to make money for next winter when I am going to be travelling all over. With my summer so broken up, holding a good job will be near impossible. I really don't want to waste my summer on football. I want to be getting wasted with my buddies, hanging with my firlfriend and longboarding as much as possible. The thought of assholes yelling at me everyday to work harder just doesn't sound that appealing. I am just really having trouble making this decision. Any suggestions would be helpful.
Jun 1 2006 1:16AM
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Itsbackfliptime
Posts: 18901 - Karma: 75
if you hate it then quit.
Jun 1 2006 1:19AM
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J.Bass
Posts: 1642 - Karma: 24
if youve been wanting a state championship so bad you should be happy. that much hard work and dedication is the only thing that will make your team good enough to take state. also are you any good?
Jun 1 2006 1:24AM
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fugative1800
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you sound like a pussy
Jun 1 2006 1:52AM
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MattTweak
Posts: 234 - Karma: 10
sounds like he wants to have a FUN summer. i say if ur not one of the best players on the team quit. getting wasted, hanging w/ friends and doin what you want is a much better way to spend the summer in my opinion
Jun 1 2006 2:01AM
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Ghst
Posts: 5820 - Karma: 10
I would rather have a good time during my summer than work my ass off to win a football game, but I don't like sports
Jun 1 2006 2:06AM
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CalShralpGirl
Posts: 449 - Karma: 12
Don't do something that you'll hate, you'll just regret it. If football sounds that bad then don't do it, from the sound of it you'll have a lot more fun and make more money if you don't.
Jun 1 2006 2:07AM
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cab_D
Posts: 1602 - Karma: 51
yeah, flag it. Sounds like you play with a bunch of fuck heads anyway way.
Jun 1 2006 2:19AM
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Freestyla_01
Posts: 8586 - Karma: 34
Sports.
How fun.
Jun 1 2006 2:23AM
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mark_skis
Posts: 757 - Karma: 10
i was in the same situation with rugby last year man. I fucking hated the assholes on the team and the coaches and didn't feel like dealing with them for the whole summer. If you don't like the team, long hours, and dedication, then fuck dude...quit now. Summer is the best time to be yourself and learn alot about life. Don't let some gay-wad foosball players run your summer man, just do your own thing, make some cash, and enjoy yourself.
Jun 1 2006 3:24AM
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fappy
Posts: 2960 - Karma: 15
"all i did was party and get laid...i had my whole life ahead of me..."
Jun 1 2006 4:08AM
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tom_nz
Posts: 321 - Karma: 10
if u hate it then quit
Jun 1 2006 5:05AM
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pmills
Posts: 7162 - Karma: 59
you sound like you're being a little bitch


just to put it bluntly. but come on, you've made a dedication for 8 years or so you say; and your justificatoins are that now you odn't want to do the hard work for the play?


you know whats a better feeling that getting sloshed with your buds?????

walking out on to the field for your last competitive highschool game, winning and going on and doing it again and again through out states.

It's not garunteed you'll win, but still it sounds like you guys have a decent chance of making it somewhere in state finals, and each one of the games you play in states is your last; defently something special.


although a counterpoint to all this, if you have to ask a question like this maybe the team would do better off if you wern't on it anyways.
Jun 1 2006 5:17AM
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NFproductions
Posts: 1093 - Karma: 12
you can pretty much get drunk any time you want, but you're a senior playing for the championship only once. you make the call.
Jun 1 2006 5:58AM
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al_britskiier
Posts: 419 - Karma: 23
just quit it..it sounds crap
skiing is better!
Jun 1 2006 5:59AM
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kabozo101
Posts: 4429 - Karma: 20
quit because you'll have so much more time to have a lot more fun
Jun 1 2006 6:03AM
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TylerS
Posts: 2720 - Karma: 49
yeah im quitting football too. so quit. not worth it
Jun 1 2006 6:35AM
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AtomicTweaker
Posts: 2341 - Karma: 16
quit
Jun 1 2006 7:19AM
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ThisAngelicRage
Posts: 8681 - Karma: 54
i quit soccer because it was controling my life. now i'm an alcoholic and i have liver sorosis from my drinking habits. just don't quit trust me, you'll feel like a useless tool if you do, and it's going through all the shit you don't enjoy that makes the times you can go out with your friends and get sloppy so much fun. if you have no obligations partying, chilling, and doing nothing really productive gets old.
Jun 1 2006 7:50AM
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supervore
Posts: 613 - Karma: 10
If the only reason you want to quit is to chill and party more, don't. Even though you don't like your teammates, coach, and pretty much everything about football, I would just finish my career at that point. I mean, whats one more year, and that way when you look back, you can say, "I did that." I never partied until I finished my senior year of wrestling, and I have absolutely no regrets about all the partying I could've done.

Besides, college is where it is at for parties. Don't be in too much of a hurry to grow up...
Jun 1 2006 9:18AM
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CooksCorner
Posts: 3939 - Karma: 22
I understand you man but dont quit. This will probably be the last football you play in your life, booze and skiing arnt going anywhere.
Jun 1 2006 9:25AM
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ski_cartel
Posts: 6598 - Karma: 18
im with him, see it threw work and party when you can.....but finish strong
Jun 1 2006 11:32AM
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Ddrem
Posts: 894 - Karma: 10
why would you give up ur summer/job/ski season for 1 varsity letter ur senior year. ur not gonna play after senior year will you? so whats the point.

on the other hand, i have gone through the same stuff, and you have to finish out what you have started, for over 8 years. and you have to think about what is better for you, and not just easier and more fun
Jun 1 2006 11:37AM
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Von
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Right now im considering quiting running to, just becuase it makes me so tierd that i dont have energy to do much else. But this is my last year to run cross and i know that i just have to man up and stick it out. Just play and when your dirty drunk celebrating a state victory you'll be happier then you would be from just chillin all the time.
Jun 1 2006 11:51AM
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Timmy_G
Posts: 3735 - Karma: 15
It's a shame that they have to make shit so competetive. It isnt about gettin out there to just play. Its all about winning and shit.
Jun 1 2006 11:53AM
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Norred
Posts: 3520 - Karma: 13
Do you really hate football, or do you hate the fact that you'll have to spend your summer playing it? If you really hate it then quit. If you are just hoping to party all summer, you may regret it senior year when you're watching from the bleachers.
Jun 1 2006 11:53AM
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CKpolicy
Posts: 2587 - Karma: 2,463
the mentality of a skier and that of a state champion football player is usually pretty different, you seem to be more of the skier than the meathead, i would have been off that team the minute i heard summer practice.
Jun 1 2006 11:53AM
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J.Bass
Posts: 1642 - Karma: 24
you can really tell who the athletes are in this kind of thread. everyone who knows what they are talking about says not to quit, i'd listen to them.
Jun 1 2006 1:34PM
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Norred
Posts: 3520 - Karma: 13
Not all skiers are lazy.
Jun 1 2006 1:44PM
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JockinJLoads
Posts: 3480 - Karma: 6
dont waste one of the best summers of your life.....fuck that shit
Jun 1 2006 1:57PM
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ThisAngelicRage
Posts: 8681 - Karma: 54
yeah, and not all football players are meatheads.
Jun 1 2006 2:07PM
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PimpDaddySkier
Posts: 4221 - Karma: 20
i played football and it sucked so i quit and now im the badmitton state champ for ct
Jun 1 2006 2:10PM
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Mat.
Posts: 7167 - Karma: 94
I'd quit, having fun is where its at.
i hate all those SERIOUSSERIOUSSERIOSU pricks out there.
Jun 1 2006 2:12PM
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R-Bertsch
Posts: 4719 - Karma: 20
dude fuck that shit, make money this summer and have a better ski season...
Jun 1 2006 2:12PM
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eastAR5
Posts: 15084 - Karma: 730
If it was me, I would definatly quit. This is why i hate regular team sports , think about it everytime practice is canceled everyone is real happy, so why are they playing it then? I would be pissed if they shut down the mountain and i couldnt ski afterschool. if you dont enjoy it why waste your whole summer on it
Jun 1 2006 2:15PM
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Mr.Bob_Dobalina
Posts: 2442 - Karma: 36
From what it sounds like i would encourage you to stick with the football. As people said before, you will have many more summers, and much more time to ski. On top of that, think how rewarding it would be to walk onto that field for the championship game and win after you had trained for so long. I know its a great feeling, last year my schools football team made it to states, and i felt so proud to have put so much effort into it since july (this was early december) and have finally gotten this far.
Jun 1 2006 2:22PM
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R-Bertsch
Posts: 4719 - Karma: 20
More like....think about how pissed you're going to be when you dont make it past the first round of the tourney and you realize you could have had a fun summer working and partying instead of getting up at fucking 5 in the morning every day.
Jun 1 2006 2:28PM
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MitchPee
Posts: 8871 - Karma: 1,509
I can only think to myself...this is our youth. Look man, you need to realize that highschool sports ARE about winning. It's not youth where everyone gets to play evenly and all that shit. If you don't want to work hard don't play. It's as simple as that. Lifting at 6am every day isn't that bad. It's only a couple hours. I do that on my own, nevermind someone forcing me to do it. It's called work ethic...try to get one someday.
Jun 1 2006 2:36PM
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T*Ski
Posts: 759 - Karma: 33
you said you wanted a champianship, they dont just hand them out. this is probabley what all the previous state champs did.
Jun 1 2006 2:41PM
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nealpgards
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QUIT!
Jun 1 2006 2:51PM
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--Daniel--
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i think you should stick with it. i go through the same thing every spring when baseball season comes around. i always feel like i dont want to play and that i just want to hang out and party on the weekends, but i always chose baseball over partying. sports keep you active, and they are really fun.if you really like football you should stick with it, even if it's going to be intense and time consuming. if you dont, you will end up regretting not being a part of the team, especially if they go onto winning states, with you said you really want to do.
Jun 1 2006 3:09PM
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Jaskittin
Posts: 5606 - Karma: 195
Yeah I'm a pussy because I'm making a decision that makes my life MORE enjoyable. And if I would have put in all the time, I would have started. I have started the past 3 years. However, I'm not a jock, I hate being associated with them, and I hate playing with them.
Jun 2 2006 12:11AM
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Jaskittin
Posts: 5606 - Karma: 195
And by the way, I'm not quitting so that I can just chill all summer. I am going to work my ass off on the golf course and try to make the golf team. I want to do something, but I want it to be something that I truely enjoy. To all you guys calling me pussy's: Think about what you are saying. I quitting so I can WORK FULL TIME making 12 dollars an hour. I will make bank this summer and have the best winter of my life. I should hope that if you are on this site, you can relate to that. I dunno about you, but I live for the 9-4 powder days, 3 day football ones. I'm thinking long run here. I don't wanna play and then end up regreting it in the winter when I have no money.
Jun 2 2006 12:19AM
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mad_540_trix
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i hate it when our volleyball practices are cancelled, but that's mostly because this is my senior year, and i've only got a couple weeks left, and we only practice once a week because it's the off season. i love playing volleyball. then again, one of the reasons i enjoy it so much is because a whole bunch of my friends are also on the team, and we're pretty good so it's enjoyable to own all of next year's rookies.

i almost didn't play this year. i was going to get roughly 50% floortime and i knew it. but when i thought about all of the good times i had with the team off the court, and how much fun winning provincials was in 2003,i made the decision to stick with it. we came damn close to going to provincials again, and we would have stood a pretty good chance there because we're from the toughest division in the province. even though we didn't make it, i'm happy i stuck with it because i really enjoyed the time with the team.

stick with it, you'll regret it if you don't, even if some of the people on the team are people you don't really get along with. it was that way for me 2 years ago, and i know i would have regretted it if i quit.
Jun 2 2006 12:21AM
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fappy
Posts: 2960 - Karma: 15
word, but next time dont ask these dipshits to make the decision for ya. you knew what you wanted to do, shoulda ran with it in the first place.
Jun 2 2006 12:24AM
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Jaskittin
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I meant NOT the 3 a day football ones.
Jun 2 2006 12:27AM
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duhamelski
Posts: 3842 - Karma: 192
no way would i play. and why would you if you don't want to. you have no obligation to anyone, and if the coach wants to put you under that much stress, it is a green card to leave. do whatever you want, you have absolutely no obligation
Jun 2 2006 12:34AM
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pmills
Posts: 7162 - Karma: 59
"I want to be getting wasted with my buddies, hanging with my firlfriend and longboarding as much as possible."

change your story much??

but really it just sounds like you can't makea commitment to something that challenges you. But then again it sounds like the team would be better off with out you, so do what you want
Jun 2 2006 12:56AM
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slimbruddah
Posts: 2611 - Karma: 25
why would he make yo ulift every day? THat's the dumbest thing i ever heard. Your muscles will never grow.
Jun 2 2006 11:14AM
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C-Burg
Posts: 4729 - Karma: 130
you will loose man points if you quit
Jun 2 2006 11:21AM
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