College recruiting

By SickandTired

November 18, 2008 8:01 AM | Link to this

Wow, that’s a good school I know someone who went there. Looks like Duke lost a good one, but he can work on the Duke grads choppers for them in a few years.

By WTF?

November 18, 2008 1:18 PM | Link to this

This kid is a grade A MORON.

By Obubba

November 19, 2008 8:43 AM | Link to this

Just imagine how impressed he must have been with the colleges who offered him a scholarship if he turned them down to go to a motorcycle repair school. Now I’ve heard it all.

By josh elizondo

November 24, 2008 11:47 AM | Link to this

There is more to the story. Who ever called me a gade a moran doesn’t know the whole story so they should probably keep there mouth shut. I Never liked football. But dont get me wrong there were times when it was fun. At naples football isnt a sport its a job. Kinda like a zero-fun policy. They take it way too serious.

By josh elizondo

November 24, 2008 11:52 AM | Link to this

my mother was against the whole thing thats probably because since I was little i’ve had the pressure from her to go to the NFL. Which statictically is not likely. If i played ball in college i was still going to go to MMI which is one of the best mechanic schools for motorcycle in the country. I have a passion for building and repairing stuff.

By davil

November 25, 2008 2:24 AM | Link to this

If that’s your passion, make the command decision and stand by it. Along with motorcycle mechanics, learn how to paint them and all the business aspects to that career. Painting motorcycles was in high demand. If you want to have fun with football again, coach 8 year olds down the road. I for one respect your decision.

By Pi$$onaDawg

November 25, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

Young man do what is best for YOU. I loved the GAME but hated the over the top coaches that were looking to get ahead on my back. If BIKES are your thing you can be as great as you want to be with that as a Business. Many people on the blogs can’t understand because we didn’t have the size, speed, or talent to go to college and play ball. We can’t understand how you could turn it down. We would kill for the chance to play, but that is not YOU and that is ok. Don’t read this crap anymore and just be happy in your own skin.

By Almost_somewhere

November 25, 2008 10:23 AM | Link to this

I think that is a great choice, MMI is THE top school in the country for Motorcycle Techs. There are so many people in the world that have high paying jobs but are absolutely miserable with their life and wonder where they wasted it all. They just never had to guts to follow their heart and stop pleasing other people. You only live once. Good for you for following YOUR dreams and doing what makes YOU happy while you are young. Anything you pursue with love and passion will make you successful. Good luck.

By Almost_somewhere

November 25, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this

I think that is a great choice, MMI is THE top school in the country for Motorcycle Techs. There are so many people in the world that have high paying jobs but are absolutely miserable with their life and wonder where they wasted it all. They just never had to guts to follow their heart and stop pleasing other people. You only live once. Good for you for following YOUR dreams and doing what makes YOU happy while you are young. Anything you pursue with love and passion will make you successful. Good luck.

By GTville

November 25, 2008 11:05 AM | Link to this

Good for you Josh. The meaning of life is to be happy and only you can decide what will make you happy.

It is definitely not about money although money sure is nice. Some of the comments above seem to think you can’t make a lot of money and be successful repairing Duke grads motorcycles, but you can. The most successful ($$$) people I know did not go to college, they started businesses instead. Take the chance and go with it.

By huh

November 25, 2008 11:11 AM | Link to this

What a year this is shaping up to be for MMI. Elizondo’s commitment adds to an already sterling recruiting class that includes four five-star engine tuners and a four-star oil changer. MMI’s 2009 class now ranks #1 in the transportation trade school division and could help them finally end their 12-year losing streak to arch-rival Motorbike Tech. Georgia has also approached MMI about scheduling a game in 2012.

By Joe Hansel

November 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Link to this

I had a friend whose son was a starting OT for AU in the mid ’80s. Pro scouts told my brother inlaw that if he finishes the year healthy he would be no doubt a first round pick. During fall camp before his senoir year, he told Dye where he could put a football. Walked out of AU, went to work for a landscape service ans as far as I know has been happy as a pig in poopy ever since.

By Mojo Mist

November 25, 2008 1:44 PM | Link to this

I realize and understand that kids get burnt out but there’s a bigger thing at play here. I have no problem with this kid deciding to not play college ball. That’s fine and it happens to many. There’s more to life than football. But for someone of his talent to quit on himself, his teammates, and his coaches during the season, that’s what I see as the problem. It would have been better to have finished out and then walk away.

By GT2002

November 25, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this

Favoritism, politics and money IS SW Florida. I lived there for a year in Naples, and it was all I could stomach.

By BravesFan79

November 25, 2008 2:41 PM | Link to this

Goodluck man

By Phildo

November 25, 2008 7:32 PM | Link to this

Give Josh a year. Then, he will sign with USF or Arkansas, and no one will question how he got his new Escalade. (Oh, well, uh, I traded my chopper for it.)

By dawgthabootyhunter

November 25, 2008 7:42 PM | Link to this

Good luck Josh, on your future endeavors.

By Bubba

November 25, 2008 8:59 PM | Link to this

I can understand his decision. Having a choice of a scholarship at COOT U and paying to go to Motor Cycle Mechanics School is a no brainer…The Motor Cycle School is a far better choice than the school with no campus and a stadium in the State Farmers Market!!

By Najeh Davenpoop

November 25, 2008 9:06 PM | Link to this

If you’re not passionate about doing something, you shouldn’t do it — not only because you cheat yourself out of doing what you really want to do, but because you’re occupying a spot someone else might actually want. Good decision.