The behavioral problems that black athletes and black men in general have are mostly due to the lack of a positive male influence in the household growing up.
Scholarships used to be provided because of a players respect education as well as their ability to play the sports. Today they are provided to gangsters for their ability to make the schools and NCAA money. Today there are thousands of NCAA supervised students Who go four years of college. Being unable to read and write.
Sad thing was academically he was very smart book wise. No excuse but he had a rough upbringing. And was so big early on most were afraid of him. He lived house to house with whoever could take him. He lived with a lady my brother worked with back then and said he was so nice BUT he also knew he was so big he could act out and everyone be afraid of him. Just had no Clue how to account for anything. Never really had too.
Thank you SO much for making this video and giving him the respect Hass deserves. He was an extremely special player and incredibly fun to watch. I have never in my life seen a receiver who could catch balls the way he did. I don’t even know how to explain it. I’d love to see catches/targets stats, because if the ball was thrown to him, HE CAUGHT THemE fuggin ball , every god damn time. Passes that he had no business catching, he would SOMEHOW pull that shit down. He was absolutely electrifying to watch.
The biggest thing people don’t realize in cases like these is that if they liked the player they’d find a way to get them through it & escape trouble. Stuff like this only happens to guys they don’t like. It can also be the case where they’re grossly overpaid & they begin to dislike them because they refuse to negotiate a new deal. A high school teammate of mine was a borderline all pro player in the NFL for 12 years. He got into trouble bc of weed several times but it was always swept under the rug.
He was a known problem in high school. Some schools wouldn’t recruit him, but elite athletes are always covered for thru college. Once they get in the real world it shows up fast.
Once a thug, always a thug. He's a drug addled loser. It doesn't matter where he grew up. He grew up in Decatur in a bad area of town, was adopted by a loving, Christian family, was coach by a loving, Christian coach, and still refused everything that was extended to him. I know him. My eldest son played HS football with him. I watched him. Horrible attitude all the time. Physically dominant, spiritually completely deficient. Pray for his spirit. Also pray he stays far away from wherever I am in Decatur.
Dude lives in my hometown. Decatur is not a gang infested, tough street town. It's a regular town with some bad areas. Everyone knew Rolando was going to be a stud at the next level. I love coach Adcock to death, but his worst mistake was to let Rolando play with an ankle bracelet. And it was the Schusters who housed him when he had problems. Not sure where you got your info from. He got arrested again in Decatur after "retiring" from the Raiders. He's a low life thug, has nothing to do with the city he came from, has everything to do with the family he came from, despite the loving, Christian help he was given. He's a hateful, sinful, prideful, overly physically gifted human. I still see him in restaurants around town. He's a physical monster, but a person completely devoid of any morality.
I'm from Decatur and went to the same school as Rolando. I hate that his career went like this. I remember when he kept getting into trouble in Decatur and wondered why he wouldn't just stay out of the city or just lay low when he went back home. Seems like he acted like he had something to prove but everybody knew who he was so he actually didn't...and providing a fake id is just stupid. You are a football star that played for Alabama, got drafted in the top 10...everybody in your hometown including the Cops know who you are. I hope he has learned to control his anger at this point in his life and hope he is doing well
We got Jerraud Powers, BB Perrins, Reddy Steward, (whom I coached), Taye Biddle, Tae Hayes, Bobby Freeman, etc., etc. We don't need thugs like Rolando to judge our city.
He was drafted by the Raiders. With as dysfunctional as they have been over the past 40+ years even players who previously lived under the best of circumstances have struggled. Look at their history of blown high draft picks. If McClain was drafted by the Steelers, Ravens, Patriots, etc…he might have been a Hall of Famer.
I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head, like his rap sheet has got to be one of most unimpressive, completely asinine and totally preventable rap sheets I've ever seen in any of these "What If" situations. To even label this guy a villain or even a bad apple akin to Maurice Clarett/Laurence Philips is a huge stretch. His stupidity and lack of situational awareness places him in the Johnny manziel tier if I'm being honest. Smh what a friggin waste.
From Rolando’s hometown. Some very rough parts of Decatur. It’s called the armpit of north Alabama for a reason. Think Nick was the authority figure he needed. When he went to the pros that was gone. Really was rooting for him when he was with the cowboys just couldn’t stay out of trouble.
He is white playig in what is a black position. I am not saying this blindly, I was a HS FB coach for 15 years. I have seen it happen over and over. Football goes like this, If two athletes are identical in talent but one is white and the other is black, the black kid will be picked 100% of the time. It's just how it is.
Im not tryna make no excuse for this man but, finding out that yo momma got bipolar dissorder and threatned you with a knife.....Nick lucky all he said was stfu🤣🤣🤣
You misspoke. The 2014 Cowboys didn't make the "NFL Championship". They lost in the divisional round. They haven't even made a NFC Championship since 1995 ( they went on to beat the Steelers for the Superbowl that year.)
Sounds like he needed serious mental health therapy earlier in his life. Genetically his mother having bipolar issues, issues with authority and no stable environment just carried all those problems on for years only growing deeper over time. I hope he gets the help he needs as an adult at some point.
He should've stayed outta Decatur. I'm from across the bridge (Huntsville). I saw nothing but a lot of trouble for most of my young life hanging in Decatur. Fights, shootouts at the Pines, more fights, and police issues....that's all that Decatur had to offer.
To me Cooper Kupp is the perfected style of what Haas was, he just got lucky that the rams gave him a chance. So many teams in the NFL back in the mid 2000s missed out on great players by being so stuck in old ways of thinking
I hate when people use their upbringing and the environment they grew up in as an excuse for their terrible decisions in life. For every person who goes down the wrong path when enduring those conditions, there's a person who makes the proper decisions to be on the right path. Does those conditions make it much harder to make it out? Absolutely, but doesn't make it impossible. They have an excuse on deck everytime it gets tough. There's been an infinite amount of people who made it out of terrible environments. You just have to refuse to let those obstacles define who you are.
I’m not sure how I stumbled across this video but I played at Louisville that season had tore my ACL I’m actually in the video jumping for hot rod when he got the pick against FSU. That’s crazy lol s/o to you for doing this piece on my Brudda 🤞🏾
I saw the ACC helmet and I thought you gonna talk about 2011' David Amerson at NC State. But he was 1 shy from the record with 13. He had 18 int. in 2 seasons with the Wolfpack. Absolutely insane!!
