Senior wide receiver Derek Williams has quit the football team following Thursday's 33-27 loss to Norfolk State. Williams became the second senior to quit this month following the exit of former starting QB Albert Chester, II.Head football coach Rubin Carter had the following to say about Williams exit, “It was a personal decision. I support him and his decision. I just want to help him with what he is going through emotionally. I wish him the best. I hope he goes on to complete his degree.”
Williams, who started against Norfolk State, dropped a potential game winning touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and stormed off the field following the play and threw his helmet to the ground. According to several players on the team, Williams then refused to go back in the game when the offense took the field again.
“Football is a mentally tough game,” Carter said. “It is probably more mental than it is physical.”
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These quiters should be invoiced for the unused portion of their scholarships!
ReplyDeleteThere is a problem within the program. Players just don't up and quit. I'm just sayin.
ReplyDeleteThere are no problems within the football program. These two quitters felt that they deserved certain entitlements because of their family connections to FAMU. Read Coach Carter's quote very carefully and note "mentally" & "emotional". Both of these quitters are experiencing emotional problems that have nothing to do with football. I know.
ReplyDeleteCarter is the only one who needs to quit. He is completely incompetent. He needs to throw in the "Towel" and save himself the embarrassment. The Alumni has called for his "Resignation". He is one of Cassie Boys. Goodbye!
ReplyDeleteAnytime you are in a rebuilding process and you have a new coach, the older players are going to feel (and many times a correct feeling) as though the coach doesn't care about them, especially when you are losing. A coach would rather lose with his players than with yours. I think that is a part of why these two guys quite the team, they feel that they are coach Joe's boys and that coach Carter is giving the younger guys more attention and possibly more respect than he is giving them. I feel that things will be better in the future, especially with a full allotment of scholarships and maybe even defensive coordinator. IMO, it’s not the coaches and the players that feel as though they have nothing else to play for because there will be no next season for the.
ReplyDeleteThis is a clear lack of character.
ReplyDeleteYou don't walk out on your team.
It looks VERY BAD on a resume.
What is the coach's role here? The MAIN role of the football coach is to instill character into these young men. This is the second example of a failure in that regard.
I say that if the players will not (choose not to) endure the discipline, trials and heartaches of competitive sports, then we at FAMU have no hope to offer them.
We cannot rescue those who do not wish to be rescued (from the hood/ghetto).
Our energies should be focused on those that WANT out and are willing to pay the price to make a better life for themselves. We cannot force a kid to take advantage of the incredible opportunities that FAMU offers for them and their future families.
No matter how bad a team is, you DO NOT quit. Carter didn't recruit these two young men. It is a shame to see this happen at FAMU. I don't know how those two can walk around campus when they know they abandoned their teammates.
ReplyDeleteGive me a break I remember when a TRUE LEADER at FAMU Quit his post to bring attention to the awful leadership of the then President and this person was so respected that it brought about immediate attention to the lack of leadership at the University. So these two young men may have taken a stand that most do not know or understand, that does not deminish the fact that they have taken a stand.
ReplyDeleteOr then again they may be just quitters. in which case by the mere fact that we are in America and they are Americans then that is their right!
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ReplyDeleteNeither of these men are from the hood or ghetto. They have enjoyed middle class Jack and Jill type lives. Their families will be fine so they don't have to rescue them from the horrible hood/ghetto life that only being on the FAMU football team can rescue "our" people from. I am sure, however, that you used that phrase as a metaphor.
At least Derrick handed in his resignation in person and not via the news media.
No you didn't pull the Jack and Jill card out on Derrick.
ReplyDeleteBut you are right, those two young men will be alright
What is Williams' "family connection"? Who are his peeps?
ReplyDeleteboth of these kids are spoiled brats. they thought they were at Burger King and could have it their way, and when they knew that they couldn't they decided to walk. They think they're grand, but really, they're just sorry as hell and spoiled, rotten kids. No matter how bad it gets, it they didn't think the game was "all about them," they would've stayed and toughed it out. You just don't abandon your team. They just thought they were above all of the other guys on the team, that's all. I say good, goddamn riddance.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThere are no problems within the football program.
What? You can't be serious....
I can name three problems off the top of my head:
Carter
Cole
Huff
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteIt looks VERY BAD on a resume.
So let's say he's a CIS major. Do you think he will have to put that he quit the football on his resume? Chile please, I don't think a prospective employer is going to be concerned about his extra curricular activities while he was in college!
11:44, I hear you. I, too, read the resume comment. Common sense will tell the poster (who made the comment) that that child is not going to even "be" thinking about including football-playing on his resume. For all kinds of reasons, he ain' putting that on his vita. I, too, say, "chile, please."
ReplyDeleteBeing a quitter is a character flaw that will not bode will with a future employer. Do you honestly think that by leaving this off the resume that it is going to be as if it never happened?
ReplyDeleteI am an employer... I am not stupid...I can read the news and do a google search ... so "chile please" right back at you.
9:09:
ReplyDeleteGet a grip. I work for A Fortune 500 company, and I am a FAMU grad. Doing a google search and finding out someone quit a football team.
CHILE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Chile please,
ReplyDeleteIf an employer is interested in you beyond the 2nd interview, you better believe that they are going to look for you on google, myspace, facebook, and anywhere else they can find you.
Chile please, I wouldn't hire a quitter and I wouldn't hire anyone with a vulgar myspace/facebook page. If your personal online content is public, you better clean it up before you come to my interview. When I hire you, you represent my company 24/7. I may not like what you are representing.
Chile please, you are representing FAMU 24/7 now - even on this blog. Represent well my brother. Represent well.
if a kid wants to leave his football-playing time off his resume, but the employer is still interested in his smarts and does a search, a reputable employer is not going to give up a prospective money-making employee because he left the football team. if the kid's smart, he's got that excuse covered way before he even steps in the door and/or even seek that job. do you think for one second that a propspective employer is going to not hire Al Chester with his Pharm degree because he quit playing football??? chile, please.
ReplyDelete9:09--playing football is an extra curricular "activity." I would much rather hire someone who is smart, interested in their career and has the common sense to pay attention to their health concerns and issues than whether or not they were an athlete, unless, of course, they are seeking an athletic-type job. Employees can do a google search, look at MySpace, YourSpace and your Mother'sSpace, for all I care. Intellect & good, common sense will always rule over whether or not someone "finds out" that you played a sport and decided to end it. Please.
ReplyDeleteBack to the topic: Quitter.
ReplyDeleteD. Williams was not as good as he bragged to be. He thought he was going to be this year's Rosevelt Kiser, but he didn't have half of Kiser's talent. It showed on the field by the number of passes he dropped in every football game. He will not be missed at all. That dropped pass against NSU hurt his pride and exposed him as the mediocre player that he has been all along.
Hopefully Chester's & Williams scholarship will be revoked by Coach Carter. Give it to some players that really want to be Rattlers. Chester & D. Williams are quitters and should transfer to another college to get their degree.
chile please,
ReplyDeleteIf you are smart but have no character, I don't want you.
I would rather have someone not so smart that has some integrity.
That fancy FAMU degree only gets you to the interview. It does not secure your future. In the end, only your character matters.
STOP INSULTING THE PLAYERS AND QUESTIONING THE INTEGRITY OF THE PARENTS!!!!! THEY ARE SOME PEOPLE TOO.. AND RESPECT THEM..... THIS IS REALLY GETTING OUT OF HAND WITH THE INSULTS...
ReplyDeleteREALLY!!! IF YOU REALLY DON’T KNOW WHAT GOES ON DOWN THERE AND YOU WOULD RATTLER THE KIDS/PLAYERS HAVE A BREAKDOWN THAN RATHER STAND UP FOR THEMSELVES BECAUSE NO ONE NO ONE NO ONE IS LISTENING TO THEM SO THEY HAVE TO DO THE NEXT BEST THING AND THAT WALK AWAY FROM IT BEFORE IT KILLS THEM.
WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE AN ADULT TO GO TO WITHIN THE FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF THEN YOU TEND TO ACT LIKE A CHILD WITHOUT DIRECTION....
YOU PEOPLE WHO INSULTING THEM ARE NO BETTER THAN THE ONES THAT WERE LEFT IN CHARGE OF THESE PLAYERS THAT THE PARENTS ENTRUSTED TO CARE FOR THEIR CHILDREN WHILE THEY ARE HERE SO YOU ACT JUST LIKE THE LEADERS BUT YOU WOULD RATHER INSULT THE PLAYER.
THE BOTTOM LINE IS CARTER AND HIS COACHING STAFF NEED TO QUIT THEY NEED TO GO NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE LOOSING ALL THE GAMES THIS YEAR WHICH IS A DISGRACE, STOP MAKING THESE BOYS LOOK LIKE SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THEM WALKING OUT BEFORE THEY HAVE A TERMINAL ISSUES.
THIS IS COACH CARTER’S EVALUATION YEAR AND HE DOES NOT NEED AN EXTENDED CONTRACT WE WILL NOT!!!!! OWE HIM ANYTHING HE NEEDS TO GO THE DAY AFTER THE ORLANDO CLASSIC 2007. HE AND HIS ENTIRE FOOTBALL PROGRAM COACHING STAFF THIS IS &^^$#& (*^^*
You are making them feel like they should just take the torture and BS from Coach Carter and the Coaching Staff and letting them know it’s okay and he is just sitting back having a laugh because you all who insult the players are letting him know it’s okay for him to do that…..
Obviously, many of us are not actually on the side lines at the games, or in the locker room before during and after games. We can only hear so much on the fence at practice. Now, let’s be honest, is Carter and his staff "abusing" his players more than lets say a Mickey Andrews does at FSU (and you see that every weekend when a players makes one mistake). There is no doubt that these two young men had issues with Carter, but I still largely think that it had more to do with the way the season is going and the direction that Carter is choosing to take the team. I think it would be more of an issue if you had freshman and sophomores leaving the team (as they were at Notre Dame) than having two 5th seniors leave. Just my two cents.
ReplyDeleteChester and Williams quit the team because they both are failures. Their quitting had nothing to do with Coach Carter's abuse. They both were mediocre players and shouldn't have been on scholarship in the first place. There parents didn't help the situation at all. These two players demonstrated that they are not team players, have no heart, and are poor excuses for Rattlers.
ReplyDelete7:07--I don't understand the logic of your last statement. Can you explain whay Chester & Williams should transfer to another school and finish their degrees? Are you saying that C&W should transfer because they quit playing footB?? I thought each student--as well as every student at the university--was there to get a degree, NOT to play sports, which is secondary. Give me some logistics on this one here.
ReplyDeletechile, please: if they don't HAVE the degree, they most likely won't even get a chance to get IN the interview. character or no character. character may help them once they get the job, but the degree is what a degree gets them IN the door. In The First Place. chile, please.
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ReplyDeleteBeing a quitter is a character flaw that will not bode will with a future employer. Do you honestly think that by leaving this off the resume that it is going to be as if it never happened?
I am an employer... I am not stupid...I can read the news and do a google search ... so "chile please" right back at you.
10/23/2007 9:09 AM
I'm glad you are reading the news paper, however, how many employers outside of Tallahassee and the FAMU family will read the same articles that are publized in the Democrap or the online Democrap? If he's applying for a job in Seattle, what is the liklihood that a prospective employer is going to say " hey, you're the kid that quit the football team at Florida A & M."
ROFL...how about as much as Bush will end the war in Iraq... lol
I love how ya'll have taken my Chile please and ran with it. I love my FAMU Family.... ROFL
ReplyDelete...but what I really want to know is are we gonna win anymore games this year?
ReplyDeleteI heard that Derek Williams has a serious drinking problem. He obviously was intoxicated on the field and thought he saw two footballs coming at him. Chester was more of a factor in our offense than Williams. Williams won't be missed at all.
ReplyDelete11:52--"...run with it," not "ran with it." "Run" is an irregular verb--a verb that does not form its past tense by adding
ReplyDelete"e-d"but forms its past tense in another "irregular" way--a whole new construction: run. "Ran" does not require an auxiliary (helping verb: have, had, etc.), but run (as in ...have or had run) does. Thus, the correct usage is "have run," not "have...ran." See, bloggers are about more than just talking about football. That's your grammatical lesson for today.
Bring Back Billy!
ReplyDeleteBBB!
Word on the street is, Albert Chester, Sr. wants to be FAMU's next AD...HELL TO THE NAW! THAT WOULD BE STUPID AS HELL!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely time for Nelson Townsend and his entourage to GO! Carter and company, brought here by the Corbin and Cast-Hell regime, should start pondering what they'll be doing next year also.
ReplyDeletecheck this out:
ReplyDeletehttp://thatvideosite.com/video/4966
I wonder if this player quit?