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Arizona Republic: 4 years after nearly quitting football, Emari Demercado is savoring each moment

TopFrog

TopFrog

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4 years after nearly quitting football, Emari Demercado is savoring each moment​

Theo Mackie

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There’s a standard path to the NFL, shared by nearly every player who suits up on Sundays.

They dominated for their high school teams, earned dozens of scholarship offers and ended up at major college football powerhouses. By their second or third seasons, they were making an impression on scouts and paving the path to hear their names selected in the NFL draft. Reaching the league is always a dream come true, but for these players, it’s been ordained for nearly a decade.

Not Emari Demercado. It was only four years ago, midway through the 2021 season, that the Arizona Cardinals running back wondered whether football was really for him.

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TxFrog1999

TxFrog1999

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NORMLFROG said:
“Use the scholarship to get as many degrees as I can and then figure it out from there.”

IMO this quote s why he’s where he’s at right now. Thinking bigger than a patch of grass and having the foresight to get ready for the long game. His head is right with ball and he is succeeding because of it.

Much respect!
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It also highlights a growing problem for the sport in the current era. Many guys had this attitude through the decades knowing that either football isn't going to last forever or the next level was not a viable path, and making a college roster helped set them up for a lifetime of success. But the athletes coming in are starting to concern themselves more about payouts instead of scholarships; the once understandable pipe dream of making an NFL roster replaced with delusions. How much longer will schools be able to afford full scholarships for teams in addition to paying millions to a handful of athletes? How much longer will non-sports students, admins, and faculty sit quietly by as the majority of those enrolled have to pay while players get free education and a paycheck? Something is going to give for most programs—especially the smaller schools who don't have the budget to compete—and I fear it might be the scholarships.
 
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Wexahu

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TxFrog1999 said:
It also highlights a growing problem for the sport in the current era. Many guys had this attitude through the decades knowing that either football isn't going to last forever or the next level was not a viable path, and making a college roster helped set them up for a lifetime of success. But the athletes coming in are starting to concern themselves more about payouts instead of scholarships; the once understandable pipe dream of making an NFL roster replaced with delusions. How much longer will schools be able to afford full scholarships for teams in addition to paying millions to a handful of athletes? How much longer will non-sports students, admins, and faculty sit quietly by as the majority of those enrolled have to pay while players get free education and a paycheck? Something is going to give for most programs—especially the smaller schools who don't have the budget to compete—and I fear it might be the scholarships.
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I honestly have no idea why the vast majority of G5 schools even bother. I don't know exactly how DII works with regards to scholarship numbers, etc but maybe those programs as well. It costs a heck of a lot of money to operate and fund a 85-player football program, and even more to run it well, and those programs really have no chance of being anything other than fodder for the monied schools.
 
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Wexahu

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KillerFrog InD KitchenSink said:
One of my favorite Frogs. He's 9th all time in career rushing yards in the NFL by a TCU player, with the highest yards/carry of the top 15.

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As an aside, anyone ever heard of Skeet Quinlan or Bert Coan? Both look like they were at TCU briefly before transferring.
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LT had more yards than #2-8 combined. I would guess he dominates our career rushing leader chart unlike any other running back in college football does theirs.

Pretty incredible.
 
Spike

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Wexahu said:
I honestly have no idea why the vast majority of G5 schools even bother. I don't know exactly how DII works with regards to scholarship numbers, etc but maybe those programs as well. It costs a heck of a lot of money to operate and fund a 85-player football program, and even more to run it well, and those programs really have no chance of being anything other than fodder for the monied schools.
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Campus life. Community visibility. Alumni interaction. I doubt Texas Wesleyan makes a dime off football but it has been an integral part of their renaissance.
 
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Wexahu

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Spike said:
Campus life. Community visibility. Alumni interaction. I doubt Texas Wesleyan makes a dime off football but it has been an integral part of their renaissance.
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I guess so. I do think it’s different for the lower level schools, they aren’t trying to compete with P4 programs with 20x+ more money. It would make more sense for G5 schools to drop down a level IMO.
 
Spike

Spike

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Wexahu said:
I guess so. I do think it’s different for the lower level schools, they aren’t trying to compete with P4 programs with 20x+ more money. It would make more sense for G5 schools to drop down a level IMO.
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UT will probably pay sjFsu more to come job for them than the Spartans will draw for all their home games combined. It gets them on national TV and a selling point for the athletes, maybe you couldn't play for UT but you can play against them.
 
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FROGLEGHOP

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KillerFrog InD KitchenSink said:
One of my favorite Frogs. He's 9th all time in career rushing yards in the NFL by a TCU player, with the highest yards/carry of the top 15.

View attachment 17893

www.pro-football-reference.com

TCU Alumni Pro Stats | Pro-Football-Reference.com

TCU Alumni Pro Stats
www.pro-football-reference.com www.pro-football-reference.com

As an aside, anyone ever heard of Skeet Quinlan or Bert Coan? Both look like they were at TCU briefly before transferring.
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Bert Coan is kind of an interesting story. TCU and KU had a stretch where they played the first game of the year against each other in the 1950s. Coan played at least one year at TCU. Then KU recruited him away. I think it PO'ed Abe Martin(?) so much that he terminated the series between TCU and KU. There were also some disputes related to Coan while he was at KU, especially about a game that involved Mizzou. This was probably in the early 60's. Coan played in the NFL, mostly for the Chiefs as a running back.
 
ShadowFrog

ShadowFrog

Overachieving Frog Hero
NORMLFROG said:
“Use the scholarship to get as many degrees as I can and then figure it out from there.”

IMO this quote is why he’s where he’s at right now. Thinking bigger than a patch of grass and having the foresight to get ready for the long game. His head is right with ball and he is succeeding because of it.

Much respect!
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100% Concur—get him all the purple swag he wants & a limo from DFW to practice Any time he is available. Throw in a good highlights reel on the JumboTron & music when enters from ACS tunnel. THIS is exactly the success story sold to all team-mates, prospective recruits and their FAMILIES. Good athletes & play the game well—great. Keeping your head focused, go to class & graduate—even better for your future & family.
 
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Rabidfrog

Active Member
FROGLEGHOP said:
Bert Coan is kind of an interesting story. TCU and KU had a stretch where they played the first game of the year against each other in the 1950s. Coan played at least one year at TCU. Then KU recruited him away. I think it PO'ed Abe Martin(?) so much that he terminated the series between TCU and KU. There were also some disputes related to Coan while he was at KU, especially about a game that involved Mizzou. This was probably in the early 60's. Coan played in the NFL, mostly for the Chiefs as a running back.
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Coan's mother lived two doors down from my fam in Pasadena. Never got the straight skinny from them about the deal with TCU.
 

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