Honest question. Outside of trash talking, what has Mayfield done that makes him a POS?
2013
After not being offered a scholarship by any school (more on that later), he walked on at Tech and went 5-0 before being injured for a few games.
At the end of his first year in Lubbock he claimed Kingsbury was neglecting him and refusing to play him. He also claimed Kingsbury wasn’t going to give him a scholarship to start the spring semester. This if the first sign of his diva ness, and Kingsbury denies these things and says they would have given him a scholarship starting in the spring semester. He ended up leaving before a scholarship would have been given (more on this later). Needless to say he leaves bad blood on Lubbock who are glad to see him gone.
As Mayfield was trying to leave he ran into the Big 12 rule that in addition to missing a year for transfer, if a transfer occurs within the league a second year is added on. Thus he would only be available to play in 2015 and 2016, or sit out 2 years and play 2016 and 2017. Not to mention Kingsbury was hurt by the accusations Mayfield was making about them so refused to sign off on his transfer to OU. Kingsbury eventually relented and signed off on the transfer.
2014
TCU defeated OU 37-32 (I believe). After the game, GP was asked about half-time adjustments and said they had to change all their defensive hand signals because the discovered Mayfield was on the sideline, stealing them and transcribing them. After changing the signals OU was pretty well corralled the second half.
Later when Tech and OU played, Mayfield accused a Lubbock restaurant of kicking him out for no good reason, he was just sitting there having dinner.
2015
In the lead to the TCU OU game, GP’s comments were brought up about stealing signals, Mayfield deflected and said bad things about GP. During the game Mayfield was hit questionable late and taken out for the second half. As TCU was depleted by injuries, this was the help TCU needed to come back and almost claim victory, but GP called a questionable 2pt conversion attempt that fell flat. OU won 31-30.
In the lead up to OU playing #1 Clemson, Baker accused TCU of stringing him along and preventing him from receiving any other scholarship offers during his recruitment. GP responded by saying he liked Baker, but it was Baker and his father’s attitude that prevented TCU, Tech, and 128 other schools from wanting him as their QB enough to hand out a scholarship.
2016
During the summer the league decides to amend its rules, around June I think, to allow in conference rivals to be waived a second year of sitting out if that player was a walk-on with no scholarship. While Mayfield was technically a walk-on, Kingsbury claims he would have been given scholarship if he had stayed. However the Big12 claimed since the technically never was, they’d waive it and allow him to play in 2017. Of course the rest of the Big12 was pissed by the rule change that affected only one player on one team.
Later in August ESPN puts out an article on Mayfield rehashing his beef with TCU, with his father included saying TCU had harmed his son.
IDK what happened between the rest of the teams and Mayfield, but when TCU played OU Patterson was very frustrated by the officiating in the 52-46 loss (or whatever it was). Patterson stated that he’s forbidden by the league to say bad things about officials, but the opposing QB can write an entire article saying how bad of a person he is.
2017
Where to start
Ohio State flag plant
Calling Baylor his daddy
His general douchebaggery in every game this season, especially during pre-game warmups when there’s not cameras catching everything.
Taunting Kansas fans and players multiple times with obscenities. His punishment was to miss the first drive and be removed as a captain. This was completely negated by the fact that Lincoln Riley either knowingly or unknowingly allowed Mayfield’s teammates to dramatically bring his jersey out to the pregame coin toss. Again, how was this a punishment in anyway. I really don’t think Riley has command of his locker room.
Running up the score on overmatched teams.
Hitting a TCU player in the head with a football during pregame warmups so hard that the ball flys like 20-30 yards away and the player ends up having head issues that keeps him our a few games. Mayfield is so glad by his sportsmanship that he walks up to the TCU team as they run onto their side of the field that he taunts them as they go past. It should be pointed out that TCU had to run through that area, OU was in the way of them getting to their sideline. Mayfield was not punished at all for this.