[Colofornian]

Athletes aren’t paid to be role models, they’re paid to compete in their sports.

Purposes exist in life (job descriptions including)...and then there are by products (role modeling)

If you were right, Collins of LSU would have gone in the first or second rounds of the draft.

If Collins' on the field ability was all that mattered, then he'd probably not be a Cowboy today.

[discostu]

Collins pulled himself from the draft because all parties recognized there’d be a lot of negative noise with him on the draft board. But that’s publicity, not being a role model.

It would be nice if athletes were role models. But this is reality, and out here in reality they haven’t been since at least Babe Ruth. And any parent who finds their kids getting role models from sports needs to seriously question the situation at home.