It’s none other than Terence Moore, in a column that’s as stupidly cynical as it is utterly predictable.
Message to Brock Bowers: Forget the Titans, and forget the Alamo, and forget the time (as in Michael Jackson).
Remember Jaylon Smith.
So, Brock. Regarding the Titans, the Alamo, the time and the memory of Smith watching NFL dollars fly away quicker than a flash, Google if you don’t understand those references.The same goes for anybody else you encounter who refuses to believe you should wave goodbye to your Georgia teammates, coaches and fans.
You should tell everybody in Athens, Georgia it was swell spending your freshman and sophomore years leading the Bulldogs in receptions while helping them grab consecutive national championships through this past January. You should tell them you know if you stick around a tad longer to pat the head of UGA, Georgia’s live bulldog mascot, you could become only the third tight end ever to win the Heisman Trophy and the first since Notre Dame’s Leon Hart in 1949.
You also should tell them you know Georgia’s chances of sprinting from 7-0 right now to a three-peat winner of the College Football Playoff (CFP) improve if you decide to leave the heavy lifting of your rehabilitation to bring your clutch ways back to the Bulldogs before either the SEC Championship Game in December or the CFP afterward.
Terence is just trying to help, Brock. He only has your best interests at heart.
The thing I don’t get about suggestions like this is why only offer them to stars who get hurt mid-season. Shouldn’t Caleb Williams take a powder now and leave his USC teammates in the dust? What about Marvin Harrison, Jr.? For that matter, shouldn’t Bowers have announced his retirement from college football right after the Auburn game? It’s not like any of these guys have anything left to prove to insure their draft stock.
This is not meant as criticism of players who decide not to suit up for a meaningless bowl game and risk injury that might affect their draft status. That’s an entirely different cost/benefit analysis there. But to tell a kid who’s obviously a competitor first and foremost to walk away from a host of potential accolades, both personal and for his team, and place himself in a bubble until he hears Goodell call his name on draft night because there’s a chance he might be seriously injured is… well, entirely understandable if your agenda is hoping for the worst for Georgia football.
Like I said, cynical and predictable.
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Typical bullshit by Moore. Do they pay him to write this crap.
Brock should do what he wants to do.
Like the line in the movie,” Get busy living or get busy dying”.
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Clarence just needs to shut his cock holster.
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If Bowers needs advice he’d be better off talking to someone who has experienced similar circumstances such as George Pickens. Not some asshole on the backside of a shitty career with limited retirement opportunities.
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It’s hard to be wrong as often as Terence Moore. He’s made a career of it along with self serving takes.
He’s a yankee who may have moved back. He still hasn’t gone away.
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Yep. Nothing has changed. The dude always came across as pompous. Do not remember him as exactly being positive when it came to the Dawgs.
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…pat UGA on the head…. The hate. Let it flow. Good.
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Look I’m the biggest proponent of student athletes looking after their best interests as aggressively as possible, but this isn’t just a cynical take it’s stupid.
Senator summed it up best by saying if you take this argument to it’s logical end, nobody who has a first round draft status locked up should play regardless of if they are or are not recovering from an injury.
If bowers is fully recovered and Georgia is playing in in the seccg with a playoff berth on the line why wouldn’t he want a chance at college football immortality
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#19 hanging in the group associated with “The Rock” is good career advice and direction at this point in time, what ever 500 word B.S. this asswipe had to spew out for print dead line, there exists not enough time to sort out and or guess WTF is his mind set…GO DAWGS!!
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For a person that writes about sports, Moore doesn’t have a clue what makes a great athlete tick.
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GREAT article about what makes sportsman tick: https://www.si.com/longform/cotton-bowl/index.html#full
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Terrance Moore? I assumed he died a long time ago. Next thing you’ll be telling me is that Beau Bock is still kicking as well.
I remember guys like those from my youth in the 80’s/early 90’s, and they seemed old to me back then. Same for certain local TV personalities I liked (namely from 11Alive, as that’s what my parents watched, and we only had one TV). Johnny Beckman, Joe Washington, John Pruitt, Hal Sharpe, etc. Joe and Hal were favs or mine – I loved Hal’s folksy humor as a kid, and Joe just seemed like a cook dude to me.
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At least Beau Bock had som endearing qualities as a beta era sports media personality. Moore’s contrarian sermonizing has always been more akin to the bowtie sports opinions of the NYT.
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Don’t know if Bock is still alive. If he is I’ll guarantee you’ll find him in one of the east Cobb bars this afternoon. Talked with him at a New Year’s Eve party a few years back. He’s not a bad guy.
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Guy Sharpe?
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Ah! Yep, Guy Sharpe.
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Beau Bock, that’s a name from the past. Beau Bock would often say Jerry Glanville was a great head coach and Vince Dooley wasn’t a good coach. That is what I always think of when I hear or read his name.
He didn’t like Dooley because Dooley’s late game decisions in winning games did not take the point spread in account. I don’t recall the team we beat but the spread was 2 and a half and he took a knee and ran out the clock up 1 rather than kick a gimme field goal. Bock ranted about Dooley not looking out for Georgia fans. There were other examples, too.
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I thought Terence Moore was dead.
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He has been dead to a lot of people on this board for a long time.
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These fuckers really don’t want Brock to play. He and Dinich should get a room.
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Moore’s advice is always appreciated, whatever his advice is choose the opposite. The same can be said for Greg Mcgarity’s PR ideas.
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CM is nothing if not bitter.
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Shouldn’t he be arguing he needs to stay until he gets his degree since Brock is a student athlete? Brock with Ron Courson’s help will make that decision.
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It’s really about not wanting UGA to 3 peat, period.
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💥💥💥
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He’s still around? I thought he had retired or died or something.
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I wouldn’t piss on Terence Moore if he were on fire.
To hell with him.
If Brock decides not to come back even if he’s fully healthy and cleared to play (assuming that’s before a meaningless bowl game), he has certainly fooled all of us about his competitive desire over the last 2+ years. As others have said, if you take Moore’s argument to the extreme, any player who is practically a guaranteed 1st rounder should leave school after 2 years (or less) and prepare for the draft.
Even for Terence Moore, that’s awful logic, so this is about his hate for anything UGA. If you hate Atlanta and Georgia so much, why do you still live here? Delta is ready when you are.
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As CMR would say, Moore isn’t someone who dwells in the arena much. Bowers isn’t that guy.
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This same type scenario has already played itself out this year in MLB. The Padres closer, Josh Hader, refused to go into a game at the end of the season because they are out of the playoffs, and he considered it “meaningless”. I’m sure he still accepted the dollars associated the game.
After the loss, Hader explained his decision not to make himself available, suggesting his choice came down to the team’s current situation.
“It’s the situation that we are at,” said Hader on Monday night, via AJ Cassavell of MLB.com. “Are we in the playoff race?”
Following Monday’s loss, the Padres would have to win out their remaining five games to reach the postseason. While still technically in the playoff race, it’s highly unlikely.
“It has nothing to do with the offseason,” said Hader, who is set to hit free agency after the 2023 season. “It’s the now, it’s the health, it’s the making it through the entire season—162 games is not an easy task to do. You see guys work overloads, they get injured.”
Could you imagine a Bob Gibson (who would throw at his own mother the win a game) or Nolan Ryan pulling this kind of stunt. It will be interesting to see if teams still pursue him as aggressively in free agency because of this (I suspect they will).
Back to football, we will find out when the time comes, but I would bet a whole bunch of money that Brock Bowers has a hell of a lot more Bob Gibson in him than Josh Hader.
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What a loser.
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I wish Gibson was here to put one T Moore’s earhole for crowding the plate/interwebs.
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Saw this a while back:
“Watching Studio 42….and if any of you haven’t seen it…..It’s a interview type show , hosted by Bob Costas. I absolutely love it! Anyway, while he was interviewing the great Rod Carew and the great Tony Gwynn, Costas told the story of Pete Lacock hitting the last pitch Bob Gibson threw for a Grand Slam home run. Ten years later, at an old timers game, Gibson hit Pete Lacock with a pitch.
Later……..Costas interviewed Gibson….and questioned him about the incident. GIbson replied,” The books must be balanced Robert…”
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Payback is a muthafuka.
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FTMF
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Whatever Brock decides to do, I’m happy for him.
I imagine he is already a millionaire thanks to various NIL deals.
He can definitely get an insurance policy that will guarantee him even more millions if he gets hurt.
That said, if HE wants the chance to win the Heisman as a TE, or the chance to do something never done (threepeat during real college football history), then he should go for it.
If those things aren’t important to him, then he should hang it up and wait for the NFL.
This dude was integral to giving us back to back national titles – one of them undefeated – when I had long since given up hope. He will always be a DGD no matter what he decides.
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At the risk of making an absurd comparison….
I did a varsity sport in college (rowing). After college, I was on the US national team for 3 years (the closest thing my sport has to “the NFL”… I guess).
Absolutely NOTHING compared to those 4 years rowing in college. The team camaraderie there was massive. Even bigger than being part of the national team.
Those friendships have lasted 30 years and counting. Some of them I talk to regularly. Others, only sporadically. But any time I talk to or see them, it is like being transported back in time to when we were teammates. The closeness and the bond is still there.
When I had back surgery in 2020, teammates I hadn’t spoken to in decades found a way to reach out and check in on me, keep me company, boost my morale, etc. Somehow news spread and they reached out.
There is just no substitute for college sports, probably because there is no time in our lives ever before, or ever again, like college.
It is the time you are becoming an adult and figuring out who you are going to be for the rest of your life.
It feels like what you are competing for truly matters. You are still doing it in large part for the love of the sport.
You are suffering and sacrificing with other people in the exact same stage of life.
You will never again fight and battle for the same goals with people more similar to you again.
The generational wealth of the NFL is not only alluring but often might be the only sane thing to prioritize.
But if Brock decides to come back, that actually make sense too, because you can never, ever get back an experience like what he is immersed in right now.
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This kind of bullshit at least made sense when players weren’t allowed to profit off of their athletic achievements in any way. I’m certain that Brock Bowers is doing a lot better financially than a lot of salaried NFL players are this year, and I also am certain he’d miss out on maximizing his collegiate earning potential if he missed another potential playoff postseason. Of course, Terrence isn’t interested in Brock’s well-being, he’s interested in clicks. Given that this is the first time he’s been mentioned in these parts in months, I suspect he got what he wanted out of this transaction.
If Forbes thinks this guy is a credible thinker in the sporting arena it gives me serious pause about trusting anything anyone there says in the financial arena. The man is the bitcoin of sports columnists.
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