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Posted: 8/15/2012 12:06 AM
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Reports are that Wade Wells stopped showing up and has quit. Was said to have mentioned being 14 hrs away from home...
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Posted: 8/15/2012 5:10 PM
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Is this part 2 of the great player boycott?
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Posted: 8/15/2012 6:50 PM
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I know Athens is not the most central location, but we seem to have a disproportionate number of guys who have left for this reason.  Maybe we need to evaluate the home sickness factor a little more when we're recruiting these guys from farther away.
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Posted: 8/15/2012 7:00 PM
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I know Athens is not the most central location, but we seem to have a disproportionate number of guys who have left for this reason.  Maybe we need to evaluate the home sickness factor a little more when we're recruiting these guys from farther away.

It's not just Ohio. I think this happens at most schools, to some degree. Keep in mind that these are 18 year old boys, probably on their first time away from home.
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Posted: 8/15/2012 11:04 PM
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Not limited to OHIO and not limited to undergrads. I've known a couple of grad students who have left MUCH larger cities due to home sickness.
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Posted: 8/16/2012 6:53 AM
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Not limited to OHIO and not limited to undergrads. I've known a couple of grad students who have left MUCH larger cities due to home sickness.


mf, you are so right! But here is the craziest thing about "home-sickness": If you persevere, staying the course at the unfamiliar place that "just isn't home," there will come to be a time when that place far, far from home will be a place you long for as much as the room you grew up in.

I know; I've been in all those places. Athens was many miles and a state away from my boyhood friends and every thing that was familiar to me when my parents dumped me onto the "West Green" as a freshman.

But that was almost 50 years ago. Today -- because I "stayed the course" way back then -- I have one more place in my memory for which I have an always-ache, a home-sickness as it were. Isn't that just a bitter-sweet irony: by fighting through that first wave of home-sickness, you get to enjoy more of it down life's road!
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Not limited to OHIO and not limited to undergrads. I've known a couple of grad students who have left MUCH larger cities due to home sickness.


mf, you are so right! But here is the craziest thing about "home-sickness": If you persevere, staying the course at the unfamiliar place that "just isn't home," there will come to be a time when that place far, far from home will be a place you long for as much as the room you grew up in.

I know; I've been in all those places. Athens was many miles and a state away from my boyhood friends and every thing that was familiar to me when my parents dumped me onto the "West Green" as a freshman.

But that was almost 50 years ago. Today -- because I "stayed the course" way back then -- I have one more place in my memory for which I have an always-ache, a home-sickness as it were. Isn't that just a bitter-sweet irony: by fighting through that first wave of home-sickness, you get to enjoy more of it down life's road!


That was just cool to read.

Been away from Athens for over  two months now for a summer internship. When I think of "going home", I mostly think of Athens now
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Posted: 8/16/2012 7:55 AM
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Didn't we have someone from Jackson do that in the 90s?
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Posted: 8/16/2012 8:44 AM
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L.C. wrote:expand_more
Keep in mind that these are 18 year old boys....


Well, not this one.  Oh well.  Always hate to see this type of thing.  Whether an athlete or not.
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Posted: 8/16/2012 9:39 AM
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I remember back in like 2004/2005 when we got this stud running back from West Virginia.  Man was a beast came in as a freshman bigger than a lot of the seniors and it showed in the weight room.  But he didn't like being so far away from home and ended up leaving early in Fall Camp and going to a local Division II school in WV that was close to home. 
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sargentfan wrote:expand_more
I remember back in like 2004/2005 when we got this stud running back from West Virginia.  Man was a beast came in as a freshman bigger than a lot of the seniors and it showed in the weight room.  But he didn't like being so far away from home and ended up leaving early in Fall Camp and going to a local Division II school in WV that was close to home. 


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Posted: 8/16/2012 9:48 PM
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I was homesick for about 5 minutes checking into the dorm. Then I realized the number of 18 and 19 year old girls whose parents were nowhere to be found. /Problem
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Posted: 8/16/2012 10:19 PM
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Didn't we have someone from Jackson do that in the 90s?


OL Erik Davis who had an outstanding freshman year and then tore his ankle up in a hole on the practice field.  If memory serves me correctly his Mom used to post on the old T-Com board and got into it with some of the posters, I think it was 3-Ball and/or Marco. 

In addition to Erik Davis on the line, we had Jonathan Goodwin who started as a freshman and then transferred to  Michigan before going on to play in the NFL for the Jets, Saints and now the 49'ers.
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Posted: 8/17/2012 3:53 PM
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Not limited to OHIO and not limited to undergrads. I've known a couple of grad students who have left MUCH larger cities due to home sickness.


mf, you are so right! But here is the craziest thing about "home-sickness": If you persevere, staying the course at the unfamiliar place that "just isn't home," there will come to be a time when that place far, far from home will be a place you long for as much as the room you grew up in.

I know; I've been in all those places. Athens was many miles and a state away from my boyhood friends and every thing that was familiar to me when my parents dumped me onto the "West Green" as a freshman.

But that was almost 50 years ago. Today -- because I "stayed the course" way back then -- I have one more place in my memory for which I have an always-ache, a home-sickness as it were. Isn't that just a bitter-sweet irony: by fighting through that first wave of home-sickness, you get to enjoy more of it down life's road!


That was just cool to read.

Been away from Athens for over  two months now for a summer internship. When I think of "going home", I mostly think of Athens now


I agree with Cat4ever and Business_Cat. I'm almost done with my first full year away from Athens, and I still am looking for any excuse to go back. My family moved my freshman year at college away from my home town, so going "home" didn't feel like going home, and going to my hometown was hard because my family wasn't there anymore...Athens became my home, and now anytime I think of going back to Ohio, I think of Athens first and foremost.
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Posted: 8/17/2012 9:35 PM
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My hometown sucked! I couldn't wait to get away. When I landed in Athens, I fell in love my first week. I've been in Milwaukee for 16 years, but I still come home to Athens and Old Ohio. My favorite place. So many memories . . . I love taking friends with me when I go home. They can't believe this place exist because many have never heard of it before. It's like a mythical place to them. Can't see how anyone under 30 wouldn't take to this place like a bee to honey .
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Posted: 8/18/2012 8:45 AM
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Cat4ever wrote:expand_more
Not limited to OHIO and not limited to undergrads. I've known a couple of grad students who have left MUCH larger cities due to home sickness.


mf, you are so right! But here is the craziest thing about "home-sickness": If you persevere, staying the course at the unfamiliar place that "just isn't home," there will come to be a time when that place far, far from home will be a place you long for as much as the room you grew up in.

I know; I've been in all those places. Athens was many miles and a state away from my boyhood friends and every thing that was familiar to me when my parents dumped me onto the "West Green" as a freshman.

But that was almost 50 years ago. Today -- because I "stayed the course" way back then -- I have one more place in my memory for which I have an always-ache, a home-sickness as it were. Isn't that just a bitter-sweet irony: by fighting through that first wave of home-sickness, you get to enjoy more of it down life's road!


Lol, well you don't need to convince me! The RA had to pry me out of the dorms at the end of every quarter: it was nearly the end of spring quarter of my freshman year (memorial day maybe?) before I left town for an in-quarter weekend. My point was that this isn't necessarily an issue of altering our recruiting because some percentage of guys were unhappy so far from home or in a small town setting, because you see that in big cities too, and not just in 18 yearolds, but in 20-somethings too.
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