ESPN Top 25 Unfulfilled Potential Athletes

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Some of the players reach their potential, but injuries cause them to not be able to sustain it - Bo, Mark Prior, Sam Bowie, I guess you can count Hernandez since prison ended his...and Oden shouldn't even be here. You have Ki-jana, you should just add Rashaan Salaam, Natron Means, Tommy Frazier, Slash & Vick, Amani Toomer, Herman Moore, LO

No one thought Jay Williams would be nice, or knucklehead Clarrett, Akili Smith... and where's Tim Couch? Dan & Dave? Sheed & Ginobili - 2 of the most unguardable players ever, with the worst stats.
 
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Why didn't anyone have post-college expectations for Tommie Frazier?
Because as you shown in your "somewhere" post, you have to be first shoehorned somewhere in order to have expectations tied to you. He was never viewed as anything at the next level...so how did you jump to expectations being tied to him?

There was none.

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Yes....because there were no expectations for him to succeed. You're going to say because he was black? :childplease:

LOL

No...I'm not gonna say because he was black, especially given that he was eligible for the draft
the same year as Kordell Stewart and Air McNair.

I'm gonna say because he didn't get drafted
because he had a blood clot in his leg from Crohn's Disease...and that's got to be the only reason
why, not "because there were no expectations for him to succeed" like you say. YOU need to stop it.
 

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LOL

No...I'm not gonna say because he was black, especially given that he was eligible for the draft
the same year as Kordell Stewart and Air McNair.

I'm gonna say because he didn't get drafted
because he had a blood clot in his leg from Crohn's Disease...and that's got to be the only reason
why, not "because there were no expectations for him to succeed" like you say. YOU need to stop it.
I didn't know getting drafted was your criteria. I was thinking expectations we are talking about in here were to get drafted with the thought of being special once so. He was never viewed as that even prior to the blood cots.

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This might be a long shot for some but remember the Dan and Dave hype for the Barcelona Olympics. These dudes were all over TV, cereal, posters....





















........then Dan failed to qualify for the Olympics :mjlol:
Dan O'Brien one of the GOAT decathletes :dahell:
 
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