... label a player based on their off-field actions, and/or on-field results--or lack thereof.
In most cases this moniker-making of sorts, is completely unjustified.
Former Notre Dame quarterback, Jimmy Clausen, was saddled with the "too-cocky-to-be-a-consistent-leader" nonsense. Some apparently though a premier college football program wanted a quarterback who wasn't confident.
For nearly two seasons, now-departed Tennessee QB Jonathan Crompton was blamed for everything from Tennessee's downfall to Global Warming. Was it all his fault? Absolutely not.
Fans are not exactly the most objective sources when it comes to labeling a player, but those who are paid to be objective, the writers, fail in that area as well.
There are some high-profile,...
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