Kaydon Finley Disrespects Texas before Selecting Notre Dame

[GoHorns1]

He was playing up the fans of ND the school he was committing to.

[CoachBobbyFinstock]

2 hours ago, Migas & Fajitas said:

I tossed my UT hat on the ground right after Gideon dropped a game clinching INT and then threw it to the ground again right after Crabtree caught a game winning TD against us. I guess I’m a Longhorn disrespecting a-hole. Some of yall take this recruiting thing too seriously. 

 

Not the same. Disrespect and disappointment are not equal. It was weak but he’s a kid. If his dad wasn’t a Horn it wouldn’t even get my attention. That’s the part that surprised me.

Edited 15 hours ago by CoachBobbyFinstock

[Quinncent McManning, Jr.]

Well this is pretty respectful. wish him the best 

 

 

[Jc Dobbs]

19 hours ago, Bevo92 said:

https://apple.news/ABdDMryNCR2i1lZQXwkyZ-A

Especially with a legacy, it’s beyond mind boggling to see the classless disrespect for his dad’s Alma mater, who recruited him hard, why would Kaydon throw the Texas hat on the ground?    For the hundreds of hours of time and all the money invested by schools in their recruitment, this crap reflects low character imho.   

Classless behavior. And by a Legacy!

Compare it to almost every single interview that Texas recruits have done with OTF. The Longhorns recruits on OTF have made me proud to be a Texas alum and fan of the team.

Says a lot about Sark's "Culture" he emphasizes so much.

[Bevo92]

2 hours ago, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

Well this is pretty respectful. wish him the best 

 

 

Thanks for posting.   👍🏼.  This was extremely well done by Kaydon, imho, two days following his decision announcement.   Pure speculation on my part, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a dad/son character discussion and learning moment in the past 36 hrs following the Longhorn hat fake and toss the evening of July 4th.   I’ve got 4 kids and my oldest son is in his mid-20s.    When they make poor choices, even things that seem small in the moment, turn it into a learning oppty.   It’s part of growing up and teaching our boys how to become men of integrity and character.    I’m grateful to my dad for doing the same with me when I made stupid choices at similar age 40 yrs ago. 

Again….Kaydon’s followup post today with gratitude and respect for the other teams who recruited him the hardest (highlighting specific players and coaches) while celebrating Notre Dame as his ultimate choice is absolutely the right way to do it.   All class.   Extremely well done.   Time to move on. 
 

Hook em!  🧡🐂🤘🏼

[TexasFanatic]

Kaydon definitely got reprimanded after his stunt at the ceremony 😂

Definitely damage control with that post. 
 

Happy he posted it though

[SB21]

13 minutes ago, TexasFanatic said:

Kaydon definitely got reprimanded after his stunt at the ceremony 😂

Definitely damage control with that post. 
 

Happy he posted it though

Yeah you know pops had to have said something. Kids will be kids but knowing he was brought up with a good life cause of what his dad did as a Longhorn should have led him to handle that differently. Live and learn…. Good luck to the kid. We’re good either way ye went imo 

[Sundancekid]

Best not to burn bridges… or over react to kids being kids.

[Ronald Dato]

47 minutes ago, TexasFanatic said:

Kaydon definitely got reprimanded after his stunt at the ceremony 😂

Definitely damage control with that post. 
 

Happy he posted it though

His parents made him post this. One or both of his parents probably wrote his post.  I don't wish Kaydon any success at ND.

Edited 10 hours ago by Ronald Dato

[Raistlin]

48 minutes ago, TexasFanatic said:

Kaydon definitely got reprimanded after his stunt at the ceremony 😂

Definitely damage control with that post. 
 

Happy he posted it though

Too little, too late

[ThatHornsGuy87]

21 hours ago, Joe Zura said:

Why post this stupid crap go touch grass or go to orange bloods 

We're never gonna beat the wine and cheese fan base allegations complaining over a hat. This is Gerber baby food soft lol

[Jordan91]

3 hours ago, Jc Dobbs said:

Classless behavior. And by a Legacy!

Compare it to almost every single interview that Texas recruits have done with OTF. The Longhorns recruits on OTF have made me proud to be a Texas alum and fan of the team.

Says a lot about Sark's "Culture" he emphasizes so much.

Spend five minutes with his father. He has no character issues at all. 

[Bevo92]

1 hour ago, Jordan91 said:

Spend five minutes with his father. He has no character issues at all. 

Agree.   Anytime Jermichael Finley speaks, he’s all about accountability, work ethic, doing things the right way.   Good to see Kaydon make the post online earlier today and clean things up.   It wasn’t a good look 2 nights ago but he corrected it the right way today.  

Any ex-Longhorn who was teammates with Aaron Rodgers and calls him out for lack of accountability, the QB who’s always pointing finger at others after bad throws, lots of respect for JF.  🤘🏼🐂🧡
 

 

[GQ03]

2 hours ago, ThatHornsGuy87 said:

We're never gonna beat the wine and cheese fan base allegations complaining over a hat. This is Gerber baby food soft lol

I usually agree with takes like this but it was completely unnecessary. All he had to do was pick up the ND hat and commit while leaving the Texas hat alone on the table (like he did the aggy hat) but he went out of his way to be disrespectful for no reason. He showed more respect to aggy than he did Texas in that moment. I guess it's fine now that he sent out the PR statement but as Sark says "who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time".

[Jarveaux]

7 hours ago, Quinncent McManning, Jr. said:

Well this is pretty respectful. wish him the best 

 

 

Seems like a fine young man to me that wanted to blaze his own trail . Having said that he made a mistake not signing with The Longhorns . 

[Bevo92]

35 minutes ago, GQ03 said:

I usually agree with takes like this but it was completely unnecessary. All he had to do was pick up the ND hat and commit while leaving the Texas hat alone on the table (like he did the aggy hat) but he went out of his way to be disrespectful for no reason. He showed more respect to aggy than he did Texas in that moment. I guess it's fine now that he sent out the PR statement but as Sark says "who you are some of the time is who you are all of the time".

Agree.   Well said.  🧡🤘🏼🐂

[Shane]

Wish my life revolved around kids committing or not committing to a certain school ! Disrespectful cause you didn’t like the school that was picked lmao 

[817 Boxing B]

13 hours ago, Bevo92 said:

Interesting to see the mix of comments on this topic.   Surprised by a few.   For me, this goes beyond football and the Kaydon Finley example is extremely minor overall.   It was an observation about a moment that was disappointing and unnecessary, especially given his dad’s legacy.  

More broadly for me, It’s a commentary about doing things the right way.    Representing yourself and your family with character and class.  

The Felix Ojo example was far more egregious and I’m extremely thankful that guy isn’t gonna be a Horn.  

For a few of you who’ve made incorrect assumptions about me, I feel this even stronger when a Texas longhorn crosses the line.   Since Sark has taken over, it’s been refreshing to see the focus on character, doing things the right way, proving it on the field, “who you are some of the time is who you are all the time”.   I hope Sark is the head of our football program for the next decade-plus.   A much needed change because it wasn’t that long ago when Longhorns (Coaches, Administrators, Players) were definitely not doing things ‘the right way’. 

When Herman was our coach, I couldn’t stand the way he ‘led’ our team in such a classless, low character way.   His lack of character, high ego, narcissistic self important mindset flowed down to some of the team and it was sickening.   I posted about it at the time as did others, on other boards.   The importance of representing yourself and the university with class.   Winning is not all that matters.

Back to the present day.  Fired up and excited for our Horns.   Great leadership, accountability, culture.  Let’s keep it going.  
 

Hook em!! 🧡🐂🤘🏼

 

 

That was eloquent and powerful. Point well taken.🤘🏿

[817 Boxing B]

1 hour ago, Jarveaux said:

Seems like a fine young man to me that wanted to blaze his own trail . Having said that he made a mistake not signing with The Longhorns . 

Seems like clean up on Isle 7 to me. That's like writing a love letter to the girl that's been waiting for you to acknowledge her after you embarrassed her in front of the entire school. Cool... see you in the playoffs.

[Bevo92]

5 minutes ago, 817 Boxing B said:

Seems like clean up on Isle 7 to me. That's like writing a love letter to the girl that's been waiting for you to acknowledge her after you embarrassed her in front of the entire school. Cool... see you in the playoffs.

Ok, I laughed out loud after this one.   😂Needed a bit of Sunday evening humor.  
Well done. 🧡🐂🤘🏼

[Bevo92]

1 hour ago, Shane said:

Wish my life revolved around kids committing or not committing to a certain school ! Disrespectful cause you didn’t like the school that was picked lmao 

@Shane this was too rich with irony for a guy who’s made 1299 posts on OTF, many of them reflecting your life seems to revolve around recruiting and which school a kid commits to.  😂 Try again.  Lmao. Too funny.   The humor is on point tonight at OTF.   

Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂
 

[Shane]

1 hour ago, Bevo92 said:

@Shane this was too rich with irony for a guy who’s made 1299 posts on OTF, many of them reflecting your life seems to revolve around recruiting and which school a kid commits to.  😂 Try again.  Lmao. Too funny.   The humor is on point tonight at OTF.   

Hook em!! 🧡🤘🏼🐂
 

I don’t make post crying about recruiting. It’s a congratulatory post usually. So no my life don’t revolve around it. 

[Austalgia]

The good part about football when I played is no matter what anyone said off the field or did (throw your hat to the floor), you could come back and throw them to the turf that same way during the game.  I wouldn’t want to give Simmons, our linebackers, or our upcoming interior D line any reason to do this, when I hadn’t played a down of CF, but these kids are different.  Man that made me sound old. 

Edited 3 hours ago by Austalgia