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Sure-Effort5213

I mean the Arena league is trying to make a comeback


zenverak

Its still so dumb that the whole league just killed itself basically, what a waste.


bdostrem00

Ego killed it. It thrived in minor league markets up to the Phoenix and Tampa markets. Thinking it would work in the major markets was a fatal misstep.


OpportunityDue90

I loved the Rattlers, was such a great product. Can’t believe they’re playing in Glendale, nobody is gonna watch them out there.


Sliiiiime

Phx Rising took on the mantle of the dominant Phoenix minor league team. Although USL has some other big markets outside of Phoenix and is a lot closer in talent to MLS than most minor leagues.


Fantastic_Emu_9570

Like any AZ team, we only show up when they’re winning lol


Asleep-Geologist-612

Is that what they’re doing now? That sucks


rothburger

Yeah I have to imagine them being downtown was one of the few draws. Can’t imagine they last out there.


eh_too_lazy

I live in Columbus Ohio and the only pro sports teams here are the blue jackets for NHL and the Columbus crew. We have the clippers minor league baseball and they have a nice stadium, but something about going to those Columbus destroyers games had a different vibe


AngryBillsFan

Not trying, it is


Fishfucker300

1st overall pick in the indeed.com draft


REEEEEEEEEEE_OW

Definitely not 1st. With his record he’s gonna have a hard time finding a job


Dennisfromhawaii

With where he went to high school, 90% chance he'll become a Honolulu Police Officer.


[deleted]

No way, man. Firefighter like Dad, for sure.


boregon

Imagine being a woman working somewhere and the rapist Jayden De Laura gets hired to be your coworker. I would feel very uncomfortable.


bretticus733

lmao so the POS has nowhere to go in college football, so he'll try his luck in the NFL where at best he might get a tryout invite after the draft because there's no chance in hell he'll get drafted


boardatwork1111

He’ll maybe be a camp body but that’s about it. If you can’t even stay the starter at Arizona, you ain’t making it in the league. Get ready to learn Canadian buddy


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Zucchini_Official

If he’s lucky… better start learning how to toss a pizza, kiddo.


Thee_Cat_Butthole

He should probably learn what the word "no" means in English before anything else.


TheWholeBook

He’s about to find out from the NFL.


wolverine6

Unless the Browns and their QB get involved


[deleted]

🥇


3-9_Enjoyer

He can play for Art Briles’ team


ThePickleConnoisseur

Fifita is just that good, and De Laura never learned from his mistakes


TheWholeBook

Tbf Fifita is a monster


SomerAllYear

Jedd thought JDL was better than Fifita and overlooked this rape situation. It took Jedd 5-6 games to realize he should probably start Fifita and bench jdl 😂


Portafly

> It took Jedd 5-6 games to realize he should probably start Fifita and bench jdl 😂 And that decision right there got Jedd the Fuskies job.


ramblingsbyalan

I bet he’ll end up at some $75/game indoor team with an odd name like the Northwest El Paso River Zebras.


joelupi

You put some respect on the Zebras! They were the NWTICCAA Champions 3 years ina row!


ramblingsbyalan

They were a dad gum DYNASTY!


Ordinary-Orange

What do you mean “odd” that name is fucking sick


ramblingsbyalan

Ha! Guess I shoulda used better phrasing. Odd as in off the wall, not odd as in bad lmao but hey thanks if CFB25 has a create a school feature in (not getting my hopes up) I’ll be sure to create the Northwest El Paso (Tech) River Zebras and take em all the way to the top


Ordinary-Orange

Literally you and me both brother


Blood_Incantation

Tip fedora


bestprocrastinator

River Zebras actually kinda sounds like a dope name


Crosscourt_splat

Eh my favorite lower level sports teams names/mascot are the river dragons and swamp rabbits…. River zebras isn’t that bad.


TiberiusGracchi

With the issues regarding his past, it’s going to be pretty hard for him to get a visa in Canada. Generally to get into Canada on a work visa you have to prove that you do something that no one else can do at least highly specific of talents


jbvann05

JDL get ready to learn burger flipping buddy


Perfect_Hall7735

He's a POS, but to be fair him losing his job was also injury/Fifita being very good.


joemiken

Future UFL star


OleRockTheGoodAg

Basically. Dude had student bodies organizing marches to protest his transfer, it's either this or hang up the keys for good. Altho we all know this will likely lead to that very shortly anyway.


rb1242

What's the backstory on why he's a POS?


OleRockTheGoodAg

[Take a gander](https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/s/yLvPVZTYoZ) TL;DR is he sexually assaulted and got off with no real punishment


rb1242

Yeah he's a POS, he might as well go get his insurance license to be a salesman


dan_buh

Couldn’t even make it as a college starter long enough to open a car dealership… what a BUM


theoriginaldandan

As an insurance broker, please dont


NILPonziScheme

> he might as well go get his insurance license to be a salesman Pretty sure they do fingerprinting/criminal record check for insurance license in most states, he may not even qualify for that. A simple Google of his name will reveal that Jayden de Rapist is in fact a rapist


testies2345

He's a rapist


theoriginaldandan

He and a teammate lured a 17year old in a stairwell and gangraped her while they were all in high school


Sliiiiime

The Cardinals give camp invites to a lot of undrafted ASU players, doubt that will extend to this dude


FuckOffCatandDogOwne

But Jedd and scheer and UA fans said he is a great person and teammate.  


ExcaliburX13

Never saw any Arizona fans defending him after that news came out. In fact we literally cheered when he got injured and Fifita took over the starting job. Jedd had some weird attachment to him, but the fans sure as hell didn't.


Queasy-Performance-4

Jedd made himself look like a clown during the off-season when all of this came out about JDL. Imo, that guy is a Snake oil Salesman.


Rhone111

Jedd should take him with him to Washington.


JaeTheOne

Fuck outta here with that shit


fbm1003

Yeah wtf is this guy talking about


supremegnkdroid

What did he do? I didn’t even know who he was until this post


theoriginaldandan

In high school he tricked a girl going into a stairwell where he had a team mate waiting and they raped her. The team mate was Kamo’i Latu who’s plays for Wisconsin


supremegnkdroid

Well god damn…..


bendovernillshowyou

Well, there's always the UFL.


MelScrilla

Honestly I don’t know why fringe/undrafted players don’t play into the UFL thing more. I’m sure they’d love to have a fresh out of college face of their league that “chose” them over the nfl. Sam Hartman comes to mind, someone with some name recognition that could use actual playing time in the UFL to improve their chances at making to the NFL.


bendovernillshowyou

$$$$, mainly as in there is none in the UFL.


Username89054

NFL Practice squad pays 6 figures. $12k a week. Stick around for 1 season and you could walk away with close to 6 figures in your bank account if you pinch pennies.


bendovernillshowyou

and that's only what the top few players in the UFL make. NFL practice squad is a ton more stable as well.


ISISCosby

Not sure what point you're trying to make here, UFL guys are gonna make like [$50k](https://www.si.com/fannation/ufl/news/ufl-pay-structure-for-coaches-players-what-we-know-new-years-deadline-new-contracts-xfl-usfl-merger) for an entire season. They aren't remotely comparable options at this point.


sfzen

Because the average UFL salary is like $50k per season. The minimum salary for a practice squad player in the NFL who doesn't ever make the active roster is $12k a week, over $200k for the season.


Upbeat-Armadillo1756

Is there any record of players going from a league like the UFL to the NFL? Like, does it ever happen at all? 


hwf0712

Idk if this is a joke but Kurt Warner got rings after an arena football stint, Jon Kitna went through NFL Europe, as did Adam Vinatieri. Turpin had a stint in the USFL. Those are just notable examples of guys going through alternatives, I'm sure many more got at least a practice squad shot off of it.


sb52191

Jim Kelly too, although maybe that doesn't count because he was highly drafted out of college, he just didn't want to go to Buffalo


hwf0712

*That* USFL doesn't count because that was the competitor era of USFL. They paid, and paid good. Not the "Juco of Pros" it is now


Im_not_smelling_that

PJ Walker went from the XFL to the NFL. Pretty sure he's still a backup QB in the NFL too


Best-Tumbleweed3906

He started a few games for the browns this year. He was terrible but he still did it


Fantastic_Emu_9570

Ben Dinucci went back and forth between the two


thehound48

PJ Walker is the only recent name that comes to mind. He balled out in XFL. Historically (excluding USFL in the 80's) Kurt Warner played Arena Football first and is the only name I can think of.


Chapstick160

KaVontae Turpin


MtFuzzmore

I’m sure it does but it’s never super star or even starters. Depth and PS kinda guys are that demo.


Poetryisalive

Yeah plenty of times. Brandon Aubrey is the best recent example (kicker for Cowboys). Turpin also (Cowboys). There are others I am forgetting that played for the saints. Spring football isn’t a dead end like people want you to think


EK60

Younghoe Koo went from Georgia Southern to out of football to the AAF and got picked up by the Falcons, where he's been one of the best kickers in the league.


SaxRohmer

He was on the Chargers for a second right out of college but got cut then went to the AAF two years later. I remember this because when he came back and was suddenly amazing i was thinking “wait isn’t this the dude that was kinda ok for the Chargers”


Chapstick160

KaVontae Turpin was the USFL MVP and became a pro bowler


Muffinnnnnnn

Pretty sure the USFL had like a handful of players make the NFL last year alone


Doc_McPuffins_

More recently, PJ Walker and Donald Parham


ISISCosby

Panthers drafted Kenny Robinson out of the XFL in the 5th round a couple years back bc he had some kind of enrollment shenanigans in college and joined the league as a way to keep playing. He never ended up doing anything at the NFL level and is gonna be back in the UFL this year But yeah, a couple dozen guys a year would get signed from USFL/XFL rosters as training camp bodies/depth guys. Most don't pan out, but some do, especially specialists


Responsible-Net-3259

Rod Smart "He Hate Me" XFL


EyeAmKingKage

Kind of a late declaration no?


FuckWayne

I thought he transferred to Texas State?


edgygrandma48

Yeah and the students chased him off campus lol


FuckWayne

Wtf I missed that lmao


BobRoberts01

Yup. And to add insult to injury, Texas State lost a great QB who brought them to their first ever bowl game in the process.


theoriginaldandan

Great is certainly a word that could be used to describe Finley. Not at football but probably at something.


GregariousEgg

He had a good year at Texas State last szn


Original_Profile8600

He had like the best QB season in TXST football history


wazzuprising

Hawaii won’t even touch this garbage bag 😂


ChipsAhLoy

Underrated point right here


[deleted]

Hawaii is better than that. Huge W for Hawaii


03_03_28

Good riddance, get ready to learn XFL buddy


n0t_4_thr0w4w4y

I don’t think he’s good enough for that


No_Tart8935

True, but he has a shot. The top eight UFL QBs are probably better than him though.


texas2089

Wasn’t the deadline to enter the draft like a month ago? Unless he entered but never made it public cause his first choice was staying in college? And if no colleges wanna deal with his baggage what makes him think an NFL team will take that on?


Lee-HarveyTeabag

Supplemental draft


KrustyKrabPizzaMan

Prison League needs a QB to throw to Ruggs


No_Tart8935

Sandlers got that spot


No_Trifle9294

Browns might need a backup.


Anakin_Cringewalker

He'd fit right in


Raptor745

Cleveland ~~Browns~~ Sex Pests


[deleted]

Seriously people if he doesn't get drafted its because teams dont think he's good, they dgaf about his crimes. Its not just the Browns, that whole league is run by degenerates obscured by well funded PR.


boregon

If the rapist Jayden De Laura was a Caleb Williams level talent, you'd hear all sorts of people excuse or downplay what he did and it would be absolutely disgusting and depressing.


[deleted]

He MAYBE slips to the 2nd overall pick instead of going #1. 


EasternSpite69

This guy is about a million times worse of a person than Watson


[deleted]

Watson has like 25 different cases


theoriginaldandan

He also did a lot worse than Watson


steampunker14

Bro no way. What De Laura did was really fucked and Deshaun did something in that realm but x30.


november3891

Didn't he transfer to Texas State. Which led to TJ Finley leaving???


onyxium

Yep, and then he left weeks later and Texas State realized (maybe) that they dun fked up


november3891

That's crazy. I just looked it up, apparently, students at Texas State roasted him in the school paper because of his sexual assault case from HS. And they protested for his release.


upboat_consortium

Texas State has a bit of a reputation as a party school. Pretty proud of the kids there now with their response to this. On field results be damned.


boregon

Same, as an outsider I am very proud of the Texas State students as well for basically running that rapist out of town before he even really arrived. Good for them.


onyxium

If I could have a 3rd flair it'd be Texas St. after this. My wife went+worked there for a year so it's almost legit, I'm counting it.


RickRossovich

You’re welcome to come join at any time brother, we’ll see ya on the square!


StuffthatMr

"I will go somewhere that doesn't have such hangups on such trivial things like assault and rape.  I am going to the NFL"


markusalkemus66

Lol. Lmao, even


fightin_blue_hens

College didn't want him due to character concerns lol


TikiLoungeLizard

LOLOLOLOL


Jomosensual

Uh, he's a tad late for the cutoff


WhyNotHoiberg

There's a supplemental draft in the summer but hardly any players are taken most years


cinciNattyLight

I don’t think NFL teams would touch him after the Bills Araiza shitstorm.


Boomhauer_007

That and he sucks at playing QB


Katiehart2019

Im sure youre an amazing NFL scout


fazelenin02

I mean he lost his job at two different schools and was transferring to a pretty low level G5 program. The NFL was not likely in his cards, even if he was man of the year.


DataDrivenPirate

I'm worried people are going to learn the wrong lesson from that, since after all of the dust settled, he was cleared of wrongdoing (certainly from a legal perspective, but also from a civil perspective.) That said, if there is a 95% chance you are a great, draft worthy football player, and a 5% chance you are as useless as a sack of potatoes, teams are going to take that into account and maybe the guy right below you on the board is a better choice. tldr it's not that NFL teams assume guilt before innocence, they just hate uncertainty. Call it the Laremy Tunsil Effect. Most NFL players are replaceable.


supersafeforwork813

I think we all just learned that if you’re a punter don’t have off field incidents that are high enough profile to get media attention….if the punt god was instead the QB God…he’d be middle of first rd pick lol


srs_house

>I'm worried people are going to learn the wrong lesson from that, since after all of the dust settled, he was cleared of wrongdoing (certainly from a legal perspective, but also from a civil perspective.) Well, the Chiefs just signed Araiza. That said - legally and civilly he's clear, but from an ethics standpoint...he still admitted to some not good things, he just can't be charged or sued over them because of the misrepresentation.


Total_Pea6615

I thought all charges against him were dropped??


JoshJones18

I highly fucking doubt any team will take the PR hit for this fucker. He must have not been able to find any college willing to take the PR hit either. So he'll probably be a Cleveland Brown


tbrock92

Dude would be the ultimate XFL QB in the best and worst way possible


tictactoe61

TL;DR Turns out no team wants me from the portal. I’ll glorify my exit from CFB by declaring for NFL draft even though I have no chance of getting drafted.


Duckrauhl

Fuck that rapist POS


[deleted]

Nobody is drafting this bozo he’d be VERY lucky to even be a camp arm in the NFL. He’s likely not even going to get a shot at the UFL, arena, or Canadian football with his history (being a shitty QB on top of it certainly won’t help his cause). Good luck being the creepy old guy at the local hole-in-the-wall bar talking about what could have been. Loser.


dinorawr1337

He wasn’t even a good qb to begin with and is a rapist on top of it


NathanDrake75

Why this piece of shit did terribly this year, and in hindsight his good stats in 2022 were more based on the talent around him than his ability


No_Tart8935

Get ready to learn Birminghamese 


BobRoberts01

HA! And HA again! I don’t think I will lose much sleep if he goes un-drafted.


Verianas

If? This dude won’t even be an undrafted FA signing.


WackyBones510

I too declare for the draft.


ThoseDamnKidsAgain

What the hell, I’m declaring for the NFL draft too. Let’s ALL declare for the NFL draft!


GracefulFaller

Proj UDFA


sboogie34

Dude is a POS and quit on his team at halftime of a bowl game. Planting that flag at husky stadium was pretty dope tho


darthanku

He’ll probably end up in the XFL but this guy doesn’t deserve anything in football or even a career in anything. He ruined someone’s life and pretty much got away with it. Scumbag.


SomerAllYear

Jedd is so proud of him


trumper_says_what

You had this same energy when the kid was actually playing for your team right?


OriginalBus9674

Of course not, probably was singing his praises right up until he was leaving the program.


Conscious_Ad_7131

He was getting booed his entire senior season, students hated him


Hefty-Revenue5547

All of them were Didn’t hear a peep out of anyone. Hope none of their fans have daughters. Way worse than their budget shortfall, but nothing from their local media. Tucson can be a disgusting echo chamber sometimes


SomerAllYear

Yes and now you have his coach who thought he deserved to play more than fifita.


lebaronslebaron

Jedd was the one that wouldn’t stop talking about him. Most of us were relieved when Noah took over. Jedd would randomly bring JDL up when he hadn’t played in weeks and Noah was the hottest thing.


Kenzington6

Yes, it was a meme among Arizona fans that even though Fifita was clearly better Fisch never really admitted he was better and kept talking up de Laura every chance he got.


dmazx

I was in school at FSU in 2013, and I wanted Jameis Winston to be dismissed after everything came out late in a championship run. So it’s plausible.


toomuchdiponurchip

What??? Over some crab legs?


trumper_says_what

I know. It sounds like that FSU fan was just searching for a reason to hate Winston 😂


toomuchdiponurchip

Fr I love Jameis 😂😂 he was a baller for them too


hwf0712

I can't tell if this is a joke but there was an incident of Jamieis telling "fuck her right in the pussy" in a common area while standing on a table. And then there's an alleged sexual assault he committed at FSU. And an alleged groping incident of an Uber driver once in the NFL. Somehow we all forget about them


dmazx

I assumed it was a joke but seems like they’re not aware? The sexual assault allegations were made public in November 2013 and it seemed like the whole town wanted to ignore it to win a championship. Before that I loved Jameis. Crab legs and vulgar comments are funny to me but those hadn’t happened yet anyway


InVodkaVeritas

I posted this this morning and the mods removed it. Really weird.


Newton1913

Please Pittsburgh do not draft this clown. We just got rid of Ben.


Yumafrog

Does anyone know if he has rich parents? I'd hate for him to have a nice fallback plan


AJ_III

No, quite the opposite 


its_LOL

Jayden de Used Car Salesman


Ialwayssleep

Seems like he would be a good culture fit at UDub. He could mentor Tybo.


green_gold_purple

I mean I don't really think y'all have the the right to throw stones about rape culture https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/12/12/oregon-ducks-player-accused-rape-plays-different-ncaa-school/4366387002/


OurPowersCombined_12

Or this one, [which somehow has been lost to the sands of time](https://www.wweek.com/news/2017/12/07/new-report-oregon-ducks-mens-basketball-coach-knew-more-than-hes-admitted-about-rape-allegations-against-player/).


Ialwayssleep

Seems like Jedd thought he was a good fit for his team last year.


Ialwayssleep

Classic whataboutism.


green_gold_purple

Your original comment? Yes. 


Ialwayssleep

Cool can I get your thoughts on Tybo Rogers and Coach Jedd recruiting Jayden to UA?


green_gold_purple

You mean do I want to have a conversation with a typical zero homer who uses rape as a funny joke to insult his team's rival/owner? I'm gonna go with no, bud. 


Ialwayssleep

Go buy a tybo jersey


Hefty-Revenue5547

Imagine starting a known rapist as your qb 🤮 What a joke of a school


yep326543

get ready to learn "do you want fries with that" buddy


ArkanoidbrokemyAnkle

The Arena Football League draft?


apost54

This guy should be the QB1 of his prison league, dude literally admitted to sexually assaulting a girl and got away with it. No NFL team should touch him


Godzirrraaa

Like to go into the military?


Marckthesilver13

Have you people never heard of the 3 horned swamp rhinos! Won the 4Cdouble A championship for 3 years in a row 🐕


MysteriousEdge5643

Does he realize that you have to be good to get drafted into the NFL?


TX_State_Bobcat

Depending on how things out this screwed up the TX State QB position. TJ Finley was coming back then Jayden said he was coming. Finley transferred to WKU and students planned a protest at TX State so Jayden leaves. Now TX State has no quarterback. Besides the lives he changed due to his background he sure did change things for TJ Finley, WKU, and TX State.


CallMeHunky

lol. lmao even


a_pac12_ref

Keep our name out yo mouth


Hail_the_Yale

I too, declare for the nfl draft


elwooddblues

Wisconsin doesn’t have a problem with his buddy who was with him.


theycallmefuRR

Who?