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OU football player quits team, joins Marines

Posted by HenryJames on June 18th, 2008 under Football

Freshman offensive lineman Britt Mitchell quit the team and joined the Marines last week.

Mitchell had enrolled in January and had begun summer conditioning with S&C coach Jerry Schmidt.


If he thought Jerry Schmidt was an asshole…

Dudes quit football all the time for whatever reason. Maybe they couldn’t find the right shoes. Maybe they just lost their desire to play.

A friend of mine played football at Texas Tech in the early ’90s. After watching the movie Navy SEALS, a teammate of his quit the team and joined the Navy with hopes of becoming a SEAL. Like Charlie Sheen.

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10 Responses

  1. That’s badass, even for a sooner.

  2. PFC William T. Santiago said:

    June 18th, 2008 at 6:46 pm

    Hope he’s faster than I was.

  3. Capt. Insano said:

    June 19th, 2008 at 5:48 am

    Fuck yeah. Support him all the way.

  4. I suppose I can respect someone who takes a paycut to follow their dreams. Like that time you went to Mime School.

  5. SeeingRed said:

    June 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am

    I took a pay cut to follow my dreams. It just turned out that “man-whore” wasn’t nearly as cool a dream as I thought it would be.

  6. marshall stack said:

    June 19th, 2008 at 10:04 am

    A dumb decision that he will he will (hopefully)live to regret. This is coming from an ex Marine that went through college on the Platoon Leaders Course program.

    Dropping out of college on your on free will to enlist in the service is like taking points off the scoreboard.

    I hope he can speak spanish. When he gets to SD he will more than likely be in a platoon the is 2/3 none english speaking hispanics. He’ll also probably have 5 foot nothing evil mexican DI that will take absolute joy in humiliating the 6′6″ football player.

    People whose life dream it is to enlist in the Marine Corp are mentally unsound and usually are the ones that wash out.

  7. Col Jessup said:

    June 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am

    I’m gonna rip the eyeballs out of your head and piss in your dead skull! You fucked with the wrong Marine!

  8. coach Callahan said:

    June 19th, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    I’m going to go out on a limb marshall and guess English wasn’t your major.

  9. An education from OU is worth less than free. 3/4 the people there don’t speak English.

  10. Brushpile Bill said:

    June 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm

    Douchbag of the year award goes to the Tulsa World for reminding the OU faithful that Brit was the “least recruited” OL signee last year.

    Remain calm, this is probably the only guy we lose to the Marines………

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