Bears Release Monk

Man thats a tough break for marcus. Hopefully he gets on with another team.

Was picked up by the Giants yesterday.
http://www.sports.yahoo.com/nfl/players/9025 - 35k

Yahoo has his jersey number wrong. The Giants made him #15.

http://www.giants.com/team/giants_roster.asp

Marcus didn't make the final 53-man roster for the Giants, but they signed him to the practice squad yesterday. If they have any receivers get injured, we'll se MM this season.

I am not surprised he didn't make the roster. While at Arkansas he always struck me as cocky and lazy.
We stayed at the hotel on away games with the team several times during his career and he NEVER spent any time with the fans. He gave me the impression he was to good to associate with the people who supported him. At the hotel in Dallas for the Cotton Bowl-several if not all the players but he and McFadden stood in the lobby and signed autographs for about 75 kids every night. Monk would walk by several kids asking for autographs and he walked by ignoring each and every one of them. I lost alot of respect for him that night. If he didn't want to sign, he could have stayed in his room like Mcfadden did. My son has a football autographed by EVERY player and coach from last years team except for Monk's, he wouldn't stop long enough to add his.

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND!!

That's funny you say that.

I watched Marcus go from a tall drink of water to a Div1/Pro caliber receiver over the course of his tenure at U of A. That says a lot about his dedication to the sport and say a lot about the "laziness" in question.

Also, I believe he got his degree in 3 1/2 years. That's an accomplishment few achieve. Especially, playing Div 1 sports.

He held a fundraiser for EPC and Marked Tree students to help pay for school supplies, recently. He put forth a lot of effort to make this happen.

I've seen him mobbed by countless fans, young and old, as he attended EPC football games home and away AND he signed hundreds of autographs. I've seen a line of kids and parents over a section long at the Fed Ex Forum getting autographs while he was watching the EPC girls play. Some even took pictures with him. Nothing smug about that...

No, I don't see where you could say that he was lazy and cocky. I see a confident young man trying to make the best out of his life with his GOD given abilities. He did it on the field and in the classroom.

I think the last line of your reply tells us a little about why you would post that.... I have an autograph from Marcus. In fact, I have two. Want one?

I just wish that had been some way for Marcus to had a glimpse into the future last spring. Had he know that Houston Dale was leaving and Petrino was coming in, he could have played one more year. He would have been the featured receiver in Petrion's offense ( and they sure needed him this year), and also got some valuable experience in a prostyle offense, rather than 3 years of Houston's "Run & Poot".

Even though he is struggling this year, I think a year under Petrino's coaches would have prepared him for the NFL. I still say the statements made by more than one current Razorback about receiving coaching like they have never had says tons about what was "on the hill".

I know some are already wanting to get on petrino, but we ALL have to remember, he is using Houston's recruits, do I need to say more.

Marcus was a senior. Played four years. He had no more eligibility.

I think he meant he wishes Marcus would have gone ahead and redshirted instead of coming back and playing two or three sub-par games. I wish the same thing, even though the Hogs receivers are pretty good without him, we would have another threat with him. I bet he has thought about the same thing a time or two in the past few weeks.

Thanks but no thanks on the autograph. I based my post on a personal experience with him as you did. I believe first impressions are the most important and that was the first personal impression I got from him. From your post I will ASSUME that my experience with him was an isolated one. I could care less about the autograph for myself but there was at leat 15 kids under the age of 12, including my 9 year old, asking for it and he stopped for no one. Try explaining to a 9 year old why an adult let alone an athlete would completely ignore him. No one else did.

I based my post on my personal experience and my first impression I had with him, not based on the fact I am an EPC homer.

I'm not an EPC homer, actually a rival school, Manila, and I have neither seen nor heard a negative word about Monk until your post. He has given autographs and such at ballgames at Manila. He's one of my favorite Razorbacks of all time. Local kid does well kind of thing.
Sorry you had a bad experience.

hoopswatcher,

I'm definitely no EPC homer. And i haven't seen Monk in a couple years or so. But, every time I've been around him, he seems to constantly be talking up the kids. They all are trying to get autographs and such. And he seemed to really focus on them.

I'm hoping that was an isolated incident...and I believe it was. Nothing but good to say about Marcus from this corner of Mississippi County.

Always gonna be some haters. Even Mother Teresa had critics.

I am in no way a hater. I loved Marcus as a player at the UofA. I was very surprised at the way things happened in Dallas. I was just stating a personal experience with him. I am glad by the response from you guys, especially Mike D, that this must have been an isolated experience. I just hated it for the kids that wanted the autograph. My son now has a football signed by every 2007 Razorback, including DMac, Felix and all the coaches. Coach Broyles even stop to sign. The only sig missing is Monk's. I sctatched them off the roster as they signed.
My apoligy for assuming this was the way he always was, hopefully this was isolated.