The NFL Draft Pick Who Quit Football 6 Days Before the Draft
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- čas přidán 2. 04. 2024
- Picture this- you're about to get drafted. You're a surefire thing to hear your name called. Scouts have looked at you, teams have spoken to you, and you've gone through the process. And then, not even one week before the draft, you decide to drop out, and tell teams not to draft you, because football isn't in your future. Well, prior to the 1980 NFL Draft, that's exactly what happened with Tulane quarterback Roch Hontas, who made a controversial decision that deserves a deep dive more than four decades later
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Honestly the fact he's still a practicing doctor 40 years later speaks for itself. He absolutely made the right choice.
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Tulane medical school is no joke. In the long run Dr. Hontas made more money than playing in the NFL, not to mention helping more people.
And staying healthy. No concussion, no broken bones...
A true Student-Athlete. Great story. Thanks for sharing.
And he is still practicing as a doctor to this very day, he has a practice in Covington, Louisiana as an orthopedic surgeon.
Yep...both he and his brother Mark worked on my wife's bad knees.
He's a pretty well-regarded Orthopedic Surgeon, from what I understand.
Kennedy assassin Lee harvey oswald and Pistol Pete Maravich are also from Covington. Two great shooters
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Yes we just heard the video tell us that
I heard the B-52's originally called the song "Roch Hontas" but after he dropped out of the draft they changed it to "Rock Lobster". 😁
"Death to America! and Butter Sauce. Don't boil me. I'm still alive. IRAQ LOBSTAH! IRAQ LOBSTAH!"
Well done, sir!
i grew up with a guy that wrestled since he was 5, soon as he turned 18, he took off for 10 years not even letting his family know where he was. he got so sick of wrestling because of his father pushing him, soon has he could he left, left instead of going to college, and schools wanted him.
Truth be told, Tulane carries a lot of weight from an education perspective. It's the closest thing I feel we have to an Ivy League school here in Louisiana. And money goes a lot farther here.
He knew he could either risk it in the league or be set for life as a doctor. I think he made the right choice for him.
But I am a Tulane fan, I love seeing the alumni play in the league.
Being an AAU member helps. That's for sure.
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This comment section is one of the best reads on CZcams in a long time. Lots of good lessons about making the right choice and not getting the big head and regretting it later.
Getting a Moonlight Graham vibe from this.
I’d say it’s certain he’s far more healthy & wealthy with the path he chose to stay on. Money was very different in the NFL of 1980.
I've talked to my Doctor about medical school. He told me you have to "get lucky" to get a spot. He had to go to school now or it wasn't going to happen. Even if drafted doesn't mean you last in NFL long enough to get the NFL pension. ~Brian
Not only did he win MVP of the Liberty Bowl, he did leading his offense to a total of 6 pts. 6.
6, Carl!
He threw for 210 yards in a game where both teams combined for 539 yards. Matt Suhey rushed for 112 yards for the Nittany Lions in that game.
9-6 Penn State in heavy rain.
12:46 Dan Frontmann was a Guard and Linebacker for the Bears during the 40s and went to med school at the University of Chicago. His name came into my head when you mentioned it
It really is a bit of a shame Roch "Don't Call Me Poca" Hontas didn't at least give the NFL a try, though. He was throwing some straight dimes in the video, especially by 1979 standards.
This is very similar to what happened in 1987 with Brian Bosworth (as in the linebacker who was a beast at Oklahoma) & a potential career of all things as an indoor soccer player. In between the end of the college football season & the NFL draft, Bosworth had sent letters to various NFL teams stating that if they drafted him, he would refuse to turn up to training camp & play for them. In an attempt to gain some publicity, the Tacoma Stars of the MISL selected him in the 12th round of the 1987 MISL draft saying that because Bosworth didn't send a letter to them about not playing for them, he could be drafted by them. It later turned out that all of this was a joke that Bosworth & the Stars pulled on the media & the public to make them think that he was switching sports even though both he & the Stars had no intention of him actually playing. However the MISL commissioner did not find this funny at all claiming it "made a mockery of the sport" & fined the Stars $30,000 & took away two draft picks in the 1988 draft. As for Bosworth, he would eventually make it to the NFL & we all know how that turned out.
There is also John Frank and Myron Rolle. Frank started for the 49ers and won a SB with Montana. He quit the NFL to become a doctor. Myron Rolle also opted out of the draft to be a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and eventually played in the NFL and quit to go to medical school.
Robert Smith quit football at Ohio State for one year to concentrate on studies. Then later quit the NFL coning off his best year.
Washington State FB Dan Doornink. After he graduated with his Bachelors in Pre Med he went to Med School at Washington and signed with the Seahawks. His career high point was a game on MNF vs the Raiders where he rushed for over 200 yards. If you ask Matt Millen about that night he will quickly change the subject. Last I heard Doornink was working at a clinic on the Yakima Indian Reservation.
Don Hennon graduated from the University of Pittsburgh as their all-time leading scorer in basketball; and was the 41st selection in the NBA draft in 1959. He never pursued a basketball career and went on to become a surgeon.
Reminds me of Field of Dreams with Moonlight Graham
If his successful in his career, he has no regrets, and he his happy, then cheers for him. That's the most important thing.
Better than Manziel who essentially quit football right after he was drafted. At least this guy was honest and trying to warn everyone.
Randy Gregg played ten years in the NHL and retired to become a physician
those are some hilights, that guy had some serious game. But he apparently had a different calling and was upfront about it. You gotta respect that. Instead of being an athlete who went to school, he was a student who played sports. Great Story, thanks for sharing. He was rocking it in that old school Dunguard facemask and tear away jersey.
The '80 QB class wasn't as mind blowingly awful as some others, but it wasn't close to good either. Nobody managed even 15,000 career passing yards. Basically just a bunch of backup level players who had occasional moments here and there but nothing more.
His dream was to become a doctor, not a pro football star. Seems that he fulfilled it. Football was a means to an end for him, and there aren't many quarterbacks who can say they led Tulane to a nine-win season.
Must be something in the water down there. remember Tommy Casanova? LSU. Played for the Bengals in the early 70's. Quit football and became a doctor. both made a very good decision......
You should know the story of Alan Page. He had a 15 year storied career as an All-Pro DT for the Vikings and the Bears which got him into the HOF. Not only that he got his JD degree and became a lawyer while still playing pro football. After that that he was appointed assistant attorney general for the state Minnesota, then was elected associate justice for the Minnesota Supreme Court. Absolute excellence in two fields.
I was at his first game of the 1979 season, which was a road game at Stanford. I had season tickets. It was John Elway's freshman year.
Tulane came in and spanked 13th ranked Stanford. Turk Schonert had an inconsistent season, as he and Elway were splitting time in a disappointing season.
I was reminded of this draft situation which honestly hasn't been addressed since. Great piece of history I was able to see some of first hand.
Glad to see he got to live his dream, and refreshing that it was something other than the NFL
Hontas is doing pretty well for himself. He's one of so many college athletes who go pro in something other than sports. Not every top college football player is cut out for the NFL anyway.
What about Laurent Duvernay? He played in the NFL and was a doctor at the same time. Won a Super Bowl!
He did finish his pro career with the Jets, then again he has an outstanding career in the Medical industry
Great video JG9..
I think he would have regretted not going to medical school more, good for him to follow his heart.
WOW, from my senior year of high school in New Orleans, I was never a big Tulane fan as my family was all LSU. My nephew goes to Tulane, and the last few years have been fun for the Wave with Pratt at QB.
Never played in the NFL, still a better NFL QB than Rusty Lisch.
Much respect!! You did the right thing!!
Hey Hi, Great content, staying with the NFL Draft theme, How about the story of the 1983 and 1984 USFL/NFL Draft, the USFL signed a TON of great talent away from the NFL.
The Ottawa Rough Riders' general manager then was Jake Dunlap, a notorious tightwad, so any offer coming to Hontas from Ottawa might have been unacceptable to him.
Ed Luther! San Jose Spartan! I think he and Eric Hipple played to a 48-48 tie that year.
The real-life moonlight graham
Great post! Good choice for 1980. If this were 2024, he could make millions over maybe 5 years, and still go to med school at 27 or 28 years old. The QB for the Chargers could go to medical school, but there is so much money in the NFL now, it is understandable he chose football.
Great story about a very interesting guy
could have gone pro and spent 5-7 years as a backup QB and retired needing an orthopedic surgeon for his broken body ....but no, he stays in school and BECOMES an orthopedic surgeon
so here is a cautionary tale to you youngsters about choosing wisely...don't let this happen to you...
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best comment.. very good p oints.
Roch hontas made his decision and he had no regrets! I think he made the right choice-and he has done it for the last 40 years or so-he explained it clearly in that interview! 😮😮😅😅
Dr. Roch Hontas, MD is an orthopedic surgery specialist in Covington, LA and has over 39 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1984.
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Stop yelling, my mom can hear you!
@@andrewmorris4628 well,it’s his fault, not mine, man -he made it too big it looked like he was yelling!
@@randytracy1742 haha, not talking about you, just the library disturber
He's an orthopedic surgeon in St Tammany parish, La. Good for him. I wonder if they're going to be guys that get really good NIL money that will decide that they don't want to be a career back up to a backup in the NFL. They are going to be millionaires who have to decide whether it's worth their time to play in the pros.
Orthopedic Surgeon, and a pretty noteworthy one.
This unofficial Official Jaguar Gator 9 historian will remind everyone you made a video about how Tight End John Frank retired from the 49ers right before the 1989 Draft to continue his medical career.
That’s weird that he won an MVP and still lost the game.
He reminds me of the Dr. Graham, in Fields of Dreams.
A good man with a good head on his shoulders since he was in HS.
There's just no way if he was my QB and bombed in a game, that I would fail to call him "Roch A. Hontas" 😂😂😂
Great story!!
Pat Trammell. Look him up.
Any relation between Larry Fortner and Luke Fortner?
He followed his dream and won✌
Just think they blamed Marino's senior season on the coke rumor,he should've been way higher..should do a video on that
Had he chosen a professional football career, he would have become a medical case (as many NFL veterans do) rather than a medical doctor. Interestingly, none of the quarterbacks you mentioned in your fine video ever became a star. A few were serviceable journeymen, but none ever become an All-Pro, let alone a Hall-of-Famer.
We need Mel kiper to give us the scouting breakdown on hontas.
I like that this video didn't have the whining like the ones in the past videos. Football doesn't deserve that.
Would have been a better story if it turned out Honas dropped out of Med School, followed the Grateful Dead on the road for 2 years and now makes birdhouses that he sells at the local flea market.
I am sure he was going to set the NFL on fire with his 5-15 yards wobbly ducks.
I’d say he made the right decision.
So why did he even played football in the first place if he wanted to go to med school after college? Not saying that he couldn't do both but he could had chose months ago to turn down the draft instead of days.
He did what a lot of college athletes do. He used college football to get his education. There is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
As for waiting until the last minute to opt out of the draft, yea maybe he should have decided earlier. But at least he did do it before the draft instead of quitting on some team that might be depending in him.
Roch as in Rochester? Nobody named Rochester should play in the NFL 😂
God bless him.
Andrew Luck very nearly did something similar.
Complete Chad move
Pretty sure Steeler fans still hate on Mark Malone 😂
I stopped watching once i heard medical school. He made the right decision.
Well, that decision made him earn a lot of MVP trophies in real life. Guess its a no brainer he did the right thing.
I mean, telling him "'ÿou could have been a NFL quarterback"" (instead of being a doctor) is kind of like ""you could have been a Kiosk owner, do you regret your career path that brought you not only relative wealth, but helped a ton of people""
Even if he chooses nfl path he could of been released same year. He did the right choice.
ROCH-A-HONTAS!
Sounds like dude is trying to clown him for his decision. Still practicing medicine 40 years later and no CTE, sounds good to me. Plus, this was the 80’s. Players wasn’t making big money and the NFL had no big retirement benefits.
I respect him
Smart
He was practical. He may have been drafted low and stuck on a bad team risking a head injury. He most likely would not have made big bucks so why play the NFL game.
I'm already gonna know. I'm gonna hate this guy's voice