May 16th, 2013 
James Shotwell 
This story should be filed under “poor decision making.”
Extol, Pennsylvania teenager and high school wide receiver Jay Harris has lost his athletic scholarship to Michigan State University after details of his aspiring rap career were made public.
Coming to us from Philadelphia newspaper The Inquirer, it seems all the fuss began roughly a month ago when Harris, who goes by the stage name Jay DatBull, began posting a series of relatively explicit music videos online. The biggest single, “DatBull 4 Life,” appears to feature Harris smoking weed while operating a motor vehicle and bragging about doing molly with his friends. You can view the video at the end of this post.
Upon being made aware of the videos, Michigan State University reached out to Harris to discuss the footage. According to Harris, he freely chose a rap career over college football. A michigan State Spokesperson even called the move “a mutual decision.”
“I’ve always had this in the back of my head, but never had the courage to tell my parents that this is what I want to do,” Harris said.
Harris was reportedly scheduled to join the September 2013 freshman class, but now will be staying in PA for the foreseeable. The 5-foot-11, 162-pounder is ranked by ESPN as the state’s 17th-ranked senior and second-best wideout. He scored 13 touchdowns last season on 54 catches for 792 yards. He was originally named to play in this Pennsylvania’s annual Big 33 all-star football game, but his name was removed recently from the roster.
As much as we love to see passionate musicians doing whatever they can to chase their dream, you would be hard pressed to find a notable person in the music business who does not have some kind of back up plan. You have to account for the possibility you may not make it, or at least not to a level of success than can sustain you (let alone a family), and right now it seems like Jay DatBull is only focused on the present. Watch his video below and let us know if you think this move was the best one this young man could have made.
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WTF???? I can see us hearing about this guys future run-ins with the law, or drug problems, or him dying at a real young age. His mental state has already been determined–giving up a free ride at a first-class college playing football–to do this?????MAYBE had a promising career in the NFL making MILLIONS–but no–I want to be a thug. I bet his parents are REAL proud.