Why can't superstars like Michael Vick get better advice/guidance from the people around him?

I mean, If I am his agent, I need to protect my income, which means protecting my client from doing anything that would jeopardize his career. Why isn't his family or his business associates protecting him from getting in these situations? I'm sure some of them knew about the dogfighting. I really don't want to make this a race issue, but it's hard not to. Who is giving this man advice, other than his posse?Why can't superstars like Michael Vick get better advice/guidance from the people around him?
Apparently no one. It's quite sad actually, since all the people around him tend to be ';Yes men';. They are only there to please him.





Where is his mother would be a better question.Why can't superstars like Michael Vick get better advice/guidance from the people around him?
He has grown up poor and followed the wrong crowd. That's all he knows. Can't change him. He's probably still surrounded by the wrong people.
You can lead a rock to water, but you can't make it drink.
Ghetto athletes hire ghetto agents so who is going to advise who? No one wants to admit it but it is the truth in most cases. Prove me wrong, in the meantime, for those of you afraid to ';appear racist';, just give me the thumbs down.
All the good advice in the world isn't going to help anyone if the refuse to follow it. You can't force someone to make good decisions, they have to do that on their own.
Unfortunately, agents, sponsors, the public......give them all the incentive to do what ever they want. This is not the first time Vick has been in trouble, but it is the only major one to catch up to him. He probably had agents, friends, attorneys, sponsors, boosters help him out before. But, this time the crime was so serious, nobody wanted to touch it or be associated with him, which is why he got left out in the cold.
I think the better question is: Why don't they listen to the good advice they give? They've got their agents, coaches, team owners, and people that the teams and the NFL hire to try to keep these guys from making bad decisions. With all those people trying to steer them in the right direction, they must really have to fight hard to go the wrong way like they do.
Advice only goes so far. Look at the world today. People do what they want when they want. Many do not consider the consequences for there actions. Or think that nothing bad will ever happen to them. ie get caught or injured. You can talk a mans ear off, about right and wrong, but at the end of the day only your jaw hurts.
Its not that he can't get better advic. its that he will not listen. People like Vick, Michael Jackson, Paris Hilton, and others have so much money they start to believe there own hype, they think the rules do not apply to them.
It is well known in The Falcons circle that Vick does not, nor ever have, hung with his teammates. Sure, they're friends and all but they do NOT hang out.





It's not the fact that people weren't giving him advice it's the fact that he wouldn't listen!!





The fact that he spent so much time outside of the team should have been a red flag to begin with.





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