Your definition of potential is what is causing most of this debate. Potential when defined into football terms means that it is the players MAX abilities to perform. If that his max(meaning his highest) then how could it possibly get any higher? If anything it should only get lower if he gets hurt but that is the only way it should be able to move. No one IRL ever gets a higher potential. If that was the case then I could become the next HOF player and so could you and so could your 12 grade math teacher. Do you see how flawed the system is by saying potential is not the max a person can ever achieve?
The real definition of Potential is this...
1 : existing in possibility
: capable of development into actuality <
potential benefits>
2 : expressing possibility;
specifically : of, relating to, or constituting a verb phrase expressing possibility, liberty, or power by the use of an auxiliary with the infinitive of the verb (as in
“it may rain
”)
Another set of definitions
| 1. | possible, as opposed to actual: the potential uses of nuclear energy. |
| 2. | capable of being or becoming: a potential danger to safety. |
| 3. | Grammar. expressing possibility: the potential subjunctive in Latin; the potential use of can in I can go. |
–noun
| 5. | possibility; potentiality: an investment that has little growth potential. |
| 6. | a latent excellence or ability that may or may not be developed. |
| 7. | Grammar. | a. | a potential aspect, mood, construction, case, etc. | | b. | a form in the potential. | |
| 9. | Mathematics, Physics. a type of function from which the intensity of a field may be derived, usually by differentiation. |
| 10. | someone or something that is considered a worthwhile possibility: The list of job applications has been narrowed to half a dozen potentials. |