i was at offcamber like 3 or 4 years ago and ran into a dude who had one of austin stroupes rookie year bikes he was ridin around, what ever happend to austin stroupe, he was settn the world on fire and then just disapeared.
if this is true^ he probably realized that he could get a guarenteed check for "training" other people how to ride, rather than train himself and be sitting on the fence every other year wondering who will pick him up.