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Is this for real? If so, I may be making an impromptu trip to Blacksburg tomorrow!
So I get down voted for that? Sorry, but I don't think Miami is top ten team, but I do think it's good for perspective.
They had no choice, state law requires an investigation into any allegation of bullying.
I'll add this - wouldn't it be even MORE insulting if the winning team had sent out the backups and instructed them to dive for two yards, take a knee, punt on third down, etc? If an opponent is going to kick the crap out of my team, at least actually play the game.
If anything, it's the athletics regulatory commission (whatever it's called for the area) that should have rules in place for such a thing. I know in many places I've been to, there's a mercy rule in baseball/softball/soccer. Is there no mercy rule for these decidedly one-sided affairs?
It shouldn't be on the coaches or the players who are there to play. If the coach gets third and fourth stringers on the field, they shouldn't be in there just to bow down to the other team. They want to play, too, and they should be allowed to try there hardest to score and play. If you're up something like 50-0 by halftime, it should be on the refs to seek an agreement by the coaches or something to end the game there, not the coach of the clearly dominant team to kneel.
Its at a time like this that I wish the coach had left the first string in the ENTIRE game. G*D D@ammit, its not like the team scored that many more points than usual. Their average victory is over 60 points, so even winning by 90 barely bumped that average up. And at what point does the coach owe it to his first stringers to allow them to stay in games so that college recruiters and coaches can get a full game tape on these players who ALL probably want football scholarships. I doubt they need much in the way of advertisement, seeing how often they are state champions but what happens to the starters later in the year when they get to the playoffs and actually need to play an entire game and haven't had to do it the entire year because they are blowing everyone out.
Only method I have seen coaches readily apply in this kind of situation that slowed the scoring was to send their team in with the goal of moving the sticks. Get a first down, end the play safely, get another first down. Work the drive as if their opponent was decent. The reason I hate seeing any of that is when you tell a kid to hesitate on a football field it puts them at risk of getting hurt.
Sounds as if the coach did just about all he could to keep the situation as contained as possible and the woeful mollycoddling parent should have to offer an apology publicly.
Effin' Ornstein and Smough, man.
And I think, how much does it suck to be her kid? How can you be a young man and football player and show up with your head high in school after mommy issues a bullying complaint on your behalf. Good grief.
GOOD NEWS GUYS. GOT 2 STARTING RB OFF OF WAIVERS.
BAD NEWS GUYS. THEY'RE MIKE JAMES AND CHRIS IVORY.
Whoever has me this week is going to win. I've got Rivers, Rice, Mathews, Gates, K. Allen and Hilton on bye and Murray banged up. Woof.
sounds like college...
"Yeah... we probably shouldn't have three teams in the top ten, but I'll take it if it makes the SEC look better than it really is."
said no SEC fan...ever
This is possibly the best use of this GIF ever. Kobe looks at the comment TWICE, at the beginning, and after he gives the score, as if to check to make sure it is really 10 worthy. And it is.
+1 to you and the original comment. I love TKP...
For those that might not get it
Yeah... we probably shouldn't have three teams in the top ten, but I'll take it if it makes the acc look better than it really is.
I rarely go anymore. so when I'm drunk and head there, I have to order all my favorites. Grilled stuffed burrito, cheesey gordita crunch, big beef meximelt, crunchwrap supreme. I may even throw in some soft tacos or something too just for SHITS and giggles.
Can't complain about Super Mario Kart? I'm sorry, but have you not met the blue shell? It ruins friendships and breaks up happy homes.
Screw you, Princess Peach.
Also nominating UVA as Duke Nukem Forever:
Newest version of a franchise that was good in the 90s.
Huge buildup to debut followed by a laughably awful product.
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# | Brandon Facyson suffers a concussion per Andy Bitter. Hopes to be cleared for Duke Rogers on O and Dadi on D, and we're good.
Sometimes they switch positions to make it interesting.
Great Article! I especially enjoyed the "PTSD (post traumatic sack disorder)"!
We agree completely.
When you have a mother like this who filed the bullying complaint, even though the coach and players of the losing team haven't expressed any suspicion of unsportsmanlike play, I think you can pretty much conclude that this mother has very little grasp of reality.
I mean, what was the winning team supposed to do? Punt on every 1st down once they went up by 21? That's not fair to 2nd- and 3rd-stringers who want game reps.
If we can broaden the video game analogies to individual players, I'm going with Pitt QB Tom Savage (v. VT) as Dark Souls because he was getting killed every other play.
The usual power there is the show cause itself because most institutions wouldn't be willing to take the additional sanctions. Typically when someone gets hit with this they end up with no salary directly from an NCAA institution until the show cause penalty is over because they are fired or already out of work as schools anticipate this kind of penalty hitting these people. I am surprised that Louisville is willing to let him sit out until Spring 2014 for what is his primary responsibility on that staff.
Agree. Bullying is no laughing matter, that's for sure
That and now he has a sweet payout if he stays until 2015.
Let's just say that VT ends up in the ACC championship game. I think it will be time for the shirt to be made:
"The rumors of VT's demise are greatly exaggerated. Horse on a treadmill, mf'er."