Quarterback roulette
The Fighting Irish don’t have a starting quarterback named, according to Charlie Weis. Dude, what’s the holdup? The season is almost here. Your lawsuit is resolved. Time to get on the stick and pick one. You have three viable candidates, which is more than some teams have. So just spin the chamber and pull the trigger already. Inquiring minds want to know who your starter is.
Wake Forest is going to be defending its first ACC title since 1970. You go, boys. You were the sleepers of last season and I always like to see sleepers win. Unless it’s FSU, of course.
South Carolina’s QB returned to practice after having academic problems. Seems he missed too many summer school classes. Well, there’s an easy solution to that one - go to class. Duh.
Speaking of South Carolina, Steve Spurrier is upset that two of his recruits were denied admission to the school even though they met the NCAA’s minimum academic standards. Um, dude. It’s a college. It’s supposed to be academically competitive. Sports are great, but academics come first. At least they should come first. If they don’t make the cut, they don’t play. Simple enough.
Florida running back Brandon James got six months probation and community service for purchasing pot. Easy solution to that one, too - don’t smoke pot, or have someone else buy it for you. Hello!
Nobody in college football should be more glad to be starting a new season than Arkansas coach Houston Nutt. The Arkansas offseason was, in a nutshell, nuts. Now it’s time for football, which means the drama level in Arkansas will revert to a normal state. At the very least, there will be something substantial to talk about.
A woman lied to the cops and said Northern Colorado punter Mitchell Cozad was with her when he was supposedly stabbing the team’s starting punter. That’s not the first time a woman has lied about being with a football player …
UCLA fans have to be excited, if this little bit from the LA Times is true. “UCLA fans had to rub their eyes and hope it wasn’t a mirage: Bruins receivers went up field and got the ball.” Well, that’s a good start. Now they just have to cross the goal line with it. Get ‘er done!
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August 7th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
As a Gator fan, are you allowed to call out the Steverino?
August 7th, 2007 at 11:40 pm
In my defense, I wasn’t a Gators fan during the Spurrier days. I wasn’t even a football fan then. And had Urban Meyer said it, I would have called him out. Dumb is dumb, no matter who the mascot is.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Well, Coach Meyer isn’t going to be denied any thing (or any player) any time soon. The way I see it is that the University was not communicating to their athletic department. If they were going to have different standards than the ncaa then they should have let the coaching staff know before offers were made and accepted.
The offers currently in question were made last winter - and then this summer the young men were denied admission.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
It sounds like you’ve nailed the communication problem. Maybe the athletic department needs to supply the admissions folks with their very own headsets.
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:31 am
ND really should just give the ball to Claussen and let him grow as a QB