Marcus Vick, a.k.a Hank Bosnia, dismissed from the Virginia Tech football team. The official word:
Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick has been permanently dismissed from the Hokie football program due to a cumulative effect of legal infractions and unsportsmanlike play.
Virginia Tech had suspended Vick in 2004. The university provided one last opportunity for Vick to become a citizen of the university and readmitted him in January 2005, with the proviso that any future problems would result in automatic dismissal from the team.
Et…voila! Sad. Stupid, and sad.
Marcus Vick believes he can fly…to Barcelona, to play for the Dragons.
Be careful of the volume! (more…)
Scott Frear, the former head coach of The University of St. Mary’s in Kansas, was indicted for possessing and sending child pornography. That explains why they were overplaying Rock N Rock Part 2 at all there games.
Go St. Mary!
Marcus Vick, exemplar of fine sportsmanship and amateur high school guidance counselor, can now add potentially incarcerated to the resume. Vick was arrested for speeding and driving on a revoked license in Virginia on December 17th (court records did not show up on their site until yesterday.) Not a big deal by itself, but the timing is disastrous given his priors with the…um…mentoring session with the underage girls and the stepping on Elvis Dumervil’s knee incident. What’s worse: he evidently didn’t tell Beamer or the VT folks about this. Developing…
LD’s seeing horrible, horrible visions. And if you read this, you will be, too.
Texas does it bigger, even when celebrating a national title. Another one of college football’s insane, gargantuan traditions that make it so goddamn addictive:
Meanwhile over at Trojan Wire, another kind of number is being displayed in response to a lost bet to Burnt Orange Nation. Way to ante up, y’all.
Phil Knight is dancing in his Nikes somewhere atop his massive piles of cash: the most powerful pull in all of college football, tv-wise…is the Oregon Ducks? The guys with the Daffy DuckDonald Duck ripoff mascot and the Gatorade puke unis? Yes, the same ones, according to a Wall Street Journal article (click here for the computer gumming pdf) measuring team impact on television ratings. Oregon pulled a 16% ratings differential on bowl games they participated in, the highest of all bowl-eligible teams in the study’s sample, which seems cracked to the point of cat-food eating delirium to us, gut-wise, but…eppur si muove!
Holiday Bowl bitches, but kings of the small screen.
The interesting tack we find in this is that Notre Dame, with its own television contract and non-competitive status in games, comes in at number 7 behind less ballyhooed teams like Washington and Texas A&M. Note: non-competitive status meaning they’re always the prime draw on NBC, and not meaning OMG Notre Dame sux. Heading off that line at the pass, there–ed.We’re sure the Jesuitical minds of ND Nation and Blue-Gray Sky will get to work scissoring the methodology of the study up momentarily, but our instinct says that the prominence of Northwestern teams remains largely a product of geography. (more…)
Florida caps off their season by winning a bowl game and settling respectably into the number 12 spot in the AP final rankings. It’s like being number one and number two all at the same time! Urban didn’t win a national title, but he didn’t pay off our credit card bill, either; that is to say, doing the improbable takes time. If you didn’t get anything else out of this season as a Gator fan–and we did, since we’re documenting the whole season in elephantine fashion in a piece that should be ready this weekend–you should get the satisfaction of not having [NAME REDACTED] around losing bowl games, fighting with frat boys, and “improving” your team into the ground.
[NAME REDACTED]’s getting better and better. Fortunately he’s no longer doing it in Gainesville.
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