MARCUS THOMAS CLEARED–BACK FOR LSU

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   [...] Funny blogger about Meyer This is over at houserockbuilt.blogspot.com, which is a Notre Dame centered blog, but has tons of football stuff. He takes part in a large blogger top 25 poll (the credentials to be involved are pretty long). Anyway, he has Florida #2 but makes light of the Marcus Thomas non-suspension. I’ll paste it. Welcome to number 2, Gators. An impressive sequence of wins catapults the Gators to the penultimate spot. This is a reward for their performance so far, but the conventional wisdom at the House Rock Built suggests that it’s a temporary honor. Looking ahead to the Gators’ schedule, I would be stunned as hell if they can live through the crux of their SEC schedule unscathed, particularly when it’s back-to-back-to-back. Granted, I’ll be the first to bow down and praise the great Robot Genius Urban Bowden Meyer and his infinitely wise slap-on-the-wrist suspensions for substance abuse should they run the gamut undefeated, but I’m guessing I’ll be availed of that duty sometime in the next few weeks. Seriously, though. Talk about coaching acumen. To observe a situation where a it’s useful to have a star defensive tackle back in your lineup and to have the gumption to revoke his marijuana suspension is a moment of profound coaching clarity up there with Knute Rockne’s invention of the forward pass and the "Win One for the Gipper" speech. Kudos to Coach Fulmer Meyer for shattering coaching conventions in the name of the success on the field. Big game tomorrow? Then allow me to roll that big-assed blunt! [...]

   Pingback by Funny blogger about Meyer - VolNation — October 10, 2006 @ 11:11 pm

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   I realize the moment has long passed and was never relevant in the first place, but the college rankings that were linked actually placed Penn State ahead of Penn. Heh.

   Other notables:
   35. Yale
   36. Princeton
   80. Brown
   85. Dartmouth
   94. Vanderbilt
   100. Georgetown

   I’m sure most people already considered the University of Hawaii to be better than Dartmouth and Mississippi State better than Georgetown, but now we have incontrovertible evidence. Thank you, webometrics.info!

   For the person who attempted to support an argument with this web site, it shouldn’t have even passed the sniff test. Then, if you actually read the methodology, you would see that the it is intended to rank the “web presence of institutions” using various internet search engines. The express purpose of webometrics is “the quantitative study of the Internet and specially the processes of scholar communication in the Web.” You might have also noticed that the title of the page you linked is “World Universities’ Ranking ON THE WEB.”

   You’re not acquitting the UF education well today. “Foot, meet mouth. You can bray like a donkey after you see this list…”

   Too funny.

   Comment by Steedle — October 9, 2006 @ 2:15 am

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   I’d hate to be lumped into that category, Bill and Orson, and maybe I’m the idiot for gratifying the trolls, but it’s not like I’m arguing about SAT scores here.

   Comment by Phil K. — October 8, 2006 @ 9:36 pm

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   I am so fucking sick of this thread.

   Here’s a quote from that Observer piece you decided not to use, Harvey:

   Well, one thing led to another. That afternoon, near the library, she wound up being surrounded by five Notre Dame security officers: two officers in a car, two upon bikes and one on a motorcycle. The story as told by an eyewitness is that she was intoxicated and shouting an obscenity…The officers are said to have claimed that she was belligerent and displaying violent tendencies.

   One thing led to another, huh? Yeah sometimes that gets the cops involved. The police have cracked down hard on underage tailgating; I’ve seen people tased at off-campus parties for less. So basically what we have here is the author of an editorial (not a newspaper article) injecting the issue of racism without giving any evidence for it. She asks whether maybe it’s possible that the woman in question was treated differently because of her race. She doesn’t answer her own question, nor give any justification for asking it in the first place. A nice little rhetorical trick, if you’re writing a paper for freshman comp. Or if you’re Scoop Jackson.

   The second piece you linked, a letter to the editor of The Observer, is hardly more convincing. Am I disappointed to hear that a freshman heard some racist jokes in the dorm? Absolutely. I never claimed that the entire student body is fit for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Racism exists in America, and Notre Dame is part of America.

   However, you still fail to make the distinction between the actions of a few individuals and the actions of Notre Dame as an institution. I already pointed out your inability or unwillingness to do so in my last comment. This is simply idiotic

   Comment by Phil K. — October 8, 2006 @ 9:32 pm

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   Yes, Bill. That would be the right read.

   Comment by Orson Swindle — October 7, 2006 @ 8:35 am

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   This thread has gone way stupid. By the way, Rockne hated the name “Fighting Irish.” And if the name reflected the ethnicity of the guys who actually played for the team, we would be the Fighting Polacks. I think the guys who run the site acknowledge that this is a shady decision to reinstate this guy and there is no reason for ND guys to beat their chest about it.

   I graduated from ND in ‘95 but I went to West Point until I lost my arm in a car accident in ‘93. The only thing I have to say about my alma mater is that ot would be great execpt for all the f’in Domers.

   Comment by Bill — October 7, 2006 @ 1:22 am

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   This is all real interesting but can we get back to the original topic?

   A committee from UF is reinstating a player after three games, right before the LSU game, mind you, when he was supposed to serve a five-game suspension?

   This site (and the Florida fans) are very quick to point out when other SEC school’s players run afoul, but when it’s their own they hide behind a bunch of lame excuses (it’s the commitee’s decision, not Meyer’s). What a joke.

   I guess if you continue to justify and rationalize this incident enough in your minds then it eventually becomes the truth, at least with the Gators’ fans.

   SEC fever. Catch it.

   Comment by mark wayne — October 6, 2006 @ 11:19 pm

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   Phil K. - Racism in ND Part 3:

   From the ND Observer again, here is a kid writing about his experience at Notre Dame:

   “The number of racist remarks I have heard since arriving on campus only a few months ago is staggering.”

   (((((So, if a bunch of people, including some Domers, are pointing out the obvious, that there seems to be racism at ND, I would suggest you not just brush it away like it does not exist. H.W.))))))

   http://www.ndsmcobserver.com/media/storage/paper660/news/2005/11/08/Viewpoint/Racism.Still.Alive-1048617.shtml?norewrite200610062007&sourcedomain=www.ndsmcobserver.com

   Comment by Harvey Wireman — October 6, 2006 @ 8:12 pm

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   Phil K.

   Here is a section of an article in the ND Observer written about how an African American was treated at Notre Dame, not LA, NY or Oxford, Miss.:

   “…Incidentally, aside from her two fists of fury, she carried nothing but a pack of cigarettes so I am unsure what violent harm she would have caused to five male cops all her size or bigger. She was made to cry. She was made to believe she was going to jail. She was, upon reflection, treated in a manner not equal to the situation. Why was she forced to the ground? Surely, she was not the first intoxicated person the Notre Dame Security/Police have ever run across.

   I am greatly angered and offended for her, not only because her birthday week will not be the same, but also because this is Notre Dame, not simply a downtown street in some inner city. We are a family. If a member of my family is treated this way, I cannot sit idly by.

   We live in dorms; we eat the same foods; we take the same classes; we go to the same parties; we see the same people. The only difference is that she is black and I am white. I do not know, but I wonder if the only difference between us was also noticed by those five security officers? But perhaps this was just the routine Notre Dame security treatment. In either case, though, whether racist or overly militant, this is not Notre Dame treatment.

   This event occurred on the Notre Dame campus. If it happened once, could it not happen again?”

   http://www.nd.edu/~observer/11062001/Viewpoint/3.html

   Comment by Harvey Wireman — October 6, 2006 @ 8:05 pm

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    I kno wfor a fact that the only Marcus Thomas did wron was accidentally roll down his window at a stop light while some thugs in the car next were hitting their j’s. he is totally innocent.

    there IS a god. I’m changing my prediction. UF now wins.

    Comment by secrules — October 6, 2006 @ 7:08 pm

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