VONTAZE BURFICT HAS AN APPOINTMENT WITH YOUR FACE

by Orson on Sep 8, 2009 1:53 PM EDT

Arizona State beat the Idaho State Bengals 50-3 in their opener, paying the Bengals $400,000 for the privilege of getting a 47 point beating. The Bengals piled up 37 yards of net yardage on the night, and not all at once because you have to spread those out over the course of an evening just to be fair. They averaged 0.8 yards a play, but not on this play.

The next time an announcer reminds you that an overmatched opponent needs to "Move the pocket around, get the quarterback on the run, etc," you can suggest back to him that the defense "Needs to send a screaming hellbeast like Vontaze Burfict in there to make the quarterback flinch at loud noises for the next three months." Burfict just qualified academically last week to join ASU, but if the clip is any indication he has already chosen a major of criminal justice, and plans to be very hands on about administering it. (HT: Sean.)

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That’s a goddamn hit right there. Usually that would get the panties and bras off, but ASU, one eschews such unnecessary articles of clothing as convention.

by BurritoBrosShits on Sep 8, 2009 2:14 PM EDT reply actions

Chink in USC’s armor? Both top rated LB the Trojans lost in recruiting did very well. Monti Ta’o also had a very nice game for ND.

Losing top talent. Is this the beginning of the end for USC? Miami bound perhaps?

by tzubear on Sep 8, 2009 2:16 PM EDT reply actions

erickson is looking up at the scoreboard counting the seconds till he gets to pound his “victory” scotch

by matt on Sep 8, 2009 2:18 PM EDT reply actions

tzubear -

Since tOSU beating Miami was the beginning of their decline, I hope we are going to be the patient zero for USC. If the loss to tOSU becomes the end of the Trojan empire, I say the country is better off, but the real estate market in California would suffer greatly.

by Crabapple Buck on Sep 8, 2009 2:26 PM EDT reply actions

Juan Roque!

Good to see he’s still gainfully employed despite being a really, really sucky analyst.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 8, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

@2 – considering USC’s LB corps play on Saturday — the answer was a resounding NO; when the Humanitarian loses two, he’s got four others in the pipeline ready to step up. But that’s only San Jose State, much like this was merely ASU vs. Idaho State (which I wasn’t aware even existed.)

Vontaze’s last name sounds really close to “perfect”, so much so that someone’s gonna start calling him that if he keeps that kind of beautiful face-pounding up.

by Signal to Noise on Sep 8, 2009 2:30 PM EDT reply actions

If Mr Burfict would have done that at T. Boone Pickens Stadium a few hours earlier, he would have been flagged for 15.

by yoyofutbawl on Sep 8, 2009 2:31 PM EDT reply actions

Whats better than that hit? This video, in the same YouTube carousel at the bottom:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzFvA_3pyY&feature=player_embedded

My first question is, how did this fat lady get on top of this dining room table?

by Mr. Pelican Pants on Sep 8, 2009 2:36 PM EDT reply actions

MPP-
you have to watch the unabridged version. I’m not sure how many years that’s been floating around, but I still laugh like a jackal when I see it.

by BurritoBrosShits on Sep 8, 2009 2:43 PM EDT reply actions

StN @6,

The beginning of the end, not the end. I am not saying there is a drop of now in talented starters. Gallipo and the others were recruted by everybody, but USC is strating to lose top recruits to other schools. It is possible the current embarresment of riches will hamper the program in the future.

by tzubear on Sep 8, 2009 2:50 PM EDT reply actions

At least now Charmin-super-soft nice-n-cuddly Mark Richt has a deadline on replacing the Ginger Ninja at QB, halfway through the 3rd quarter on September 26.

by ya lawya on Sep 8, 2009 3:20 PM EDT reply actions

tzubear – nothing lasts forever. however, I’d hesitate to go with any beginning of the end until someone smacks up the Trojans for a Pac-10 title.

by Signal to Noise on Sep 8, 2009 3:37 PM EDT reply actions

@11: Why dat? Because Norwood this w/e isn’t any good?

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 8, 2009 3:38 PM EDT reply actions

matt @#3…and that would be Turfman’s Leisure Scotch, I assume…unless he was looking for a change and reached for the bottle of Punjabi Gin for that “dry as dust” martini.

by sb on Sep 8, 2009 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

So how long until someone in the AZ State student section is rocking a “Don’t Vontaze me, bro!” sign? Holy crap, 9/26 is going to be interesting.

by commodore_dude on Sep 8, 2009 4:06 PM EDT reply actions

Win Some….Lose Some Dept

Talk about “the demise of the USC footbaw program” is quite silly.

Each year there are a few top recruits that go elsewhere because they do not have the guts to compete at USC with real talent. Those types are better off elsewhere.

Plus, nobody bats 1,000 in the recruiting game. I’ll take USC’s recruiting level of success rate any day of the week.

USC vs The ohio state university: Vegas only shows USC as a 3.5 point favorite for the game. I’m pretty sure USC will cover the spread quite nicely.

by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Sep 8, 2009 4:09 PM EDT reply actions

As I recall they were already printing t-shirts with that soon to be overused phrase the day ASU received Burfict’s committment. I remember them popping up on the message boards sometime around LOI day.

Good to see the alma mater getting some good pub that doesn’t involve volcanoes and golf carts.

by Big Jon on Sep 8, 2009 4:28 PM EDT reply actions

move the pocket around > moving outside of the pocket

by HeadThief on Sep 8, 2009 6:04 PM EDT reply actions

@17,
If you could just leave him at home when y’all come to Athens, that would be great, kthx. I’m pretty sure he’s channeling some Waterboy right there, picturing the QB in Klan robes or something…

by commodore_dude on Sep 8, 2009 6:45 PM EDT reply actions