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How the fuck is Orton/Benoit more of a long shot than Finlay/Regal? We have no reason whatsoever to even think that Finlay will even have a match this year. Orton/Benoit could easily be a big Mania match.

We aren't on scholarship at a public university and serving as one of its most visible faces. I don't hold athletes to any higher standard than I hold anyone else. Scholarship athletes? Yes. That's a fantastic opportunity and someone who fucks it up so regularly doesn't deserve it. Do you realize what a bad argument you're making here? You're basically saying that Marcus Vick should make sure to avoid all the pitfalls that a normal college student would fall into out of gratitude to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute for giving him such a great opportunity to get an athletic scholarship. The thing is that this opportunity is nothing to Marcus Vick. He's not going to use the degree he gets from Virginia Tech, he's going to play professional football. Now if you were talking about the backup long-snapper who was going to be the first person from his family to graduate, and would get to pursue his dream of being an engineer due to his football, then I could see your point. But Marcus Vick? Hells no. He and the university are in a use-use relationship. He uses Va. Tech to showcase his football skills so that he can get a job in the NFL, and Va. Tech uses him to sell tickets and win games. Also, Vick knows that at this point, he's going to the NFL regardless of whether he plays another down for the Hokies or not. Now, is this really a situation where Vick can't stand to fuck up such a "fantastic opportunity"? Of course not. The university's reached a point where the benefits of keeping Vick to sell tickets and win games outweigh the PR costs, so the two have parted ways. Period. End of story. Making it into some battle of good and evil where selfish, lazy Marcus Vick flushed away the best thing to ever come into his life is just downright silly.

It's not that you can't run. It's that when you play 8 on 8, passing is so easy that there's no point running. If you can score rushing TDs on 5 out of 9 possessions and set up a FG on two more, you'll lose 52-41.

Iggymcfly = white. Iggymcfly doesn't give a flying fuck if Marcus Vick got a speeding ticket while driving with a suspended license. Iggymcfly doesn't think stepping on a defensive lineman's leg is a big deal, even if he was pissed off about what he thought was a late hit for a second or two. I mean honestly, why do we have to hold every athlete to an unrealistic standard. I bet a lot of people on this board have had a joint every now and then, and given drinks to 16 year olds (not fucked them, just given them drinks), and got speeding tickets, and done all the other minor things that Marcus Vick got busted for. I mean just because he made a couple minor mistakes when he was young doesn't mean he won't be a good football player. I'm sure that three or four years from now, when lil' Vick actually gets to play, the team that drafted him won't be made fun of for drafting such a "hooligan", they'll just be noticed for how much better they're playing than if they drafted somebody like Chris Leak or Reggie McNeal instead. These off-field isues are such non-issues that no one will believe that anyone ever cared about them five years from now.

There's way too much backlash against Cena for the fans to start cheering him again before he drops the title, no matter what he does. I say at this point, they might as well have him do a double turn with HHH, then keep his whiny face character going for a few months before he eventually starts getting his edge back and becomes a face again. I mean, "you might have to turn him again in 6 months" is a terrible reason to make someone who's getting booed be your babyface champion or a year. Rock turned a bunch of times when he was starting out, and he became one of the most popular wrestlers in history. If Vince just kept pushing Rock as a face champion for a year after the "Rocky sucks" and "Die Rocky die" chants started, do you think he would have gotten as popular as he did?

It's certainly not out of the question that he could have made the difference. I really think the play-calling on that series was terrible, going run up the middle, pass, run up the middle, run up the middle, as you short yourself a down where your pounding it, and then when you have long yardage to go, you don't get any of your other weapons involved. At the very least, they should have had Bush in on third down, as when you're going to run for it on a 3rd and 7, you probably don't want the guy who's averaging 7.5 ypc on the sideline.

I bet on Louisville that game, so I had every reason to be partial, but I still didn't think Vick should have been tossed. It just didn't look that flagrant to me, and I'm not even sure it was completely intentional looking at the replays, (although Vick's apology might lend itself to that conclusion). However, if Louisville hadn't choked, and had picked up a good win against Virginia Tech, they'd be ranked significantly higher. Off hand, I'd say anywhere between 13 and 16; definitely ahead of Virginia Tech and UCLA, with Miami, Oregon, and Florida State being question marks.

Since 1997, has Rey ever even come close to having a legit match of the year?? I guess your only hope is fish-oil pills. I hear they swell heads. The Mysterio/Guerrero matches from 6/23 and GAB were the only WWE matches of 2005 even worthy of having MOTY spoken in the same sentence as them. Not true. He had some really good tag matches, working with Edge during the Smackdown Six era and continuing all the way to the Vengeance match against Kidman and....... somebody else the following year. Singles matches though, I'd agree. As for next year's MOTY, I'd say go out on a limb and say RVD vs. Angle in an ECW rules match on Raw for the WWE Title.

Cena's terribly terribly boring. He gets reactions from eleven year old girls, but people who actually like entertaining wrestlers have just stopped following the product altogether. At this point, I'd take HHH getting a face run with the belt over more Cena.

Didn't ABC get a Super Bowl or two during that time period? Because if USC and Texas got better ratings than the Super Bowl, then I'm really impressed.

It's a little too late now, but I sure wish I'd bet on the Illini tonight. Michigan State's 1-1 away from East Lansing, and I knew they were gonna get beat down tonight. I guess down 7 at the half's not too bad, but Illinois's going to pull away, I know it.

People act like Young's still playing in his sophomore form, (Run first, run second, pass occasionally to keep the defense honest.), and he's just not. Here are Vince Young's passing stats this season: 212-365 for 3036 yards with 26 TDs and 10 INTs. That's good for 9.34 yards per attempt and a 65% completion percentage. There's a reason that I compared him to Donovan McNabb and not to Michael Vick. Even after five years in the NFL, Vick still hasn't mastered the passing game, but Young's got it down now. I mean he was second in the nation in passing efficiency, ahead of that Leinart fellow who's got Smith, Jarrett, and Bush to throw to. Even if he only runs 5 or 6 plays a game for 50 yards or so, his arm's what's going to carry a team to victory. (And don't say he won't be able to run for 50 yards, Vick goes into triple digits all the time whn he's not worried about getting hurt.)

If Vince Young isn't a Top 5 draft pick (assuming he comes out this year), I'll fly to Los Angeles and suck Bill Plaschke's cock myself. If I were the Jets GM, I'd be doing everything I could to trade up and get Vince Young with the top pick. He's like Donovan McNabb if he got better under pressure instead of worse, and had just a little more raw talent. The Texans don't really need a QB, so they can just trade down as far as they can safely go and still get Lutusi, while I can see the Saints taking Bush in the #2 spot. I'm sure Leinart will go way higher than his talent justifies, but if you go on the Orange Bowl last year and the Rose Bowl this year, maybe he'll do all right.

I'm fundamentally opposed to putting LSU over Georgia. Both teams had two losses during the regular season with both of Georgia's losses coming with Shockley either out, or at less than 100%. Then, the SEC Championship comes, and Georgia beats LSU 34-14. Not 34-31, not 21-20, 34-14. There was a game to determine which team was better and Georgia won it definitively. If Georgia hadn't beaten LSU that way, then they could have gotten fat on Miami, but they shouldn't be punished for winning that game. If you want to put Notre Dame down at #8 below Georgia and LSU, I'm fine with that, but I really think the Irish are a little bit better. Put Notre Dame on either side of the Sugar Bowl, and I think they go 10-2. As for Louisville, come on now. Here are their results away from Papa John's Stadium: at Kentucky W 31-24 at S. Florida L 45-14 at West Virginia L 46-44 at Cincinnatti W 46-22 at UConn W 30-20 vs. Va. Tech L 35-24 Now, tell me that looks like a Top 15 team. And their best home win was over Rutgers, so it's not like they were world-beaters there either. Yes, they're really good at blowing out bad teams when they play at home, but that's not enough to be an upper-tier, elite level program. I kept them in the Top 25 because of their talent, but until they do something against somebody with a pulse, they really don't deserve to go much higher.

No final rankings? Come on. The world has to know if Georgia Tech passed Ohio State to finish the season at #7.

What the fuck! Run it on 3rd and 7, and then again on 4th and 2 with a 5 point lead? Carroll's lost his mind!

This should be Keith Jackson's swan song. He can't keep track of what's going on at all. He made mistake #29 tonight saying someone called a timeout when it was obvious that the third quarter had run out.

You know, in retrospect, I really think VY might have deserved the Heisman over Bush.

LenDale White's got it all! Beautiful TD there. I really think USC's got the most dominan offensive line I've ever seen. At least since the mid-90s Huskers.

I still think USC's gonna take this. Texas got all the breaks in the first half, and USC's still only down 6. They've been a second half team all year, so there's no reason to think any different here. In order to win, however, USC needs to run the football. LenDale White can get 5 or 6 yards up the middle all day long, and used sparingly, Bush can get to the outside as well. When they spread it out with four or five receivers, though, they're just giving Texas the green light to tee off on Leinart. When Texas knows USC's passing, their defense is more than good enough to shut them down.

I was initially thinking USC, and then all this disrespect for Texas almost had me thinking Texas would win the game. One thing stopped me short in my tracks however. Mack Brown. He's a notorious big-game choker, and there's no way he gets Texas up to take on the mighty Trojans. I remember an interview a few weeks ago where he said that he'd been been voting USC #1 all year himself. When he needs to play us-against-the-world, and tell Texas how the whole country is disbelieving their talent, he's disbelieving their talent himself. I remember a similar comment from Coach K two years ago before Duke played UConn in the Final Four. The Blue Devils should have easily been the favorite as the #1 team in the nation at the end of the season, but UConn was still a 2 1/2 point favorite. Coach K basically said "UConn's the best team in the country and we just hope we can play with them," and then at the end the Blue Devils came up just short. So let's see, the spread for USC/Texas is 7? I say my final, final prediction is: USC 38 Texas 32 as Texas delights and angers gamblers everywhere by tackling Lendale White for a safety with 0:21 remaining.

Somebpody mentioned the CFN quote earlier, but it's so good that I have to post it in its entirety.

There was a neat article on ESPN.com showing 40 reasons why USC will win and 40 reasons why Texas will win. However, even in the Texas list, they had to show us what they really thought at the end. 1. Everything's bigger in Texas. Even unrealistic optimism.

I love looking at the standings for the 16-team Big East, and seeing UConn at the very bottom. Priceless.

All right, first off, let me say that Billy does come off as really bitter and unjustified in the video. He's mad that he didn't get a better push so he's blaming everything on HHH and giving him way more credit for his (Gunn's) problems than he's really due. However, with that being said, I think the WWE really missed the boat on Billy Gunn. The Assman gimmick was over really solidly as an upper midcard heel before he got hurt. He was at least as over as someone like Eddie Guerrero at the time and probably moreso. So, he comes back from injury, and they promptly replace his cocky heel gimmick with........nothing. That's right, he loses his gimmick to Right to Censor in his first match back, and then has no gimmick whatsoever for months. After that, he does the gay gimmick with Chuck. Despite the fact that gay tag teams haven't really gotten over since the 70s, he manages to make it very entertaining and they become the premier heel tag team in the WWE. And not in the sense of today's tag teams where they're just the only ones around; Chuck and Billy were actually really entertaining. So finally, that runs its course, and what happens? The gay tag team manages to turn face. And everybody loves it! After the gay wedding, Billy and Chuck had tons of face heat, and they're match against 3MW was probably the second most anticipated on the Summerslam card. So what do they do then with Billy and Chuck, now that they're hugely over as faces. Oh, they just take them off TV for a couple months until everyone loses interest in them. Then, they make half-assed attempts to put Billy Gunn into tag teams with random wrestlers and wonder why he's not "over" any more. I mean really, for as successful and popular as he was, Billy Gunn really didn't get a decent push at all.