BELLOTTI BAILS ON THE DUCKS, SUPER BOWL CHAMPS REWARD 1,200 FANS & DEZ KEEPS HIS HEAD WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE
Oregon Athletic Director, Mike Bellotti, announced yesterday he was resigning & moving over to ESPN to become a television analyst. Bellotti, who was head football coach for 14 seasons, compiling an impressive 106-55 record with 12 bowl appearances, made the switch to A.D. after the 2008 season & promoted offensive coordinator Chip Kelly to the head coaching position. If you've read or heard anything about college football in the last 7 months, you know things in Eugene have gone from bad to worse for Kelly & his Duck program. Bellotti just fired the basketball coach after mounting losses & poor attendance plagued that program. It looks as tho the football team is headed in the same direction & the time was right to bail out for the ESPN job. Bellotti ran a squeaky clean program while he headed the football program. All that hard work is starting to crumble with numerous incidents, arrests, suspensions & the resulting embarrassment to the University of Oregon.
Colorado's leading receiver in '09, Scotty McKnight, broke his fibula in the Buffs' first spring practice. How long he will be sidelined is unknown because a decision on surgery hasn't been released as of yet. McKnight caught 76 passes for 895 yards & 6 touchdowns last season.
Ryan Mathews of Fresno State had a great pro day yesterday to no one's surprise, I think he will be a better pro than C.J. Spiller, currently #1 on just about every draft board. Mathews ran a 4.46 forty & had a 34" vertical jump at 217 pounds. Chiefs' fans may get a good look at this kid as I see San Diego taking him if he's there when their time comes in the first round.
From worst to first, the combine's Wonderlic scores have been revealed & Indiana's Greg Middleton has the dubious distinction of having the lowest score at 6. The 50-question test has been used by the NFL for almost 40 years & a score of 6 ties the lowest score ever. Ole Miss offensive guard John Jerry managed only 9 correct answers to finish 2nd from the bottom. The highest score from this year's combine was turned in by Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker with a very impressive 43, the highest score in 3 years.
The recently crowned Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints have rewarded 1,200 of their season ticket holders with something that's pretty hard to comprehend. They're losing their seats, talk about a kick in the nads. Yes, the Saints braintrust decided to convert the old press box into 16 new luxury suites & build a new triple-decker press box. To accomplish that, they had to annex 1,200 seats. Some of these season ticket holders have had these seats for as long as 15 years. To compound this P.R. nightmare decision, they didn't push season ticket holders with less seniority out, they simply took the 1,200 seats needed for construction & began informing those seat holders they no longer had seats within the Louisiana Super Dome but were now at the top of the 50,000 person waiting list. Isn't that nice? I wonder how many of these people will remain Saints' fans? Could you blame them? Especially those people who have owned their seats since back in the day when owner Tom Benson didn't field a winning team for decades. Think the NFL isn't a business? This is about money, plain & simple.
So my man Adam "Pacman" Jones decided to have a workout to show NFL teams he could still play. He needs to get back into the league, between fines, unpaid suspensions & legal fees, Pacman hasn't had the loose cash to spend the proper amount of time in strip clubs "making it rain." So his agent told NFL teams Jones would be at Tulane for their pro day where he would workout & could be clocked in various physical tests. Tulane didn't think much of the idea, they said it would take away from their two pro day participants, RB Andre Anderson & WR Jeremy Williams. Yeah, it's tough squeezing another guy in when you already have 2 prospects being tested. At Oklahoma's recent pro day, they had 13 guys being run thru the gamut of tests & drills, so that's garbage. They simply didn't want Jones trashing up their campus. So he had to have his workout at a local high school. Several pro teams sent representatives & they saw something strange, Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant was there too. He wasn't working out, he was just present. Here's a guy who's been ducking the pro scouts, postponing his own workout twice now. Bryant doesn't live in Louisiana, he's from Lufkin Texas, so what was he doing at a high school field watching one of the league's worst discipline problems of the last 50 years? "How did he even find out about this workout? What was his interest in Pacman?" " He won't work out for us, but he can attend another workout?" These were questions a few of the NFL personnel were asking as they left the field. The thought process of this young man is so far off the beaten path, I can't comprehend what goes thru his head. He pretty much keeps his head up his ass at all times, he must like the view. This kid's behavior is beginning to make Michael Crabtree's holdout last year look positively sane.
Colorado's leading receiver in '09, Scotty McKnight, broke his fibula in the Buffs' first spring practice. How long he will be sidelined is unknown because a decision on surgery hasn't been released as of yet. McKnight caught 76 passes for 895 yards & 6 touchdowns last season.
Ryan Mathews of Fresno State had a great pro day yesterday to no one's surprise, I think he will be a better pro than C.J. Spiller, currently #1 on just about every draft board. Mathews ran a 4.46 forty & had a 34" vertical jump at 217 pounds. Chiefs' fans may get a good look at this kid as I see San Diego taking him if he's there when their time comes in the first round.
From worst to first, the combine's Wonderlic scores have been revealed & Indiana's Greg Middleton has the dubious distinction of having the lowest score at 6. The 50-question test has been used by the NFL for almost 40 years & a score of 6 ties the lowest score ever. Ole Miss offensive guard John Jerry managed only 9 correct answers to finish 2nd from the bottom. The highest score from this year's combine was turned in by Minnesota wide receiver Eric Decker with a very impressive 43, the highest score in 3 years.
The recently crowned Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints have rewarded 1,200 of their season ticket holders with something that's pretty hard to comprehend. They're losing their seats, talk about a kick in the nads. Yes, the Saints braintrust decided to convert the old press box into 16 new luxury suites & build a new triple-decker press box. To accomplish that, they had to annex 1,200 seats. Some of these season ticket holders have had these seats for as long as 15 years. To compound this P.R. nightmare decision, they didn't push season ticket holders with less seniority out, they simply took the 1,200 seats needed for construction & began informing those seat holders they no longer had seats within the Louisiana Super Dome but were now at the top of the 50,000 person waiting list. Isn't that nice? I wonder how many of these people will remain Saints' fans? Could you blame them? Especially those people who have owned their seats since back in the day when owner Tom Benson didn't field a winning team for decades. Think the NFL isn't a business? This is about money, plain & simple.
So my man Adam "Pacman" Jones decided to have a workout to show NFL teams he could still play. He needs to get back into the league, between fines, unpaid suspensions & legal fees, Pacman hasn't had the loose cash to spend the proper amount of time in strip clubs "making it rain." So his agent told NFL teams Jones would be at Tulane for their pro day where he would workout & could be clocked in various physical tests. Tulane didn't think much of the idea, they said it would take away from their two pro day participants, RB Andre Anderson & WR Jeremy Williams. Yeah, it's tough squeezing another guy in when you already have 2 prospects being tested. At Oklahoma's recent pro day, they had 13 guys being run thru the gamut of tests & drills, so that's garbage. They simply didn't want Jones trashing up their campus. So he had to have his workout at a local high school. Several pro teams sent representatives & they saw something strange, Oklahoma State wide receiver Dez Bryant was there too. He wasn't working out, he was just present. Here's a guy who's been ducking the pro scouts, postponing his own workout twice now. Bryant doesn't live in Louisiana, he's from Lufkin Texas, so what was he doing at a high school field watching one of the league's worst discipline problems of the last 50 years? "How did he even find out about this workout? What was his interest in Pacman?" " He won't work out for us, but he can attend another workout?" These were questions a few of the NFL personnel were asking as they left the field. The thought process of this young man is so far off the beaten path, I can't comprehend what goes thru his head. He pretty much keeps his head up his ass at all times, he must like the view. This kid's behavior is beginning to make Michael Crabtree's holdout last year look positively sane.
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