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My favorite quote from the Ducks/Beavers game
"To go out and ruin somebody's dreams like that, it feels real good," Oregon receiver Jaison Williams said. espn article
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My favorite quote from the Ducks/Beavers game
"To go out and ruin somebody's dreams like that, it feels real good," Oregon receiver Jaison Williams said. espn article
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Ha, you're thinking why the heck not? It's under Charlie's watch when Notre Dame loses to Navy at home ending their 43 year winning streak against NAVY. Didn't Weis just lose to Syracuse? Ha ha, yes that was pretty funny too. Isn't Charlie Weis' record worse than the record of Ty Willingham? Well Chuck has won 58% of his games with a 28-20 winning record. Ty also won 58% with his 21-15 record. Since the Irish will be playing USC later today, Chuck's record will officially be worse.
So why am I against the the firing of Charlie Weis? Well I'm not an Irish fan. Oh oops wait a second. But even Irish fans want Weis fired don't they? I mean the fans did throw snowballs at the team and the coaching staff at their last home game. Right right. Well I don't want Charlie Weis fired because I find him amusing. It's not exactly the best reason to keep a coach, but he gives us the best one liners.
Here's a few:
"I could get hoodlums and thugs and win tomorrow"
Well I know The ROCK can
, but I'm not so sure about you Charlie. You got the 2nd best recruiting class in the nation last year and you're still not winning.
"...if he's (the quarterback) with me for one day he'll be good, two days he'll be great and three days he'll be incredible."#1 Ranked QB out of HS 20 TDs 15 INTs 59% comp
#14 Ranked QB out of HS 32 TDs 7 INTs 77.6% comp
...and 2 years he'll be mediocre??? Colt McCoy wasn't as highly regarded out of high school but he has put up better numbers than your QB against tougher teams.
Notre Dame will have a "schematic advantage" Ha! I say to you. That's like Dubya Bush
saying he has a good foreign policy
Anyway, back to what I was saying. While it might be a Weis move to get rid of Charlie. (Like how I used Weis instead of wise? Clever huh?) I just don't want them to fire him. Ten more years of Weis at the helm for the Irish means 10 more years of USC dominating them by 30 points. Besides, it's always fun watching fat arrogant slobs who have never played the game of football fail miserably.
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The year that brought the Trojans the likes of Joe McKnight, Marc Tyler, and Broderick Green also brought hopes to USC fans that we will once again have an exciting running game that was much missed after the departure of Reggie Bush and Lendale White.
I thought USC was incredibly lucky to be able to land a #1 and #2 ranked players playing the same position in the same year. Since USC already had a great player in Stafon Johnson and a great showing from Gable and Moody, it was just shocking that McKnight and Tyler would still commit to the same school. What's even more incredible is that a highly touted running back named Broderick Green would follow as well.
Green came in saying that he "will definitely not be redshiritng" during his freshman year. He impressed the coaches so much that he probably wouldn't have. Unfortunately, an injury before season's start set Broderick back. Broderick worked hard to be ready this year, and sadly, found himself in a long line behind other great backs trying to fight for playing time.
Joe McKnight is talked about so much because he comes with the expectations of becoming the next Reggie Bush who we can all agree is USC's most electrifying running back ever. So when a player like Emmanuel Moody left the program, nobody really cared or missed him. But now, with Broderick Green going out the door, everyone from the coaching staff to the fans should have a much different reaction.
Broderick Green didn't get enough chance to make an impression. He had 32 rushes for 168 yards. That's an average of 5.3 yards per carry to go along with his 3 touchdowns. If given more carries, at that rate he would have more touchdowns than Stafon Johnson and with a slightly higher average yards per carry. So losing Green would be like USC losing a much needed Stafon Johnson in the lineup. Think that's bad? Well as far as the future goes losing Broderick Green is like USC never having Lendale White.
Lendale holds the record for the Trojans all time rushing touchdowns with 52. White finished his career with 3,159 yards and a 5.9 average per rush. Given the chance, I think a stronger and faster Broderick Green would have easily shattered those records. More so than the Joe-Mac/Tyler combo, I think a Joe-Mac/Green combination would have been a more powerful Thunder and Lightning one-two punch.
It's really a shame that Green is on the way out. It's unfortunate that he couldn't break in to the rotation. It's a shame that he couldn't wait one more year. Going back to his comments after signing his Letter of Intent to go to USC about the coaches telling him he will come in to fill the role of Lendale White. Green said, "I don't really want to hear taht, I want to be better than Lendale White."
Well Broderick, you definitely would have been better. Most SC fans won't miss you because not too many are aware of who's standing on the sidelines, but you are definitely a HUGE Lendale size loss.
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