College Football

[eCat]

I didn't watch it

but I can only assume that Manziel, being named starter and then making the excellent decision to go party , has seen his last year as an NFL player.

He would excel in Canada.

[10ac]

I don't gat it either.

[hedge]

I wish you would get the AIDS...

[eCat]

and just like that McCown is out with a broken collarbone

things will get interesting in Cleveland now

[hedge]

It would be funnier if his name was McClown...

[crashcourse]

I wonder how this affects Kentucky football.

if only someone knew something about the stoops potential buyout and their future scheduling

[Jungle Rat]

http://www.courier-journal.com/story/sp ... /18251435/

St(oops) contract

[eCat]

I wonder how this affects Kentucky football.

if only someone knew something about the stoops potential buyout and their future scheduling

LOL

[eCat]

from that article

"The success we've had so far this year has been encouraging, but that's not what this is about," athletic director Mitch Barnhart said. "It's about the general direction of the trajectory of our program."

Kentucky heads to Missouri with a 5-3 record, one win away from being bowl eligible for the first time since 2010. Stoops, hired in December of 2012, inherited a program bereft of talent and coming off a 2-10 season. He immediately began upgrading the talent with consecutive top-30 recruiting classes, which was unprecedented in recent UK history.
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and then we proceed to close out the season losing 4 straight and not go to a bowl

[BigRedMan]

Don't worry, Jerry Jones will fuck his team up further and trade this years 1st round pick to Cleveland for Johnny Football.

[Jungle Rat]

No doubt Johnny Fuck Up will end up back in Texas.

[eCat]

I thought BRM was joking until I read a story about it on ESPN

Cleveland would rather lose a game than play Manziel. That's beyond absurd.

[Dave23]

I haven't really followed the story at all, but why exactly does Cleveland give two fucks about Manziel having a few drinks during their bye week?

[Jungle Rat]

Because he flat out lied to them about it and they found out. Considering his history, rehab etc. I'd say they are done with him. Had the trading deadline still be available he'd be a Cowboy for a 5th round pick.

[aTm]

They are incompetent.

No real team would botch this all up the way they have. They should have completely ignored it in the media and handled anything behind closed doors and kept him as the starter. That's what any real team would have done with their starting quarterback, even for much more egregious infractions. No team would have told the media that their quarterback lied to them or whatever. Several teams had Matt Leinart for years, and I nobody was stupid enough to act like partying was going to hold him back or factor into their decision making process with him. They act like they don't want Manziel, but yet they also don't cut his ass either which is what they would really do with a troublemaker. Ryan Mallett was a dumbass, so the Texans told him to hit the road, but if he had been playing lightyears better than Hoyer, they would have completely ignored it and told the media it wasn't a big deal. I don't really understand what the Browns think is the end game with this.

Manziel is going to be a media magnet no matter what. People don't like him, and its understandable, and he is kind of an idiot but you cant let TMZ dictate football decisions and that's what it seems like is going on, which of course once you react to a tabloid story by benching him, then the next time you play him its going to be a bigger fiasco because eventually the tabloid story will be "Manziel photographed with a beer! You benched him last time, so what are you going to do now, Browns, haha!"

[aTm]

Because he flat out lied to them about it and they found out. Considering his history, rehab etc. I'd say they are done with him. Had the trading deadline still be available he'd be a Cowboy for a 5th round pick.

We'll see if they're just keeping him around now to try trade him, I guess. Knowing the Browns, they may actually still try to keep him and play him after all this. I dont see many teams offering up picks for him, but I think several would like him for free.

[eCat]

thru all this they still don't know if he can be a QB in the league or not.


At least JaMarcus Rusell was vetted on the field.

Then again, given his last outing, its probably better that he doesn't start against the 9-2 Bengals

[aTm]

His last outing vs the Bengals, you mean?

His last game was actually decent, especially considering a handful of really bad dropped passes and penalties by others that shot the team in the foot. It was the 2nd most yards by any Browns QB in at least the past 10 years, maybe even going back to the rebirth of the franchise, and then they benched him over some meaningless garbage. Classic Browns.

[hedge]

Alcoholism is no joke!

[hedge]

I wonder how many Browns fans are alcoholics? I bet a lot...