Beamer Ball on the Bayou

In case you missed it the Virginia Tech Hokies were only able to score seven points against the Chinese Bandits from LSU in a loss which would be politically incorrect to appropriately describe. Sean Glennon who was quarterbacking the team is now going to be replaced by all Iverson/Vick freshman Tyrod Taylor.

Tyrod under center in Lane Stadium. That's about right.

It is nice to see the Hokies come back down to earth after an off season where they came in over hyped due to off the field events that had nothing to do with sports. The Hokies were barely able to beat barely I-A East Carolina University two weekends ago but people were expecting them to go to LSU and handle the Tigers? We realize Les Miles still coaches the Tigers but that does not make them that bad...

Watch out for the upset special the next two weeks. The Chokies are playing Ohio University and William and Mary University and you heard it here first, they will lose one of those games.

Why? Karma. Tyrod wears Marcus Vick's old number 5. Glennon wears Michael Vick's 'retired' number 7. We won't even start on the topic of Vick's number being retired but still being worn tonight. I have work in the morning.

Get Ready For Football in Blacksburg

Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit and Chris Fowler are heading to Virginia Tech to see the Hokies play the first game in their paltry schedule. Hopefully Erin Andrews will be doing an expose on the dog fighting that goes on behind the the veterinary school and why Michael Vick's number is retired but current players still wear it. Enter Hokie Football.

Top Duke Football Player Suspended

If there was ever an oxymoron to come across this blog that title sure is one. The so called top player referred to is Dukie Michael Tauiliili who was suspended 'indefinitely' by the athletic department Sunday. In the case of an LSU player this only means he would be out until Fall practice starts but with the Dukies it will probably be a little different. The suspension was for a violation of team rules and at this point we can only speculate on those reasons so we'll go ahead and do that below.

- Perhaps Tauiliili took money from Mike Nifong, only the Rainbow Push Coalition would take his money these days.
- He might have been asking Ian Johnson why he would ever want to marry a cheerleader

- Punishment after the administration found out he had realized he was on the football team at DUKE and tried to transfer to Rowan where he'd actually be playing after Thanksgiving. Hell even New Jersey is better than Duke athletics and a campus that looks eerily like the one Ron Mexico's.
- Could discrimination against alleged mungions be occurring in front of our eyes?

Who knows the real story but its likely that Duke will be finding a way to lose 13 this year without Tauiliili. That's even impressive for the Dukies seeing that they are only playing 12 games.

Gameday Opens with East Carolina...

ESPN's College Football Gameday will open up the season Saturday September 1st in Blacksburg, Virginia when Va Tech plays the EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY PIRATES. Obviously the network did not want to see the Hokies play any of the other powerhouses on their schedule like Ohio, William and Mary or Duke. Why wait to profit on Va Tech's tragedy? Let's do it the first week of the season! Va Tech could have said, "No, come back when we play our big in-state rival William and Mary. Its going to be a great game, JMU almost beat us in Michael's redshirt freshman year, the Tribe will give us a run for our money this year."

Other potential sites that Gameday could have gone to had they cared about their product are FSU at Clemson, Colorado v. Colorado State (in Denver), Georgia Tech at Notre Dame or ABC's featured Saturday night game Tennessee v. Cal in Berkeley. Instead we will hear about the great atmosphere of Blacksburg on a Thursday night, how Lee Corso's car got hit by lightening back when Michael Vick was in school, how Beamer's face got burned, and how the Hokies can win more than a single game in November this year.

We are not eager to see the big cry fest in Blacksburg months after the shooting took place. Parents of victims will be complaining about how Memorial Fund money is being spent and who is on the committee to examine the tragedy all while Enter Sandman is being played in the background, great atmosphere. We will be mourning at 9 am on Saturday morning rather than celebrating the start of another football season all thanks to the brilliant programming managers at ESPN.

Great Take From Loser with Socks : College Gameday Will Open the Season at Va Tech

Blatant Discrimination or Were They Pulling Tigger's Tale?

Four Florida State football commitments were kicked off of Walt Disney property over the weekend in Orlando, Florida. Five future players were at Downtown Disney when they were asked to move on and stop loitering late Saturday evening. All but one chose not to listen to security and stayed where they were. Later on in the night security came back by and escorted the four remaining teens off the property after banning them officially as well as finger printing each future Seminole.

All four individuals involved were black and one of the future Noles' father is a civil rights lawyer so Mickey Mouse better get his own lawyer because there is a good chance Jesse Jackson is coming to throw down in O-Town soon. To add fuel to the fire the future Noles' claim that 45 of the 46 people banned from Disney property this weekend were either black or Puerto Rican. For the purposes of full disclosure it should be noted that Puerto Rico is not good enough to be a state or a country, the U.S. owns it like Doug Brown owns his dog Peyton.

So far the news that has come out has been pretty one sided for the players but we are interested to see what Disney says these diabolical loiterers were doing. Rivals' FSU affiliate WarChant.com spent much of the day Wednesday trying to cover up the incident by monitoring their message boards to make sure little to nothing was posted on the subject. I don't think they need to worry about a clean image, FSU hasn't had that since the seventies anyway.