I was watching that game and while you knew Blount was wrong, so was the Boise player. Not as wrong, but wrong. Any fan stupid enough to inject themselves into that situation is just asking for it. I was impressed that Kelley was able to hold the team together considering how his first game of his first year turned out and then with all of the follow up noise. I thought he was right to give Blount a second chance.
It was a horribly ugly situation. One of the biggest offenders was the Boise State Jumbotron operator. He replayed the "punch" repeatedly on the big screen. Inciting the crowd, a very stupid thing to do. To their credit, BSU fired him.
yeah, If the jumbotron hadn't been replaying it, the fans wouldn't have really known what happened, and Blount would have been quietly escorted to the locker room. Oh well, he's earning his pay in the NFL now.
Chip Kelly could murder a bunch of puppies and you'd be applauding him: "Bravo! Chip Kelly! Think of all the kittens that were saved!" so let me get this straight, during a big game on national TV, Blount walks over to the Boise State sideline and punches a Boise State player in the face. the Boise State player wasn't even looking when Blount came over and snuck him. but alas, it's not Blount's fault! it was the Boise State fans fault! they were jeering him! shame shame on the Boise State fans! it's not Blount's fault! it was the Boise State jumbotron operator! shame, shame, on the Boise State jumbotron operator! and GiantDuckFan gives credit to Boise State for firing the Boise State jumbtron operator, but when Chip Kelly does not fire Blount, he applauds him: "Bravo: Chip Kelly." You people do remember that Chip Kelly originally decided and announced that Blount would be suspended the rest of the season. then, with Oregon having a good shot at the Pac 10 Title, and with Oregon's biggest competition for the Pac 10 Title looming: Stanford, Arizona, and Oregon State, Kelly flip-flops and decides that now he wants to reinstate Blount in time for the games coming up against against the 3 main competitors for the Pac 10 Title. Kelly announced Blount would be reinstated in time for the first of the three big games: the game at Stanford, as long as Blount met certain guidelines. because of the controversy the announcement caused, Kelly decided not to reinstate Blount in time for Stanford, and Oregon lost. Two days later, Blount is immediately reinstated to the team. he suits up for the next two games, but he is not needed as LMJ had big games and Oregon put up 44 points in both contests. then, in the last game against Oregon State, the game that decided the Pac 10 Champion, the "Pac 10 Championship Game" if you will, Oregon is trailing by 9 points in the 3rd Qtr, and Kelly puts Blount in for LMJ, and several plays later Blount scores on a 12-yard TD to bring the Ducks within two. Blount ended up rushing for 51 yards in the 2nd half, and Oregon wins the game by 4 points. then of course, in the Rose Bowl, Oregon is going for their first Rose Bowl win in generations, and they play Blount in that game and he gets one of Oregon's only two TDs in the game. Oregon is quickly becoming the "Thug U" of college football. The 1,000 rusher and school record holder in TDs from the 2008 squad cold-clocks at Boise State player on national TV in the first game of 2009. Chip Kelly lies about suspending him for the season and reinstates him to the team in time for Oregon's biggest competitors for the Pac 10 Title. Oregon got him from a Mississippi community college, which makes you wonder why no other teams wanted to touch him as a recruit. The star QB from the 2008 and 2009 squads pleads guilty to felony burglary (something that would get you shot in Louisiana). but no, Kelly doesn't kick him off the team, he just announces he'll be suspended for the rest of the season (and we know Kelly lies when he does this as he showed with Blount), not to mention he would have been eligible to play in 2011 anyway. it wasn't until he pled guilty to marijuana possession and a traffic citation that Kelly was forced to kick him off the team. again, this is another player Oregon got from a community college (in California), which makes you wonder why no other teams wanted to touch him as a recruit. then the All-American CB and punt returner from the 2010 squad gets busted driving 118 mph with a suspended license, with thousands of dollars in unpaid fines for a series of other brushes with the law -- and on top of that, the car he was driving was a rental car bought for him by a payroll specialist in the University of Oregon’s office of business affairs. and this is a guy that in high school, went to jail for assaulting a school official, a law enforcement officer nonetheless. and again, it makes you wonder, why does Oregon recruit these kids? then it comes out that Chip Kelly paid $25,000 to the guy that got a 5-star recruit from Texas to sign with Oregon, against the wishes of his own mother -- and Kelly fraudulently tried to cover it up by having the guy hastily throw together some recruiting info to try to make it all look legit (of course, Kelly denies all wrongdoing). and this agent isn't just connected to Seastrunk, he was also the mentor of LMJ, Oregon's current Heisman contender, and was instrumental in getting LMJ to Oregon if you had to name the program that is currently the dirtiest program in college football, who would you think would be #1?
tirk, i'm sorry for the long post, but if you don't like reading long posts, then just skim it or ignore it completely, that's what i do.
yeah, well if that annoys you, the last place you want to hang out is on an internet discussion board. what annoys me the most on internet discussion boards is when someone shows up and posts something that has nothing to do with the substantive topic of the thread, like tirk did in his reply to me, like i did in my reply to him, like you did in replying to me, and like i did in replying to you with this post. when I open a thread on "trouble in the pacific northwest," i want to read about trouble in the pacific northwest, not what one internet poster thinks of another internet poster's posting style, etc
He is a bit of a noob around these parts, so he's still learning. Then take your own advice and don't read it. And maybe we don't want to read someone bitching about someone else bitching about the responses to a thread. It'd be nice if TF was tailor-made for each of us, wouldn't it?
