I was going to make this a comment on the post, but it got too long. This is what happens when you have a boring job:
Wow, Severely Caned is wrong a lot. Have F-Jeezy tie your arm off before you shoot up to post next time. Jeremy Bloom is the skier you're referencing, and the reason he was denied NCAA eligbility (after playing for a few years at Colorado) is because in order to continue to ski, he needed endorsement deals. With the NCAA, you can be a pro in any sport except the sport you play in college (See: Chris Weinke, Crackhead - er Quincy Carter, and Jeff Samarjajf;afjleijl;ija...all pro baseball players who played football in college, but never baseball, so they still had all their years of academic eligibility left), the only thing (well, there are a ton of things, ask Maurice Clarett and Reggie Bush, but this is the big one) you can't do is take endorsements, regardless of what sport the endorsement is for, and you really can't ski without endorsements, since there's not a lot of dough for going down a mountain really fast on two sticks. That's also why you never see a player on the cover of an NCAA video game unless they've graduated already. Bloom didn't enter the draft, but recently signed a 4-year deal with the Eagles, and is currently on injured reserve. On the bright side for him, he apparently finished 9th in the Olympics on the Moguls, whatever the hell they are (thanks ESPN.com).
Also, Oklahoma was almost unbeatable in the early 2000's, as evidenced by their national title, and only didn't get a second one because they caught a hot LSU team at the wrong time, and ran right into a USC buzzsaw (by the way, who did Miami play for their title? A Nebraska team that just got shellacked by Colorado and didn't even win their own conference?). Since they lost their 6th year senior, Jason White, who inexplicably won a Heisman trophy, it's been downhill ever since. They're tied for most BCS title game appearances with USC. If they had a decent QB this year, they'd be the odds on favorite to win the title, since they have every other piece in place (though I think Adrian Peterson is overrated, but that's for another post).
And Reggie Bush, wow. Can you imagine being an Auburn fan right now? If they strip USC of the title they won that year, who does it go to? Auburn was also undefeated, along with whoever USC assraped in the title game (was it Oklahoma?), so it seems a little unfair to toss it to the runner up just because the BCS computers didn't know dick, but there's really no other way to do it. Auburn finished #2 in the standings after the season ended, but how can you give them the title if they weren't in the championship game? I really want nothing more than for Reggie to drag the whole USC program down with him and cause an even bigger controversy with the BCS and how to retroactively handle the title. We all need to be rescued from the BCS as soon as possible. I hope 8 teams go undefeated this year and all those computers explode. Anyway...
But Miami does suck. A whole lot. Like, it's getting sad to watch. Watching Miami is like getting a hummer from Paris Hilton: boring, mechanical, passionless, coked up, and a little scary because you're not sure that gonorrhea can't be transmitted through oral sex. Maybe there's a question our mentally challenged Miami fan can answer.
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