Weekly Awards - Lunch Box, BMOC, Stud, and WTF Awards!!

[jonesman]

Another week and another W for the good guys!! I must say that I wake up on a Sunday with a much better attitude when we win. So, here we go to the awards.

First and most important award.
BRAVERY!!!!! This award goes to every woman who as faced the challenge of Breast Cancer. We honor your fight, courage and class in the face of this life altering disease. We love and respect you all.

As for Game week awards!!
BMOC Award!!! My Big Man on Campus is well deserved and late in getting his recognition. DAVID RUFFER is becoming an absolute juggernaut at kicking. How bout that 50 yarder which had room for 60.

Lunch Pail Tough Award!!!! This award goes to a guy who everyone was bashing in 2009. HAYSEED, Harrison Smith. He had 11 tackles and almost 2 INT's. He also brings an attitude with his hits. I got your back if folks want to bash you anymore.

Welcome Back, Award!!! Cierre Wood you took the past few weeks challenges and channeled them to energy. He ran with passion and made great strides today. Your future is bright, keep bringing it!

Play Like a Champion Award!!! Michael Floyd. This guy showed today why he is an All-American and why he will be a success in the NFL. Thanks big guy for a true Champion effort today. For those doubting his commitment and effort in 2010, shut you pie-holes!!

Fresh Impact Award!!! This is a freshman only award. Shembo you are becoming a man and soon could be a beast. His efforts on pass rush are supplanting some upper classman.

Guts R me Award!! Kyle Rudolph who is just playing with a ton of pain and injury issues. He is really struggling with his hammy and needs to be shut down for a couple weeks to recover. Appreciate your efforts!!

Under Recognized Award!!! Ian Williams is becoming a bitch in the middle. The guy is making many plays despite being double teamed. His beastly play is building him an NFL resume. You go Boy!!!

Failure to Contain Award!!!!! Robert Blanton, what were you thinking on that QB keeper at the goal line???? You have to play the edge. You also get half the next award.

WTF Award!! Slaughter and Blanton combine to allow the biggest WR weapon on Pitts team to run wide open for a TD. This did two things. One it allowed the TD, two it allowed them to score fast which left time on the clock. Bad mojo. You are both to good for this.


Media Dumbass Award!!! HERBIE. You have normally been a decent ND supporter, but your highschool comments were uncalled for. Your rebuttle this week was even worse. Go back with your OSU delusional family.

Great Victory and something to build on!!! Go IRISH!!

 

[DillonHall]

WTF award: they were in Cover 2 so the blown coverage is mostly on the safety

 

[KPENN]

WTF award: they were in Cover 2 so the blown coverage is mostly on the safety

Yeah that was 100% on slaughter

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

Burn him. I think he's a witch.

 

[DirtySecret]

Ya, Kirk is such a dumbass that he perdicted that Bama would lose..

 

[Sherm Sticky]

I'm with you Jonesman...I got your back and Harrison's back! The kid has played real well this year. Plus the kid has some guns...he is ripped.

 

[Dizzyphil]

Burn him. I think he's a witch.

"Build a bridge of him"!!!

 

[TerryTate]

Hahah

Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant: Very small rocks.

 

[Dizzyphil]

Hahah

Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant: Very small rocks.

"Tell me. What do you do with witches?"
"Burn them! Burn!"
"And then why do witches burn. Hmmm.."
"Because they're, made of wood?"
"So how do you tell if she is made of wood?"
"Eh.. Build a bridge out of 'er"
"But can not you also build bridges out of stone?"
"Oh yeah"
"Does wood sink in water?"
"No no it floats. Throw her into the pond!"
"Wait! What also floats in water?"
"Umm.. very small rocks. churches. lead!"
"A duck"
"presicly!"
"So logically.."
"If she weighs the same as a duck, then shes made outta wood."
"And therefore"
"She's a witch!"


LOL

 

[jonesman]

None of this witch crap. Take your petty little heckling somewhere else. As for Slaughter on Cover two with the Baldwin TD, I will agree. BUT, Slaughter still gets a 50% WTF Award for totally blowing contain on the Sunseri TD.

 

[BeatSC]

None of this witch crap. Take your petty little heckling somewhere else. As for Slaughter on Cover two with the Baldwin TD, I will agree. BUT, Slaughter still gets a 50% WTF Award for totally blowing contain on the Sunseri TD.

Slaughter gets 100% for the TD, Blanton for looking stupid on the QB keeper. rudolph should be able to take a couple of weeks off. Wouldn't mind seeing what Eifert could do and if Ragone can hang onto the ball he is much faster than Kyle.

 

[jason_h537]

Slaughter Messed up but he should take it as a learning experience. He is only in his 1st full season as a Safety at ND

 

[Dizzyphil]

None of this witch crap. Take your petty little heckling somewhere else. As for Slaughter on Cover two with the Baldwin TD, I will agree. BUT, Slaughter still gets a 50% WTF Award for totally blowing contain on the Sunseri TD.

Correction - Slaughter gets 100% WTF award....


Diz

 

[Old Man Mike]

I'd like to support Harrison for one lunchpail, but I'd like to also give a few more: Ian Williams [the ultimate hardhat on this team]; Zach Martin [what an emergency job shifting sides of the ball]; Braxton Cave [who is handling a huge amount of responsibilities for a first-time center]; and Carlo Calabreese [just because he's Carlo, and the only guy I've seen jump over the top of two blockers in two different spots along his rush to the QB...the man can be an animal.]..... and yeh, the blown long bomb coverage was all about Slaughter peeking in the backfield at Sunseri and stepping forward. Mayco...ck, a former DB, analyzed that well. Well, even our Superman Gary Gray [my favorite DB guy] had a bonehead the previous game ["I peeked back", he said], but our guys deserve one bonehead a season, so go get 'em, Jamoris.

 

[KPENN]

I'd like to support Harrison for one lunchpail, but I'd like to also give a few more: Ian Williams [the ultimate hardhat on this team]; Zach Martin [what an emergency job shifting sides of the ball]; Braxton Cave [who is handling a huge amount of responsibilities for a first-time center]; and Carlo Calabreese [just because he's Carlo, and the only guy I've seen jump over the top of two blockers in two different spots along his rush to the QB...the man can be an animal.]..... and yeh, the blown long bomb coverage was all about Slaughter peeking in the backfield at Sunseri and stepping forward. Mayco...ck, a former DB, analyzed that well. Well, even our Superman Gary Gray [my favorite DB guy] had a bonehead the previous game ["I peeked back", he said], but our guys deserve one bonehead a season, so go get 'em, Jamoris.

Bud it's Mayock.... Not May****

 

[jason_h537]

so if i say someone speaks with a ****ney accent, will it get censored?

 

[irishtrain]

Barry Gallup Jr---you little stud you---nice play on the fake!!!!

 

[Old Man Mike]

To KPENN: guess I'm out of the spelling bee then...does make later comment about him easier and more polite though.

 

[irishtrain]

WTF award

WTF award

Continues to be officials. C'mon here boys use your head-that's grounding in the end zone. 2 points and Notre Dame gets the ball. Also the pick or non pick is a HIGHLY questionalble call. There were articles all over the internet this past week about how the Big East had to beat Notre Dame so they could keep bowl advantage in some 2nd tier bowl deal. Man this stuff has to stop, its downright embarrassing the way these things seem to go. Kelly's face was woth 1000 words when he got the officials response. Like 'yeh right' that wasnt intentional grounding are you serious on that call. It may be ( it is ) the one thing that really needs cleaned up in college football. The conference affiliation scam has really got to stop. Those two call were just bull$%^#.

 

[IrishinSyria]

Continues to be officials. C'mon here boys use your head-that's grounding in the end zone. 2 points and Notre Dame gets the ball. Also the pick or non pick is a HIGHLY questionalble call. There were articles all over the internet this past week about how the Big East had to beat Notre Dame so they could keep bowl advantage in some 2nd tier bowl deal. Man this stuff has to stop, its downright embarrassing the way these things seem to go. Kelly's face was woth 1000 words when he got the officials response. Like 'yeh right' that wasnt intentional grounding are you serious on that call. It may be ( it is ) the one thing that really needs cleaned up in college football. The conference affiliation scam has really got to stop. Those two call were just bull$%^#.

Well, there definitely was an eligible receiver about 1 inch away from where the ball hit the ground so...as blatant a spike as it was, the refs got the call right. It's exactly the same thing as when a quarterback throws the ball out of the back of the endzone or into the stands while under duress: blatant throw away? Yes. But as long as there is an eligible receiver in the vicinity, there doesn't need to be "intent to complete." At least, that's my understanding of the rule.

 

[kmoose]

But as long as there is an eligible receiver in the vicinity, there doesn't need to be "intent to complete." At least, that's my understanding of the rule.

There has to be a reasonable chance of a completion. The problem is that the "receiver in the vicinity" has taken on a life of it's own. If the guy throws the ball with the intent of avoiding a sack, and there is no reasonable expectation of completing the pass, it is (by rule) intentional grounding. There being a receiver in the vicinity has nothing to do with it, other than the fact that officials have usually given the QB the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to actually complete a pass. It's really a very poor application of the rule, itself, and it's that way at every level of football.

 

[IrishinSyria]

There has to be a reasonable chance of a completion. The problem is that the "receiver in the vicinity" has taken on a life of it's own. If the guy throws the ball with the intent of avoiding a sack, and there is no reasonable expectation of completing the pass, it is (by rule) intentional grounding. There being a receiver in the vicinity has nothing to do with it, other than the fact that officials have usually given the QB the benefit of the doubt, that he was trying to actually complete a pass. It's really a very poor application of the rule, itself, and it's that way at every level of football.

I don't know...why make it the ref's job to decide if the quarterback misfired or if a receiver didn't read the coverage correctly. Receiver in the vicinity seems to be a reasonable way of removing the ref's discretion on what can be a pretty devastating call. Again, the Pitt QB blatantly spiked the ball into his running back's ankles. The intent of the play almost certainly was to avoid a sack. But can you say for sure that the running back wasn't supposed to let go of his man a second earlier and turn around for the screen? He was getting blown up, so maybe that's why he wasn't able to. I don't think he was, but I don't know for sure. And neither did the ref, so he gave the QB the benefit of the doubt, which is a well established practice.

Anyways, we can argue this point back and forth, but I think it's rather ridiculous to claim that the call was some Big East conspiracy.* There was a clear logic to the call. Whether that logic should be applied is a legitimate question, but that's an issue for the NCAA rules committee to think about because as the rule is applied now, an "eligible receiver in the vicinity of the throw" is considered sufficient to avoid an intentional grounding penalty.


*And kmoose, I'm certainly not saying that you did say that.

 

[kmoose]

I don't know...why make it the ref's job to decide if the quarterback misfired or if a receiver didn't read the coverage correctly. Receiver in the vicinity seems to be a reasonable way of removing the ref's discretion on what can be a pretty devastating call. Again, the Pitt QB blatantly spiked the ball into his running back's ankles. The intent of the play almost certainly was to avoid a sack. But can you say for sure that the running back wasn't supposed to let go of his man a second earlier and turn around for the screen? He was getting blown up, so maybe that's why he wasn't able to. I don't think he was, but I don't know for sure. And neither did the ref, so he gave the QB the benefit of the doubt, which is a well established practice.

Anyways, we can argue this point back and forth, but I think it's rather ridiculous to claim that the call was some Big East conspiracy.* There was a clear logic to the call. Whether that logic should be applied is a legitimate question, but that's an issue for the NCAA rules committee to think about because as the rule is applied now, an "eligible receiver in the vicinity of the throw" is considered sufficient to avoid an intentional grounding penalty.


*And kmoose, I'm certainly not saying that you did say that.

I understood ya. Like I said, the "receiver in the vicinity" logic is applied at all levels of football, from youth football, high school, college, and the NFL. It is however, in my opinion, extremely contrary to the rule itself. I see it at some level, every week. I think this is a rule that the NCAA and the NFL ought to lead the way in crafting a more specific criteria for flagging it.

 

[Bogtrotter07]

I would like to nominate two more award recipients:

“I got better.” Award goes to NeuteredDoomer for starting the Monte Python Crap,

Burn him. I think he's a witch.

Barry Gallup Jr---you little stud you---nice play on the fake!!!!

And the “This guy has hung in tough, you think Zack Martin is fearless for moving to the other side of the ball, try moving from offense to defense in your fifth year and you are the only one who stays home and foils a fourth down fake punt attempt!” SH**, I forgot why I was giving him an award. But I think he deserved the game ball. A first down there could have been catastrophic.

Sir Bedevere: What makes you think she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: [meekly after a long pause] ... I got better.
Crowd: [shouts] Burn her anyway!

Neutered, you are an animal!