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[NDame77]

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-They are conducting a poll about who the worst college football player "award" should go to. Read who they think should win it.

 

[WalshND]

Throw me a bone here. I can't get it to open.

 

[SoCalDomer]

Me either. Do you have to be logged into Fox sports?

 

[NDame77]

dang sorry...try this: go to msn sports, then highlight the MORE tab and go down to funhouse, scroll down to $8 beers and click "Check out the four candidates and cast your vote"

 

[SoCalDomer]

This is what they're saying:

Awarding the Nixon Trophy
Dec 11, 2007 | 12:49AM | report this Over the weekend, this year's Heisman Trophy, as you're certainly aware, went to Tim Tebow of Florida (although, we're going to go out on a limb and call this his best trophy).

That's all well and good, but people who triumph over circumstance to reach lofty and inspiring heights are lamewads. People who BLEEP are much more interesting. So today is a day to honor college football players who are made of crap.

Today is the day we decide the winner of the 2007 Nixon Trophy.

In case you didn't know, President Richard Milhouse Nixon played college football. Barely. He tried out for the Whittier College team and blew beyond reckoning. In other words, Nixon was as bad at football as Kissinger was at *not* treating Latin America like his personal litter box.

So that's why we're bestowing the worst college football player in all the land with the Nixon Trophy, which will designate him as ... wait for it ... the worst college football player in all the land.

Of course, the worst college football player in all the land is actually some emergency punter on some NAIA squad, but that's not how we roll here. We're highlighting regular contributors who were regular contributors to transcendent failure. Perhaps it's not nice to pick on 19-year-olds who concuss themselves for our amusement, but, well, sometimes we're not nice here at $8 Beers.

Anyhow, here are your four finalists:

James Aldridge, RB, Notre Dame



Team Record: 3-9
Damning Stats: 121 carries, 463 yards, 0 touchdowns

He's heard tell of a magical land called the "end zone," but he's not sure it even exists.

Derek Belch, K, Stanford



Team Record: 3-8
Damning Stats: 55.6 FG% (sixth worst in the nation), 3-6 from 20-29 yards

A Derek Belch field goal? You've got better odds of thumping a Styrofoam peanut through the uprights on a windy day.

Sam Hunt, QB, UAB



Team Record: 2-10
Damning Stats: 46.8 completion %, 10 TDs, 14 INTs

Kudos to Hunt for his Laufenbergian 12-of-34, four-INT game against Houston earlier this season.

Wayne Younger, QB, Florida International



Team Record: 0-11
Damning Stats: 45.7 completion %, 9 TDs, 17 INTs

Hey, they're the only winless team in all of whatever they're calling Division I-A these days. That kind of leadership will land you in Washington one day.

After much deliberation, we're going to cast our vote for James Aldridge. Why? Well, one, we hate Notre Dame, and, two, it's deeply impressive that he was able to run the ball 121 times without ever crossing the goal line. And kudos on a yards-per-carry that's basically the equivalent of falling down after every snap.

So what say you? Write-in ballots welcome.

They guy who created this award:

Dayn Perry
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Dayn Perry (b. 1972) is one of the Internet's most popular/infamous baseball writers. His work can be found primarily on Fox Sports.com, where he serves as the number-two baseball writer behind Ken Rosenthal.

He recently wrote a book entitled ([1]) Winners: How Good Baseball Teams Become Great Ones (And It's Not the Way You Think). He's a former baseball writer for ESPN.com and a past contributor to Baseball Prospectus. While with Prospectus, Perry wrote a regular column and contributed to many of their books, including Baseball Between the Numbers. He's presently at work on an unauthorized biography of Reggie Jackson.

Perry is a Mississippi native who now lives in Chicago with his wife. He's elicited controversy for his shifting stances on the steroids issue and for his recent distaste for Barry Bonds.

You can occasionally find his articles being discussed on the blogs of Baseball Think Factory. He's also the uncle of recording artist ([2]) Kimberly Perry.

That is just absolutely classless to say these players are made of crap:

So today is a day to honor college football players who are made of crap.

It's one thing to attack or ridicule professional players, or even to think they are "made of crap." but college players who do more than just play football to entertain people should not be called "made of crap.

None of these guys deserve this.

 

[daytonirish]

Sounds like this person is after the worst reporter of the yr. Or the biggest moron award take your pick.

 

[SoCalDomer]

Someone should tell him his wife was just voted crappiest wife of a sportswriter, or his niece is the crapiest singer/songwriter because she put out the least number of hits and #1albums. See, Mr. Perry, it doesn't feel so good when "crappy" is used to describe people does it?

 

[johnnd05]

He's heard tell of a magical land called the "end zone," but he's not sure it even exists.

That would be because CW consistently gave the ball to Travis Thomas when they were near the goal line, dumbf-ck.

Given that Aldridge was battling injuries for most of the year, those numbers (463 yards on 121 carries) are actually pretty damn good. Picking up almost four yards a pop behind that dreadful offensive line is quite an achievement, IMO.

 

[GoIrish41]

Alright. You mean someone on ND can still actually get an end of year award? Excellent.

 

[johnnd05]

Stfu

Stfu

(Via the Roundup.)

Over at Fox Sports, some mindnumbingly idiotic sportswriter named <strong>Dayn [sic] Perry</strong> has pegged ND's <strong>James Aldridge</strong> as his top candidate for the "Nixon Trophy," awarded to "the worst college football player in all the land." I'm not going to link to the article, but here's what he had to say:
<blockquote><font size="3"><strong>James Aldridge, RB, Notre Dame
</strong></font>

<img src="http://i194.photobucket.com/albums/z55/daynperry/77214641_10.jpg" height="250" width="320" />

Team Record: 3-9
Damning Stats: 121 carries, 463 yards, 0 touchdowns

He's heard tell of a magical land called the "end zone," but he's not sure it even exists.</blockquote>
After running through the other candidates for the award, Dayn [sic] adds:
<blockquote>After much deliberation, we're going to cast our vote for James Aldridge. Why? Well, one, we hate Notre Dame, and, two, it's deeply impressive that he was able to run the ball 121 times without ever crossing the goal line. And kudos on a yards-per-carry that's basically the equivalent of falling down after every snap.</blockquote>
Gee, thanks Dayn [sic]. Let me start off by adding for the record that one, I hate you and your Irish-hating kind, and, two, it's deeply impressive that you were able to write several hundred words given that you apparently have the intellectual acumen of a coconut. And kudos on a column that's basically the equivalent of what you'd find in an elementary school newspaper. While we're at it, though:
<ol>
<li>The reason Aldridge didn't score any touchdowns was that ND divided their carries between four different backs, one of whom - <strong>Travis Thomas</strong> - got the ball on almost every single carry from inside five yards.</li>
<li>Aldridge's average of 3.83 yards per carry could only have been achieved by "falling down after every snap" if he had been handed the ball right at the line of scrimmage and he were, oh, 11' 6" tall. And given the piss-poor offensive line he had blocking for him, an average of nearly four yards a pop is actually pretty damn good.</li>
</ol>
So after much deliberation, I'm going to cast my vote for Dayn [sic] Perry as the latest <a href="http://www.ndkgreen.com/labels/Asshat%20of%20the%20Week.html" target="_blank">Asshat of the Week</a>. What say you? Write-in insults welcome.

 

[Newc]

Haha....I love how people are so wrapped up with Notre Dame football that they still need to trash us after the season we just had. Rather than bellowing out their smug laughs they feel the need to put in the time and effort to create fake awards and write stories about how ND players deserve them. Haha, I actually take solice in the fact that these people have little more to live for than trashing ND. What a loser!

 

[fitz_bu47]

This guys is a total loser, and it is WRONG to write an article like this about college kids, and on top of that James isn't even close, not in the same universe as the worst in College. Just another Mark May deciple, I would love to punch in the face.

 

[ColonialHead]

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