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Upstate Today details how KC Rivers is answering his critics. Mainly by scoring lots of points.
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DE Leon Mackey of Hargrave Prep decommitted from Clemson and committed to Sakerlina. He had signed with Virginia Tech coming out of high school, but did not qualify and therefor enrolled in prep school. According to him, Frank Beamer wouldn’t release him from his LOI to go to another ACC school, rendering moot his committment to Clemson. The neckbubble does not forget; the neckbubble does not forgive. So, on he goes to Beamer’s son at Sakerlina.
**UPDATE** College Game Balls points out that this was no special treatment by VT but an ACC rule on intra-conference LOI issues. CGB also raises a pertinent question: why didn’t Clemson coaches see it coming? I guess you can chalk that one up to inexperience.
Clemson currently has eleven commitments for 2009. Yes, eleven.
Yahoo! brings us the 50 worst announcers in sports. Got to agree with most of them, although I like Mike Patrick. Digger Phelps should be higher, if only for the fact that if you match your tie to your highlighter you’re a douche. Is Mark May an announcer? If he is, he definitely should’ve made the list.
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1PenthouseTiger
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:01 am:
Did you actually make a bacon explosion? Was it everything I’ve dreamed it would be?
2Chili
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:09 am:
I didn’t make it, but the host of the party did, and it was fucking fantastic.
3PenthouseTiger
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:18 am:
Shit I wanna make one now.
on a side note, how is lou holtz only 50th on that list? no one has a clue what he’s saying, ever.
4Daniel
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:45 am:
Given the turmoil with Bowden’s departure and all that surrounded that it’s good that we’ve been able to reel in eight 4-star recruits, but 11 total is pretty small.
5Coby DuBose
on Feb 2, 2009 at 12:19 pm:
What in God’s name is there to like about Mike Patrick?
Like the other night when Jay Bilas said that Jon Scheyer was seeing a “small basket” right now.
Then all of 47 seconds later, Scheyer hits a three for the first time like 4 attempts and as they go to break, they show the replay. What does Patrick say?
“As my partner said, Scheyer seeing a big basket!”
Kill yourself, Mike Patrick.
6Charlie
on Feb 2, 2009 at 12:43 pm:
Fuck Beamer
7Chili
on Feb 2, 2009 at 12:49 pm:
@5, Jesus man, what did Mike Patrick ever do to you?
8PenthouseTiger
on Feb 2, 2009 at 1:26 pm:
kind of ran over his puppy, and by kind of I mean repeatedly, and by puppy I mean son.
9TigerSACK
on Feb 2, 2009 at 3:23 pm:
Either way I hope both knee caps blow out on mackey. fat bastard
10Daniel
on Feb 2, 2009 at 3:47 pm:
Alot of the worst announcers appear on the best announcer list, too. Btw I know I’m gonna get attacked for this, but I like Dick Vitale. He does have an unnatural lovefest for all things Tobacco Road, but I have to give it up to anyone that has that much passion for what they do.
11Tully
on Feb 2, 2009 at 4:14 pm:
@10. I met Dick Vitale in Sarasota, FL a few years back at the Broken Egg restaurant (check it out, it’s awesome). He is a lot more subdued in person and it’s clear his on-screen persona is a caricature of himself, but he pulls it off.
When asked about Clemson as a basketball school (this was in the spring of 2002) he said (and I’m paraphrasing here), “Clemson is a football school first and foremost. Basketball will always play second fiddle. They will never do well in basketball consistently as long as they have ‘that coach’ up there.”
1) He is absolutely right about Clemson being a football school first.
2) He couldn’t even remember Larry Shyatt’s name.
3) ?????
4) Profit
12PenthouseTiger
on Feb 2, 2009 at 4:22 pm:
I wish I couldn’t remember Larry Shyatt’s name.
13CUin1993
on Feb 2, 2009 at 7:05 pm:
Jay Busbee pretty much nailed his list. Though I would list spots 1,2,3 as Dick Vitale, Stephen A. Smith and Stuart Scott then the other 47.
I wish Vitale would get permanent lock jaw. That asshole is on Sports Center right now and he compares Federer / Nadal to Duke / UNC. SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Bill Walton is just stoned out of his mind and can’t help it.
14Judge Jeff Davis
on Feb 2, 2009 at 9:49 pm:
Pam Ward: Worst of all-time. Sean McDonough’s smug ass as well. Glad Packer’s not around to screw up the NCAA Tourney any more, too. Best announcer should be Chris Spielman because he wants to hit somebody so bad every game. His intensity just leaks out of the TV.
15Dwight_Clark87
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:48 pm:
See? The Neck-Bubble IS a venom sack. What an evil freak. Send out the villagers with the pitch-forks.
I don’t know who this Jeff Busbee guy is, but he must follow a sports conference that does not suffer from the mediocre announcers that we have to deal with in the ACC. Pam Ward? Hell yes, Judge Jeff! What about Bob Davie? He’s not even on the list and that hack deserves to be number one. I have never heard an announcer screw up the name of the players, the universities and the basic fundamentals of a football game like he does. Also, Busbee’s statement about “John Madden: Only when he’s in worship-Favre mode” does not take into account that Madden gets in that mode every game, with someone on the field. He’s like everybody’s drunk uncle though, so I guess that’s why people continue to cut him some slack.
16Chili
on Feb 2, 2009 at 10:53 pm:
Well, on the Mackey thing, there’s some new developments, and there may be more to the story. Apparently one of his prep teammates is saying he didn’t commit to the Gamecocks over the weekend, and there was some weird stuff with him enrolling in prep school last year, paperwork may not have been filed, so the story is definitely still developing.