Will I be able to actually blog for a full season this year?
Over the past few years, I just can't stomach anything by the end of the season. He Who Shall Not Be Named is finally gone, and I am hoping that this means that we can at least be respectable. 6'6", 248 pounds, 245 pounds, 260 pounds... is allllllllll gone. G-O-N-E! Who cares what happens to "him", but I hear giraffes do just fine in the desert.
So now what? Where do we go from here? [insert violin elevator music here]
Thankfully Le-Allll has been condemned to back-up status. From what we saw of him last year, it seemed like no one on our staff had any confidence in him. And you know how lax we are with our QB standards! Right now he's listed as our #2 guy.
Somehow Stiney managed to steal an Ohio kid from Michigan State, Chris Durkin (only 6'4", 235 lbs). Actually, Stiney had nothing to do with it. GASP! Durkin's cousin is a coach at Florida, and he coached with Scot Loeffler. I guess the cuz put in a good word for Loeffler and the kid decided to go with us. I'm sure the fact that he would actually get playing time with us helped, too. Michigan State already has a long line of potential QBs to choose from... you know, like most respectable schools.
[Shhh... Kids, today's secret word is: respectable.]
[Shhh... Kids, today's secret word is: respectable.]
But apparently Durkin is injured and they have yet to say whether or not they are going to red-shirt him. They've announced that our starting QB will be Michael Brewer. Brewer has already graduated from Texas Tech with a respectable degree in Personal Financial Planning. He's almost 22 years old and he's pursuing a Masters here at Tech (the real Tech). He played in 13 games at Texas Tech, and well, he's a hobbit. Only 6'0" and 200 lbs. How in the world can a person that short be a QB outside of The Shire? Oh wait, Vick was only 6', too. So is Drew Brees, Joe Theismann, Sonny Jurgensen.... and on and on. I thought you had to be an athletic SPECIMEN to be a QB! All you need is height and weight and you should be good, right??? Stiney???
Yep... still bitter.
Yep... still bitter.
So we'll see how Brewer does before I come up with any snarky nicknames for him. It looks like r-Soph Brenden Motley out of Christiansburg was really the favorite out of Spring Camp, but he has a back problem. They've listed him as the respectable #3 guy.
You know what this all means, right? A 2-QB scheme, a la Tyrod and the bad Glennon, is in our future.
Gag. Gag. Gag. Just try to think good thoughts.
Gag. Gag. Gag. Just try to think good thoughts.
It appears that Beamer's contract has been extended through 1/1/2019. Let's all pray that he's retiring after this. Please, please... can we not follow in the footsteps of Penn State? Can't someone gracefully exit and know when their time is over?
Gag. Gag. Gag. Just try to think good thoughts.
Rinse and repeat.
Speaking of what happens to coaches that have been at their schools too long, enter Jimmye Laycock (an unfortunate name), stage right. This is his 35th year with William and Mary, THE COLLEGE OF. And exactly where has he taken their respectable football program?
So it goes.
Let's not even bother breaking down this game so far as player match-ups and such. We will save that for next week's annihilation. Did I spell that right? I better learn how to spell it. This Saturday is a dreamy practice game. The kind of game we should always have for our first game of the season. Now that Weaves is gone, we'll just have to see how his replacement does. The new guy is Whit Babcock. Umm... let me cut and paste this for you:
Babcock will make $470,000 a year, plus an annual retention bonus of $140,000. He also was paid a signing bonus of $325,000, and his contract includes performance bonuses for team successes.
Gag. Gag. Gag. Just try to think good thoughts.
Rinse and repeat.
Rinse and repeat.
I wonder what Weaves was making? Can you imagine this kind of respectable money in Blacksburg?
More importantly, I would like to officially state that I will no longer refer to William and Mary, THE COLLEGE OF by their mascot/team name. I find it racist and unjust and insensitive and politically incorrect. There is a perfectly respectable/mediocre hummus out there who doesn't want to be associated with this football bully-garbage!
I will refer to them strictly as the team from William and Mary, THE COLLEGE OF, and that's it, or "that Williamsburg team".
In closing, I just want to say that I have no freakin' idea what this season is going to be like. I have zero expectations, which is nice. I guess we can only improve in my book, because we couldn't get much worse. Let's just pretend we're in Colorado and go with the flow on this one. We'll ride the roller coaster for what it's worth and try not to expect too much. And, we will drink every time they mention HE WHO SHALL NOT BE NAMED during the TV broadcasts. Deal?
Deal.
As a made-up wise man once said, "Stay thirsty my friends".
Love and respectable football chest bumps,
The B.S.C.
