Looks Like The Honey Badger...

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:19 pm

got run.

Chip: what's the deal?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:22 pm

LSU head coach Les Miles announced Friday that junior DB Tyrann Mathieu is 'no longer on out team."
Miles added that "we'll miss him, but we have to go on." The head coach also noted that the decision is "permanent... he will not be back." Miles gave no specific reason other than it was "fundamental behavior" that led to the decision, but rumors circulated earlier that Mathieu failed another drug test, reportedly his third in three seasons. LSU "will help him try to find a place to play" next season, and the likeliest scenario is to move down a level of competition to an FCS program, similar to Janoris Jenkins.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:24 pm

LSU "will help him try to find a place to play" next season, and the likeliest scenario is to move down a level of competition to an FCS program, similar to Janoris Jenkins.

So he could still be playing against SEC teams.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:32 pm

Tyrann was runn.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:39 pm

Oregon started random drug tests (thanks, ESPN), so I guess that's a nonstarter.

Used to be a great recruiting tool (sup Ngata, DAT, et al).

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 5:56 pm

Him and Cliff Harris can pal around together this season.

Are they clones? All-Americans, playing for contenders, who didn't quite grasp the gravity of their situation.

Adelpiero · Post by **Adelpiero** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 6:17 pm

"Badgers, we don't need no stinking Badgers"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx6TBrfCW54

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:22 pm

Damn if we don't all know that feeling!

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 7:30 pm

Jsc, I'm sure you must have seen some of that moron's interviews and tweets. I know you saw how badly he got lit up in the title game. Your feeling really ought to be, "Good riddance."

'Spray, about that whole high first-round draft pick thing for this tatted up little ghetto smurf?

Yeah, not so much.

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:42 pm

Has Kiffie spoken with him yet?

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 8:49 pm

Nah. He'd have to sit out a year if he transfers to any D1 program. Language Bludgeoner is headed off to D1-AA so he can play right away.

Love his quote, too. "Looking for somewhere else to play." No mention of "some other school." Nope, just a new place to play.

Fucking genius.

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 9:51 pm

Yep, and LSU Freek's clumsy little clips remain as thoroughly unfunny as ever.

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:51 pm

"Honey Badger doesn't give a fuck, he's a dumbass!"

Carson · Post by **Carson** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 10:53 pm

Van wrote:Yep, and LSU Freek's clumsy little clips remain as thoroughly unfunny as ever.

I bet you scowl after your own farts.

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:01 pm

The guy is profoundly unfunny. He's not even Three Stooges funny. Bob Hope rolls his eyes at him. He's "I just learned how to photoshop, sort of, and now I'm practicing sticking faces on people" funny.

We all get the jokes he's making, they're as simple as mud, yet no one but you SEC folk ever laugh at them.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Fri Aug 10, 2012 11:39 pm

Van wrote:Jsc, I'm sure you must have seen some of that moron's interviews and tweets. I know you saw how badly he got lit up in the title game. Your feeling really ought to be, "Good riddance."

I agree. He's not even a good cover corner anyway.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Sun Aug 12, 2012 12:23 am

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:10 pm

Last night on our connecting flight back home from New Orleans, you wouldn't believe who sat down next to me and Mrs. Rumps. Yes, it was the one and only Honeybadger in the flesh.

I really didn't recognize him until about halfway through the one hour flight. He was listening to music the whole time, but then was asked to take his headphones off as we were about to land. I finally mustered up enough courage to talk to him, so instead of saying I'm a huge fan and all, I went a different direction.

Me: "Hey, man...what's up? What are you going to do now?"
HB: (looking down) "Guess I'm gonna go play at McNeese State."
Me: (jokingly) "Why don't you sit out the year and come play for UofH?"
HB: (grinning) "Nah...I want to play football now."
Me: "Well...good luck with the DII thing. It's gonna be different."
HB: "Thanks."

Kinda the highlight of the whole Colorado trip.

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 4:41 pm

That's pretty cool. What are the odds?

Now for the crazy part of your post, why the hell were you connecting in MSY to go from CO to HOU?

Van · Post by **Van** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:20 pm

Probably because he wasn't flailing feebly at the feet of a Bama receiver.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:29 pm

Sudden Sam wrote:How the hell did you not recognize him right away?!

I just didn't pay attention. Was already sitting down and reading a book (Mockingjay). I just thought it was some light skinned black guy with an LSU hat on. Didn't see his blonde mowawk streak because it was covered. Finally noticed it was him when he leaned down to pick up his LSU BCS Championship Game backpack from under the seat and front of him to put up his headphones.

Van · Post by **Van** » Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:41 pm

Did you at least offer him a bong hit?

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:32 pm

Seriously, how the hell did you route thru MSY to go DEN-IAH or HOU?

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:40 pm

Tried to book IAH, but ended up having to book Southwest at Hobby because it was sort of last minute trip. I usually end up pruchasing nonstop only but for some reason I selected a connecting flight from DEN-MSY and then MSY to HOU.

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 2:49 pm

Got ya.

Didn't think you took Southwest based on location. Understand why you did though. I do everything possible to avoid IAH.

Go Coogs' · Post by **Go Coogs'** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:19 pm

Left Seater wrote:Got ya.

Didn't think you took Southwest based on location. Understand why you did though. I do everything possible to avoid IAH.

IAH is just so convenient because its ten minutes from our house and we also earn points through United. I liked it when it was continental. United is horrible.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 4:25 pm

Go Coogs' wrote:
Left Seater wrote:Got ya.

Didn't think you took Southwest based on location. Understand why you did though. I do everything possible to avoid IAH.
IAH is just so convenient because its ten minutes from our house and we also earn points through United. I liked it when it was continental. United is horrible.

When you fly with your dearly beloved, does she make you raise up the armrest between you?

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:04 pm

If the dumbass had even half a brain—yeah, I know—he'd sit out this year and do some damage-control on his reputation before quietly returning to the LSU squad next year. He ought to treat this season as a redshirt year, is all.

No one at LSU has said that he would in fact be allowed back next season even if he managed to stay out of trouble the entire year, but you know there isn't a chance in hell that they would say no.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:16 pm

Van wrote:but you know there isn't a chance in hell that they would say no.

Well, except for that they definitively said no...

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/ ... 57039168/1

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:37 pm

The way they kept specifying his status "as of today," it's clear that they're retaining the option of doing whatever they want a year from now.

Maybe they actually would stick to their guns, but I doubt it. Similar to Notre Dame with Michael Floyd, there's too much potential for spinning it into a feel-good story by touting the "incredible turnaround" the kid made as a result of the all-benevolent university's unwavering support for a "troubled student-athlete" who just needed time to mature.

He'll probably render moot any potential problem for them by going the D1-AA route, but if he did decide to sit out a year I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see them tout their towering munificence and patient understanding as the reasons they decided to reconsider his situation.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue Aug 14, 2012 11:51 pm

Who is "they" and what's your source? When LSU issues a statement saying this:

"He's permanently ineligible to play football at LSU," Bahnsen said in a telephone interview Monday afternoon. "That's definite. That's what was said Friday."

Seems pretty conclusive what their stance is.

Van wrote:Similar to Notre Dame with Michael Floyd, there's too much potential for spinning it into a feel-good story by touting the "incredible turnaround" the kid made as a result of the all-benevolent university's unwavering support for a "troubled student-athlete" who just needed time to mature.

ND never booted Floyd from the program, then allowed him back in later. Any "feel-good" story that might arise from allowing Mathieu back on the team would be negated by the PR nightmare that would surely ensue from going so blatantly against their word.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:31 am

"They" are Les Miles and the appropriate members of the LSU administration.

The ESPN story also said "the possibility of reinstatement would have to be approved at many levels, including university administration as well as coach Les Miles, and is being discussed."

LSU associate athletics director Herb Vincent, who is also LSU's associate vice chancellor, had not heard of such discussions going on as of late Monday afternoon.

"I'm not aware of any," he said.

But Vincent was vague when asked if Mathieu did have some chance of returning to the LSU football team in 2013.

"We're not speculating on that today," he said.

In the end, they're free to do whatever they want. If Les Miles were to stick to his guns, though, then yes, Honey Blunter has no shot.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed Aug 15, 2012 12:51 am

Of course they can do whatever they want. I was just responding to your statement in which you said there's no way they'd say "no," when that's exactly what they've done.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 2:44 am

Whatever they say now really doesn't matter. They have the luxury of taking a hard public stance because he can't put it to the test, plus they probably already know that he has no intentions of sitting out a year anyway.

I agree with you, though, in that it would be more difficult for them to cave in a year from now due to the things some of them said today.

Van · Post by **Van** » Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:54 am

Uh, yeah, Les sure sounds adamant, doesn't he? An immovable rock of integrity, that Grass Eater!

http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... lsu-tigers

When pressed for a comment about the possibility of Mathieu returning to the team for the 2013 season, Miles declined.

"I am not in any way going to speculate. He will not be on this football (team) this year -- I guarantee it. That's a fact. I have no idea beyond that," he said.

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 2:06 pm

Sudden Sam wrote: Alabama exposed his weaknesses as a cover guy.

Which was?

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:21 pm

Cool. So what weakness did they expose? Or do you just mean they were better than him that day. Which I would obviously agree with.

Van · Post by **Van** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:37 pm

They exposed the fact that he's an undersized corner who lacks cover skills. For a corner, those are two fairly damning weaknesses.

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:39 pm

Oh, and exactly how many passes did Bama complete against him to expose his weakness?

Python · Post by **Python** » Fri Aug 17, 2012 3:39 pm

Van, he didn't give up a touchdown all season in coverage. Yeah, he sucks.

And before anyone brings it up, I couldn't be happier that he's off the team. I've never liked the guy at all. Good riddance.