Congrats Vernon

[9MFEaglefan]

So, this is the last time I will comment on this subject and I encourage others to do the same as I think it's time for EAGLE NATION to move past this.

First off, congratulations to Vernon for earning his degree. Above all else these guys are student-athletes who are here to earn an education and sometimes I think that gets lost. Being the first in your family to earn a college degree is something to be commended.

With all that being said, call me "bitter", call me "butt hurt", call me whatever, but it's going to take a while for the bad taste that's been lingering in my mouth for the past 7 months to leave. Everything from Dean Herrington's questionable involvement in dealing with the U of Nike, the media's biased slant and agenda, and finally Vernon's handling of the situation himself, has left me completely baffled and incredibly disheartened with college football in general.

And I can't help but feel that Vernon, at some point later on in life, will regret the way he handled things with EWU. No, I'm not mad at him for leaving, because every player leaves eventually and he fulfilled his end of the bargain by being a member of the program for four years and earning his degree (eventually).

Rather, by how he disrespected the coaches, administrators, fans, and fellow teammates at Eastern Washington by wearing an Oregon sweatshirt to an EWU basketball game, ignoring the local media, and never once coming out publicly and thanking the program that gave him a shot out of High School and the people that backed him for the past four years. By doing interviews with national media where he claimed his former teammates were "butthurt"...while at the same time never granting local media any access during the entire process.

Vernon, you recently said you "never wanted any of this attention", but you absolutely did. If you didn't, you wouldn't have gambled so big and risked almost not being able to play your Senior season. You absolutely wanted to be in the spotlight, and I guess I can't blame you for that. I just wish you could have handled the situation, all of it, a lot better than you did.

I don't think Vernon has a bad relationship with the team or coaches. I think it's quite the opposite. Like Hannah O said, he made a bet on himself. And that's exactly the kind of confidence that endeared him to Eastern fans the past few years. You can't blame the kid for chasing a dream. I hope that he is wildly successful this season and gets a shot at the next level.

 

[GROUND&POUND]

is that the same Scott Frost that went to Nebraska and then wasn't good enough to play QB in the NFL. He was moved to FS and then mostly played special teams covering kicks for the Jets i believe.

No wonder they didn't have anyone ready enough to keep them from stealing someone else's QB. He may not even know what a forward pass is with his background of Nebraska and the NYETS

Just sayin...

Anyhow - I've seen this backstory before and can't say how often this bad karma comes back to bite the team in Oregon's position. We'll see soon enough. Can you imagine the Eagle Glory after we beat them Sept. 5th?

 

[EdubU10]

I did love when the will he pass? drama went down last week. All the Oregon pundits were writing him off as if they didn’t care if he made it or not. They had already moved on to Lockie and praised him for knowing the system, the playbook, how AWESOME his spring game was and how admirable he is for staying with the program behind Mariota :jack: :jack:

BULL, Lockie sucks and the coaches at Oregon know it. That’s why they went after Adams; a FCS transfer was better than anything they had in cupboard. Oregon fans were just lying to themselves to make themselves feel better about the 2015 season when deep down they were nervous as hell about Adams passing his math test. You know the coaches were sweating bullets over that test and you know they weren’t happy with him failing to graduate in June. That’s valuable time he missed (to be debated how much playbook information Oregon funneled to him unofficially) but from what I’ve read, (again, from these football experts) say Adams is doing well in camp. All praise super Vernon!

 

[LDopaPDX]

I did love when the will he pass? drama went down last week. All the Oregon pundits were writing him off as if they didn’t care if he made it or not. They had already moved on to Lockie and praised him for knowing the system, the playbook, how AWESOME his spring game was and how admirable he is for staying with the program behind Mariota :jack: :jack:

BULL, Lockie sucks and the coaches at Oregon know it. That’s why they went after Adams; a FCS transfer was better than anything they had in cupboard. Oregon fans were just lying to themselves to make themselves feel better about the 2015 season when deep down they were nervous as hell about Adams passing his math test. You know the coaches were sweating bullets over that test and you know they weren’t happy with him failing to graduate in June. That’s valuable time he missed (to be debated how much playbook information Oregon funneled to him unofficially) but from what I’ve read, (again, from these football experts) say Adams is doing well in camp. All praise super Vernon!

Not sure I agree... I think Lockie is a pretty dang good QB, he just doesn't fit the mold of what Oregon does offensively as well as the new guy. My concern for the new guy is what happens when he gets blindsided two or three times in a game by some 6'2" 250 pound linebacker running a 4.6. I think he has enough moxie to play through pain, but sometimes it isn't as much about toughness as it is about what a human body of 190 pounds can handle.

 

[EWURanger]

I did love when the will he pass? drama went down last week. All the Oregon pundits were writing him off as if they didn’t care if he made it or not. They had already moved on to Lockie and praised him for knowing the system, the playbook, how AWESOME his spring game was and how admirable he is for staying with the program behind Mariota :jack: :jack:

BULL, Lockie sucks and the coaches at Oregon know it. That’s why they went after Adams; a FCS transfer was better than anything they had in cupboard. Oregon fans were just lying to themselves to make themselves feel better about the 2015 season when deep down they were nervous as hell about Adams passing his math test. You know the coaches were sweating bullets over that test and you know they weren’t happy with him failing to graduate in June. That’s valuable time he missed (to be debated how much playbook information Oregon funneled to him unofficially) but from what I’ve read, (again, from these football experts) say Adams is doing well in camp. All praise super Vernon!

From what I've heard, he's tearing it up in Oregon's camp.

I've also heard the same about Jordan West. In fact, going back to Spring camp, Baldwin stated that he's never seen a Qb improve so much between fall and spring. Not sure how much of that was lip service, but that's a pretty bold statement given all the talent wr've had at Qb the past decade.