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Little Vick is off to a rough start. I know I didnt hear his name much last season but I didnt know it was because he got drunk with 14 and 15 year old girls.
ESPN.com wrote:
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia Tech quarterback Marcus Vick was cleared Monday to rejoin the team after being suspended this season because of a night of drinking with underage girls.
The younger brother of Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick joined his teammates for a meeting, re-enrolled at the university and started classes. The university and head coach Frank Beamer cleared the 20-year-old to return to all football-related activities after being suspended for the fall semester.
Marcus Vick was arrested in February 2004, along with teammates Mike Imoh and Brenden Hill, after an encounter with 14- and 15-year-old girls at the quarterback's apartment in Blacksburg. Vick avoided jail by pleading no contest to a misdemeanor charge.
Vick also pleaded guilty to reckless driving and no contest to marijuana possession after a traffic stop last summer.
"I'm excited to be back -- I missed this place," Vick said in a statement. "I know that I hurt a lot of people who only want to see me succeed. I'd like to try to make that up to them. I'm appreciative to the university and coach Beamer for giving me this opportunity. Now I'm ready to put the past behind me and concentrate on the future."
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Perhaps I will see him on campus. It should be fun to watch him this coming season as we only got a small taste of his talent two seasons ago. Towards the end of that season the offense had been running some trick plays with Vick at wideout and also at halfback with Bryan Randall at QB. Although I doubt we will have another 2 QB threat again so he will most likely play QB full-time.
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flavdave wrote:
Perhaps I will see him on campus. It should be fun to watch him this coming season as we only got a small taste of his talent two seasons ago. Towards the end of that season the offense had been running some trick plays with Vick at wideout and also at halfback with Bryan Randall at QB. Although I doubt we will have another 2 QB threat again so he will most likely play QB full-time.
I would hardly consider Vick a threat at QB. If he hadn't got freaky with 15 year-olds, Randall doesn't play at all and Tech probably goes 6-6.
Let's not feel sorry for this guy. He got what he deserved.
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TortureFollowsReward wrote:
I would hardly consider Vick a threat at QB. If he hadn't got freaky with 15 year-olds, Randall doesn't play at all and Tech probably goes 6-6.
Let's not feel sorry for this guy. He got what he deserved.
Yes, he did get what he deserved, I won't argue with that. But Randall was always the starter, and even with an eligible Vick I think that Beamer would be smart enough to realize that Randall had improved to the point where there would be no QB controversy involving the two of them. It is not fair to say that Vick is or isn't a threat at QB because we haven't seen enough of him. Now we will get that chance.
I don't feel sorry for him, but I take comfort in the fact that the appropriate disciplinary action was taken by the team and Vick had to sit out. He deserves a second chance just like anyone else would in the same situation.
EDIT - Yes, I realize I was the one who said Vick was part of a "2 QB threat" so now I take back that statement, and rephrase it as Vick and Randall being a "possible 2 QB threat".
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