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The Many Troubles of Marcus Vick (merged)

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Hell, he should just go pro now and sign with the Falcons as a FA. I'm sure Mikey could pull some strings for him. If the Falcons are sold on Vick as their QB they might as well have another to back him up when he gets hurt 3 or 4 games a year.
 
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Good riddence :) He has 0 chance at being a last round draft pick does he?

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/bowls05/news/story?id=2282642


Hokies end ties with troubled QB
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<!-- begin text11 div --><!-- begin leftcol --> <!-- template inline --> RICHMOND, Va. -- The president of Virginia Tech said Friday that quarterback Marcus Vick has been permanently dismissed from the football team.
Marcus Vick, who faces discipline for his behavior in Virginia Tech's bowl win, also has additional off-field problems.

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</td><td width="65">[SIZE=-2]Vick[/SIZE]</td></tr></tbody> </table> The junior quarterback, who stomped on Elvis Dumervil's leg after the Louisville defensive end tackled Vick on Monday during the first half of the Toyota Gator Bowl, was to meet with coach Frank Beamer on Friday.
He also faces charges of speeding and driving on a suspended driver's license, Cpl. James West said Friday. Police stopped Vick in Hampton on Dec. 17, and he was charged with driving 38 mph in a 25 mph zone, the police spokesman said.
Virginia Tech had suspended him for all of the 2004 season because of legal troubles.
When the school announced Vick's suspension last year, Steger said if Vick faced additional off-field troubles, "his Virginia Tech career is effectively ended."
Vick was not penalized for the Dumervil incident but was rebuked at halftime of the Gator Bowl by quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers, who said he even considered pulling Vick from the lineup.
Vick said later it was "an accidental play, and football is football." He also said he had apologized to Dumervil. Dumervil said no apology had been offered.
"A no-character individual," Dumervil said after the game.
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Marcus Vick, eluding a Louisville defender in the Gator Bowl, stepped on the leg of another Cardinal player who tackled him in the first half.


Vick threw two touchdown passes and led a 22-point, fourth-quarter rally for the No. 12 Hokies, who beat the No. 15 Cardinals 35-24.
Rogers, who has mentored Vick in his on-field and off-field behavior, was livid with his quarterback, chewing him out at halftime, and after the game.
"There's no reason for that in the game," Rogers said. "It's flat-out embarrassing. I don't coach that way, and I don't expect him to play that way."
The incident is the latest trouble for Vick since he elected to follow his brother, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, to Virginia Tech. The elder Vick led the Hokies to the 1999 national championship game and was the first pick of the 2001 draft.
Marcus Vick played in 11 games as a backup in his freshman year, then was suspended from school last season after he was arrested, along with teammates Mike Imoh and Brenden Hill, for giving alcohol to 14- and 15-year-old girls. He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge.
The younger Vick also later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and no contest to marijuana possession after a police stop in July 2004.
 
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Marcus Vick and the 4-H Club

I am firmly in the 4-H Club on this one.

HAT - My hat goes off to Va Tech and its President for having the cajones to do the right thing, in the right way. They had given Marcus Vick plenty of rope - 2004 season suspension for double offenses. Then back on "good behaviour" till this recent incident. He disgraced the institution and they had every right to cut ties with the young man.

HEART - My heart goes out to the Vick family, the stomping incident was surely a surprise to his brother Michael and a shock to his parents, still this is the time they need to provide guidance and support to Marcus - which leads me to a double dose of

HOPE - I hope this sharp rebuff by Va. Tech will set Marcus on the right course in the remainder of his life, and

HOPE -- I hope this is a signal of the end of the thuggification of college football.

Side note: It was noticed by me that it was the President that dismissed him - I wonder what that means about Beamer's part in the decision making?
 
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They had absolutely no choice...or else Beamer would have kept him, you can bet on it. The national outrage caused by this and other incidents would put a target on every VT player's back (and especially his) if he stayed on the team, and would cement a general reputation that Beamer is trying to avoid, but is fast developing. It also very well could have caused a lot of locker room mutiny if anyone on the team was ever disciplined for anything else, and Vick wasn't for all of this.

Good riddance.
 
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tibor75 said:
If the VTech coaches KNEW what he did at halftime, why didn't they pull him from the game? of course, that would punish the team as well, but that happens all the time.

Jesse Jackson to be involved in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.....
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I'm sure Beamer is from the Bobby Bowden school of mediocre players get suspended, star players run windsprints.
 
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High Lonesome said:
Elvis should have kicked his ass
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Nah, Elvis left the building and Maurice, I mean Marcus, left the university :slappy:

It was a chance for Frank Beamer to step up and show some class. Well, them that's got...

It can't have been easy, growing up as the "little Vick". But, he's had a lot of chances. My guess. Gone from football for good by 2007.
 
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