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The Many Troubles of Marcus Vick (merged)

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Marcus Vick is a thug. Even the day after the game down here, which is Va Tech country, the local papers had an article talking about how inexcusable his actions where, and how they kind of spoiled the victory. And this was the local writers talking, not some national AP stories.
 
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I don't understand it either. Definitely reminds me of Christian Laettner at Duke.
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Yeah, except that when Christain Laettner did that, it was an abberation. With Marcus Vick it's becoming the norm.
After watching that I have little doubt he did it on purpose, and thinking back to the forearm he gave to the coach in the WVU(?) game it seems to me that was probably intended as well.
 
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Didn't see this anywhere earlier...if it was, sorry...

Virginia Tech quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers refused to bask in Monday's victory over Louisville in the Gator Bowl. Instead, he tackled the afternoon's indelible moment: The inexcusable cheap shot Tech quarterback Marcus Vick took on a prone Louisville defender, All-America end Elvis Dumervil. "Flagrant" and worthy of ejection, according to Rogers. "Embarrassing" to Vick and the program, he added.
-- Newport News Daily Press
 
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Marcus Vick has had tons of off the field problems coming into the season, and there have been problems during the season...it's obviously a pattern. This is horrible.

What Robert Reynolds did was embaressing and bad, but he got suspended, learned his lesson, and it was a one time thing.

With Vick this seems to be the norm. I don't care if they suspend him or not, because he's not that good, and he's not a leader.
 
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JonathanXC said:
Marcus Vick has had tons of off the field problems coming into the season, and there have been problems during the season...it's obviously a pattern. This is horrible.

What Robert Reynolds did was embaressing and bad, but he got suspended, learned his lesson, and it was a one time thing.

With Vick this seems to be the norm. I don't care if they suspend him or not, because he's not that good, and he's not a leader.
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With Reynolds, tOSU at least came out of it being the "good guy." He was suspended by tOSU (or maybe it was specifically Tressel) - not by the Big Ten and not by the NCAA. I think its up to VT's coach. Beemer? Beamer? However it's spelled. Anyway, if he doesn't suspend Vick, he's showing that he doesn't think Vick did anything wrong. Then it's up to Virginia Tech. If the school doesn't suspend him, it's showing that they don't think he did anything wrong. If he gets suspended by the ACC or by the NCAA, it's showing the entire country that Frank Beamer and Virginia Tech have no problem with dirty players.
 
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http://www.roanoke.com/sports/vtfootball/wb/wb/xp-47040

Tech: Incident under review

Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver said Tuesday that his administration was embarrassed by Marcus Vick's unsportsmanlike conduct in Monday's Gator Bowl and that the incident will be reviewed and dealt with.

Vick, the Hokies' junior quarterback, stomped on the left calf of NCAA sacks leader Elvis Dumervil of Louisville when Dumervil lay on the ground after tackling Vick in the second quarter of the game in Jacksonville, Fla.

Vick later sprearheaded a fourth-quarter comeback and the Hokies topped Louisville 35-24, but the incident tainted the victory.

Vick called the incident "an accidental play, and football is football." He also said he apologized to Dumervil, a likely high NFL Draft choice, but Dumervil said no apology had been offered.

"A no-character individual," Dumervil told reporters leaving the stadium.

Replays don't seem to support Vick's claim that it was an accident. After rising from the turf, Vick seems to pause before intentionally stepping on Dumervil's leg.

He was not penalized on the play, but was rebuked at halftime by quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers, who said he even considered pulling Vick from the lineup.

Rogers also was critical of his All-ACC quarterback, calling it a "stupid, knee-jerk reaction," and said if the Hokies are going to improve, Vick will need to be a bigger man.

"Nobody in that locker room condones that. Nobody does," Rogers said. "I spend a lot of time with [Vick]. It's no different that being disappointed in your own kids at times.

"I'm with him all the way, but we need to get that stuff corrected."

Vick's incident came a quarter after All-American cornerback Jimmy Williams was ejected from the game for bumping an official. Some teammates were concerned with both actions.

"Honestly, I think we've done become the bad guys of the ACC already," sophomore wide receiver Justin Harper said.

A message left by The Associated Press at the phone number listed for Vick in Virginia Tech's online student directory was not returned Tuesday night.

Williams said after the game that people outside of the program should beware of overreacting.

"Everything is going to be OK," he said. "We just wanted to give the younger guys some motivation to come back next year and go to the ACC title game, and, hopefully, we get to the show."

Coach Frank Beamer said afterward that he did not see the play and couldn't comment on any possibly disciplinary action against Vick until he had a chance to review it, and he and Rogers did not return phone messages left at their offices Tuesday.

Weaver also did not return messages left at his home or office.

In his statement, released shortly before 5 p.m., Weaver said Vick's behavior was "unacceptable" and "not reflective of Virginia Tech football nor of the values we hold at Virginia Tech. I and my colleagues in central administration are embarrassed and this athletic administration will not condone such acts of unsportsmanlike conduct.

"We will review and assess this incident further and deal with it accordingly."

The incident is the latest in a long line of trouble for Vick since he elected to follow his brother, Michael Vick, to Virginia Tech. The elder Vick led the Hokies to the 1999 national championship game and was the No. 1 pick in the 2001 NFL Draft by Atlanta.

But his act has proven difficult to follow for Marcus Vick, who played in 11 games as a backup as a freshman and then was suspended from school last season after he was arrested 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.

In addition, Vick later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and no contest to marijuana possession after police stopped him on Interstate 64 near Richmond in July 2004.

When Weaver informed Vick of his suspension in August 2004, he said that any further violations, either criminal, university judicial, or of athletic policy, will result in a permanent dismissal from Tech athletics.

"The university is doing the right thing in the name of discipline,'' Weaver said at that time. "I think Marcus understands where he is right now. I personally believe he wants to right the Vick name."

Upon his return this season, Vick was jeered by fans at road games, and drew additional negative attention by making an obscene gesture to fans at West Virginia, where he was called names like "child molester" and "rapist" throughout the game.
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http://www.roanoke.com/sports/vtfootball/wb/47027

I'm a Hokie, Class of '59, and I am appalled at Marcus Vick's intentional attempt to injure Louisville player Elvis Dumervil in the Gator Bowl. It reflects poorly on Virginia Tech, its students, alumni and sports program, and must not go unpunished.

Vick was quoted saying, "It was an accident." Hogwash. The act was intentional and deliberate as anyone watching this on national TV could plainly see, and he should be shamed for it.

David A. Paddock
Asheville, N.C.

Hokies were embarrassing

Congratulations on another season of winning football at Virginia Tech.

This was a very exciting season for Virginia Tech football. I've been living in Southern California for the last 20 years and it was not until Michael Vick put Virginia Tech football on the map that people here came to know about the school and its top-class football program under Frank Beamer.

However, Monday's Gator Bowl win has damaged Virginia Tech's reputation.

Most of the postgame highlights and newspaper coverage focused on the poor sportsmanship of the team. When I came into my office this morning, the comments I heard regarding the game were not about the comeback and incredible fourth quarter, but the conduct of the Virginia Tech players.

It is a shame that what should have been a season-ending high point is, in fact, a low point for the Virginia Tech football program.

I would have rather had the team lose in style and class than win with the behavior I and a national TV audience saw.

I am embarrassed today to be a Virginia Tech alumnus.

Paul Tarantino
Mission Viejo, Calif.

Beamer needs to take control

I am 59 and grew up in Roanoke in the '50s and '60s and have followed the Hokies all my life. The shameful display by both the Tech players and the coaching staff in what Tech would call a football game was the worst I have ever seen. It was truly an embarrassment to both the school and to the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Tech fans are tired of the unprincipled hooligans on the team acting like a bunch of idiots both on and off the field, and seemingly without being subjected to strong discipline by coach Frank Beamer.

If the program aspires to keep company with the Notre Dames and Penn States, Beamer needs to take charge and institute very strict guidelines of conduct for his players, and forcefully adhere to them.

William Snider
Chesterfield County

Vick owes Dumervil an apology

Kudos to Aaron McFarling for his thought-provoking column on Marcus Vick. There is absolutely no place in sports for actions like Vick's, period.

I suspect the ultimate loser here may be the university, though. The ramifications of Vick's unprovoked assault could have a detrimental effect on recruiting.

As an ardent Tech supporter, I am frankly embarrassed by the thuggish act on an opponent whose only fault was playing good, hard football. It dampened the victory for all Tech supporters.

I suspect at some point Vick will be forced to offer an "official" apology to Louisville and Elvis Dumervil. Sadly that should have come immediately after the incident or by game's end at the latest.

The first person I see wearing anything with a Louisville logo will get an apology from me.

Thomas Johnson
Chantilly
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