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The biggest news of the weekend was former center Eric Wood charging up the NFL draft board to be selected by the Bills at pick No. 28. With Buffalo's offensive line woes, Eric might be walking into a situation where playing time is readily available right off the bat. No one worked harder to put themselves in that position.
The only other former Card to hear his name called was George Bussey, who went to the Patriots in the fifth round at pick No. 170. Congrats to the pride of Western High.
As of this morning, three former Cardinals had signed free agent contracts: Hunter Cantwell with the Panthers, Chris Vaughn with the Saints and Brock Bolen with the Jaguars.
Not a great weekend for the Cardinal Nine, which dropped two of three to Notre Dame in a weekend series at Jim Patterson. U of L, which gets a second crack at Kentucky tomorrow night in Lexington, is currently tied for second place in the Big East.
Big breaking Derby news this morning as potential favorite Quality Road is out because of the quarter crack on his right hind foot that developed last week.
Voices from all over the country are chiming in with their thoughts on the Jeremy Tyler situation. Here's Pete Thamel's take.
And finally, my thoughts are with the friends and family of Greg Page, the former heavyweight champ from Louisville who passed away this morning.
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Tyler Makes Me Sick
I know its a high risk – high reward chance you take when you go after players like Tyler. He is a man playing with boys in high school and would have been in college as well. I guess we have to now wait another year to see if it will ever happen again. I want a Michael Beasley, Derrick Rose, Carmello Anthony, Kevin Love, Kevin Durant. Short -timers at your school suck if thats all you ever recruit. Thats why teams like KState become decent (sweet 16) with Beasley and then disappear. If you sprinkle the super frosh in with your upper classmen, you can go a long way (see also – Memphis with Rose, Anthony with Syracuse and Love with UCLA).
Throw in a super stud into every other class and then fill in around them with 2 top 50-100 players and 1 underrated guy like Preston and you will win championships.
Of course, I would take the UNC approach if we could get it and set the team with all McDonald’s AAs.
He Hate UK
From the J. Tyler link:
“But Fraschilla added that he was certain Tyler was not going to Europe for the money. He said he could easily earn $200,000 in the United States.
"He could pretty much get that money illegally, either via a college or an agent, willing to funnel his family the money," Fraschilla said. "I’m hoping this is a savvy move to really improve his game."
What the hell? So we’re basically admitting that this happens rather flippantly in college sports? …major infractions like illegally funneling money to families? I’m not surprised—I think we all know this still happens in certain cases—but doesn’t this matter-of-fact quote regarding Tyler make it seem as though it’s an understood luxury for skilled amateurs vice an uncommon, morally incomprehensible act?
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