That crazy Marcus Vick

I wonder when we'll get our next "Marcus Vick is such a great good who has really showed his character and maturity" story from ESPN. It seems like intentionally stomping on the calf of a the other team's star player would get some attention from the head coach, but class act Beamer must have been too concerned with the 5 unsportsmanlike conduct penalties that his defense was committing. Maybe he was focusing on his defensive star getting ejected for grabbing the official and spinning him around in a fairly violent manner. The quarterback coach said that he was embarrassed by Vick's behavior. Why then, didn't he pull Vick from the game? Why did Frank Beamer say that he wasn't aware of what had happened when asked about it after the game? The kid should have been taken out of the game. Some people would complain that that wouldn't be fair to the other kids. That's bullshit. When a high school kid signs with Virginia Tech, he knows that he is going to a program with a reputation for signing troubled kids. The players all agreed to play for Virginia Tech armed with the knowledge that relying on a kid like Marcus Vick will likely result in them getting screwed by Marcus Vick. That's how it works. It's the same thing with every school in the SEC (other than Vanderbilt and maybe Florida), Florida State, Miami, Texas A&M, Ohio State, Oregon State and others. When you play for a renegade program, you have to know that someday you may face the consequences of someone else's behavior. If a kid doesn't want that risk, then they can go to North Carolina, Stanford, Penn State, Wisconsin, Texas, Oklahoma, USC, Notre Dame, and any number of other schools that have fairly solid reputations.