The Wait is Killing Me
July 20, 2009 by hawaiibillT
Filed under Football
The NCAA has got to do something about this wait between basketball ending in April, and football not starting until August.
We basically have to go 4 1/2 months with no UK sports fix. We won’t hire Cal every year, and have a #1 recruiting class to talk about. We may eventually drop as low as 2 or 3.
We won’t always have something to hate the NCAA for. Well we can always find something. Like an illegal dietary supplement sold over the counter. Ironic that he was taking this to lose weight, and the Redskins want him to put on about 20 lbs.
We won’t always have a BCG lawsuit to keep us distracted.
My friends, I am disgusted by the summer sports blackout, and I need for something to happen very soon.
Posted on the forums by ukn96 you can read the whole thing here.
Jarmon Picked in Third Round
July 17, 2009 by Memoirs0Zeus
Filed under Football
The Washington Redskins selected defensive lineman Jeremy Jarmon in the third round of Thursday’s supplemental draft.
Five teams put in fourth-round claims for the 6-foot-3, 278-pound defensive end, a source told ESPN.com’s John Clayton. The Redskins have five remaining draft choices in the 2010 draft. They are now without third- and sixth-round picks.
Jarmon, the only player selected in the draft, is only the fourth supplemental choice on an active roster this year. The Chargers have two — defensive tackle Jamal Williams and safety Paul Oliver — and the Ravens have one — left tackle Jared Gaither. Jarmon is the first supplemental pick selected since 2007.
The Redskins needed to look for a young defensive end because they have too much age at the left end spot of their defensive line. Phillip Daniels is 36 and Renaldo Wynn is 34. The Redskins can develop Jarmon over the next year to take over the starting job and maybe help at defensive tackle on passing downs.
Vinny Cerrato, Washington’s executive vice president of football operations, was among a group of scouts who came to Lexington last week to watch Jarmon work out.
After drafting Jarmon on Thursday, Cerrato told Redskins.com that the 6-foot-3, 278-pounder was a bargain.
“He was a guy that the scouts really liked,” Cerrato said. “We graded him as a second-round pick.
“He’s a great kid. He’ll fit well in the locker room. He runs well. He’s making tremendous strides.”
Cerrato said he thinks Jarmon would have been a second-round pick in next year’s draft had he been able to stay at Kentucky and play his senior year.
“He’s basically a year ahead of where he would be if he’d come out next year,” Cerrato said.
“He can develop at his pace. He’s very athletic, but he needs strength. He benched 19 times. He needs to be doing that 30 times.”
Jarmon left Kentucky after he was declared ineligible for his senior year because of a failed drug test in which he tested positive for a banned diuretic supplement.
He fits perfectly in a 4-3 defense. He can play end or tackle.
Jarmon took the supplement while recovering from a shoulder injury and was not taking part in activities. He had been taking the supplement for 15 days before checking with the training staff, who told him to stop taking it.
“But it was too late,” Jarmon said, reading from a prepared statement in May.
Jarmon said his goal in the offseason was to become leaner. He bought a dietary supplement while shopping for vitamins on the recommendation of a worker at a nutrition store, not knowing that it contained a banned substance.
“I do not need to cheat to be successful,” he said.
Jarmon has the third-most sacks in Kentucky history. He was an honorable mention on last season’s AP All-Southeastern Conference team.
