Cedric Golden comment about Vince

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That's one of the dumbest statements ever made in print. I don't think anyone expected Vince to stay after winning the NC and getting snubbed by the Heisman voters. Did we want him to, sure. I thought he would have been hurting himself to stay at Texas (cept for getting his education).

DJ, however, needs to stay and win the NC next year.
 
Selective memories. Or you didn't read the letters to the editor section after VY made his announcement. Some just called him selfish, while others said stuff like "good riddance" and "don't come back."

The vast majority seemed to understand and wish VY well, but there was a vocal minority who turned nasty.
 
An alleged journalist should be able to discount the thoughts of a fringe few. It was a stupid comment by a bad writer. It happens.
 
90 percent plus totally understood his decision and wished him well, same with TJ Ford. The fringe was vocal but they were just thet, the fringe.
 
I agree that it was pot-banging, but in Golden's defense he did say "some." And those "some" were pretty vocal, including a few posters on here. We don't know for certain whether they were imposters. Just pointing out that there is a modicum of truth to what Golden wrote based on what we actually know and not just conjecture from you guys without any proof that the letter writers were imposters. Hell, I worked with a guy who was mad at VY for leaving until mid-way through the 2006 season. Talked about it loudly before every home game until some drunk dad dressed him down for it at Scholz's before the Iowa State game.
 
Curiae, the point is he could say the same thing about anyone who ever left school early and it would be no less true. Why did he make a point to say it about VY?
 
Yea, it was a really sad day when Vince decided to take it to the next level, but I'm pretty appalled that anyone would give VY anything but love after what he did for our football program.
 
Hell, I don't know what Golden's motives are. I don't particularly care for him one way or the other. I don't know him. Maybe he said it because the vocal minority in VY's case were MORE vocal than for anyone else who left early, including TJ. Some of the things that were said were hateful. Stop being so sensitive. Golden isn't Nancy McPasty, the half-retarded, slow-speaking, former Pittsburgh Steeler who masquerades around as an ESPN analyst.
 
What a retard. Vince's stock couldn't have gotten any higher than it was after the Rose Bowl, unlike Leinart who came back to USC for his Senior season after he was most likely going to be the #1 overall pick in that year's draft, his stock dropped big time compared to what it was before. Vince did the right thing. For someone to say he's a 'turncoat' is stupid and they are the one's being selfish for wanting someone to not take $60 million dollars so they can stay and play one more year and possibly throw it all away with a ACL blow out or whatever.
 
The difference is that everyone understood why VY left. His stock was never gonna be higher and he beat the "greatest team of all time". We wanted him back but we all understood. Same with TJ. With his spinal injuries he needed to go and not let that effect his stock. DJ needs to stay cuz his stock can go up and he hasn't won anything yet. He has things that he needs to get better at in college.
 
It was even less than a "fringe." It was virtually nonexistant.

If there was a room of 1,000 Longhorns, and one called VY a "turncoat," the other 999 would beat him into dust.
 
My FIL (UT class of '64) called Vince every expletive in the book when he heard that he was leaving early & got on his high horse about how "a man's word is his word & he needs to live up to his commitment". He even compared it to his own stint in the Army & being sent to Korea after college. My response to him was if someone offered him a minimum of $35 million dollars when he was a junior @ UT what would he have done? He just laughed & said "the same thing Vince Young did."
 
Some people still haven't realized that a sportswriter is not a journalist. A sportswriter is in the entertainment business. It's all about readership and ad revenue.
 
Actually, Scooter, the typical sportswriter these days is a mediocre writer who knows very little about sports . Of course, you can say the same about most "journalists" these days. Just like every other writer at the newspaper, the sportswiter's profession requires a degree in journalism, but no common sense or specific knowledge in their chosen area. Further, if you think anyone at the old daily is there to do anything other than to sell papers, then you are sadly deluded.
 
Hell, ask some of my Longhorn buddies and family, I cried & moaned inside and outside about Vince leaving early.... I didn't however, hold it against him
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Yeah, I'm getting a little tired of this cultivated cynicism about newpapers and reporters. Just because lazy journalism is de rigeur these days doesn't mean that alleged journalists shouldn't be held to higher standards.

There are good writers out there. The Statesman's Kevin Robbins is one of them. He writes sports features for the most part, and his style is reminiscent of some of the greats. Cedric Golden and Kirk Bohls will never have anything resembling that style (or ANY style), but I don't think they should get a free pass "because they're just trying to sell papers".
 
IMO the author is trying to turn this into a race issue, as in, "Good riddance of VY. Texas should only have white qbs." He's full of crap.
 
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