Comments on: It’s Official: Matt Barkley Returns For His Senior Season at USC

By: starkweather

starkweather — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:14:04 +0000

Once the bowl game is over and the reality of passing up 20+ million has hit Barkley he may change his mind.

Uh, which bowl game is going to change Barkley’s mind?

By: BFFredo

BFFredo — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:31:23 +0000

Happiest person: Lane Kiffin
2nd/3rd happiest: Robert Griffin III and his agent

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:23:01 +0000

Number 1 picks are never overrated.

/Aundray Bruce’d

By: BrawnyTom

BrawnyTom — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:20:46 +0000

The only exception I can think of off the bat is the Mario Williams pick.

I don’t believe Newton was thought of as the top pick until late in the process last year.

By: WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night

WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:17:36 +0000

Courtney Brown, if I remember right. Thought that Arrington was getting a lot of run as the top guy at the end of the season…

That’s definitely true.

He won’t have many, if any, ivy league grads he’s competing against on the law school grading curve.

If he knows how to take amphetamines and tear pages out of books, he’ll be fine.

By: Gerard Portmanteau

Gerard Portmanteau — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:15:41 +0000

The only exception I can think of off the bat is the Mario Williams pick.

Courtney Brown, if I remember right. Thought that Arrington was getting a lot of run as the top guy at the end of the season…

By: Vic Colfari

Vic Colfari — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:14:41 +0000

one of the top litigation schools in the nation, you know that.

“one of the top” sounds made up. But I didn’t say Baylor Law sucked. Just that, you know, it’s Baylor Law. He won’t have many, if any, ivy league grads he’s competing against on the law school grading curve. Plenty of bright people go to law school there, but Griffin is obviously not going to fail to fit in.

By: oskie

oskie — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:12:47 +0000

so Barkley is a Jets fan, huh?

By: Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah!

Benjamin Franklin Rodriguez has the highest WAR evah! — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:09:51 +0000

Luck went from #1 overall to #1 overall, and got to have another year of fun before he has to get a job. If you can play, it is going to work out for you either way.

The NFL pretty much stays with its consensus top from the end of the Bowl games through the draft pretty much every year. The only exception I can think of off the bat is the Mario Williams pick. Coming back for another year increases the amount of scrutiny you come under. Even Luck has gone through it to the point that there are teams out there that say they would take Griffin over Luck straight up.

By: arkbadger

arkbadger — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:09:27 +0000

Pouring rain and horrendous traffic in Atlanta. I’m about 1.5 miles from the pink pony and about 26 miles from home. What should I do?

that decision pretty much makes itself, does it not?

By: Jim Harbaugh Scramble

Jim Harbaugh Scramble — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:07:30 +0000

Hilarious that Alex Smith was #1 and Rodgers was something like #23 or #24

A lot of teams were turned off by Rodger’s hatred of cancer patients.

/SC’d

By: FredSanford

FredSanford — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:03:53 +0000

Pony! Not safe to drive in pouring rain.

/Other people’d

By: BrawnyTom

BrawnyTom — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:02:35 +0000

I doubt he’ll get more money,

Say RGII passes him this year and he falls to the 8th pick. #1 overall money next year > #8 overall money this year.

The diff is ~ $7 million for 2011 draft picks (Newton and Locker).

By: squawkbox

squawkbox — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:00:39 +0000

Is it time to go home yet?

Pouring rain and horrendous traffic in Atlanta. I’m about 1.5 miles from the pink pony and about 26 miles from home. What should I do?

By: WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night

WWoS Stayed At a Holiday Inn Express Last Night — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:00:23 +0000

Okay… that was Vega and not Duffy that was being an idiot. Should look more than glancing at avatars.

/sorry Duff-man

By: Jim Harbaugh Scramble

Jim Harbaugh Scramble — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:59:43 +0000

Matt Barkley looks like a less sad version of Fetch.

lol.

By: MP III

MP III — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:59:26 +0000

It’s just Baylor’s law school. He can handle it.

one of the top litigation schools in the nation, you know that.

but for all he says, i think he leaves.

By: TexansFan

TexansFan — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:59:13 +0000

He was going against Alex Smith if he came out. I think he would have gone #1

Hilarious that Alex Smith was #1 and Rodgers was something like #23 or #24

By: Sir Spicious

Sir Spicious — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:59:06 +0000

He was going against Alex Smith if he came out. I think he would have gone #1.

so was Aaron Rodgers. people make mistakes. it is more art than science.

/science

By: Babar 2.0

Babar 2.0 — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:56:30 +0000

I firmly believe that if Leinart came out as a junior, scouts would have taken a harder look at his tape and he wouldn’t have gone the #1 that people thought right after the season ended. he would have fallen that year for the same reason he fell after his senior

He was going against Alex Smith if he came out. I think he would have gone #1.