zappinpoke
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According to Tom Lacock, writer for green and gold news, ACS will transfer to CU.
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ACS to CU
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thirtyseven
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Link?
whyoh
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McPeachy said:wyosteelerfan said:
Oh, you should know better. Let's just say that ACS never left home without his baggie of happy smoke.
He fits in PERFECT in dirty smelly hippyville!!!
tbh i'm kinda surprised that the umbilical cord was long enough for him to leave home in the first place
zappinpoke
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I just read it over on gowyogo board in a thread about acs. I don't think any "offical" announcement has been made. From the sounds of it he's going to walk on, with grandpa footin the tab.thirtyseven said:
Fullback41
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who?
My oh my...how easily opinions change. In the not so distant past, I remember many on this board singing ACS's praises. I even recall one poster linking a photograph of ACS and his son and complimenting ACS on his maturity level and kindness for taking the time to pose with his son after a win. Now all I see is a whole lot of stereotypical, "We don't like your kind around here", Wyoming bullshit. There are many things that make me very proud to tell people I'm from Wyoming, but to be honest, I'm a bit embarrassed to see so many folks bashing ACS for his own personal choices just because they wouldn't have made the same choice.
Now, please allow me to make a couple statements about the "happy smoke":
1. If you are going to bash ACS for smoking weed, then I expect you to also bash 1/3 of the football team because they are smoking it too. If on the slight chance that you don't believe that anyone else on the team smokes weed, then I feel sorry for you.
2. In a 1994 study by Columbia University, they found that 25-40% of all patients in US general hospital beds are being treated for complications of alcohol-related problems. Furthermore, in 1995 The Association of American Physicians revealed the total costs of alcohol-related problems to be $175.9 billion every single year in the US. They also revealed that ALL other drug problems combined cost the helathcare system $114.2 billion per year (keep in mind, weed is only a very small chunk of this category). Feel free to contact me if you would like references...I can point you in the right direction.
If you want to take a "moral" stand against a substance, your time would be better spent chastising people who choose to drink alcohol. If you haven't yet realized that legality and morality should be completely separate issues, then I hope someday you will.
Now, please allow me to make a couple statements about the "happy smoke":
1. If you are going to bash ACS for smoking weed, then I expect you to also bash 1/3 of the football team because they are smoking it too. If on the slight chance that you don't believe that anyone else on the team smokes weed, then I feel sorry for you.
2. In a 1994 study by Columbia University, they found that 25-40% of all patients in US general hospital beds are being treated for complications of alcohol-related problems. Furthermore, in 1995 The Association of American Physicians revealed the total costs of alcohol-related problems to be $175.9 billion every single year in the US. They also revealed that ALL other drug problems combined cost the helathcare system $114.2 billion per year (keep in mind, weed is only a very small chunk of this category). Feel free to contact me if you would like references...I can point you in the right direction.
If you want to take a "moral" stand against a substance, your time would be better spent chastising people who choose to drink alcohol. If you haven't yet realized that legality and morality should be completely separate issues, then I hope someday you will.
Just checked out five CU message boards and they have nothing on ACS to Colorado.
McPeachy
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TheRealUW said:
Lighten up. Thanks for the sermon though. And I love the "WYOMING" generalizations. Very stereotypical of you Father RealUW.
I could give a flying fuck if ACS smokes weed, the whole team smokes weed, etc., etc. I merely was pointing out that he would fit well in hippyville. Believe it or not, CU is just a bit different than UW.
Further, I liked what ACS brought to the table as a player, and an apparant leader (captain). Then he quit. So fuck him. I have no empathy or sympathy for quitters. Turns out he wasn't that leader, but was a quitter.
And to continue on my soap box...you should ask around, as to the opinion of what the coaching staff and current team feels about ACS as well. Ask how things rolled last season. Ask why he really missed TCU. It may shed some light on a few things for you that you are unaware of.
gopokes1399
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he had a facebook status the other day about denver
whyoh
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TheRealUW said:
for the record...i wasn't commenting on acs's alleged substance abuse, i was commenting on the city of boulder colorado's history of substance abuse
oh yeah, and calm the f**k down, it's just a message board....i was a fan of acs while he was here but i am personally disappointed in his giving up on the program because i personally feel that he was a good fit for DC's offense and he appeared to be a relatively moral guy
laxwyo
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Opinions can change about a person. Just as my wife can love me one day, but if I fuck a waitress, I'm sure her opinion will change. ACS fucked the waitress! I had high hopes for the next two years, but he ruined that. It's a personal choice and probably a mistake, but at least I can say I was drunk if I ever fucked a waitress. He's gone. I don't mind the bashing so much, but it doesn't really matter.
ACS leaving proves a point i've always said. Its amazing how fast you can like or dislike a person by the color of the jersey they are wearing. Since he left no matter where he goes we will bitch and hope that program bombs out. However if Heaps (buy qb) transferred to UW everyone would be cool with us getting a good player from a former rival that has game experience.
All of these husband-wife analogies are a bit concerning to me. Having a deep, intimate personal relationship with a significant other is a vastly different relationship from a fan-player relationship. I'd venture to guess that many of you have never spoken a word to ACS (including myself). Maybe he is a pot smoking, douchebag daddy's boy...but I'm not about to publicly bash the guy's character when I am far from knowing the entire story as to what unfolded over the 2 years he was at UW.
ACS earned a scholarship to come play football at UW. I thought he fulfilled that commitment. He didn't sign a letter of intent to be best buds with his teammates or to assimilate himself into the Wyoming/UW lifestyle. His "job" was to play football, and I was satisfied with him in that regard. Please feel free to bash his football skills. Personally, I thought he sucked at the read option. I also thought his footwork was on the level of a bad 5th grader. In the end, he apparently didn't fit in with the direction the UW football program was headed, so he left and his reward (scholarship) was lost. A poor decision? Maybe so. But to hope he "gets bent" and taking satisfaction in his failure seems silly and childish.
Look, I know that sports can bring about very passionate feelings, but sometimes its best to take a step back and take a look at your own actions. Does publicly ridiculing a young man because he quit the football team you cheer for really fit into your morality?
ACS earned a scholarship to come play football at UW. I thought he fulfilled that commitment. He didn't sign a letter of intent to be best buds with his teammates or to assimilate himself into the Wyoming/UW lifestyle. His "job" was to play football, and I was satisfied with him in that regard. Please feel free to bash his football skills. Personally, I thought he sucked at the read option. I also thought his footwork was on the level of a bad 5th grader. In the end, he apparently didn't fit in with the direction the UW football program was headed, so he left and his reward (scholarship) was lost. A poor decision? Maybe so. But to hope he "gets bent" and taking satisfaction in his failure seems silly and childish.
Look, I know that sports can bring about very passionate feelings, but sometimes its best to take a step back and take a look at your own actions. Does publicly ridiculing a young man because he quit the football team you cheer for really fit into your morality?
TheRealUW said:
I don't think it's a bad comparison. It's just showing that how you think of someone can change with just one action. Doesn't matter if it's your girlfriend, wife, best friend, or anybody that you think highly of and root for. I guess if you want an perfect analogy let's go with the Brett Favre saga. Leaves Green Bay and goes to the Viking via the Jets. A lot of Packer fans who loved Favre for 16 season can't stand the guy because he played for one of their most hated rivals. There will always be a blind few that look can look past the betrayal, but for most people it's pretty difficult. As for me I can't stand Favre and the Packers are a much better team now that Rodgers is at the helm. I think the Pokes will be much the same with Smith or Pittser leading them for the next 4-5 season. I think both of them have a lot more upside than ACS ever did.
Things are getting tense in here! August can't come soon enough!
ACS quit, and people quit all the time. Was I dissappointed? Yes. But hey, s##t happens right? I seriously believe that he will have to live with that decision and it will be tough on him, much tougher on him than us Poke fans in the end.
All the pot smokin' stuff is significant because as a QB and leader, you have to take a stand against it and all illicit activity. It doesn't really matter if the rest of the team is smoking rope, if your QB is, than that IS a problem. It's about respect and the QB always has to maintain that level of respect with his teammates. It's about making the sacrifice for the greater good and doing the hard thing, which often times when done correctly makes you somewhat of a loner at first. Once that respect is earned, and all the sudden 2 guys are doing the right thing, and 5 guys and so on and so on but it should start with the triggerman. It sounds as if ACS didn't understand that part of it, or didn't care about that part of it, and unfortunately, that's a big piece of playing the position. The easy part is what you do between the lines on Saturday. The tough part is Sunday through Friday night.
I think all of this will be a distant memory come Sept. It sounds as if we have character guys playing the position now and good things are once again, in store for the Pokes. Farewell and adieu, Mr. ACS, and I hope it works for you so at CU so that we can kick your ass in 2 years!
ACS quit, and people quit all the time. Was I dissappointed? Yes. But hey, s##t happens right? I seriously believe that he will have to live with that decision and it will be tough on him, much tougher on him than us Poke fans in the end.
All the pot smokin' stuff is significant because as a QB and leader, you have to take a stand against it and all illicit activity. It doesn't really matter if the rest of the team is smoking rope, if your QB is, than that IS a problem. It's about respect and the QB always has to maintain that level of respect with his teammates. It's about making the sacrifice for the greater good and doing the hard thing, which often times when done correctly makes you somewhat of a loner at first. Once that respect is earned, and all the sudden 2 guys are doing the right thing, and 5 guys and so on and so on but it should start with the triggerman. It sounds as if ACS didn't understand that part of it, or didn't care about that part of it, and unfortunately, that's a big piece of playing the position. The easy part is what you do between the lines on Saturday. The tough part is Sunday through Friday night.
I think all of this will be a distant memory come Sept. It sounds as if we have character guys playing the position now and good things are once again, in store for the Pokes. Farewell and adieu, Mr. ACS, and I hope it works for you so at CU so that we can kick your ass in 2 years!
laxwyo
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TheRealUW said:
He quit halfway through is commitment. He was the damn starting QB! Who the hell does that? At least without a coaching change or something drastic like that. He's gone and he's the enemy now. I wouldn't say that most of are ragging on the kid, but ragging on ACS the player. Maybe he was a bad teammate, maybe not. I don't care. He quit and that's it.
