Of course, a freshman QB by the name of Nate Davis from a MAC team that went 5-7 made all three of those Michigan defenders look like chumps a couple months later…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6M9fIincgM

Full disclosure: I’m a proud Valpo native, and someone who played under the same h.s. football coach as Samardzija, Mark Hoffman. You knew Jeff had to be damned good when Hoffman, a guy who coached three-yards-and-a-cloud of dust style football for 30 years (his favorite pre-game speech: “Gentlemen, we’re going to start out running the toss sweep. And if they can’t stop it, we’re going to run the toss sweep. And if they still can’t stop it, *we’re going to run the toss sweep*. And if they finally stop it, we’re going to start running the toss sweep to the other side of the field…”), basically changed his entire offensive scheme on a dime to take advantage of Samardzija. Valpo High went from a old-school, Joe Paterno-style ground game to a pass-happy, Florida-style spread offense overnight, throwing dozens of jump-ball fades and deep posts to Jeff every game.

Opponents expecting Jeff to lumber off the mound, typical of most pitchers his size, are going to be sorely disappointed.

Originally Posted By flannj
Oh, and GO BLUE.

Feel free to use your own lyrics, flannj. It is rah-rah college bfootball season, you know.

Hail to the Cubs who just
Dispensed of the Deadbirds
And now have a 10 game lead on ‘em
Fuck the Caaaar-dinals.

Mike, I agree that Albie can go ahead and eat shit, but man that was one inconsistent crew for this series. Would it be asking too much for some competence behind the plate?
It’s not like these games are important or anything.

Oh, and GO BLUE.