Minicamp Marcus
Seriously, Marcus - it has come to this? Being excited over a minicamp that most likely is going to end with you still an unemployed professional-football player?
"He's excited. We're all excited," said Tommy Reamon, the high-school football coach of former Virginia Tech standout Marcus Vick, regarding the news that Vick has been invited to a rookie minicamp slated for this weekend.
"This is the steal of the draft class. He's the most versatile player the Dolphins have had in years," Reamon said.
Not hardly, there, Coach. Vick not only went undrafted last weekend, but he has apparently generated scant interest from the 32 NFL teams since.
How things have changed since the fall - when it looked like Vick might be on his way to the top of the draft after leading the Hokies to an 11-2 record while completing 61.2 percent of his passes for 2,393 yards and 17 touchdowns and rushing for another 380 yards and six touchdowns in his only season a starter
Questions arose when Vick looked confused in losses to Miami and Florida State - then completed a second-quarter scramble with a stomp on the leg of the fallen Elvis Dumervil in the second quarter of a Gator Bowl win that led to his dismissal from the Tech football program.
It's hard to believe that we've come from that moment - big brother Michael, the top pick in the 2001 draft, was being interviewed on the NBC national telecast of the Gator Bowl as Marcus stomped on Dumervil of Louisville's ankle - to MV2's infamous line a few days later regarding how his dismissal from Virginia Tech was "not a big deal, I'll just move on to the next level, baby," to this.
Enjoy the minicamp, Marcus. It might be all that you get.
- Chris Graham