The next Kelly Washington...

#51
#51
BLAST FROM THE PAST

Vince Faison, a former member of The Telegraph's Sweet 16, is returning to college football, but he won't be playing at Georgia.

Faison signed with the Bulldogs in 1999 but decided to try professional baseball and signed a contract with the San Diego Padres. He has decided to give up baseball and play football for Tennessee, he told radio station Y-101from his Toombs County home.

"I gave it nine years in baseball, and (football) has always been stuck in the back of my mind," he told the radio station.

Faison was a USA Today honorable mention All-American for Toombs County. He decided to sign with the Volunteers because Tennessee assistant coach Greg Adkins recruited him for Georgia eight years ago and maintained contact.

"I'm going to be a little rusty going back out there," he said, but "I think I can go back out there and play on defense right away."

Faison was taken with the 20th overall pick of the major league draft and given a $1.4 million signing bonus by the Padres, but never advanced past Double-A baseball. He decided several years ago to think about football again if he hadn't made the major leagues by 26.

"I'm just not getting any younger," he said.
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He wants to play defense?
 
#53
#53
Vol1229 said:
I think he is looking for a new pay check. MLB didn't work out for him, so now he is looking for the NFL. He will probably be a bigger distraction that what he is worth.
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Are you his accountant, his therapist or both......I just wonder because I am not sure how else you would know that he needs the money and will be a distraction.
 
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holdemvol said:
Are you his accountant, his therapist or both......I just wonder because I am not sure how else you would know that he needs the money and will be a distraction.
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I'm in complete agreement. It's comical that people are assigning negative traits to a guy they've probably never even heard of.
 
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GAVol said:
I'm in complete agreement. It's comical that people are assigning negative traits to a guy they've probably never even heard of.
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Well, he played Minor League baseball and now he wants to play football for the vols so every other aspect of his life must also be a carbon copy of KW's, right?
 
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holdemvol said:
Well, he played Minor League baseball and now he wants to play football for the vols so every other aspect of his life must also be a carbon copy of KW's, right?
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I thought KW got a bad deal, so I surely am not going to rip this guy before he's even been on the field.
 
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Voldaddy said:
I would rather have Austin Rogers than the cancer formerly known as The Future, K-Dub.
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This is the silliest post that I have ever heard. Maybe Taylor over Washington but Rogers can't tie Washington's shoelaces.Kelly Washington catches touchdown passes and Austin Rogers drops them.
 
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#59
volmanjr said:
Again , the coaches could have done ALOT more to quelch his mouth, but chose not to, and I would take KW everyday of the week and twice on Sunday over A. Rodgers in a pickup game.
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Agreed the coaches coulda/shoulda/woulda, but they didn't. In a pickup game, sure, it's a no brainer. My reference was to the team and as a teammate.
 
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Jaytrain5 said:
That's ridiculous.
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How so? It's ridiculous that you would rather have a player with 1/10th the ability but will not be a cancer to your lockerroom, & play every down, fight through injuries, do what he can to help the team, etc... Or, take the primadonna player that's all about me me me, that rubs off on your QB and makes him start talking insanely like he could beat a team with 1 arm, screws over his "friends" like Stallworth, stays out if he has a hangnail, etc...

Yea, I see how that is ridiculous.

BTW- I'm no Austin Rogers fan. I simply loathe K-dub.
 
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SWIL said:
T.O. has mad skillz, too. He single handedly destroyed the Eagles. Ocho Cinco is starting to do the same for the Bengles right now.

Guys like this are a terrible distraction and very detrimental to their football team. No one is bigger than their team, not even Tom Brady or Peyton Manning.
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yeah, and randy moss is destroying the patriots' team chemistry.:crazy:
 
#65
#65
I Say Give The Man A Shot. What Could It Hurt. Its Not Like We Have A World Beater Of A Defense This Year. And As A Walk On. If He Stinks It Up. Dont Play Him. It Wont Cost U Anything.
 
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#68
Here is a little biography from Toombs County High School website I found on him.


Vince Faison played basketball for the Dawgs for three seasons and was on the 1997-98 team that played Mitchell Baker in state playoffs in the Macon Coliseum. Vince was a standout football and baseball player for Toombs County. He played on the 1996 Class A State Championship baseball team. After high school, Vince had to choose between playing football at the University of Georgia and professional baseball. In June of 1998 the San Diego Padres chose Vince in the first round of the draft and several days later he signed with the Padres and began his minor league career in Arizona. Faison has played in the Arizona, Central, Midwest, California, Eastern, Southern and Pacific Coast Leagues. He currently is a member of the Yankees' organization and spent 2006 at Double A Trenton where he hit .255 with 14 home runs and 66
 
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