Douche of the Year

[BulldogDX55]

On another football forum that I frequent, for the last few years I have been running a Douche of the Year competition covering all of football (college and pro). I'll admit I ripped off the original idea from SPS, but they haven't run it in a bit, so it is mine now.

The official title for the tournament is The Ben Roethlisberger Douche of the Year competition, as he won the first tournament. Since then, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals and Notre Dame have won. I also added the Dan Snyder Memorial Lifetime Douchievement Hall of Fame, which is currently occupied by Dan Snyder, Art Modell, and Craig James.

The reason I bring it up to you guys? The whole time I have been running this tournament, I have been hoping for a year where Ole Miss as a whole could compete. This is their year. With a bit of persuasive writing and a bunch of copy and paste from Coach's timeline thread, I managed to get them seeded as the top seed in the wildcard bracket. This is the bracket this year (designed by a guy who is a professional graphics design guy):

http://brandynbold.com/phost/douche-of-the-year-bracket.jpg

All I ask of you guys is this: Write as much as you can about how awful Ole Miss is, but in such a way that non MSU people would care. This means no whiny rivalry stuff, no dumb nick names, no rivals.com style puns. I hope to make a strong enough case that a moderately popular national board learns how awful of a year they are having.

Also, for fun, I'd like to see your opinions on the tournament and learn what your picks would be and why. The reasons that most of them are douches for the year should be obvious, but I can clarify if needed. The only match that has been run so far is Incognito easily crushing Lewan, and currently Aldon Smith is beating Arian Foster.

[jbjones]

Huh?

Where is the damned explanation for each candidate? Tom Benson is in there....why? WTF kinda bullshit are you pushing here?

[Political Hack]

hilarious.

[BulldogDX55]

Huh?

Where is the damned explanation for each candidate? Tom Benson is in there....why? WTF kinda bullshit are you pushing here?

Hostile much? I can't just post the explanation for all of the nominees here, but I will post the requested ones. The people on the other forum did the nominating, the only group I nominated was OM. For the nomination process, anyone who made a nomination had to say why, and I copy and pasted those explanations to a word document to use whenever the douche was involved in a showdown (I've been running one match every two days). I do not know what you are insinuating with the "WTF kinda bullshit are you pushing here?" comment.

For Benson, this is what the nominator said:



I am going to nominate Saints owner Tom Benson for this:

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nflpa-lambasts-saints-backed-workers-164541895--nfl.html


Basically he is trying to use legislation to get around the CBA and screw players that get injured.


He used money and influence to try to get around the CBA to screw injured players. Douche move in my opinion.

[CadaverDawg]

I'm biased, but Ole Miss would beat Incognito in the Championship.

Well done

[jbjones]

I can't just post the explanation for all of the nominees here,

Well damn...

[Reason2succeed]

I would like to nominate two racists: Riley Cooper and Donald Sterling. Go ahead and throw in Sterling's bimbo too. And while you're at it you can throw in Commish Goodell and the Indy Colts owner.

[Dawg Tired]

I nominate Bob Costas in the media division.

[Pioneer Dawg]

Dennis Rodman - North Korea lovin'

[Political Hack]

the beach cussing incident comes to mind.

[Saltydog]

nt

[hells bells]

nt

Trent Lott's brothers melt down at The Egg Bowl in Jackson many years ago. On camera dropping N bombs at our players on the sidelines. Timeless.

[esplanade91]

Huh?

Where is the damned explanation for each candidate? Tom Benson is in there....why? WTF kinda bullshit are you pushing here?
Tom Benson is a SAINT!

[BulldogDX55]

Aldon Smith took down Arian Foster convincingly.

Ray Rice is pitching a shut out against Case McCoy.


the beach cussing incident comes to mind.

I have that in the short write up I did for them. This is what it looks like:

Ole Miss



I will nominate Ole Miss for the Wildcard division. The number of things they have done in the last year is staggering/ This includes:

Tuesday, March 11th- Denzel Nkemdiche caught on video shit talking at the beach. "If I wasn't Denzel, I'd beat da **** out of you"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXS7gQSdxSY

Tuesday, Feb 18th- Nkemdiche Bros sued for beating the shit out of a guy and knocking out his girlfriend in the process.
http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24447940/report-nkemdiche-brothers-sued-for-2-million-over-alleged-fight

Monday, Feb 17th- someone on Ole Miss campus puts Hangman's noose on statue of James Meredith during Black History Month

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/feb/21/nation/la-na-nn-ole-miss-suspects-noose-james-meredith-20140221

Saturday, Feb 15th- Prostitution Ring uncovered and arrests made in Oxford. Many pictures of known prostitutes with prospects surface.

http://maroonandwhitenation.com/2014/02/19/making-sense-mess-ole-miss/

January 29- USA Today, CBS Sports and other outlets report that Bobby Hill was charged with sexual battery. The incident reportedly occurred at an apartment shared by multiple football players and took place during their annual recruiting blowout.

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24423924/ole-miss-cb-bobby-hill-charged-with-sexual-battery

December 20, 2013- DL Coach and brother of Lane Kiffin, Chris Kiffin goes on absurd twitter rant about MSU, including laughing with a preacher about a picture of Tyler Russell while he is injured on the ground

http://maroonandwhitenation.com/2013/12/21/ole-miss-assistant-coach-goes-twitter-rampage-msu/

October 15th, 2013- embarrassing youtube video goes viral of Ole Miss "debutante" in the Grove before the Ole Miss-A&M game

http://msn.foxsports.com/college-football/outkick-the-coverage/ole-miss-coed-wins-at-lifeagain-101513

October 13, 2013- Hugh Freeze gets into verbal altercation with a UM fan after a loss

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-dr-saturday/ole-miss-coach-hugh-freeze-gets-verbal-altercation-204338612--ncaaf.html

Oct 2nd, 2013- OM players shout gay slurs and disrupt, "The Laramie Project," which is the play about the Mathew Shepard story.

http://deadspin.com/ole-miss-football-players-shout-***-at-actor-in-gay-a-1440640169

April 24, 2013- By a 12-1 vote, the UM Student Senate rejects resolution calling for banning the playing of Dixie (Southern Civil War song) at athletic events.*

February 22, 2013- Kyle Veazey reports that Ole Miss compliance received 85 reports after Freeze's tweet. Ole Miss compliance replies to a FOIA request by Veazey with 54 redacted emails, while refusing to hand over 31 of them.*

February 1, 2013- Hugh Freeze tweets that anyone with evidence of cheating should email to Ole Miss Compliance.*

[War Machine Dawg]

Where can we vote?

[BulldogDX55]

Where can we vote?

You really can't. This is something that I am running on another forum that costs $10 (one time fee) to sign up for. I'd be willing, however, to give you guys my vote, and if it is persuasive enough it can be worth ~5% of the total vote.

I just made this thread to brag about this kind of fun thing I am doing and to smugly celebrate getting Ole Miss a number one seed.

[Gordon Gekko]

I agree Dan Synder is a douche. He has run a once proud franchise into the ground with boneheaded personnel moves and a terrible front office.