don't you do it!
you stay your ass right here where it should be
you can make plenty of money in 2 years but we need you desperately next season
and i still think you could improve more next season and stop over-pursuing every play
STAY IN SCHOOOOOOOOL

12/31/2005 6:21:35 PM

he's leavin

12/31/2005 6:22:16 PM

its over.

thank them for what they have done and politely step aside.

you are setting yourself up to be letdown.

Game Ovary. Thanks for the mammaries Mario.

12/31/2005 6:22:55 PM

We should pay him Ohio State style so he will stay.

12/31/2005 6:23:08 PM

i dont expect him to stay at all

i just wish he would reconsider

12/31/2005 6:24:32 PM

^^it happens everywhere, but at least credit FSU and Tennessee for being the biggest offenders of it.

12/31/2005 6:29:08 PM

12/31/2005 6:34:27 PM

he'll probably be the first DE taken....i dont see him coming back

12/31/2005 6:50:46 PM

he is going to be a top 5 pick

whytf would he come back


I want him to go tear the nfl up, he is ready


unlike K-rob, and in the nba, josh powell

[Edited on December 31, 2005 at 6:57 PM. Reason : .]

12/31/2005 6:52:08 PM

he'll have his degree... he'll have his money...

why the hell would he want to spend another year risking injury here against lesser talent?

12/31/2005 7:03:08 PM

exactly, he won't be back

12/31/2005 7:05:07 PM

Quote :

"and i still think you could improve more next season and stop over-pursuing every play "

I think you're retarded. Manny over-pursues a little, but Mario hardly ever does. So what if he gets pwnt by a fast QB every once in a while...that shit happens to everyone. Manny got caught by the draw plays but mario was usually strong enough to push his blocker out of the way to recover somewhat.

1/1/2006 2:32:18 AM

Quote :

"he'll probably be the first DE taken....i dont see him coming back"

doubt it. Thats one big motherfucker up at BC.

1/1/2006 2:39:24 AM

mario's prob bigger

kiwi is prob just better

1/1/2006 3:00:08 AM

mario: 6-7 / 290
kiwanuka: 6-7 / 262

1/1/2006 3:02:38 AM

kiwi is like manny but just better. they likely wont be playing de in the nfl. mario probobly will. hes the bigger of the 3. theres a guy down at gt thats a beast too.

1/1/2006 5:03:37 AM

attn:mario


I am a selfish little prick fan who was no interest in your welfare. I want you to give up the highest draft pick and money that you can get to come back and play for a crappy FB team and risk injuring that million dollar body. To boot, I'm so dishonest, I will talk shit about you in hopes of lowering your draft stock.

1/1/2006 5:35:42 AM

Quote :

"he is going to be a top 5 pick "

I dont see how he will be a top 5 pick.... not with the class of talent coming out this year...

1/1/2006 11:31:13 AM

i think he's going to come to the conclusion that he doesn't need eleventy billion dollars to be happy, all he needs is a college championship. never mind, he's black.

1/1/2006 11:49:09 AM

Quote :

"I dont see how he will be a top 5 pick.... not with the class of talent coming out this year..."

there is no way he is staying, not for NCSU. if this was USC, maybe.

1/1/2006 12:01:47 PM

Maybe he will pull a Hodge ... be a total dumbass and stay.

1/1/2006 12:12:29 PM

^^^You think he would ever get a college championship here?

He could come back every year for the next twenty and it wouldn't happen.

[Edited on January 1, 2006 at 12:13 PM. Reason : .]

1/1/2006 12:12:55 PM

Quote :

"Maybe he will pull a Hodge ... be a total dumbass and stay."

but hodge actually increased his stock.

1/1/2006 12:19:34 PM

Top 5 is a bit iffy, top 10 is a pretty solid estimate though.

He is definitely gone, and I wish the best of luck to him, and I will be pulling for him wherever he goes(even if he ended up on a team I didn't like, I'd pull for him).

Make us proud Mario!

1/1/2006 12:24:14 PM

As much as I would like to see him on the team helping out the D next year, I don't even want him to stay and risk injury. His stock is almost as high as it's going to get, so why not go ahead and tear it up in the NFL? Besides, some part of the team is going to suck next year....the DB's?...the O-line, perhaps...the QB; leaving him with a mediocre team record and not improving his draft status much at all.

1/1/2006 12:50:48 PM

Kiper is talking about him going in the 3-5 range in his last mailbag.

1/1/2006 1:16:27 PM

I think mario will either be the 3rd or 10th pic in the nfl draft. The packers could use a good DE as well as the ravens. I think him and kiwi both will be taken at either 3rd or 10th. I would really like to see mario go 3rd but it will be interesting to see.

So the guy that said top 5 could be right I hadnt looked to see who had the first picks.

1/1/2006 1:26:16 PM

I've been told first-hand that it happens... even at Div. II schools. I'm not saying everywhere or anywhere, just that it happens.

1/1/2006 1:33:08 PM

I just hope the Cowboys don't pick him up.

if there's one team i absolutely despise

if there's one COACH i absolutely despise

oh, and bledsoe.

1/1/2006 1:38:12 PM

Quote :

"We should pay him Ohio State style so he will stay. "

haha, that is a dirty fuckin school

1/1/2006 6:25:34 PM

Quote :

"I think mario will either be the 3rd or 10th pic in the nfl draft. The packers could use a good DE as well as the ravens. I think him and kiwi both will be taken at either 3rd or 10th. I would really like to see mario go 3rd but it will be interesting to see."

need has little to do with where he will get drafted. Any team will take him and trade him.

1/1/2006 6:30:06 PM

Quote :

"unlike K-rob, and in the nba, josh powell"

Greg Golden anyone?

1/1/2006 6:45:18 PM

Quote :

"^^it happens everywhere, but at least credit FSU and Tennessee for being the biggest offenders of it"

you are clueless. Tennessee has never done this. There have been fights, brawls etc. but never that

1/1/2006 6:46:48 PM

Quote :

"I'm going to N C STATE to win a national championship."

1/2/2006 12:06:28 AM

^^sir.. the SEC has long paid their players.

1/2/2006 12:07:56 AM

Quote :

"Greg Golden anyone?"

Greg Golden didn't declare for the draft under his own volition.

1/2/2006 12:19:26 AM

Quote :

"you are clueless. Tennessee has never done this."

LOL!

Get the fuck outta here. Phillip Fulmer is one of the dirtiest coaches in college football.

1/2/2006 1:44:06 AM

Quote :

"but hodge actually increased his stock."

I don't think his senior year increased his stock...at the end of the season, he was still thought of as a mid-to-late second-round pick. It wasn't until he went to all the workouts that he moved up the board.

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 1:48 AM. Reason : nm]

1/2/2006 1:46:49 AM

Quote :

"Greg Golden anyone?"

there's a difference. Mario is a badass...Golden was nooooooooot

1/2/2006 1:51:42 AM

i wish i weighed 290

1/2/2006 1:57:12 AM

1/2/2006 2:01:02 AM

Thanks for the memories Mario since its official that you are gone now. Just please dont go to the Ravens.

1/2/2006 12:02:08 PM

Yeah just saw it scroll across the bottom of Cold Pizza.

1/2/2006 12:27:42 PM

Quote :

"I don't think his senior year increased his stock...at the end of the season, he was still thought of as a mid-to-late second-round pick. It wasn't until he went to all the workouts that he moved up the board."

--quote referring to J Hoge


This is tough to really say one way or the other.

If you compare his "stock" at the end of his junior year to his "stock" at the end of his senior year then I would say he was more highly regarded after his junior year.

However, I think it may be fair to say he would not have done as well in the workouts after his junior year as he did after his senior year....


EIther way i dont think his "stock" changed all that drastically...

1/2/2006 12:27:46 PM

Hodge was probably a top 10 draft pick after his junior year


he was in danger of going undrafted after his senior year though, but fortunately he improved his stock greatly in the workouts.


The deal with Mario staying is a lot better than hodge though. Basketball has fewer rounds and its more risky to wait in that regard. Of course football has greater chance of injury. Mario is not even going to drop from a top 10 pick to a second round pick by having a bad senior year. Maybe if he gets hurt he will drop that far, but the man is still going to get paid. Even if he drops to a third round pick he still has money comming to him. If hodge had dropped to a second round pick, wouldnt have been guaranteed anything. I just dont think the decision to come back would be that bad for mario.

Of course, he's ready for the NFL. There's no question about that. From here its all about how much he enjoys college. I dont blame him for leaving though....we suck.

1/2/2006 12:57:22 PM

Mario will be getting his degree in May. There is no need for a person that talented and physically gifted to come back after they've already gotten their degree and risk injury.


He'll be a top 10 pick. He waits till next year he'll be the #1,2, or 3 pick probably but it's not worth it to risk it. Go get paid, Mario. You've earned it.

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 1:01 PM. Reason : ]

1/2/2006 1:00:24 PM

Quote :

"Hodge was probably a top 10 draft pick after his junior year"

bwahahahahaha [no]

I know you're trying to justify your statement that Hodge hurt his stock by coming back, but saying total BS like this doesn't help your credibility.

1/2/2006 4:55:18 PM

and you're credible because you know that he wouldnt have been a top 10 pick


Its not total BS. I dont give a fuck if I'm credible or not. I know, and you know that hodge was the ACC player of the year after his junior year, and he barely made second team all ACC last year, and probably only did that because of his performance over his career...he sucked his senior year.

Go fuck yourself, this isnt a hodge thread...I was just using him as an example of why Mario shouldnt stay, while pointing out hodge hurt his stock more than Mario possibly can next year by staying. I personally could give a fuck less what you think....cause everyone and their mother will say that hodge hurt his stock by staying for his senior season.

[Edited on January 2, 2006 at 5:05 PM. Reason : ]

1/2/2006 5:05:09 PM

it's on espn.com now that he's declaring for the draft

1/2/2006 5:05:15 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2276371

1/2/2006 9:29:32 PM