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Wonderlic

It's that time of the year. Wonderlic time!

Student-athletes!

Matt Stafford's 38 proves that even smart guys like to rifle it into triple coverage from time-to-time.

Jeff George's 10 explains a lot. Watch him throw and you're not sure why he's not in the NFL Hall of Fame. Follow where he's throwing and your confusion clears up quickly.

Vince Young buckled down and rocked a 15 after initially filling out his scantron to make a happy face.

Chris Leak with a 8. Percy Harvin with a 12. Go Gatah!

I actually think the Wonderlic is a bit overdone.

In fact, I'd contend that for most positions in most sports - most of all anything on the baseball field - being too smart is a horrible impediment. Smart people think critically, are prone to uncertainty, overanalyze - this is anathema to the productive athlete. Smart people can rarely cure their mental slumps with a pithy quote or a bj from a stripper. Not that Barking Carnival readers are opposed to either.

I'm pleased that Maryland teammates Kevin Barnes (41 on Wonderlic) and Darius Heyward-Bey (14) were on the same team. I'd like to have eavesdropped on those conversations:

Barnes: Ah, football season and autumn is upon us, boon companion. Feel the air's crisp chill; our breath visible, hanging before us, like words uttered in regret.

Heyward-Bey: Harrumph.

Barnes: T'was Albert Camus proclaimed,"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower." I love his flirtation with dualism there, though he clearly subordinates Autumn to Spring suggesting it is its "second." Was this a gentle rebuke to the the expiring leaf in contrast with the flower's bloom?

Or is he suggesting some sort of congruence - a parallel between flower-leaf/leaf-flower - the beauty indinstinguishable. Life, Death, Art, Philosophy - is it all not the same piece of Kabuki theater?

Hayward-Bey: You see that girl? I gonna hit it....

Barnes: Ha ha! Oh, always the romantic, Darius! You should be called Darius Wayward-Byron!

Hayward-Bey: In da azz.

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Chris Leak with a 8

Wow.

by t1climb1 on Mar 23, 2009 12:47 PM CDT reply actions  

Did the fuck lion guy from Michigan ever take it?

by kevwun on Mar 23, 2009 12:56 PM CDT reply actions  

In da azz…

Allsome.

by uthookem on Mar 23, 2009 1:05 PM CDT reply actions  

I am giggling uncontrollably.

by The General on Mar 23, 2009 1:21 PM CDT reply actions  

I aint takin’ no f’ing test!! I’s is herah for some of dat wonder-lickin’ bitch!!!

by Travis Henry on Mar 23, 2009 1:49 PM CDT reply actions  

One could argue that the wonderlic is wonderfully biased along racial and cultural lines. Let me guess, the wonderlic test questionaire was designed by some white washed, geeky nerdo with a 5 inch vertical and a 50lb bench and not some cool, bad ass brother who can run a sub 4.3 forty, even though his dreads are dragging through the wind? And let me also guess, Kevin Barnes is a caucasian and Darius Heyward-Bey is a brother, right? All that should tell you all you need to know about the inherent bias inherent in the wonderlic. It was a test designed by nerds to be taken and excelled at by nerds and, sorry to say, athletic brothers are not nerds, as all the honeys that want to rub up against them proves. How many honeys want to rub up against a nerd with a high wonderlic score, unless he happens to have a twenty in his nerdy little palms? And so, if given a choice, I would rather score wonderfully low on the wonderlic than high, cause at the end of the day and with the passage of time, high wonderlic scores are nothing more than just tears in the rain and just futile ego fodder for nerdy dorks without any honeys to rub up against. At the end of the day, its the money and the honeys that count and this eternal truth would cross all racial boundaries and be equally true for the brothers as well as their low jumping, steriod pumping honkie brethren.

And I will tell you how the conversation between Barnes and Heyward-Bey goes?

Heyward-Bey: Your dorky, academic efficient, high test scoring white ass better do my homework for me and give me them test answers or I’m a gonna beat your lily white ass into a blue and black pulp.

Barnes: Yessar, Masstah. I will get right on it.

My, how times have changed.

by Shaggy Aggie on Mar 23, 2009 2:07 PM CDT reply actions  

Shaggy:
 
I’ll give you this much: you’re an idiot so profound that other Aggies wince at your very existence.
 

 
That’s Barnes.
 
Your worthlessness on this site has reached its climax. And we’ll let your idiocy serve as your epitaph.
 
Gig ’em and good riddance.

by Scipio Tex on Mar 23, 2009 2:12 PM CDT reply actions  

Barnes is not white. Aren’t their Aggie sites for you to go and play?

by Callkevin on Mar 23, 2009 2:13 PM CDT reply actions  

i don’t know about the pithy quote.

by glenn on Mar 23, 2009 2:14 PM CDT reply actions  

wow…shaggy described Barnes, right down to the dreads!

EPIC FAIL.

Hook ’em!

by uthookem on Mar 23, 2009 2:18 PM CDT reply actions  

Damn you, Scipio, and your stubby fast little fingers.

Here’s a study which disputes the racial bias on the wonderlic claim. Perhaps the link will work.

www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/34/1a/43.pdf

by Callkevin on Mar 23, 2009 2:18 PM CDT reply actions  

Lots of tests discriminate against dumb people.

by Sailor Ripley on Mar 23, 2009 2:22 PM CDT reply actions  

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho says gtfo Aggy.

by intellectual type on Mar 23, 2009 2:23 PM CDT reply actions  

“Lots of tests discriminate against dumb people.”

I’m glad this blog does as well.

by HenryJames on Mar 23, 2009 2:27 PM CDT reply actions  

Matt Stafford went to my high school. I feel smarter today.

I assume there are folks you can pay to help you prepare for the Wonderlic? Similar to SAT prep? If you know you are going to struggle with the test wouldn’t you pay someone to help you prepare? Maybe Michael Johnson should add that to his performance training complex?

by Art Vandelay on Mar 23, 2009 2:28 PM CDT reply actions  

Which is more racist, the fact that Shaggy Aggie assumed that Barnes was white because of his high Wonderlic score or the fact that I assumed he was wrong because Barnes was a DB prospect at the combine?

by Huckleberry on Mar 23, 2009 2:33 PM CDT reply actions  

Huck, the latter. Definitely the latter.

by Blake Gideon on Mar 23, 2009 2:55 PM CDT reply actions  

Is it safe yet?

by Scipio's Asshole on Mar 23, 2009 3:05 PM CDT reply actions  

Has Google made it to Collie Station yet?

by Dingus McGee on Mar 23, 2009 3:16 PM CDT reply actions  

shaggy sez: “I would rather score wonderfully low on the wonderlic than high…”

I’m just venturing a guess that this outcome is about as sure a bet as there is in the entire universe.

by the Bobs on Mar 23, 2009 3:33 PM CDT reply actions  

Nothing says “complete f*cking idiot” quite like someone who engages in his own racist act while accusing other people of being racist – it’s sort of like David Duke calling for Don Imus’s firing.

by SonnyQuarles on Mar 23, 2009 3:59 PM CDT reply actions  

‘Has Google made it to Collie Station yet?’

There was a glitch in the system and I somehow got here first. Google is slated to arrive in the spring of 2010 and will be followed by common sense..

by Pseudo Intellectualism on Mar 23, 2009 4:15 PM CDT reply actions  

The funny part is that this article was Scipio’s grand trap to draw out Shaggy. He told me his only fear was that HenryJames would fuck it up first.

by Trips Right on Mar 23, 2009 4:34 PM CDT reply actions  

Go away! ‘Batin’!

by Shaggy Frito on Mar 23, 2009 4:50 PM CDT reply actions  

Did Rolle from FSU take it? Score?

by Ryan on Mar 23, 2009 5:49 PM CDT reply actions  

Insert obligatory Ed McCaffrey reference.

by SizzleChest on Mar 23, 2009 6:28 PM CDT reply actions  

‘Then why did you all ban Shaggy to prevent him from responding?’

You didn’t see the picture above? The tree of knowledge that fucker was gnawing on fell over and killed his stupid ass..

by Harsh Reality on Mar 23, 2009 7:29 PM CDT reply actions  

Shaggy committed the ultimate BC sin.

He not only was an idiot — he was boring.

by srr50 on Mar 23, 2009 8:04 PM CDT reply actions  

Based on this thread, Shaggy’s Wonderlic score would be a .5

by Cricketslayer on Mar 23, 2009 8:43 PM CDT reply actions  

‘Based on this thread, Shaggy’s Wonderlic score would be a .5’

Actually, .5 would indicate that shaggy is capable of having sex with large male farm animals without getting his head stepped on, which we know isn’t the case.

by Harsh Reality on Mar 23, 2009 9:11 PM CDT reply actions  

“Did Rolle from FSU take it? Score?”

My understanding is that he did not, as he chose Oxford over this years draft.

by misterloki on Mar 23, 2009 9:15 PM CDT reply actions  

Just a fun reminder of Barnes in action:

I really don’t get tired of watching that.

by TXinDC on Mar 23, 2009 9:25 PM CDT reply actions  

Shaggy = puppetmaster

by Dave on Mar 23, 2009 9:47 PM CDT reply actions  

Shaggy thinks the Wonderlic is the Grand Finale to the “A good goat will do that” joke that is legend.

by absolut on Mar 23, 2009 10:00 PM CDT reply actions  

I can haz ferst rownd moneys now pleez?

by Percy Harvin on Mar 23, 2009 11:05 PM CDT reply actions  

Heyward-Bey is the ACC equivalent of a Dez Bryant or Jeremy Maclin. As good a WR as you’ll see at a basketball school. Maybe not the physical freak they are but the dude made a ton of plays for the Terps (in Friedgenese, that’s at least 1 per game). And he didn’t think twice about it apparently.

Go Gatah hata!

by Vasherized on Mar 24, 2009 12:05 AM CDT reply actions  

Tim, you fail once again. Reread the OP and get back to us.

by bighornfan32 on Mar 24, 2009 12:11 AM CDT reply actions  

Tim you are so dumb. That 6 was from the FIRST time Vince took the Wonderlic. Apparently they give out redo’s on the test. And apparently they must do the same at that fine institution down in Austin. Vince Young. The man. The myth. The legend. The retard. And now. The bust.

by BillSimmons on Mar 24, 2009 2:18 AM CDT reply actions  

“Or is he suggesting some sort of congruence – a parallel between flower-leaf/leaf-flower – the beauty indinstinguishable. Life, Death, Art, Philosophy – is it all not the same piece of Kabuki theater?”

You’re hired. With tenure. Your E316K meets tomorrow at 10.

by Parlin Hall on Mar 24, 2009 2:54 AM CDT reply actions  

Bust, eh?

Well, he certainly hasn’t had the professional career of Josh Heupel, Jason White, Kliff Kingsbury or Reggie McNeal.

VY is 25. A little young for that label. At least that’s what Kurt Warner said.

by Black Scholes on Mar 24, 2009 2:55 AM CDT reply actions  

say, why don’t you guys start a longhorns-only pay site here where just us horns can talk turkey without prying ears, you know, where all the tims and shaggys and such will hang out and leave us alone here?

by glenn on Mar 24, 2009 7:20 AM CDT reply actions  

BTW some other scores of interest Michael Crabtree 15 and Jeremy Maclin 25…which I guess makes him the Einstein of the WRs. At least those who can play

by Pitchin Paul on Mar 24, 2009 7:52 AM CDT reply actions  

VY also has a pro-bowl and a rookie of the year under his belt. Get back to me with the bust stuff in five years.

by Nordberg on Mar 24, 2009 8:16 AM CDT reply actions  

come on, i’m serious. scip can’t set a delicious trap for every one of them.

by glenn on Mar 24, 2009 8:25 AM CDT reply actions  

there has never been proof that young actually scored a 6, yet the internet morons who would struggle to break double digits on the test themselves still trot it out there as fact.

by Tim's Bleeding Vagina on Mar 24, 2009 9:36 AM CDT reply actions  

1. Scipio-Well Played, Sir.

2. Say what you want about Friedgen, he doesn’t produce pussies.

by BatesHorn on Mar 24, 2009 9:49 AM CDT reply actions  

agree, bates. that’s as fine a snipe hunt as i’ve come across in the land of the ohs and the ones.

the ghost of jimmy hatlo wants a word with you, scip.

by glenn on Mar 24, 2009 10:22 AM CDT reply actions  

Parlin,
 
You’re hired. With tenure. Your E316K meets tomorrow at 10.
 
I knew that would draw you out.

by Scipio Tex on Mar 24, 2009 10:54 AM CDT reply actions  

I’m really going to miss the nonversations we had with saggy…

by Take note, Tim on Mar 24, 2009 12:39 PM CDT reply actions  

Shaggy Aggy is still posting. The last post by Kafka (supposedly) on this thread was by (presumably) Shaggy Aggy.

by Kafka on Mar 24, 2009 12:52 PM CDT reply actions  

Hello yester-queer. I back him too.
I thought I told you to go fuck yourself!!!

by Tommy DeVito on Mar 24, 2009 8:41 PM CDT reply actions  

Hayward-Bey: You see that girl? I gonna hit it….

Barnes: Ha ha! Oh, always the romantic, Darius! You should be called Darius Wayward-Byron!

Hayward-Bey: In da azz.
-——————————————————————

Absolutely. Glorious.

by NateHeupel on Mar 24, 2009 11:28 PM CDT reply actions  

Now that’s some funny shit right there and it only got better when Shaggy landed face-first in his own dung heap.

by Blueshorn on Mar 25, 2009 11:43 AM CDT reply actions  

Take a glance at Shaggy’s post and you will cease to wonder why Texas will win the recruiting wars with A&M until the end of time.

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