Malcolm Kelly most definitely pissed at OU. You know what I’m saying?
Former OU wide receiver Malcolm Kelly is not a happy man. He did not get to run on the type of turf he wanted during his workout for NFL scouts in Norman yesterday, and he let his displeasure be known while the cameras rolled.
“This is my life. You know what I’m saying?” Kelly said. ”This ain’t no school. This ain’t no classroom. This ain’t got nothing to do with that. This has to do with me; my family. This is what I do. I play football. And I’m supposed to come out here and run as fast as I can. I already had everything set up for where I want to do it at. I get out here and it’s a whole different deal.”
I can understand his frustration. He prepared for a type of turf that bigger receivers had used in the past only to find he had to run on a slower turf. But would it be that hard to pick up the cones and move them to the other turf?
We all know Jerry Schmidt is a douche. Just look at him. The guy has a flat top. Kelly should have never put his trust in that dude.
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The best part was when Kelly started talking about his thigh injury, and how the medical staff tried to get him to play hurt.
”At the bowl game, people were questioning was I trying to not play so I could leave early for the draft and all that kind of stuff,” Kelly said. ”I was told by the staff I had a thigh bruise. I told them it felt a lot worse than that. ‘No, it’s not that bad; go out there and run; it’s not a thigh tear, it’s just a thigh bruise.’ Kept trying to run; never did get any better. Didn’t play in the game, so I finally went out there training and it never got any better. I went and got an MRI and I’ve got a thigh tear.
”So what if I would he went out there and tried to play in the bowl game and went out there and tried to run full speed? Then where would I be right now? Nowhere. Sitting at home, still rehabbing. Back here for another season. You know what I’m saying?”
That’s just more evidence to support what OU’s critics have been saying for years.
Look for Oklahoma to try to do some damage control in the coming days, but you can bet that every opponent has already sent this video to recruits around the country.
April 10, 2008 at 9:08 am
Mas.
In a Muslim country that shoe thing would be a big deal.
April 10, 2008 at 9:40 am
Hmm.
April 10, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Not sure why he just didn’t say: “I am the worst excuse for a student-athlete you can imagine. I came to blowu for one reason: play football.”
April 10, 2008 at 9:29 pm
April 11, 2008 at 9:59 am
Glass houses WTF? Please explain Sailor boy
April 11, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I don’t think Sailor Ripley’s saying anything. You’re only not supposed to cast stones if you live in a glass house. I’m pretty sure that guy has a condo in South Austin.
April 11, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Division 1 is chockablock with guys who are there to play football. Sure, OU is a complete joke, but we have our share of guys who are in Austin basically to get to the NFL.
We would have loved to have had Malcolm with the good guys, running an assortment of daring button hooks and and bubble screens.
April 13, 2008 at 7:29 am
poor sooner
April 13, 2008 at 1:15 pm
In a shocking turn of events, Malcolm Kelly has apologized to OU. I’m sorry.
One of two things happened. Either A) Kelly’s agent is a moron who had to be told that throwing hissy fits doesn’t buy you points with the NFL scouts OR B) he was genuinely sorry and just got upset and disappointed with how things went down.
I’m going with B.
But here’s some stuff that I’m incredibly disappointed that the objective folks here left out of the MK story:
-Kelly showed up about 5 pounds over his playing weight, and 10 pounds over his projected NFL weight. He needed another few weeks to train, and there just wasn’t time.
-The workout was moved to the FieldTurf at the REQUEST OF THE NFL SCOUTS. Why? Because that’s what the nice fellas at the combine ran on, and that’s what they have in the NFL. Here’s your proof: Link
-OU hasn’t held a Pro Day on AstroTurf, where Kelly wanted to run, since 2005. I have no idea why Malcolm Kelly thought he’d be different.
Sailor Ripley hits the nail on the head with one point:
“We would have loved to have had Malcolm with the good guys, running an assortment of daring button hooks and and bubble screens.”
I honestly think MK would’ve gone to Texas if you guys utilized the passing game more effectively.
April 13, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Malcolm Kelly committed to a team with Chuck Long in charge of it’s offense. If he chose OU based on schemes then he deserves any karmic retribution he gets. When Long was at OU, Texas fans could claim that they had a better OC and actually be right. That was a nice feeling.
April 15, 2008 at 7:52 pm
From Kelly’s ‘appology’: “You never saw me say stuff after a game, like, why didn’t they throw me the ball, I was open on every play.”
Truth is stranger than fact. You just can’t make some of this shit up.