Roses are Red, Violets are Blue

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No way around it, Dylan, you’re number 2.

At least he’ll have plenty of time for poetry and prose whilst sitting on the bench.

For I have dreams that do not sleep with pride.
I hear the crowd though silence cloaks mine ears;
I feel the laces though no ball is mine.
Each practice snap, each film-lit midnight hour,
Builds brick by brick the tower of what I’ll be.
A king is not made king by crown alone,
But by the weight of waiting for the crown.

Then let me bide. Let patience be my coach.
This bench is not a prison, but a forge.
And when my hour arrives, let all men say:
“He did not languish—nay, he sharpen’d there.”
So shall I rise, when destiny gives leave,
Not as a boy who wish’d, but one prepared.

– from Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Eugene”, probably

6 thoughts on “Roses are Red, Violets are Blue”

  1. Roses are Red,
    Violets are Blue.
    May the ‘Vagabond’,
    Languish on the bench…
    Wherever he goes from now on too.
    FTMF

  2. Hopefully the young man has learned and will grow up. Lot of football and life in front of him. Having said this, Happy that he did not come to Georgia

  4. Wow. I think we got the better end of the Buford flip trade.

    This guy is a total douche while KJ has been a great team guy from day 1.

  5. He wanted to play instead of watching from the UGA bench, and he got his wish. I don’t feel a need to denigrate him for exercising his options.

    And who knows, we might end up watching him play for a natty, like another QB that decided the grass was greener elsewhere.

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