Dolphins Vernon Carey gives Rockne-like speech to Miami Northwestern players

[DKphin]

DAVIE - Vernon Carey's voice was so hoarse Friday it seemed as if he had just returned from a karaoke marathon. Actually, the usually soft-spoken 340-pound Dolphins right tackle gave a spontaneous fiery halftime speech during Miami Northwestern's 22-14 victory over rival Miami Central on Thursday night.

Carey, a proud alumnus of Northwestern, didn't like the way the Bulls had played in a listless first half in which they trailed 14-2, and had two touchdowns called back because of penalties.

"I just went out there and tried to encourage the boys on what they needed to do. That was it," Carey said with a raspy voice. "You got to go in that environment and play with a lot of emotion and passion and those guys didn't have it in the first half, making mistakes and penalties.''

Whatever Carey said seemed to take effect in the second half as the Bulls reeled off 20 unanswered points. It's possible that he got the teenagers' attention when he tossed a Gatorade cooler. He ended up with a purple-splashed Bulls T-shirt.

:lol2:http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/...vernon-carey-100809,0,2827412.story?track=rss

 

[Daytona Fin]

somebody needs to give vernon a pep speech. hes complaining about mistakes and penalties, now thats funny.

 

[dolfan_101]

Lawl

 

[Awsi Dooger]

That Northwestern/Central game may have been the worst played hyped football game of all time. Nick Kotys was probably rolling over in his proverbial grave.

Basically unwatchable. The only reason Central didn't reach 30+ penalties was they ran out of time outs and couldn't get the ball back near the end, so it ruined guaranteed false start penalties from their offense. I think they ended up with 25 or 26 penalties.

Northwestern has awesome physical talent but you could take any of 1000 high school coaching staffs from across the country and make Northwestern a superior team. They stand out there with 4 or 5 WRs and completely fail to take full advantage of the physical strength. It's like an accident when one of the pass plays happens to work, as opposed to pounding a team.

Besides, they have no threat of a kicking game. Punts go sideways. They don't even attempt FGs. I couldn't stop laughing when the ESPN2 announcer said the kicker's range was 20 yards. Sure enough, they tried one PAT, as opposed to a 2 pointer, and it missed wide right. Central was basically the same with the kicking game.

Plenty of Canes were at that game, including Jacory and Forston along with Canes alum Carey. Like Carey, Forston needs to skip some meals.