It’s time for another BlogPoll roundtable! I’ve missed the last couple, either due to computer issues, or not really having a way to answer “If your school was located in Southern California, wasn’t nicknamed the Bruins, and were OMG THE BEST! ever, how do you plan to celebrate the National Championship this year?” questions, but I’m back, and this one’s pretty good. Hosted by TAMBINPO, here’s what we’ve got this time around:

Why your school? Did you go to school there? Were you legacy, did you pick it for academics, for the football team, the party reputation?

I knew I was going there because of the strong radio/TV program, and it was close to home. Although I had thought about applying to Michigan, just to see if I could get in, but knew I’d never go there, being out-of-state and all. I never applied, since the application fee was fifty bucks or something like that.

And the term “legacy” makes me think that I’d have to bang a sheep to get into college, and that thought disturbs me. Please, lets not use that term again.

Name a player or two who had “THE GAME” against your school. I’m talking about a guy who simply dominated your team and all you could do was tip your cap and say, “Wow.”

Here’s where I’ve already peeked at Dan’s post, and saw that he mentioned Ben Roethlisberger (take your pick in which 2003 game). Out of fairness to not cheat, and also because I think his O-line had as much to do with him shredding us those days as anything in the two games that year. (Something about a guy having enough time to scramble, pump fake, scramble, fix an omelet and scramble some more without a finger being laid on him makes me think it wasn’t all him).

And I could go with Bruce Gradkowski last year, but again, that was more a product of the system and shitty DB’s that allowed them to come back from 27-7 down at the half in ’04.

Instead, I’ll go with a pair of running backs.

The first is Garrett Wolfe in September ’04. BG was playing at NIU on a Friday night, and by the time I got to (hell, whatever town that was in Western Michigan for the wedding I was going to that weekend…Grand Haven. That’s it.), the “feeling out period” was just wrapping up, and though I had missed most of the first quarter, BG still had a slight lead, and it was good. Then this sophomore, who was only playing because of an injury to the first string RB, goes ape shit all over BG’s defense. I forget the final numbers, but he went over 200, I’m sure, and had four or so TD’s to go with it. Everytime he touched the ball was just insane.

Ditto for Brian Calhoun. BG went into Madison, marched down the field to take a 7-0 lead, got a stop and went up 13-0 late in the first quarter. John Stocco scrambles and then gets scrambled by Antonio Smith, and the game was effectively over. The backup was relegated to handoff duty, and Calhoun turned simple off tackle runs into 15 yard gains at will. It was tied at the half, but when BG’s offense failed to show up for the third quarter, and Calhoun kept it going, that’s all she wrote.

There are games that I have no interest in but I watch simply to see a certain guy play. What players from this season do you do the same for?

None. Maybe I’ll watch a team that I normally wouldn’t watch, just to see what they’ve got or whatever, but even that’s rare. It’s pretty much “whatever’s on is on” and I go from there.

A few weeks ago we were asked who the best player to suit up for our school was. I’m curious who your favorite player to ever suit up for your school is? Certainly doesn’t have to be a superstar, or even a starter.

Wow. Too many to think of. Certainly Cole Magner was a favorite, kid could do it all. Run, pass, throw, take intentional safeties to beat Purdue. And I think it’s some sort of civic duty to pull for the undersized white kid.

This year, it will be hard to see Charles Sharon go, he’s been hella exciting (and hella frustrating at times) to watch. Going back a few years, I remember being big on the Carlos Brooks bandwagon while I was in school, mostly because of his three picks in the cold to beat Kent State on my first road trip as a college student.

There were a few players that I knew personally from classes and such that were all right, and easy to pull for (the Canadian Bob Johnson comes to mind). If you had to make me pick one, I think I might have to say Charlie Williams. He was a solid guy from the few times I talked to him, and I think he was the first football player at BG that made me realize that they were students, too. I interviewed him once for the radio station, then about a year later, he got drafted by the Cowboys, and the station I was interning at wanted me to head over to his apartment to grab an interview. Before I even got in the door, he remembered me, and also that we had a class together at some point. Very cool guy, I just wish his success would have lasted a little longer in the NFL.