Column: Cutting Nelson was a mistake
Spencer Nelson is a member of Utah State University’s prestigious All-Century Basketball Team and an Aggie legend.
The Spectrum was never louder than when Nelson appeared on court at senior night.
During his college career for USU, the 6’8″ forward often played in such a way that spectators commented on his recklessness.
More than just winning the ball game, Nelson seemed to be carrying out a personal crusade to glorify the Aggies.
On Monday Night, it was announced on the news that Nelson had been cut by the Utah Jazz.
Larry Miller’s dittoheads in the big city apparently decided to laugh at the hopes of Northern Utahns and insult the city of Logan and the university itself by casting Nelson aside like a rank old gym shoe.
Is this appalling affront the result of an anti-USU conspiracy perpetrated by some U of U graduate high in the power structure of the Larry H. Miller organization, perhaps even Miller himself?
Though I do not possess one shred of evidence even hinting at such a possibility, I do not shrink from saying yes, indubitably.
Undoubtedly, this black-hearted rogue hatched his diabolical scheme out of jealousy while watching Nelson’s Aggies mop the Spectrum floor with Andrew Bogut’s Utes last year.
Worse than besmirching our university’s fine name and wrecking Nelson’s shot at playing pro basketball in Utah, this high-level conspiracy may very well unintentionally jeopardize the Utah Jazz’s season, something not even the most insidiously evil and twisted Ute fan would want.
Even the lowest form of life in the galaxy, BYU fans, root for the Jazz.
Both of the Jazz’s small forwards, Andrei Kirilenko and Matt Harpring, have what sports experts call “injury concerns.”
Harpring has had injuries to his peroneal tendon in his left ankle, had surgery to remove a fractured posterior talar process from his left ankle, missed games with bruised ribs and a sprained right ankle, a bruised left knee and an inflamed right knee, had surgery on his right knee and has never played a full 82 games.
As for Kirilenko, he missed 41 games last year and while I don’t even like to bring up the possibility of pro athletes getting injured for fear of unleashing a powerful jinx on them, it must be pointed out: the Jazz really could have used a third body at small forward.
The U-of-U-worshipping scum who tossed Spencer Nelson onto the dung heap of playing in Germany will get their just desserts though, just as all who wrong the Aggies eventually pay for it.
I have no doubt Nelson will become a star in the primitive German “Bundesliga.”
He will sign with a western conference rival, perhaps even – in a revenge tragedy plot-twist of Oedipal magnitude – with the L.A. Lakers, where he will thrive in Kobe’s shadow much as Pippen thrived in Jordan’s and be heaped with the adulation of the masses.
There is little we Aggies can do to repay the Jazz for its insult. I would personally still root for them if they were 0-81, playing my second favorite team, Charles Manson was the coach and Joseph Stalin was in at guard.
Therefore, I believe the Aggies should take their frustrations out on the Utes and give them a whipping of historical ramifications on their home court this Nov. 30.
The only matter left to consider is whether the Aggie faithful who make the trip to Salt Lake should storm their court and sing “Hail to the Aggies” after the game.
G. Christopher Terry is a sophomore majoring
in print journalsim.
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