Later, Loser: Five College Football Figures We Won't Miss in the 2009 Season

Last time out, we talked about players we are going to miss this upcoming college football season. This time, we'll go in a different direction.

Some players make this game—what many of us believe is the best game—better, while other people and players make the game all that it shouldn't be.

Every once in a while, we are fortunate enough to purge some of those who have become a cancer to the game we love.

Let's look at some of these people to whom we can truly say good riddance, not so nice knowing you.

Percy Harvin, Florida

While Harvin was undoubtedly one of the most talented players to step onto a football field at any level, the bottom line is he's a pothead, aka drug addict.

I don't want to hear the apologists saying kids will be kids and boys will be boys. This guy has a serious problem, and college football is a better place without him.

As people will try to talk about how pot is this and that and how my wording above may be unfounded or too harsh, let's look at the facts: This pothead couldn't put down the weed long enough to keep his system clean for the NFL Combine, where he not only knew with 100 percent certainty he would be tested, but also that there were literally millions of dollars at stake.

Matthew Stafford, Georgia

The epitome of pathetic and underachiever.

Stafford may have fooled NFL scouts of the only winless team since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule, but he didn't fool us college football fans.

Stafford was a pathetic joke, and when the chips were on the table and his team needed him, they got blown out of the building.

Florida and Alabama beat him and his team down badly in two of the Dawgs' nationally televised big-time games. Stafford often looked confused and just not into the game. He had a look and attitude like he couldn't care less. I think some Georgia fans would have liked to run on the field and take a few shots at him.

Preston Parker, Florida State

Bobby Bowden is one of the greatest coaches in the history of the game. He also ran a former all-girls school and put together a run of top-five rankings that won't be touched for quite some time.

Bowden, the new generation knows, is a man who is constantly trying to defend a bunch of criminals, and we'll even add Parker to this list—Derrick Brooks, Randy Moss, Peter Warrick, Laveranues Coles, Sebastian Janikowski—the list goes on.

The antics never seem to end in Tallahassee, and only Moss and Coles were actually shown the door.

At least we've seen the last of Parker's act. It was a sad show.

Greg Robinson, Syracuse

Hey Greg Robinson, you stink. If that makes me a name-caller, so be it.

You took a once proud program that was down on its luck and turned it into an outright laughingstock. It's not like you didn't have a nice budget, strong history, and a freaking movie about a past star even come out to help with motivation and recruiting. You did nothing with it.

Your team's games were over before they started, and your players acted like they didn't ever have a chance. I haven't seen a more disgraceful performance by a head coach since last year's NFL Monday Night Football opener with Lane Kiffin's Raiders.

Kevin Grady, Michigan

I really never understood why he didn't sign with Michigan State in the first place, but that's all water under the bridge at this point. Grady started as a fumbler and Mike Hart's backup but ended up being a bust. Grady is just another example of how high school careers and recruiting rankings sometimes don't mean anything.

Guys like Grady never understand what a tremendous opportunity both educationally and athletically they receive when they join a program like Michigan. It's still puzzling how they throw it all away so easily when a regular student works for 18 years to get admitted to UM and an athlete dreams of an offer to play in Ann Arbor.

Grady never got it, and he never will.

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