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It is not often that I quote Nathan Lane’s character from the Birdcage, but it seemed appropriate because of the whiny behavior displayed by some Idaho football players after Dennis Erickson decide to jump ship. Erickson is going to relocate to Arizona State and at least benefit from a 50-60 degree increase in temperature. Seriously where would you rather live ? Idaho or Arizona ?

Takes from the players, who have yet to learn how the world works.

• From senior-to-be linebacker David Vobora, “It doesn’t really matter who the coaches are — well, it does — but we’re the reason they have jobs,” he added. “If they’re going to do that and play the politics game, its going to be hard for us to trust our next coach because we’ve been [messed with] a couple of times, so it’s hard to deal with.” Nothing personal dude, but you play at Idaho

• From junior running back Jayson Bird, “It was kind of weird with Erickson talking and telling us he thinks he can win a national championship at Arizona State. It makes us realize the doubt he had in us,” Bird said. “I guess he has to do what he has to do. We just didn’t expect it, but it’s certainly something we can get over.

“Hopefully they can get a guy in here that genuinely cares about us and wants to build a program. The hardest thing is to find a guy that isn’t going to use us and not use the school as a stepping stone.”

I did say this is Idaho, right ? They do have an interesting nickname though, the ‘Vandals’. Well kids you have just matriculated through Reality 101, deal with it and move on. Life is full of disappointments quit acting like whiny drag queens.