The notice is out: Blogpoll, Round 2, is officially underway. Hide the women and children, secure all doors, and remember, in the words of the Zombie Survival Guide, “Use your head–aim at theirs.”
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Shaun says: remember to aim for the head.
Your questions for this week:
1. What’s THE critical game of the season on the national scene? We’re looking for the one that will influence the most outcomes in a single span of sixty minutes. Please try to diversify your answers and think of something other than Ohio State-Texas, for example.
2.What’s the most critical matchup for your team? Again, we know we’ll hear OSU-Michigan from you
Wolverines, but we ask you to think in terms of multiple scenarios here.
3. What’s your wingnut upset prediction of year?
No hedging (or common sense) wanted here; we know everyone has a paint-chip eating, lunatic pick lurking somewhere in their brain. Go ahead and fess up on the record so you can gloat with pride later.
Hit the comments below, and get blogging! (For those who want to link to this entry, just click the time post for the permalink.)
We’re with Brian, here; the GSBBS05 is done, or at least we’re done with it. Give us offenses that protect the qb and the ball over whatever the hell sophisitcation is, anyway-in the words of Jeff Tedford, “give ourselves a chance to punt the ball.”
CFR has some strange post here, where he puts more tread on the bald tires of “shallow” and “facile,” Birds and Braves takes up the bit in a post here,and MGoBlog puts in his own resigned farewell to the brouhaha today. As for us, we think we’ve finally grasped the central thrust of the “sophistication” argument: your arguments are vastly superior. From here on out it shall be called the Mooninite argument; we’ve been helpful enough to include a logo for you:
If you don’t know what we’re talking about here, go rent you some Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Season One. Until then, we’re done. Let the season prove us all wrong. You’re still welcome at our party, anytime, even if life is better on the moon.
UPDATE: HP has a snooty response, refusing to let us last-word him. We re-refer him to above picture for our official response ’til the season starts, since that whole a priori argument thing really turns us off.
Dennis Dodd may be the master of the obvious, but he’s also quite good on the profile pieces. He puts up a nice one on D.J. Shockley’s decision to stay put for four years at Georgia while waiting for his shot as a starter. Outside of Texas Tech, where guys seem to like to wait a while before stepping in and throwing for 9,000 yards in a single season, it’s rare to find this in college football, and the article does a nice job of showing that after all this time…Shockley still doesn’t seem sure as to exactly why he stayed, which seems to be the take among many of the Dawg faithful here.(For more Georgia obsession, please pay a visit to Braves and Birds, a fellow Atlantan and a welcome addition to our blogroll, even if UGA fans do drive like meth-crazed suicide bombers.)
After four years in the same system, though, there should be no excuses for Shockley not being all-SEC this year: phenomenally talented, he’s poised to lend support to the Tee Martin Hypothesis this year in Athens, sparking a comeback of all things early-’90s with a replay of the Charlie Ward Fast Break offense. Please, though, please don’t let it bring back grunge flannel, though. It might work in Seattle, but down here it gets hot, and we don’t need that shit coming back with sixty percent humidity and 84 degrees. We’d rather wear a condom over our eye like Left Eye than go through grunge again.
We’d gladly wear the “2 Hype” shirts than go back to wearing flannel in 80 degrees.
We try to serve a few public interests here at EDSBS. Since we’re mostly ignorant, we try valiantly to help other idiots get an idea of what football people are talking about as we’re struggling through the same things. For example, erudite Mike from the esteemed Blue-Gray Sky has been sending us these kickass articles on football coaching and strategy-many of them scanned by hand by Mike himself, a testament to his noble and slightly lunatic devotion to the sport. Thanks a bundle, Mike-we’ll somehow return the favor.
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The new NFL Blitz game features a speedy southpaw qb with the number 7 who goes by the name of…Ron Mexico, an alleged alias of former VT qb Michael Vick. We’re sure his passes will be blistering, his enthusiasm infectious, and his runs will leave the opposition sore and red with shame.
Chancre-six-delta-left-post! Hut! Hut!
Lloyd Carr, the MGoBlog of college coaches, says he won’t be recruiting any more of those pesky two-sporters. Oh, and he hates night kickoffs, too, even though the Wolverines have two this year. He does, however, like long walks on the beach and holding hands, in case you wondered. (Courtesy of BenMaller.com. )
Despite his grumpiness, Lloyd still thinks it’s Michigan that’s really for lovers.
Bruins Nation has their doubts about Boise smashing Georgia, too. We guess we’ve put our nuts on the table with a guess of a three-point victory for UGA, much as it pains our Gator asses to say. That’s going to be our next round of Blog Poll questions: what’s your upset pick? After much of what we’ve read, Georgia winning would be an upset pick according to other bloggers. No line is available yet on the game, btw, you sick, sick people…
Pat Forde must sit in his office like Miss Cleo with a dewrag on and a crystal ball in his lap, flipping tarot cards while chatting on the phone with Joe Tiller. Check this tidbit, dated Jan. 6, 2002:
What if Spurrier pulls a Pitino on that level:
After failing to send the (Tampa Bay Buccaneers/Jacksonville Jaguars/Atlanta Falcons/Dallas Cowboys/Carolina Panthers) to the Super Bowl in four seasons, Steve Spurrier announced his resignation today. He will return to the college ranks … to succeed retiring Bobby Bowden at Florida State.
Not exact, but close, no?
Pat Forde and Psychic Dave: true seers.
In his latest 3-point stance, Ivan Maisel sings the praises of EDSBS fave Phil Steele. He’s geeked just reading it-we feel you, Ivan. Oh, and this dorky thrill note comes courtesy of Maisel, too:
Coaches coach and writers write, unless they are Ralph Friedgen, Glen Mason, Rich Rodriguez, Fisher DeBerry, Al Groh, Joe Tiller, Gregg Brandon and several top assistants who are writing chapters for an offensive textbook for Human Kinetics, a Champaign, Ill., publishing firm. It’s out next year.
Screw Harry Potter; we’re advance ordering this mother now.
We Are the Boys takes the cake for fan dedication-it’s a documented fact.
HP, in his latest bit of fiskitude, types this:
Look, we love ya Orson and no hard feelings. Keep up the good work at your site. But, dammit, be BOLD!
He’s right, you know. We founded EDSBS.com in order to exhibit our cowardices as a fan to the rest of the world, which is why we’re constantly doing things like beating up old ladies for their change, divorcing our wives via text message, and letting guys throw their beers in our faces at the Star Bar. In fact, we just sent off for Charles Atlas’ Guide to Manly Strength Through Push-ups after Phil Fulmer kicked sand in our face at Panama City Beach last week. We’ll have pics of us stealing candy from babies up later this week once we switch to our new WordPad format.
Fulmer just wouldn’t leave us alone. We wish we had a he-man body like his…
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The honorably obsessed Blue-Gray Sky earns two mentions for fine work in two posts, first on the outing of Tom Lemming as a Notre Dame pusher, and second for its fine post on Notre Dame’s plans for new facilities. They hope Notre Dame goes for something classy unlike the “hollow nouveau riche” palaces occupied by the Longhorns and the Ducks (seen in outstanding pics.) We frankly have no idea how this would be consistent with the Catholic heritage of the school: have you seen the Vatican lately? Pink marble, gold gilt everywhere, paintings in every nook and cranny, oversized columns and friezes…a very sexy woman once described it to us like this: “It’s exactly what God’s house would look like if God were a very wealthy rapper.” We think Notre Dame should bite the bullet and put Master P to shame: platinum showerheads for everyone!
Baby says the Irish need platinum.
Stoops may platoon qbs in ‘05, which will likely lead to Spurrier-esque visor-tossing in Norman. ParadigmBlog doesn’t think this sounds like a very good idea at all, but we say that if the whole ordeal gets you one otherwise forgettable, rag-armed, walk-on quarterback who endears himself to fans with his big-bellied, beer-drinking charm and 6.7 40 time…well, it’ll all be worth it.
Noah Brindise, we owe you a beer. Just one, that is.
Coach Fran is rolling in it, and in a rare hint of staying in the same place for two seconds, gives the Aggies a million dollar donation from his own pocket.
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