SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
Alert reader Volpimp makes an astute observation: instead of Ringo Starr, doesn’t Brodie Croyle resemble a certain famous interior designer?
Throws a nice deep post…and knows what not to buy at IKEA?
October 6, 2005
MEYER: DAMN THE TORPEDOES
After the debacle at ‘Bama, Meyer’s plans for revamping the offense? Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead with the spread-option. This could either be one of those genius, how-could-we-have-doubted him moments years later, or the tipping point where we wonder how in the hell we hired the future coach of Ohio University with such fanfare.
BLOGPOLL ROUNDTABLE: DUDES WITH VISIBLE ABS EDITION
Boi From Troy opens the doors to his fabulously gay kingdom this week and lets the shlumpy, largely hetero college football blogging crowd put our Chucks on the sofa and talk a little pigskin in his edition of the Blogpoll Roundtable. (My, that’s a long sentence, even by our standards. Reminder to buy some verbal Immodium stat.)
Boi, we’re ready to make the pitch for “Queer Eye for the Football Guy” when you are.
This week’s not-at-all burning, “No, doctor, I don’t think those require antibiotics, yeah, I took a recent trip to Jakarta so?” questions:
1. Assuming that USC, Texas, Alabama and Virginia Tech all go undefeated at the end of the season, who deserves to play in the Rose Bowl for the BCS Title?
Whoa. Whoa….whoa. Fuck-ing-whoa. Hugeass assumption here to say that all four will go undefeated. You had two last year, but that was unusual to say the least. Going undefeated is exceedingly rare, especially back-to-back undefeated seasons in USC’s case. The odds get worse the longer you stretch the streak, too–not a huge statistical revelation, but just a reminder that Bud Wilkinson’s Sooners’ stretch of 47 straight victories isn’t likely to fall in an age of reduced scholarships and emerging parity.
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WE’RE NOT THE ONLY GATORS WHO LOST THIS WEEK.
A note to Phil Fulmer: it can happen. (Not safe for the weak-stomached, but enthralling. Link comes courtesy of bio-gore hound The Conscience of a Nation.)
IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL COME…
…and vandalize your new turf! (HT: Pat from Blue-Gray Sky.)
Crop circles ain’t got shit on this.
SUGAR BOWL OFFICIALLY MOVED TO ATLANTA
More details, if you want them, are here.
BOWDEN QUOTES PLATO
Bobby Bowden, who may be old enough to have padded around the agora with Socrates and Plato, certainly sounds like he’s channeling them these days. To wit:
”I can sure tell a difference,” Bowden said in response to a question during the Atlantic Coast Conference coaches’ weekly teleconference.
”You’re dealing with children who are brought up different than they were when I started coaching,” the 75-year-old coach said. ”Kids continually get more liberal … maybe not as disciplined as they once were.”
Because that’s what 18-year old pampered athletes are known for: discipline. The original source quote from Plato, the father of philosophy and a mean spinning fullback in his day:
“I mean such things as these: — when the young are to
be silent before their elders; how they are to show respect to them by
standing and making them sit; what honour is due to parents; what
garments or shoes are to be worn; the mode of dressing the hair;
deportment and manners in general. You would agree with me? — Yes.”
ICE-COLD: SOLON’S PICKS, 10/8/05
Solon, down in his chips, looks to dig out of his hole by invoking memories of losses past, in this case involving a loss to Tennessee, a blown bet on Oregon, and the ghost of a particularly painful auto-cockblock. Enjoy.
This week is the 10-year anniversary of the toughest gambling beat ever.
Actually, to be honest, it’s not the 10-year anniversary (although it was Georgia-Tennessee weekend), and it wasn’t the toughest gambling beat ever, but the confluence of events was such that there’s never been anything that’s felt like a tougher loss.
The date was September 9th, 1995–Georgia played Tennessee earlier then, for some reason–and I had just recently moved to Athens in order to go to Graduate School. As soon as I got to town, my so-called mates had secured tickets to the Georgia-Tennessee game. We gathered up around 30 Athenians for the trip and headed up to Knoxville, prepared for our yearly ass-kicking at the hands of the Vols.
So what happens as I stumble into Neyland? I see a young, attractive woman, who I’m going to refer to as “Rita” (no reason, other than that I love Rita Hayworth). I’d met Rita several months earlier when I visited Athens during Spring Break, and we’d hit it off especially well. Problem was, my buddy Kanu was dating her at the time, and there wasn’t anyway I was going to fuck with that. In the intervening months, though, Kanu had cut Rita loose; the combination of opportunity and drunkenness led to a makeout session in the tunnel just before kickoff. Since we were going to get the shit kicked out of us anyway, it seemed my only recourse was getting in the way of the UT fans as they struggled to get to their seats; every expletive hurled my way increased my delight. Eventually the novelty wore off, and about halfway through the 1st quarter (after telling Rita where I was staying and telling her my room number), I made my way to my seat.
Orson Welles hit it. So would Solon.
It couldn’t have been foreseen, but there was some crazy shit going down that night. (more…)
NORTHWESTERN PLAYS A DOUBLE HEADER
Northwestern College, that is, a small liberal arts college in Minnesota whose football team–in between choir practice, on-campus jobs, performing rudimentary surgical procedures at the rural health clinic, and living their dual lives as nocturnal crime-fighters–will be playing a doubleheader on Saturday, facing Trinity Bible College at home before trucking it down the road to play Macalester College. The feat will be all the more amazing since the entire population of Northwestern College is comprised of little people, better known to the less sensitive as midgets:
So while the Eagles insisted this week they’re not seeking publicity, it’s not a bad way to advertise, either. Especially when Sports Illustrated and ESPN are planning coverage.
“I’m not going to lie,” Hill said. “It’s kind of fun to see somebody big on our campus.”
Wee people? Playing TWO football games in one day? Representing the Lollipop Guild, bitches.
(HT: The DJL Zone.)
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