Comments on: THE TEN EIGHT MOST LIKEABLE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 05:47:10 +0000

It works, good list. Except #8. Except for Ralph “shit-talk” Friedgen. I went to a competing ACC school and this guy shows no class whatsoever in his postgames or really any media incident when he’s pressed to evaluate his opponents. Likeable? Maybe to you guys. I guarantee the sentiment wears off if you have to listen to some lardass belittle your team every season.

By: Trader Kevin

Trader Kevin — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:27:45 +0000

Shoes: struts the same old pair of trainers he’s been rocking for years: black Adidas with white stripes, his only concession to nouveau coaching fashion trends.

Joe doesn’t wear Adidas, as Penn State is a Nike school.

By: Will

Will — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 04:29:55 +0000

Mike Leach looks like his face is permanently stuck in a position where he really needs to take a crap but he just….can’t…..quite…..get it…..out…..

By: phil

phil — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:25:54 +0000

There is nothing wrong with Cal, as long as you can deal with the hippy trippy population around there. It is the one public school in California that can realistically lay claim to being “better” than USC in academics (maybe UCSD too, but they are so boring they don’t count).

If you look at the SAT scores of incoming students, UCLA has been behind USC for years now. Some of the poor Bruins try to pretend past glories are still relevant, but than that’s all they have, isn’t it?

I love the guys like Nestor over at Bruinsnation. I know all the potential recruits that read all the crying and whining on that site can’t end up with a good feeling about UCLA. Nobody will ever know how many they steer to other schools. It amuses me to think that a deep-cover USC mole couldn’t do a better job of making UCLA look bad.

By: Trojan in DC

Trojan in DC — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:30:49 +0000

Tzubear, at the risk of overdoing the bio: Don’t laugh but I actually was planning to go to Cal, because I was still in FOB immigrant mode and not elegible for financial aid. Then SC offered a monster scholarship, and I’ll spare you the rest of my rationalizations. No regrets though. I do find that I have to conceal my alum status from people I meet who are Californians, at least long enough to ascertain that they don’t like me on my own merits.

By: Johnny Dollar

Johnny Dollar — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:23:32 +0000

Holly Rowe is not “Lusty. Sturdy.” More like “Slutty. Turdy.” Almost the same in my book.

By: PennQuarterDawg

PennQuarterDawg — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:30:03 +0000

Long live Larry Munson! Hopefully, he’s got a few years left. I saw him at the West Athens Kroger in 2002 on a Sunday morning after a home game, and he looked ROUGH.

Spurrier on both lists is perfect! I for one am glad he’s back in the SEC.

By: tzubear

tzubear — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:58:28 +0000

Trojan in DC,

I jest. I do realize that not all USC students are rich kids that coudnt get in to Stanfrd… I have to wonder why you chose to pay the fees not being wealthy (or at least brentwood, bel air, beverly hills wealthy). There are plenty of good, cheaper, schools in Cali. I cant imagine it is degree related. Each dgree is represented many fold by California public universities. A friend of mine got his masters at USC, but the company paid for it. Would not have been his choice if HE had to pay.
As far as UCLA students my impression is they enjoy little of the Xanadu that surrounds them. Have heard stoies about 6 students sharing a 3 bedroon paying 850-900/month each!

By: Trojan in DC

Trojan in DC — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 14:00:21 +0000

I thought Bruins students were nestled in the same hills that USC students grew up in.

Not me, Tzubear. I’m a lowlander / flatlander. Scottish lowlands, Herftordshire, Welsh marches, south Holland, the Oxnard plain: I could see the hills (okay, in Holland it was a reclaimed garbage dump), but only imagine the life of privilege therein.

By: Beau

Beau — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:36:31 +0000

I’m biased, but I see Mike Shula as being one of those “I can’t believe I am doing this for a living” guys (for the obvious reasons), and he is really very nice. I know nobody else wants to see him succeed because of what asses we are as fans, but I think in 3 years he could crack the top 5 of this list.

By: Orson Swindle

Orson Swindle — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:24:32 +0000

He said he liked the piece, and sent us an email that said “VERY CLEVER.” If you’re an Insider, you can go to his archive and listen to just the section where they’re talking about us. It’s in “most hated,” and it’s around six minutes into the broadcast.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:22:08 +0000

any details on what cowherd said? its a shame i missed it

By: tzubear

tzubear — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:14:18 +0000

“the Bruins are a mysterious bunch, nestled in their hillside retreats. ”

I thought Bruins students were nestled in the same hills that USC students grew up in.

By: tzubear

tzubear — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:12:01 +0000

“Two words: Lusty. Sturdy. ”

My laughter always gets me disapoving stares from the chinese office mates that sorround me. After I was done laughing I shudder, shudder….
“spunky, chunky” reminds me of a chipmonk. I guess Holly “the chipmonk” Rowe would cut a dashing figue as chip or dale on halloween. It would def fulfill some guys very specific fetish, just not mine.

By: NavyGrad

NavyGrad — Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:00:46 +0000

I love the fact that you put Spurrier into both the top and bottom categories. While I never really liked the guy since I grew up in Nebraska loving Dr. Tom Osborne, Spurrier just wasn’t my type of guy. This is not to say that he wasn’t a good coach, I never liked Barry Switzer either but he was a pretty darn good coach.

I respect the fact that Spurrier was true to his beliefs. I loved the fact the the 1995 Huskers took a knee at the end of the game and it shows true that Spurrier was mad about it.

I heard a quote after that game by Spurrier that went to the effect of “it was obvious that we just weren’t as prepared/good as Nebraska”. While it was obvious on the field, that had to have been a difficult and painful statement to make. But I really respect that fact that he called it like it was and not a “well we missed a few tackles and made some mistakes, but if you change the outcome of a play here and there we were basically in it until the end and could have pulled it off” type of excuse that is far too common. And they proved their mettle the following year.