BLOGTOBERFEST: GORY HALLOWEEN EDITION.
The most terrifying bits of absolutely evil but necessary information that will haunt you for the rest of the late morning/early afternoon. Call a priest…if you dare.
–Charlie Weis manages to be completely horrifying, even in a puff piece on 60 Minutes. Follow linkage to listen to Weis as he’s possessed by spirits, spits malignant incantations on inept underlings, and works black magic on the sidelines in his attempt to reanimate the corpse of Notre Dame football. It’s aliiiiiive!!!

I send the players on the field! That’s my job.
–The tasty meat of Big Ten deep threat and its dark secret returns to your football plate sooner than expected: Mario Manningham to return. His dark secret? HE’S MADE OF PEOPLE!!! PEOPLE I TELL YOU…
–Another person gets drunk and dies at the Cocktail Party, bringing the grand, bloody total of the menace posed by the game to…three people over the past three years, meaning that the scourge of lightning still poses a greater danger to the combined student bodies of UGA and UF than drinking at the cocktail party. What are you doing to protect the student body against the scourge of lightning, Michael Adams? Huh?
–Rich Rodriguez kind of sort of is everyone’s boyfriend right now. UNC wants him, FSU wants him, Miami’s batting eyelashes, he’s not exactly turning the whole idea down. A murderous backwoods betrayal lurks if he really is thinking of leaving his alma mater! Where you goin’ city boy?

You ain’t leaving West Virginia, boy.
–Bruins Nation may be overshooting on their short list for coaches, but hey, you gotta dream, right? Unless a murderous, finger-bladed madman is stalking your dreams, that is…
–Urban stumps for Florida, since that’s what you have to do when there’s no playoff or fair way of comparing teams at the end of the season…unless you count the many armed beast who cannot be named who you may call the BCS…Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn…
–Speaking of monstrous tentacles…that’s some gnarly math you got there. (Cue math geek saying “that’s not so bad” in 3…2…1…)
–The spectre of the On Notice Board returns! Once your name is written on it, you will die in 24 hours unless you spread the curse to someone else by creating your own!*

Settle down. That curse is an extremely flexible one.
–San Diego State suffers the Curse Of the Former Bob Stoops Assistant As Your Head Coach! This only confirms that he is the Daywalker, and will suck your talent dry before tossing you to a struggling program to flail.
–The undead rise! They need no sleep, or people skills, actually.
–A Rutgers blog? And a Baylor one too that compares A&M to North Korea? Shocking monsters on this internet, indeed! Information beasts…truly the food of the gods…

This one’s for you, TCOAN.
*Margin of error=+/- 100 years.












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I feel like you are baiting the GT fans with that math joke. I can only hope that they’ll keep quiet and not turn this into an all out nerd off.
Comment by CJ Fan — October 31, 2006 @ 1:49 pm
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Matt Hayes whinnies whenever someone says Frau Blucher’s name.
Comment by Dinknflicka — October 31, 2006 @ 2:10 pm
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“Puff piece” is the understatement of the year…
Too bad they didn’t intersplice footage of the Fiesta Bowl while Weis was pontificating on how he cannot be outcoached….Hey look! One on one coverage with Ted Ginn! brilliant!….
Comment by Pants McPants — October 31, 2006 @ 2:15 pm
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“Cthulhu fhtagn”
Comment by Chili — October 31, 2006 @ 2:17 pm
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“If you’re awful I’ll kick your teeth in.”
A t-shirt waiting to happen.
And how does this apply to Granpa Bowden’s dentures?
Comment by flahute — October 31, 2006 @ 2:36 pm
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Uncool to mock death . . . particularly on Halloween.
Comment by Allaha — October 31, 2006 @ 2:40 pm
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There’s a clip titled, “The Pros play on Sundays” in that puff piece. In that clip, regarding his super bowl rings, Weis says, “I always tell my wife that I can get a recruit to look at my hands and sit on my face, I’ll get them every time.” Now, he MIGHT have said “instead of my face”, but I’m really pretty sure it was “sit on my face.”
So now we know how he got the Clausen kid…rim jobs.
Comment by RaginCajunRebel — October 31, 2006 @ 2:52 pm
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Can’t figure out why tOSU is still fixated on the Fiesta Bowl where a no-D ND was 1 TD down with 5:27 to go. Texas was the team that couldn’t stay in the game with tOSU.
Perhaps tOSU fans just like to pretend that they’re as good as Michigan. Fair warning: If Michigan hammers tOSU the way tOSU beat Texas, the winner of U$C/ND is going to have more quality wins and a better SOS than tOSU.
Comment by canuck — October 31, 2006 @ 3:06 pm
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I’m glad Princeton got it’s moment on the blog - if only in a link. That formula made me want to throw up al over the screen though.
Comment by Jim — October 31, 2006 @ 3:10 pm
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Go blue! Beat the dreaded monster known only as… The Sweatervest (chills run down the spines of children, the elderly, and metrosexual fashion snobs).
Comment by Dave — October 31, 2006 @ 3:21 pm
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canuk
Huh? Weis is the one who “cannot be outcoached” I merely brought up empirical evidence otherwise….I’m sure his “gameplan” was also to play like crap against a pathetic MSU team in order to come back for a classic win as well…ditto UCLA…
Don’t worry, I’m sure ND will once again get to a bowl game it doens’t really belong in, and once again get shellacked…it’s like death and taxes…
As for OSU, we’ve managed to outscore our opponents 323 to 66 this season…I’m not too worried about watching USC or ND in the NC game…And if the unthinkable happens and we lose to Michy, hey maybe we’ll get to play ND again! That’ll be a (cough cough) great bowl game there….
Comment by Pants McPants — October 31, 2006 @ 3:23 pm
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“Perhaps tOSU fans just like to pretend that they’re as good as Michigan. ”
OSU fans dont have to pretend…they typically show up to games regardless of the weather….oh wait…Where were all of the fans at this weekend’s NW game?
It kind of looked like the Big House had sprung a leak, but i digress…
I am sure there will be much less of this talk after UM is greeted by “The Efficient Killing Machine” aka (OSU Offense) on 11/18.
I think the only question that needs to be answered at this point is “How much bubblegum and toothpicks will be holding together Hart’s body on 11/18?”
Comment by Herringbone — October 31, 2006 @ 3:58 pm
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I would implore anyone maintaining such to please re-watch the Weis fluff piece and tell me where he claims “I can’t be out coached”.
One might be better served paying more attention to the asinine question the interviewer asks: “Is there anyone in college football you think that can out-coach you?” and then asking themselves what coach at a major football program would respond to that any other way than deferentially?
Weis’ words: “I would not give that up. I would not want to think that somebody’s gonna out-coach me.”
Not wanting to think you can be out coached seems quite different than claiming you cannot be out coached. Moreover, Weis has himself admitted he was out coached in the Fiesta Bowl, most recently during an interview a few weeks ago on the NYC radio program “Mike and the Mad Dog”. It seems to me that he certainly has a swagger and brashness that lead to many negative reactions, but also consistently takes responsibility for his actions, including his mistakes and shortcommings.
To me, that sounds like the ideal dispostion of an effective football coach. But them’s just my two cents.
Comment by i'm just saying — October 31, 2006 @ 4:08 pm
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i’m just saying-
Good points- my initial post was in reference to the fact that this was a “puff piece” and that 60 minutes really asked no “tough questions”. After watching their attack-dog tactics on most of their interviewees, I was hoping for some actual insight.
I didn’t really have any issues with Weis’ answers at all, though I think merely acknowledging that, on occasion, SOMEONE in college football may outcoach him for a game wouldn’t be so horrible. There are a few pretty good coaches in college football…Now, if he said he would never be outworked it would be a little more realistic…
Comment by Pants McPants — October 31, 2006 @ 4:47 pm
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“I think the only question that needs to be answered at this point is ‘How much bubblegum and toothpicks will be holding together Hart’s body on 11/18?’ ”
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I thought the real question was whether y’all were going to spring for new foam coolers from the Big Bear or just rinse and re-use.
Comment by DevilGrad — October 31, 2006 @ 5:08 pm
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Hey Pants, did you even watch the piece or are you simply regurgitating the idiocy over at the Ozone. He didn’t say that he couldn’t be outcoached. He said that wouldn’t admit that any coach was better than he was. There is a huge difference. Is Charlie arrogant - yes, but is Charlie stupid - no. It is all in how you phrase things. Next time clean your ears out, but then again you are going to hear what you want to here.
Comment by Joe — October 31, 2006 @ 5:18 pm
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Hey devilgrad….
Big Bear went the way of the dodo a while back…similar to the concept of SE Michigan providing any economic value to the rest of the country…
Comment by Herringbone — October 31, 2006 @ 5:33 pm
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I guess that would make it all the more pathetic that y’all are still trying to cash those out-dated double coupons then.
(FWIW, I’m an Ohio expat, people with brains being one of the state’s chief exports in recent years.)
Comment by DevilGrad — October 31, 2006 @ 5:37 pm
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I miss Marjoe Gortner. He was really good in “Starcrash” (In Italy: Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione) as well.
Comment by Steve in Houston — November 1, 2006 @ 12:39 am
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The hillbilly stereotypes about West Viriginia are starting to get really old. The fact remains that is that James Dickey set “Deliverance” in Georgia, so the use of that actor’s image is not factual. If West Virginia’s are so ignorant, why did they choose the right side in the Civil War?
Comment by Rali Llama — November 1, 2006 @ 12:16 pm