THE BIG EAST RESPONDS: THE RACE IS ON!

These ads are hilarious.

They’re also one more reason to eliminate the BCS and any talk of a playoff. Return to the system before the BCS.

Why? For the same reason we should eliminate instant replay. Neither development has solved the issue they were intended to solve and both put take the focus off the game and put the focus on media and non-football related sportsertainment issues.

F the SEC. I don’t see how playing 1-AA teams like it’s going out of style then beating up on each other counts as “The best football in the country”

Don’t you need to average more than 12 points a game to claim that?

I didn’t know UCONN had a football team until Sunday.

Apropos of nothing, Don friggin Knotts is a native of Morgantown, West Va. and there’s a street named after him there. Any conference that includes the West Virginian tribe of semi-sentient hillbillies shouldn’t exactly be calling others rednecks.

What’s their plan? Big Least fans don’t take a dump without a plan, son.

Big East coaches can finally tell recruits: If you come play for us, I gaurantee that someday you’ll be playing on Sunday

Damn you, Georgia. If you had studied some game tape and learned how to stop West Virginia last year we wouldn’t have this vicious red-state/red-state attack.

What’s Miami doing here? Are they relevant?

Love the Hunt for Red October lines.

One of my favorite movies ever.

Fuck off MBW. I don’t see anyone claiming that a team from the ACC belongs in the title game. Or any BCS game for that matter. ESPECIALLY not Miami.

Way to jump conferences, take on the ACC’s self-perceived superiority, revive that oh-so-classic rep, and lose (BIG) to the replacement team in the you conference abandoned. Go ’Canes.

Ya sure dun showed us “semi sentient hillbillies”.

“Russkie sub commander don’t take a dump without a plan, son”

The pro SEC commercial was funnier.

Captain Marko Ramius: “When Rodriguez reached Morgantown, he burned his couches. As a result, his players were well motivated.”

RedRoot, fine work.

Bama_Buck: it’s nothing personal, just politics. Wait ’til the Pac-10 attack ad comes out.

Wait, the Big East says they dont like the fact that a SEC team could play for the national title. But do they have a PLAN to get us out of the BCS? Nope, no plan.

I hope the Notre Dame ad riles up some good ol’ fashioned Protestant-Catholic feuds.

The Big East claims West Virginia and the state university of New Jersey. Pots and kettles all over the place.

AU Alum,

I just received notice the the Sin Fein is already working on it. I’m sure a pub in the south is already getting the warning call.

has anyone checked out deadspin today? it’s, ummm, amazing.

Only one comment about the backwoodsiness of West Virginia. Not only that, but the Jim Beam distillery is down the road from Louisville. Anyone else see the pot calling the kettle black?

Wait, isn’t someone who doesn’t believe that money can buy anything the moron?

I don’t know if the Big East people know this, but Bama (ably represented by the Neanderthal, but real Tide fans drink bourbon, natch) isn’t a one-loss team.

Oh, yeah — Big East teams would be scheduling I-AA teams for punching bags of they didn’t have so many relegation candidates in their own conference.

Odell, Sinn Fein is on our side.

26+6 = 1, bitches.

and CBG, I think you need to edumicate them po’ folk in the south about your state a little bit.

for instance, AUAlum, WVa is most certainly NOT a Red state. they wanted nothing to do with the South, and they were so eager to drop their association with it that they RE-SECEDED back to the North in 1863. Now seriously, how is the South ever gonna rise again when the hillbilliest of the hillbilly states can see the writing on the wall and jumps ship?

Although they may secretly be geniuses for seeing the economic value of selling that there coal to factories that weren’t getting burned to the ground by Uncle Billy Sherman.

The Big 3 in the Big East have the following wins over decent competition:

Miami? Really that’s you’re biggest win? They are really bad this year.

Wow you guys haven’t beat a single team in the top 25? Wow you guys don’t play anybody in the top 25 that isn’t one another?

and people wonder why the iraqis can’t all get along…

they have college football in Iraq?

RE #2:

As opposed to beating up an I-AA (6-0) and MAC/service academy level teams (10-1) and rolling over to anyone with a pulse in conference or out?

Any time an entire conference counts Maryland as their marquee win, they should probably do all they can to make sure SOS is ignored by all outside parties.

Wooderson,
The relative ease with which Bush won the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections would lead one to believe they are a red state.
And I didn’t mean to go far enough to bring in the IRA, I was just hoping for some T-shirts along the lines of “Convicts vs Catholics.”

AUALum, it’s ok

The IRA disarmed, and took up politics. Which, if W. has taught us anything, usually leads to a whole lot more deaths.

 I kid though. Sinn Fein is at least tryign to go about it the peaceable way, and for that their leaders should be applauded.

also, as much as it pains to say it, there’s no way in hell NI is ever going to be evacuated by the british gov’t as long as they’re a constitutional monarchy.

Ironically, Admiral Painter a.k.a. Fred Thompson is a former Senator from SEC land (Tennessee). Or is that really Phil Fulmer?

Referencing Gatorpilot in a previous thread, when did you guys adopt Atlantic Standard Time?

Was there a midnight move of the EDSBS offices to where your offshore bookie resides – ala the Colts to Indy twenty years ago?

Why does the Big East get so much criticism? It has 8 teams in the ENTIRE conference. That is a hell of a lot. It’s not like it’s a small pond or anything.

Not a Miami fan, CBG, (my handle has to do with South Florida’s contribution to hip-hop, not its local D-I program), just pointing out the ironies of a Big East video accusing the South of redneckery. People in glass houses (or, if you’re from WV, double-wides) shouldn’t throw stones…

Good stuff guys, but…haven’t I seen this before?
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=forde_pat&id=2603017

Are you and Forde sharing notes now?

Well, don’t you think the SEC “started it” with the notion that the Big East is full of snobby preps? Seriously. Cincinnati? Pittsburgh? South Florida? Syracuse? WVU? Rutgers ain’t no Princeton – Louisville is still in Kentucky and UConn, come now, that’s a public university.

We must be, though you’ll notice the scripts are vastly different. Between us, we might have one good, whole brain. Which JoePa would want to eat.

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The IRA disarmed, and took up politics.

That’s comedy… I think you meant that they discovered that they could make more money with drug running and extortion than appealing to the sentiment of Northeastern Irish-Americans…

also, as much as it pains to say it, there’s no way in hell NI is ever going to be evacuated by the british gov’t as long as they’re a constitutional monarchy.

Hey, they stole it fair and square hundreds of years ago. Plus, they then created the proto-redneck with Scottish settlers who subsequently went to America so they could fight with one another over ACC and SEC rankings. That’s a real record of historical achievement and I think a small corner of the Emerald Isle is due compensation.

Seriously though, the smart option for the British Government would have been, after the 1916 uprising, to have shot Eamonn DeValera when they had the chance, told the Ulstermen that they were getting free passage to Scotland, and turned the whole of Ireland loose at once. That would have at least given the Irish a chance of not being a third world country gripped by the priests until the 70s — what a waste of talent and potential.

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Who started anything, PSU girl? I just like making fun of West Virginians. And I don’ t get nearly enough opportunities to promote Morgantown’s signature cultural offering, the Don Knotts Festival: http://www.wvpics.com/DonKnotts.htm

I believe the BE/SEC mockery a 2-way street. UF has jorts. WVU has hillbillies and moonshine. Auburn backwoods rednecks fall in love. Rutgers is in Jersey. These are not personal attacks, but generalizations based on stereotypes that we can all find amusing without truly being offended. Like most people on this site, I am an equal opportunity mocker.

And, MBW, I am in fact from WV and you’ve just slammed my state twice in 2 posts using gross generalizations and stereotypes that are incredibly unoriginal. Naughty, naughty…

Moving on, AUAlum is correct. West Virginia voted red in both 2000 and 2004. That said, WV has 2 dem. senators and traditionally elect a dem governor.

It is also interesting to note that WV is the only state in the nation that was not officially made a state by normal constitutional procedures (i.e., ratification by 2/3 of the states). WV applied to Congress for statehood – a request which was granted and approved by Abe Lincoln provided the state constitution abolished slavery.

Which worked out for the best b/c black people want to live in WV anyway.

Nothing says “I’m not a hillbilly” like starting off your commentary with a hearty “F off”. To quote Jeff Foxworthy “did you take the Marlboro out of your mouth before uttering that?”.

Anybody that believes that UConn is on the same playing field as Princeton needs to be forced to watch the “UConn: Great Pick!” promotional commercial for 24 hours straight.

http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=1739

Yeah DC and Now Ireland is richer (per capita) than England. You can only keep a good people down for a millenia give or take a few centuries. And yeah, those dumb ass Scots-Irish are the dumb hicks in the South. The South loves football, its all they have.

Of course, the discourse here makes everything better. Northern Ireland politics, Civil War smack talk and Don Knotts? You can’t beat that.

Oh, and the more I think about things, the more I tend to agree with OhioDawg’s sentiments in #1. Bring back the good ol’ days of Big 10 vs. Pac-10 in the Rose Bowl, etc. College football is about way more than trying to crown a MNC, so why should we pretend otherwise? Clearly, we have enough good things to debate about as it is.

“The South loves football, its all they have.”

No actually…we have basketball, too.

Don’t forget hookworm, Chik-Fil-A, and kudzu. We’ve got that, too.

Oh yeah…and the last two Stanley Cup Champions.

The importance and historical impact of Chick-Fil-A cannot be overstated.

Kudos Orson.

Hmmm. The SEC and BigEast will both be in therapy after Mich/OSU takes brings the title back into BigTenland.

You all remember the guys from the Big Ten states -they torched and pillaged a path acrossed Georgia a few years back.

“And yeah, those dumb ass Scots-Irish are the dumb hicks in the South. The South loves football, its all they have.”

Actually there are Irish-Irish all over the south and have been there for quite awhile— ever been to St. Pattrick’s Day in Savannah? 2nd largest after NYC… Flannery O’Connor? Carson McCullers?

And yes, we love football — more than you’ll ever know.

Actually, that was probably more the work of the American East states.

Yes keosahawkeye, and to commemorate their torching of Georgia, their descendants are putting torches to lightbulbs to get that crystal meth juuuuuuust right.

You know why there’s so many Irish in the south? because back before we booted out the Pohmmies, Georgia was the official overseas prison. It was Australia before Australia was. In fact, Australia was settled in 1788 as a direct result of losing the Georgia penal colonies in 1783. so I guess that explains the drining, fighting, and general lack of class.

And before anyone talks smack, I was born in Macon, GA, and was concieved on prom night, so I’m definitely in the know here.

As for chick fil-a, who the f*ck closes on Sunday? I swear it very nearly ruined my trip to the GT-ND game when I could not find some nuggest to satisfy my roaring hangover.

Yeah DC and Now Ireland is richer (per capita) than England.

My point exactly. If it hadn’t been for the Scots and Irish, the English wouldn’t have had an empire to lose. I suppose that’s a dubious distinction?

My only queasiness in all this is the nagging feeling that if the Scots got independence they’d end up more like Turkmenistan than say Denmark or Ireland… (to pick three countries with ~ 5 MM people, one of which is crap.)

And on this most sacred of holidays, another (admittedly stale) joke that trades in gross generalizations about WV:

Q: How do West Virginians celebrate Halloween?

A: Pump-kin.

Points, rob, points!

F the SEC. I don’t see how playing 1-AA teams…
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/?p=2766#comment-142506

Wooderson, this is facetious, right? I mean, did you even look at the stats?

SEC OOC Div I-A Record: 27-7
Big East OOC Div I-A Record: 26-8

SEC Total OOC Record: 33-7
Big East Total OOC Record: 32-8

To help you out with the simple math, that means that Big East and SEC have faced the same number of Div-I OOC opponents (34), and the SEC has beaten 1 more than the Big East. This is while the two have faced the SAME number (40) of OOC opponents, before you start complaining of conference size. Before you start making generalizations, check the facts.

By the way, if you were going to say that the season isn’t over, and that the end of the season would have more non-Div-IA OOC opponents… last year SEC and Big East had the same percentage of Div-IA OOC opponents (83%).

Well, then, I suppose we should just compare head to head records.

Looks like the BE is on a 3 game winning streak.

The self -flagellation that is Chic-fil-a’s “closed on Sunday” policy is admirable; but when I’m forced to eat at Wendy’s or Checkers instead, it seems more like the work of the devil.

Notre Dame fans should pray Weiss never tastes the heaven on a bun that is the Chic-fil-a sandwhich. He’d join the SEC or ACC then throw two games a year just to make sure ND always gets an invite to the Peach Bowl.

The Irish came to the south in a few waves some even on their own recognizance, there was either New York or Savannah or if you wanted to fill the swamps and die of yellow fever/malaria, New Orleans.

And some have made the correlation why small towns in the south have some of the highest murder rates in the country: “Let’s fight!” “Thems fightin words!”

Good book called Cracker Culture talks all about this.

We may have lost the War of Northern Aggression, but we did end up with all the pretty women.

Who is the loser now, Tundraboy????

“Before you start making generalizations, check the facts.”

facts are a waste of time, making up your own facts is more fun.

has colbert taught you nothing? bitch, youse on notice!

Re: #50:

Check all the monuments scattered about the non-Virginia southern states. The armies that plowed through there were mostly made up of Midwesterners. It was the pansies from the Northeast that couldn’t whip Bobby Lee on his own turf until Grant showed up there.

Since you changed the terms of the debate, Wooderson, I’ll play along. Out of all of the D-I conferences with which the Big East conference teams have played 50 or more games, the record against the SEC is second only to the Big Ten(147-324-19 for 32%) as the losingest. This is all time, not since the creation of the conference in 1991, but it demonstrates the type of power we’re talking about here. By the way, over 60% of those 189 games were played against Kentucky, South Carolina, and Vanderbilt. Impressive competition.

The Big East has had several wins in the past couple of years, mostly against bottom rung SEC teams, but we can see the quality of the present makeup of the Big East by looking at their pitiful record against the SEC.

WV applied to Congress for statehood – a request which was granted and approved by Abe Lincoln provided the state constitution abolished slavery.

Which worked out for the best b/c black people want to live in WV anyway.

And yet, they continue to elect a former KKK wizard to the Senate every 6 years.

Re: PSUgirl #35—

As a football conference, the BE is seriously lacking in snobbery rankings. As a basketball conference however, ND brings it way up, and St. John’s, Providence, Marquette, Seton Hall…there’s some snobbery to be seen.

The SEC, on the other hand, is a one-team conference: Vanderbilt.

CBG,
I’m not gonna rip on WV. That is, assuming you have all your teeth. I’m from Iowa, I don’t regularly eat corn, and I’m not (currently) on meth. Wooderson’s Irish, and he hasn’t carbombed any British embassies lately or molested any altar boys.

We may have lost the War of Northern Aggression, but we did end up with all the pretty women.
NewAZTiger a.k.a. Shelbyville Manhattan,
But you Alabamians really kind of have a warped view on prettiness, seeing as how many of you consider your cousins attractive.

By the way, I’m also Irish Catholic and a Notre Dame fan, so let the hate fly my way.

There’s a difference in seeing your cousin as attractive, and acting upon it (t-i-c).

And then, there’s this guy:

http://www.4029tv.com/news/10175427/detail.html

Why here? Why?

MiseanAUFan,
That’s the sickest shit i’ve ever heard. It sounds like it belongs in A Clockwork Orange.

By the way, these State Pride flame battles and conference political ads are the most entertaining thing to hit the internet in a long time.

At least “A Clockwork Orange” had artistic value- that shit is just absolutely sick.

The political ads here are great- the judges like to brag about how many people they put on death row.

Well my mom’s a shanty from Galway Bay, and there she lived and there she’ll lay

Personality, I mean that’s what counts, right? Personality, I mean that’s what keeps a relationship going through the years. Like heroin. I mean, heroin’s got great fucking personality.

That Notre Dame ad was just flat out funny. I am a domer fan and i still cant stop laughing