BLOGTOBERFEST! RUTGERS FOOTBALL DESTROYS YOUR PUNY FENCING TEAM EDITION.

What violations? Everything appears to be above the table with the Penn State story and was acknowledged as such by the author afterwards.

The blurb is less about Penn State having done anything wrong, and more about how confused one can get attempting to parse the NCAA’s recruiting rules.

Thanks for the clarification Orson, just happy that JoePa’s caption wasn’t “Shut up, I’m ‘batin’”

"handjobs-at-Starbucks-steady-state"

Is that referring to the country or a state of being, or have I already lost 94% of the populace?

did I see an Idiocracy reference up there?

Kicking Around Dept.:

Rumors are running wild that Pete Carroll will be the next San Diego Chargers football coach.

I guess the NCAA, and jealous hounds from Mickey Mouse college football teams, will not have Pete available to kick around anymore.

If he goes to SDiego, USC will still do well. There is too much talent there to screw up. He would leave the cupboard nice and overstocked.

Gauss! Nice! I’m happy you went with the Michael Jordan of math instead of someone banal like Newton. EDSBS went up a peg in my book.

The blurb is less about Penn State having done anything wrong, and more about how confused one can get attempting to parse the NCAA’s recruiting rules.

Try again.

No. There it is.

OK, Now I feel like an idiot for having to write out the MAC 13 teams cannot play 7 games thing, can someone please remind me of the math formula thingy which dictates this, or is it always needing to be written out (stupid relativity class make brain no work).

Brazilian Girls? Who the hell are they and how did you find their video?

I don’t get the 13 teams != 7 games either. Anyone??

If thirteen teams each play seven games, you have a total of 91 opponents. Divide by two (because each game pairs two opponents) and you get 45 . . . and a half.

I guess we could let Buffalo count the results of an inter-squad scrimmage.

If this comes to pass (still at the rumor stage), it’s even more offensive that the league schools strong enough to pick up two non-conference home games will be asked to play an unbalanced home-road schedule to bail out the fucking morons who not only can’t count to 12 but also can’t meet the NCAA requirement of having at least five home games unless they get four assigned to them by the league.

For as much as I love MAC football and try to defend it, shit like this makes you realize that at least a third of the league is run by people who commuted in on the short bus.

I would pay serious money to hear Franklin, G.O.B., and Larry Johnson have a conversation.

#6. No way in hell Pete leaves USC for the Chargers. AJ Smith just won the power struggle down there and fired a very successful coach. The ONLY way Pete ever leaves for the NFL is if he is given as much control over the operation as he has at USC (total). The situation at San Diego is the opposite of that with AJ Smith in place.

SKLM, it sounds like you were listening to the UCLA flagship station this afternoon.

1. You should check out the Brazian Girls. They just put out a second album and I have not head it but I liked the first one. One memorable song is called “Pussy” and the chorus goes….“pussy pussy pussy….marijuana”.

Was that photo taken right when JoePa shat his pants?

Ralphie Wiggum from the Simpsons Dept:

#14: OC Phil. Actually, I got my main rumors from USC grad Scott Wolf’s blog. Scott Wolf, the Ralphie Wiggum twin, loves to harangue USC fans on a daily basis.

Everyone’s laughing, and riding, and cornholing except for Buster.

f**k penn state. why are people always sticking up for those high horse jerks? and since when does old (joepa) = cool (nopa)!!!!

Hmm. Not exactly what I was hoping for when clicking on a link for Brazilian Girls. Apparently that young lady has self-esteem issues, otherwise she wouldn’t be hanging around 3 colossal wankers in the hopes of looking good.

Since Charlie Weis hasn’t done anything against a decent defense in the last two years, I’m guessing the hospital’s lawyers blitz him and get the case thrown out.

Bravo AUAlum, bravo…

Jique is okay, but Brazilian Girls’ first album had much better stuff on it. “Pussy” is clearly their defining song. Too bad they are now the soundtrack of an Axe commercial (“Lazy Lover” plays while some dude rolls down hill with his girl and a Latina cleaning lady person).

“and since when does old (joepa) = cool (nopa)!!!!”

I know there was a Gauss ref. earlier but what function are you trying to describe here. Joepa is not an input for the Old function he’s actually a prototype for it.

Also, Senor Swindle, wtf? First Penn State is an Academic Push with UT and now our recruiting practices on par with USC? You weren’t sideswiped by some old coot leaving you bitter toward all those who’s first wank material was a Daguerreotype of Gypsy Rose Lea?

No. There it is.

Come on, Orson. He’s a USC writer trying to deflect their issues upon everyone else. It’s a hit piece, Orson…a very shoddy one, lacking in any sort of real substance, but still a hit piece. Even his half-assed correction was a series of insults — brazen arrogance, not every player is an angel, etc.

I’m not claiming PSU is perfect by any means, but that guy is reaching pretty hard to make his points. Recruiting players who verbally committed to another school? Oh, the horror! The kid reopened his recruitment — he even took a visit to freaking Tulsa before Signing Day. LaVon Chisley? Paterno kicked his ass off the team for academics two years before his ordeal.

A recruiting lecture from a USC Trojan! How precious!

NCAA recruiting rules can be complicated and the reason they are complicated is because they don’t make that much sense. But ignorance is no excuse. You think that a major business like college football could afford a compliance officer in each branch.

The piece is not about how rules are complicated, however. It is about delegitimizing the ongoing scrutiny of USC’s compliance with the rules that everyone has agreed to. It attempts to do this by taking a program that has a generally good reputation in the regard and painting it in a negative light. If it had used facts instead of spin and half truths, it would be effective. It certainly doesn’t and it certainly isn’t.

In fact the only accurate thing pointed to was Dan Connor and he was suspended for four games, for making prank calls. Bench clearing brawl on national television at Miami, 1 game suspension against…wait for it…DUKE!

I agree that no program is perfect, but at least some people are trying to get there.

Rutgers is getting rid of fencing? I thought that sport was only played in the Big 12 (Old SWC teams, excluding Baylor, SMU, & TCU) & the SEC! Do you think they’ll put the leftover barbed wire on Ebay?