BLOGTOBERFEST! CRIST COMES TO NOTRE DAME EDITION
Blogtoberfest! You’ll love it so much you’ll take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
Crist comes to Notre Dame! Alleluia! Sadly, Jimmy Clausen’s intro was a bigger deal than recruit Dayne Crist’s, since there’s no way Crist rolls up in the stretch Hummer. Crist is the Next Next Big Thing for Irish fans who’ve tired of Jimmy Clausen already. We’re ahead of you all and hyping Alvis Kedankic, a laser-armed pee-wee football qb from Glenridge, CA who sources tell us is already leaning Irish thanks to Charlie Weis’ gift of a badass Gundam Wing model last week. The NCAA has already announced its intention to investigate the matter.

May also have discipline issues following botched attempt to “make it rain” on a classmate during recess last week.
Mustain to USC. That’s what the LA Times says. We dare Houston Nutt to text him. Mustain’s only other rumored option was Tulsa, where his high school coach will be running his fast-paced, no-huddle offense for seven or eight games before scrapping it for an antediluvian run attack and benching his quarterback for no apparent reason.
Temple wants 66,000 for their home opener. The one with Navy. And we want a pony! A BIG SHINY PONY!!! We’ll name him Obelix, and we’ll never be apart while we ride to Pluto and back. He’ll be able to knit, too, because a horse that could knit would be really, really unique.
My, that’s one mobile, red, and throbbing Cock. South Carolina’s Garnet and Black scrimmage disappointed the OBC, who had nary a Stars and Bars around to blame for Blake Mitchell’s erratic performance at Spurrier’s favorite position, qb.
He could, however, soothe his anger with Hootie and Blowfish, who played the game as true alums would: literally rocking out with their Cock out. It’s huge, red, and flopping all over the stage in the video below. You have been warned.
This is where a Hootie and the Blowfish joke usually goes, something about how much they suck, blah blah denigration. But we consider them less a band and more one of the happy accidents of capitalism, a shitty bar band who made millions and now sits on their collective ass drinking beer, playing golf, and doing gigs at the South Carolina spring game. They might suck as a band–but they’re damn good at life.
Obligatory SMQ Plug. His Florida preview detonates once and for all the myth that Urban Meyer is merely an offensive whiz by showing how his Utah and Florida teams both win with bareknuckled defense and efficiency. He’s calling for 9-3 for Florida, which seems about right in a championship hangover year, sponsored by Icehouse, the beer of imperial excess on a collegian’s budget.
The Florida fan who tells you they saw championship in year two coming is telling you a lie, something SMQ reminds us of here:
The tendency after what went down in the mythical championship game is to renovate the memory of last year’s Gators into one of a bloodthirsty pack of inevitable conquerors, but it wasn’t like that at any point in the season. UF put pretty convincing beatdowns on LSU and on Arkansas in the SEC Championship, but it only beat Tennessee by a point, struggled with Vanderbilt, should have lost to South Carolina at home and actually did lose at Auburn.
Meyer’s still constructing his war-machine. Christening: 2008, we’d guess.
Joe Buck speaks to me…one…word…at a time. Schutebag, still shitting from his mouth for money.
“I love Joe Buck….I think Joe Buck on Fox is my favorite play by play guy in the Country. He speaks to me.”
In simple syllables, very slowly, no?
Ty Willingham likes ‘em thick. Sophomore Washington offensive lineman Morgan “House” Rosborough weighs 370 pounds after his latest diet. Ty Willingham, molder of men, must have found a special on manclay, because that’s the biggest OL we can remember since the glory days of Aaron Gibson at Wisconsin.
We will pay Pac-10 defensive coordinators to throw the corner blitz at Rosborough. Please. Twenty dollars a call just to watch what happens if a.) Rosborough catches and then eats the unfortunate defensive back, or b.) watch him as he turns into the Rancor futilely chasing Luke around Jabba’s pit while he watches the corner obliterate the Huskies’ qb. Either way, it’s cheap entertainment that won’t quit one we capture it on Youtube.









1
DisplacedTexan says:
Unless I missed it – how have you not posted on the text message ban that seems to be headed for the NCAA?
No more “USC ROXORS, UCLA IS TEH SUXOR”
April 19th, 2007 at 10:50 am
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Orson Swindle says:
We have a separate entry coming up for that, sir. Next, in fact.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:53 am
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rob says:
Did you hear they adapted the “Rural Juror?”
April 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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Doug the future Mr. Theuriau says:
My prediction: Jimmy Clausen will win as many BCS berths and national titles as both of his older brothers COMBINED. (Has somebody already made this joke?)
April 19th, 2007 at 10:55 am
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DC Trojan says:
We will pay Pac-10 defensive coordinators to throw the corner blitz at Rosborough.
The Humanitarian will do it for free, he’s generous like that.
April 19th, 2007 at 10:58 am
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Lawya1 says:
Have you heard the good news? He is risen.
Go Crist!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:02 am
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Mosby says:
Hootie is underrated, IMO.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:10 am
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oc phil says:
So it looks like either Sanchez or Mustain may be destined to be the next Matt Cassel- good enough for the NFL but not able to crack the starting lineup at USC.
It will be funny if Crist eventually beats out Clausen at ND, since Jimmy ran away from the competition at USC.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:16 am
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Brewster Crew says:
Isn’t QB at Notre Dame going to turn into a Kurt Warner/Emmitt Smith in the NFL-type position, where you could grab a random slob off the street and get solid numbers out of him just because of the system and talent around him? ND is going to have about 700 WR’s next year, aren’t they?
Of course, this doesn’t help what they call in some parts of the country a “Defense” but should still make it fun to watch.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:20 am
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PSUrob says:
Temple will play in front of 66,000 fans at home this year, but it won’t be until November 10th when the Nittany Lions roll into Philly.
I’m guessing about 55-60 thousand will be in blue and white.
But I give Al Golden props. He’s slowly turning that trainwreck around.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:27 am
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Jerkwheat says:
what’s the over/under on Nutt references in the upcoming text message ban post?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:28 am
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Lawya1 says:
RE: #8
Ara you taking stupid pills, OC? Clausen ran from the competition at USC? Pretty sure he is in the midst of a four-horse QB race at ND competing against 3 players who could start at almost any program in the country.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:33 am
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Matt says:
Crist to Touchdown Jesus! Who’da thunk?
April 19th, 2007 at 11:34 am
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Megadeth Dept part 2:
Holy Wars…The Punishment Due….
Mustaine vs. Sanchez vs.Corp – awesome battle….two losers and two winners (the winning starting QB and USC)
April 19th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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panhandler says:
Hootie : 1990s : : Huey Lewis : 1980s.
If there’s a related analogy for the ’00s, I’m unaware of exactly what it is. But I know one thing… it involves falsettos and I want to murder it.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
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Ry says:
Say what you will about Weis, but the man can recruit.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:37 am
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Doug The Power T says:
9-3 for Florida sounds right. When 2008 rolls around and the defense has gelled, Florida will easily be the favorites to win the conference. 2009 will be scary good too.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:43 am
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Neil says:
I think you guys should do a piece about ‘mad scientist Charlie Weis’ working on some magic potion to make all his bench-warming QBs into man-eating D-lineman. Because otherwise I just don’t get it…
April 19th, 2007 at 11:47 am
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Brian says:
Look shawty I ain’t got time to fuck around, either you comin ova’ tonight wit ya gurls so me and my boys can make it rain, or you isnt.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:49 am
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Rusty says:
Brian, simultaneously disturbing and awful at the same time. Kudos.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:53 am
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cuss says:
The Poodle’s only two QB’s he’s been chasing for the past two years: Clausen & Crist are now Irish….Don’t look now but, McDonald; Filer; Fleming; Newman will all be Irish by the weekend….All Top Defensive Stars…
ND might not have the best looking woman, but they sell the best kool-aide !!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 11:56 am
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Rex Cramer says:
#16
I say he’s fat with no defense (either on the field or at the buffet).
April 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
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Devin McCullen says:
Hootie : 1990s : : Huey Lewis : 1980s
I like Huey too much to actually agree with that, but I’m not going to argue.
I think the 70s version would be the Doobie Brothers, but there are probably other candidates.
For the 2000s, well, it’s probably a rapper that I’m not familiar with. But from what I do know, my pick would be Evanescence. For all her vocal histrionics, Amy Lee never looks like she’s taking things particularly seriously.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Cuss:
Memo to Weis’ QB Recruits:
“You can run, but you can’t hide.” (Sooner or later in the season you will have to play against someone besides academies.)
I will take my Poodle, Humanitarian or whatever you want to call him over your ‘Jabba the Hut’, ‘Belt Abuser’, ‘Recruiter of Scared to Compete Girly Men’ any day of the week.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
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Broom says:
I hear that Crist guy is a real buddy-buddy type.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
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Run Up The Score says:
I know EDSBS already loves Bret Bielema, but doesn’t he get +1,000,000 for this? Calling out Notre Dame for any reason is good food.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Amazing Quote Dept:
How low has ND sunk, when Wisconsin punks ND in all of its gory glory –
Comment # 26: Wisconsin head coach Bret Bielema:
“I understand why certain teams get exemptions. I don’t understand why Notre Dame does,” Bielema said in an interview with The Associated Press this week. “If they want to play by conference rules, join a conference. They don’t take, maybe, into consideration past bowl history. Notre Dame hasn’t won in the last nine bowl appearances, or whatever it is. And to me, we’ve proven over time that we deserve the opportunity.”
April 19th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
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Orson Swindle says:
Panhandler:
1990s:Hootie as 2000s are to…
Maroon 5?
Nickelback?
Avenged Sevenfold?
April 19th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
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winstongator says:
Florida 2007: 6-2 in SEC, losing @ LSU & USC, winning SECEast, & beating LSU in Atlanta.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
I generally like Wisconsin, but Bielma needs to clean up his own backyard before he goes knockin’ on his neighbor’s door.
Bucky’s non-conference schedule last year: Bowling Green, Western Illinois, San Diego State, and Buffalo.
The ‘Sconsis conference slate (which also included traditional powers Indiana, Northwestern and Minnesota) avoided the Buckeyes, and needed a miracle comeback *at home* to avoid losing to a 2-9 [NAME REDACTED]-coached Illinois squad.
Moreover, Bielma can blame his Big Ten bosses for the no-three-team rule, as they and all the other BCS commissioners agreed to that to spread more of the wealth out to all six leagues involved.
Look, one can make a credible argument against ND or any number of at-large teams to the BCS (although it’s funny how these folks never seem to mind three-and-four-loss crap-fests from the ACC, Big Ten, and PAC-10 taking up automatic BCS slots, as has happened several times since its inception in ‘98), but the head coach of a team that played the 82nd-ranked schedule and avoided 50 percent of the available tough opponents *in his own league* is not the person to make it.
Just sayin’.
April 19th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
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Devin McCullen says:
Not Nickelback. They take themselves way too seriously – in 10 years they’ll be trying to get back to their roots and doing an acoustic tour. Plus they really do suck.
Maroon 5 could be a decent comp, although they might be too full of themselves as well. (They have the most annoying videos, because they have hot chicks in them, but spend WAY too much time just showing the band.)
I brought this up on another site, and someone said (rightly, I think) that Skynyrd is the ultimate “bar band made good”, but they’re also significantly better than Hootie.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
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Rome says:
Bielema would have a major complaint if the Badgers had a following in the multi-millions, but they don’t.
I don’t ever see the haters at ESPN fighting to show any Badger away games. But the Badgers should be happy to get the ESPN2 noon game. That’s the one that has the guy that slurrs his speach and is teamed up with the broad that cleans more carpet than a Rug Doctor.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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panhandler says:
I was thinking Maroon 5 actually. But if you dig a little deeper into the analogy… I think both Huey’s gang and the Blowfish fit into a specific category… “seemingly blue-collar guys getting their mild jams on, to the delight of NON blue-collar fans (e.g. bankers’ sons at the ATO house.)”
The downside of the 2000’s pop music, in my opinion, is that they squeezed the very last couple of drops of testosterone out of it. I mean, neither Hootie nor Huey were exactly Mick & Keith, but there was at least one molecule of testosterone on stage. The Maroon 5 types have conceded the last vestages of manliness to the sorority girls — looking for the same dollars that Jewel is, frankly, and the neu-metal types are so desperately overly-compensating for something, its embarassing.
There may not BE an analogy for the 2000s; if it’s there, it’s probably a woman. The once-fairer sex can actually still shout and kick and have a bit of balls in pop music, if they want.
…But what do I know. I’m still waiting for another Guadalcanal Diary reunion.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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the walrus says:
Something tells me they’re gonna nail that Crist kid a few times and make an example of him.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
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AllWhoYonder says:
I hope nobody’s expecting this Crist kid to walk on water or anything.
April 19th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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Big Jon says:
The Huey Lewis/Hootie 00’s version comes in solo form and as someone alluded to earlier, it is female. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you exhibit A: John Mayer. Coming soon to a state fair near you!
April 19th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
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cuss says:
to -Stacy Keibler Luvs Me
Old joke ref ND playing the academies. But that is okay, seems how these are the same academy grads who are man enough to protect your freedom of speech…..ND plays all three academies for the first time in 10 years and all hell breaks loose. Good luck with your tough opener vs Idaho !!!!
Oh and I live in Maryland, 7 houses down from Stacey Keibler !!!! She don’t love ya, cause she don’t know ya. Put her name on your hand, cause that’s as close as your gonna get !!!!
Like the picture of Poodle swimming with Will Farrell on trojanwire !!!! Got one word for ya…..GAY !!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
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cuss says:
I seem to recall Wisconsin not playing Ohio State. Had they played one another, ND would’ve still been in a BCS game…….cause you can’t play to a tie anymore. CW Chuck Wagon is fat….he knows it and everyone else knows it. Come up with a new joke. Here’s a good one for ya, Name another Div-1 Coach who never had to play football ????? Find one who has four superbowl rings ????
He might be getting fat simply off your own stupidity !!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
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oc phil says:
#12- Hell yes Clausen avoided the competition and didn’t follow Tyler to USC. He said that Quinn leaving and the job being wide open was why he went to ND. Yeah, ND has some guys going after the QB spot, but none of them is on par with Booty or Sanchez. If Clausen went to SC then this year there is no way he beats out Booty (who will end up a Heisman finalist at least) or Sanchez. That leaves him in a fight for the #3 spot with Corp, who could turn out to be Tebow-riffic. Next year Booty leaves but now Mustain comes in and JC is again looking like a 3 or 4 seed in the QB derby. He made a reasonable choice in picking ND, but he took the easy path.
#21- Only two QBs USC was after? That’s blatantly stupid/wrong since USC signed the #3 QB prospect this year with Corp.
And my nomination for the Hootie of the 00’s is Modest Mouse. (John Mayer, even though he is Dave Matthews Lite at times, gets too much respect from guitar players to qualify)
April 19th, 2007 at 2:25 pm
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oc phil says:
#38- So now Weiss not playing the game himself is a good thing? That’s strange logic.
Superbowl rings mean something if you are a player or head coach. Assistant coach? Trainer? Office assistant? Not so much.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
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Rome says:
And the 2006 out of conference schedule for the Badgers.
1. @ Bowling Green
2. Western Illinois (You’re Shitting Me)
3. San Diego State
4. Buffalo (Eastern Michigan must have been busy)
Hey, at least NAVY went to a bowl.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:37 pm
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joe martin says:
I swear to you that my 9 year old boy will actually begin in that kid’s pee wee football league this year (I mean the jersey in the photo, not Orson’s imagined team in CA)
By the way, how can you tell that Jesus Christ was actually Irish? Because he lived with his mom until he was thirty and spent his whole life hanging out with the same twelve guys.
April 19th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
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DC Trojan says:
But that is okay, seems how these are the same academy grads who are man enough to protect your freedom of speech
Don’t be deliberately dense Cuss, we’re not mocking the service academies for being genuine amateurs; their willingness to serve their country isn’t pertinent here.
Perhaps we’re just jealous of real vision: most other schools (like SC) play state-funded cream-puffs, Notre Dame was the only school last year to get 25% of its regular season schedule padded via federal subsidy.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
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LSUJoshua says:
I looked at the schedule and I don’t see a game LSU will lose, including the SEC title game and subsequent bowl game. Just wanted to give away that allsome in-depth analysis for free since we are spicing things up with expert analysis around here.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
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Because They Can says:
What’s this I hear about Weiss shutting down Clausen from throwing to rest his weary arm? I knew he was an older than usual freshman, but dang!
And if the Doobie Brothers are wrong, I don’t wanna be right. I don’t mind Hootie or Hewey nearly as much as anything played on pop radio or Nashville country the last few years. Thank goodness somebody created satelite radio and i-tunes.
April 19th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
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Papa Lou BSU says:
“1. @ Bowling Green”
Actually, even that was a neutral site game, not a true roadie. Played 125 miles from BG’s campus at Cleveland Browns Stadium…
April 19th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
Cuss Comment No. 37:
You are an IDIOT for at least the following reasons:
1) ND playing the Academies: My comment did not insult the Academies, but it was there to insult ND for scheduling them. The Academies are in a separate universe and young officers playing against football factory types from Notre Dame makes no sense for anybody.
2) Wrastlin’, Dancin’ and Actin’ Babe Stacy Keibler currently lives in Los Angeles, my neck of the woods, and not in Maryland. She may have been from there, but like all smart, talented ones, she bolted out of there the minute she could to get away from losers like YOU. Does she love SKLM? I am sure she has fantasies about a tough, smart, Humanitarian, funny intelligent man, like SKLM, no?
3) A cupcake every once in a while is ok (Idaho), whereas you get Weis fat on a typical ND-type cupcake schedule year after year after year……
4) Gay insults? How old are you – 13?
April 19th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
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cuss says:
SKLM -
Seems to me that Army lost to Texas A&M only within the last minute of the game. Had Air Force not gone for two Against Tenn at knoxville the game wouldn’t have been a victory for Fulmer’s boys.
Notre Dame and NBC give 1 million dollars to every opponent that plays at Notre Dame. That is generally more then opponents get for a bowl game !!!!!
I live 7 doors down from Stacy Keibler’s parents, which is where she calls home !!!!!
You mock Navy, Air Force……but yet you can accept USC playing Idaho. Line up any of the Academies and have them play Idaho and see what happens……ND does have a conference schedule, every game is a conference game for them. 1 loss and the NC game is history, no other school can say that. Also in order for ND to get the $4.5 million dollar paycheck like all the other BCS/Conf Champs then they have to be in the top #8 in the polls. Not even Conf champs can say that (see Wake Forest).
April 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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St Guinefort says:
SKLM’s role on this website is to act like the idiot he is, simply to rile up us ND fans. Pay him no mind. Our schedule for this year isn’t filled up with patsies and no matter what SKLM says, Navy and Air Force are leaps and bounds better than Troy (Univ. of Florida), Western Kentucky (Univ. of Florida), Florida Atlantic (Univ. of Florida), Bowling Green (Wisc.), Buffalo (Wisc.), Western Illinois (Wisc.), and San Diego State (Wisc.) Northern Illinois (OSU), Cincinnati (OSU), Bowling Green (OSU), just to name a few. I applaud USC for its schedule, but there are plenty of schools out there who are more deserving of the “patsy” criticism than ND. And Corp as the #3 quarterback in the nation is a joke and everyone knows it. He can thank Allen Wallace for that perversion.
April 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
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BovineKid says:
What’s the over/under on how long before Pete Carroll starts signing his own name on checks to prospects just to see how much he can get away with?
April 19th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
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Stacy Keibler Luvs Me says:
St Guinefort – Stay out of this fight, or I will kick your __. By the way, Corp outplayed Clownsen in the playoffs this year in California. Clownsen totally choked in the big game (like Ma Brady did against a top 25-ranked team this year). I predict the following for Clownsen fans: PAIN.
Cuss: Your ND arguments make zilch sense. Does all of the money from NBC buy you any respect? Of course not. And, stop commenting on anything Stacy Keibler. You just sound creepy.
April 19th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
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panhandler says:
This Huey Lewis thread is gettin’ all riled up.
April 19th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
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SeaTrojan says:
Hey Cuss,
The college football blogosphere doesn’t have enough thin skinned Domers. Thanks for joining the party.
Panhandler,
The Guadalcanal Diary reference brought back memories I regret having forgotten. Thanks.
April 19th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
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NewAZTiger says:
#29: Trey Blackmon might have a bit of an argument with you.
The 2 of the last 3 AU/UF games have had AU knocking off a #1 UF team and a #2 UF team. The 3rd game back was a chip-shot FG whiff by Duval from victory in the Swamp.
#44: You only think that because the NCAA hasn’t ruled Lester’s hat as an illegal benefit. I think he hides a midget up there.
Oh, and I haven’t seen a team on AU’s schedule that it can’t beat. I see your baseless speculation and raise you a baseless speculation on the ROAD!!! CHEESE SAMMICHES BITCHES!!!!
April 19th, 2007 at 10:03 pm
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Broom says:
# 43 – See, that’s funny.
April 20th, 2007 at 1:32 am
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St Guinefort says:
Probably a little late, but I’ll take Clownson over Corp any day…and so would Pete Carroll and just about any other college coach actually coaching the game of college football. Then again, maybe I just missed all those articles lauding Mr. Corp’s superior quarterbacking abilities. I can’t seem to remember a single one. I do remember, however, seeing more press on how great of a player Clownson is than I saw on the Super Bowl champs. That’s gotta mean something…
April 20th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
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oc phil says:
I think it means that the Notre Dame hype machine went into overdrive.
Clausen is obviously a solid, legitimate prospect and he was rated #1 overall by some. Would USC have taken the #1 prospect over the #3 prospect? Sure nobody has said otherwise. Corp was brought up when a domer claimed that USC had lost the ONLY QB recruits they were after to ND and that clearly isn’t true. And Corp does bring some abilities that Clausen does not, as far as running the ball. But the key is that difference at the next level is mental and that scene when Clausen showed up in the stretch hummer to announce his decision at the College Football Hall of Fame has to raise red flags to any objective observer. I could see Clausen ending up as the next Todd Marinovich as easily as him being a Heisman contender.
He’s a good prospect but at USC he would have been one of the guys in the mix who might get a shot somewhere down the line as opposed to being the next great hope at ND. And if JC had picked USC the program might be nearly as stocked with blue chippers at QB as it is at tailback, but then again maybe JC being there would have sent Mustain somewhere else. So no, USC fans are not crying about a couple of quarterback prospects going to ND.
In fact, this is looking like another very good year to be a USC fan.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:02 pm
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SeaTrojan says:
oc phil,
right on. I wish I had something to add. I do not. I can only detract at this point. I’m gone from this thread for good.
April 20th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
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oc phil says:
Thanks for the kind word ST.
You could have added that it is impressive that Clausen was honored as the co-player of the year by Parade Magazine (with USC’s Joe McKnight). But now that Mustain is transfering to USC the most recent player to win the award outright who won’t be at USC next year would be Chris Leak. Nobody is crying about only getting 3.5 out of 4 in a row.
Or on the overblown superbowl ring issue, USC has an assistant coach with three of those rings hisownself.
April 20th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
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Mike Honcho says:
Modest Mouse? Really? They’ve been around forever, were pretty much punk(ish) / indie underground for a long time before the pop stuff. Sun Kil Moon / Mark Kozelek covering Modest Mouse, now that there son, is an album (and entirely irrelevent to the discussion). Hooo-Gah!
April 20th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
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Razorback Fan 1983 says:
I’d gladly take any QB mentioned in this thread. I’m not sold on The Brothers Dick. But at least Humanity Advanced and his partner the Fearless Gasher of Run Defenses will get plenty of touches.
April 22nd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
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The_Dude says:
Just wondering whether all the people bashing ND’s playing the academies knows that it is very rare that they play them all in one year and that there is a specific reason as to why ND schedule’s Navy every year and will continue to do so as long as Navy wants to play the Fighting Irish.
“The game is more of a ritual than anything else, an opportunity for each team to show their respect for the other. Notre Dame is forever grateful to Navy for supporting the University through tough times during World War II, and the Irish pay back the Middies by playing them year in, and year out. It’s our way of saying “thanks” for something done half a century ago” (From The Bluegraysky Archives).
“Despite the one-sided result the last few decades, most Notre Dame and Navy fans consider the series a sacred tradition for historical reasons. Notre Dame, like many colleges, faced severe financial difficulties during World War II. The US Navy made Notre Dame a training center and paid enough for usage of the facilities, with federal tax money, to keep the University afloat. Notre Dame has since extended an open invitation for Navy to play the Irish in football and considers the game annual repayment on a debt of honor.” (From Wikipedia, Notre Dame Rivalries).
I hope that enlighened some of you.
April 23rd, 2007 at 2:31 pm
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oc phil says:
#60: I saw Modest Mouse a couple of years ago at one of those big multi-act radio station concerts and they came off (to me and the Ms.) as a classic case of “some guys playing in a band”. Maybe it wasn’t a good setting for them but they seemed very average and I’ve never seen the appeal of the band.
Another suggestion for the 00’s from me would be the Black Eyed Peas. Anybody that has been mocked in both the latest Will Ferell movie and the #1 video on YT (the Alanis cover of “my humps”) has jumped the shark.
I disagree on the Doobie Brothers as Hooties, they lasted too long and showed too much growth and development as they progressed. I’d say a better comparison for the 70’s was Peter Frampton. He came out of nowhere (as far as pop fans knew), had a massive album, a weaker followup and then was gone.
April 23rd, 2007 at 3:40 pm