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.









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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