EDSBS LIVE! THE UNDERRATED EDITION

As the only Central Michigan alum commenting on this here site, I should let it be known that our former coach was Brian Kelly.

DAMMMIT we tried to get the correction up before anyone could comment. DAMN YOU JERKWHEAT!!!

We’ll have to settle this over a combo game of Merc 2 this fall. There’s a cluster bomb with your name all over it.

and…you fixed it already? I could have sworn I just read Mike Kelly…

ok, back to figuring our how to defend my Hogs as underrated tonight…

HA!!!

never underestimate the speed of a blogger from the south with a degree from a midwestern university! We are the evil wet dream of Jim Delaney! Smart and fast!

1. Vandy. nickson could be a scary good quarterback.

2. Bobby Johnson. also of Vandy. coached at Furman while i was there, so i’m biased, but he rocks. i don’t follow announcers.

3. mine is similar. “are you sure sociology with a minor is women’s studies is the smart move?” luckily, law school is a good second step.

4. knowing when to chill the fuck out. too many guys want to be too active, like they are in a porn or something. subtlety is a good thing.

bah. you whiners have nothing on bean and myself. philosophy is by far the most “do you want fries with that”of all the liberal arts majors.

1. Most undervalued team, 2007? [dartboard]Boston College[/dartboard]

2. Give us one underrated coach and one underrated announcer

Paul Johnson gets some credit for what he does (and plenty of criticism for the schedule) but the absolute disaster that is Army football only serves by contrast to illustrate what a great job Johnson is doing at Navy.

I liked Orson’s choice but will go with the homer nod here to Steve “the Voice of the RedHawks” Baker. Bake is knowledgeable, energetic, and just homer enough to keep the fans excited about the game. Plus, he used to combine his PBP job with the morning shift at one of the best alternative rock stations in the country (WOXY.com). How cool is that?

3. Advice that you’ve been given that you undervalued and wish you hadn’t.

If you end up going to law school, it doesn’t matter what the fuck you major in at college so you might as well have fun.

4. Tell us an undervalued sexual asset (e.g. hand strength, ownership of a quality bed).

Walls with decent insulation to deaden the sound carrying through to the neighbors’ apartment.

Kleph is right.

Our career options are broke hippie or coffee barista.

or expat journalist/drug mule.

I didn’t want to bring that one up, though.

’Cause it sounds so great.

1. I’ll give you the same answer I gave to last week’s questions about possible dark horses in the Big 12: Missouri, motherfuckers! You know it, I know it, and the American people know it!

2. Underrated coach: Jeff Bower, Southern Miss. Underrated announcer: Chris Spielman. A lot more people would appreciate him if he hadn’t been shackled to Pam Ward for lo these many years.

3. “Come on, it’s going to be a great game. If you can’t afford a ticket, then I’ll buy you one.” (Spoken by my friend Kristen shortly before the ’06 UGA-GT game.)

4. Tongue strength.

4. knowing when to chill the fuck out. too many guys want to be too active, like they are in a porn or something. subtlety is a good thing.

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-1 for Adam complaining about the sexual habits of “guys.” nttiawwt

1. Undervalued team – BC. They could fuck up some people’s plans fo’ sho’.

2. I’m gonna say Chan Gailey. If GT has an 8-5 season, it would put him in a near tie with Bobby Dodd for overall win %, at .711 opposed to .713 for Dodd, thus making him the best GT coach in 50 years. Underrated announcer…I don’t know if you can call Wes Durham under rated, but he hasn’t been around long enough to obtain legend status, though in due time he probably will.

3. “College is the best time of your life.” I scoffed at this considering that if the best times of my life were to be had at GT, I’d rather be dead. Sadly it was sort of true in that that TIME PERIOD might have been the best times.

4. Heels. And. Pearls.

bill curry…wtf- he deserves death

Won’t be able to make the show tonight (I do promise to one day soon). A chilicheeseburger a’plenty is calling my name at The Beacon.

1. Most Undervalued Team – Clemson (snicker)
2.a UV coach: Since you didn’t say head coach – I go with Charlie Strong
2.b. UV announcer: Tom Price – radio color guy for SoCar baseball games – I really don’t like many modern football announcers at all
4. UV sexual asset: The ability to sound convincing to me when she says, “No, really, it’s ok. It seemed like a long time.”

Oh, I missed 3. Most UV advice I received but didn;t heed – Arthur Revenel: (southern drawl) Come on sonny. Have yo’ momma bring you by the office and tell my gal you want a nomination to the Naval Academy."

Ravenel even.

1. Everyone seems to think Rutgers is going to steamroll the Big East this year, but I’m convinced that the Wannstache will prevail.

2. I can’t speak to the first half of the question, but I always enjoyed the guy who was the stadium announcer for the Panthers, whose famous call was “First! Down! PANTHERRRRRRS!”

3. I have two: “Clare, you should think about going to pharmacy school. You could work eight hours a week, or eighty” and “Clare, Kylie Minogue’s rep wants to know if you want to interview her. I think you should do it.” (SWEAR TO GOD. I could’ve interviewed MY IDOL, and I was so terrified by the very idea of talking to her I said no. BIGGEST REGRET EVAR.)

4. I’m a total top, so I appreciate a man who takes direction well.

1. Cal. The TN game from last year is still a dark cloud hanging over them. They can redeem themselves with a victory this year. I still expect USC to take them down, but a one-loss trip to the Rose Bowl could happen this year.

2. Willingham. For all the crap he still gets from the domers he’s a good coach. With the toughest schedule in the country this year he might not finish with a great record this year, but he will return Washington to respectability. All announcers are overrated.

3. Don’t marry her (I picked a good major in college).

4. Patience. Taking your time and making sure things are done right pays big dividends. Especially if you do that the first few times with a woman.

1. Houston
2. Coach – Tommy Teletubby… you guys just don’t understand how hard it is to win like that at Auburn
2. Announcer – Harry Cary… in 100yrs, everyone will see that he was a literary genious, and not just a mumbling drunk
3. “Wait, if you’re not having kids, why are you getting married?”
4. Tongue length.

A one-eyed gator that chomps on golfers’ arms? I guess life does imitate art.

1. USM – Although LSU is my love, this is my 601 thang that I got on the side. two times I’ve seen USM be scheduled as the 1st game rent-a-win and nearly pull off an upset (Bama and Florida). If only they were more consistent, they’d be in the top 25.

2. Can I talk high school football? Bob Ladoceur of De La Salle Concordia. 10 year winning streak, and this man is the complete opposite of the Orgeron clones you see in high school football: civilized, intelligent, sensible, humble.

Announcers: I’ll be the homer again and say the voice of LSU tigers. When he talks, your Bose radio immediately turns into an old 50lb wooden radio from the 20’s. Any moment I’m waiting on him to remind me to drink Ovaltine and tell me that the Shadow knows . . .

3. “Look into Osteopathic Schools and become a D.O.” That was 10 years ago, which I wasted applying to MD schools. And I’m now going to an Osteopathic School, and coincidentally, in West Truckin’ Virginia.

4. Must pass, since I’m a 30 year old virgin. I haven’t tried to lose it and wouldn’t know how. Plus it’s against my religion.

Undervalued asset for ladies in general is a willingness to go into toy stores and goof it up. If she doesn’t want to do this, I’m kicking her souless self down a Spartan well.

1. UCLA

2. Coach – Ironically, Pete Carroll. He is always discussed in terms of the talent he recruits, but his development of talent has been impressive. As a ND fan, it pains me to say that. As an Irish-American, however, I’m proud to say that USC played its best under two Irish-Americans (McKay, Carroll).

Announcer – Former WCCO in the Twin Cities announcer Ray Christensen, or as I remember him: This is RRRRRaay Chrrrrrrist-en-sen for the Gopher Sports Network!

3. “Maybe you should use a condom…”

4. Flexibility

Disagree on Arkansas. 1) They were overrated last year and had maybe 1 or 2 quality wins. 2) They only bring back 4 defensive starters and 2 O-line starters—this is a recipe for getting whupped in the trenches on both sides. 3) Arkansas travels in cycles, and last year was their zenith; I’m forecasting 3-5 years of famine for the hogs. 4) Head coach controversy matters; hell, it even shook the foundations of an otherwise outstanding coach like Mike Dubose! Don’t get me wrong—Jones and McFadden gonna get theirs, but the rest of the team is shaky at best.

1) TCU. Or any of the better MAC teams.

2a) Gary Patterson, see above.

2b) Steve Physioc. Calls more baseball these days, but he turns up on the 650-series channels every now and then.

3) The sheriffs in Walworth County write more open container tickets than Ford has cars.

4) Toned jaw/neck muscles.

Sean

Re: #3—It wouldn’t have been Irish-American if you had used a condom, sir.

1. That would require paying attention to previews. I’m not putting in any work in the offseason, as a casual review of my blog posting patterns would demonstrate.

2. See above for coach, and re: announcers, I turn the volume down to the point that I can just about hear the crowd noise, so not relevant.

3. “If grad school sucks that much, why not just take the masters and bail?,” tied with “If she’s trying to dump you, let her.”

4. A sense of irony, or at least the ability to not have laughing fits over ridiculous statements made in flagrante delicto

1) I’ma say Oregon State, since they finished with 10 wins – somebody has to break out of the Pac-2 eventually.

2) I think people have gone back to sleeping on Kirk Ferentz since he was the NFL’s wanna-have a couple years back. And God help me, but I think Verne Lundquist fills the backwoods-folksy niche barren since Keith Jackson (pray for us) left the booth. OK, I’m a neck, I admit it.

3) “You should really consider going to school out of state.”

4) Hygiene. Seriously. Hit it with the washcloth. I’m not kidding.

1) Oklahoma- Hard to put a BCS team as undervalued, but remember that the Sooners got Bomar’d, lost arguably the best back in the country for a good part of the season, and got jobbed by a group of officials from a conference that shall remain unnamed. If not for that trifecta of piss-poor karma backlash(thanks Barry Switzer), Florida might have had to sack a Sooner QB eleventy billion times while Troy Smith watched from home. All they are now is the butt of a Boise State joke.

2) Mike Riley- took the Beavs to their first bowl game in 28 years right before Erickson came in and won big with mostly Riley’s players. After Erickson left, the Oregon State brass had enough faith to hire RIley back and he has slowly built the program to perrenial Pac-10 contention. For an announcer, Gary Danielson ought to be knighted for having to work with Musburger all of those years.

3) “Have fun at school, but take it seriously.” Four major changes and eight years later, I have a bachelor’s degree. Stupid #1 party school.

4) Creativity. Think of that what you will.

1. UPig? Only if Nutt doesn’t implode. Which is likely. Does SMU count?

2. Jerry Moore, App State. I know he’s 1-AA but has won 2 champs in a row and is in the playoffs every year.

Announcer: Jack Cristal, Miss St. – 53 years on the job like Munson, pure old school.

3. Not waiting a year before MBA skool so I could travel. Dumb mistake.

4. A Black AMEX card.

Join us tonight–or we’ll send one-eyed Gators after you.

Death by Florida bukkake?

Agree Mike Riley has done a great job, but before going 6-3 last year in the Pac-10, he was 12-12 from ‘03-’05. They haven’t exactly threatened to win the thing

bill curry?

mike riley

SC rebuttals

If Adam sings professionally, as in weddings, I have seen him perform in a never ending wedding in Sparkle City. I didn’t think that guy would like football, though, so probably not.

OOC, Annapolis > Cola, but going to the Naval Academy cannot beat the enjoyment of hanging out at Pavlov’s and the SN every Thursday night for 4-5 years. Hey, you might even get into a fight with Blake Mitchell, especially if you challenge him to a dance off.

1. Clemson, because I said so.

2. Unfortunately, not Tommy Bowden and Pete Yanity. The answers are: Gary Patterson and the voice of the ’Ramblin Wreck. Durham, Jr. is an improvement over his father.

3. “Investment Banking and most areas of finance will open up more doors to you, especially via the MBA down the road, than working for a law firm after undergrad and then going to law school the following year.” Yeah well, I don’t like doing math all day!

4. “Lady in the street but a freak in the bed,” is done to death, even if it is true.

Underrated is the girl who shows you how much she appreciates you “manscaping” below the waist

I am looking forward to tonight’s show. Though you should probably eat the fat bitches, not fuck them (sorry, I went to Rutgers – where fat bitches are tasty, heart-killing sandwiches).

1. Arizona State. Why not? Their schedule seems favorable enough to start off well; despite a new head coach coming to the team. A quick look at their projected starters (thanks Steele) still tells me that they are mostly still a tall, tall team…

2. I can’t argue against your arguments for Brian Kelly and Bill Curry. I fear Cincy enough from last year, now with Kelly running the squad; the Big East may get even more competitive.

3. “You should have started looking for a job…last month,” so said a classmate of mine last October. I didn’t seriously start looking for engineering jobs until after I got my Master’s and so I have been unemployed for over a month. If I listened to her, I could have had a job by now. Ah, well.

Answers, Answers, Answers & Answers Dept.:

1. Most undervalued team, 2007? Arizona State

2. Give us one underrated coach and one underrated announcer:

Coach: Chris Petersen of Boise State. No matter how many pats on the back he gets, they are not enough for the amazing game he coached last year.

Announcer: Sean McDonough (Whatever happened to his career? On the West Coast I hardly ever hear him anymore on college football telecasts.)

3. Advice that you’ve been given that you undervalued and wish you hadn’t.

"Invest in ___" (Too many companies to pick from.)

4. Tell us an undervalued sexual asset (e.g. hand strength, ownership of a quality bed).

Good music makes me last longer.

1. Vandy- Will put a scare into about everyone they play this year and will pull off just enough upsets to get to that elusive 6 win, bowl eligible status.

2. Paul Johnson, Navy- Takes above average high school players and wins D-1 College Football games.

3. Vern- I don’t really know if I would call him all good of an announcer, but when I hear his voice I know it is Saturday in the fall and it is SEC Footbaw time.

4. It is all about correct hand placement.

1. Arkansas- much easier schedule (almost half the Sun Belt!), and Auburn at home; there is little to no reason not to win a minimum of 9 games this year, with this schedule.

2. I’ll draw a ton of fire here, but Nutt. Name the last guy who had Arkansas as a destination job, and actually did anything there?

3. " You know, sisters are like the Loch Ness monster. Dude, you gotta go for it!"

4. A lack of sisters,

1. I have no idea yet who will be undervalued. I try to hold off my preconceived notions until the season gets closer in football. In baseball it’s a different story, which is why I have a betting slip from the MGM Grand giving me 15-1 on the Diamondbacks taking the NL flag. I actually was going to bet on college football, but I thought my team, Michigan, was overvalued at 5-2, and didn’t see any other values on there. That said, I’ll throw out Kansas as undervalued, because there’s no way they could be over valued and they play good D.

2. Wayne Larrivee, ESPN-Plus. Dude lives for Purdue-Iowa, Wisconsin-Northwestern, Indiana-Michigan State. Or at least he seems to, because he’s always doing these games with a kind of dopey, loopy enthusiam. It’s not Keith Jackson in his prime or even Nessler. But he’s fun, which is more than I can say for Mike Tirico, who is very sharp and knows his college football but always has to deploy his TOUCH-down VOICE! whenever something big happens, causing me to reach for brown liquor. Or maybe it’s because he called that Alamo Bowl game that never happened. No, it was just a bad dream. As for the coach, let’s say …

3. I actually wish I’d spent more time studying and less at the student paper. I don’t have regrets, but sometimes I’m reading stuff now and like “Damn, I should have been more into this in college.” I also sometimes wish I’d been an English major instead of a history one, but that’s because I enjoyed my English classes more. Also, Seamus Heaney never spoke to my class on Italian peasantry.

4. Abs. Hers, not mine. (Laughable because my own are buried beneath a layer of beer-and-burger-fueled flab the thickness of one of the many coursepacks I never took full advantage of in college.)

1. ND, but only this season. We’re fucking loaded with frosh and sophs who are going to surprise people. and Clausen may not actually be the starting QB.

2. Ron Jaworski. A Man among girls.

     Mike Leach. Arrrrr.

3. “You should really study a little harder for the LSAT” And hence I’m not in law school.

4. Openmindedness. There’s a lot of stuff out there on the internet, she needs to be ready to try most of it.
(Clare #17, are you single?)

1. Kentucky WIldcats, I saw Andre Woodson at da club and he looked ready. Ready for what? Couldn’t say. Plus Dicky Fuckin Lyons Jr.

2. Bobby Johnson, Coach of Vandy
Bobby Johhnson, future Lincoln Financial sideline reporter

3. “You’re pretty drunk, maybe you shouldn’t eat those now.”

4. Bicep tattoos on skinny white guys. *cough

1. Georgia Tech, for the simple reason that Reggie Ball will not be lining up behind center.
2. Kuddos on Jaws, who is actually intelligent and brakes down the technical nuances of the game. I also like Mean Gene Deckerhoff, even though hes a nole. But Bill Curry? Listening to that guy for 3hrs shaves more IQ pts than purple drank.
3. “Buy a shitload of option calls on Google.” Instead of spending 10k on this, which would have turned into 300, I went to Europe and got hammered for 3mos. Push.
4. Muteness. I will try to marry the first smoking hot mute chick I meet.

Re: #14,

OOC wins, aAnd it’s not even close. +100 to you, good sir.

1. UV Team – Duke (HAHAHAHAHA!) Seriously, they just might win 4 games…after winning none last year…what kind of percentage improvement is that?

2. UV Coach – Jim Grobe, Wake Forest. Would have said that before last season. The guy has done an awesome job with the Deacs.

UV Announcer – Like the Wes Durham pick of earlier.

3. “You can’t get a job with a history degree.” Another piece of advice my mother gave me that I ignored.

4. Luther Vandross CDs

1. Wiscy- I dont hear much talk about them and they return 19 starters to an 11-1? team.
2. Always at the game, I dont know too many announcers. If not at the game =drunk in bar=no hear the TV
3. “Dude, just take your cast off and play bball with us. We’re in tournament, we need you” after I had surgery on my wrist and then played bball. I got hacked and the pins shot up out of my wrist. It hurt a little
4. Shave that shit. Im not trying to lick a monkeys back

1) ND. I figure they’ll be terrible, but if they aren’t I look like a genius.
2) Not college footbawl, but I like Boomer Easiason on the radio during MNF. He’ll call out a coach or a player two times quick.
3) Take some business classes to back up an English degree would have been a fine idea.
4) I like acrobatic monkey sex, so I need a woman who’s utterly shameless in bed. If you often find yourself to be humilated afterward by the sounds you make during sex, if you’ve ever considered getting an exorcism after sex, if men are afrad of you, call my number.

1. Oregon State – They were USC’s only loss for the 2006 season and had a gutsy victory against Mizzou.

2.a. I have to go with Bobby Johnson since he is the coach at the only private school in the SEC and has to do a lot more with less.

2.b. The two guys that did the broadcast of the Cal – New Mexico State game in Navajo.

3. As strange as it might sound no one has given me advice that I have undervalued. Now advice that I have overvalued that is a much different.

4. Having played trombone for almost twenty years my single, double, triple, and flutter tonguing is more developed than the average person. Also as an amateur distance runner my endurance is better than average.

Anon IV: Not quite. There was another game in 2006 where a tipped pass at the end prevented USC from coming back to win, UCLA.

Thank you for correcting me OC Phil. I feel foolish for forgetting that game. Once again thank you.

Well both of those games were tough on USC fans. I’m still sure that had USC won either of them then the Trojans would have been the team to beat up on tOSU and win the MNC.

I think OSU was a good answer for the question, though it looks like it could be an up year for the Pac 10. Cal, OSU, UCLA and ASU all look dangerous to me and Oregon or WSU could rise up as well. Hopefully one of them will join USC in the BCS come January.

1. Undervalued team: UNT

 They’re going bowling under new coach Todd Dodge this year, I’m calling it.

 2. Underrated coach: Jim Grobe
 He won the ACC with an offense that averaged 3.9 yds a carry. Yes, the ACC was down last year, but that’s still quite a feat.

 3. “Don’t take your money out of the 401(k) plan. Just roll it over into a Roth IRA.” :-( On the cheap side, I think that little mistake cost me ~$25,000.

 4. Women with Southern accents. Nothing better than hearing her call you ‘sugah’ while making the beast with three backs.

1. “you should have started looking for a job… last month”

I was in the same boat as you. Didnt start looking until the thesis was finished. 9 months later I got a job.

Chin up though buddy, the market is better now than back then.

Also, GE is hiring all over the country if you are looking.

Bill Curry once compared Ron Dayne to a ball peen hammer multiple times in a single game. WTF?

Bill Curry calling a game is on the list of things that makes me want to die a little bit.

Wait, will, do you mean sistas, or literally girls who look just like you and share your parents?

1. UV team – Okie State. They’re gonna beat Georgia and Texas, just watch. Course, they’ll probably also lose to Baylor.

2. UV coach – Jim Leavitt. Dude’s taken a program that didn’t exist, used second tier talent (albeit second tier Florida talent) and crafted a nice program.

UV announcer – Chuck Davis, late of TBS. I guess he’ll be doing BCS games again this year.

3. Beware the Latin girl…

4. Courage, just courage.

1. - Orson – Touche’ !

You’re right, of course, and I have a wonderful daughter whom I love dearly because of it, so really it isn’t nearly as bad as I made it sound.

NOOOOOO!!!! Not Bill Curry. Hey, have I ever mentioned that the center is the most important position on the football field?

PeterPumpkinHead- I mean related to each other. I was a rather dumb college guy, and decided to play both ends of an older sister Sr/ younger sister Fr combo. Worst decision, ever.

However, rodeo sex is all that it is hyped up to be.