A.M. BLOGTOBERFEST: SEC/BRENT SCHAEF-FAH EDITION
Your soundtrack this morning: the melodious sounds of Rammstein, saluting the sun like only German metal schlock gods can.
Brent Schae-fah, former insta-starter for the Ole Miss Rebels at quarterback, has lost the sheen one might instantly associate with a College of the Sequoias transfer and has been moved from qb to wide receiver. Orgeron admitted at SEC Media Days that guaranteeing Schaeffer the starting job coming out of junior college, where he’d spent a semester after getting the boot from Tennessee for beating the daylights out of a fellow student in a dorm…was a mistake.
Delta State transfer Seth Adams will get the start for the Rebels. Schaeffer will attempt to learn wideout and race Xavier Lee in the contest for biggest recruiting bust currently still enrolled in D-1 football.
In Starkganistan, Sylvester Croom had a succinct PR strategy ready to go after an abysmally hot and frustrating practice.
“Short conversation, gentlemen. There was nothing good at practice today. Any questions?”
Then, per his role as Black Wilford Brimley, he went off to eat some oatmeal and test his diabeetus before giving his close friend Black Robert Duvall a call.
Ike Whitaker, backup qb for Virginia Tech, is a bit of an overachiever. Not only is a D-1 athlete on scholarship, he’s done something it took us until our late 20s to acheive: becoming an alcoholic. We don’t really know if this is possible, since when we woke up with beer seeping from our pores in college, we merely rehydrated instead of going to meetings and getting angsty about the whole thing.
In all seriousness, we wish him luck. With a toast and a Velveeta-tinged “I Never Really Wanted To Coach Alabama” Slammer in hand.
Phil Trautwein, O-line stalwart for the Gators, committed the memory of last year’s championship to flesh in glorious black ink on his shoulder. He also has the memories of the 2005 Peach Bowl in ink, too, in the form of a tiny “WTF?” tattoed in his armpit.









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Billy in Baton Rouge says:
Black Robert Duvall — Charles S. Dutton or Paul Winfield?
August 9th, 2007 at 9:43 am
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Futbawl Fan says:
ahhh…the very title of this post has me humming the “Orgeron Song” once again
ohweyoweyoweyoweyo-ahh
August 9th, 2007 at 9:45 am
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Doug says:
I’ve seen some fucked-up music videos, but that one takes the case. Profoundly disturbing, and yet . . . I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t intrigued by the prospect of being spanked by a girl in a Snow White costume.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:45 am
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Biggus Rickus says:
Mississippi State needs to hire a crazy, cheating sumbitch if they want to stay in the fun coach/middling western division team competition with Ole Miss. Croom is entirely too dull, much like the Mississippi State imitation of an offense.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:46 am
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Orson Swindle says:
A giant girl, Doug.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:47 am
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Rob says:
Rosenrot is also kind of strange…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybJDfi0WlhM
That said, Rammstein RULES!
August 9th, 2007 at 9:48 am
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hailstate says:
“Starkganistan”…Never heard that one before. *grown*
August 9th, 2007 at 9:49 am
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Edsall is God says:
So the Va. Tech QB went on a weeklong binge? That passes for alcoholism? In my day (1999-2003), we called that BEING A MEMBER OF SIGMA CHI!!!! IN HOC BITCHES!!!
Seriously, what college student isn’t an alcoholic by definition? Like Matthew Stafford hasn’t shown up to practice, arms sore from tossing kegs all night, with bloodshot eyes, reeking of Natty Light and with some girls number written on his hand?
Indeed, Nick Saban would not have time for this shit.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:50 am
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Odell 51 says:
Rammstien is one of my favorites.
When you picture a band from East Germany this is what it should look like.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
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Port City Gangsta says:
If you are scoring at home, thats a 2 star QB playing RB (Bruce Hall), a 4 star QB play TE (Bob Lane), a 5 star QB playing WR (Shafuh), and a walk-on D2 backup starting a QB.
ugh…
August 9th, 2007 at 9:57 am
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Brewster Crew says:
I wish more people would refer to it by it’s proper name, hailstate: Starkvegas.
The (tractor) lights, the glitz and glamor…it’s a one of a kind experience in the south.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:58 am
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Scalz1 says:
Who wouldn’t be an alcoholic in Blacksburg? The only good thing about it is that Radford is very close.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:00 am
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CouchBurnin'Girl says:
Toasting VT with a WVU drink?? That’s just plain wrong.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:07 am
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hailstate says:
#11 — tractors? Maybe you were hanging out in the wrong part of town the last time you visited. No one will confuse Starkville with Austin or Athens, but it doesn’t deserve the treatment it gets. As far as podunk towns in the rural south go, I’d say Starkville is pretty f-ing nice. And it’s a lot easier to get to that Fayetteville.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:09 am
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Scalz1 says:
I can’t think of any place more in the boonies than Auburn. There is nothing there. I mean nothing. At all.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:11 am
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always rebellious says:
Hailstate, for real. The Land that Fun Forgot? Nah. *eye rowl*
August 9th, 2007 at 10:15 am
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Allahver Fist says:
Welcome to Starkville!
Binka! Binka! Binka!
Get yer cowbells!
Binka! Binka! Binka!
Kustom fit!
Binka! Binka! Binka!
PVC handle!
Binka! Binka! Binka!
Padded grip!
Binka! Binka! Binka!
August 9th, 2007 at 10:18 am
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Eirishis says:
Though it would be easy as a ‘Hoo to make a crack about Whitaker … as a fellow member of AA, I offer him ONE HUNDRED LEMONADES. Keep coming back, Ike.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:22 am
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hailstate says:
People who say they don’t have any fun in Starkville must be pretty boring people. I spent seven years there and had a blast — hence the seven years. Not once did it involve cow tipping, although we did go searching for mushrooms on South Farm a few times. (You can’t do that in Gainsville! suckorz)
It probably is 11th or 12th in the SEC as far as party towns, but that doesn’t make it the burned-out shit hole people make it out to be.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:22 am
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Allahver Fist says:
#19
No pickin’ ’shrooms in Gainesville?!? You, sir, are completely clueless.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:26 am
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RCR says:
“Orgeron admitted at SEC Media Days that guaranteeing Schaeffer the starting job coming out of junior college, where he’d spent a semester after getting the boot from Tennessee for beating the daylights out of a fellow student in a dorm.”
can you finish that sentence please, sir? I think you wanted to go with “was a mistake” but I’m not sure. Maybe you wanted to go with, “was a GREAT idea b/c we need more wide recievers.” I don’t know.
Also, I see port city gangster is a NAFOOM. Well done.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:28 am
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Mr. Wrong says:
Maybe you’ve never been to Gainesville, Hailstate, but you most certainly can “do that”.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:29 am
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Michigan Gator says:
Are Wilford Brimley and Robert Duval just friends, or butt buddies?
August 9th, 2007 at 10:30 am
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Jerkwheat says:
Bob Duval is likely to kill you in your sleep for that accusation. He is by far the most grizzled.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:32 am
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
Ok, first of all, as far as what’s in Auburn, there’s Opelika, which at least has a few decent chain restaurants you’ve heard of (and I’m a Bammer, so this isn’t really a defense as much as a clarification).
As for Starkvegas (and that is the proper name… you need the dripping sarcasm… Starkganistan is just so literal… it’s sad more than funny), I’ve been there many times and the only fun place in town is a bar in a strip mall that’s an absolute firetrap. And that’s only when Better than Ezra comes to town.
I did have a friend from high shcool who went there for one semester. He blamed his dropping out on access to a secret hash field the school maintains just outside of town that is “legal” for federal research purposes. I’ve never seen this field, so I can’t prove it’s existence.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:35 am
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Hokie Andrew says:
Ike first sought treatment at the end of last season. Very big of him to realize he’s got a problem at the age of 19… even better that he’s doing something about it. Best of luck to him!
August 9th, 2007 at 10:37 am
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yoyofutbawl says:
If The Orgeron were not real, we would have to invent him.
As the founder of the Left Field Lounge Lizards sez, “State & Ole Miss? We hate each other. We’re productive and they’re not. We drive tractors for a living and they sue people”.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:39 am
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hailstate says:
#24 — “I did have a friend from high shcool who went there for one semester. He blamed his dropping out on access to a secret hash field the school maintains just outside of town that is “legal” for federal research purposes. I’ve never seen this field, so I can’t prove it’s existence.”
I think you’ve just confused State with Ole Miss, although the firetrap sounds like Ricks.
#19, #20 — whoa, you mean MSU and Auburn aren’t the only SEC schools surrounded my cow pastures?
August 9th, 2007 at 10:46 am
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hailstate says:
If we’re basing a towns worth on the number or chain resturants nearby, then LSU is the ballz.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:49 am
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Bully Vandegraaff says:
Virginia Tech: Putting young men on the fast track to the vice of their choosing since 1872.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:51 am
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Oops Pow Surprise says:
Jerkwheat: Most folks don’t know that Bob Duvall was the first one to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
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Futbawl Fan says:
Orson….I just went back and watched that Rammstein video… man, that is just wrong….
I am sure the frozen head of Walt Disney shed a tear the day that thing was released… maybe tears of joy, but a tear nonetheless
another thought…. if I ever have to fly a helicopter into a battlezone (a’la our revered Mr. Duval) I definitely want their music blaring over the loudspeakers… they may be singing about their favorite ice cream parlor or weinersnitzel but it sounds so…so… satanic… that it would inspire me to my best efforts in helping others meet their makers
okay…back to futbawl and drankin
August 9th, 2007 at 11:01 am
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TIGERinATL says:
If only we had an Olive Garden. sigh….
August 9th, 2007 at 11:06 am
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Allahver Fist says:
1) Robert Duval can do all, ’cause he’s got the Holy Ghost Powa. Croom uses cream of wheat.
2) Ike Whitaker’s story finally clarifies the meaning of David Crosby’s “Almost Cut My Hair”. Crosby, perhaps, should have.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:11 am
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PSUrob says:
ever play the “I sat in peach gum” trick?
August 9th, 2007 at 11:14 am
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PeterPumpkinhead says:
Hailstate, like I said, I wasn’t defending Auburn, just pointing out there was something there.
No, he went to State, and he swears to this day that pot field is out there.
And yes, it’s Ricks.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:19 am
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hailstate says:
Peter: I roomed with some serious Friends of Cannabis, I can tell you there’s no “legal” pot farm in Starkville. There is one near Oxford where they do federal research.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:27 am
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Orson Swindle says:
Hailstate:
Okay, alternatives.
Starkansas?
Starkofthecovenant?
Croom With a View?
Starkology, for those Sim City fans out there?
Starklahoma?
Nashville has take the “name-vegas” thing for us. So any and all other suggestions other than the actual name are welcome.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:31 am
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Hook'em Tide says:
#8
In Hoc
August 9th, 2007 at 11:33 am
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Coop says:
Did Widespread record that “Hippies from Starkville” song?
I have not been able to download it off Limewire or any system, EVER.
Somebody, hook me up.
August 9th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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Hook'em Tide says:
Stark Ache City?
The City that Stark Forgot?
A Tale of Two Starks?
Starkville, the “Bismarck, North Dakota” of the South
Stersia
Starksylavania
“See Stark City”
Los Starkangeles
August 9th, 2007 at 11:36 am
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jakldawg says:
Hey Peter:
The “cannabis” they grow on MSU’s campus is kenaf. It has virtually no THC and gives you horrible bronchitis if smoked. But I’m sure many an incoming freshman coming in on US-82 has looked over at the fields and thought: What.. the..JACKPOT!!!
August 9th, 2007 at 11:43 am
43
Willet says:
Viet-stark
August 9th, 2007 at 11:45 am
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Bully Vandegraaff says:
Starkutta?
August 9th, 2007 at 11:46 am
45
Allahver Fist says:
Starkbaw !
August 9th, 2007 at 11:47 am
46
Willet says:
starknobyl
August 9th, 2007 at 11:54 am
47
Allahver Fist says:
JackieSherrillTown, Republic Of Cheat
August 9th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
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Big Jon says:
“Stark of the covenant” has to win. A friend of mine, an Orange Park native, refers to Jacksonville as “Actionville.” The funny part is that he’s serious about it.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
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panhandler says:
Or just “Stark.” Where things are grim.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
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Newspaper Hack says:
+1 to panhandler.
August 9th, 2007 at 12:42 pm