TEN REASONS TO WATCH NAVY AT PITT

The baby on Full House used to do THE EXACT SAME dance … seriously. Work it, Lou.

Why is there not a website dedicated to that strange little man? I mean, more dedicated than you are.

www.louholthlithp.com

Have at it, boys.

I’ll watch, I’m not proud.

Lou Holth is teh funney.

Go Navy! Beat Pitt!!

Navy ’99

Lou’s got a pretty bad case of White Man’s Disease. God bless him.

No one makes borderline pedophilia sound acceptable like Benny Mardones. A great sing along song, except for the opening line, “She’s just 16 years old, leave her alone…”

or as they call it in Tennessee, “The Wedding March”.

I remember watching a segment with May and Holtz during Bowl Season last year when he muttered “no shit Mark”. May had said something completely obvious and he just blurted it out. I took 8 rewinds on the TiVo to make a positive confirmation, I wish I had copied it to my computer.

The only reason to watch the service academies is for an occasional dose of the wishbone. Ok, Watts pitching to Sims, it ain’t, but it’s good for nostalgia.

Orson, I can’t help but wonder what the Silver Surfer would say about this season so far…

I’ve only been watching CFB for about five years now, so I can’t speak with any authority on Lou Holtz at Notre Dame in the 90’s. Was he always completely fucking bonkers?

Ahh, you remembered the aristocrat, but how could you forget the ol’ western gunslinger freshman running back LaSean “Shady” McCoy?

Cromag football is the best. Paul Johnson (before he was offering to kiss reporters’ asses at the dock) and GSU vs. Youngstown State national champtionship game was the greatest cromag game ever. 1 attempted pass from GSU and “The Run” by AP.

Trivia Time! — if you like cromag football, well, it’s been 10 years since the last time a team didn’t throw a pass. Ohio did it in ’97 and beat Akron, 21-17.

Asking 28 points from a team whose offensive coordinator (Matt Cavanaugh) used to be the offensive coordinator for the Baltimore Ravens is asking a bit much.

I’m looking at the NCAA record book right now… (gotta say, this is pretty good reading if you’re a stats junkie)

Northern Illinois holds the record for fewest rushing yards in a game: 109, against Toledo in 1967. You read that right - minus one hundred nine. How the hell do you get minus-109???

Watching the game here . . . TiVo confirms that Lou just told Mark May that he was going to punch him in the nose.

Nice.

I was going to crank one out tonite, then I pressed play……damnit….

For Lou Holth,
Navy does NOT run the Wishbone. Notice the slot backs are forward of the FB, not behind the FB.

 Coach, you’ve only said Wishbone 30 times in the first half.

Ahh screw it. When does the AAFL start?

I wonder if Clint Stoerner can find a way to give a championship to the Tennessee team?

http://www.allamericanfootballleague.com/index.php

Did I hear sweet Lou mention the “state of his navel”?

Hmm… their website is down. Maybe they didn’t pay the web hosting bill? Usually the spring leagues wait until after play starts to have financial difficulties.

Continuing my review of the NCAA record book…

This must have been a game to remember:

MOST FUMBLES
17—Wichita St. vs. Florida St., Sept. 20, 1969 (lost
10)
MOST FUMBLES, BOTH TEAMS
27—Wichita St. (17) & Florida St. (10), Sept. 20,
1969 (lost 17)
MOST FUMBLES LOST
10—Wichita St. vs. Florida St., Sept. 20, 1969 (17
fumbles)
MOST FUMBLES LOST, BOTH TEAMS
17—Wichita St. (10) & Florida St. (7), Sept. 20, 1969
(27 fumbles)
MOST TURNOVERS, BOTH TEAMS
20—Wichita St. (12) & Florida St. (8), Sept. 20, 1969
(17 fumbles, 3 interceptions)

YAW YAW OPSHUN FUTBAW!!!

Paul Johnson thinks Les Miles is a pussy – 8 punts in 6 games. Big time programs I ask you, hire this man!

LOLCaption for photo #3:

Iyzkreme hedayke! OW!

The triple-option without the wishbone is like watching a bad remake of an old classic movie. QB, FB, LHB, RHB — that’s the triple-option. Not this wingback bullshit or whatever those guys are lined up like tight ends and always in motion. WTF is this? This isn’t opshun futbaw… this is like the sci-fi version. Shit.

The Wishbone is for Big Televen teams. The Flexbone brings in a little SPEEEED…

I love watching Navy football but, dear God, do I hope that these guys defend better after graduation than they do right now.

FWIW, while the ‘bone remains the ne plus ultra of cromag football, I’m still partial to the old Houston veer and the single wing (which my HS ran and was still run at Denison fairly recently).

Flexbone, my ass. I want my money back.

Obit for Keith Piper, Denison’s dean of the single wing:

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C03E5DB133CF932A25751C1A961958260

My old high school hasn’t thrown the ball in about five years. They somehow won a state championship that way, though.

Triple option refers to the fact that there are 1, 2, 3 (ah ah ah) players who might get the ball, not the formation. Nebraska ran triple option out of the I, power I, and offset I — didn’t make it any less of a triple option attack.

The flexbone at least spreads the D out some presnap rather than packing it in tight like the wishbone does.

We played the Wing-T in high school and some Wishbone, so they have a special place in my heart. But my love for YAW YAW OPSHUN FUTBAW! came in late high school/early college watching the Ga. Southern teams featuring Tracy Ham and the original Adrian Peterson…coached by, guess who, Paul Johnson.

As to Navy’s defense, luckily, the people they will be facing off with in the future will be both much smaller and much slower.

Not to mention they’ll have the option of simply shooting the ball carrier.

I’m not saying it’s less of a triple option, and I suppose ::cough::eyeroll::cough:: it’s a modern evolution. Just show it to me on 3rd and 1, please? Give me some reason for watching this game other than the knowledge that if Navy can’t beat ND this year, then they probably never will.

Third-and-one is a fullback dive (70% of the time) or keeper by Kaipo.

FWiW, you can do a lot worse things on a Saturday afternoon than take in a game in Annapolis. It’s not pre-NFL-level football, but, for my money, it’s a great collegiate environment. (I watched a lot of future investment bankers, doctors, engineers, and commissioned officers square off at the Navy-Duke game a few weeks ago and loved it.)

Alright: who’s dumber: the Wannstache or Karl Dorrell?

this song goes right with the Navy offense. This was recorded by Dirk Diggler back in 79.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C9Bng7NPPY

I pity the poor woman who does the closed captioning when Lou Holththth thpeakththth.

Dear lord. I turned it to the game to hear more of Lou Holtz, and something amazing may have happened. It cuts to the image of the booth with Mark, Lou, and Davis, and Lou pulled up a beverage, saw the camera, and pulled down the beverage again. The thing was, it looked like a beer. If it was, it would prove what everybody knew to be true.

rusty: tough call, Dorrell trails the ’Stache in football team destroyed 1-3. But, does that mean Wanny is dumber, or prove he is smarter because he keeps getting new head coaching jobs.

When you talk about Wishbone, Flexbone, Giveadogabone, I think of this clip,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJruNQcdSUo which takes me back into time when all the offenses just ran the ball and Steve Spurrier had yet to corrupt the balance of power in the SEC, I give you 1984……

Wannstedt’s got the right idea on Firefly. That show kicked ass.
  
Also, his porn ‘tache is stylin’. Dave, you and I should hang out.

Fun game to watch. I lived in Chicago during the “the guys are trying real hard” Wannestedt era. God I miss mocking Bears fans…

Anyhow, fantastic, Bobbie Williams-esque playcalling late by Pitt in this game. McCoy was just killing Navy, so of course once they got down to the 2 yard-line on 3rd down, they call 2 pass plays with their frosh QB in a row. The quotes (all from the AP recap) from Wanny and others afterwards were awesome:

“That’s our 2-point conversion play,” Wannstedt explained. “We do it all the time in practice and it works perfectly. … If I had the same situation, I would do it again.”

“I’m glad they did pass the ball but, no matter what, we were going to stop it and we were going to win the game,” Navy linebacker Irv Spencer said.

“We were going for the win, it was crunch time and I guess people wanted to go home or something,” (Pitt fullback Conredge) Collins said. “It just didn’t go the way we wanted to go. Do I wish we could have run the ball with me or LeSean? Most definitely, but you’ve got to respect the play call and that’s our coach.”

Watch for mention of Pitt running back LaRod Stephens-Howling, the most aristocratic name in all of college football who should be sitting on the bench sipping a Pimm’s while clipping the thorns off his prize rose bushes.

That may be the case now, but this guy will hold that distinction with honor when he starts playing college ball:

http://footballrecruiting.rivals.com/viewprospect.asp?pr_key=62642

Completely unrelated thought:

Whenever I see the name “Pitt,” music for the Nintendo game “Kid Icarus” starts playing in my head.

UF fans remember the option.
Can you say Tommy Frazier?
Orson probably still shorns himself when he hears his name. (shorn, shit with a little corn in it.)

Dear Cincinnati, Louisville, Syracuse, Rutgers, South Florida and West Virginia,

Please see below.

Warmest regards,
PSUrob

“That’s our 2-point conversion play,” Wannstedt explained. “We do it all the time in practice and it works perfectly. … If I had the same situation, I would do it again.”

Holtz was the only one eating his sandwiches will talking on air. I wonder which one of the guys had to feed him and if he sports a Notre Dame bib?

Asked by a sideline reporter in a halftime interview what adjustments needed to be made to slow down a WVU rushing attack that was gouging Pitt, Wannstache actually replied, “We need to run faster.” Wannstache beats any coach I’ve heard by a landslide in a competition of dumb.

not sure where you came up with #6, since Benny never had a ‘stache, but in honor of the sheer brilliance of this site, i’ll link Benny’s myspace page so others may know the joy of sweet soulfull sounds of Benny’s soft rock

http://www.myspace.com/bennymardones

I don’t know which was funnier, the many contortions of the wannstache as Navy marched through his defense, or hearing Lou Holtz try to pronounce “Pittsburgh”.

#6

That’s pretty funny coming from a Bama fan whose state motto (Alabama) is “If you can’t keep it in your pants, keep it in the family!”

And no, I am NOT a UT fan.

The Wanstache would hit that from Orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.

#52, not to mention that Alabama has near teh lowest (if not THE lowest) age of consent in the US). Then again, European countries are even lower (Holland or Belgium is trying get theirs lowered to 15, if I’m not mistaken), so maybe AL is more “progressive” (joking).

And yes, I DO live in Alabama.

#6
Yeh, I was wondering about this Benny Mardones song ever since I was a kid. Since when was banging 16 yr olds legal, except when you were 17? Dude wasnt he like 36 or something when he wrote this song? Was he a high school coach? PE?

EDSBS needs a “yacht rock” tag for posts like this. Seals and Croft demand it!

One man’s borderline pedophilia is another man’s statutory rape case.

“Leave her alone…
they say”
Indeed.

Alabama isn’t even close to the lowest age of consent in the nation. They are actually right in the middle(most of the country is hovering around 16 as the legal age) while Idaho’s age of consent is 14 and there are a couple of state’s at 15.

#52
No, but if you were a UT fan, this Benny Mardones song was probaly inspired by this:
16 yr old Tenn. Girl:" Daddy, get off of meh, ya squishin muh cigarettes! and muh tampons!"

#58, news I can use.

Benny Mardones. You guys are either obscure 80s pop-culture mavens on a par with Michael Ian Black (or whoever writes for him), or you watch too many infomercials.