CURIOUS INDEX, 10/17/07

Not since Gary Barnett took Northwestern to the Rose Bowl have so many coaches faced the firing squad. We will be looking at more “WTF” decisions than ever this year.

Notre Dame doesn’t need to worry about losing Sharpley, Mauluga’s out injured. Besides, even if Sharpley does get lightly battered, no doubt Sanchez and / or Booty will throw a few compensatory interceptions.

Oh, by the way, Reggie asked me to tell you that he doesn’t sleep on a money and honey mattress – the cash is all in working investments. Some of whom make up the mattress of pulchritude.

There’s a big sports-front feature in today’s WaPo about how DC-area recruits have injected “East Coast swagger” into the Fightin’ [REDACTEDS].

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/16/AR2007101602068.html

Fuckin NCAA. Probation for providing STUDENT athelets with books… Probation?

We must get Myles Brand over to the EFSM in Zurich, we may have a world record on our hands. He. May. Be. The Record.

Ok, so who are the retreads going to be taking college jobs? Any guesses? For every one inspired and seemingly intelligent hire, four somones will hire a Wannstache-light.

re: Ball State.

as Dear Abby used to say, you couldn’t make this stuff up. nobody would believe it.

My money is on Callahan finding his way out west. Some AD will think that the west coast offense would work perfect at UCLA/Washington/Arizona and it only failed at NU because of an institutionalized favoritism of the Option.

Makes twisted, awful, painful sense to me.

Jim Grobe anyone or did his moment pass?

That ND spot should have at least one clip of the center snapping the ball over Clausen’s head.

Better hurry up and extend the Orgeron to a lifetime contract, Rebbas. He’s gonna get poached!

What compensation would one have to offer The Orgeron to sign him to a lifetime contract? Is he even being compensated now or does he view the abundance of wildlife prey in the woods and bayous of Mississippi as payment enough?

dammit. the word wildlife was supposed to have been struck through

1. - I think George Siefert is available.

hey, quick question. how many teams are in the pac 10 anyway?? and the big 12??? just curious.

sincerely,

the big 10

The NCAA is so mad at IU and Kelvin Sampson that they just put Ball State on probation.

Our Lady’s boys will crack out the secret weapon on Saturday against USC. (Well, it is not so secret.) They will wear Lime-Green jerseys, with Gold Pants. To complete the outfit, they should all paint their heads including hair, bright red! They may end up losing to USC big time, but at least they will be looking good!

If our saviour Weis comes within 20 points of USC, let’s give him another $40 milllion contract extension.

http://therockreport.blogspot.com/2007/10/notre-dames-secret-weapon.html

Where are all the “Ty is better than Weis!” columns now?

I’m not defending Weis but Ty is just not a good coach. Everyone points to his one Rose Bowl season with Stanford without mentioning the team was 8-3 and ranked #24 in the country, i.e. the Pac-10 sucked donkey dick in 1999.

Now, I’m very familiar with a book known as The Bible, as I assume most of the people in this room are, ok, having been through that shared experience in our youth when the teacher would call attention to the class, and we’d read a specific passage for the day, as a cause of reflection. I think that is something that is common in a lot of our players, as a large majority of them were raised in a specific way. It is written, and I think many of you are familiar with what I am discussing, is that the Bible is a large document, ok? And in that large document is a lot of what I like to call Good News, but there is also what many like to call Bad News. Now, it is in this so-called Bad News, which are other people’s words, not my own, in which it is described the story, or parable, of a man who tried to claim he was half human and half divine. We all know what happened to him, and that is why I never stray from a specific gameplan while playing a specific opponent. I have never had a bad day. That man in that story, now, that was a bad day, and that is exactly what we are trying to avoid when we aspire to play championship football at the University of Washington.

/Ty Willingham

Sorry…..I can’t turn it off. It’s like a reflex.

Only Jesus was fully human and fully divine. Can’t they get Catholic teaching right at ND either?

I would Hire either Joe Glenn (Wyoming) or Bobby Hauck (Montana). Probably wait on Hauck until he had some success in a D-1A mid major first, though.

Id def give Joe Glenn a look though, since He’s done well wherever he’s gone and has been coaching a long time. If you could give him some good players I bet he’d tear it up.

As a Ball state alum, I’m shocked this didn’t happen sooner. It’s been known for years that the textbook thing was just the tip of the iceberg. And they weren’t giving them books. They were giving them bookstore credit which they would then sell to other students for cash. Not to mention the sketchy grading, improper benefits, etc.

As bad as Ty W is, why does he have DOUBLE the victories of “THE GENIUS” Mr. Charlie Weis-enheimer this season?

Why has Ty W’s team this season looked at least competitive in some losses and not looked as badly prepared and coached by “THE GENIUS” Mr. Charlie Wise-enschiemer this season?

Why have so many players quit on “THE GENIUS” Mr. Charlie Wiech-schnauzer. The South Bend Tribune listed something like 17 players leaving Notre Dame since Charlie Weeshem-boucher took over the team a few years ago.

1. - Woo Woo! Ball State shower sandals for everyone!!

1) The last time, and I mean last time, I was in Bible study I got into a fistfight.

2) Those ‘textbooks’ Ball State handed out? Callahan’s playbooks.

3) Orgeron’s current compensation package is solely a pre-paid store card to the Piggly Wiggly. If the O Miss [MASCOT REDACTED] want to retain him, at least until half life, they need to let him keep the redeemable Wiggly Stamps.

Also, Ole Miss is providing all he can use Brimstone and sulphur. Also, they have drilled into the earth to power his hot lava baths.

Bill Callahan’s former OC Jay Norvell is the current OC at UCLA.

Just sayin’.

Mike Price is coming back to coach Washington State.

Turner Gill is the next coach at Nebraska.

Some smart AD is going to offer Cincy’s Brian Kelly a bagajillion dollars a year. And Kelly will say no because, like Coach Rod and Schiano, he sees that the lack of pressure to win in the Big East makes the job too favorable.

Karl Dorrell & Ty Willingham will be let go because they suck and white media members will invoke the race card.

Mike Singletary is the next coach of Baylor.

Randy Edsall IS NOT the next coach of Syracuse.

Look at me! I can write for the Sporting News!

Edsall Is God, you can’t write for Sporting News unless you can compare each to-be-hired coaches to different scents of Yankee Candles.

27 – Dammit! How can I do that if I don’t even know what scents they have? Can I compare them to female Latin artists I would like to mate with? Or not mate with?

Turner Gill is Paulina Rubio! Unknown but oh so hot.
Edsall is Shakira, pure perfection.
Ty Willingham is J-Lo. No one wants her anymore because she got impregnated by a skeletor. No one wants him because he falls asleep at halftime.

27 – Dammit! How can I do that if I don’t even know what scents they have? Can I compare them to female Latin artists I would like to mate with? Or not mate with?

Turner Gill is Paulina Rubio! Unknown quantity but oh so hot.
Edsall is Shakira, pure perfection.
Ty Willingham is J-Lo. No one wants her anymore because she got impregnated by a skeletor. No one wants him because he falls asleep at halftime.

oops, sorry for the double post.

Question: Aren’t student textbook costs covered by an athletes grant-in-aid? If so, giving them the free textbooks, would be tantamount to giving them cash as they could use their officially provided textbook money as spending cash. Not sure of the details, but this may have been the heart of the issue. That being said, the BSU punishment certainly doesn’t jibe with the perpetual, foot-dragging, “looking into it” that’s being done in USC’s case.

Any word on whether Pete Carroll was injured when falling off his gigantic slush fund?

Jim Grobe would be a good choice, but he’s stated that he doesn’t want to leave Winston-Salem. And unlike Saban, I believe him.

Though he has built the most underrated football program in the nation, a very neat trick at a school thats only 4x the size of the high school I went to.

This may be off-topic, but, Orson, congrats on your 4,000th post!

Dear Saban Univ.,

CWM and CTT aren’t going anywhere! So you can stop starting all the TaMu and Arky rumors and just get ready for #’s 6,7,8,9,and 10 in a row.

The Orgeron is compensated in two manners:

1. He has the right of first refusal to all goats, billy, gruff or otherwise, which pass over the bridge underwhich he resides: and,

2. He is allowed to control the temperture of the nothern polar region by way of his Heat Miser abilities.

Seems like the NCAA is so angry at Kelvin Sampson that they put Ball State on probation.

I think Ty is doing a pretty good job at Washington, if one ignores the second half of each game. Karl “The Thinker” Dorrell is very talented at losing games he should not lose and has the double problem of having to deal with the monster program of USC and the monster basketball program at UCLA looking him in the eye and questioning why he looks like Wanda Sykes.

http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2007/10/separated-at-birth-karl-dorrell-and.html

#37… welcome to comment #15

Dear #35 you do know that Mike Shula is no longer the Head Coach at Alabama right? 99% of Bama fans hope and pray that Tubbie stays at Little Brother U. Coach Saban is already kicking Tubbies ass on the recruiting field, it won’t be long till it translates to the football field.

1. and #32, that’s not what happened. “Tip of the iceberg,” my arse.

As I understand it, the student-athletes were given $1,000 accounts at the bookstore (per NCAA maximum on grant-in-aid) to cover their textbooks for the academic year. A number of players did not need the full $1,000 to pay for all their books. Some of these players used the remaining credit to buy books for non-athlete friends and walk-ons. A few abused it more seriously by having their friends kick in some dollars for the privilege. Two abused it even more seriously by using their entire credits to do the same, but as you might expect, they didn’t buy any of their own books and were on their way to flunking out anyways. The bookstore credits had to be used by the players themselves, so there was no way they could be “sold” outright, however, as #21 asserted. And a bunch of student-athletes actually got into trouble for buying the “recommended” textbooks with their stipend in addition to the “required” ones, which is a violation, believe it or not.

As back-assward as this whole system seems, the whole damn thing probably could have been prevented if the compliance director told the bookstore to not sell any books on these credits without seeing a copy of the athlete’s course schedule to make sure the purchases were legit. (Which he had neglected to do that year).

The worst part about this is that BSU discovered and reported all of this on their own, fired the compliance director and encouraged the AD to find a new job (he left for Tulsa in December of ‘05), corrected all of the issues with the textbook distribution and implemented a new, foolproof system, and threw the 2005 season under the bus with mass suspensions of the players involved. And yet the NCAA still dropped the hammer. That’ll teach us to cooperate!

And yet, nothing will happen to USC over the Reggie Bush scandal, nor will anything happen to IU over their coach’s illegal recruiting tactics. Non-BCS teams make convenient outlets for the NCAA’s anger, I suppose.

“$26,944 in textbooks”

Is that the bookstore price? It would only be about $47.50 total on Amazon. Making this violation much more petty.

as a uw fan i was a sucker. i ripped ND for axing TW, i called them racist, i said their priests liked little boys.

every damn game is the same, play even in the first, get bent over in the second.

fwiw, domers, i take it back, i was a fool. TW is a great WAC coach but he cant handle BCS football.

i still dont like you guys though.

USC-Notre Dame Prediction-> Pain:

It does not really matter whether Clausen or EvanS. is in there this Sat. against USC, since ND’s offensive line is not very strong. Plus, it looks like key defensive players, such as Cushing and Wright will be back for USC.
  
On the other side of the ball, Sanchez and/or Booty just need to not make any boneheaded interceptions/fumbles and let whatever healthy running backs are available take over the game.

Net result: Another big-time ND loss.
Score: USC 33, ND 13

fife in the bay: For a Notre Dame fan, that was a bad job acting like a Husky fan. Hints for next time: 1) Refer to it as “Dub” or “W”, not “uw”. 2) Try to use caps, since using lower case letters is too obvious.

A Rikki-Oh reference?!?!

Awesome!!!!!

Keebler,

Do you find it impossible to believe that others have seen the light?

Edsall:

Turner Gill is the next Offensive Coordinator at Nebraska. Bo Pelini is the next coach.