CURIOUS INDEX, 10/17/07
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Much thanks to everyone who showed up to our Psycho Fan signing in Atlanta. We more than exceeded our goal of hitting double digit attendance and had the bonus pleasure of having our nametag misspelled. Touchdown! Other guys NBC may not know when Notre Dame actually won its last bowl game, but they make a fine Notre Dame football commercial anyway.
Waterskiing apparel salesmen of Illinois, rejoice. Illinois is mulling giving [NAME REDACTED] a three year contract extension, a piece of news spreading joy among the waterskiing sales community of Illinois. Illinois hopes it will have a positive effect on recruiting. [NAME REDACTED] hopes it will let the missus allow him to buy a sweet new barefooting rig. The [NAME REDACTED] Hook, however, is most unhappy at the news. That’s what you get for nearly upsetting Nebraska, underling. Ball State gets two years probation from the NCAA for handing out $26,944 in textbooks to athletes under the guise of a textbook loan program. Correct: an athletic department is getting in trouble for giving athletes books. Reggie Bush, on hearing this news, laughed so hard he fell off the pile of money and women he sleeps on every night without shame. Charlie Weis is no genius. If he were, he’d announce Tom Zbikowski as the starting qb against USC in order to get the point spread to around forty points, which worked once already against USC. Instead, the merely smart Weis announced Evan Sharpley as the starter against the Trojans, presumably tossing the junior–not considered the future commandante of the program like Jimmy Clausen is–to be broken in half by USC’s defense as a peace offering. Gimme a mop. The Pac-10’s coaching slaughter could be NC-17, Kill Bill/Story of Rikki-Oh gory by the time the red mist settles. Conquest Chronicles noted a Dorrell midseason firing rumor disappeared off the Sporting News in a flash, but assuming Dorrell’s done is a safe bet. Bill Doba at Washington State could also be gone and possibly replaced by Mike “Good Times” Price, whom Doba replaced when Price left for the fifteen minutes of his Alabama tenure and then UTEP. Mike Stoops has done Jim Mora diddly-poo at Arizona, a diddly-poo waxing uglier now that Dennis Erickson has put a fresh coat of paint on ASU, put in some hardwood floors, made a lovely walkway with some pavers on sale at Home Depot, and completed the quick-flip of the undefeated Sun Devils. Oh, and Ty Willingham doesn’t make halftime adjustments. It’s in the Bible, look it up. All in all, anywhere from two to four of the Pac-10’s coaches could be fired by the end of the season, leaving gaping holes across the board for ADs to fill. Oh, and we know you’re looking. We know the golf shirt hangs so tantalizingly around his hunky shoulders, and the Drakkar Noir leaves you wet and breathless. But the Wannstache? He’s taken, baby, especially because there’s not an AD around to fire him.
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Edsall:
Turner Gill is the next Offensive Coordinator at Nebraska. Bo Pelini is the next coach.
Comment by Albino Tornado — October 17, 2007 @ 2:33 pm
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Keebler,
Do you find it impossible to believe that others have seen the light?
Comment by Matt Leinart's 2006 bowl win — October 17, 2007 @ 2:03 pm
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A Rikki-Oh reference?!?!
Awesome!!!!!
Comment by Chuck — October 17, 2007 @ 2:02 pm
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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.
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — October 17, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
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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
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — October 17, 2007 @ 12:31 pm
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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.
Comment by fife in the bay — October 17, 2007 @ 12:28 pm
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“$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.
Comment by Nile — October 17, 2007 @ 12:25 pm
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#21 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.
Comment by Papa Lou BSU — October 17, 2007 @ 11:56 am
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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.
Comment by 7-tech — October 17, 2007 @ 11:54 am
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#37… welcome to comment #15
Comment by CatFanInDC — October 17, 2007 @ 11:38 am
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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
Comment by Anonymous IV — October 17, 2007 @ 11:38 am
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Seems like the NCAA is so angry at Kelvin Sampson that they put Ball State on probation.
Comment by Chuck — October 17, 2007 @ 11:32 am
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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.
Comment by Unhappy Monkey — October 17, 2007 @ 11:32 am
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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.
Comment by Bobby Lowder's Checkbook — October 17, 2007 @ 11:24 am
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This may be off-topic, but, Orson, congrats on your 4,000th post!
Comment by T. Kyle King — October 17, 2007 @ 11:20 am
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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.
Comment by Techie — October 17, 2007 @ 11:19 am
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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?
Comment by I'm Already Drunk — October 17, 2007 @ 11:18 am
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oops, sorry for the double post.
Comment by Edsall is God — October 17, 2007 @ 11:17 am
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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.
Comment by Edsall is God — October 17, 2007 @ 11:16 am
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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.
Comment by Edsall is God — October 17, 2007 @ 11:15 am
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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.
Comment by Allahver Fist — October 17, 2007 @ 11:12 am
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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!
Comment by Edsall is God — October 17, 2007 @ 11:09 am
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Bill Callahan’s former OC Jay Norvell is the current OC at UCLA.
Just sayin’.
Comment by Albino Tornado — October 17, 2007 @ 11:04 am