USF/RUTGERS NOTES

It was fun while it lasted.

It’s nothing a trip to Mons Venus won’t fix for the USF players…

Louisville controls its own destiny!!! Louisville controls its own destiny!!!

What? What? Kragthorpe and Cassity are in the pilot’s seats?

Never mind.

Ugly game tonight, eh?

jon>>

Hideous.

I was really hoping for Ohio State/USF, the storyline is just too awesome. So much for that.

I will be happy if I never have to watch these two teams ever again. Between the overuse of the sound system, Rutgers’ 1970s offense, Jim Leavitt’s spaz attacks (Good God, take a Ritalin already!), no hot chicks in the stands, and Matt Grothe’s throwing motion, I will have a hard time getting to sleep tonight. Hooray beer!

i’m a Big East supporter and everything but yeeeeesssshhh.

Florida teams suck this year, huh? Ha Ha just kidding. No wait, you really do suck!! LOL

This year’s top ten is like a rack of Pez candies in a Pez dispencer, just lift the lid back a little and the next one in line will pop right out…god I don’t want to play Michigan State this weekend.

If you thought “Shout” was bad, you should have heard the band at halftime, where the theme was, I shit you not, “Stuff we’ve already played this year”. And the selections? Chuck Mangione, Billy Squier, and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. (If they really wanted to give us the best of the first half of the season, they should have brought the Norfolk State band back.)

Fun game to watch, though. I still think West Virginia may run for about 4000 yards on us next week, but we’ll see.

You would employ a 1970’s offense too if your quaterback was as frighteningly unpredictable as Teel. He throws into double/triple coverage and just plain misses recievers. Give it to Rice and hope for the best.

RU’s d played Groethe great tonight especially in the 2nd half…I was at the game and agree that RU has to get a new selection of music. Jock Jams is played…and the PA announcer is the dipshit that does the weather in NY. He sucks and the whole “and THAT is a Rutgers….FIRST DOWN” gets old quick.

Genius computers? All the BS BCS computers had South Florida as number 1. Trash the computers right now!

15:01, 15:02, 15:03.

I just got back to Manhattan from PiscataWayTheChristOverThere. Extricating myself from Rutgers involved the worst clusterf*ck I’ve ever had to endure. It was worth it for a big game. But only just.

Re: Ray Rice. During the game, I thought to myself, “He’s like Mike Hart, but without quite as much ‘magic’”. Ten seconds later, he fumbled with his team up three and four minutes to go in the game. That’s not magical either.

Honestly, I think he was just tired. He didn’t have the moves late in the game that he’d had earlier and between each snap, he had his hands on his knees in the huddle. Nice for Rutgers that they have two extra days to prepare for WVU.

Can we make it official? The only two undefeated teams worth anything are OSU and ASU?

I am so glad the Bulls lost.
I was tired of watching the long time gator fans in central Florida do a nose dive from the lovefest for Urbanmania to the Bandwagon for the Bulls.
As I watched one after another dive mindlessly into shithole that is Tampa, I was screaming “stop it you are embarrassing yourself.” But they would not stop.
They just could not help themselves.
It was as if they were in a trance. Drawn in by the sweet sound of Coach Levitt’s voice.
Which oddly sound just like Macho Man Randy Savage.

If you see one of these guys wondering the streets this morning like a lost dog please help them back to Gainesville or what ever there respective team was before they jumped.

Oklahoma State?

Wake me the fuck up when Ohio State beats ANYONE. The toughest team they will face all year lost to Appalachian State. Enough said.

can we make it official? No way do tOSU and ASU go undefeated… the gods have decreed it from on high

prepare for the ten one-loss pack of dogs to begin snarling over the bone that is the BCS… and in the end a miniature snauzer will snatch it away from the jaws of a Great Dane and we will all stare in disbelief

thus goes this season of turmoil…..

First time I had the opportu…misfortune of watching USF this season, hopefully the last. D coach said fastest defense in the country during player intro’s….I say “my ass”. The Sterger curse strikes again, Lawya.

Seriously, when are the spring tryouts? I have no idea how to kick the ball, but fuck man, how can it be worse? I mean, we may as well just punt whenever Alvarado goes on the field. He’s just that worthless.

The cute thing about USF is you could tell some of the fans of the big dog teams were bristling a bit that this crappy upstart was getting so much attention.

This is kind of related to #4 — I actually don’t think college football fans care for a David vs. Goliath matchup involving USF on the order of Marlins vs. Yankees or something. CFB fans like proper order in all things or else they get crabby.

On first read, I thought you were going to say that Oops Pow Surprise would be a good pseudonym for a Taipei brothel.

What a bunch of Frauds, got 5 turnovers to none against Auburn who pushed both of USF’s lines all over the field and still needed overtime to win. Played WVU without Pat White and the mounties still had a shot at the end. Rutgers turned it over 4 to none? (maybe 3) and the bulls finally run out of luck. Good team that ran out of breaks against thuglife U.

Did you know that t.v. mob boss, Jame Gandolfini went to Rutgers? And cooking network star Mario Batali? And the black guy from King of Queens? Yes, Rutgers has many many celebrity alumi.

Fuck USF. Fuck ‘em right in the ear. The rumors were flying that if USF was undefeated next week (possibly #1) and facing UConn (if they won) that GameDay was making a visit. UConn would be 6-1 you see and it’d be a big deal. But noooooooo, USF had to get on their knees and blow a game to a shitty, shitty Rutgers team. Mike Teel couldn’t have played QB on my college flag football team. What a joke. What an absolute joke.

UConn is BCS bound.

#21That was my first good laugh of the day, 100 cocktails to you good sir.

As for the mongoloid comment: when I was a nipper in the UK in the 70s, it was still common to call people with Down’s Syndrome “Mongols.” Something I remind my wife about when she gets huffy about my slipping up & referring to a postman or a fireman in front of our daughters… could be worse. A lot worse.

But I digress: calling Craig James mongoloid is an insult to both residents of Ulan Bator and the mentally challenged. Have a heart, Orson.

You also have to give Flutie credit for the “Ray Finkle” reference in the 3rd quarter….

Didn’t see the whole game, but looks like USF’s luck finally ran out. I thought the offensive interference was a little weak. Especially when there is holding on every play. Looks like the refs are getting biased towards the home team,like basketball. Why is it that spiking the ball to stop the clock isn’t intentional downing?

Ohio State plays no one, good way to stay undefeated and also a good way to get your ass kicked in the championship game. Just make sure you have them play another team that hasn’t played anyone. Florida exposed them last year.

Um…..can we take the Big East’s BCS invite away now? If this was the best this conference has to offer, I’d rather give their automatic bid to the MAC.

Did Rutgers fans rush the field because they broke their two game national TV losing streak to Maryland and Cincy? Maybe they thought Torre was on the sidelines. Either way, congrats on still being irrelevant.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of “intentional downing,” but if you meant “intentional grounding,” the rules were changed in college a few years ago to specifically allow teams to spike to ball with no penalty.

#27
Because he’s not doing it to avoid a sack.

As an SMU alum, I despise that no good, ungrateful sonofabitch Craig James probably more than most of you, and don’t mind Flutie picking on him, but I really am about to kick Flutie’s ass because mostly he’s not really picking on James, but taking repeated digs at SMU (which James pretty much disowned anyway) and it’s really starting to piss me off. I guess kicking a program when it’s down, way down, is just too much fun.

One fraud down one to go.

That was just a brilliant sequence by Grothe there at the end. Take an absolutely hideous sack (he had ample opportunity to get rid of that ball somewhere) on first down when you’ve got the ball in Rutgers territory and need all of 17 yards or so to put yourself in position for a game-tying FG. Then follow that up by panicking and rushing to the line and spiking the ball with one minute and fifteen seconds left on the game clock, wasting one of the three precious plays you have remaining.

Yeesh. You know Flutie had to restrain himself in the booth from screaming “what in the holy hell are you DOING?”

(That said, the NCAA absolutely has to change the rule that runs the clock after penalties during the waning moments of a game that forced USF to use their final timeout… there’s no way the team that’s ahead should be able to benefit, clock-wise, from committing a penalty like that…)

Peter King…funny. +1 Orson.

Grounding, Downing , it’s still not right.

Speaking of the Rutgers music …

Didja notice? Just before USF’s last offensive play of the game the Rutgers crew played the theme from Rocky?

Hey Rocky! Rocko! Alright ROCKO!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fp67geuhJM

Grounding,downing, it’s the same result. I know it’s a legal play. I was talking about how the rules are screwed up. That’s why you save timeouts. Picky,Picky

While you are at it, take away the Big Televen’s BCS bid too.

After USF lost a nail biter away, Kirk Herbstreit promptly ejaculated in his pants, and attempted to argue with a serious look on his face that they should be in the mid-20s because West Virginia is the better team or something.

I can only hope that eventually his concussion-addled brain craps out and dies.

Actually, they were playing the Rocky music along with a “Chop” montage they were playing on the scoreboard, with shots of Rocky cutting down a tree mixed in. I have to say, one thing I’m proud of the fans for is that they’ve resisted Schiano’s attempts to foist the “Chop” crap off on us. It was a nice motivational mantra last season, Greg, but give it a motherfucking rest. You want everybody to chant “Chop” for you? Go coach Maine. Or Florida State.

And I’m really pissed off that the Maryland loss keeps me from arguing that the Big East is still better than the ACC.

Brain cloud! I don’t know why I though Maine was the Lumberjacks. According to Wikipedia, the choices are Humboldt State, Minot State University-Bottineau, Northern Arizona, or Stephen F. Austin.

Devin,

See! No idea of what was happening on the video screen.

(They put it in a montage!)

I just assumed they were going for that “You’re such a post-modern patriot for besting the Russian in the cold, godless Soviet Union on Christmas day now go out and jump some rope for your family, country and Apollo Creed!”

What you say, though, makes more sense.

Correction, the goatee (specifically the Van Dyke) will go down as the mullet of this decade. Imagine fifteen years from now, your drunk, talking about this decade with some buddies and someone brings up the goatee… “Oh yeah, I used to have one of those.”

By the way Mario Batali not only went to Rutgers, he got kicked out for selling weed.

that is the absolute rudest caption i have every read. you are obviously the most arrogant person in college football.