CURIOUS INDEX, 10/22/07
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Ohio State and Boston College are one and two, respectively, in the BCS standings. That's fun. Have a seat at this table: MAO! Ohio State has their first surrrrious challenge this week versus Penn State, and BC plays Virginia Tech this week at a huge matchup in Blacksburg. Exit light: Chan Gailey's allegedly gone for what seems like the third year in a row, according to Dennis Dodd. Zombie coaches abound, but no one's had the rage longer without getting it from a flamethrower-wielding-soldier than Gailey. Believe it when the head rolls. Arizona State's proof comes soon and in furious fashion: The undefeated Sun Devils face Cal, Oregon, USC, and Arizona in succession. Their most dramatic improvement: a 14th ranked defense backing up the established, oh-let's-just-go-silly-and-score-points Pac-10 offense. And hey! They've got Jack Elway and his enormous teeth on the way. What can go wrong, besides the inevitable departure of the ADD-stricken Erickson in a year or two? Drew Weatherford slides back into the starting spot for FSU following Xavier Lee showing up lobotomized to the Miami game and committed four turnovers. For sale signs for coaching legends: they happen. Meet the partners in our consumer whoring! Our partner in the ESPN Guide to Psycho Fan Behavior, Warren St. John, will be signing the Guide tonight at Davis-Kidd Bookstore in Nashville at 6 p.m. We know Ma Swindle will be there, so stop by and meet the family. Oh: PURCHASE PURCHASE PURCHASE!!! Or be considered a running dog of subversive, splittist elements, comrade.
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The Little Blue Book instead of the Little Red Book? Not sure what Mao would think.
by BurritoBrosShits on Oct 22, 2007 4:03 PM EDT reply actions
I wonder if Bowden, forgetting he already lived there, made an offer on the house.
by PW on Oct 22, 2007 4:06 PM EDT reply actions
ASU has UCLA in between Oregon and USC:
http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/sched/asu-m-footbl-sched.html
by Domer Guy on Oct 22, 2007 4:10 PM EDT reply actions
Warren St. John will be signing and talking about the book at 6PM at the Davis Kidd in Green Hills here in Nashville, for anybody interested. I’ll be there sporting a hideous sunburn from this weekend’s Bama-UT game.
by doubtingthomas on Oct 22, 2007 4:21 PM EDT reply actions
It’s Jonathan Tu himself on that poster, holding the stick he uses to keep the REALLY drunk ladies off his jock!
by Lovecrafty on Oct 22, 2007 4:34 PM EDT reply actions
Gailey has still got a shot if he can do one thing…beat Georgia!
So, yeah, he’s probably gone.
To that end, The Jackets Admins are stupid if they don’t just up and promote Jon Tenuta, and then pair him with some Gary Crowton-style offensive lunatic.
by Gentleman Masher on Oct 22, 2007 4:36 PM EDT reply actions
Damn you Orson…damn you for making me relive the beginning to that chilly, terrible October night in Lane Stadium.
by Clemson327 on Oct 22, 2007 4:46 PM EDT reply actions
Nice move using communist literature to peddle your wares, presumably for profit. As always, EDSBS is a cultural mash-up of extreme excellence!
by JB on Oct 22, 2007 4:58 PM EDT reply actions
Tenuta needs to be the head-coach, but remind me to key Dodd’s car next chance I get for potentially damaging our recruiting mid-season.
by Techie on Oct 22, 2007 5:19 PM EDT reply actions
Ex Savior Lee-ves? Say it ain’t so Pappa Bowden!
by NativeSon on Oct 22, 2007 5:54 PM EDT reply actions
Gailey called the firing report “asinine”, which is probably the strongest language he’s used any time in the past decade or two.
The AD also said it was silly.
Word around the Flats, though, is that 7-5 without a victory over UGA will mean the end. It’s looking less likely now that Tashard Choice is going to have knee surgery tomorrow.
by asim on Oct 22, 2007 5:57 PM EDT reply actions
This is the largest media outlet that has mentioned Arizona State since the first BCS standings were released over a week ago. Huzzah to you.
by big jon on Oct 22, 2007 6:09 PM EDT reply actions
Thank God and/or Orson, I thought I was the only one on the planet that realized OSU and BC haven’t played anybody yet. The way it looks right now, winning the Big 10 should amount to nothing on the National picture.
by SaltyGator on Oct 22, 2007 8:27 PM EDT reply actions
Did anyone else think Tiger Woods had become the poster child of Far Eastern communism?
by Two and Out on Oct 22, 2007 9:46 PM EDT reply actions
Just a side note on the game Thursday night, I believe VT has only beaten 1 AP top ten team ever, Miami in 2003. I think that is the only time they have ever beaten a top 10 team.
#14
Good thing everyone didn’t just write off the SEC champion in 95 after Nebraska dropped 60+ on you guys…didn’t you guys win the NC in 96? Could history be getting ready to repeat itself? Could an Ohio State team who was destroyed in the NCG last year redeem itself the very next year like Florida did?
Of course you guys could at least show a little humility being that we gift-wrapped the NC for you guys in 1996 by upsetting ASU in the Rose Bowl. They beat us and they are the undefeated National Champs that year. You’re welcome motherfucker.
by The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes on Oct 22, 2007 9:48 PM EDT reply actions
Nice thought on the For Sale sign in Bowden’s yard, but what the little prankster didn’t think about is that the house will be sitting for a long time in this market.
by The Big Dog on Oct 22, 2007 10:01 PM EDT reply actions
Gentleman Masher -
We already tried Crowton as OC. We went 1-10 that year (’94).
In any case, if Tenuta were the HC, I suspect he’d want a neanderthal-three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust offense. We need to win the time of possesion battle consistently in order for that defense to be really effective.
by Bryan on Oct 22, 2007 10:14 PM EDT reply actions
So Penn State is our first serious opponent? What happened to Washington, Purdue, and Michigan State being our first serious opponents? You jackasses say this crap every week.
That way, the reasoning must go, if we end up losing a game you SEC chumps can rag on us for “not being able to beat a serious team” while you’re off losing to each other like some kind of masochistic orgy and claiming that LSU is the greatest team in any sport, all time.
by Jeff on Oct 22, 2007 10:35 PM EDT reply actions
To Artist formerly known as Buckeyes – you are completely wrong on that stat but don’t let facts get in the way.
- Clemson Last Year
- Texas in 95
- WVU in 89
for starters
by Florida Hokie on Oct 22, 2007 11:13 PM EDT reply actions
- 19,
Washington was a serious opponent? The same Washington that’s 0-4 in the PAC-10?
Purdue was a serious opponent? The same Purdue team that not only hasn’t beaten a ranked team in recent memory, but hasn’t beaten a team that finished the season with a winning record (though that may end this year, as Eastern Illinois is 5-3 at this point.)
And Michigan State? You almost lost to them because of Michigan State’s defense. NO ONE loses to Michigan State because of their defense. Even Notre Dame scored 2 offensive touchdowns on them. Come on…
Conference RPI www.realtimerpi.com
1. SEC
2. BIG East
3. BiG 12
4. ACC
5. BIg 10
When your conference stops losing to FCS teams (which is three now if you include Duke), then maybe, just maybe you can then start criticizing the ACC.
by BobDCousy on Oct 22, 2007 11:35 PM EDT reply actions
Artist – It is late but off the top of my head I can think of these top 10 AP teams VT has beaten.
2006 Clemson Miami
2004 – WVU
2004 – Miami
2003
1995 – Texas
There may be more….but Im tired and dont wanna look. And yeah..they have lost quite a few of them, as well.
by mikebeach on Oct 23, 2007 1:40 AM EDT reply actions
Enter Sandman and fireworks – it doesn’t get much more bush league than that.
by RIP Logan Young on Oct 23, 2007 8:35 AM EDT reply actions
They should seriously consider kicking the Big 10 (+1 + Notre Dame) out of D-1A. If the SEC ever had a year as bad as the Big 10 is having this year, I would quietly turn in my fan badge and never speak of this thing called “college football” again. Really, I can’t decide what’s more appalling: the play on the field, or the Big 10 fan’s lack of shame.
by RIP Logan Young on Oct 23, 2007 8:39 AM EDT reply actions
- is there some script that you all read from? Where can I get a copy of this? Who distributes it?
by justanotherbuckeye on Oct 23, 2007 9:01 AM EDT reply actions
The Big Ten has never won the BigTen-ACC Challenge.
Wrong sport, but just throwing that out there to fuel the fire.
by Techie on Oct 23, 2007 10:32 AM EDT reply actions
The SEC is so good that they don’t even have to have a winning record against the Big Ten in head to head play in the last 10 years to be better. Jesus cries tears when SEC teams play, because it is so beautiful. They are so good that they transcend all logic and reason.
Stop the bullshit: the SEC is better than the Big Ten this year. That’s it. OSU has a weak nonconference schedule this year, so what? It doesn’t mean they aren’t a respectable team. Are they better than LSU? I kind of doubt it. They may not be better than Florida, either. But get off your high horse, this is ridiculous. Every time they’ve played someone from a BCS conference, everyone has said “this is the team that will beat them”, but they didn’t. OSU has won all of it’s games in convincing fashion, what more can they do? They DO schedule quality opponents (as evinced by the fact that they play USC, Miami, and Texas for home/home series), but for whatever reason, this year they have a piss poor schedule. Deal with it.
Does anyone gripe about the fact that LSU plays essentially every difficult game at home this year? No. Schedules are made in years advance, it’s not like there’s some grand conspiracy to cruise to a MNC.
by Beardguy on Oct 23, 2007 12:14 PM EDT reply actions
Hey Orson, there’s a new Barnes and Noble opening in Tuscaloosa just in time for you and Warren to come over and sign copies the weekend of the Bama/LSU game…
… I’m just sayin’
by PeterPumpkinhead on Oct 23, 2007 1:09 PM EDT reply actions

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