Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 10/23/07

By: pam

pam — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:05:02 +0000

Hahaha, Tennessee.

Also Auburn.

By: WarMachine

WarMachine — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:35:53 +0000

This seems like Auburn football news:

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/sec/2007-06-06-auburn-recruit-grades_N.html

Sociology:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/sports/ncaafootball/14auburn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

The textbook thing is a non issue. The NCAA requires restitution and may suspend the violaters depending on the dollar amounts involved. Alabama won’t get put on probation or lose any schollies over some dumbasses at the student book store.

Ball State got nailed because they had a problem that was generally known throughout the athletic department and did nothing about. Their athletes got cash vouchers for books.

By: James

James — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:37:38 +0000

Y’all are missing the best Rammer Jammer ever…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Zz6spDV9zIs

By: JPG

JPG — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 23:07:36 +0000

What is so bad about being psychotic over college football? It is the greatest sport created. It gives us all cheers, tears, ups, downs, gallons of brown tasty beverage, and boundless joy. The mere existence of this blog proves we are all crazy for the college game. If you still don’t believe it, join us in Tuscaloosa in 2 weeks. The Tide and the Cajuns are going to throw a party and put on a show that will be forgotten only by those with whiskey poisoning. The goals are to have fun, get drunk, raise hell, and live a little. If you don’t like those things, then fuck you bleeding pussies. SEC football rocks and I love it.

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

By: cocknfire

cocknfire — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:47:55 +0000

I'm sorry, I don't feel sorry for Louisville. UConn also got screwed on a special-teams call that (a) cost them a chance at a TD and (b) led to a Louisville scoring drive. And I say this as a disinterested fan that stood in awe at the overall bizarreness of the game. It evened out, in some weird way.

By: stapler

stapler — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:30:36 +0000

“Have y’all gotten a commitment from a top 15 in-state prospect yet?”

the sad part is it’s impossible to tell if that is sarcastic or serious

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:16:36 +0000

Keep hoping, HFS — it’s the only thing that’ll keep Saban from continuing to give AU a severe case of recruiting redass all over the state.

Have y’all gotten a commitment from a top 15 in-state prospect yet?

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:14:58 +0000

UT’s got them beat, damn it.

By: HFS

HFS — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:14:57 +0000

Good job, RIP. Once again, you have to go WAY in the past to make a point about Auburn’s problems (all of the other football probations aside from Ramsey predate new wave music). Yet the last 15 years have been a real roller coaster ride for bama. Sure hope none of those pesky textbook issues came before February 1st or so…

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:14:14 +0000

And in case anyone was wondering, I checked, and yes — Junior Rosegreen did, indeed, *graduate* from (almost unaccredited) Auburn University.

And he made a two — that’s right: one + one = two (or in Junior’s case, “one + one = Martin Luther King! I can count these rocks, biatch!”) — on the Wonderlic.

Proud graduate of Auburn University, the Stanford of the South.

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:09:20 +0000

Does Brad Lester even know where the campus bookstore is? Does he need to?

Can he spell “bookstore”? Can Junior Rosegreen (if it was on the Wonderlic — he of the 2 — two — one, two — I know he can’t)?

By: PW

PW — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:09:17 +0000

No dog in this fight, but:

One more guys, and you can finally lead the NCAA in something. It’ll be awesome.

How about consecutive wins over Bama?

NOW THAT I”VE SHAKEN YOU, FIGHT, YOU JAR OF ANTS!!!!!

By: NewAZTiger

NewAZTiger — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:04:15 +0000

So, how about all those players that were suspended for receiving illegal textbooks…

Or the Hoover grade changing scandal…

Or the Illegal recruiting contact in Miami…

By: RIP Logan Young

RIP Logan Young — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:58:57 +0000

From ESPN:

Auburn
Year: 1993

Violations: Boosters, an assistant coach and staffers were cited for allegedly giving cash, merchandise and loans to defensive back Eric Ramsey, who had secretly tape-recorded conversations with members of the Auburn program during the Pat Dye era. School cited for lack of institutional control.

Major penalties: 2-year bowl ban, 1-year TV ban.

Notable: Conviction was Tigers’ sixth time on probation, one shy of NCAA record. But program avoided “death penalty,” as well as any significant scholarship cuts.”

One more guys, and you can finally lead the NCAA in something. It’ll be awesome.

By: HFS

HFS — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:46:15 +0000

Bama’s cooperation with the NCAA was the only thing that kept them from the death penalty.

I can assure you that lying and stonewalling the4 NCAA would not have been helped bama’s cause.

Yep.

Of course, I was referring to the Langham case, not the Albert Means case. They’ve had so many problems over there that I can imagine it’s hard to keep them all straight.