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CURIOUS INDEX, 11/28/07


Les to worry about for Michigan (abominable puns being his chief gift to college football copy writers) as with Kirk Ferentz out, the job searchlight focuses directly on the beaming white skittle of Les Miles' hat. Miles is still mumming about the question and instead pawning the press off with stories of his daughter, who evidently takes no shit from dad when it comes to losses.

After the shattering defeat, Miles said no less an authority than his youngest daughter, Macy Grace, told him, "Dad, I'm mad at you because you lost." Miles said he tried to reason with the tot, letting her know he "was still the same Dad," and trying to make her understand blood is thicker than scoreboards.

In addition to Miles occasional mismanagement of the clock, this should concern Michigan fans even more. Scoreboards are made of steel, metal, and diodes, all clearly thicker than weak, watery blood!

This leaves the only other serious contenders for the Michigan job--after two interviews with assistants Mike Debord and Ron English--as Brian Kelly and, in the random possible stack...Jeff Tedford? That's just something pulled straight from the crazy idea box, but it's out there. Michigan would have no problem with stadiums built on a faultlines or hippies in the trees, since Ted Nugent is legally allowed to shoot on sight anyone he chooses in the state and have them prepped and ready for the grill in 15 minutes. Tastes like patchouli and lentils, brother!

Rice's band continued the tradition of private school excellence in band snark by staging an entire halftime show around the treachery of Tulsa coach Todd Graham's departure from Baylor for his current job, following a fictional search for Graham through the circles of hell and passing Dennis Franchione along the way. Really, the entire thing validated itself with the unnecessary and superb jab at Franchione; however, it rocketed into new territory with its ending.

You know, that reminds me of a joke: A priest, a nun, and a rabbi walk into a bar. Now, I forgot how the rest of it went, but I think in the end Todd Graham is a douchebag.

Tulsa reacted as we big, burly, super-tough Americans do: they filed a complaint. FUCK YEAH!

Randy Shannon is reinstating the Miami standard by revoking the salaries allegedly cutting six players' scholarships from the team, including that of scatter-armed qb Kirby Freeman. Miami Sports Blog thinks it has something to do with a pulse of gifted Miami Northwestern recruits coming in for early enrollment. We think it has something to do with Miami sucking hard and often for the second half of the season.

This week's to-do list is up at the Sporting News.

TRADITION! Please give Joel the hits he so richly deserves by checking his full explanation of how the Vols managed to wobble their way into the title game, but we'll go ahead and with his permission bite the Youtube he put together of Tennessee's Fiddler on the Roof act to get them there. Phil Fulmer dancing with a mule is involved.

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another Fran stab…

let it go dude… he’s gone.

by cjjags on Nov 28, 2007 10:17 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Sporting News link, please.

by PW on Nov 28, 2007 10:22 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Iron cage… deadly weapons… cheering, bloodthirsty crowd…

Two girls enter… one girl leaves…

Hayley Lafontaine vs. Macy Grace Miles… who survives? And who plays the role of Aunty Entity?

by HFS on Nov 28, 2007 10:24 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Rice was probably more pissy about Graham’s departure from Rice rather than his non-departure from Baylor

by Jerkwheat on Nov 28, 2007 10:25 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Back in 1970-71 or so, the Stanford Band formed male & female sex symbols, with the male chasing the female all over the field while playing “I Can’’t Get No Satisfaction.”

On national TV, no less. Hard to top that (sorry for the pun).

by yoyofutbawl on Nov 28, 2007 10:27 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

The Rice band story didn’t make sense until I realized that Baylor was a typo. I thought maybe Texas schools were just really sensitive to coach infidelity amongst their ranks.

by PW on Nov 28, 2007 10:28 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

“Scoreboards are made of steel, metal, and diodes, all clearly thicker than weak, watery blood!”

I was very confused for approximately 4 minutes because I didn’t think dildos had anything to do with scoreboards.

by Crapass on Nov 28, 2007 10:29 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

God, that film was depressing.

by SunDawg on Nov 28, 2007 10:34 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Let’s see……small, closely knit, very pious community, seemingly stuck in a different era……

it seems that the deep south not so different than a turn of the century eastern european shtetl after all……

by Chips O'Toole on Nov 28, 2007 10:39 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

hfs,

fuck you very much for beating me to the haley lafontaine punch.

on another note, is it a coincidence that around the time miami bans guns at their facility, they start to suck?? i think not.

by gerry dorsey on Nov 28, 2007 10:40 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Brian Kelly is NOT a candidate for any job other than his current position with Cincinnati. I’m in cincy and Kelly cannot issue denials often enough or emphatically enough. One year isn’t enough.

If both of these comments remind you of Dantonio’s situation then you’re probably in Cincinnati also.

Leave Kelly alone!

by OhioDawg on Nov 28, 2007 10:41 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

yo-yo @ #5: Hard to top that, true. But I’ll try.

Back in the ’70s, the Aggie bitch mascot died during the season. The Marching Owl Band played “Where O Where Has My Little Dog Gone” at halftime of the A&M game – IN College Station. A riot ensued.

Todd Graham had to know that the MOB was going to go after him – and it was not going to be nice – after he left for Tulsa, a conference rival. He’s upset by douchebag? The truth often hurts.

by beast in 'bama on Nov 28, 2007 10:43 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Ok, I realize it’s a bit cliche’d and played out by now, by I laughed my fucking ass of at this.

http://www.jasanders.com/images/ironbowlposter2.jpg

by Steve on Nov 28, 2007 10:46 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

pssst…OhioDawg….Brian Kelly reassured us all last year that he was about to sign an extension with Central as well….

by Jerkwheat on Nov 28, 2007 10:46 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

And I just realized I’m the jackass of the decade.

Play on.

by Steve on Nov 28, 2007 10:49 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

I have a dog named Macy Grace (listed on her registration papers that way) that’s a little older than Les’ daughter. I have not yet decided what this all means, but I’m sure it’s not a coincidence.

by Because They Can on Nov 28, 2007 10:49 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

What a testimony to Randy Shannon’s commitment to education. We’d hate to see incompetent players get a college degree. Perhaps their parents will scrape together the tuition for this vastly overpriced institution.

by WWJD on Nov 28, 2007 10:54 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

“Kelly cannot issue denials often enough or emphatically enough”

nick saban thinks you’re being pretty damn naive.

by gerry dorsey on Nov 28, 2007 10:55 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

100 cocktails to the MOB! (Though one suspects they consumed at least that many before taking the field.)

by DevilGrad on Nov 28, 2007 10:59 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

By the way, that racist dog? Being sued by the player’s mom. Fantastic. As always, no idea how to post a link, but you can copy and paste this one:

http://decaturdaily.com/stories/620.html

Also, an Alabama legislator looks like he will be suing AU because he did not receive tickets to the Iron Bowl and the accompanying parking pass. Just nice to know we have our priorities in order.

by Tater Salad on Nov 28, 2007 11:00 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

I also found this ad hilarious- run buy a prominent Alabama jeweler the week of the Iron Bowl. The owner, an outspoken Alabama grad, later admitted “it may have gone a bit farther than we intended.”
http://www.thebarner.com/BrombergsAU.pdf

by Terry Tate, Office Linebacker on Nov 28, 2007 11:10 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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Best I witnessed in person was the old UVA Pep Band (dismantled by that a-hole Algroh) at Clempson. They formed a tank and lit a smoke bomb, while the announcer said, “Warning Clempson Fans, USC has purchased a new septic tank and plans on attacking you with it as soon as they figure out how to drive it”.

That was followed up w/ them spelling “DED” and saying “uh-oh, looks like we don’t have too many English majors in the band this year, but what do Judge Bork’s Supreme Court nomination & Judge Crater have in common?”

by yoyofutbawl on Nov 28, 2007 11:12 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

The Mob made fun of UT’s program when we played Rice back in September? Maybe October. Anyway, there were a few scattered boos, but for the most part, people loved the show?this included the UT fans. We are big enough to take a joke about ourselves. Too bad Tulsa isn’t. And sometimes the truth hurts.

Maybe the references to great literature were lost on Tulsa…do they even read Dante?

by UTEx on Nov 28, 2007 11:12 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Oh! For the days of the good ole SWC!!! The MOB has been reduced to ridiculing the likes of Tulsa. Too easy! Cocktails to the MOB: just go straight to Valhalla and tell em UgasTexan is buying the rounds of 50 cent Shiners for all 25 of you.

@ 19: Didn’t take lawya long to find Mom and convince her that the gubment got some money, eh? And the “legislator,” you think he’s a lawya too?

by UgasTexan on Nov 28, 2007 11:13 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Back in the 1980s when Doug Wilder was governor of Virginia, he took up with the former-burlesque-star ex-wife of one of UVA’s big-time donors. Wilder got into some hot water for letting her fly around in State Police helicopters for various errands, but it didn’t stop him from squiring her to a UVA-VT game one year.

Anyway, at halftime, the UVA “scramble band” told an off-color joke about Wilder’s consort and played “The Stripper,” and Wilder nearly had them booted off of campus. Oddly enough, though, they didn’t get axed for good until their controversial anti-West-Virginia halftime show in the Continental Tire Bowl a few years back.

by Doug on Nov 28, 2007 11:14 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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by NewAZTiger on Nov 28, 2007 11:19 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

1000 Shiners to you, UgasTexan, for the mention of Valhalla (on-campus grad student bar/hangout). You truly have seen all there is to see on the Rice campus.

by beast in 'bama on Nov 28, 2007 11:22 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

On a side note during this monsoon of pink slips amongst the coaching ranks, if I have to hear one more black analyst or reporter jump on camera and bitch because the schools that had just fired their coaches didn’t interview enough black coaches for the empty slot, i just may swirlee myself to death.
I don’t want to come across as racist by any stretch, but why in the hell are you going to bitch about white coaches getting hired over black ones? You don’t hear about the Latino population of America all up in arms because the NCAA needs more Hispanic coaches, do you?
After seeing all that these schools are willing to go through to have a winning season (spending millions of dollars a year, ditching entire teams of athletic directors, ruining their reputations, illegal recruiting, paying players, buying players’ mothers houses, covering up cheating and DUIs, etc), don’t you think for an instant that if there was a more qualified black coach out there that they would get sucked up?
I know that there are very qualified black coaches out there, just as there are many qualified white coaches or blue coaches or whatever, but not everyone gets a job.
And although I typically like Wilbon, that SOB won’t quit begging the ADs to “at least interview the black coaches, even if you know you are hiring a white coach from another school, just to get their name in the mix and make themselves appear to be conforming”. I don’t know about you, but while I see the point, that seems about as demeaning and patronizing as anything I have ever seen. Why don’t you just ask Sylvester Croom to shine yo’ shoes and smile real big for ya’ before the interview for Michigan head coach.

by Terry Tate, Office Linebacker on Nov 28, 2007 11:23 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Nice try, Orson, but Uncle Ted cashed in his Michigan hunting licenses and moved down to Crawford, Texas a few years ago. Most of us were glad to see him go, too… but then again, if he keeps playing with chainsaws, maybe we’ll get lucky.

by PJ from NU in SF on Nov 28, 2007 11:24 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

12….

That dog is very much like dog the bounty hunter

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/dog_bounty_hunter_racial_slur_tape/celebrity/64325

by SpookyJuice on Nov 28, 2007 11:27 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Todd Graham IS a douchebag. What’s the story here?

by Raider Red on Nov 28, 2007 11:28 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Terry Tate-
today’s random “War Eagle” brought to you by “Brombergs can kiss my ass”!

by 6 in a Row on Nov 28, 2007 11:28 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Janice Powers should hire Wayne Blasingame.

by Chips O'Toole on Nov 28, 2007 11:29 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Lafontaine @ Miles (+3.5)

by Dr. William S. McPimpslap, MD on Nov 28, 2007 11:29 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

I didn’t know Phill Fulmer was Jewish

by NDTom on Nov 28, 2007 11:43 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Best part or article about Rep. Alvin Holmes threatening to sue AU pres:

“I think it’s very unprofessional that a president of a state-supported university would not respond to an inquiry made by the senior member of the House of Representatives or any member of the House of Representatives,” said Holmes. “In light of that fact, I plan to put him under oath and let him testify.”

An inquiry about football tickets. And he’s going to waste all that money to bring the guy into a courtroom. To testify under oath about football tickets.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2007/11/legislator_threatens_to_sue_au.html

by Tater Salad on Nov 28, 2007 11:44 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Re: #20

There were two parts to that ad, they aren’t posting the Alabama half, which reads basically as, “So you love an Alabama fan, and even though she constantly goes on and on about corrupt officials, 20 year old national championships, and coaches who are long dead and buried, you still love her” or something like that.

I think it should be on the front page. Show all the other fans the amount of love we have in this state for the people in the trailers.

by Steve on Nov 28, 2007 11:51 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Terry Tate (#20):

And Bromberg’s has been falling all over themselves ever since to try to get those shoppers back, including an “apology” on their website, a planned printed apology, working to fire their ad agency, and talk of setting up a scholarship program.

Stupid is as stupid does. While that’s fine for message board fodder, it’s D-U-M-N for a business to do it.

by HFS on Nov 28, 2007 11:58 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

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Shocking – the journo school grad from Northwestern hates Ted Nugent.

by RIP Logan Young on Nov 28, 2007 12:07 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Know who else doesn’t put up with any of Les’ shit? Yeah, that’s right…Hailey “Fuckin” Lafontaine.

by Aerobab on Nov 28, 2007 12:11 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Nevermind my post in #36.

Apparently it helps to read existing posts like #3 and #9. If ya’ll need me, I’ll be in the “thought I was an original bastard” corner.

by Aerobab on Nov 28, 2007 12:18 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Uncle Ted can stay at my house any time he wants. He can help me clean my guns. I need the help, as it is it takes me all damn day as it is.

by Steve on Nov 28, 2007 12:24 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

No, Mike Sherman is not without ties to Texas A&M, but he left for the NFL and stayed for quite a while. Pete Carroll resurrected USC and won two national titles, but similar hires have resulted in disaster at Nebraska and mediocrity at Pitt and Georgia Tech.

you left out notre dame

by formerlyanonymous on Nov 28, 2007 12:26 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

What is stronger, blood or a scoreboard? Is this the riddle of steel? Lemme go talk to Cromm, I mean, Croom about this.

by MCab on Nov 28, 2007 12:27 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

@ 31, I think we can safely say that no matter the doctrinal or cultural alignment – Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, Hasidim, Sephardic, Ashkenazi, Mizrahic, Murray the Sturgeon King, H & H, Barney Greengrass, whatever – the world Jewish community would look at Phil Fulmer and say with one voice: “Not ours!”

by DC Trojan on Nov 28, 2007 12:27 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

dammit, I meant NDTom @ 36

by DC Trojan on Nov 28, 2007 12:29 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Hey Tater: if the guy is so worried about how young people are treated at Alabama’s colleges and universities, then perhaps he should get on the House Education committee? As far as I can tell, he’s a member with NO committee assignments. Perhaps if he were involved in appropriations of some sort, folks at AU would pay more attention???

Or is this all because he went to Bama?

by UgasTexan on Nov 28, 2007 12:34 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Ugas-

Alabama politics at it’s best, worst, and usual.

I noticed the no committee thing too when I looked the guy up. I have no idea what he went to Bama for, he’s got about 6 different schools listed.

Regardless of where he went to school, I haven’t heard many positive things about the guy, and this current situation is laughable at best, but more sad than anything. And the rest of the nation sits back and thinks, “Yep. That’s about right.”

by Tater Salad on Nov 28, 2007 12:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

@46 I figured as much. The pile of pork chop sandwiches slathered in cheese and wrapped in roast beef he had for lunch confused me just a bit.

by NDTom on Nov 28, 2007 12:55 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

hell- i slept with a woman that looked like Shrek for Iron Bowl tickets. If you want ‘em, just go out and get ’em. You don’t need to be a congressman or councilman or anything like that, just desperate enough.

by 6 in a Row on Nov 28, 2007 12:58 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Was that a cart full of warm, sweet donuts behind Fulmer?

by Touchdown74 on Nov 28, 2007 1:02 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

University of Alabama and its Political cronieism:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine

by Brian on Nov 28, 2007 1:06 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

To the Boss Cane’s credit… all of those player have received their degrees (would be 5th year seniors, or just early graduates)… he just doesn’t want crap player taking up scholis so they can put a free year towards a masters (or getting drunk at Sandbar in Coconut Grove)

by Brody on Nov 28, 2007 1:15 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Just finished listening to Nutt’s press conference at Ole Miss…looks like it’s going to take a while (and some serious brainwashing/waterboarding) to get him out of “Razorback mode” and into “Rebel mode.” He doesn’t even know the whole “Hotty Toddy” cheer.

by the croominator on Nov 28, 2007 1:32 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

That youtube video leaves the door wide open for CU version of Yentl and I expect it to have the same mass appeal as the movie.

by blazin on Nov 28, 2007 1:36 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

I love Rocky Top Talk and that may be the best video I’ve seen all year. Brilliant!
2 thumbs, way up!!!

by jebus on Nov 28, 2007 1:43 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Is the response to that video Les Miles singing Borat?

by Nick on Nov 28, 2007 2:18 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

If LSU were to lose the SECCG and the bowl game (that would be 3 in a row), how much would Macy Grace hate her Daddy then? Would she even be first in line to talk to him after the game? I believe he would/should be fired by LSU and UM would not be hiring him either, unless it was to shovel snow from the parking lot.

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 28, 2007 2:48 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Since Wisconsin accepted the Outback bid, if LSU loses to Tennessee, they’ll probably play against Michigan in the Capital One Bowl, because Illinois goes to the BCS and they don’t get Zooker vs. Florida.

That would be some fine drama. If Miles doesn’t become coach and LSU loses to UM. Florida would ass rape Michigan but a healthy Michigan squad could compete with LSU’s speed. Matchups.

by Jonsi on Nov 28, 2007 5:55 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

RIH Dead Scumbag, nice to hear from you. I’ve missed you like I miss the scours. How’s the home construction business?

I grew up listening to the Great White Hunter and get a kick out of his classics. I agree with him about the Second Amendment, but I find his childish approach to the politics and problems of our native state to be unhelpful at best. (I left Michigan as an economic refugee. He left because his campaign for governor turned into a joke.)

Why can’t you get it through your head that I didn’t go to Medill? Most NU grads don’t, but I wouldn’t expect a graduate of Wallace State to know that. Hell, I’m impressed when you spell “school” without a k.

In short: Ted’s music is good, his attitude sucks, I didn’t study journalism at Northwestern, and I think you’re a bad joke.

by PJ from NU in SF on Nov 28, 2007 6:26 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

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