CURIOUS INDEX, 12/19/07

I’m not a 100% against Fran to SMU. The guy can coach…. just not at A&M apparently.

He’s shown he can win at a school like TCU….

but I dunno whatever.

Holy shit, LSUFreak is the best thing going in the college football blogosphere today. What would you call him? A photoshop artist? A visual stylist?

yeah… i wish i had time at my day job to do crap like that.

Franchione will love SMU. Their grads can afford a paid newsletter and anything else he wants to charge for.

Franchione was also awarded Texas Monthly’s annual honor, The Bum Steer Award. For those of you that don’t know about Texas Monthly (one of the finest magazines out there today) or their award…well, lets just say that you have to do something dumber than dumb to get the award.

I’ve come to chew gum and coach Michigan, and I’m all out of gum.

What I was Tressel what I would tell my players:

“Pack your bags and bring them to the locker room before the game (Apprentice-style). Men, you win this game you get a week of paid vacation in the Big Easy with no curfew. If we lose, our asses are walking straight to a plane headed back to Ohio. O-H-I-O. You decide.”

What’s the big deal? It’s not like gambling yourself into debt could cause you to purposely affect the outcome of a game in exchange for unbroken knees.

Nice job LSUFreak.

Is that Rowdy Roddy Piper… the actor? Methinks he would be much more comfortable to have Saban and DRod in Pipers Pit!

Orson, is an “excalamation” point, a form of punctuation that spreads loud calumnies?

scalz @ 5 stole basic idea for my joke. by far the best line of that really awsome (?) movie.

It doesn’t matter what tOSU does or doesn’t do in New Orleans — they’re playing LSU, for shit’s sake. Most of those guys could down an entire bottle of Jack Daniels, take a couple bong hits, get stabbed in the neck in a bar fight, nail an entire hotel floor’s worth of hookers, get up, drink another fifth of Daniels for breakfast, and immediately take the field ready to kick some ass. With or without helmets, uniforms, cups, any of that pussy shit.

Could I steal something that wasn’t there yet ? Really ?

What’s up with jumbo shrimp ? Kinda pregnant ?

Wait, what ?

LSUFreek’s mind works in scary, yet hilarious, ways.

Hmm…SMU…we could hire a young, exciting, coach who might completely transform this program.

OR

We could hire a guy who’s only stayed at one program long enough to show how bad of a recruiter and talent developer he is…and it was the job he just got fired from.

Less banquets – but of course!

They Live was ok, but Piper was truly robbed by the Oscar folks for his work in Hell Comes To Frogtown.

Funny story, I remember reading articles about Brady Quin and the Notre Lamers talking about “no respect” and “people say we don’t belong here” before playing LSU last year. Funny the media doesn’t bring up that parallel.

Is there really that much difference between a 50 day layoff and a 36 day layoff?

At some point, maybe around day 20 for the squad in LSU’s situation, the difference should be negligible.

I mean, I doubt USC destroyed Oklahoma in ’04 because they had an equal number of days off before the Orange Bowl that season.

Had USC ended their regular season prior to Turkey Day, or the weekend of Turkey Day like every other school in the nation, the ass kicking would have been as severe, in my opinion.

I don’t know why there is such a long layoff.

#12…I think Ryan Perrilloux has proven your theory correct at least tenfold this season.

#18, because having if they didn’t have a layoff like that, it would show that a Playoff would in fact be feasible with the kids playing through the end of the semester, thus tearing apart the fabric of society and bringing about the four horsemen of the NCAA

Scalz: + 1million

1. - The best argument for bowl games, before the conference championship games were instituted, was that most college teams’ regular seasons were over the weekend prior to Thanksgiving, with a few the weekend after, meaning the majority of players had 2 weeks of dead time before preparing for exams.

The players could focus on the bowl games after exams, assuming they were on the semester system, and some semblance of academic integrity was salvaged.

Of course now, with the championship games players are playing right into exams, anyway, so that argument is shot for the MAC, SEC, ACC, and Big 12.

Ironically, the only trophies given out in football by the NCAA are handed out during the heart of exam team.

Also, the NCAA soccer Final Fours are during the middle of exams for most kids, too, so you could make the argument that the bowls are more interested in players’ academic standing than the NCAA is.

I guess if you’re a serial killer, you can be a Big Ten official, but compulsive gambling, sexual assault, being a deadbeat, sexual harassment, general douchebaggery….that’s all fair game.

Nobody captures the drama of an alien invasion quite like Rowdy Roddy Piper.

The second best quote “Mamma don’t like tattle-tales”.

I’m a little more partial to:
“Brother, life’s a bitch …. and she’s back in heat”

22, my bag of sour skittles i’m currently eating has more concern for the players’ academic standing than the NCAA does.

They Live was on some Encore channel last night…what a fuckin’ great movie. Though every time I see the fight scene, I want to see the South Park Cripple Fight homage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Wait…was that Tom Osbourne wearing WV garb before morphing into Saban?
I dont blame RR for leaving…ever been to Morgantown? Straight up factory trash minus the factories…as for women…average talent is a 3.5…if you have ever wondered about what a ticket line for a Bubba Sparxxxx concert looked like….Missing teeth? Try missing chromosomes…everyone listens to Deathmetal with wallets on chains wearing hooded sweatshirts..typical WWE crowd….if Kid Rock + Courtney Love+ Lil Kim had a kid that was retarded and was a Cleveland Browns fan x 5000..you got it..makes walking thru Somolia passing out Pat Buchanan fliers feel like safety…Cant blame ya RR…Jesco White aint mad atcha…

29 – I spent a night in Morgantown as a college freshmen on a road trip to visit other Sigma Chi houses. We stopped at Pitt, Penn State and one other place. WFVU was by far the scariest. A bunch of crazy fuckin’ hicks who drank way too much and just liked to fight each other because they were meatheads. And the girls were unattractive but willing to do absolutely anything. I’ll let your mind wander on the last bit…

Edsall: Sounds like a typical Sigma Chi experience to me.

oc phil – depends. The Pitt Sigma Chi’s were a bunch of odd, club-hopping ravers. And usually, the girls that ended up at a party were pretty hot. The Sigma Chi at the Univ. of Arizona was what I envision the Playboy Mansion being like. The girls at WFVU were brutal.

32 – No, he just means that most EX chapters are full of meatheads. In the North, that probably plays better.

In the South, show me a school where the EX chapter is better than the KA, SAE, EN, ATO, KE, etc chapters.

And, North Carolina does not count, given that their best fraternities are basically Yankee houses, Phi Delt, Phi Gam, Beta, etc. with the exception to the rule being DKE.

#33
I hear the Tri-Lam’s are interesting lot…
So, how high does the eagle fly?

Coop @ 33: Yeah that was my joke, but I didn’t really mean it. A big chunk of the rugby team when I was at USC came from the EX house.

I learned a long time ago that you cant generalize about houses from campus to campus. And people who worry too much about that stuff need to get a life anyway. I never needed to pay money to either make friends or meet women so I never joined any of them.

Kate @ 28: Thanks for the clip. That’s a good movie, though it kind of runs out of gas towards the end.

Techie @18: The funny thing about the long layoff for Big 10 teams is that’s the way it has been for many many years. Everybody used to do it that way but more and more games have been creeping into December and they are now the outlier. So the answer is “because they have not changed”.

“That’s like pouring perfume on a pig.”