Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 1/15/08

By: The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes

The Artist Formerly Known as tOSUBuckeyes — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:25:57 +0000

You’ve got to love the Trev logic:

“I can’t stand putting Ohio State at #7 because they keep getting blown out in bowl games.”

But he’ll put Oklahoma at #4 who has lost 4 straight BCS bowls, including a 55-19 blow out loss to USC.

Trev, you might want to wait until all of the Juniors declare for the draft you dumb ass, Clemson lost both of their RB’s if I’m not mistaken….regardless, since when is Clemson a top ten team? When was the last time they won the ACC or made it to the ACC CG?

Keep up the good work Trev…

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:45:30 +0000

Trev Alberts will climb thru the TV and beat that smirk off your face young man! He played LB in the same conference as the greatest human ever-Brian Bosworth!! Now The Boz sports the “Trev” haircut!
He put Charlie Ward on the mat 3 times brother!!!
He caused the clot!
Nah, not really. I think Boz whoops Trev like a muppet.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:43:26 +0000

Clemson at #10? Obviously he’s right in that it’s just bullshit to fill a gap. Well, dead air would have been a better fit.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:41:34 +0000

@28. Meh. Allow me to list things everything I know about Nebraska and Oklahoma combined

1. Barry Switzer coached one, Tom Osborne the other
2. Corn
3. I think Bruce Springsteen wrote an album about one. Or the other.

@27.
It’s tough to get a read on the Big Ten next year. Michigan may indeed be installing a brand-spankin’ new offense, but they’re returning most of the guys who actually did well this year: Brandon Graham, Don Warren, etc. They could end up 6-6, they could end up 10-2 with that defense. Penn State will live and die with the Daryl Clark Experiment. Wisky should be better, but nothing tells me Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana will be much more than mediocre.

But a win at USC would be huge. It’d be hard to keep an undefeated Buckeye squad out of the MNC with that win on their resume.

By: lion4$190

lion4$190 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:58:34 +0000

Morrelli s eligibility is up. Im thinking PSU is gonna play that Darryl Clark Character who was so good in the game.

As for The Trev, all haters can leave!! Wheres the kid to comment on this awesomeness?

By: Biggus Rickus

Biggus Rickus — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:09:37 +0000

Scalz1,

I don’t think they will either. Just as I don’t think Auburn should be 5, but neither are outlandishly stupid rankings. Just kinda unlikely. Besides, everyone else is putting Florida in the top 5. I don’t see much difference between that and putting them second. I’d put them around 11 until I see some improvement from their defense, which is yet another reason rankings shouldn’t come out until about four games into the season.

By: Albino Tornado

Albino Tornado — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:48:40 +0000

poguemahone: You shut your porky mouth about where Trev Alberts played, mister. If there’s one school he didn’t play for, it was Oklahoma. If you don’t know — know fo sho — where any CFB analyst played or coached, well, I’m not sure how relevant your opinion of that analyst’s qualifications could possibly be.

Per his wikipedia entry:

Collegiate
Alberts played collegiately for the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, with whom, subsequent to his senior season in 1993, he won the Dick Butkus Award as the top linebacker in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association; Alberts also earned consensus All-America honors in 1993 after having 15 quarterback sacks, 21 tackles for loss, and 38 quarterback hurries. Despite an injury early in the eleventh game of the season against the Oklahoma Sooners, Alberts returned with a cast on his arm for the national championship game against Florida State in the Orange Bowl. Although the Seminoles won 18-16, Alberts had a dominant performance with three sacks of Heisman Trophy winner Charlie Ward (FSU quarterbacks were sacked only five times during the 1993 regular season).

By: Will (the other one)

Will (the other one) — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:14:04 +0000

poguemahone, yes your MNC performances were bad, but who’s really a threat to OSU in the Big 10 next season?
Michigan breaks in a brand new, totally different offense.
Illinois will try and keep Juice from being splattered without Mendenhall racking up tons of yards.
Penn St will either throw Morrelli back out there, or worse, the guy who couldn’t beat out Morrelli.
Now it could be the year Ferentz earns his paycheck at Iowa, but there’s not a whole lot of competition for the Buckeyes between that matchup with USC and the bowl game

By: Scalz1

Scalz1 — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:03:07 +0000

Biggus -
You can rationalize it anyway you want, but UF will not end the season at # 2. And, There is no way in any logical realm UF should start the year at #2, even with Moody.

By: poguemahone

poguemahone — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 19:01:47 +0000

Coming from Trev, every pick made sense – SEC, USC uber alles. But Oklahoma? WTF? Did he play at Okie?

Though as acrid as Trev always is toward tOSU (hates us since we proved him so deliciously wrong in the ‘02 MNC), I think he has the Buckeyes a tad over-rated. We return basically everybody, sure… from two teams that got blown out in the MNC. I just don’t find anything particularly inspiring about that. I’ve got us about where we were this past preseason.

By: Ltrain

Ltrain — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 18:44:25 +0000

There it is, Trev Style!

By: Pirate_mate

Pirate_mate — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:34:05 +0000

Anyone else think that Rich Rod’s Strength and Conditioning records might have had evidence of enhancers/steriods? Otherwise the only motive is bitterness at your old employer.

Not saying, just asking.

By: Mr Pelican Pants

Mr Pelican Pants — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:05:07 +0000

As a Bama fan,would I welcome a change at OC? You betcha…..and a change a Qb and RB and Right Tackle…..do I really need to keep going? How bout an offensive coordinator that wont try to run a pro style offense when he doesnt have pro style QB? How about when we are near the goal line, running the ball and not trying to do a “nekkid bootleg” and throw an INT that goes the other way for 108 yrds? A sane person doesnt call that play with Tom Brady at QB, much less JPW and a rag tag O-line……… Wonder why 3rd down conversion rates sucked? On nearly every 3 and less-than-5 yrds, we are throwing the ball…….either in the dirt or out of bounds, or over the press box, usually when the receiver is wide open…..
If I had JPW coming back, and Nick Saban kinda likes the kid, I’d be hauling ass too…..unless you send JPW to a QB Concentration camp, where all the bad habits are zapped outta his brain via Clockwork Orange style teaching techniques, I might hang around, but I am sure gonna always rethink my options…….QB’s make or break O- Coordinators………..and next year is a 50/50 chance of getting burned again…….

By: T-Bird

T-Bird — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:00:56 +0000

3 things,
1. Texas already got an injection of “BOOM MOTHERFUCKA”, why do they need applesauce injections?
2. I thought whoever won the Peach Bowl would sneak into the preseason top ten because both teams returned a ton of young players. But to have both in the top ten and one in the top five is crazy.
3. I also really miss Trev Alberts. I used to hate him, i even have a T-shirt that says “Screw You Trev Alberts” but he was much better than what we have now.

By: dogterd

dogterd — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:39:19 +0000

Trev IS a poon-tang.