CURIOUS INDEX, 1/17/08

Wasn’t the 13 week playbook used to launch this blog?

The Wannstache weeps at his loss…

Does this mean Petrino’s fucked for the bowl game if the Hawgs ever play in the SEC championship game?

Whats the over/under on Petrino bolting after week 5?
Most Alabama take on Major Applewhites departure to Texas? MEH.

Thats Alabama fans. Damn De-Caff

so, what you’re really saying is Texas hired Chris Simms as running backs coach

The SEC just keeps getting scarier and scarier. Where is the week off in conference now? I am totally not being an apologist but where is the incentive to play a strong out-of-conference opponent? Especially when you lose to La-Monroe.
I am completely Alabama – and that was just a preemptive strike

Well, if the SEC plays a useless out of conference schedule, they can continue believing all the hype about how great they are well into the next decade.

Been there, done that.

AB, is it hype if proven to be true?

If I were Mallett, I’d worry that Petrino and his pro-style offense will be gone in 2009-2010, when Mallett is eligible to play again. Kid’s taking a huge gamble.

is there a buckeye fan trying to downgrade the sec at #8?? that’s just poor form and sour milk my good man.

Well, if the SEC plays a useless out of conference schedule, they can continue believing all the hype about how great they are well into the next decade.

Been there, done that.

Comment by Arkansas Buckeye

SEC: 9-1 in last 10 BCS games
4-0 in BCS national championship games
7-2 in bowl games this year — most wins ever for a conference
9-0 vs. Ohio State in bowl games

Greg Stock then went on to a career in directing jets on aircraft carriers.

http://www.espionageinfo.com/images/eeis_01_img0024.jpg

The weak OOC junk in regards to the SEC is mostly BS. Auburn has played USC on a home and home, as has Arkansas. Florida has FSU every year. Georgia has played 2 BCS teams four out of the last six years, with a Boise State team that was supposed to be good in one of the others. LSU has scheduled Va. Tech and Arizona State in recent years. Etc. Some of the teams played have been in funks, but you don’t really know how good or bad a BCS team is going to be in three or four years when you schedule them.

Methinks Arkansas Buckeye is faint from the loss of blood due to rectal bleeding caused by the ass-raping his team received from LSU. Hence the nonsensical statements.

DevilGrad,

Past performance indicates that my Hogs are fucked for their bowl game no matter who is the head coach.

Pellican: I agree with your “meh” assesment. Will Saban hire OL and QB coaches and let Pendry just go ahead and assume the OC title now? As an AU fan, I would love to have seen Applesauce stick around.

I think Rhodes is a solid hire. AU has top 1 to 3 talent in the SEC on the D and I would guess Pitt isn’t in the top half of the Big East, which is an offense hevy conference anyway. I think AU’s D is gonna be fine.

#8
I think the great philosopher Muhammed….Ali said
“It aint braggin if you can back it up…”
Translation: It aint hype if its true……. and the truth is the Suckeyes are a great opponent to have in a MNC game vs your garden variety SEC Champion….point spread goes to an automatic 2 TD cushion by default….
SEC Champion actually has some meat on the bone in the title, where as Big 10 Champ doesnt really mean anything anymore, at least outside of Ohio….
Here is some hype for you: Ohio State is plays a tough schedule and is the best college football program in the nation thats had some bad breaks and bad refereeing, they really didnt get beat by the other team they beat themselves…..and Troy Smith really deserved the Heisman……and its always a great sign for Ohio State to score first in the MNC……..Dont Stop Believing Buckeye fans, maybe one day you wont have to face Georgia,LSU,Florida or maybe even Auburn next year in a championship game…..Hope you enjoy getting waxed in the Rose Bowl the next 3 yrs

Y’all are being way too hard on Arkansas Buckeye. Surely, the SEC champion ought to get a better non-conference opponent in its bowl game than it has the past two years.

Go easy on OSU – they did win state this year.

Private First Class Applewhite has just pissed off Boom Muschamp. Think about it. Muschamp got to pad his stats this year playing against an offense with Applewhite on the staff so he leaves for Texas while his stock is high. Next thing he knows Applewhite is following him to Texas and now he’s coaching at a school with another stagnant offense that can’t score points.

Man I was going to pile on AB but I just feel sorry for him now.

paging arkansas buckeye…mr. buckeye you are wanted at the front desk.

#17
I was hearing rumblings of Applewhite leaving when his name was showing up on different searches for coaches after the season,actually I was suprised when I heard his name mentioned intially as the OC at the beginning of the season cause he really hadnt been around 5 plus years like most OC…..he was instrumental of getting Star Jackson, so dont know if that means anything different for us at qb….Most think he was way over his head and was taking most of the hits for JPW lack of progression, plus fading that heat and having to come up with an offense with 3 starters off the O-line due to suspensions with the run essentially shut down and DJ Hall being double covered, the offense pretty much itself down…..much like Shula, the game that showed a major crack in the armor was Miss St and some questionable off the wall plays..(one in particular that went the other way and changed the game, and momentum for the season), especially in the red zone, pissed Saban off to where he had to do some damage control….Maybe Pendry, maybe Brohm from Louisville, this time I think Saban will get it right since there seems to be more experienced coaches available…

You may have to wait a while @ 23. He’s a little slow. He’ll arrive a little bit after Mike Slive and the rest of the SEC.

nice, back in the day when Paterno was only “old” instead of “really fucking old”…ya, those were the days, the good “old” days.

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I’m certainly no SEC homer, (The ACC will rise again!), but an Buckeye whining about OOC schedules is rich:

I mean, you really do take chances with the powerhouses of Kent St., Akron and Youngstown St.

Don’t you all see it? “Arkansas Buckeye” is Orson Swindle!

Anyone posting with a Big Televen team name, especially tOSU, in his moniker who rips the SEC around here is like when Billy Ray Valentine and Winthorpe started a pork belly selling frenzy in Trading Places.

Except now, he’s cashing in on page views ;)

Orson, you screwed the headline.

It isn’t “Paul Rhoads is the next defensive coordinator at Auburn”, it’s “Paul Rhoads is named as Will Muschamp’s eventual replacement at Texas”.

For those who give a shit, tOSU schedule for 2008 begins with the much anticipated rematch with YSU. Followed by the Frank Solich led Bobcats of Ohio U. Week 3 brings U$C in Watts. Come back to Columbus and imitate the SEC with a Troy team that gave UGA fits last season. Then it gets easier with Big Ten play.
Minnesota
@ Wisconsin
Purdue
@Mich St
PSU
Bye
@Northwestern
@Illinois
Michigan

Those of us who care know that the season rests on the results of our game vs.U$C on September 13. If we lose that one, we can’t get to another title game this year. We already know that we need to be unbeaten, but with only a few losses to the NFL this year, it is possible. The SEC is definitly the stronger conference now, but tOSU is noy going away.

Louis and Billy Ray were trading frozen concentrated orange juice, not pork bellies. Remember, they got the crop report ahead of time? top 3 eddie murphy movie ever.

That’s right, thanks…it’s been a long time since I watched that movie. Billy Ray and one of the Dukes talked about trading pork bellies near the beginning of the movie. It was FCOJ at the end.

“Mortimer, we’re back!”

Another great Eddie movie.

Wow a coherent and logical post by a luckeye. Congrats. Maybe when tosu comes out from hiding in wayne’s car he can post his first one also.

Looks like tOSU will have a 3 game schedule…..
Troy is a pretty good team, should play a good game, dont know if they will push tOSU enough…

USCw should be a good game, Michigan, ILLinois should be decent games, I think tOSU goes 2-1 thru that with USC winning by 10…..curious to see how Michigan shapes up

Rhoads was the Pitt DC under Walt Harris. Those were the teams that used to lose Don Coryell style, put up 35+ points, but still get outscored. The defense only improved because of (I know, this is hard to believe…) Dave Wanstache. He knows defense. It’s offense, special teams, and managing an entire roster that gives him brain cramps.

I wasn’t high on Applewhite, but what does Pendry have to show for his career other than a lot of frequent flyer miles?