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STOOPS: ARIZONA STATE IS A JC

Snappity snap snap! Who knew the acrimony could get thick in the Pac-10. Then again: this is Arizona, who by demographics could be in the SEC if not for the pesky facts of geography and a lack of kudzu-feeding water. They're almost as backwards and gun-littered as anywhere in the SEC, and we mean that totally as a compliment of the most insulting manner possible. Typing this from Georgia baby! This computer runs on magic, and we didn't come from no monkey. Mah Cobb County science textbook sez it raight thurr.

Plus, Arizona v. Arizona State is quietly one of the nastier rivalries in the Western half of the United States, and Mike Stoops helps nothing with this quote from the AP today:

"Each school has to recruit to that school and what type of academic requirements there are," Stoops said. "Obviously, Arizona State has turned into a J.C. and we are a four-year college. According to all the players, they say it is easier to go to school there, easier to get in. I thought we had the same requirements. It is news to me."

Mike Stoops (who loses football games, according to Peter) is clearly pouring fuel on the fire because he was beaten out for nearly every major recruit in Arizona by Erickson and ASU, and also because he' s just that kind of coach. We don't mind that at all, though be a bit more witty about it next time. (See: Spurrier.) Erickson, presumably after asking "Who?" in response to being asked about the question, answered thusly:

"He can say what he wants," Erickson said. "We're all the same. There is no difference.

Erickson would know, having coached at 114 of the 119 D-1 football schools in one capacity or another. Plus, the statement's grossly inaccurate: no one finishes ASU in four years, let alone a junior college two year span.


Junior college takes two years, Mike. ASU takes, um...wait, we have to leave?

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With all of the beautiful women that attend ASU, you went ahead and put up a picture of four douche bags? WTF, Swindle?

by RaginCajunRebel on Feb 7, 2008 4:32 PM EST reply actions  

Ha, Arizona talking up its academic rep?

Dude, everyone in the Pac-10 knows that Arizona is every high school student in California’s safety school.

by CAJason80 on Feb 7, 2008 4:37 PM EST reply actions  

CAJason80 @ 2 – I thought that was UC Santa Cruz?

by DC Trojan on Feb 7, 2008 4:39 PM EST reply actions  

In the time it took you to type that, Mike Stoops lost another football game.

by Peter Bean on Feb 7, 2008 4:55 PM EST reply actions  

Try UC Riverside, bitches! Kevin Hart could’ve faked a scholie in that program…

/Berkeley grad

by Slims on Feb 7, 2008 4:57 PM EST reply actions  

Pot & Kettle Dept:

Arizona’s Stoops calling Arizona State a Junior College is like "Bama fans calling Auburn fans a bunch of redneck, unsophisticated hicks that live in trailers and have bad teeth. And then Auburn fans return the favor with comparable insults. You end up agreeing with both, actually.

by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Feb 7, 2008 5:09 PM EST reply actions  

Looks like heaven’s easier to get into than Arizona State…

/Ned Flanders

by ClydeB on Feb 7, 2008 5:14 PM EST reply actions  

True ClydeB, but the retention rates are not exactly sky-high. ASU just wants your money.

In other news, Stoops can go suck a dick while he loses his next football season. Then he can watch the Rose Bowl on TV, just like every other U of A coach in history*.

  • The University of Arizona is the only team in the Pac-10 that has never been to the Rose Bowl

by Erik on Feb 7, 2008 5:23 PM EST reply actions  

Dennis Erickson doesn’t have time for this academic ****.

by ThreenOut on Feb 7, 2008 5:41 PM EST reply actions  

dude, this blog is even funnier in the off season, GOSH!

by rocco on Feb 7, 2008 5:41 PM EST reply actions  

The shy one, the dreamer, the singer, and the philosopher.

by hoopinion on Feb 7, 2008 5:48 PM EST reply actions  

Do I smell vinegar?

by Biggus Rickus on Feb 7, 2008 5:50 PM EST reply actions  

Amazing academic rhetoric coming from a program that has led the BCS conferences two years running in APR score. By led, I mean finished dead last, had scholarships revoked, etc.

It could be sour grapes after losing three early commits to Erickson includng Gerrell Robinson and Jarrell Barbour, the two top skill position players in the state. (Obligatory ALL YOUR RECRUITS ARE BELONG TO US comment.)

Erik- every team in the Big Televen has been to Pasadena, too. Even Penn State, who’s only been in the conference what, three or four years now? Hell, even Duke has been twice.

by Big Jon on Feb 7, 2008 6:07 PM EST reply actions  

hoopinion for the win…

by Mr. Wrong on Feb 7, 2008 6:16 PM EST reply actions  

Am I the only one that think their hand signal is the shocker and they know good and well what they’re doing when they flash that baby?

by ThreenOut on Feb 7, 2008 6:20 PM EST reply actions  

PLO! PLO! PLO!

by Dave on Feb 7, 2008 6:21 PM EST reply actions  

Georgia goes to ASU on September 20th. I predict hilarious results when Jimbo from Vidalia runs into drunken hair gel afficianados of the variety pictured above. Is that kid wearing eye make-up?

by Raleigh Urbain on Feb 7, 2008 7:24 PM EST reply actions  

“came from monkeys” Great comment. What funny is that anyone who has had to study physics and chemisty know that both sides are backward idiots and neither truely understand science. One side, stupid people believe dogma. Other side, people who study biology are too dumb to understand chemistry, people who study chemisty and too dumb to understand chemical engineering. Both sides are ignorant fools.

by Meatybob on Feb 7, 2008 8:29 PM EST reply actions  

Yes, I misspelled those words on purpose. You are probably not smart enough to understand why.

Billy C.

by Meatybob on Feb 7, 2008 8:30 PM EST reply actions  

Well Clyde beat me to the Simpsons quote, so I’ll just say this: “I didn’t come from a monkey” should be an inside joke to anyone who’s ever taken a biology class because it’s as absurd as saying “My cousin is not my grandfather.”

by wilbur on Feb 7, 2008 9:56 PM EST reply actions  

14, it’s a pitchfork. The separation between index and middle finger is essential for that reason. We’ve been doing it for decades, well before this “shocker” silliness.

by Erik on Feb 7, 2008 11:41 PM EST reply actions  

Arizona State has hotter women, their hand signal is the shocker, and they are much closer to Vegas.

U of A has Lute {well, sort of now}, biggest pimp in college hoops by a mile.

ASU wins.

by Kanu on Feb 7, 2008 11:43 PM EST reply actions  

Big Jon has already said everything much more eloquently than I could (how bout turning that into a blog post, big guy?!? :Þ), but the telling point is that even the kool aid swilling media in tuscum has failed to try and back Stoooopid up on this one, cause they know there is absolutely no factual basis for his out of control, inane remarks. I love the smell of desperation in the morning!

And on a sidenote…Kanu, are you following your Bulldogs down here to Tempe on 9/20? It’ll be well worth the trip, Mill Ave will be hopping like crazy…

by Beatuofa on Feb 8, 2008 12:25 AM EST reply actions  

Beatuofa-

Hell yes, I’m locked and loaded. Been in my plans since it was announced in 2004, and I booked my hotel room last week.

Our first road game outside the South since we went to the Big House and won in 1965- I wouldn’t be at all surprised if 10,000 UGA folks make the trip.

And looking at the sched, it should be the national game on ABC at 8 p.m. EST- even better.

by Kanu on Feb 8, 2008 3:03 AM EST reply actions  

Dave, you can go straight to hell. Fun laden sports/academic smack is one thing, and what you referenced is quite another.

by Raider Red on Feb 8, 2008 7:09 AM EST reply actions  

Southerners are vilified for leaving Christmas lights on their houses all year long. However, these gents take it to a new level by stringing lights on the inside of the residence! WhaWha What!?!? They are crazy man! They’ve been up so long it appears they no longer work! I have to admit Devils, you do pregame harder than I party.

by Bama93 on Feb 8, 2008 8:08 AM EST reply actions  

Arizona State just feels like Florida State West to me. It feels like a Jen Sterger Look-Alike contest. Similar kinds of kids at each.

by Brian on Feb 8, 2008 9:05 AM EST reply actions  

Did Dennis land Nathan Arizona too? If so,he will be in his Salad Days.

by yoyofutbawl on Feb 8, 2008 9:06 AM EST reply actions  

I love it that Erickson lets his new age side fly…he is such an old soul…his “we’re all the same” comment would warm the cockles of my lesbian buddhist psychic. And besides, his wisdom in freeballin’ means when those swimmers are needed to field your own team, they’re gonna be ready.

by sb on Feb 8, 2008 9:28 AM EST reply actions  

Raider Red, I only meant to reference how nasty the Arizona/ASU rivalry has been in the past. I certainly do not condone the chant but I do approve of Steve Kerr whooping on ASU ass from here to eternity.

by Dave on Feb 8, 2008 1:37 PM EST reply actions  

Stoops should have commented on pink shirts. That would have been funny. I’m sure a dear reader can come up with a wonderfully hilarious Stoops v. Carpenter UFC smackdown type story.

As to the “shocker”: it’s also the University of Houston hand gesture as well. Something about Shasta getting a paw stuck in a airplane door on the way to a game in Austin.

Who has dibs? ASU or UH?

by UgasTexan on Feb 8, 2008 2:23 PM EST reply actions  

28, I assume you mean Nathan Jr. Nathan Arizona Sr. is obviously far past his football prime.

31, Wichita State are actually “The Schockers.” Therefore, I think they get dibs on any and all claims to this lewd, yet hilarious gesture.

by twogreattastes on Feb 8, 2008 4:18 PM EST reply actions  

“Y’all gonna send him to Arizona State, ain’t ya?”

[/Frances McDormand in the Bestest Movie Ever]

by Papa Lou BSU on Feb 8, 2008 4:19 PM EST reply actions  

By the way, it’s good to see that the dude from Dashboard Confessional is a Sun Devil fan…

by Papa Lou BSU on Feb 8, 2008 6:30 PM EST reply actions  

Arizona State and then sammie wanted to go to the pro bowl but it was a bit further and jay whitlow totally agrees with the comment above about the state of affairs in the ib 10 but whitlow will agree with anything.

by eric y on Feb 9, 2008 9:05 PM EST reply actions  

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