CURIOUS INDEX, 2/13/08

“And lawsuits are not at all threatening?”

Omar: “I robs drug dealers. Same as you. I got a shotgun, you got a briefcase.”

[insert Joe Pa zombie/ already dead joke here]

Reminds me of my favorite quote from Farscape…

I’m sure your world has no force so ruthless, so disciplined."
“Oh, we call them linebackers, or serial killers, depends on if they’re professional or amateur”

more bunda/ mustaches/ Ric Flair, please.

Living in Texas, my response to Paterno’s ego is — New Jersey isn’t really all that big. Hell, we could make a game of matching coaching egos to states/provinces:
Weis – Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin combined
Rodriguez – Michigan, Ontario, and Quebec
Spurrier – France
and so on.

LSU plays dem gators, auburn and jawga 3 in a row.

over/under on the amount of times les miles goes for it on 4th down over those 3 games: 7

over/under on how many of those games that Ryan Perriloux totally shits the bed: 2

Me thinks Reggie and his goons don’t be too smart.

I think it’s fairly obvious that JoePa will not retire until he takes back the career win lead. That’s unfortunate for Penn St. fans. Fortunately for Florida fans Bobby Bowden will not retire until JoePa does.

Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, while a good work with an awesome cadenza in the first movement, has nothing on the insanity of Balakirev’s Islamey. From Neuheisel I expect nothing less than the hallucinations and auditory disturbances that Robert Schumann showed in his later years after having contracted syphilis from some chick named Christel and then being cured with arsenic. Nineteenth century medical practices: let us cure Beethoven with lead and Schumann with arsenic.

1. That’s if RP isn’t kicked off the team by then.

The helmet schedule coolness is already out of date since LSU moved back the juggernaut that is North Texas to an open date and installed App. State as the opener.

Defending National Champions of the two top divisions opening the season in Baton Rouge on August 30? That is HOT HOT HOT, son.

Florida plays The Citadel? Weak, very very weak.

It looks like our SEC opponents, with the exception of Mississippi State have stopped scheduling their off weeks before us.

Of course we and auburn are both taking a week off before each other, but this is a far cry from the last couple of years.

It makes me think that this schedule was agreed upon back when AD’s of rival schools were still planning for Shula.

Too bad for JoPa…Blobby doesn’t have to retire…he’s already dead and they’ve been carting around a cadaver for two years…You didn’t really think they’d give a living coach his own stained glass window, did you?

The Reggie Bush saga keeps getting better…all it needs now is a Vick-esque animal/bestiality episode and we’ll be in the clouds.

Anon IV…As soon as I read the Neuheisel piece I knew you would provide both analysis and clarification. Thanks.

perhaps it took me seeing it in helmet form to appreciate it, but I’m really not looking forward to having @Texas, Alabama, Florida, @Auburn all in a row next year.

personally. the two old geezers need to pull into a tie. drop their next games schedule each other and the loser retires.

sounds fair and just by all definitions of the words.

I agree with Anonymous IV. Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto is a fine piece, but I think it’s overrated and I doubt anyone outside of die-hard classical music fans would be aware of it, were it not for the movie “Shine” a few years ago. IMHO, Rachmaninoff’s SECOND Piano Concerto is far superior, his best and one of the greatest pieces of music ever written.

I first heard it played by Alexei Sultanov, winner of the 1989 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (held every four years, like the Olympics) and the 1995 Frederick Chopin International Piano Competition (held every five years). After hearing his performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second on PBS, I was hooked. I found out when he was coming to our state on tour and drove a couple of hours to see him live in an intimate venue at a small college (a Division III football powerhouse, actually, perennially one of the top five or ten in the nation).

In doing a Google search on Alexei just now, I was shocked and saddened to see that he passed away, tragically, in 2005 at the age of 35:
Alexei Sultanov
If you ever get a chance to see a video of one of his performances, please take advantage of it.

Anyway, if you want a lighter reference to Rachmaninoff’s Second, it’s the music the guy in “The Seven Year Itch” uses to try to seduce Marilyn Monroe. One of my favorite movies of all time.

-Joe

I don’t know why the comments won’t accept basic HTML. Here’s the URL I tried to link above:
http://alexeisultanov.free.fr/aboutalexei.htm

Re: The Helmet Schedule—Just another testament to “SEC speed,” I guess. I suppose the Big Ten version will arrive in a couple of months? ;)

“since he turned out to be a nice guy” - everyone’s “a nice guy” when you meet them. These arguments hold no weight for me.

Joe-

Huh?

rahrahrahfootbaw!!!!

I saw Van Cliburn eat breakfast in Darlington, S.C. once.

O., how did Hayes react when introduced to the guy that called him a dick on his very influential and widely read blog? Just askin’…

“we haven’t heard that kind of fire out of a Pac-10 recruit since Loren Wade”

Wow. Just, like, wow.

Something is obviously wrong with the helmet schedule, as Tennessee doesn’t have off the week before the Alabama game

There was a Big East helmet schedule floating around this past season.

You want mustaches, here is a small mustache and a little football too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oADv2ZWozSg

Is there an ACC version of the helmet schedule?

2 bye weeks for everyone…what oversigning, not travelling, and all the other built-in advantages that draw every NFL coaching failure to the SEC wasn’t enough…now everyone gets 2 bye weeks a year.

Are we really getting more bang for our buck with the 12 game schedule and the conference championship games?

I think not.

Big Ten Joe,

Agree wholheartedly on the Rachmaninoff Second. Compelled to conceed that the choice of composer was not inappripriate in light of Slick Rick’s new locale and Rach’s Cali soujourn in during his last years in the U.S. His own perfomance of the all 3 with the Philadelphia quite takes the prize, incidentally.

“Of course we and auburn are both taking a week off before each other, but this is a far cry from the last couple of years.”

The only year where Auburn had the week off before the Iron Bowl and Alabama didn’t was 2007 (at least in the past 10 or so years). Auburn actually wanted to keep the Iron Bowl the weekend before Thanksgiving (where they would continue to play UGA the week before), but the SEC stepped in and put a stop to that last year, so no team could have the week before the CG off.

@ #13:

Only a Bama fan would look at the coincidence of the various off-week scheduling and assume that fear of playing Tha Tyde had anything to do with it.

That’s why I love/hate this state.

Big Ten Joe, my university’s music library has two recordings of Alexi Sultanov. Both of them are from the 8th van Cliburn competition. For what it is worth I think Rachmaninoff’s orchestral and choral works are his true gems.

From what I have read so far I don’t think Reggie was at the deposition. So I don’t think it was “Reggie’s bodyguard”

For what it’s worth, I sat next to Hayes in the pressbox at the LSU/Virginia Tech game. He was extremely friendly to me – couldn’t have been any nicer, really. That was not the case for some of the other writers I encountered (not going to name them, but you can kind of tell which ones were not as cool based on their writing).

On the helmet schedule, the Auburn line has a different date for the Iron Bowl than the Alabama line. At least one of them must be wrong.

“We just care more” doesn’t mean jack if you’re rankly incompetent. When I need surgery again, I won’t go to a compassionate aromatherapist, I’ll go to a competent and not-especially-caring surgeon.

marcilliac, have you checked out the window in time Rachmaninoff recordings? I played them for an ex-girlfriend who happened to be a pianist and who was familiar with the Rachmaninoff/Philadelphia recordings. She was amazed at the clarity.

In fact, bama_buck, the last time Auburn had the week off before the Iron Bowl was 1992, but the game was played on Thanksgiving Day, and Bama had a week off beofre, too.

If you pull any crazy shit with us, you flash your piece on the lane, I take it off you and I stick it up your ass and pull the fuckin’ trigger till it goes click.

Does it make me a nerd if I thought the Football helmet thing was related to a joke about the Periodic Table and which teams resembled which elements?

For those of you who have been engaging in the piano playing thread, you might want to visit the Van Cliburn Foundation’s webpage: http://www.cliburn.org/ For a fee it has links to over 700 performances by the competitors, which you can stream to your computer.

Went to the last competition and it was interesting, though I’m ignorant enough about music that I really had no idea what was good and what was not.

#40, it does not make you nerd. But remember that Cal would be on two spots for Californium and Berkelium.

UGA plays 6 head coaches with national championship rings next year (7 if you count the ‘Opelika Times People’s Championship’).

Next year’s going to be a hell of a gauntlet for the Dawgs.

Hopefully the NCAA sanctions FSU to the tune of forfeiting its wins last year when about 1/2 of the team was ineligible players. I think that would put JoePa up about 5 games on old man winter in Tally. Bowden would never catch his ass then.

If I ever start getting overly excited about UGA’s ‘08 season, all I have to do is glance at that schedule. That’s just plain wrong.

did I catch another Arrested Development reference in there?

“#40, it does not make you nerd. But remember that Cal would be on two spots for Californium and Berkelium.”

What about Gold and Bear- yllium?

::covers ears to slience sea of boos::

Here’s an actual helmet schedule. I believe it is as up-to-date as possible. The SEC changed the rules about bye weeks before the SECCG, but that didn’t stop Auburn from scheduling a cupcake.

http://crimsonaudio.net/media/2008_SEC_Helmet_Schedule_updated.pdf

imisscollege, what BCS team DIDN’T schedule a cupcake this year?

I think I read your comment incorrectly, my bad.

Anonymous IV,

I believe mid to late 30s and yes the sound quality is quite excellent. Mono, to be sure, but still.

Can’t really comment on the periodic tables. I wanted to take a science class when I was at Cal and although the pre reqs for this particular class were absurdly low (think Trindon Holliday), they were yet sufficient to keep me for the administration deny me access. Indeed, having learned of my interest they put up a particularly wide security permiter to keep me as far away as possible.

What a shock! Just two teams in the mighty SEC do not play D-1AA teams.

Didn’t Van Cliburn kick the winning FG over Auburn for Bama sometime in the 80’s? Now he’s supporting the arts; good on him.

ITs a good thing Julio Jones wasnt in the car with the dude that got shot. Julio would have caught all the bullets with his bare hands since he doesnt miss anything. Cant wait to see the Auburn game, the players Alabama didnt want that Auburn got vs the players Auburn “didnt need” that Alabama kept in state, all 7 of em. SEC champs has dibs on the MNC game vs tOSU.

Slight problem on the SEC game chart . . . LSU’s TBA has been Assigned, and they are playing Appalachian State. The same one that visited some massive stadium up north and beat some team in a game some people remember vaguely.

" In fact, we haven’t heard that kind of fire out of a Pac-10 recruit since Loren Wade, or perhaps O.J. Simpson."

Jerramy Stevens watching UW’s freshman women’s volleyball team practice?

Beautiful, oh beautiful off week prior to Tennessee ’tween the Hedges. Payback is a bitch, bitches.

And…

Beautiful, oh beautiful dearth of off-weeks before smelly opponents play Georgia.

THWAYMF