CURIOUS INDEX, 4/9/08
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We are now all Mustangs. From the Wiz: If this video does not make you root for SMU this year, you are beyond hope. As seen in the previous video clippins’, you…well, you must love them. It’s a moral imperative. Kyle was on EDSBS Live last night, and had so many notes he compiled them into a post on why Georgia will win the MNC this year. He’s right on one thing: striking a team off the list based on schedule alone is rank foolishness, especially when some of the surefire roadblocks on the schedule will likely curdle into disastrous pushovers before the end of the season. The gut pick for this year in the rolling disaster department in the SEC, at least in our minds, would be Auburn, who’s immensely talented but installing new defenses and offenses, and that usually equals some early stumbles. Plus Tommy Tuberville looks entirely too comfortable for his own good over there: it ain’t Auburn football without the knife at the coach’s throat every five years or so. Oh, and Georgia’s o-line looks suspect and Matt Stafford completes around half of his passes as a college qb. Hell, the Sex Cannon himself did better than that. All of that may not matter, though: Knowshon Moreno exists in five dimensions, and is capable of disappearing into two of them at will. (He keeps the other one for storage. Handy, it is.) The Big Ten network plans a springapalooza of its own, highlighting the conference’s spring practices. The show is booked for three hours, but should come in more around the nine hour mark on the stopwatch. Penn State boots Buy Mark Mangino’s house. Avoiding all jokes at his expense, we will just point out one detail from the virtual tour of the Kansas coach’s house: like the Velvet Thunder should, he has the champizzle chillin’ at the ready 24/7. Image removed due to complaint. Yes, from you know who. Balla! |
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1
Who is Kahlil Bell and what in tarnation does he have to do with Chris Bell getting the boot from Happy Valley?
Comment by mhentz — April 9, 2008 @ 8:47 am
2
Finally! DMac has started a blog. Bring that wood, yardbarkers!
http://yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/5_in_the_Yard/226696
Comment by Rowdie Gaines — April 9, 2008 @ 8:50 am
3
Is that Champagne “Asti Spumoni”, “Dom Deluise Perignon” or “Cold Duck a la Orange”?
Comment by GamecockTony — April 9, 2008 @ 8:55 am
4
It said SMU Mustangs, but damn if it didn’t remind me of the queerness in College Station.
Comment by Out of Conference — April 9, 2008 @ 8:58 am
5
What the hell sign me up. Cal’s prospects look dubious and a resurrection of SMU would be nice. The Pony Express year of ‘82 was he first season of College Football that I remember with some clarity(featuring a pre-season preview on ABC with Pitt picked to win the MNC and Marino tabbed for the Trophy Which Shall Not be Named). One got the impression that SMU was somehow entranched as a CFB power. Hmm.
On the negative side, SMU is the Alma Matter of The Bitch Goddess of La Casa Blanka (i.e. Harriet Ellan Miers - moniker courtesy of the much lamented A3G), and so one might consider restraining one’s enthusiasm.
BTW, great show last night Orson.
Comment by marcillac — April 9, 2008 @ 9:01 am
6
You missed the second Kahlil: “Emo kids of the world! Kahlil Bell wants to cut you.”
Comment by Dave — April 9, 2008 @ 9:01 am
7
I love that they want you to plan your spring game enjoyment around a bone thuggs concert.
How many SMU students can relate to “First of the Month?” Strange.
Comment by now_a_hoo — April 9, 2008 @ 9:03 am
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Does the treadmill in the basement come with the house?
Can I assume that it’s lightly used?
Comment by John Cocktosin — April 9, 2008 @ 9:04 am
9
Is that the infamous jumpsuit in the master bedroom?
Comment by Rock — April 9, 2008 @ 9:07 am
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Gamecock Tony @ #3…that would be “Cold Duck a l’Orange”…two vowels will not join, thus the apostrophe…sorry, I know that is some weak shit, but I’m still workin’ the first cuppa coffee…
Comment by sb — April 9, 2008 @ 9:13 am
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“ooooooohhhhh…you shot me in my pinky toe…NOW I GOTTA CUT YA!!”
Comment by gerry dorsey — April 9, 2008 @ 9:14 am
12
At first I couldn’t believe Jones was turning in Hawaii for Dallas, TX, but after seeing what he really dealt with out there… it didn’t seem like such a bad decision. Not that I have any love for the ponies, but you really want them to come back, just so you know they can.
Comment by ThreenOut — April 9, 2008 @ 9:18 am
13
#33 has mad finger-pointing skillz. Helpful for pointing out that offensive tackle who jumped early. It’s not just dancing. It’s training.
Comment by Xaryn — April 9, 2008 @ 9:19 am
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Mr. Cocktosin,
Is anything in Mangino’s possesion lightly used? Seriously, the old lady probably bought it hoping he could get to work and shed a few hundred lbs (they do say that if you lose enough weight you get some more length back to your johnson, lets say he has potential). He probably too three strides before saying “fuck this” and polishing off a bucket of KFC. But, what did those three strides do in terms of wear and tear on that mill? Check out the fine print in the warranty, I assume it has a Mangino clause, whereby any more than one or two steps by a Mangino voids the warranty and makes the mill susceptable to sudden collapse.
Buyer beware, indeed.
Comment by skinnyphatman — April 9, 2008 @ 9:23 am
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@SB - Believe it or not, I was a journalism major so I appreciate the grammatical correction.
I was, obviously, not a culinary nor French minor.
Did you at least enjoy the joke, man?
Comment by GamecockTony — April 9, 2008 @ 9:29 am
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That’s Mangino’s kitchen? I envisioned stainless steel, with a mini-Krispy Creme conveyor, sides of beef/pork hanging from the rafters, industrial sausage grinders and vats of simmering lard.
Comment by hunglikehussain — April 9, 2008 @ 9:38 am
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A regular size commode? I was expecting something that resembled a horse trough.
And yes, I am a commode connoisseur.
Comment by intellidouche — April 9, 2008 @ 9:40 am
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I would wager that casa Mangino has the strongest load bearing walls in all of Kansas. It could be tornado proof, a big deal in Lawrence.
Comment by Crabapple Buck — April 9, 2008 @ 9:43 am
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Is the Dude selling Mangino’s house related to the curennt Kansas QB?
Comment by lance harbor — April 9, 2008 @ 9:43 am
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Hung,
I was dissapointed that they cleaned up the kitchen as well. Must have been watching the designed to sell shows on HGTV.
Also, I had always assumed that a rift had occured in the time space continuum thereby the basis of Upton Sincliar’s writing was actually the food prepartion for feeding the Mangino, and only him.
Comment by skinnyphatman — April 9, 2008 @ 9:57 am
21
That’s not champagne, it’s chocolate syrup.
Comment by gosouthgohard — April 9, 2008 @ 10:02 am
22
Gimme that Mossberg swerve! Dayum, I had no idea Bone Thugs were even still around, or that they play morning concerts at a Methodist university.
Comment by Brian O'Blivion — April 9, 2008 @ 10:05 am
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Hmm… well, for the sake of SMU fans I do hope they are a bit more coordinated in the game then they were on the dance floor. If not then maybe they can go make a movie to build up that team unity, or have Chris Bell come visit and threaten to cut the “me” people from the team.
Comment by SC_Gator — April 9, 2008 @ 10:12 am
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Tony @ #14…I did like the joke and well done…like I said I was throwin’ weak shit, just pickin’.
I, too, was a journ. major, although I ‘minored’ in French majors…surprisingly enough, at both Florida and Georgia (and one from Kansas via the Sorbonne of all places…still trying to figure that one out)…don’t know why, I just attracted them (maybe my cu…linary skills?)…and apparently some of that french just stuck…in places that didn’t leave a visible mark. Interesting aside…they all were petite, well-structured, with brunette short hair, and all had wonderful accents, even when speaking french…weird. Variations on a theme…oh, and two are now lawyers…go figure…
Comment by sb — April 9, 2008 @ 10:13 am
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Comments regarding Casa Mangino, aside from wondering which wall he’s allowed to run through saying, “OH YEEEEAAAHHH!”:
* Unless that was taken during the fall, Coach needs to water the plants.
* What? No diving board?!?
* No wonder he works eighty hour weeks. He’s not allowed a man cave in that house.
* That realtor is getting really excited. “Come over here and check this out, Doris! The Mangino house is getting thirty hits an hour…we need to double the asking price!”
Comment by Raider Red — April 9, 2008 @ 10:16 am
26
I’d imagine every one of the doorways is wide enough to accommodate two mid-size sedans.
Comment by PW — April 9, 2008 @ 10:26 am
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#20
True fact department: Upton Sinclair was a communist, married a psychic, believed in telepathy, wrote in a backyard tree house and…….not so unbelievably…….ran for governor of California.
Comment by hunglikehussain — April 9, 2008 @ 10:44 am
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Wow, that’s the new Pony Express? Half of them are wearing away jerseys and half home jerseys so they don’t even know if they’re coming or going. I guess that’s what you get when you hire a head coach with a woman’s first name. The only hope I hold onto is that those guys learned the YMCA song at one of the many Metroplex-area Showbiz Pizzas in the area when they were kids. If they’re dancing as a salute to Billy Bob and his wonderful Rock-a-Fire animatronic friends, I’m ok with that.
Comment by Dante — April 9, 2008 @ 10:45 am
29
anybody else having trouble with last night’s podcast?
Comment by purpleheart — April 9, 2008 @ 11:31 am
30
I think I saw something like 7, maybe 8 televisions in that Mangino tour. Am I being a little too middle-aged for thinking that’s over the top?
Comment by DC Trojan — April 9, 2008 @ 11:49 am
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@ 29
Yes. Nothing but dead air.
Comment by sonofsamford — April 9, 2008 @ 11:55 am
32
I was wondering when that SMU clip would show up here. I almost sent it to Orson weeks ago, but as an SMU fan (yes, Virginia, they do exist), I really didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
On the bright side, I was pretty impressed with the MC Hammer move, but I have no idea what Thomas Morestead (potential Ray Guy candidate — you gotta have a good punter when you’re SMU) was doing looking through his legs. Is this some new fangled thing the kids are doing these days, or just evidence that our punter really is a white stiff with no rhythm (as it should be for punters, probably).
Comment by Diamond M — April 9, 2008 @ 1:07 pm
33
…nice to see that Coach Mangino is a fan of Newcastle Brown Ale. Looks like a beer drinker, doesn’t he?
The wicker chairs in the basement threw me for a loop, though. Is there rebar re-enforcement?
Comment by Will — April 9, 2008 @ 1:16 pm
34
# 21, your are winnar
Comment by tempebamafan — April 9, 2008 @ 1:47 pm
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@29, yeah, I got nothing. Pity. I was looking forward to that one. Did NowLive archive it anywhere else?
Comment by Tommy — April 9, 2008 @ 2:49 pm
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SMU Mustangs are HOT HOT HOT!!!
Seriously those guys look like high school kids…June has his work cut out for him.
Certainly not this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4US7L6ypRk4
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q1nAWYNHx0
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipAu0hwk0CU
Comment by TheDeuce — April 9, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
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Did anybody notice the tent sized velour jacket hanging over the men’s valet stand (aka coat rack ) in the master bedroom! Awesome!
Also check out the living room and guess which chair the Manginos?
Comment by TheDeuce — April 9, 2008 @ 3:17 pm
38
The last time Auburn installed a new offense, they immediately fielded the best SEC team of this decade. I’m not saying they’ll be world beaters, but it’s hard to imagine they will be less productive on offense than they were last year.
Comment by Brent Johnson — April 10, 2008 @ 8:45 pm