The title to the article is slightly incorrect. It should be “Coug’d it” not “Cougar’d it.” This is a common phrase in the Pacific Northwest that originally referred to the Coug’s tendency to go 7-0 only to lose all their games in November. Or Coug’s being up by 17 to USC only to lose the game. The phrase has transcended sports and has moved into the daily lexicon.

Blow a job interview “I Coug’d it.” Fail to close the deal with a girl, “Coug’d it.” Didn’t get the expected sale, “Really Coug’d that one.” Failed the class final, you got it now.

Having had the fortune of living in Jackson Miss. for 5 years, and 4 years in Chicago, it make sense that firing a starter pistol draws more legal wrath from the authorities than 2 individuals shooting a real gun.

“You just gotta go out there and take it one game at a time”

“Elliot(whatever his last name was) spitting glass at ya ass”

STARKVILLE – Two former Mississippi State football players won’t serve jail time for their roles in a March 27 gunfire incident on the school’s campus.

Quinton Wesley, a former MSU defensive tackle, was sentenced to three years probation today by Oktibbeha County Circuit Judge Lee Howard. Michael Brown, a former offensive tackle, was sentenced to two years probation.

**Both pleaded guilty last week to possession of a firearm on educational property. ** The two were dismissed from school and the MSU team immediately following the incident.

Wesley’s sentence was stiffer than Brown’s because Wesley had a prior misdemeanor conviction for simple assault in 2006, Howard said.

Wesley was fined $2,000 plus court costs and Brown was fined $1,200 plus court costs. Both former players will have to undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing and avoid further trouble during their probation terms, which are suspended prison sentences.

The two learned their sentences in front of a handful of family members in an Oktibbeha County circuit courtroom. Attorneys for both men said their clients wouldn’t comment.

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/SPORTS030102/80506026

Miss State hasn’t been awarded their full allotment of points, and could be headed for a higher point total given the severity of the charges. We can only assess what is charged, not what will be charged.

And how that happens are the powers that be dinging the Illini player in questions with three felonies and two misdemeanors

We do owe Sylvester Croom for precipitating his firing. And so do you: as bad as [NAME REDACTED] can be in a game situaion, he’s no Ron Turner.

If not for the genirosity of Hart, they would still be scoring.

But I digress.

How does one player firing a starter pistol get twice as many points as a program with 2 players shooting a real gun? That whole NAME REDACTED thing? Giving thanks to Sylvester Croom for beating the Gators so he could be fired? A combination of the two?

Oh! Heavens Yes! Thank god for [NAME REDACTED}! Because UF never, ever attracted any talent before He arrived. Nope. He really put us on the map, talent-wise. Strange he couldn’t win more than 9 games, though. What with all that talent running around. Anyway, enjoy your certain national Championship.

Would that be his real name, or NAME REDACTED?

Simply put, who is gonna beat the Zooker? He’ll handle Mizzou. The B10? We’ve handled OSU, who else stands in the way? Michigan, with its spread offense with a bunch of lumbering pulling guards on the OL, no qb, and no receivers? PSU? Wisconsin?

Zooker has their number.

Which all leads up to a national championship game against Georgia, with an outcome more akin to recent B10/SEC bowl games such as Wisconsin v. Arkansas and Auburn recently, PSU over Tennessee, Michigan over Florida then, ummm, the other ones.

We’ll even film it, and the requisite vomiting afterwards.

Eh, I can understand why you would not like him. I wouldn’t like a guy who recruited 20 of 22 players that won a National Championship, was fired, and then led a 2-10 team to the Rose Bowl, whilst watching my team get thumped by a mediocre Michigan program coached by an octanagerian.

And facing the abyss of being buried under Tennessee, Georgia and (errr, this would really piss me off) South Carolina.

On the upside, I would take comfort in the fact that my team still matches up well with Kentucky, and if we lost to Vandy, well, that would be an upset.

And other than LSU, Arkansas, Alabama and Auburn, I would take comfort from knowing we match up pretty well with the other division, so long as Trbow stays healthy.

Ahh…. perfect sense.

See you with the Gameday crowd in St. Louis on August 30, when (NAME REDACTED) puts a pummeling on #4 Mizzou on his way to a NC.