CURIOUS INDEX, 6/27/2008
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Football is thug-roman-a-cleffish: Pat White really, really likes him some Hov. His Heisman promo site features a ten-song playlist from his iPod, and seventy percent of it is Jay-Z. No selections from the Grey Album, a travesty we'll have to correct by sending him an email in his inbox, another feature of the site where you are free to ask him drooling questions about what it's like to be touched by Erin Andrews. Football is technical and awesome. PROST! Brian's 2007 piece on zone stretch plays is just plain dead sexy geeky Nobellish. Reprint more exclusive content available only in primitive paper form for our pleasure immediately. Football is Kragthorpe'd: 21 scholarship players have left Louisville since the spring of 2007, and Brian Bennett jams a ball of batter into the heart valves of every Cardinals fan on the planet by merely typing these words: The one place the Cards can afford a defection on defense is on the line, which is where they're the deepest. But they're still awfully thin across the board. And now you will set yourself on fire, Louisville fans! [/simmons'd!] Football is YES YES YES YES YES YES. The Big Ten will have its own reality show following one program throughout the season, and its star will be...[NAME REDACTED]. He likes it. Scares him. Scary kind of like. Like putting a car into a trash compactor filled with propane tanks and lit roman candles. Exciting scary. "This will be like having someone in your bedroom," Zook said. Grrrrrooowwwwwl. Georgia Tech under Paul Johnson will have to follow the hearty, bland consistency of the Chan Gailey era, and that's a difficult task given the ceiling for Tech in modern history has been the 8-5ish years of the O'Leary era. One thing Johnson may improve on immediately is recruiting, a weeping sadness during the Time of the Chancients when Tech only had Wake and Duke below them in recruiting rankings. SMQ, as usual, says everything you need to know on the topic period at all full stop in total. |
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by intellidouche on Jun 27, 2008 9:33 AM EDT reply actions
O.,…did I miss the memo? Is this the [name redacted] memorial week? “Re-live your favorite nightmare at EDSBS”? My fun-button is busted…
(seriously seeking light, brainless, blog-fodder, uh, without the charge of bad memories)…
by sb on Jun 27, 2008 9:33 AM EDT reply actions
Had we not solely recruited our QBs from the lollipop guild, our defensive players, as well as running backs and other peeps would have allowed us to make it rain, which we nearly did one year when we lost to Wake…fucking WAKE in the ACC CG. Worst. game. ever. – [comic book guy voice]
by Brian on Jun 27, 2008 9:39 AM EDT reply actions
No Tech fan here but …
“given the ceiling for Tech in modern history has been the 8-5ish years of the OLeary era.”
Didn’t they have one of those national champion-ish type years back in the early 90s (realizing that for UF fans “modern era” = Spurrier’s arrival at UF in ’90)
by JeffAU on Jun 27, 2008 9:43 AM EDT reply actions
You neglected a redaction. The Name appeared. I’m stunned and disappointed.
One…..just one, cause that’s all it’ll take… Syrup of Ipecac cocktail to you, sir.
by benny lava on Jun 27, 2008 9:49 AM EDT reply actions
The Zooker’s gettin’ all up in your sexyhole now.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Jun 27, 2008 9:55 AM EDT reply actions
OK, [NAME REDACTED] deserves all the shit you give him.
by OhioDawg on Jun 27, 2008 10:28 AM EDT reply actions
I wonder if losing to the Wannstache is one of the “99 Problems”?
by BDoc on Jun 27, 2008 10:37 AM EDT reply actions
Interesting article on Track’ EM Tigers.
http://www.trackemtigers.com/
Excerpt: Tim Stephens of the Orlando Sentinel… Although it’s half tongue-in-cheek, he makes some excellent points about what would be paramount for the SEC to gain as large a TV market range as possible—principly drafting Texas and Texas A&M into the conference in order to sew up the Texas marketshare. Yes, the SEC would consider going above and beyond the 12 horses already in the stable in order to create the first of the latter day super-conferences.
Texas and A&M in the SEC. What a thought.
by blon57 on Jun 27, 2008 10:38 AM EDT reply actions
I’m going to say it again: Erin Andrews is not hot, unless you have a thing for ostriches or white WNBA power forwards.
by Bobby Decatur on Jun 27, 2008 11:05 AM EDT reply actions
blon57 @ 10:
Not gonna happen. Any more than 12 teams in a conference will dilute the earning from the championship game, in addition to reducing the likelihood of any particular team reaching said championship game. Texas has been in a 2-horse division with OU for a while now, and it has had a hell of a time reaching the big 12 CG. Why would they join the SEC where they would be in a division where 4-5 teams (assuming LSU, AU, Bama, Tex, Arkansas, etc) have a very real shot at winning the division every year, in addition to the odd years from MSU, Ole Miss, etc.
by berdingo on Jun 27, 2008 11:12 AM EDT reply actions
yeah… I hate intelligent, good-looking women who like sports too.
by CincySooner on Jun 27, 2008 11:14 AM EDT reply actions
re: the Kragthorping of Louisville Football
Yay! We have a coahc that combines the worst aspects of Ron Cooper and John L Smith! While being uppity and relentlessly faux-Christian about it! UL fans are starting to re-use the old Chestnut about Mussolini and “the trains on time” in regards to Petrino.
an Orange Bowl victory was only 18 months ago
by jon on Jun 27, 2008 11:17 AM EDT reply actions
- Just throwing it out there. Interesting. Money does run everything, though, and there is probably no end to what schools will do to make even more money to fuel more expensive FB programs.
- And Erin is a Zeta, too. Good move, CincySooner, to list intelligent first before beautiful. Women appreciate the fact some men aren’t completely driven by visuals.
by blon57 on Jun 27, 2008 11:25 AM EDT reply actions
Did this <a href="http://media.www.centralfloridafuture.com/media/storage/paper174/news/2008/06/26/News/Football.Player.Arrested.Suspended-3385378.shtml" rel="nofollow">UCF incident make it into the recent FC update? Two felony counts of vandalism (vandalism is a felony??).
by Brian O'Blivion on Jun 27, 2008 11:31 AM EDT reply actions
7 jay-z songs, 2 musiq songs….and a kenny chesney song?
by chris on Jun 27, 2008 11:32 AM EDT reply actions
@11 – I’m partial to Big Pimpin’ myself.
by Brian O'Blivion on Jun 27, 2008 11:37 AM EDT reply actions
#4:
1990 season, GT went 11-0-1 and split the MNC with the “fifth down” Colorado team.
by ehrenb2 on Jun 27, 2008 11:48 AM EDT reply actions
#10: The idea in that article is idiotic. 16-team conferences are a bad enough idea in basketball where the conference season is 16-20 games; they would be a total joke when conference play is only 8 or 9 games. Play everyone in your division and then one or two teams out of eight from the other division? Might as well split it into two conferences at that point.
by SpartanDan on Jun 27, 2008 12:22 PM EDT reply actions
Damn straight, Chuck@11.
Decatur@12: C’mon, man. You’re describing Jimmy Clausen, not Erin Andrews.
by Oops Pow Surprise on Jun 27, 2008 1:20 PM EDT reply actions
I guess I’m the only one that thinks Arkansas caught a good one for their head chief…
by Downtown Plainsman on Jun 27, 2008 1:29 PM EDT reply actions
@ #23
That was a little dig at our UF host. You see, there is no more relative measurement in CFB than anything qualified by “occurring in the modern era.” Here’ how it works:
Modern Era at UF = anything post hiring of Steve Spurrier
Modern Era at Auburn = anything post hiring of Pat Dye/retirement of Bahr Bryant
Modern Era at Ole Miss – (unfortunately) anything after integration*
Modern Era at Bama = there is no modern era, their greatness exceeds all measurement of time
- that one is actually pretty important
by JeffAU on Jun 27, 2008 1:30 PM EDT reply actions
JeffAU -
For such a “johnny come lately”, how can UF have more SEC football titles than Auburn?
Suggestion for you (great quote from a bad movie): Don’t bring a knife to a gun fight.
by DHC on Jun 27, 2008 3:40 PM EDT reply actions
DHC
May want to have your sense of humor checked. I think it’s broken.
by JeffAU on Jun 27, 2008 3:43 PM EDT reply actions
JeffAU -
No worries! I was just feeling a bit sensitive due to the earlier affront against Erin Andrews.
I actually (sorta, kinda) like Auburn, but don’t tell anybody.
by DHC on Jun 27, 2008 3:44 PM EDT reply actions
JeffAU – you need to expand that to the rest of the conference.
As for my very own Gamecocks, the modern era inlcudes both Outback Bowl whippings of tOSU, any wins and close losses to SEC opponents since we hired Spurrier, any wins against Clemson, and any time after the final whistle in the Clemson 2007 game. It specifically does not include anything having to do with 63-17. Some purists may not allow it to include 4 wins-no losses vs. Clemson in baseball this season, but I do.
by Out of Conference on Jun 27, 2008 3:47 PM EDT reply actions
#23
Does that mean we can finally stop hearing about Herschel??
by A.G. on Jun 27, 2008 4:41 PM EDT reply actions
Geez, I can’t believe no one has mentioned Clay Travis going to Deadspin to be one of the main writers (along with Daulerio)….
by sjs1959 on Jun 27, 2008 10:06 PM EDT reply actions

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