CURIOUS INDEX, 8/15/2008

Mauk’s lawsuit has already resulted in a restraining order against the NCAA enjoining it from preventing (how’s that for a double negative, lawyaz!) him from practing. UC won’t let him practice, though, for fear of sanctions. This is UC, not uSC.

Move on Ben, you’ve already qualified for SS benefits.

Say what you want about Drew’s misfortunes with the Gators, but Chris Rix owned them.

I DRIVE A DODGE STRATUS!

It’s official. I have to kidnap Orson and take him to California so we can get married because of that great article on Coach Hatcher.

Nice work in that piece. If you ever want to go to a game down there just let me know and I’ll get you the hookup. It doesn’t get much better than a Saturday in Paulson.

I received my Commemorative Weatherford Crystal Football Helmet in the mail yesterday. First time I’ve ever seen season tickets used as packing material.

HA! Man that Georgia fan comment on the Sporting Blog smacks of a massive inferiority complex. This is why I at least respect Florida and Alabama…they beat Tennessee on occaision (and in Florida’s case, on many an occaision) but look how Georgia acts after beating Florida for only the 2nd time in, what, 14 years? 2-12….really, Georgia? They’re high on that and beating Hawaii High School to be ranked pre-season #1.

No wonder they’re playing a 1-AA team.

You can truly tell the season is fast approaching.
The hatred is building bit by bit by bit….

You gotta love the never-ending quarterbacks who keep returning year after year for the same old shit. Drew Weatherford, Tyler Fucking Palko, and Drew Stanton will never be forgotten.

We Auburn fans completely understand the “grudging respect” thing about QBs taking beatings. If I ever find occasion to make a toast to Brandon Cox it would be “To Brandon… He always got up.”

“To Brandon… He always got up.”

As they say, priceless.

Commenter expert40 wins teh internets. I’m not sure if it’s how he includes himself as part of the Georgia football program by using “we,” or in his second comment where he calls the commenter above him “arrogant and insufferable,” but he was really showing me something.

#8: Drew Stanton played QB for all of three years at MSU (Smoker was still there in ‘03; Dowdell, for reasons I doubt even God knows, was the backup and led us to a stirring come-from-ahead loss to Louisiana Tech after Smoker got some minor injury). I’m pretty sure the only time he saw the field in ‘03 was on special teams duty (no, I’m not making this up; that’s how he got injured in the bowl game and we ended up with a quarterback carousel at the beginning of the ’04 season and lost to Rutgers before that was respectable [Dowdell again]).

#12: Right you are. To be honest, I just remember Smoker and Stanton as one unending entity that tormented ND for many, many years.

Say what you want about Drew’s misfortunes with the Gators, but Chris Rix owned them

Going 2-2 versus Florida constitutes “owning” them now, eh? My, how the FSU standards have fallen.

#14

FSU, Standards? Surely you jest sir. We are, after all, discussing an “academic” institution that, in the mid 80’s, elected a male homecoming queen.

Chan @ #15…an “academic” institution that will forever be known as the home of the “glitter boys” who provided an alternative lifestyle precursor to Jen Sturger…

And academic “standards” took a backseat to football when Bowden assumed the reigns of the administration when Sandy D’Alemberte was told that under no condition would Peter Warrick not play in their bowl game. Since then the reservation has been run by a community college president and hack politician who is intent on bringing the wrath of the NCAA down upon the narrow shoulders of the fourth-best team in Florida.

The tradition of kicking those beneath us runs deeply through our proud Gator veins…

I wonder if Bill Curry, at that salary, would like to sign up to play Auburn again… (0-11 for those who forget)

would this salary encourage him to take one more beating…for the sake of the institution?

etsuVol -

While expert40 is undeniably an idiot, I’m not exactly sure what you’re doing injecting the Vols into this. I have also noticed that Georgia does beat Tenn on occasion (5-5 over the last 10, 5-3 over the last 8). I’m also wondering what you mean in suggesting that we “look how Georgia acts”, as though being ranked number 1 in the pre-season is all a matter of the way a program acts or that the way the Dawgs are acting somehow impacted the polling. Find me a quote from Coach Richt that suggests that Georgia is resting on it’s laurels. Please.

Finally, I don’t think that teams that schedule teams from C-USA (UAB, ‘07 record 2-10), the MWC (Wyoming, ’07 record 5-7), and the MAC (N. Illnois, ’07 record 2-10) have much room to throw stones at UGA for playing Southern. Just sayin’.

I know Tennessee has never played a 1-AA team, and they might be the only SEC team that can say that. As you point out, there’s plenty of patsies to play in 1-A, why stoop to a lower level? Plus, Tennessee has earned the reputation of playing good OOC teams in the past, and has home-and-homes with Ohio State, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Oregon on future schedules.
As for how they act, I was specifically referring to that specific post, although looking at UGA’s players’ behavior in the offseason you can say they’re doing anything but resting. Does that have anything to do with being ranked #1? I dunno…but FSU had troubles when Richt was there, too.
My contempt for UGA and their fans started in the 90’s when every year they’d be all fired up and every year they’d lose to Tennessee, and every year except 1 to Florida.

The fact that there are plenty of patsies in 1-A is no justification for knocking Georgia for playing Southern. When comparing the very dregs of 1-A and the best of 1-AA, the AA teams are often as good or better. I’m not suggesting that Southern is a top tier AA team this year, but pointing out that the 1-A/1-AA line is more or less arbitrary when comparing teams of similar lower caliber as compared to a conference such as the SEC. Not playing 1-AA teams is great for Tennessee, but it’s not meritorious.

As for having contempt for a team that get’s fired up and loses, well, I have a lot more contempt for a team that resigns to losing before playing the game. How can you hold it against Georgia, or any other team for that matter, for getting excited to win? I hate the Vols, but I don’t see the point in playing them if they don’t want to win. That’s not a contest. You shouldn’t expect any different from Georgia, even if Goff and Donnan couldn’t get it done.

If the actions that you are referring to are the off-season arrests, what on earth does that have to do with beating Florida and Hawaii? Or being ranked number 1 (the rankings took place after the arrests)?

Yeah at least they’re playing the best the Southern Conference has to offer. Appy State is up in 2013!

While it’s true their bad behavior happened before the actual #1 ranking, people were talking about them being ranked #1 during and right after bowl season.

If it’s 11:15 in Tallahassee, what time is it in Gainesville?

45 TO 12!!!

It delights me to no end to know that an entire class of SOW graduating seniors (last year) does not know what it feels like to beat Florida. And at the rate that they are going, expect that trend to continue.

And Orson, it’s not “going on” 5 times, we HAVE beat them 5 times in a row!!!

FSU beat UF in 2003, so that would be 4 in a row.

Also, etsuVol is just upset because his school failed at football so bad, they just stopped playing.

Yes, but, they’re bringing back football at ETSU. Maybe they can fund the program by payouts from playing Georgia and Florida.

@ 23-

The hell I say! Jobbed by ACC refs, not beaten by that F$U team on the field!

Florida should change that one to a “W” in their media guide. I hear that’s what the SOW did with that “Lane Fenner catch” game.

UGA’s #1 Fan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QD9U0BJ2LFo

Ben Mauk in a Studebaker Lark. I like dat. JoePa & Daddy Bowden each own a ’63 Avanti.

“Studebaker – Better than it has to be.” Their ad slogan – honestly.

FSU v. UF 2003 is the most horrible example of officiating I have ever seen. Talk about Twilight Zone. Not a Gator in the stadium could believe what exactly had taken place — over, and over, and over again.

To recall the smug Seminoles telling me, “You guys always have some excuse,” as we walked down the ramp of the North endzone nosebleeds, provides an appropriate context for my memory of the last 4 years.

FSU can and always will go fuck themselves. Thanks.