CURIOUS INDEX, 8/26/08

Can we get a pronunciation guide for “Foswhitt.?”

You know what I like about N. Ricky? He points!

Did you see what my hubby said about Who-Lee-Yo?

— Defensive coordinator Vic Koenning raised some eyebrows when asked a general question about Alabama receiver Julio Jones. Koenning has a lot of ties in south Alabama, and that’s where Jones is from.

Koenning’s response:

“I actually ran into Julio in the spring recruiting. I said hello to him. I said, ‘Well, I guess I’ll be seeing you at the end of August.’ And then he got out and got in his Escalade and drove off. That’s serious. And then I went over and watched (Alabama freshman) Burton Scott at Vigor High School at the track over there, and Burton Scott was running around. He went and got in his Escalade out at track practice and drove off. So I’m familiar with those two guys.”

Wow. Ouch. Wow.

Think that might cause a stir in Tuscaloosa?

Apparently, Escalades aren’t just for Buckeyes anymore

UGAVII, “whatchagotptolemy” approves.

since i’m confident blon54 will be reading this, i’d just like to comment on how losing fozzy for the first game is not going to help texass avoid a near-death experience against the high-powered, rum-fueled offense of FAU, who will not beat texass, but who will play them within an inch of their lives, a la arkansas st. and cfu last year

and for you degenerate gamblers out there, yes, that means that FAU +24 is the burrito supreme of your first college football gambling mexi-platter

insert mandatory toby keith/meth/cheating/bcs bowl loss retort

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Texas, by the command of Barry Switzer (“so let it be written, so let it be done” -Yul Brynner has nothing on Switzer), is not allowed to lose prior to OU texas. It will make the game less interesting and I prefer to taunt the texas fan sitting to my left when he thinks his baby-food orange guys will win. When he knows they will lose, it’s just not as much fun. Don’t get me wrong, 65-13 was fun, but nothing beats some good schadenfreude. Also, Howard Schnellenburger will not even sniff beating texas, but he can drink anyone in texas under the table. Truly, he is a manbeast of mustacheian proportions.

Well them Oklahoma, as much as I hate to admit it, living in Texas and all, but Your team will probably win the Big Twelve this year, Texas is still in a rebuilding mode with w lot of young players and will probably drop two games. Texas Tech is overrated as always.

But even though you are the favorite to win the big twelve, You still live in a godforsaken dustbowl so I don’t begrudge you an occasional win.

Orson,
I am touched. Thank you for recognizing that we do, in fact, play football in the Big 12.

#6, #7- I see the land thieves are crawling out of the woodwork. It must be football season.

The “man” has decided to call his own plays. We’re so proud. Mikey is growing up. http://www.tulsaworld.com/sports/article.aspx?articleID=20080825_2__STILL40100

I’m not sure I can get on board with UGAcentric cosmology.

#6

kansas state wants to disagree with you

also, i firmly believe that FAU will lose by 10 or less

Is that a Last Starfighter reference I caught in there? Because if so, this is my favorite post.

I’m so desensitized to these updates now I want to see scores in one of them bad man real bad no I won’t suck…well…damn I need my fix.

1. Should we be surprised? Seriously. Didn’t all of you get the memo that Alabama is off of probation and the Red Elephant Club is back in full swing.

#3,
Oh, for sure they’re cheating. I mean, everyone knows that the only way to get good recruits at Alabama is to pay them hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Got to love internet rumors. Who needs evidence when you have 12th party information?

I see we’ve upped our choice in cars! We got 5 years probation and -21 scholly’s for a 4 year old Jeep Cherokee given to some douchbag from Florida.

Sounds like the Clemson coach is spewing sour grapes, to reporters no less. Not a smart move.

Well now besides my rum filled stache I can go as an ice pirate to the home opener!

1. also, i firmly believe that FAU will lose by 10 or less

Wrong. Howard is in for a surprise.

Love how the Clemson DC went up to the reporter 10 minutes later and said “just jiving, JJ”. What a turd….if you’re gonna say shit like that, be a man and stand by it.

#8

I agree about Tech. You have to give Harrell, Crabtree and TT’s offense their due, but the defense is the question. They have never had a really good, solid, consistent D and if you don’t stop the other team from scoring you can’t win. Duh. Leach hasn’t figured this out yet.

Plus they have three away games that are going to be very tough- Kansas, OU and A&M. Kansas and OU are talented teams. A&M has a lot of talent (will thay actually play up to their ability is another question) and playing them at Kyle Field is a real pain for any team. Ask my beloved alma mater (UT).

Hey buddy, can you spare $19?

Rot, Noles. Rot.

#17

is that surprise that your secondary isn’t going to be magically transformed into merely mediocre in the course of a few months by boom motherfucker? or that colt mccoy without his best targets and without a running back and with a still crappy o-line will again be INT prone? or that texass will start to doubt themselves once FAU puts a few licks on them and they start to think “gee, maybe howard was right?” or that the over-inflated +24 line is more a reflection of the general reputation of texass over the years and less a reflection of the reality of this year’s horn squad?

enlighten me. as you know, i’m a Sooner so i’m kindof dumb and stuff.

Do you smell something nasty? Smells like a Zandozan.

Poor Baylor. I hope it doesn’t share the same fate as pluto and suffer classification as a football-like program.

Actually, I don’t care.

Boy, that takes me back. The only double-feature I’ve ever attended was a showing of Tank and Ice Pirates back to back. Those two underappreciated films really molded how I’ve looked at the world ever since. For example, I can’t believe anyone is truly old unless they have a huge afro.

Hilarious and outstanding Big XII previews available here:

http://www.barkingcarnival.com/sailor-ripley/the-barking-carnival-big-xii-2008-preview-state-of-the-union-collection

A few retorts while waiting for Schnellenberger to reprise his role in Major League (“Screw the curveball Ricky, give ’em the heater”) :

#6: I agree. Even before Fozzie Bear went down, Texas didn’t have a running back that scared me.

#8: Since when has Tech EVER been “overrated”? We are constantly picked behind Aggy, and some years Orange Aggy, in preseason polls and publications. This is the first year in I don’t know how long that we’re getting some preseason mention other than “Tech will upset somebody, ’cause Lubbock sure is a tough place to play!”

#19: Leach figured it out after the infamous Okie St. game last year. He finally fired his good for nothing DC, and recruited D-Line heavily in the offseason. I’m not saying we’ll be the second coming of LSU, but we’ll be a lot better, and with our offense, that’s all you need.

As for the schedule, yes, OU is a monster. But I’m still waiting for KU (who lost their best player to the NFL, btw) to beat a quality team. We get you guys in Lubbock. And Aggy is our bitch. I think we win at least two of the KU-UT-Aggy threesome. Since we don’t play Colorado (Croom!) or Missouri this year, that translates to 10-2, and a possible BCS at-large slot. How would that be overrated?

#21

Yes, I’m aware we were 109th in passing defense last year as was the defensive coaching staff. We weren’t horrendous, but we dabbled in the vicinity. And I know you’ve heard this before, but it is one of those “rebuilding” years. We have two true freshmen starting in the secondary and now junior Ishie Oduegwu is out with an injury. But even he only had three career starts.

The offensive line line is very green, too, but not crappy. We only have one senior on the line, but we do have a lot of depth for the future. (No one has been arrested on any DUIs so at least we have that going for us. How much alcohol did it take to get Loadholt trashed? Man, he must have done some heavy drinking that evening.) I’m more excited about 2009 than I am this season. McCoy’s interceptions happened because of some of his own mistakes, but also because he needed better protection. His stats should improve this season.

Wonder if your golden-armed QB has improved his reads after that game with WV?

OU will have a good year this year. Enjoy. We may not beat you this year, but next…

#22

Jerusalem on the Brazos…where a football coach’s career goes to die.

Man, I haven’t thought about Ice Pirates in years. Except during my space herpes flare-ups.

#26

you know what i really hate?

when you give a reasonable, rational assessment of the weaknesses of your football program – it really takes the fun out of this – in the future, please lay off the coherent thoughts and focus more on interyelling and irrational claims about the greatness of your team

1. Since when has Tech EVER been “overrated”?

You are overrated this year. And 10-2? We’ll see.

And as far as the Defense goes, you actually need a good one to win. I know you have to score points, which TT does in spades, but you actually have to keep the other team from scoring more points to actually win a game. Leach has had issues with this concept in the past. I just don’t think you will turn it around in one year. Only my humble opinion…

It is nice to see the Dustbowl SECers have a conversation on this blog. Of course, what does Orson put up next? Alabama vs. Clemson. Figures.

#30

Hey, I threw in some insults. Loadholt? WV game? No comebacks?

Try to have some dignity and then this. See Orson’s latest post. Our QB looks like an idiot.

Why did Orson call you Blon54? Is that your “naughty” name? BTW, mine’s “Big Country”. Not really.

Also, the more I think about this, for the non-SEC world, nothing but good can come from this new $2.25 B contract. For instance, Nebraska makes $3M per game ($24 per season, 8 games) and around $8 M from TV. If they, and the rest of the Big XII, can deliver a better product, the profit potential, say $20 M from the SEC, is far greater than stockpiling home games against San Diego State and Western Michigan. Problem is that the Big XII cannot get there with our internal matchups. So, if the fricken Big XII can get rid of the “one tough opponent, 3 gimmes” nonconference status quo and schedule tough competition in nonconf (for conservative-ness sake, say 2 tough noncon opponents vs 2 weak) , we can potentially gain far more in profit per team from TV than the $1.5 M loss (a one-time $3 M loss every two years) of one less home game. But everyone has to get on board, not just Colorado.

BTW, I love run-on sentences.

blon—If you want to say we’re overrated this year, fine, but kyle n and the douchebags who get their e-mails shown on CFLive make it sound like we’re Michigan-like perennial underachievers. Go look at any mag not written by Phil Steele in the last decade and compare it with the results on the field.

okiedomer—okay then, your fans are a bunch of fat, teefless daywalking goobers whose idea of a hand sign is “We’re No. 1”. How creative. Oh, and Toby Keith is a chumpspank.

Better?

#33

True. UT is one of the worst about scheduling soft non-conf. teams. I guess the rationale is go into conference play with a clean record.

As far as the conference goes, we need better teams/competition. Look at Baylor. That program is in very steep decline and they need help fast. A program like BU brings the rest of the conference down. I want Baylor to improve, it just helps the conference as a whole. Same feeling for Nebraska. The TV market goes where there is money. Lousy teams don’t pull the audience.

Are the SEC teams, as a whole, better than Big 12 teams? I doubt it. (Well, other than Baylor.)

Orson just missed the last number. He was in a big hurry this morning to get that last post up and ask for comments. Probably my purgatory for complaining about all the love of the darling SEC.

I would never call Tech perennial underachievers. To his credit, Leach has done some incredible things with his offense. The defense has always lagged behind. People wonder why it took Tech so long to take care of the issue.

Leach’s true talent lies in the fact that he can convince any 17-18 year old kid to live in Lubbock. A younger relaltive was recruited by Tech. When he got home from the visit, he talked highly of Tech and it sounded like he might commit. I asked him if they acually took him off campus and let him go into the city of Lubbock. He said no. I told him to make another visit to the campus (unannounced), just so he could make sure that was the right place for him. He went back, spent time in Lubbock, and needless to say, committed elsewhere.

and of course baylor is just barely a part of our galaxy. FAU is mainstream compared to them.