EDSBSGPS: WHERE WE AT, 8/28/08
The evening’s agenda:
SWINDLE: Atlanta, watching Jacksonville State @ Georgia Tech live and NC State @ South Carolina via ESPN360.
HOLLY: Los Angeles, watching Troy @ Middle Tennessee State via GamePlan and NC State @ South Carolina on ESPN.*
Neither, regrettably, will be in Denver wooing Ana Marie Cox…although I’m closer, Swindle. Just saying.
Were we That Sort Of Blog, this is the point at which we’d call you some sort of collective brotherhoodish nickname (”Rampant and Unapologetic SEC Bias Nation, PUTCHA HANDS IN THE AAAYYYYR!!!1!!”) and offer to race you to the comments for the commencement of geographic roll-call, drink choices du soir, and unseemly insinuations about your relationships with your mothers. We remain, however, cool and aloof as jungle cats (and just as shiny), and will merely inform you, as any well-bred hostess would, that the open thread below is available for any and all of the above needs. Go on, now.
*Also on the agenda: Frequent and vehement cursing of Time Warner SoCal for appalling nonexistence of ESPN360 availability in LA, denying me the Return of El Perrilloux. Get bent, sirs.
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John says:
I think any school where you need at least a 1300 on your SATs (I’m still on the old system) to get in has a key dependency issue.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:37 pm
102
TAFKAtOSUb says:
Gamecock fans chanting S-E-C, S-E-C at the end of the game…WTF?
For the life of me, I could never imagine beating USC in an OOC game and chanting Big-10, Big-10, Big-10…my brain doesn’t even work like that…Michigan, Wisconsin, and Penn State are in the Big-10 and I absolutely hate those teams…why would I chant for them?
It is just so f’king retarded…it’s beyond retarded.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
103
jamiedawg says:
The key thing is just odd…but this game is actually so much better then South Carolina and NC state.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
104
Roaminggator says:
No matter which game I am watching, they will not shut up about Southern Cal. God it is like this every year….
August 28th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
105
John says:
I miss the days of Musberger making “Jack Arute” one word.
August 28th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
106
Holly says:
Because I know you are all just hanging around to see how my cable issues worked out–in the process of trying to make GamePlan, y’know, WORK, Time Warner shut off my cable. Entirely. And they can’t make it come on again.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
107
John says:
This is will be a huge win for Stanford. In some ways, it might be bigger than the win against USC because it could serve as a launching pad to a big year whereas the season was already lost in 2007 and they were just playing spoiler.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
108
jamiedawg says:
Holly, I would be freaking out with no cable.–my sympathies–and would ya agree that Stanford’s coach ( Harbaugh) is kind of hot?
August 28th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
109
Year2-Dave says:
Ah Time Warner Cable… pushing the limits of suck since 1989.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
110
Orson Swindle says:
Meg–guilty.
Also, anyone bragging about that particular 34-0 win is in error, much less doing so on behalf of an entire conference. We in the SEC apologize for the breach of etiquette, and promise to post an impressive and definitive win against UCLA on Monday.
(StaringatFulmerdon’tletusdownyoufatbastardyou)
August 28th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
111
Digital Headbutt says:
Only now, with our full attention paid to a Stanford game, do we see the football merit in Jim Harbaugh’s call for manual hygiene.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
112
Holly says:
I would not, but I don’t like my men so…shiny.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
113
blon57 says:
I started watching the Baylor game. Poor Bears. I finally just turned it over to Obama’s speech.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
114
MiddleAmerica says:
It’s Friday afternoon in Singapore. I’m at work, hung-over and suffering from major college football withdrawal. Oh, how I wish I was watching a shitty Pac10 game now!!!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:25 pm
115
poguemahone says:
You jinxed them, O. Now UT is going to get curb-stomped by 89-3 by his Coachness and the wraiths of his nine injured QBs.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
116
John says:
This has been a fantastic start to the season!
August 28th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
117
Digital Headbutt says:
Ouch. Tough way for OSU to end a game.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
118
John says:
Forget my last comment, that’s a shame.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
119
jamiedawg says:
I guess there is something to the key thing. Tough for the Beavs.
August 28th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
120
ehrenb2 says:
O – if I knew you were gonna be at the GT game, I would’ve invited you to my tailgate for a few drinks – I started at 2:30 and I’m still drunk, so we had plenty to spare :-p
August 28th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
121
John says:
Does anyone else now have this empty feeling now that there won’t be any good games until Saturday? How will I beat this drug?
August 29th, 2008 at 12:10 am
122
DC Trojan says:
Roaminggator @ 104 – many of us are sick of it already. We’re loathsome enough en masse without the help, ESPN, thankyouverymuch.
Also, those of you familiar with the Ron Franklin oeuvre – what was up with him starting some thought about how Jim Harbaugh was talking about a Stanford player like he was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed daughter and sort of tapering off in a Humbert Humbert mode? That freaked me out to no end.
August 29th, 2008 at 12:40 am
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Way Up North says:
If internet rumors can be believed, Arizona State’s new practice facility has apparently blown the fuck up. I suspect, if the rumors are true, the cause was either severe weather, a forbidden demonic summoning ritual, Erickson drunk or severe weather caused by Erickson’s drunken demonic summoning ritual.
August 29th, 2008 at 1:22 am
124
Dinknflicka says:
Where’s Stranko?
August 29th, 2008 at 1:42 am
125
adolph oliver bush says:
Nice job, Vegas. The Dores clearly are the best team in the SEC.
August 29th, 2008 at 6:02 am
126
MiseanAUFan says:
*Also on the agenda: Frequent and vehement cursing of Time Warner SoCal for appalling nonexistence of ESPN360 availability in LA, denying me the Return of El Perrilloux. Get bent, sirs.
I love AT&T Fast Access DSL.
::expects check::
August 29th, 2008 at 7:13 am
127
OhioDawg says:
John @ 121 – more, different drugs!
August 29th, 2008 at 8:02 am
128
Stranko Montana says:
I’m off keeping the world safe for war in Europe… loving the slingbox but lamenting the time difference
August 29th, 2008 at 8:12 am
129
DevilGrad says:
Shit, piss, goddamn, cocksucker, motherfucker, son of a bitch, and tits!
[Translation: It's lookin' like a loooooong season in Oxford, Ohio.]
Let me throw in one more hearty “FUCK!” for good measure.
Okay, now on with my Friday.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:21 am
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woooohooooo says:
Regarding the “SEC chant” by #102, et al…
South Carolina has a long history with the ACC that reads like a soap opera. There’s an old grudge between South Carolina and the North Carolina ACC schools, particularly regarding USC’s 1971 withdrawal from the ACC, and repeated failed discussions about readmission. NC newspapers have had a few editorials this week that revisited the saga.
Furthermore, our biggest in-state rival is in the ACC, and we recruit heavily in “ACC territory”.
Suffice to say that Ohio State chanting “Big Ten” would not be a valid comparison. Besides, that’s not much to brag about these days anyway.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:30 am
131
Joel says:
Why is Spurrier unable to recruit a decent quarterback? You’d think great prospects would be lining up to learn the secrets of the Visor. That QB last night was Rex Grossman-awful. No arm strenght, just lobbing it up to the tune of 4 (four) picks.
August 29th, 2008 at 8:32 am
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woooohooooo says:
#131,
Mitchell was a Holtz recruit. Beecher was recruited immediately after Spurrier was hired, which was the best he could find on short notice. Besides the current redshirts, Smelley and Garcia are the only two highly-recruited QB’s on the roster, and Smelley played pretty well.
Beecher is a really tough QB, and I personally think Spurrier wanted to give him a fair shot, especially since he’s a year older than Smelley and had been considering a transfer. Maybe he’ll get another chance, but he probably blew it Thursday night IMO.
August 29th, 2008 at 9:18 am