CURIOUS INDEX, 8/29/08

In the cafeteria and dorms, there are posters entreating readers to “take your vitamins” and “say your prayers” respectively.

Calling me. Calling me to the front desk.

after USC last night, and after Bama rapes Clemson Saturday – what credibility will the ACC have left?

Can someone please inform Tommy Beecher that there’s only room for one Michael Henig in this conference? Kthxbai.

@ jst

Do you really think NC St. losing cost the ACC any credibility? Everyone knew they were going to suck anyway.

To elaborate on my prior post, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

put on for my city…. Obviously the players chose that. But what’s with stealing ky’s fireworks guys

Death is Not an Option: Fred Durst or the GTGs? Either one of them makes Vanilla Ice look like late-’80s Chuck D.

Note to players from the state of Oregon. Extending the ball toward the goal line in the waning second of the game against a Bay Area school will result in a crushing defeat (Cal vs. Oregon ’07, Oregon St. vs. Stanford ’08). That is all.

Go Bears!

@JST- are you implying the ACC had credibility to begin with?

Tom O’Brien certainly did have a reaction.
He drank a nice, tall, cold glass of milk and went to bed.

Remember Gator Fans if you see someone not wearing white on saturday you are pro-tumor.

Does it really take NC State and Clemson losing to destroy ACC credibility? 1-9 in BCS games didnt already do that?!!!

1. - Good point. ACC is way overrated.

In Big East news – the Cincinnati Bearcats (who made a bold pro-cancer statement in all black uniforms) beat 1-AA Eastern Kentucky University 40-6. Ben Mauk, prowling the sidelines with the help of a walker, vowed to make further appeals to the NCAA.

Great game, easy opponent, beautiful evening in the country’s 4th oldest continuously used stadium (where they serve beer to celebrate our german-brewing heritage). It’s official, the season has started.

Easy there, Dawg. My grandfather used to tell me that Mauk was one of the best single-wing quarterbacks he’d ever seen.

Terry Dean and I are both shocked at the restraint shown by the OBC with Beecher. Has he really mellowed that much?

Good God, Orson. That Tech video is about as sad as intros could ever get. You went to Tech…do the students there really typify the “please teach me to kiss,” “for the love of God shoot me I did the M-Train video” loving nerds that this seems to point to? I mean, Jesus, one of those idiots was wearing aviators. And singing about the perfect option. I could have sworn Tech claims to be better at UGA in everything. I’m sure Bubba Sparxx would disagree.

That video is agonizing to watch in person. Tech does have a spectacular lineup video with Young Jeezy, which sounds booming big over their speakers, and the crazy train Rambling Wreck intro is one of the funnier, more chaotic intros in all of CFB. They have a car zipping around with a man in a bee suit barely hanging onto the side: that’s a neverFAIL there.

But, yes: we wish we had more hands so we could give that song’s titties four thumbs down.

Death Is Not An Option II: The GTG video, or the first half of South Carolina-N.C. State? Either one could have a pretty solid case made against it as far as violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Holy fucking shit! Tell me, please tell me that video was not, and is not in any way officially associted with my alma mater. Seriously, it was not broadcasted in the stadium pregame?!?? No way. No. Fucking. Way.

On a similar note, I assume the kiss me guy took out an ad on the jumbo tron, looking for some “teaching.”

Doing nothing to fight the stereotype, that we are a bunch of dorks, smart kids, but dorks all the same.

More than Durst, it’s actually reminiscent (derivative?) of Parnell/Samberg’s “Lazy Sunday” from SNL, which is, obviously, parody (and very funny). (NBC is apparently fond of the cease-and-desist letters, so it won’t be on YouTube and you may have to slog through the NBC site to find it, but it’s well worth it.) It also reminds me of something from UVA law’s Libel Show (also parody), except the rapping isn’t quite as good. Verdict — Embarrassing.

Its no “Bitch you ride da’ marta bus” for sure.

Then again neither was it HOT HOT HOT…so thats good.

I will give Johnson this, it does appear that this players at least know what they are doing with that type of offense. The option is not an easy system to master in one year, but his players seem (from what i can tell via highlights) to be coached very well. Now how they can compete talent-wise with the biggies, who knows?

The all-white uniforms to “white out” cancer? Please. They chose white because it’s a noon game in Florida in August, and their opponents are from Hawaii, and will be wearing all black. Why not “black out” cancer or even wear all-blue against cancer?

@ #16

Anyone who wants a good laugh at a gigantic nerd trying to make fun of much more successful nerds who are good football fans, simply google “ertai” and follow the first (or second) link.

Just saying.

Ok, how did GT students find the time between their 9 various engineering classes to make that video? Anyone?

Yeah I thought it was pretty funny. A fairly well done attempt at comedy for a Lazy Sunday rip off. I mean the scene with the guy playing acoustic guitar along with Buzz fiddling is comedic gold. Though I probably would leave it for the website and not play it for a stadium full of fans.

@ 25

They are Management majors. Go on their site and watch the M-Train video, it’s pretty damn funny. Or maybe it’s just funny to Tech students, I don’t know.

I believe the correct formula to express Beecher’s playing time is:

            lim (Beecher Starting) = 0
 time->next week

So, did I miss the reference to UGA in the Tech video? They seemingly can’t do anything without somehow relating it to Georgia fans’ trailers, trucks or degrees in “Recreation and Leisure Management.” I must have missed it.

I look forward to seeing this “perfect option” (again) Between The Hedges. Should be a lot of fun.

Last point: since Tech’s new coach led Ga Southern to a National Title, will Tech now condescend to help “little brother” out and let the Eagles play in ATL? Certainly scheduling a I-AA isn’t a problem for the AD there anymore and I’m sure Southern would make the trip to ATL.

I for one am absolutely positive that “Topless Cheerleaders Against Cancer” would do a lot more for the cause

Especially if they swept up the dollars in front of them and gave them to the cause

+1 to the Lazy Sunday reference.

I half expected to hear a “Chronic(what?)cles of Nar-ni-A” in there somewhere.

So we’re against all cancer but skin cancer? It is a 12:30 kickoff in Florida in August. Am I missing something?

Melanoma, carcinoma, some kind of damn -noma.

The two guys in the video are actually both graduates, one in Industrial Engineering and the other in Industrial Design. Check out their M-Train videos — these guys clearly don’t take themselves too seriously, and the video was fun… not sure it was opening game jumbotron material, though.

Next step for Tech: figure out if we can do anything versus a real football team. The JSU passing game last night made me feel a little Tenuta-y squeamish… I hope we figure out how to block those short out routes one of these days.

Ok no shit…Knoxville News Sentinel Headline: South Carolina Looks Smelley in Opener. Good God, have they no shame?

Lord I just realized it’s an AP article. So stupid it’s funny.