CURIOUS INDEX, 9/19/08

UConn to the Orange Bowl became 80% more likely last night. I can’t believe Bill Stewart pulled out the Peyton Manning Face at the end of regulation!

I don’t know if you caught this during the game…

But this picture pretty much sums up Bill Stewart.

Wow, I stared at that headline for 5 minutes before I got it. Its pronounced Koonts, and I’m just dumb and nine-thirty in the morning.

Leaving that as a monument to my dumbness.

that Dr Lou drinking game – that will kill all but the hardiest brain cells and livers

Lalich… told the judge he thought he had not been barred from drinking, but only from getting arrested…

That’s why he got kicked off the team. Blatant stupidity.

But I hope they get him into some kind of rehab program. He is too young to start down this road.

*Palinian bacon

Soon even The Sabre will want Groh gone. Filth flarrin’ filth. I don’t think any major-conference school has had a worse 2008 in terms of their revenue sports.

With the exception of the NFL draft, I can’t think of anything that’s gone right for my Hoos.

Didn’t even get any of the prep school sports that we’re actually good at (lax, tennis, rowing, etc). Fahk.

At least Lalich has that 2008 Gator Bowl MVP trophy.*

• Well, we should have given him one, anyway. His entering that game completed our comeback.

Kuntz has a pretty good sense of humor about his surname. Check out this exchange from an interview in “irish Insights” of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette:

II: Your last name, obviously, what’s the worst mispronunciation (it’s pronounced Koo-NTZ) you’ve had?

PK: “(Laughs uncontrollably) Let’s just say people call the house, the telemarketers, and they pronounce it, I don’t know if I should say it but people can probably think about it. They are always like ‘Mr. Blank.’ I’m like ‘Nope, none of that here.’ And I hang up the phone.”

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II: What about in school? Where they like ‘Pat Kuu-nntz?’

PK: “(Laughs) There have been teachers who have said it and then everybody laughs. I’m just like, I give them a quick reaction that says ‘No, not right the way you said it.’ I don’t know. It’s happened plenty of times in the past and really, like, people think it’s a really bad word to say but I’ve been naturally saying it since second grade because I’ve heard it all the time.”

II: Did you ever go to your mom and say ’What’s that?’

PK: “No. My brother let me know what that was in first grade. Wasn’t anything big about that.”

The full interview is here: http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080821/BLOGS02/254024

Bill Stewart = Admiral James Stockdale

Stockdale is an honest-to-gawd hero, man. It irks me that people will only remember his strange VP run.

Even my Canadian-born mother admires that guy

Similarly, it is a shame that people will only remember Stewart’s bizarre coaching and not all of those other good things he surely did.

Well… I for one remember him kicking OUs ass in the Fiesta Bowl.

22 drinks in a less than 4 minute segment? That’s inhumane for anyone who’s not an alcoholic or a college student.

It’s like asking a 30-handicapper to play on a real version of Bowser Badlands.

Bill Stewart truely managed the clock poorly by not using the first TO but the last one I understood. It was 4th down and by running it down to a cew seconds, he made sure WFV got one last shot at the endzone and CU did not.

Obviously, that should be “truly”

But regarding Lou: I now give my Tigers even less shot of winning tomorrow since granny clampet picket them. Damn you LOU!

As great of a game was KU-USF (really well coached KU team) is as bad as WFVU and CU.

While the game clock was totally mismanaged, I dont think it made a difference. The ‘eers were still 20 yds away from FG range, they are an running team with only 35 or so seconds left. Not to mention that their kicker didn’t exactly give me the impression that he’s money 50 yds out.

Who’s the worst game day coach: Bill Stewart, Sylvester Croom or Ed Orgeron (R.I.P.)?

My vote is for Croom. Sly is in his fifth year of head -scratching, bone-head game management. Oh, what a half-decent offensive-minded coach could do with State’s defense backing him up.

Bill Stewart is well on his way to becoming [HICK REDACTED].

Joe Kane played for Virginia?

There’s a blog covering Michigan State? Who knew?

Painful to say I told you so, and I still hope I’m wrong but the Bill Stewart hire looked too much like the Bobby Williams hire at Michigan State in 2000.

Both were “players coaches” that won big bowl games as interims and were emotional, quick hires. The Williams hire set State’s program back at least 5 years. Hope that isn’t the case in Morgantown……

After the big bowl victory last year, WVU officials broke one of life’s cardinal rules by making an important decision based on emotion. Not since David Cutcliffe failed to reach a bowl game with a Manning under center in 2002 has such a talented backfield completely gone to waste. Stewart’s a very likable guy. I hope he can turn it around.

@ Adam: I’ll allow it. (/Charlie, aka Green Man)

@ macker: I’ll thank you never to bring up that name again.

The most important question from last night’s game…why in the wide world of sports does WVU line up in I-formation when it’s 3rd and short? Pat White and Noel Devine gaining 3-12 yards on 1st and 2nd down from the spread isn’t good enough for 3rd down? What madness is this?

Somewhere, deep in the heart of Tennessee, Carl Torbush is laughing his ass off.

“We’re still in the national championship hunt”

—CU defensive tackle George Hypolite

Chuckle. Isn’t that cute.

Someone send that Dr. Lou drinking game to Lalich. Sounds like he’d enjoy it…..