CURIOUS INDEX, 9/19/08
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“It’s mass confusion down here. Just a mess.” Ohhh, Bill Stewart is not a good head coach, and you know it when Erin Andrews may succinctly pigeonhole your game management style in a glance and two observant sentences filed from the sidelines at the end of regulation last Also: another universal rule is that when your coach has to keep saying how you’ll get better and better, it is a sure sign that nothing will change, and that you will not get better because this person has no idea how to go about accomplishing this. “I’m so proud of the way they came out and competed,” West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said. “There’s a lot of heartache in that locker room. But they’ll grow and get better.” Yes. Being positive without details and ass-busting equals positive bacon wrapped around substandard coaching hot dog. Tortured, byzantine coaching metaphors for $800, Alex. Get off the boooooooiiiooooiiioooooze. Virginia has booted qb Peter Lalich off the team for drinking, a violation of his alcohol-related probation. This takes away Virginia’s lone qb with any substantial starting experience, all because he couldn’t stop burning up those brain cells and lay off the boooooooooooiiioooooooooiiooooooooze. Al Groh commented by saying it was “regrettable (meh).” “Unfucked.” Perhaps one of the better phrasings for the miraculous healing of Percy Harvin’s heel over the offseason we’ve seen comes from newcomber Devin’s Landing. We are so looking forward to Florida surgeons installing spoilers on his shoulders to keep him on the ground, lest he fly disastrously in the air like a runaway speedboat. Pat Kuntz had to be tough. We bet everyone in the family is capable of decking seven men in six seconds. You have to be to endure the name, or Rivals.com’s creative copyediting using your name. Drink if he openly pulls for a team he used to coach. The Dr. Lou Drinking Game. You wanted it, even if you didn’t know you needed it. |
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Edsall is God says:
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!
September 19th, 2008 at 9:35 am
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jtlight says:
I don’t know if you caught this during the game…
But this picture pretty much sums up Bill Stewart.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:35 am
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daviehamsufferer97 says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:37 am
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InsaneCoachPosse says:
that Dr Lou drinking game – that will kill all but the hardiest brain cells and livers
September 19th, 2008 at 9:38 am
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blon says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:43 am
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Bobby Decatur says:
*Palinian bacon
September 19th, 2008 at 9:45 am
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now_a_hoo says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
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Raider Red says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
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The Song of Hiawatha Francisco says:
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
September 19th, 2008 at 9:51 am
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Etch Westgrin says:
Bill Stewart = Admiral James Stockdale
September 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
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now_a_hoo says:
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
September 19th, 2008 at 9:55 am
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Etch Westgrin says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
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CincySooner says:
Well… I for one remember him kicking OUs ass in the Fiesta Bowl.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am
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The Fake Gimel Martinez says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:07 am
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TIGERinATL says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:08 am
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TIGERinATL says:
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!
September 19th, 2008 at 10:13 am
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meatybob says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:31 am
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hailstate says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am
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DevilGrad says:
Bill Stewart is well on his way to becoming [HICK REDACTED].
September 19th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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Anonymous IV says:
Joe Kane played for Virginia?
September 19th, 2008 at 10:47 am
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Adam says:
There’s a blog covering Michigan State? Who knew?
September 19th, 2008 at 10:53 am
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macker says:
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……
September 19th, 2008 at 10:58 am
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ssmund says:
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.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:04 am
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spartymike says:
@ 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?
September 19th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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Digital Headbutt says:
Somewhere, deep in the heart of Tennessee, Carl Torbush is laughing his ass off.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:28 am
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Brian O'Blivion says:
“We’re still in the national championship hunt”
–CU defensive tackle George Hypolite
Chuckle. Isn’t that cute.
September 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
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Last Dragon says:
Someone send that Dr. Lou drinking game to Lalich. Sounds like he’d enjoy it…..
September 19th, 2008 at 2:31 pm