YOUR BCS CONFERENCE HOROSCOPE

I live in Jacksonville and they reported today that they are closing off the entire top “bowl” for the FSU-Colo. game. something like only 44,000 tickets have been sold. Oof….. or should I say, “Dadgummit.”

Go Gators!

@1 – As the picture in the post suggests….there is some craptastic college football played in Jacksonville.

re: Texas A&M at Army

Fake army vs. Real Army. I always wondered what the corp defends besides Reville. I guess they keep people from walking on the grass.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Texas%20A%26M%20University%20Corps%20of%20Cadets

Syracuse AD to Gregg Robinson – “Dude, you are so fired.”

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3604094

He also pulls out the old “Director’s Cup” sidestep: “true, the football team sucks, but hey – the lacross and field hockey teams are smokin!” A sentiment that we Stanford fans recognize all to well.

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He didn’t get fired – he got GERGGED. As bad as we look in Starksville, we still can point to the Orangeguys as a symbol of futility.

We get blown out once a year by the #1 team in the country. SU gets blown out every WEEK by everybody in FBS. Our problems are a flyspeck in the ocean compared to Syracuse.

At least we have hope to get better. They have to wait for basketball.

Edsall @ # 2…that would be “craptastic ACC football” thank you very much…

Everyone knows that they drag in extra scaffolding bleachers annually for the WLOCP. They just don’t build stadiums big enough to house the incredible event that is the Florida-Georgia game.

At least the Corps defends something…unlike the football team.

I remember last year when Fake Army needed a goal line stand to beat Real Army, then celebrated like they won a bowl game. Of course, no Aggie would actually know what that’s like, so beating Real Army has to suffice.

Re: FSU vs. Colorado….instead of the band playing at halftime – they could do the battle of the mascots. I can see it now – Ralphie dragging his (actually her?) handlers across the field trying to attack Renegade or Chief Osceola on the back of Renegade chasing Ralphie with a flaming spear. That should sell a few more tickets.

Wow read the whole Cowboy article. I always thought that Troy Aikman was gay.

In defense of ACC fans: if I lived in Boston, I wouldn’t bother going to a place as tragic as Jacksonville even if you gave me a free ticket to watch Jesus and Mohammed battle in a steel cage grudge match, with a Hayden Panettiere- Megan Fox bra and panty pillow fight on the undercard.

The ACC was actually 6-0 OOC last weekend thank you very much.

Top photo looks like a Marlins game.

Red Raider,
We do not need this discussion to browbeat the poor Aggie defense again. There was enough of that last Saturday. Mistakes were made, tackles were missed, coverage was blown….well, you know. It was just UGLY.

The last time a ‘battle of the mascots’ ensued, the Ralphies didn’t fare too well against the Native Americans. Mascots with weapons are bad for animal mascots.

If Florida State actually beats Colorado I will be shocked. Seriously.

sb:

Thank you for the correction of Edsall at #2. Beat me to it.

Good thing the closed the upper bowl in Jacksonville. I sat up there and watched the entire 2006 ACC Championship game. We periodically were the recipients of large “brown rain” drops. I suspect it was pigeon shit on the light stanchions combined with the lightly falling rain, which lasted the entire damn game, but your guess is as good as mine.

9 – 6. Nine. To. Fuckin. Six. Hey Reggie, this guy, name’s Calvin, number 21. Throw him the damn ball, it is either gonna be complete or pass interference at least one in three, even with your rag arm. Aww fuck it. Most wasted talent evah! And on top of that I did not have nearly enough bourbon for the game. Although, had I brought enough for THAT game, my BAC would have been a new record for the Jacksonville CSI. I could only hope that my buds would have taken me down to the Landing anyway, Weekend at Bernie’s style.

Crabapple,

Not on the Beanie-and-Tyrelle-ticket-back-to-the-NC-game bandwagon yet?

Believe me, it could be worse; I am looking at Michigan’s 7 TO debacle at ND and seeing hope.

Crabapple @ 15. Historically, that’s true…but remember, this IS Florida State. They could find a way to lose.

For some reason I’m just not feelin’ it for Ala/Ga…as much as I like the idea of free, hot and electric sex, I am getting a dull, boring defensive vibe that leaves everyone drained of conscious thought…not that said vibe obviates the possibility of sex, I’m just thinkin’ it might be of a more mundane variety.

Re: Fla/Ole Miss…I’m gettin’ a “Boys Run Wild” feel from that one, with Moody tossing aside any emotional resemblance to his name on his way to a three-digit yardage count. Uh, no sex vibe, though…my lesbian buddhist psychic frowns on the idea of organized violence conjoined with the “act of love”. Yeah, she’s corny but still hott (with two t’s and five damns… thanks O.; I don’t think I am soon to forget that little missive!)

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I am very encouraged by our new QB and the promise of better times ahead that he brings. I am hopeful that Beanie is back soon, but afraid he may be like Keith Byars and not play much or well if he is still injured. I know that we have been spoiled and the MNC expectations have been dashed. This year. But I feel pretty good about our chances in the Big 10/11 and especially against Rich’s runts.

I wish I could encourage you about UM since we need a strong UM in the Big Ten. But I haven’t seen anything too encouraging so far. You guys did take out Weis on a punt return. So I guess there is hope for next year. I think Tressel will be paying more attention in our game.

Yea I was there too skinnyphatman…Yea the worst game I ever went to. At least we were drunk…but you didn’t miss much since the landing is the worst POS ever when two ACC schools mix it up in December in the cold rain weather. Cocktail party, im sure is awesome, ACC CG was NOT.

Tampa will at least be 70 degrees on gameday i bet, which is better than that shitstorm.

Brian,
I can definitely vouch for the difference between the ACC Champ game and the WLOCP, having attended several, since pops is a dawg. I was at the 1993 timeout game in the pouring rain. It was so intense and electric you hardly knew it was raining.

That made little to no sense. I find myself just reading one or two words a line and that makes it even more confusing.

free hot electric sex…. yes

@8: Until there is evidence otherwise (i.e., not trailing MAC schools in the 4th quarter), I wouldn’t presume that the University of Ohio State’s problems stop at getting blown out by the best team in the country.

For a moment I thought that read, “Louisiana acknowledges no authority outside the People’s Court” and I thought, “Yes, all is right with the world.”

FozzieBear, I was all with you right up until the pillow fight thing… I mean, Jacksonville is a complete hole and I intend never to go back… but for Hayden and Megan in their skivvies pillow fighting… I’d go to Siberia for that.

Orson, I just met your namesake a few minutes ago. He was driving through Tallahassee speaking with a Veteran’s group.

I gotta say, he’s one of the more impressive people I’ve met.

LL … glad to help, these guys gotta get it right sooner or later.

Fozzie and PPH…Jax is not so much a hole as a small big city with obvious bad parts and multiple good parts…which one must find…combined with low taxes and cost of living and the ease of exiting quickly to get to the good parts of other cities/locations. Alot of money to be made here, combined with low cost and ease of departure to places of high interest…never mind…forget I said that…remember Jax is a Hole and you do not want to live here. See ya.

And to all who think that the ACC sucks in Jacksonville…yeah they do. This is an ESSEEECEE city for over seventy years and the aye-cee-cee thinks they can come in here, well, you see the results. The WLOCP is on any normal person’s bucket list so you non-SEC or non- Gator/Dawg fans should look into tickets before they are simply not available. Good luck.

And to think, I’ve been paying that dominatrix for hot, electric sex.

My bad. I was thinking ACC title games and lame Gator Bowls with teams like UVA last year and Georgia Tech in 2006. The ACC brings everything down.

Who’s the UVA fan around here? Just saw they are 7 point underdogs to Duke. Yeeeee-ouch.

Could someone explain to me, in west coast terms, what the deal is with Jacksonville. I often hear bad things about it. Is it like Oakland?

Hey I can see where I was sitting for the ACCCG last year! I won’t make excuses for the piss poor gate but I will offer context and explanations. Virginia Tech has been Gator Bowl’d to near death, at one point I made three trips to JAX in a span of less than 13 months. That’s four trips too many. And BC’s entire fan base showed up and you can’t take that away from them. Plus they wanted $90 god damned dollars per seat. HA!^n where n is a very fucking large number.

The ACC batted 1.000 in out of conference match ups this past weekend, FYI.

I will stipulate that having the ACC championship game in Florida is a Really Fucking Stupid Idea™ however. The sooner it moves to Charlotte the better.

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Agreed here in BRock. I will buy 2 tix if put in CLT on a PERMANENT basis and ride from the 1.5 hrs from here.

Already have 2 SEC fer yrs dat I sell but not da last few years. sound like da coachO cave man now

Its kind of like Fresno on the water

^^^That was for 35, socal Bryan

No offense there Edsall, but UConn ranks way higher than GT and UVA on the lameness scale

knowshon? is that served with an aperitif?

/the Legend

ACCCG…

Acronym describing a football game wherein the winner recieves a BCS berth?…

… or the sound one makes when viewing said football game moments before suffering an aneurysm due to boredom?

you be the judge.

You should have included the Mountain West Conference in the mix. They’re probably better than everyone except for the Big 12 and SEC.

39 – You don’t like undefeated teams with a Heisman candidate RB? Just wait buddy….

And that 2006 Ga. Tech was the pits. At least UVA last year had Long’s kid.

socal @ #34…Jacksonville sits in the northeast corner of Florida. It is not a tourist mecca like Orlando or Miami. It does not have four million people like Tampa. It does not have quick and easy access by Alabamans and Mississippians to the beach (like the panhandle), but Georgians seem to infest our city regularly. It has beaches and an extremely large river that flows north and through downtown (the only north-flowing river in the continental US…because Georgia sucks…no, it’s true, she does!). In a four county area it has almost a million people, so those million people are fairly spread out. It was and is a shipping/industrial hub and as such has a large population of those who work in said industries, along with a navy presence which provides a large transient population.

There were paper mills that were aromatic (now gone) and Maxwell House coffee has a plant downtown so the scent of roasting coffee permeates areas of the city when the wind is right.

Jacksonville averages about ten degrees cooler than Orlando at any given time and Jacksonville also suffers fewer hurricane strikes than the lower portion of the state due to the steering currents of the Gulf Stream.

Like any other southern city ( and yes, Jacksonville is mentally more southern than Orlando) it had racial issues, but nothing compared to the issues documented over decades in Tallahassee (three hours away). The crime rate in portions of the city are not good, but they do seem to be localized in those areas.

Before the superbowl that took place here, some sports talk weenie (unfortunate rat-faced individual with a spotty beard) said it stunk and he hated it so that became the buzz-word for Jacksonville. As a result, Jacksonville is a place in which people who do not live here love to hate.

@44

The Genessee River in NY flows from South to North also.

Jacksonville is no longer specail

but I clearly am for misspelling “special”

bubj @#45…ah, but does the Gennessee have a tidal surge twice daily? I thought not. And who sucks to make it flow north? Not Georgia as she is anchored in the south. “Specail”-ness restored.

@43

Oh yes, how could we all forget mighty UConn’s nameless RB, a dead cinch lock to win the Heisman?

When Georgia beats Alabama by 20+ will they drop down to #20 b/c they were underdogs, on the road, and beaten by a top 5 team?