CURIOUS INDEX, 9/24/2008

Duke are favoured…. in a football game…. can someone please confirm theres a rule that keeps them from making the ACC title game???

yep… he well was overdue for a good GERG-ing.

so does he get fired right away, or does the AD hold his impending doom over his head Sword-of-Damocles style?

That Iowa-Syracuse game cured my priopism!

“The 2006 Iowa/Syracuse game ended with the most pathetic display of goal-line offense ever”

Ah, but to listen to Hawkeyes you’d think it was Bama-PSU in 1979; forgetting two things, of course: A) It’s freaking Syracuse, and B) it’s freaking Iowa. The mention of either should induce erectile dysfunction or at the least somnolence.

Yes, I refused to go to Rice because they didn’t have sororities and Stanford because I felt the stores were inadequate in Palo Alto. My mother was so proud: She threatened to leave me in Waco for four years.

Leave Mason Foster alone.

I have been chaste since the Auburn/Mississippi State game.

/celibacy (highly overrated btw) ends this weekend

It’ll be great to see Groh go back to the NFL as an assistant of some sort.

One down, two (at least) to go: Let’s get rid of Tedford and Weis ASAP also. I know there are others, but these three in particular were going to bring pro sets and decided tactical advantages to the poor rubes in falling all over themselves in D1 college footbal.

To quote Johnny: Good riddance to bad rubbish.

1. - I’d say cocktails to you, sir, but it wouldn’t be appropriate, so HT!

For Duke? I think you meant “eine”, not “ein”.

Duke by SIX AND A HALF??

This is like that old “Bizarro World” sketch on Saturday Night Live in the 80s. “Of course Duke am favored to win football game. Duke is best team ever!”

Orson,

can we get LSUFreek on properly using the ten second span starting at the 40 mark of the youtube video of Alabama assistant coach Kirby Smart’s fun filled statements. Someone has to find the humor of watching the entire team bow as Saban walks past them.

Syracuse/Iowa Football makes the baby Jesus cry.

blon—

dance party takes away waco!

Duke, “are” favored? Good luck with the GMAT.

All hail King Cutcliffe. The reign of terror will not end until the other alma mater is facing Wake Forest in the ACCCG.

Oh, and I would be lying if I did not add that it warms my cold, evil heart to see the Duke football, “renaissance,” come directly at the expense of Tennessee.

Sometimes, good things happen to good people at the expense of the damned.

1. must be English, having placed a “u” in “favored” and referring to a [singular] team as being plural. I watch Sky Sports News on FSC and they do this all the time.

Al Groh needs to do better on his deals with the devil next time.

So Washington’s players had nothing but football to worry about in getting ready to play BYU and Oklahoma at home? Wonder what had the coaches so distracted…pre-registration, parking decals?

There is pushing players to be the very best and then there’s O’Leary’s ideas on the subject. He crossed the line, and it seems to have happened more than once. I’d keep Robinson and send the moving van to O’Leary’s house.

Raider Red @ 14 – if I may remove my naturalized citizen hat (a cap from the Nahunta Pork Outlet, fwiw) for a moment, it was our language first and if we want to use a plural verb to refer to a collective, we shall feel free so to do. The former glory is long gone, except for the stolen relics in our museums, so have a heart, eh?

Good Lord Holly, Your fans are in meltdown mode on Rivals.

http://tennessee.rivals.com/forum.asp?fid=2251

Laser Eye Saban—

It asked for my credit card number, which begs the question: do people actually pay to talk about Tennessee football with one another? Do they not know about this fine site (EDSBS)?

DC Trojan @ 17,

Its our language now. We wont stop debasing it until every last vestige of French is wiped out. In the future we will all communicate in sound bite/text message size increments entirely in acronyms and emoticons. Its going to be wonderful!

PW,
There’s a sucker born every minute…or whatever that saying happens to be.

Yes, people even pay to talk about Duke and Texas A&M.

Blon

I suddenly feel a lot more confident about my chances of becoming a Mensa member.

@18—Happens to the best of us. (Clearly.) But Knoxvull is, as you know, particularly pitchfork-and-torch-happy to begin with.

tzubear @ 20 – Don’t I know it. A friend who is a more recent arrival from the sceptered isle nearly cracked when I referred to “British English.” But that’s the reality, even if the pasty ones don’t want to make it E-Z to pass thru into the nite, lunguistically speaking.

To clarify, it’s the first time Duke has been favored in a CONFERENCE game since 2002. They were 2.5-point favorites in the last game against Navy, and they covered, the first time they covered as a favorite since I think 1996.

People pay to talk about Duke sports? You mean basketball, right? Why would they pay to talk football? Prehaps they got a medical degree and are looking for write offs. I will say that UT must be looking at Cutliff with tear filled eyes. How well will the “Clawfense” fare against AU’s defense? Not very well, methinks.

Yep, Ole Les sure can get them up and call those plays that sure seem to work. I’ll give him credit for that. But we’ve probably seen the last 2 loss NC for a while. Maybe they’ll win another one this year. This Auburn fan has goten a double dose of Les’ s Magic !! But, I’ve always been told, if you dance around the fire long enough sooner or later you’re going to get burned.We sure have.

Re: George O’Leary, I played for him at GT, and was present for one of the controversial incidents… Personally, I think he’s a good coach that’s made some poor PR moves, but he’s done nothing that merits firing. He demands high performance from his players and is old school when he doesn’t get it.

And Dustin Vaitekunas is a puss. He lay there and cried after getting knocked down by guys nowhere near his size (6’7" 300+ lbs). Everyone was disgusted.

Orson -

He felt like the longtime sports director at Channel 8 in Tampa, flying the Space Shuttle?