Comments on: CURIOUS INDEX, 9/24/2008

By: JD

JD — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:02:53 +0000

Orson -

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

By: ReckBeau

ReckBeau — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:03:09 +0000

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.

By: Dr.Ed PHDxyz

Dr.Ed PHDxyz — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:58:35 +0000

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.

By: shane #1

shane #1 — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:36:56 +0000

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.

By: Bonesy

Bonesy — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:52:40 +0000

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.

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:51:43 +0000

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.

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:13:45 +0000

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

By: PW

PW — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:24:48 +0000

Blon

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

By: blon

blon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:12:13 +0000

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.

By: tzubear

tzubear — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 16:12:00 +0000

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!

By: PW

PW — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:55:54 +0000

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)?

By: Saban has Laser Eyes

Saban has Laser Eyes — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:42:57 +0000

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

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

By: DC Trojan

DC Trojan — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:41:40 +0000

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?

By: blon

blon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:25:45 +0000

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.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:14:44 +0000

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?