CURIOUS INDEX, 10/24/08
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Gold Frontz for headlights, but you only see the license plate. 17 carries, 207 yards, 12.2 yards a carry, and one TD. Against Auburn last night, Noel Devine was no gossamer escape artist of a scatback last night; instead he pinged around like a pinball through Auburn’s defense, who had no answer when they were fit and fighting in the early going, and certainly had no answer when they crumpled late in a 34-17 defeat to the Mountaineers in Morgantown. The grill, it seems, is magnetically attracted to endzones at potentially dangerous speeds.
You listen to Mee-maw, now! West Virginia doesn’t have a traffic light hung up to direct its fans like they did in your elementary school cafeteria, but they do use digital media to coordinate the tottering masses: – MIXED MESSAGES: The scoreboard at Milan Puskar Stadium exhorted West Virginia fans to “MAKE NOISE” when Auburn was on offense. But when the Mountaineers had the ball, the photo of a grandmotherly woman appeared to shush the crowd. “Quiet please, Mountaineers on offense,” the scoreboard read. Old women, the grand fearsome shushers of the world. In our mind, she does this with a squirrel-huntin’ rifle in one hand. We never picked him for a Jane Wyman fan. There’s a bit of interesting chum in the shallow waters of the Bret Bielema review here, but this does jut out just a bit: What’s on TV:SportsCenter, Friends, Falcon Crest, Leave It to Beaver, Grey’s Anatomy. Falcon Crest? It’s one thing to pick an obscure television show as a retro fave, but a bland and largely forgotten show? Bret Bielema, your subtle ironic hipsterism does not go unnoticed here. Also, Bielema is funny, because he says he actually listens to Buckcherry, which we all know no one actually does. Blow your candles out…with your last breath. It is sad to see even the very young embracing suicide. YEAHHHH VERILY GIGGITY And so the son returneth to the father, bearing with him bushels of shame and giggity. |
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MikeLew says:
@48….actually, the people to blame for UGA playing Hawaii in N’awlins are……wait for it…….the Sugar Bowl people.
See, the BCS allows the bowls that lose their conference champions to the BCSNCG to retain the rights to the second team selected from that conference. So, unless you really believe that the Sugar Bowl released UGA so they could have that great Hawaii-Illinois matchup, you can’t blame Delany or the Big Ten.
FWIW, The Big Ten against the SEC in bowl games are 13-13 since the advent of the BCS- hardly an indication of dominance by either conference.
October 24th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
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MountaineerBob says:
Yes I was nursing a mega hangover and it was TOTALLY worth it. That was a great game and after the rest of the Big East imploded WVU is in the perfect position to do what we do best…. be the underdog and kick ass.
October 26th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
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Noel Devine's Gold Teef says:
Yo, Auburn. How my nuts taste?
- NDGT
October 27th, 2008 at 8:53 am
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
GatorAM: well, see, there is your problem. You live in ATL.
October 27th, 2008 at 9:30 am
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Gen. Stoopnagle says:
MikeLew: I appreciate your explanation, but I find it lacking. First, the pecking order of the BCS, after the automatics, last year was Fiesta, Rose, Orange, Sugar. The Rose jumped to the front of the line when it lost tOSU to the BCS game, followed by the Sugar who lost LSU, then the Fiesta and Orange, then back through the line again.
The Rose asked the Orange if it could consider Va Tech, but did not ask the Sugar if it could consider Georgia (the next SEC team in line and, by rule, the Sugar’s team, no doubt). But the Rose DID NOT ASK to even be able to consider UGA. Why would they not at least attempt to stage the best game possible? Sugar’s fault? Hardly.
And what other bowl committee would have picked Illinois? At the very least, the Rose should have taken the most deserving team which was Missouri. If there is one team which got jobbed worse than UGA by the Rose Bowl it was Mizzou.
And even in your world where Illinois was a deserving team, the Rose chose to subject all of us to TWO crappy games (USC v Illinois AND UGA v Hawaii), instead of one (in your world: Hawaii v Illinois) but with the bonus of a great game in USC v Georgia.
Water under the bridge now. As far as I am concerned (and I hope as far as Damon Evans, Mike Slive and Mark Richt are concerned) the Rose Bowl can shove it.
October 28th, 2008 at 8:12 am