CURIOUS INDEX, 11/6/2008

by Orson on Nov 6, 2008 9:43 AM EST

Car in Cam Newton accident. Cam Newton, backup qb at Florida, is in a neck brace following a car accident on Tuesday night. Newton is in a neckbrace, but you should see the truck.

Renegotiating, but not now. Texas Tech's AD will renegotiate the contract with Mike Leach, just not now. We'll see if the pirate negotiating tactics emerge in the process, because if he's a true buccaneer he'll drag this and possible job offers from Washington and Tennessee out to the last second, double-cross everyone, and head back to Lubbock with a hold full of booty. BTW, in case you didn't notice: Mike Leach is not black.

I personally object to your insistence on class attendance. Ray Small, junior wideout, has been suspended indefinitely for missing class. Small's father says it's personal, and that Jim Tressel is attempting to scuttle the young man's career. We'll let you decide who is in the right here no we won't it's Tressel.

Caution, now. Houston wide receiver Patrick Edwards is back in the hospital due to the possibility of infection of his broken leg, the one featured last week bending the wrong way around an equipment cart at Marshall. Pardon us, but isn't the hospital where one goes to acquire infections, not the other way around?

The flowers died, and a cold chill sat in the air. Bill Snyder could return to Kansas State. You'll know he's back if the Dark Mark Wildcat reappears on Stoops' and Mangino's forearms.

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No on neckties, yes to going to class…damn, O, you’re doing your real-life version of WILD CARD!!!

by spartymike on Nov 6, 2008 9:52 AM EST reply actions

“Mike Leach is not black.” Does his soul count?

#1: I actually agree that there has been a lack of consistency in O’s call for discipline. More from Urban, less from D’Antonio, just right from Tressel.

by Laugh on Nov 6, 2008 10:11 AM EST reply actions

It’s got to be double hard to find qualified black coaches in the college ranks when the NFL is doing so much to get some color in it’s coaching ranks.

I mean, think about it this way: Herm Edwards is a pro coach.

by southernmost on Nov 6, 2008 10:19 AM EST reply actions

We think we’re pretty clear on the notion that Urban Meyer’s piss-poor on discipline.

by Orson Swindle on Nov 6, 2008 10:22 AM EST reply actions

In Obama’s Amercia race of a coach is no longer the issue… the issue is girth… Fulmer, Prince

Fat is the new Black.

by CrimsonBarrister on Nov 6, 2008 10:26 AM EST reply actions

JT just wants Ray to remember that he is the coach and John Cooper is no longer in charge. Class is mandatory to be considered a student-athlete.

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 6, 2008 10:29 AM EST reply actions

Infections love them some scar tissue, which this young man has a lot of. You gotta be on top of cleaning the wound like 2x a day with H2O2, or else it’ll end up all infecty-pussy, which is not any good, and can lead to badness of the worst kind. Here’s hoping he makes it back!

by Brian on Nov 6, 2008 10:47 AM EST reply actions

Damn..this story is getting more and more like Prothro’s…

by CapstoneAlum on Nov 6, 2008 10:53 AM EST reply actions

Neckties and class attendance do not prepare you for the Fulmer Cup — just like Youngstown State and the Ohio Bobcats doesn’t prepare you for Florida and LSU.

I want the Fulmer Cup, wins vs. the SEC, and a National Championship trophy with the blood of 70,000 kittens all over it…and I want it now!!!

Who cares about the Rose Bowl anyways…

by TAFKastOSUB on Nov 6, 2008 11:25 AM EST reply actions

I’m confused. Is “Black” ok again? I thought it was “African-American” now.

by Daywalker trailer park on Nov 6, 2008 12:51 PM EST reply actions

Three things here:

1) While I am all for equal hiring practices, I think it is a pretty poor thing in the NCAA that you have to interview at least one black candidate. It is not fair to the schools because there are not very many qualified black coaches, and it isn’t fair to the black coaches because they would quickly get disillusioned in the process by being the token black interviewee.

Off of the top of my head, Charlie Strong is really the only good candidate I know of for a head coaching job that is also black.

2) I really, really hope, as an Alabama fan that has literally had his heartbroken over Tyrone Prothro’s injury, that the kid from Houston manages to pull out of this. Prothro’s injury was the same way in the beginning, and a few staff infections and fucked up injuries later, we lose a Percy Harvin/Warrick Dunn/Reggie Bush style player that comes along maybe once every 20 years, and a real leader on the team. The poor kid stil has a limp, and it’s almost four years later.

3) I’m torn by what Mack Brown did. On one hand, it isn’t acceptable in today’s world as a represenative of a major D1 program to say something like that.

On the other hand, we are talking about a kid who made a bad call. While this won’t be the end of his life, it is a very tough punishment for a simple screw-up. He’s off the team, lost his scholarship, and his life could take a decidely worse turn because of this.

I do not think the punishment fits the crime.

by El Kabong!!! on Nov 6, 2008 3:26 PM EST reply actions