CURIOUS INDEX, 11/10/08

Way to stay classy, LSU fans.

hangs head in shame

Hm. Story seems to indicate that shotgun-toting Bama fan actually did the shootin’. Is “He was provokin’ me” an acceptable legal defense in Alabama?

Queen Spider, may she birth no successors and live forever, has a known highlight reel bias.

I would like to extend major congrats to Bill Stewart/O-coor Jeff Mullen for finding a way to fuck up one of the greatest collegiate careers ever in Pat White, while simultaneously ruining the pro prospects of Noel Devine….

LSU fans were the victims.

O:

I think the LSU fan is the one that got gunned down, though he apparently had a pistol.

So ridiculous.

Just a quick note . . . that #7 should be Utah and not the Domers, unless I’m missing a Catholicism & Mormonism joke.

Oh god dammit. I just got it.

“…alcohol was involved…”

DUHHHH, ya think???

“…alcohol was involved…”

As were knuckle-dragging morons.

Sure that wasn’t Jarrett Lee with the pistol? His aim isn’t so good either.

Shot the man and then, hey, might as well shoot his wife too. Saban says your sposed to finish the play dammit.

James Carville does not have time for this shit.

I feel like few ever make a giant spider’s other six eyes big enough. You can get a lot more scary in that way.

@ the Alabama/LSU story: As if this state and that program needed any more idiots to raise their profile.

Nice going.

Not that I am defending the Bama fan, but if someone came to my house and pulled a pistol out on me, I would have shot them as well.

As for shooting the wife, I’m assuming she went for the pistol, but I don’t know.

All involved parties were idiots. You would think that an LSU fan would have known what would happen to him after watching that game. Saturday just wasn’t LSU’s day. Should have tried on Sunday or something.

My $0.02

If the PSU loss (Iowa) is comparable to the UF loss (OM) and USC loss (OSU) then a conference championship game becomes a deciding factor. Correct? Which one of the three is not like the other ones?

BTW, the UT loss (TT) and the OU loss (UT) are not comparable in this sense as they came against highly ranked teams. UF and OU are tied for 5th in the BCS.

Again, why NO conference championships in the Pac-10 and Big 10? In the future, ties will automatically go to an SEC, Big 12 or ahem ACC champion.

/awaiting shit-storm

when I clicked on the bama/LSU link I thought

“maybe, just maybe he’s refering to formations where the quarterback doesn’t line up under center…”

sigh… sad

The UA/LSU story is tragic beyond belief. However, I am willing to bet 3 months of CNS’s salary that the shooter gets nothing more than criminally negligent homocide…which in Alabama is a misdem. and punishable by less than a year in jail.

Nice “Portal” reference! Didn’t think I’d see that here.

I think this article describes the Real America they were looking for. Does football mean more in the SEC, YOU BETCHA!

hlh-

Let me try to enlighten you.

No conference champ game is needed in the Pac 10 or Big East, they play the entire conference.

The Big 11 has none due to NCAA rules prohibiting a CCG unless there are 12 teams (or more) in a conference.

Playing a CCG doesn’t erase a loss to Ole Miss. It will count even if you beat Bama. If you don’t, you will have 2 losses.

Since each year is to be judged on the results of that year, I prefer not to make any more dumbfuck rules that have no bearing on future results. You like to have it both ways regarding CCGs. You bitch cause you have to play one, and then claim that they help your team. Pick a side, then STFU about it.

Now, give me back my old clock rules and quit shorting me 10 plays a game. The NCAA is fucking us out of football so there can be more commercials and all we get out of it are games with fewer plays.

Wow, that Akitagator guy sure did show Spencer who is boss over on the Alphabetical, totally exposing Spencer for the Zook-loving Gator-hater that he is.

Is that fucking Tom Brady selling me Stetson? WTF is he wearing?

Syracuse would like GERG to know, however, that they have added a consequence for failure: any contact with a loss to Notre Dame will result in an unsatisfactory mark on GERG’s official record, followed by death. Good luck.

I like the idea of a CCG for establishing a champ (hell, and having one more big game to watch), but don’ t like the implications that it can have on the BCS via the computer rankings and strength of schedule. If you beat a team in the regular season and then face and beat them in the CCG, it can actually hurt your BCS rankings since the team you beat has one more loss.

I couldnt agree more with Crabapple Buck…. which scares me just alittle.

These guys that bitch about having to play their CCG, and others don’t, are the same ones that would complain if a playoff only too conference champions** and not “just the top 8”… any argument an SEC fan can pull from their ass they do, it just depends on the year and circumstances to change what they’re arguing for.

• Let it be known I am only for a playoff that rewards CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS, in any fashion they are selected. You cant be 2nd best in the SEC East and tell me you deserve to play for the national title.

beckett-
that’s bullshit. why should you take all the conference champs when soem of these conferences suck balls? granted, they are starting to get some good sparks of talent lately but nobody that could really compete in a playoff with the big boys. What would happen if the brackets got all messed up one year and the final game was the ACC or MWAC playing the SEC or Big 12 or PAC-10 or something? nobody would give a shit.

A playoff should be the top 8 teams in the country, even if one conference has multiple teams in the top 8 or if some conferences have none. This depends on reconfiguring of the CCG division, either all would have to have one or none would have one to make total sense, but it’s still a far better idea than having all the conference champs play each other.

@22

I love CCG’s. Always have. They are the present de facto playoffs.

Why not pick up another team or 2 (Pac-10)? Again, those teams with the same record but in a non-CCG league will be overlooked.

Methinks that the Rose Bowl has and will continue to lose its luster. It has been that way since the start of the BCSCG.

Finally, why the animosity toward gaining another member and having a CCG? You wanted more football, correct?

THE CAKE IS A LIE!

A moment of silence please for the death of two footbaw fans…..may they rest in peace….

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The problem is, I’ve watched WVU not be ranked in the top 8, go out SLAUGHTER a Big 12 champion in Oklahoma and pounce on the SEC champion in Georgia in 2005. We’ve seen what Boise St could do. And we’ve seen an undeserving Oklahoma team, that didn’t win their conference play for the national title…. Its subjective and its bullshit to go on anything other than W’s and L’s.

The concept of a playoff is to DECIDE IT ON THE FIELD. Georgia (BCS #11) shouldnt be ranked in the top 8 and get ANOTHER shot in the playoffs this year at Alabama and Florida. Taking conference champions is the only way its 100% decided ON THE FIELD. If UF this year were to beat Alabama, tough shit ’Bama fans, Florida won it on the field.

Tell me this, who automatically gets into the NFL playoffs – division winners! The Dallas Cowboys dont automatically get a pass just because they look good on paper and “if this team figures it out, theyre tough to beat so I’m going to rank them #5”…. NO! Its wins and its losses, period! And if you get a MAC vs ACC title game, tough shit, but at least they played the games and got their without pandering and bitching “but we pay in the SEC, its the best!!!!” and getting into pissing contests…

Its so funny, the SEC homers all want a “real” championship, until you show them how real championships are won (hint hint, they aren’t voted for).

Not that it matters in the outcome but…I was under the mistaken impression that replay was supposed to be used to…you know…actually REVIEW the play on the field. I’m kind of curious to know exactly what the replay official at Vanderbilt (on the call for Percy’s “fumble” during the 2nd qtr.) was watching. God knows it wasn’t the play on the field.

Here is the goal line….here is the ball over the goal line…here is Percy Harvin down…here is the fumble after the ball is over the line and Percy Harvin is down….

If Florida, Oklahoma, Penn State and USC win out, They will all have 1 loss. Florida and Oklahoma will have an additional win.
They play for the BCSNC.

Everybody OK with this?

hlh -

What if Texas wins out also? Won’t they have an additional game, or are you already granting the Big XII CCG game to OU?

To answer your question; no, not everybody is OK with this.

Crabapple AND Beckett

We can have our cake and bitch about it too with the CCG.

We can bitch b/c we have to play it., and then by god if we win it we should get the credit commensurate with beating a quality team.

I do agree with you Beckett, if we have a playoff then the CCG should be abolished, the two teams that make it should move on to the round of 64 according to the ARRRRRRRRR

Guns up bitches

@33 Thank you. I listened to the official uphold a fumble on that play, and said to my buddy, you know, if we weren’t up 28 points right now, I’d be really pissed.

Might as well throw this one out there too, possibility Texas plays the OU-TxTech winner in the BCS champ game if Bama loses to Auburn and then beats Florida. Southern Cal can run up scores as big as they want but their credibility is really hurt by the strength of their conference and the fact that if Oregon St. wins out they are the Pac 10 champ, which means, GASP, Southern Cal might not even finish good enough to claim a spot in the Rose Bowl.

im confused. Utah is 7, not notre dame.

@35

Yes, UT winning out would make it UF vs. UT.

What I forgot to mention in my previous scenario, is that TT and Bama would also have one loss, but because of the CCG would not be considered for the BCSNCG as would PSU and USC. If Oklahoma beats TT, I would be surprised to see TT in the Big XII CG. If Missouri wins, then PSU/USC are back in it.

This is why in the SEC/Big XII, you first have to win your division, then the conference. If all things afterward are equal, then these teams play for all the marbles.

BTW, last year UGA was at the center of a season-ending shit storm. LSU won the CCG and went to New Orleans for the BCSCG. I was fine with that.

It’s become more and more evident that it’s GRob, not JoePa, who’s the undead northeastern head coach. Why won’t his tenure of driving my Orange into oblivion just die?

I say the season should be settled by a playoff. Not an actual playoff, but a simulated EA Sports NCAA playoff. Take the winners of the actual BCS bowls, bracket them, and let the good engineers at EA and their handiwork handle it from there. It would work out wonderfully. A true #1.

Note to coonasses: DO NOT bring a pistol to a shotgun fight