CURIOUS INDEX, 11/18/08

by Orson on Nov 18, 2008 9:33 AM EST

You wound, sir, with a dagger's stab. Rich Rodriguez is getting testy after the loss to Northwestern.

"It's amazing some of the things that people would say (on a message board) or yell at you of a personal nature," Rodriguez said Monday. "You almost want to tell them, "Get a life.'

"There's a whole lot bigger problems. Look at the economy."

The fundamentals of this economy are strong, DickRod! WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA?

Fox, out. Matt Vasgersian, it was lovely while we had it. Fox is out of the bidding for the BCS contract. Sad: no more Vasgersian explosions of colorful metaphor.

Good: ditching the rest of the ADDled Fox broadcast, most notable for showing crowd shots during important moments on the field, because a shot of a touchdown and then a shot of someone gasping in the crowd is what is required for me to realize something good/bad has happened to my/the other team.

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Smart Football is SMRT. Smart Football is back, and reveals that they once had a long conversation with Mike Leach about the Pythagorean Theorem being used to calculate the length of a quarterback's throw. Of course he did.

Thank you for creating our program now go. You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when Jim met you. He picked you out, he shook you up, he turned you around, turned you into someone new. A USF fan forgets that USF is Jim Leavitt by founding the inevitable Jim Leavitt Must Go site, which to be fair does feature an amusing opening page.

That's science. Building the Dam lets the world in on the advanced techniques they use to calculate football math. It beats the crap out of our scratch pad, a week-old edition of The Economist.

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Would it be wrong to ask Pete Carroll to adopt me during the live chat?

Would I have to disown my very-much-alive parents first?

Can a 35-yr-old man disown his parents, legally?

by GamecockTony on Nov 18, 2008 9:39 AM EST reply actions

I’m going to go out on a limb and ask, Is it really a good thing that ESPN gets the BCS contract?

by BurritoBrosShits on Nov 18, 2008 9:42 AM EST reply actions

Orson searching for a pen to scribble on The Economist:
http://www.felixleiter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/beam-leiter.jpg

by PW on Nov 18, 2008 9:43 AM EST reply actions

Wouldn’t a simpler method of determining the length of a QB’s throw be just measuring the distance using the lines on the field? That would work unless he threw the ball diagonally across the field , but even then you’d only know the distance the ball traveled in the x direction (using the lines) and you’d have to estimate the distance in the y direction. Since you’re estimating y, why not just estimate the throw itself?

by PW on Nov 18, 2008 9:53 AM EST reply actions

Just looking over the comments on that USF site, I can see that these fans don’t deserve a football program.

“Its time for Jim Leavitt to go. We should bring in a real division one coach to take us to the next level. The former coach of Tennessee would be a great start. He is a proven winner and I believe a change of scenery is just what he needs. Hes a great recruiter and has a proven track record in division one football.”

I can’t wait to see Fulmer on the sidelines for a Big East game, I just hope he can fit in the stadium.

by Laker on Nov 18, 2008 9:57 AM EST reply actions

DickRod thinks it’s bad now? Just wait….

…and I’m referring to Michigan Football, Michigan Fan’s comments, and Michigan’s economy.

I suggest that he and his staff take the same approach the UAW was taken to the “Big (stupid) 3 needing a government bail-out” situation.

“It’s not our fault”

by Mich-Placed Gator on Nov 18, 2008 9:59 AM EST reply actions

Greatest moment of the 2008 BCS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ryZc_AU4wY.

Even FOX didn’t manage to screw that one up.

Unlike, say, the Boise marriage proposal, the Reggie Nelson post-game interview, etc. Please let this be the end for Chris Myers.

by TJ on Nov 18, 2008 10:00 AM EST reply actions

FOX Sports needs to stop promoting from within. Some of the worst football coverage is done by FoxSportsNet. Entire plays get missed. Last Sat. night, they missed the 1st play of the 4th quarter, which was a TD. They were busy running some stupid promos or something. The announcers come back on air and are laughing that everyone missed seeing the play…..

by Mark D on Nov 18, 2008 10:06 AM EST reply actions

FYI: I was referring to to the UofA-Oregon game in post #8.

by Mark D on Nov 18, 2008 10:07 AM EST reply actions

They were talking about Johnny Majors.

by PW on Nov 18, 2008 10:11 AM EST reply actions

How bad is Nick Sheridan? From the O-Zone’s “Michigan Monday,” Nick Sheridan makes baby Anthony Morelli cry.

Ouch.

by Zone Left on Nov 18, 2008 10:14 AM EST reply actions

Playoff talk is now persona non grata in Bristol.

Talk of beating tOSU is impossible for DickRod to comprehend. My guess is he will understand the importance of the rivalry about 30 seconds after he is fired for losing in embarassing fashion for the 4th or 5th year in a row. As much as I would like to see Michigan do well so that the game has more meaning, I admit to enjoy watching them be humbled on a weekly basis.

by Crabapple Buck on Nov 18, 2008 10:17 AM EST reply actions

So… Petro Papadakis won’t be doing color for the Rose Bowl anytime soon?

Damn.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Nov 18, 2008 10:18 AM EST reply actions

And just three years ago they were ready to build a statue of Leavitt for getting them to 6-5 and the Meineke Car Care Bowl. That was the correct reaction. Even though this season will end up a huge disappointment, it will still end in a bowl game—their 4th in their first 4 years in the Big East. That is not a firing offense for the guy who built your program.

That said, it’s sad that they’re the 4th best team in the state again. It was fun holding them against FSU and Miami.

by TJ on Nov 18, 2008 10:22 AM EST reply actions

Over/Under on height of Orson’s stack of unread issues of The Economist is currently 2’3".

by Raleigh Urbain on Nov 18, 2008 10:26 AM EST reply actions

@Raleigh Urbain: Bitch! You know I read that profile on Spain in this week’s edition.

by Orson Swindle on Nov 18, 2008 10:30 AM EST reply actions

I wouldn’t mind a change with the OC, but Leavitt is a made man in Tampa.

by AstroBull on Nov 18, 2008 10:43 AM EST reply actions

#2: It’s good that FOX doesn’t get it. I don’t think ESPN can help being an improvement.

by SpartanDan on Nov 18, 2008 10:57 AM EST reply actions

[accidentally knocks over 5 foot stack of New Yorkers while slowly backing away]

by Raleigh Urbain on Nov 18, 2008 11:05 AM EST reply actions

re: DickRod

He wanted the big-time, fucked over an entire program (not to mention an entire state) to get it, and now that he’s shitting all over his new throne – can’t understand why the natives are restless?

by NativeSon on Nov 18, 2008 11:10 AM EST reply actions