CURIOUS INDEX, 11/20/08

wow…you must have been watching a different game that i was last night. other than the weather, i didn’t see a whole lot of defense. i did see some of the ugliest jerseys in the history of football though. maybe there is a reason nobody else’s unis are made by new balance

Gerry—YOU MISSED THE WRATH OF ZOMBO?

’Twas indeed a good game, and I will fulfill a promise I made to a Ball State fan by ranking the Ballers on my next BlogPoll ballot.

But seriously, did it seem like ESPN was openly rooting for a BSU collapse? Every time they’d cut from “SportsCenter” back to the game it was always, “IS BALL STATE’S DREAM SEASON ABOUT TO COME TO AN END?!?!” Not “Can Ball State hold on and keep their dream season alive,” it was always the kind of tone that hinted certain doom was right around the corner. Almost as if they were saying “Please don’t make us talk about ‘ranked, undefeated Ball State’ for the next two weeks.”

alright, i’ll give you zombo, but i saw some gaping holes in the running game, and some wr’s running wide open in space. if everything wasn’t so cold and slippery it would have been 42-35.

Some of the worst tackling I’ve ever seen last night by CMU. They made that little 5’6" SOB look like Brandon Jacobs.

Orson, are you going to make it to the Tech/Miami game tonight?

I’m surprised that BYU fans have any money left to spend on football tickets after blowing all their cash on Prop 8 hatemongering.

Wow, the old man needs to hang em’ up. That’s the worst pre-game speech I’ve ever heard.

Way to fire up the troops, Bobby!!!

Actually, that pregame speech was written by Myron Rolle, but being a good FSU guy, Bobby was just cheating off of it.

No wonder they don’t get good recruits any more. Did you see the faces of the kids in the background? Totally tuned out. If I didn’t hate FSU so much it would be kind of sad, but instead it’s hilarious in a pathetic sort of way.

PeteJayhawk…political season is officially over. Please express your tolerance elsewhere.

kthanxbai

Dane—-

Currently mulling that over.

What a horrid disaster. The sheer boredom of Brian Kelly in so cool a place as Knoxville. The thrill of Pirate in same. Please say it aint’s so.

If you look closely at the end Bobby reaches to adjust “little Bobby”. The layers of inspiration are boundless.

This is Richt’s sensei? Geez. No wonder the defense is flat-lining. Why not let Jimbo do the speech talking?

Congrats to BSU. I thought CMU would nip them at the wire. Still, BSU’s marquee win, if not last night, is racking Indiana. Not exactly BCS worthy, but better than Hawaii’s “quality win” over U Dub last year. Or is it?

Utah-BYU will be a fun game and I couldn’t be happier about being a DirecTV subscriber with Sports Pack. It’s awesome. All I really lack in the TV football watching department is a modestly large HDTV with HD signal to boot. Unfortunately for my football addiction, I’ll be at mom-in-law’s this weekend. Luckily, I’ll have my awesome SO and her sister with me and they belong to my support group. We’ll survive. I’ll bring booze.

Taking the ’canes and the points.

Also, Dude… department:

Brian Kelly? OK. I suppose if he can win with Dantonio’s players, he can win with Fulmer’s. A resounding yes! from Athens, GA.

I’m still dying to know about the remaining 3 flavors of disappointment. The “WVU/significant other of convenience” was golden.

Big win for Ball State, but that was a B to B+ effort from these Cardinals. The D was horrible, the officiating was inconsistent for both sides, the announcers were two of the worse jag offs I’ve ever heard (who the hell puts an alum in the booth?), and the the student section at Central was ridiculous. Throwing snowballs at opposing players while the play is still going is fucking ridiculous.

Re #3: I didn’t catch the entire broadcast. Did Ray Bentley (the color guy) bother to disclose that he is a CMU alum . . . and has a kid who plays for the Chips? Some folks can deal with that inherent conflict (Bob Griese); other can’t. Although, in fairness to Bentley, he sucks even when calling “neutral” games.

I love newspapers. I still get the bulk of my news from newspapers. I was the only kid in 6th grade who aspired to be Mike Royko. I’ve worked in print in some fashion my entire adult life and I firmly believe that all reports about the death of print are grossly overblown. Yet if it meant Jason Whitlock would starve to death in some rat-infested hovel because no fool would ever again pay him to write a single word, I would firebomb newspapers and put editors to the sword from coast to bloody coast.

#18. Yes the color guy did mention he played for CMU. You could tell he’d get a little more excited for CMU, but it wasn’t bad.

I watched the second half after putting little people to sleep and agree that the game was quite tasty for a Wednesday night. Better than 90% of the SEC games I’ve watched this year.

Why did Bobby have to write any of that down?

is anybody else reminded of the sarah palin-katie couric “shoring up the economy” interview by bobby’s speech?

I hate Bowden and the Noles, but that snuck across the border from Funny to Sad pretty quickly.

“Gotta fight…ya know…gotta fight…” Notice a grim-faced Amato waiting for Bobby to fall dead so he can pounce down and do CPR……

Why would they release that? How did they think that made anyone look good?

As a Cincy fan I want Kelly to stay but I understand that Kelly can make more than twice as much with the Vols. The only real criticism people have said about Kelly is that he won at CMU and UC with another coach’s players. Well CMU didn’t have a winning season for 7 years prior to his arrival and UC is on the verge of their two most succesful years in school history. And he’s the same guy who won two national titles with his own players at Grand Valey State. Kelly is gregarious without being weird, the same can not be said of Mike Leach. If I were a Vols fan my big concern would be his lack of recruiting ties in the south not whether the guy can coach or not.

“It’s a like a tiramisu of football misery, soaked with the liqueur of sincerity”

that’s the best line since “Wilford Brimley Bukkake party”

Wait just a minute…

ONLY the punter for the University of Tennessee may be his team’s MVP, and you all know it. WOOOO!!! We got Colquit back!!!