CURIOUS INDEX, 12/8/2008

and here i was all happy that we weren’t going to have any coordinator distraction issues going into the title game…oh well, at least it’s wilson who we really don’t need to be all that focused since our offense is so good that i could probably coach them and score 50+

OS, i am looking forward to my first interaction with the florida fanbase, who b/c of your website i can only assume are all erudite, hyperliterate quasi-intellectuals who are well versed in culture and college football – this is a safe assumption, right?

Homer Simpson as Notre Dame:

ummmmmm…..cupcakes……

Okiedomer—Um, yes. We’re all just like that.

ABO=Anybody but Oklahomo.

I’d like Florida a lot more if those announcer guys could just keep Tebow’s cock out of their mouths for ten freakin seconds! I know, I know—its not Tebow’s fault— but it is nonetheless irritating as hell.

Please, Florida, whip Oklahomo by 60 points.

I think proclamations of the SEC’s decline are a bit premature, don’t you? On what is this projection based, anyway? LSU and UT (who won their respective divisions last year and subsequently lost most of the coaches and players that made that possible) having bad seasons? If I’m not mistaken, the SEC has nine teams headed to the post-season, right? Including two BCS bids and several more 2009 bowls besides? And this is in a “down” year by conference standards, in which most of the traditional powers (and some of the risers) are in the middle of QB transitions?

Sorry, I don’t buy that the SEC is all washed up because it’s got too much speed. Nonsense. The most effective defenses in the league have a combination of size and speed that is unmatched anywhere in college football (for more information, see Florida, University of, and South Carolina, University of, and Alabama, University of, etc.). Nonsense, I tell you.

According to Andy Staples both teams are going to lose just about all of their coaches not named Meyer or Stoops!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/andy_staples/12/08/staples.bcs.title.game.coaches/index.html?eref=T1

Forget about current coaching staff, I think the real spotlight for replacing USC people should he focused squarely on getting Petros Papadakis as far away from a television camera or a broadcast microphone as possible.
I would rather hear Helen Keller do her impression of Pam Ward and Verne Lundquist in a drunkenly grudge-fuck than to have to hear Petros wax morincally about anything…

While we’re at it, have we found a venue for Live tonight?

Working that, BBS.

That Sports Economist article is bullshit. In the seventh sentence, the following phrase is used:

“South Carolina (…) [has] had success [in the past]”

Oops, there went your credibility

OS-splendid! i’m assuming the gentlemen in the picture are engaged in a deliciously ironic spoof of white southern male stereotypes – performance art at its finest, i say

perhaps before the game we should schedule an OU/florida roundtable on the influence of early russian existentialism on the american vulgar realists…“did bukowski come out of gogol’s overcoat?” i hope we don’t get so enthralled that we miss the footballing contest!

You guys can have your fancy BCS Bowls… Schnellenberger, the god himself and noted Ice Pirate has found us a port and that port is the Motor City Bowl in late December!

What were all the other programs doing in their 8th year of existence?

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No way!! Petros is awesome! How he wasn’t picked up by Fox to do BCS over their current staff is beyond me.

Schnelly-Ade:

Most real programs were probably contemplating newfangled inventions such as powered flight, the horseless carriage, x-ray technology and the wireless. Talkies* had yet to appear and bowls were still 30-40 years out.

*This just begs for a silent film fark of Corso/Herbie/Fowler courtesy of Freek…

Notice the dearth of lamentations by SC fans over Sarkisian’s departure. It was the same for Kiffin. As long as Smith or Morton has a clear offensive philosophy and a modicum of ability to develop players, we’ll be playing for BCS championships again instead of just Rose Bowl titles.

The only hope I cling to for any semblance of institutional accountability at the ND is for the entire team to be forced to stay in refrigerated, windowless cells any time they aren’t performing a football function.

Then again, I suppose it would be hard to get a windowless, refrigerated cell built on the sidelines of the Hawaii Bowl.

Or on the middle of the field, for that matter.

Looks like Boise State got the biggest shaft of all the bowl teams. That’ll teach em to have a blue field.

Speaking of announcers, I think it would be a real coup to have the 3 Daves do the OU/UF contest. Imagine how excited they would be to have cameras [more than 1!] that actually were focused on the play and HD that actually worked.