CURIOUS INDEX, 12/9/08

That last link is beyond me. “this could be u”? What?

It only took us four tries to post the correct link into the html. Corrected.

Can you imagine a home visit from George O’Leary? It would strike fear in the hearts of mothers everywhere. I know that football is a dangerous sport but in the weight room and non-contact practice?

While we’re sure he’s staying for Austin’s legendary indie rock scene . . . .

That depends on the concert calendar. Prolonged exposure to the Polyphonic Spree (a.k.a., Up With People for Pitchfork readers) might make the Lions look more attractive.

Okay, okay.. LSUFreek.. that was really funny. Good job.

We love that Austin is in Rock Band as a destination, thus forcing unbearable hipsters to live in a “done” place they love too much to leave.

Way to go, Giggity.

More from the Gainesville Sun:

Former Florida safety Jamar Hornsby committed to Ole Miss. Alabama, Kentucky and Oregon were also on his list.

Hornsby was kicked off the UF team earlier this year after facing charges of credit card theft and fraudulent use of a credit card.

The 6-foot-2, 210-pound safety played at East Central CC in Mississippi. He was named the MAJC North Region Defensive Player of the Year after collecting 111 tackles and two interceptions.

Urbs is Omar Bradley? Shee-it. Bradley was hardly a RUTS guy. Urbs is more like Patton – the good and the bad.

Saban’s more like Vinegar Joe Stillwell – a profane martinet who won’t accept failure and doesn’t understand (or like) people who won’t work as hard as he does.

So, what’s Woody’s record against the SWC, oops I mean the Beeg 12, in bowl games? I’m sure the Sweatervest was just salivating about going to NO again.

The Tusk—

Stilwell is a better pick for Saban. We could see him saying "By the time we get out of here many of you will hate my guts but I’ll tell you one thing: you’ll all get out.”

The French dont count the Vietnam loss of 75-0 since it was a Vietnam home game and it was over at halftime….even though Vietnam was the original “BCS Buster”…..with a smaller, faster, unconventional offense “that will never work in the international community”…..

The Germans also will use the “home game” excuse, especially during the game vs Russia at Stalingrad Stadium on the Volga, and blame the weather since the Germans couldnt bring their heralded “air attack” due to the heavy snow , winds and 30 degrees below temperatures, the Russians were able to use their highly rated defense to grind out a win and wore down the Germans and ending their undefeated run…and the Germany over the French win looks worse since the French were later soundly defeated by Div 1-AA Vietnam , and Russia Coach Nikita Khrushchev said the Germans were tough in the first half with the air attack working, and once the weather changed, the Germans were pretty boys who didnt like to get dirty, and just gave up, had a bunch of 3 and outs, Russia just let their powerful run game take over and grind it out….

The Freek is at the top of his game with that one.

#9
The Big 12 is the anti-SEC as it relates to Ohio State as the Buckeyes are 28-4-1 all-time vs. the Big 12.

5-0 in bowl games (2-0 in BCS bowls vs. conference champions who won their conference via a conference championship game).

Oh snap, I just realized something!!!!

Bama gets their first crack at beating a conference champion from another conference in a bowl game in 16 years! Utah! Hey they beat Michigan this year…lol.

If you’re going to play the general game, Urban Meyer has to be a German because of the obvious spread/blitzkrieg analogy – so I’m going to go with Rommel for UM. I can picture Urban leading his mobile forces to victory over the jaunty General Montgomery (Richt).

Saban is all about “domination” so he’s obviously a Russian. The Eastern Front battles were meatgrinders and all about who had more tanks (recruits). General Vasily Chuikov works for him.

Miles – you nailed Miles, no need to touch that one. So long as the feather in his hat is purple, I’ve no problem picturing his charge.

Further SEC coaches from WWII

Phil Fulmer – Benito Mussolini. Nuff said

Tommy Tuberville – Finnish Marshall Mannerheim – eventually lost to the Saban’s Russians, but only after an impressive streak of victories.

Houston Nutt – Montgomery – Beat Rommel (Urban Meyer), but mad dogs and Englishmen……

Mark Richt – Erich Manstein – Eastern front Wehrmacht wrote “Lost Victories” about his battles.

Paul Johnson – De Gaulle. The likeness is uncanny.

Rich Brooks – Isokoru Yamamoto – He’s from the Pac-10, right? Right?

Hats off LSUFreak…. makes living through a shitty Iowa winter so much easier. “What’s a Ute”

I guess the reward for SEC #2 is the nominal non-BCS team in the Sugar Bowl. Shame that they aren’t playing Texas. I’m sure Bama can handle the Utes, even if Joe Pesci was coaching them.

Is tOSU bowl record vs. Big XII mystifying in light of our SEC bowl record? You would think it would be a little more level on each. If Oregon State could have shown up against Oregon, we would be correcting our ofer by beating Georgia.

Oklahoma will be facing actual defensive resistance for the first time this year. I look for Florida to win, and I believe the layoff will have more effect on Oklahoma’s passing game than Florida’s running game.

Interesting Orson, that the only 2 Nazi Generals are SEC coaches…

I suggest Mike Leach as Heinz Guderian. Guderien did not invent mechanized warfare, much like Leach didn’t invent the Run & Shoot, but he modernized the concept into a scary offensive threat!

Apologies if this was mentioned previously but Army’s uniforms for the Army-Navy game were great – very sharp and original. Too bad Army surrendered in a total beat-down.

Call me crazy, but I’m predicting a Ute victory. I think Bama is the better team, but motivation will be waning going into a game against a perceived weaker opponent with no MNC on the line.

Nice “Futurama” reference there Orson.

@ #21 PW – You’re crazy. The last 2 Sugar Bowls should be all you need for evidence. Hawaii thought they had a chance against Georgia last year. ND thought they had a chance against LSU the year before. I could go on…

I just don’t think the talent disparity between Utah and Alabama is as great as it was in the games you’ve mentioned.

Saban has to be Georgy Zhukov, not Chuikov.

Tuberville is NOT Marshall Mannerheim, the Finnophile in me will not allow that, besides he would have been loved by all of Auburn. I vote for Erich von Manstein since he had frequent clashes with Hitler, or Auburn boosters and adminstration.

Fulmer has to be Goering

DrBundy: Hawaii last year was a joke who played a 1-AA schedule (seriously … Sagarin had about 30-40 1-AA teams listed as having tougher schedules). Notre Dame is always overrated and invited to a better bowl game than they deserve.

I don’t know if Utah will win, but I doubt they’ll get blown out.

Tim Tebow knows nothing of you world’s “Bureaucracy.” Kid was home schooled. He doesn’t even know what a hall pass is.

#11, Mr. Pelican Pants, the description that you give of the old Soviet forces sounds like Nebraska of the mid 90s: powerful running game, grind it out defense, use of felons, horrible weather conditions, flat as a pancake terrian, etc. Scary, scary stuff.

Charlie Weiss = Benito Mussolini
Hung by his own people.

Giggity = Mengela

Did anyone else think that Alabama and Texas should have refused invitations to the BCS out of principle and arranged their own little 1-loss non-BCS championship in the Cotton Bowl?

Why did nobody think of this?

Tubs is more like Montgomery. Both lived for years off conservative ground games, only to meet disaster by trying to get cute (see Spread Eagle/Market-Garden).

Re #30: I’m $ure there were $everal rea$on$.

While I’m glad we’ve got him, considering Dr. Tebow’s 980 SAT, and more importantly, the fact that he’s the Gators’ qb, I bet they’ve got people who handle his paperwork; a medical assistant if you will.

I guess the sweater vest is Ike, then?

I was about to get all pissy about it taking 16 comments before someone mentioned a British general – it wasn’t just the Soviets sitting around getting bombed until the US entered the war you know, and unlike that mob of officer-purging Stalinists, we were getting a jump-start on war crimes with deliberate bombing of civilians.

But then Anonymous IV @ 25 self-declared as a Finnophile to criticize Tubbs as Mannheim, and all was well in my sad little world again.

The Detroit Lions want Tebow. We in fact need Tebow. And Colt McCoy you can kiss our asses because we never really wanted you to begin with. We want the Tebow. We want a package deal. Urban Meyer and Tebow. We will offer a brazillion dollars, and asian hookers and a mountain of coke. This is an offer they cannot refuse. We have already retained Plaxico Burress to be our hit man should they refuse. Be afraid. Be very afraid. The Detroit Lions ALWAYS get their man. The Detroit Lions WILL get a bailout from congress to pay Meyer’s salary and Tebows bonus money = 17 brazillion dollars. We want Tebow.

Resistance is futile. We are your density.

Nobody bombed civilians like Curtis LeMay.

Drogue @ 36: damn and blast, what’s the point of starting shit when the USAF was able to turn around and do it better, faster, and bigger? Although it has to be said that burning wood and bamboo housing is a little easier than leveling cathedrals and the like.

DC Trojan @ 35, glad I could bring order to your world for a moment.

Croom would have to be Major General Roy Urquhart. He was played by Sean Connery in a Bridge to Far and given an impossible task at which he failed despite giving it the ol’ college try.

No current coach is Ike or Doolittle

I guess O’Leary’s ripping off Schnellenburger’s resume now?

It’s the wrong era for this discussion, I know. But Mike Price would look VERY nice in Union blue as Gen. Joseph Hooker.

Hilarity all around. Great job Swindle

Mr. Pelican Pants @ #11…Russia’s coach at that time would have been Stalin, whose defense was made up of inumerable, expendable walk-on players armed with pitchforks…

Dog Poop @ #36…Brazillion dollars for Tebow and Meyer? I don’t know if that would work even with US Dollars…I mean, it is Detroit…c’mon…and what is the connection between Brazil, its money and Detroit?

That’s correct, TAFK. Pretty incredible season for a team picked to win 8 games and finish third in its conference division.