CURIOUS INDEX, 12/19/08

Phil in Des Moines? Time to buy stock in Maid Rite and probably Culver’s for good measure.

The only two guys I’ve gasped at because they were so big; Cornelius Ingram and Simeon Rice. They look like they are wearing shoulder pads with just a tshirt on.

Watching Fulmer try to recruit with the $1.50 budget at Ames really would be sad. However, watching his idea of offense coupled with that level of talent try to move the ball against Will Muschamp makes me giggle.

As for Cody—he says in the link that he has a girlfriend. A sense of propriety keeps me from fully exploring the issue—but think of the physics involved in that relationship.

If Phat Pfil leaves Knoxvegas, Food City will have to declare Chapter 11.

Counter Trap—-

“Officer! There’s a bear attacking that woma—-oh, hello Terrance! Nevermind, sir.”

Orson,

Did Cody actually catch that inside trout we’ve heard so much about?

BTW, Orson, we know Dave is no Bobby Lowder because Larry “Bud” Melman was never the coach at Ball State.

Did anyone else’s heart skip a beat when they read “Sad freak news” thinking it was “Sad frEEk news”? I almost thought we lost him for a second…then I read on. No longer worried…it’s only some Gator. ;-)

Anyone else see the guy in the Cody pic running from the impending tsunami?

#9
Tusk, ya read my mind….I wish he would stop doing that, the aftershocks last for days……that catfish really weighed 80 pounds, it just looked 40 pounds when he was pulling it out of his back pocket…….

Having spent time in Des Moines, Iowa City, the Quad Cities, and Ames (although, in the latter, why would one want to), I can easily provide the list of Krispy Kreme locations for Coach Fulmer.

Kum & Go is rejoicing just thinking about the idea.

1. that was the first thing that went through my mind.

The guy in the backgroud is seeing his life flash before his eyes.

Time slows down to a horrific crawl when Terrance Cody goes airborne.

1. If anyone could catch it, it would be him.

The thought if Phil Fulmer wearing all of that bright yellow and red…. MY EYES! THEY BURN!

A great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water — the name of the star is Wormwood [some manuscripts have Terrance]. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.

Stoops to Notre Dame would be great for everyone. The Notre Dame die-hards would be thrilled because they would be able to win a bunch of games each year and play in BCS Bowl games. For the rest of the world, they would be able to see Notre Dame lose a BCS game on national tv each year.

Overweight and over-rated is no way to go through life, son.

I bet all the fish gave up after feeling that tsunami — he could of had his pick of bass, gar, bream, tadpoles…

There are a million funny photoshop (or ms paint for you, Holly) ideas that come to mind upon seeing that picture of Cody. To name a few:
- Cody executing a top rope wrestling splash
- Cody leaps, opens mouth, catches duck
- Cody the Dragon hovers over village, village burns

They still wouldn’t be as good as the original, though.

@ 17

Overrated in what sense?

NRBQ, “overrated”? Really? I guess the folks who make the call on the All-American stuff are full of shit..

Your wife’s a Bigfoot, isn’t she, Gus? Your wife is a Bigfoot, isn’t she? That’s why the bitch’s moustache is so motherfuckin’ thick… ‘cause you shaved the bitch down and taught her to speak. I know a motherfuckin’ Bigfoot when I see one! Don’t bring a Bigfoot into my home, Gus! With my children? The bitch can’t talk! She can’t walk a flight of steps! She’s not trained well, Gus! She can not walk steps! I’ll bet she climbs the fuck outta trees, though, don’t she, Gus? Doesn’t she? DOESN’T SHE? But you got to not bring her around here – fuck her! And your motherfuckin’ child? He’s a Bigfoot, too. half-Bigfoot, Gus, ‘cause the motherfucker is 6’5" and weighs 365. Look at the motherfucker! You know how I found out he was Bigfoot – when I realized your wife was a Bigfoot when I took your kid fishing last week. I put the motherfucker on the shore, Gus, and I took the worm and I put it on the hook. And he just sat there, and then he put his pole down on the motherfuckin’ beach, and belly flopped in the water for 2 minutes! And I think, “What the fuck is this kid doin’?” Then he starts moving his head like this [quickly shakes head back and forth] and the motherfucker comes up with fish! I jumped back and said, “Can you believe this motherfuckin’ shit?” Then the kid took the fish out his mouth and looked at me and said, “Goonie-Goo-Goo.” What the fuck is going on here? Normal kids don’t do shit like that, Gus. But I’m gonna tell you something, motherfucker. You can take your motherfuckin’ hairy fat-ass wife moustache bitch out the fuck, you can go upstairs and get the motherfuckin’ dog and scoop up the shit and get this mothafuckin’ big ass Mount Cody afro-wearin’ motherfuckin’ kid of yours and put them in the motherfucking “Goonie-Goo-Goo”-mobile and get the fuck out! And if my wife don’t like that, she can get the fuck out, too!

The ND administration is silly to think they could lure a big name like Stoops away…not as silly as fans that want to ’bring back Lou!" though…

CapstoneAlum—

Since I’m not an expert on the country’s Defensive Linemen, I’ll withhold judgment on whether or not Cody is overrated, but being named to an All-American team doesn’t mean one isn’t overrated; in fact, it may provide a basis from which to make such an allegation.

LMFAO!!

Thanks Orson, thanks for helping pop this back into mind….

…about the funniest thing I had ever seen back in the early 80s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awrfIReVQtA

@Capstone -

The media and certain fans would have you believe he flings opponents’ bodies all over the field.

Here are the actual numbers from the Alabama website:

2008 season – 7 solo tackles, 16 assists, 23 total tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss (14 yds.), 1/2 sack, 2 QB hurries.

Has more noise ever been made about a player who did less?

@26-

HE TIES UP TWO LINEMEN SO OTHERS CAN MAKE THE TACKLE YOU’RE COACH HAS BEEN SABANIZED YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED GOT 12? BARNERS FAIL ROLL TIDE

Mich-placed @ #22…wtf? Sounds familiar but I can’t place the face…“motherfuckin’ hairy fat-assed wife moustache bitch”…interesting imagery, but it kinda burns a little bit…

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 Cody’s job isn’t to get tackles or sacks though (unless people run up the gut) its to absorb blockers and to a lesser extent disrupt the play- basically he free’s up Bama’s LBs and DEs to penetrate- if Bama has someone other than Cody in the middle, even a smaller more penetrating tackle, we run wild in the SEC championship- we pull more Guards on outside runs, and we’re able to bust it up the gut on cutbacks, him holding point in the middle changed Florida’s entire gameplan in a way say the other All-American for OU will probably fail to do.

@NRBQ

If you watched the games you would understand how those stats do not accurately reflect Cody’s impact on the game.

I’m sure if you call Coach Saban’s secretary, she can schedule you an appointment to have him explain the 3-4 defense to you.

Teams that play against Cody have to create a game plan around him in order to effectively run their offense. His role on the D-Line isn’t necessarily to make tackles or sacks, but to create a traffic jam in the middle of the field so opponents can’t establish a running game.

IMO, he is a HUGE (no pun intended) reason why Alabama had the top rush defense in the country.

NRBQ:

Riddle me this: Are modern fullbacks 1,000 yard rushers with 15 TDs?

You are hereby sentenced to read up on the role of the nose tackle in the 3-4. Then get back to us.

Saban like to run the 3-4. You need a huge D-lineman to occupy 2 O-lineman. It is as simple as that..

Cody fit this role to perfection.

soc @ #29…you’re saying if you had a smaller dt, someone other than Cody, you would have run wild in the SECCG? Then, having Cody meant Florida changed its entire gameplan? Which is it? “You gonna shit or you gonna kill us?”

Sometimes the simplest things elude me…

sb—

“we” = UF

sb,

“Changing the whole gameplan” makes no sense since every gameplan is, by definition, different. What I saw in the SEC CG was the UF struggled to run between the tackles (no surprise) and picked on Marquis Johnson repeatedly as the most suspect of the Bama DBs (rightfully so it turned out).

@28

the sometimes hysterically funny, sometimes depressingly unfunny Eddie Murphy.

“Now THAT’S a fire!”

NRBQ,

You are clearly football-illiterate if you believe the impact/worth of a nose guard in a 3-4 defense is measured by his personal statistics.

The only thing that could top that picture is if Freek could show us what happened when Mr. Cody met Old Greg at the bottom of that river. Mr. Cody is not frightened by what became of Curly Jefferson…

MSR-

I ain’t no football genius, but given what seems to be the general age demographic around here, I’ve watched more than my share of games.

Including the Ala/Ga and Ala/Fla games this year. In Cody’s limited playing time, I just didn’t see him as a game-changer. Didn’t seem to worry Tebow much.

All points above about the nose-tackle’s role in the 3-4 aside (and duly noted), I say 7 solo tackles and a half-sack over a season + the SECCG are paltry numbers for an All-American d-lineman of any stripe. However, I will agree that he’s big and fat enough to “occupy two O-linemen.”

(I now know what it’s like to be a Barner on this blog, at least.)

NRBQ

Until your team hires a coach on a ten game losing streak..you’ll never know what its like to be a barner.

Thanks, Cap (shudder).

Letterman’s got the fame, but every Ball Stater knows that it’s really fellow Cardinal Joyce DeWitt who’s calling the shots.

Not that I am siding with NRBQ, but @ 31 I have to argue that the reason that Alabama’s run defense was so highly ranked this year is because of all the BCS Bowl teams this year, Bama’s SOS is probably the worst, and it’s not even close. OU, Texas, Florida, Ohio State, etc. are all ranked in the top 10-15 slots and Bama’s SOS was somewhere around 80ish the last time I checked.

Alabama was very much Ohio State’ish this year. Soft schedule, nice stats…but as soon as Alabama ran up against an offense with a pulse they gave up 31 points – and Florida didn’t even have its most dynamic offensive weapon.

If you want a glimpse into the future Bama’s look no further than Ohio State’s record of the last 3 years. Our only losses have been to BCS National Championship teams or BCS bound bowl teams. The last time we lost to someone not playing in a BCS bowl was in 2004. I have a feeling Alabama is going to go down a similar path.

In my opinion, if Alabama was going to get a NC, it was this year. Every year that goes by it gets harder and harder to stay on top. Assistant coaches start to drift off after some success; game tape starts to pile up for the other team to study; coaches get used to coaching against a Nick Saban Alabama team; luster of the new hire and the buzz starts to dissipate a little…

I’m not saying Saban can’t get it down…but this was a huge missed opportunity…you guys were healthy all year…ask Georgia about that one.

NRBQ,

You can bet your ass that each and every coach whose team played Alabama this season recognizes Terrence Cody as a “game-changer.”

There’s a reason that you’re in the vast, vast minority on this one.

So it’s not a “vast” minority, but instead a very small one.

TAFK,

Alabama gave up 358 total yards to UF in the SECCG, 141 of which came in the 4th quarter when the Bama O turned in two three and outs on its only two possessions of the quarter, keeping a tired D on the field for almost the entire quarter.

Your ignorance never ceases to amaze.