CURIOUS INDEX, 2/5/2009

I’m disappointed that both East Carolina and Cap’n Arrrrrrr didn’t offer a scholly to a really great prospect here in NC – Edward Thatch from Bath. Played at Beaufort HS before transferring. Big guy who domintaes and terrorizes his opposition.

UF did fine for its needs, especially only signing 16. Did Bama sign another 40 kids this year?

Rick Neuheisel’s superb recruiting class …

If those words don’t send the NCAA down the path of investigation while simultaneously making UCLA fans cringe, I don’t know what will.

Does Vegas take prop bets on how soon a school will land on probation?

It is incredible that tOSU only hosted 30 and closed 25. You are allowed to host just over 50. That kind of closing rate in the bidness world will make you rich. I thought Marlon Brown was just trying to create drama, turns out I was right. Pussy doesn’t like cold weather. We never get the hat choosers, so no shock there.

I was hoping that Shaun Simon would have had a Ralph Kramden/Ed Norton style buffalo hat. But I guess he isn’t a member of the lodge.

I look forward to 9/9/09 when Kiffy brings UT to The Swamp to receive payment for the last minute defections of the two previously-committed players…Coach Meyer has such an enjoyable method of exacting pounds of flesh from those who err against the Gator Nation. To take ’em is one thing…to brag to the press is another thing entirely. Kiffy needs to talk to Mr. Richt about retribution meted out Gator-style.

Hat of the day, setting off the bling, coiffure and pimp-tastic suit, HAS to belong to your Baby Emmitt, Mr. Trent Richardson, who donned the always-stylish houndstooth

http://blog.al.com/rapsheet/2009/02/video_trent_richardson_dons_ho.html

9/9/09 sounds bad ass but I think it’s 09/19/09.

Dre Kirkpatrick’s Alabama Crimson Tide script A
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/05/sports/ncaafootball/05sign.html?ref=sports

Atlanta Braves script A
http://tbn2.google.com/images?q=tbn:Qa0m_OA_XonY5M:http://mlb.imageg.net/graphics/product_images/pMLB2-3536797dt.jpg

Anyone else want to look like an idiot by saying that Kirkpatrick committed to the Braves?

Sure. That looked like a Braves hat.

Congratulations, C.Buck.

M. Brown’s a drama queen and a pussy for not signing with Ohio State.

And you’re in the running for the coveted Knee-Jerk Comment of the Day award (but it IS early).

It IS a Braves hat. Chipper better watch his ass.

O, need to run a banner ad on the average IQ of a Gadsen, AL resident. Bet it’s around 85. But only in the summer when the gray matter is stimulated by all that heat.

Can we puhlease gets some FC points for BYU for this? I mean, it’s B-Y-Fucking-U!

yoyofutbawl, I don’t think it was a braves cap. The UA script A has a little kicker off the top of it…Braves A does not.

WIth that said, I think hat ceremonies are the dumbest thing in college football since Alabama let Bo Jackson get away to Auburn.

“USC’s class was excellent despite the loss of Manti Te’o and Xavier Su’a Filo”

Seeing as we never poach any player of quality from anyone, much less USC, I would appreciate a mention of A-State’s last minute heist of Vontaze Burfict in the list of signing-day thefts from USC.

That is all.

Then why is the hat blue (black?) and red?

Agreed on the ceremonies. They’re BS. Here’s what milquetoast Tom O’Brien said on the radio yesterday, to paraphrase:

“Well, first, they have to qualify. If they do, they have summer workouts on their own. Then we have fall practice and the regular season, when we’ll make the decision to redshirt. Then we have spring practice, and the ones who are still are eligible, we’ll know if we have a football player or not.”

yoyofutbawl, UA MBA ’76

SanDiegoDevil, Considering that there was coverage in the LA Times that Burfict was thinking of going to ASU because he had friends on the team who had received help with mysterious “academic issues,” does it count as a heist? Seems to me like recruiting experts don’t read the local press.

In any case, since it’s safe to assume that ASU can keep Burfict eligible, he’s going to be a great player for the Sun Devils, I suspect. I for one will miss having his splendid moniker about the place.

DC Trojan, yes, it counts as a heist. I don’t think SC would have had him for a visit on 1/23 if they (a) didn’t want him, or (b) had serious questions re: his eligibility.

SanDiegoDevil – oh, SC wanted him, and they plainly weren’t concerned about his eligibility (I mean come on, have you seen some of the people we’ve kept on the field?)

No, what I meant was that the word on the street was that Burfict and his family thought that ASU had a better program for addressing unspecified academic issues, and that he had friends on the team with whom he wanted to play.

So I’m just saying that when the recruit flat out says he’s tilting towards another school for multiple reasons, it’s not a huge surprise when he goes to that other school.

Wait, Ralphie is a ‘she’? Why did I not know this? And why is she called “Ralphie” then?

Bammers also claim they had sex w/ Farah Fawcett numerous times in the early 80s.

It turns out, it was just a poster and some Vaseline Intensive Care.

#1

Thatch != Teach

Recruiting, where the rich get richer…

It’s good to be a southern school these days.

Fuck Ralphie in the ear. That hat is gayer than Liberace fucking Elton John watching a Barbara Streisand marathon split screen with Sex and the City.

yoyo,

I didn’t realize the Braves wore black.

Dumbass.