CURIOUS INDEX, 2/19/2009

Any word on if Brave’s cousin Chickenshit Hepatitis will be playing this weekend?

Hate to be a downer, but I think those are the names of the teams, not the players. Still pretty outstanding though.

Note to new Pitt OC: Check the wind before your bowl game. Assuming there is one.

As for Rivals—eh, I’ll go with whoever doesn’t make a debilitating facemask penalty at a crucial moment in the Bama/Gators rematch in Atlanta.

What? You thought I would actually give credence to the Nuttster, a Big 12 team or Tressel? Puhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzze.

Fixed. (Your stand-in editor has been deathly ill for about ten hours now, so expect a lot of that today.)

Deathly ill with brave lupus, or merely a steadfast headcold?

Just stopping by to say that I hate VPISU.

(also: feel better)

@3
I’ll break the bad news here first: Bama and their new starting QB won’t be making the trip to ATL this season, so they won’t have the opportunity to facemask, hold, OR lose to UF again.

I’d be a walking time bomb too if I could of had 2 National Championships

More on the strange goings-on of Bryce Brown:

“Brown’s father, Arthur Sr., told The Miami Herald on Tuesday night that he spoke with UM coach Randy Shannon on Monday to relay Bryce’s plans to visit UM and that the end of Brown’s ’’process’’ was nearing. He said he told Shannon that Bryce would start a seven-day liquid fast when he returned from UM to gain clarity and would choose his school March 16.”

A 7-day liquid fast to gain clarity.

Is it just me, or does Bryce Brown seem to be a high risk, low reward type of recruit? If he pans out in any way, color me shocked. Primadonnas like him flame out faster than a solid rocket booster on a NASA launch. I will bet on either probation, ineligibilty or transfer.

Ol’ Bryce seems to enjoy the game more than most…too bad the game isn’t football.

Huh. So, Rivals is saying that good teams who return a lot of starters including an experienced QB are likely to win national championships. Well, slap my ass and call me Sally. That there is a fine example of science at work.

To me WVfU is the most surprising one to see on the list, simply because they have them as meeting the criteria of having a junior or senior QB with starting experience. They lost Pat White, a 4 year starter. How many games could that guy have actually “started” for the ’eers?

Exactly. Oh, and they’re failing to take the all-important “Bill Stewart loses football games” factor into account. It’s sunset for dear WFV, I’m afraid. Last year was their last legitimate shot.

And 17-yr. old Bryce wasn’t exactly impressed by Mr. Whipple either:

“UM has a new offensive coordinator, Mark Whipple, who visited Bryce once. ‘’We basically talked X’s and O’s, that was it,‘’ Brown told Rivals.com on Feb. 10. ``. . . I honestly really didn’t get a great, great feel for it. . . . Inside something was telling me that, you know, it’s not really, like, his philosophy, how he does things, is not really what I like. But he did say he saw my talent.’’

Maybe UM’s offensive strategy will become clearer during the 7-day liquid fast.

But as far as Jarrett Brown—-I only remember him starting one game last year, when Pat was hurt. It was against Syracuse, and the ‘eers won entirely on the feet of Devine. I love WFV with all my coal-black heart, but I think they’re toast this year, I really do.

Timmy Tebow doesn’t wear a mask during surgery to protect the patient from his own germs (as he has none), but only to protect himself from those of the patient.

I think returning at least 4 starters on your offensive line is at least as important as having a QB with “starting experience”…

As I have said many times in the past couple of months, I find it remarkable that many believe Greg McElroy or Star Jackson won’t be as good as…John…Parker…Wilson. Think about what you are saying, people.

Looks like Butch is making room for the 80 player recruiting class he signed.

18-

See Auburn, 2008.

I hope VT in ’09 is Clemson ’08 with all my heart.

Capstone-
I like it!

Also, holly: if you love WfVU, you’re supposed to hate VaTech as well. Join us.

It’s an intriguing proposal…I also have a little sister who’s a fourth year at Virginia, so there’s that influence.

@18
Would that be the same 4 who started the Sugar Bowl?

Iowa has been incredibly overrated the past several years. Where’s my pitchfork?

@26…in Wannstache’s stache.

Touchie, Native Son, Touchie…..err…I mean “Touche”……….

I am expecting 9-3. Maybe 10-2. If we go 8-4 or have an 2008 LSU-esque team with a decent defense that cant get off the field since the new offense sucks, I will be mainlining Jim Beam, daily……. That way, instead of expecting 12-0 and another loss in the SEC Championship at the hands of Florida, we can go to a middlin’ bowl, and that will keep me off the ledge. I still have yet to see Bama with a QB that can throw the deep ball since Brodie and his Bama bangs, in stride, ahead of the receiver. And we actually have some decent receivers this year, so if ANY of the 3 possible replacement QB’s can do that and move away from pressure, we may have a shot against LSU and Ole Miss. I still contend that Saban will drop a WTF game this year. That game could be VT. But hell yeah, I’m excited about it. I’ll be excited when we pass for more yards than we rush for. At least I’ll know when we can’t run the ball, we can pass. WITHOUT GIVING UP PICK 6’s like an ATM-or going 3 and out every series and overthrowing receivers for easy 15 yrd TD’s—-(see LSU, Auburn……)

@ 25

I would hope that preparing a new offensive line for seven months through spring ball, summer skels, and fall camp would tend to be more successfull than throwing a makeshift line together three days before the Sugar Bowl. Not to mention reshuffling after the first series due to injuries. Now that doesn’t mean Alabama won’t have struggles this year. That’s to be expected. Its certainly a transition year, and still a young team.

pssh – all those frontrunning Tongan Lup’ fans. I was a fan of the Ozeki Fighting Narcolepsy BEFORE they were good.