BLOGTOBERFEST: SELF-PROMOTION AT ITS FINEST

from the TSB article
insured that no one would make the same mistake by leaving out the clarifying step of including the final head-to-head records

come on now Orson, that’s not fair. It was the inclusion of head-to-head records at tie-breaker number one that send the Big12 South down the path of insanity in the first place.

you can blame how the Big12 South shook out on many things, but head-to-head records, or the mis-application thereof, is not one of them.

“People Do Not Speak Like This Anymore. Frank Howard, legendary Clemson coach, really did sound like this and say things like “Ah looked lahke an Indian.””

But they think like that.

(yeah, it’s a National Treasure quote, what of it?)

Who says some of us dont talk like that anymore?

About a quarter of my wife’s family still speaks like this. Another quarter sound like Boomhauer …..only without his clarity of enunciation…..

Luckily, her voice isn’t anything like theirs. She has a very faint southern accent that is only really noticable when she’s speaking with her family.

What did he tell the kid he was selling? Siding and posts? Sardines and port?

This tiebreaker mess is nothing more than the fact that no CF rule is perfect all the time. This year and this situtation, that rule looked bad. Sooner or later, a senario is going to happen that makes the SEC rule look absurd when an SEC team is denied the NC game. Actually, I think that its the SEC rule is more jacked up than the dustbowl SEC’s 5th tiebreaker of “highest bcs rank goes”. Nice and simple.

While I will always love the fact that Appy St was able to beat Michigan, this scheduling of FCS teams by FBS teams is out of control. I propose that you have to win six games vs. FBS schools and an extra win for each FBS team scheduled, to be bowl eligible. If they make these ‘gimme’ games ineligible, then you will see less creative scheduling done by the likes of Snyder/KSU.

Leave it to the Big 10/11, home of the worst officials (both FB & BB), to go to a dumb tiebreaker. Luckily for me, tOSU is usually in the best position in 90+% of the times this is an issue.

I meant an extra win for each FCS team scheduled. But you knew that.

It’s almost a small upset that he didn’t pronounce the word like “Injun.” Unless is that too Texas-y for someone from Alabama? Growing up in Orlando keeps one from getting all the varieties of countrified speaking straight.

When That Dog talks, he speaks just like that.

I don’t think I’ve ever knocked on a “doe” in my whole life. Why was he insulting a deer in the first place?

“The entire team, drained of energy and drenched in sweat, gathered in the center of an oversized wrestling mat and celebrated. Three-hundred-pound linemen and slender receivers piled together, jumping and screaming for a full five minutes…”

Press documentation of a real life tickle pile.

“Peanut. Hazlenut. Macadamia nut. That was the one that would drive her crazy.”

/guest’d

My cousin was a safety/quarterback for the Gators back in the late sixties just after Spurrier. He was tall and lean ( about 6’ 2" and only about 165 lbs). After his senior year he was selected to play in one of the post season games (North/South) in the Orange Bowl. Frank Howard was the head coach of the South. On the first day of practice Coach Howard assembled his players, had them line-up, and then inspected them, military style (see. e.g.Donald Sutherland in The Dirty Dozen). He just strolled along looking at the players and making a comment or two, but when he came to my cousin, he stopped, looked him up and down from head to toe, and said, “Boy, you look like somebody yanked you off the tit too soon.” Ah, the Good Ole Days!

He claimed to be selling subscriptions to the Saturday Evening Post. The one that Norman Rockwell drew all the covers for.

Man that story was anticlimactic as hell. Like Grandpa Simpson or something.

Thanks, Brian, I really had no idea what he said. Sat’day eve’n’ post….that makes sense. I wonder what he would have done if the kid did, in fact, want a subscription.

After moving to Boston, I was eating out on Newberry St. with some other freshly-minted grad students, when this guy across the table goes (and I am not going to type this out correctly, but it’s a good try) “Hey, hows youse guys in de South gatta tawk wit’ such an ahkcent?” I have never been able to place that dialect in my life.

Any takers?

best. story. ever.

Long live Coach Howard.

I met the Coach at the Clemson House barber shop in 1989, my senior year. My physical specs are very similar to the recruit he discussed in the video. Whole time, he gave me shit for being a senior with a freshman frame. Crazy old SOB. The game today needs a little more personality

… but not like that freak show be assembled in Knoxville.

I will say though that Frank Howard sounds scarily like the guy who lives across the street from my grandparents.

jacketexan:

Weak.

Sad.

Typical.

incredibly enough, I understood every word (or slurring thereof) coach Howard said… and I can probably tell you his birthplace based on the accent (or did you think that every Southern accent is the same?)

that, my friends, is a SoCar tobacco farmer accent

You’s guys sounds like it was someone from new york or something. That or maybe Philly?

1. is longing for the day when all people speak like the evening news people. Sad, ’shamed of his wife and all.

I don’t see what the big deal is, everybody in my family talks like that. I talk like that too after 6 bourbon drinks or so.

I guess you city boys from Or-lan-dow ain’t familiar with how things is run around these heah parts. You best get back in yo cadillac and keep headen north, back home to New York City.

Despite all the self-hatred emanating from bastardized pseudo-Southern outposts like Atlanta, people thankfully continue to talk like that in some areas of the South.

I got 5 bees to your quarter that man had an onion on his belt.

Good ol’ Coach Howard! Yep, I’m glad there are people that still talk like that. Makes life a little more enjoyable. It’ll be a sad day when we all sound alike.

Just a quick question for the Fulmer cup standings. Are the points taken away from Ohio State since it was found that the charges were unfounded? I heard it was just a tobacco pipe and Adams supplied the tobacco he was puffing. I also heard that Adams and shugart both submitted to drug tests and passed.