CURIOUS INDEX, 5/13/2009

Some guilt on Shula’a part?- one of the hallmarks of a terrible coach is showing guts when you’re blowing a team out and throwing for the endzone (sorry Prothro), while during close games refusing to run anything but leron mcclain and tim castille fullback dives worst—fucking-coach ever

Most Florida fans were pretty upset with Prothro’s bad luck too, not because Shula was trying to score another one on us (we can’t ever blame anyone for that!), but because I think most UF fans (and SEC fans) know a good player when we see one. He was easily the best player on the field that day and it is criminal that he never got to play again. I’m a Florida fan and I’ll never forgive Shula, but I’m glad that Prothro has. And I wish him nothing but good luck on his coaching journey.

“…blame whatever malevolent god had snapped our leg in two.”

Yes, I understand it’s football, and injuries, sometimes career-ending or even fatal, can and do occur. But, I think we know who some of the blame goes to:

“Since the graduate assistant jobs for Alabama’s football program were filled, he started looking elsewhere. He called Shula, his former coach and one of his closest friends.”

And so does Tyrone.

Up by 4 TD’s w/ less than 10 minutes to play, in field goal range, 4th down. Shula should be busting his ass to do anything he can for this guy.

matt,

Please ixnay the alktay about the umbojay ackagepay…it gives me fucking nightmares. The bad kind kind where the F word is not a gerund, but a descriptive adjective.

As for the Big 12—how about a four way tie with Baylor winning the spot in the championship game? Yeah, I’m evil like that.

Yes, the Big XII going to the BCS standings for the tiebreaker is silly … but not any more silly than the way the SEC does it. What’s inherently better about eliminating one team from the tie via the polls than picking one? If anything, you could argue it’s worse – had the SEC rule been in place last year, OU would have been better off squeaking out a win over Texas Tech and hoping that was enough to keep Tech ahead of Texas in the polls; winning by so much would have hurt them by removing the team they beat from the tie.

I’m not sure what the best tiebreaker would be – having the BCS standings involved at all is ridiculous, but by that point you’ve exhausted nearly every other non-ridiculous tiebreaker. Net scoring margin in head-to-head games could work (yeah, some people will complain about “running up the score”, but if we’re talking about a three-way tie for first there shouldn’t be enough difference between the teams to allow that to happen often), or some measure of strength of schedule.

“Since the graduate assistant jobs for Alabama’s football program were filled . . . .”

Nick Saban doesn’t have time for feel-good shit.

Re: Big 12 tiebreaker, I’m actually surprised it wasn’t mentioned last week when the decision came down (though it was the coaches who shot it down and it must still go before the ADs, as I understand it). I’m impressed and happy the coaches decided to keep the system as is. By the time you get down to the sixth tiebreaker, you’ve pretty much determined that the three teams involved are all equally deserving within an incredibly small margin of error. At that point, determining what’s “fair” is fought in the minutiae. Might as well pick the team with the best shot to go on and represent the conference at the highest stage possible. And, yeah, I’m an OU fan, but I also say this knowing full well that OU won’t get this shot again any time soon. No voter is going to give us the benefit of the doubt again if presented with the same or similar tie scenario.

In the highly likely event that Beatty actually uses that title for his memoirs, you’ll want to have a couple of EDSBS Group Fivers ready to press your royalty claim.

I think we ditch the tie-breaker formulae and simply do it like they do on damn American Idol- a 24 hour vote via text. I don’t watch the show, but i hear it’s wildly popular and 10s of millions of people vote each week.
come out on all the TV channels and the interwebs and announce the teams tied, and have America vote on who they want to see play against the opposing team, then announce it a couple days later.
done and done.

Head to head net scoring margin is the way to go. It’s the reason I thought OU deserved to win the tiebreaker.

I don’t think the polls should be used, because there is a bias against teams who 1) weren’t ranked as high in the preseason and 2) lost later in the season.

Oh, and one more thing. Suck it, Mack.

Re #8: Fuck. Wrong thread. That’s what I get for going drinking with Stabler.

“..back-to-back three-way scenario is unlikely.”

Hehe.

I believe that’s called a “Wichita (Water) Falls” on Urban Dictionary.

… or a “Red River Badge of Courage.”

If they are handing out journalism awards for accomplishments of dubious distinction, I award Mike Missanelli the “I’m Your Fucking Hero Award” for ripping Skip Bayless a new asshole.

Adbul thinks there is a 32.3 percent chance that the Big 12 will end in a three way tie again. At least we have chicken.

Sacheen Littlefeather actually made me laugh out loud. Bar none, that was the worst acting performance I’ve ever seen. Good stuff, Orson.

Ohio State’s 2002 team was the worst, and according to Michael "had no business winning a national title."

yeah but they fuckin DID. i’m with orson, the entire 2002 OSU football season was a hilarious thrill ride that made no sense but fuck it we won 14 games and lost zero and no one else in football history can say that. plus we beat one of the best offenses of the last 20 years. no shame in not being dominant the rest of the season, OSU won when it counted (that year).