AFTERNOON NOTES DUE TO A DEAD BATTERY

by Orson on Jul 30, 2009 1:13 PM EDT

The battery on TCOAN's car died, so we're off to the rescue, go-cup of Mai-Tai in hand. (When champagne comes in convenient can form--and we're not talking that saccharine Coppola shit, either--we'll take that instead.)

Quick things deserving address:

--Pac-10 Media Days, What! Watch the linked stream as every single coach and their players run back-to-back today. Steve Sarkisian, like Lane Kiffin, is a Carroll clone who speaks very quickly no matter the question. Oh, you can also tweet in questions here.

--Conference USA is having their media days in an all-virtual setting, and Graham Watson is doing an extremely entertaining job covering the spasms of doing a media event with live mikes and technical strokes happening all over the place. "One of the media members, maybe not know his line was open, just said, "This isn't going very well.""

--USF just became eligible for the Team Fulmer Cup award, and is now likely tied. No formal award yet, but if the usual one point suspended license sum applies, they would be tied at 17 with Hawaii. Since we don't like ties, we'll have to have some kind of method of breaking this unholy arrangement.

--Also: seen, and points to be assessed in separate entry.

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Anthony Dixon agrees with you, Orson.

by hailstate on Jul 30, 2009 1:22 PM EDT reply actions

SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT***

Pac-10? Conference USA? The lack of coverage of the SunBelt Media Days is both distressing and disgusting!

http://actionfootball.blogspot.com/search/label/SunBelt%20Conference

by buddy randolph on Jul 30, 2009 1:43 PM EDT reply actions

Can we just assign USF an add’l point for being heavily populated with Typical Florida* Thugs?

No offense to Defenders of the Jortsian Empire, and notwithstanding Tebow, there’s an abnormal amount of criminal asshattery associated with Florida Grown athletes.

However, as I’m typing this, I am realizing that the ICE-infested, native-son cum warrior dumbassery of the Aloha state might see this raise of the pot causing another tie.

*State of, not University of

by (TFT) - Typical Florida Thug on Jul 30, 2009 2:04 PM EDT reply actions

Isn’t USF at 17 currently and Hawaii at 16?

by Theskipster on Jul 30, 2009 2:19 PM EDT reply actions

When Swindle Industries becomes a multi-national corporation, we’re going to look back on this post and say ’remember when…

by ohiodawg on Jul 30, 2009 2:42 PM EDT reply actions

If Hawaii wasn’t eligible for a BCS MNC bid, then it is clear that in the case of a tie, they are not eligible for a Fulmer Cup victory. In fact, they’d need more than 2 more Fulmer Cup points than any BCS school to be considered Fulmer Cup Champions.

by NewAZTiger on Jul 30, 2009 2:49 PM EDT reply actions

Re #6: I strongly disagree. In this case, I think strength of schedule favors Hawaii — it’s just plain harder to get arrested in a laid-back island paradise than in Ybor City.

by DevilGrad on Jul 30, 2009 2:54 PM EDT reply actions

Sleepy Richt on recruiting:

“What happened is that all kind of things starting falling for us. I’m lying out on the lounger out at the lake and get a call, ‘Hey, I’m committing.’ I’m working out and get a call, ‘Hey, I’m committing.’ We’re all on vacation, and here it all comes. I’m like, ‘Hey, that’s not a bad way to go.’

by softbatch on Jul 30, 2009 3:05 PM EDT reply actions

Harris,
Have you seen this?
http://www.rgj.com/article/20090730/SPORTS/90730014/1018

This is called thinking “out loud” while the mic is running talking about ND. Then getting your brakes beat off of you by that team.

by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jul 30, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions

The spirit of both the Fulmer Cup and the ETJIII both point, IMHO, to a tie going to the team with the most individuals having received points. We’re celebrating a lack of institutional control, not a single dedicated thug.

One instance of something bad but unfunny might net more points than five individual Fightin’ in Da Club awards, but I know in my heart which is more deserving of the Cup.

by Erik on Jul 30, 2009 3:41 PM EDT reply actions

It is a tribute to how fertile a recruiting ground Florida is, that Da U, UF, and SoFla are perennial FC contenders (or at least in the conversation). And I can’t think of a more impressive rise to dominance than SoFla’s start-from-scratch rise to the top of the FC leaderboard in 10 short years. This unprecedented accomplishment alone should have been reason enough to land Jim Leavitt on that list of the 50 Greatest Coaches of All Time.

by Double Dawg Dare Ya on Jul 30, 2009 4:31 PM EDT reply actions

Rich Brooks thinks becoming eligible for the Fulmer Cup because someone turns themselves in for a suspended license is BULLSHIT.

(Seriously, it’s just like the Trent Pupello pistol-whipping incident, except the exact opposite of that.)

by JD on Jul 30, 2009 11:47 PM EDT reply actions

Thought I’d post my new favorite word in this thread about the celebration of disorder and mayhem. A hoisted pint to Master Steven Gerrard for bringing this to our attention.

“In many legal jurisdictions related to English common law, affray is a public order offence consisting of the fighting of two or more persons in a public place to the terror (in French: à l’effroi) of ordinary people (the lieges).”

by Raider Red on Jul 31, 2009 8:48 AM EDT reply actions