COUNTDOWN 2009: 28

Why not cite the sources of the quotes?

I love that this is filed under “hope”. Just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, but theat may just be the radiation poisoning.

Very apt for the Hiroshima anniversary.

Marshall!

It warms my heart to see school-age Faulk; there was nothing like his ballistic speed. I remember staying up much later than I expected to watch all the way to the end of the 52-52 tie between the Aztecs and Detmer’s Cougars.

The old WAC won’t soon be forgotten.

I remember hiding in my east coast basement in gradeschool so I could stay up to watch the San Diego State games. Watching Faulk and the receiver (whose name is escaping me) was worth every second of it.

@6 – Darnay Scott, I believe. Had to reach way back for that.

Wasn’t the 52-52 tie game a Thursday night affair?

Is it just me or did espn directly rip off that conference restructuring article from a blog?? Can someone remind me who wrote that on their blog, I know I read it somewhere just recently.

@vol:

Because it’s so easy to Google them. This one’s from H.G. Wells’ “The World Set Free,” from 1914. And he’s describing bombs that literally explode for days:

“Those used by the Allies were lumps of pure Carolinum, painted on the outside with unoxidised cydonator inducive enclosed hermetically in a case of membranium. A little celluloid stud between the handles by which the bomb was lifted was arranged so as to be easily torn off and admit air to the inducive, which at once became active and set up radio-activity in the outer layer of the Carolinum sphere. This liberated fresh inducive, and so in a few minutes the whole bomb was a blazing continual explosion.”

He was also pretty damb prescient:

“Destruction was becoming so facile that any little body of malcontents could use it… Before the last war began it was a matter of common knowledge that a man could carry about in a handbag an amount of latent energy sufficient to wreck half a city.”

I can only imagine what Marshall would have done at a bigger school…one, say, with a red “N” on their helmets…would have been sweet.

#5

I would love to see the tie brought back to CFB (old bowl system too, but that’s another story). The possibility of a tie made coaching decisions so much more interesting. I’d like to see other commenters’ takes on this topic.

@11

I’d be okay with that on one condition- if a coach has a chance to go for the win at the end of a game and doesn’t in order to preserve the tie, he is officially declared a “pussy”.

@12
We can call it “The Osborne Rule.”

It might be quoting H.G. Wells, but anybody who’s anybody knows such a reference is really an oblique reference to Leo Szilard. What the hell is up with my Jackets being 200 points behind the accursed dawgs in the first poll? GO JACKETS, STING ’EM!

I gotta admit I was really hoping for Adrian Petersen at #28, but Marshall Faulk will be more than sufficient.

Where did MF start that season on the depth chart, #4? If he went to NU he would have been a CB and not nearly as valuable. The reason he went to SDSU was that they’d give him a chance to be a RB.