CURIOUS INDEX, 11/12/09

Stop dissing the Prius! It has a 0-60 time of 9.8 seconds.

That Weis/Stache Fat Guy analogy was like verbal LSUFreek.

Walk tall, you nouveau riche Moscovites!

The ND coaching staff has turned to the famed and effective Leeroy Jenkins Defense this week: “NOT MY FAULT!” So this should probably end well and without any controversy whwatsoever.

+100 COCKTAILS on the Weis/Wannstedt fat guy analogy.

Why are all my Miami Dolphin and Chicago Bears friends calling me at work this week to congratulate me on Notre Dame’s upcoming blow-out victory Saturday night???

Stupidity Dept:

I thought they were “smart” at Notre Dame. Corwin just added more fuel to the fire surrounding Chazz by taking cheap shots at Navy.

Wanny has my Pitt hopes way up now…which means I should be preparing for the inevitable crash and shave of the ’stache.

But, no, this Pitt will still be vastly disappointed on Saturday night at Heinz.

The MWC speculation sounds great until you see who the source is: a blowhard whose nom de air comes from a listener saying “you cut through the BS like a hacksaw”.

1. - you beat me to it. Thus spoke Swindlethustra

that photo of Kiffikins in that article is hilarious

SKLM @ 6 – Corwin, while an excellent recruiter and a darn nice guy, was “educated” at Michigan. Jim Harbaugh doesn’t think you can blame him for his misguided comments.

The 12 team mountain west didnt have any obvious geographic divisions, until I started thinking like the ACC. :)

cross-division permanent rivals are paired:
North South
Fresno SD St
Nevada UNLV
Utah BYU
Co St Air Force
Boise TCU
Wyoming New Mex

Its a little geographically false, but it splits each state that has 2 teams and also balances out the 4 current good teams.

Ooops Dept:

@ # 11, Domer Guy: Apologies for mistaking Corwin – a Mich Man that probably majored in Football and minored in Basket Weaving – for a Notre Dame dude. That guy is as sharp as a bowling ball.

Old Joke Dept:

Question: What does a Buckeye call a Michigan Woverine?

Answer: Boss

It’s not the electric motor that causes the Prius to accelerate like fully loaded cruise ship, its the fact that the motor is too small.

In fact, electric motors in vehicles will typically out accelerate their internal combustion counterparts, due to the fact that electric motors generate maximum torque at 0 RPM and maintain that torque throughout the acceleration.

See the A123 killacycle and the tesla roadster id you need more proof.

If you turned the Weis-Stache encounter into a sitcom, I would watch it.

@12:

If you throw Boise State in the hypothetical East division, it would work pretty well for balance… Boise State and TCU on one side, Utah and BYU on the other, and no real need to do an SEC-style fixed rival scenario (unless I’m missing some major historic rivalries since I’m on the east coast).

I can’t believe the Prius thing isn’t the lead.

Lightly armed robbery on campus where you are a student/Athlete

Check

Wearing team gear during robbery

Check

Making your get-a-way in ’78, 455 Pontiac with a blazing phoenix on the hood and a Flying Nun by your side.

Doh!!

This is what happens when Burt Reynolds ceases to be a relevent force at the box office.

@17

That works too, but seemed too far off geography-wise. But it isnt really, my mental map of the west isnt that accurate.

Im not sure permanent cross-divisional rivals are a bad thing anyway though. Having one creates an easy 5-year rotation pattern thru the rest of the teams. I havent figured out the Big12 pattern yet, assuming there even is one.

@19 – the Big 12 pattern is as follows:
each team in a division (North and South) plays all other teams in that division; and
each team plays 3 teams from the opposing division on a two year rotation (home and away).
Its set up so that the south teams either play Colorado or Nebraska (never both in the same year) and the north teams either play Texas or Oklahoma (same reasoning as above). This was a great idea until Colorado and Nebraska each decided to suck and a south team with a crappy schedule could get Kansas and Missouri in the same year. Now the entire north has decided to suck so the south just has to beat up on one another and give their youngesters some playtime during the 3 games against the north.

@20 – Thanks that makes sense. Weird that they always play the same group of three teams then change to other group of 3 teams.

ACC has the weirdness that when a new team rotates on, its always @Coastal the first year and @Atlantic the 2nd. Not sure if playing home or road first is an advantage (or if either is) but it seems that if there is an advantage, one division is always getting it.

@20- Au Contraire! My Kansas Jayhawks get the “honor” of playing UT, OU, and TT in the same seasons… and then get bitched at by everyone for weak SOS when those three are off the schedule.

Seriously though, I hate the setup. I’d much rather see the pattern shook up at least once in a while- why should we be doomed to play UT and OU in the same season for eternity? What the hell did we do to deserve that? I mean, we voted those anti-evolution nuts out of office as soon as their terms were up. And nobody gives Fred Phelps more crap than the locals. And we feed you a-holes with all that delicious bread and wheat beer you love so much!

“What the hell did we do to deserve that?”

The 1987 KU-KSt tie debacle.

That bridge is about a 45 second walk from my office. Speaking of which…I probably need to be working.

Please let the Gator Bridge happen.
Please let the Gator Bridge happen.
Please let the Gator Bridge happen.

I hate all that divisional crap. All conferences should have 10 teams, with every team playing every other team every season.

Playoff people love to talk about having a “real champion” that is “settled on the field”. Well, okay. The best way to achieve that yet invented by man is with a season of league play using a balanced schedule.

Once upon a time, people still remembered that that was the whole frakking point of having a league in the first place.

P.S. Even though I’m a Bulldog, I still can’t help but wholeheartedly endorse PeterPumpkinhead@25. May the spirit of Wally Butts forgive me.

Dividing the 12-Team MWC works pretty well geographically if you do the following:

South Division: Fresno State, San Diego St, Nevada, UNLV, New Mexico, TCU
North Division: Boise State, Wyoming, Utah, BYU, Colorado State, Air Force

And if you don’t think “South” and “North” are accurate enough descriptions for the geographic setups of the divisions, use “Southwest” and “Mountain” instead. Unlike for the ACC’s division names where “Atlantic” and “Coastal” are meaningless, the Mountain West’s “Mountain” division teams will actually be in the mountains.

Billy boy clausen will spit a football in pitts face. Charle boy will eats all donuts. Big men bang together. Everyone singing.