CURIOUS INDEX, 12/17/09

Fake gun? This recruit clearly wants to go to Tennessee.

Orson, if you are still looking for off-season, erm, sports, it looks like Onbashira is on for April 2010.

http://blog.asiahotels.com/riding-the-logs-at-onbashira/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgO9ByVK2aw

Wouldn’t Utah and BYU be the obvious choices for Pac-10 expansion?

The Pac-10 has such beautiful symmetry, with all schools having a main in-state or in-metro area rival (UCLA-USC, Cal-Stanford, Wash-Wash St., Oregon-OSU, Arizona-ASU).

Utah-BYU bring a bitter rivalry and good athletic programs to the mix. And, they make sense geographically.

1. Oklahoma Fans
2 ?????
3. Proft

Whats the big deal ,y’all racists or sumthin? 2d Ammendment hasn’t been repealed yet.
Is he wearing Topsiders??
OK, he does look like the guy who stole my car stero

RIP Slim 15

So for the last twenty years or so, people have been pointing out that the Big Ten has eleven members, aren’t those Yankees dumb, bla bla bla.

Once I recall someone criticizing the ACC because BC wasn’t on the Atlantic, which is hilarious.

But if the Big Ten takes all that grief for having 11 members, where’s the HURHURHUR Brigade on the Pac 10? ARIZONA IS LANDLOCKED. UA and ASU are “Pacific” only to the same extent that Wyoming and Rhode Island are as well. This drives me crazy.

I am very, very excited about the chance the Pac 10 will add 2 teams, if only because we’ll finally have a college football conference called the “Pac 12”. Frankly, I’m just surprised there hasn’t been a conference title vaguely referencing alcohol to date.

Thinking OU fans are just coming up with excuses to not travel to a bowl they feel is beneath them. El Paso is not an exciting place despite its size – having been there for the Sun Bowl two years ago, my conclusion was that it’s a nice place to fly into and then go somewhere else, like Carlsbad Caverns or Roswell or whatever. Or Juarez, but yeah… not so much.

"I’ve got 15 more assignments to do in two days," Orr said. "They’re medium (difficult) but they’re time consuming. I don’t have a computer at home so I have to work on the computer at school."

wha? what in the hell is the corch doing down there? if he were being recruited by georgia and tennessee, the bagman and coach o would make sure this kid has 20 computers and an army of hot chicks doing the work for him.

#2,

I believe Utah U lacks the research accreditation to match with the other Pac schools. There’s also a problem with BYU’s strict policy of non-competition on Sundays. The Pac takes a lot of pride in baseball and olympic sports, many of which require Sunday competition and travel. This has all been covered ad nauseum by every Pac-10 message board since their inception.

Three people=trend=scientific fact that OU fans love them some whores. This has been your pseudojournalistic math lesson for the morning, sponsored by Local Columnists: Making Sweeping Assumptions About Reality With Little Data for 90 Years.

Word. What a craptacular article. Maybe OU fans aren’t going to El Paso because the Sun Bowl sucks balls for a perennial BCS team. An El Paso native once told me that it’s a fine city, just don’t go south of I-10. Using movie scenes to make a point? THAT’S GARBAGE!

/mikegundy’d

Oh man, NPR. I went to high school in the only town on the Florida Gulf Coast harder than NPR – Spring Hill.

@7:

The SEC, sponsored in part by Busch. Make it a gold top Saturday, simple man.

Student sections sponsored by Evan Williams. Grab the green label and FUCK SOME SHIT UP

“My advice to you is to stop stealing from the cartels.”

Dammit, dude, quit crampin’ her style! Homegirl gots ta make a livin’!

Both my grandparents lived in New Port Richey and we had to drive down there at least once a year. They lived in the old folks condos behind the Publix; ate many a meal at the Steak n Shake on 19. When the last grandparent passed, my uncle, upon leaving for the last time, turned, raised a fist and yelled, “Damn you New Port Richey, you SonofaBitch!!”.

It was a fantastic moment in my childhood. The point is I don’t recall NPR being thuggish, just thought old people lived there.

Snake:

Ditto the grandparents. New Port Richey is filled with old people and resturants specializing in “early bird specials.”

Orson where’d you attend highschool. I’m a current TSHS football player. P.S. Leon Orr is about as thug as a box of kittens.

@ 8 JD and 11 Big Jon: Yes. Don’t underestimate the power of Oklahomans to believe stupid things, but you’re spot on – most aren’t traveling because the Sun Bowl is a major disappointment, but they don’t want to say out loud that they really just aren’t motivated to support the team.

Did somebody say whores?

Yea I was thinking BYU/Utah as well. Honestly if you’re the Pac 10 you’re not expanding. So long as Utah-BYU isnt feasible (which is being poo-pooed here with decent evidence reason) I dont see any other schools worth inviting. Your only other options are basically Boise State, San Diego State, and UNLV, which isn’t happening

Ah yes, the untold numbers of scholars that would abandon the likes of Cal-Berkeley, Stanford or Washington because of the admission of BYU to the Pac-10.

“When asked why he was transferring to Carnegie-Mellon away from Cal, Ph.D student Amadeus Cho remarked he couldn’t be at a school that played inter-collegiate athletics with the likes of Bosie State or UNLV. The entire men’s synchronized swimming team of Stanford will be wearing armbands at their next few matches in protest”

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The least they could do is buy and donate some of OU’s tickets to Fort Bliss… it supports the school while saving them the trouble of going down there. I mean my school is playing a bowl game in fucking Canada. I’m sure the number of USF fans there will be paltry, but people are still buying game tickets so the program doesn’t take a bath on their allotment.

JD: I agree. That’s a good program and I wish more people would take advantage of it. Going to the game was never an option for me, but I have considered (and still am) chipping in for a pair of tickets for the troops.

“They should have moved the bowl game. It’s the well-being. You’ve got to think about our well-being first, don’t you?"

No, no we don’t at all. You’re playing college football for our enjoyment.

Kids are so cute at that age.

18 murders last year!!! I could probably find 10 dead illegals tucked away in the bushes around El Paso right now. Facts are fun when you can make them say what you want!

I hope OU fans are just using violence as a convenient scapegoat for not attending a disappointing bowl game. At least that weak ass excuse is informed (the Sooners did have an undeniably poor year).

With Tens of thousands of Stanford alum roaming the streets Okies wouldn’t even rate as a target for crime.

“Get your cheddar game straight and come back when you know a wheel of gouda from a box of Cheez-its, lawya.”

/ golf clap

Yeah, I know how the Sooners feel. I was going to go to Georgia’s bowl game, but the violence in Bossier City just seems a bit too close for comfort.

Also, dude…

Maybe it’s just me and Blog Goliard, but shouldn’t we want conferences to be 9-10 teams so that all conference teams can play each other while leaving enough OOC opportunities for interesting inter-sectional regular season games? I’d take that over conference championship games which have a number of problems of the “settling it on the field” variety. (f.ex., Miss St played in the SECCG but ducked UGA, UF and UT from the east that year)

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At least there are some casinos in Shreveport. The best you can do in El Paso is cross into New Mexico and try your luck at a shitty casino that doesn’t even have table games. Yes, I investigated this thoroughly.

You do know that if it wasn’t for the mexican whores and the Ok cowboys, there wouldn’t be a Texas anyway……………..