CINCY PROUDLY ACCEPTS 2009 MEINEKE CAR CARE BOWL

After the shit-storm of Cincy fans who came down to NOLA for the game, (they were the majority by far) I must say I was glad they lost in the fashion they did. Yes New Orleans is a party city but Jesus Christ, show a little respect for your host. I was harassed for wearing and LSU shirt.

Seeing Cincy’s players next to Forida’s was eye-popping.
Like seeing a bantam weight fight a heavy weight.
Some high schools probably have more bulk and muscle than the pretenders from Ohio.
Many Notre Dame fans were cringing at the thought of ND becoming the next Cincinnati.

Hopefully Brian Kelly won’t be recruiting the same caliber of players for the ND job as he did at Cincinnati, just a thought. But then again Notre Dame hasn’t been a great spot for “talent development” either.

It is called a weightroom, use it people.

Will Florida be replaying the SEC Championship scrimmage as well? Hell if Alabama didn’t take knees on the 10 yard line and take out Ingram and company with 6 min left it would have been worse than the Cinci game.

Double Deuce:

Sure thing, just as soon as Alabama retroactively declines their invitation to last year’s Sugar Bowl scrimmage with Utah.

@5:

Ha! Since you’re so proud of your Sugar Bowl trophy, you should get used to it. It’ll be a long time until Florida is the SEC Champion again. This year was your last chance to beat Bama. Enjoy the silver medal.

Kevin@LSU,

You must understand that UC fans are bandwagon fans that were once or still are Ohio State fans. That or I am starting to think that the entire state is just packed full of assholes.

Either way, I hope NO enjoyed the large supply of Cincinnati cash.

Get money

Actually, DoubleDeuce… we get a chance to beat Bama again on October 2.

DoubleDeuce, enjoy being such an insecure asshole you have to start with the Florida callouts in a post about freaking Cincy.

I’m a Cincy fan. I give UF all the credit in the world, they thoroughly out played the Bearcats. It was a classic matchup between a nouveau riche program and a BCS behemoth. From my perspective the result was sadly predictable.

Does Cincinnati have a good base from which to recruit? Yes, for the Midwest. Florida gets to recruit from, well Florida. I think we all know which state has the deeper talent pool. A game like that is good for Cincy because it makes them understand how far they need to go to compete with the elite in college football. This is a program that plays in a 35,000 seat stadium, has been in a BCS conference for 5 years (winning it twice) and is in the process of building a practice bubble. It’s a program that is still new to big-time college football.

That said, Florida was awesome. I’m sure it was fun to watch if you’re a Gator fan.

Classy commentary Ben…and speaking as a Gator fan, you are right…it was fun to watch. Unfortunately for Cincy, you guys provided the perfect cure for what was ailing the Gators the past few weeks. I’m a little bit sorry your own seniors had to go out that way, but I am ecstatic that our senior class, who provided so many great moments, got to finish up with outstanding performances and smiles on their faces.

Deuce:

Perhaps so. Then again, a year ago it looked like Bama was going to take a step back, Florida 2009 was going to be the greatest college football team of all time, Oklahoma was again going to dominate, USC was going to re-load and stay on top and Notre Dame was going to a BCS game (wait, never mind… nobody really believed that last one). Each season is completely insulated from all other seasons including the one immediately preceding; you simply cannot determine with any reasonable amount of accuracy what the final standings will look like from one year to the next.

Bama is a very powerful program when not constrained by sanctions which, if you haven’t noticed, has been somewhat of a constant specter hanging over the program for the last 20 or so years. I’m not trying to start a name calling war because I realize no one program is perfect and Bama is probably not any dirtier than other big programs, but unless or until the program can demonstrate consistent compliance with NCAA regulations, success can never be guaranteed over an extended period of time.

I look forward to Bama representing the ESS EEE SEE in Pasadena this week.

Cincy ought to feel good about their final score of 24 points. Yeah they got all their touchdowns after Major Wright had injured all of Florida’s starters, but no one other than Alabama this year has scored more than 21 on the Gators since September 27th, 2008.

Tony Pike: more touchdowns than Sam Bradford against Florida. Wear that badge with pride, son.

Gators and Pirates Dept:

FL treated Cincinnati worse than Leach treated Kid James a few weeks ago.

From the Hindsight Dept:

Sugar Bowl: Florida vs. TCU

Fiesta Bowl: Cincy vs. Boise.

I mean, as long as we’re using the wayback machine.

@Kevin@LSU:

Apologies for Ohioans treating your beloved Southern town so poorly. Alas, we have a history of that sort of conduct and it appears we can’t seem to kick the habit. See, e.g., Grant, Ulysses (born in Ohio); Sheridan, Philip (relocated to Ohio in youth); and Sherman, William Tecumseh (born in Ohio), re: burning your shitter assorted cities to the ever-Jeebus-loving ground.

PS: Nice job in the Capital One Bowl!

Good Guys Finish Last Dept:

Why isn’t Tressell not getting much ink after coaching a heck of a game against the Ducks in the Rose Bowl last week and getting the gorilla off his back? That was a nice game to watch, as opposed to the beat down of the Bearcats, who played more like cats than bears, actually.

As a Buckeye fan, I really like this idea. Here’s to three January scrimmages in a row; it was nice to get to a bowl tthis year after missing out for the last three years.

Stan, sorry to burst your bubble but this is what pretty much every Sugar Bowl fan base does. Show up the day after Christmas, spend six days acting like a bunch of irresponsible assholes, and leave with no money left in your pockets. And we love you for it.

And by the way your boy Sherman – first ever headmaster at LSU. WOO GEAUX TIGAHS WAR CRIMES REPRESENT!

I dont know, Stacy, maybe it is because HE OUGHT TO WIN THOSE GAMES EVERY ONCE AND A WHILE WITH ALL THOSE GREAT RECRUITING CLASSES!!! BTW, the Pac-10 stinks, whoever didn’t beat a Pac-10 team in a bowl game simply didn’t play one…..

Rjs agree very much with your post. That’s why they play the games. On paper Florida was supposed to beat Alabama this year I suppose. See you in Tuscaloosa next year- should be a good one- Bama/UF always is.

Agree totally with the NCAA thing. I am scared to death that some retarded fan/booster is going to mess it up. Hard to blame us with all that has gone on. The NCAA is the only thing that can mess this thing up, and I hope it doesn’t. Not saying we are going to win every year, but I think we will be successful under Saban and that he will stay AS LONG AS WE DON’T SCREW IT UP WITH THE NCAA.

Didn’t mean to ruffle any feathers by calling out UF, they are actually my second favorite SEC team (who couldn’t love a team that beats UT, LSU, and UGA?). I just didn’t like them running up the score, and then seeing people bragging about it. I know a lot of people don’t care and think it is lame to complain about that, but I was glad to see that Alabama didn’t humiliate UF after they had a great season.I know how it felt last year to lose a game like that after going the whole season undefeated and then have it all gone. I don’t think humiliating a team in that situation is needed, especially when just losing hurts bad enough, but agree to disagree I guess. Thanks for your support in the BCS game.

@ Stan

The Civil War ended 145 years ago. But, if we have to go down that road, Sherman was the first superintendent at LSU which is why the first campus was spared from the destruction at the hands of the Union. So was NOLA.

Is it really running up the score when it’s against a Big East team? They gave up 45 to UConn. Florida played about like they always do, except the first receiver in Tebow’s progression was always open.

Now if it was 37-3 late in the third against an SEC powerhouse, then that’s just being an unsportsmanlike evil terminator robot hell bent on destroying the heart and soul of a bitter rival, until they enact revenge next season and the bitter cycle of misery and destruction continues unabated.

Really though, it was probably just Meyer letting the kid have some fun in his last game. Sorry, Bearcats.

Yeah, as I cheered the Gators I couldn’t help feeling for the ‘Cats. (See earlier comments in other posts about the Brian Kelly screwjob.) OTOH, I did feel like leaving your starters in as late as UF did was lame. But then I thought, "Well, it’s a lot of these guys’ (not just Tebow’s) last game, leave ‘em in and dial down the playcalling.) Which I thought they did, a little… UF scored almost all their points in the first 40 minutes.
I’d hate to be a coach and have to decide whether to pull starters in their last game vs. whether to continue to stomp a spunky but overmatched opponent.
Good luck next year, ’Cats.

er, “our” starters. jeez, we really need little team icons to go with our nicks here.
IGTBAFG.

As a Bearcat fan, I’d like to see a rematch of the Florida-Alabama game, as I cannot see how ’Bama got the best of them so easy. I expected to lose to the Gators. But. Jesus. Christ.

Skill players on each team probably aren’t so different between UC – Florida. I think plenty of scouts would make the case Tony Pike and Mardy Gilyard will make better pros than Tebow and Cooper, for example. It’s just, you know, every other position on the field…

Kevin,

All I can say is, there’s assholes in every fanbase… just be glad it wasn’t Ohio State in town. As a UC grad in NOLA for the game, I had a number of pleasant conversations with LSU fans who wished us luck and wanted to see us beat Florida.

Which, let’s face it… if Florida came to play, we were gonna be screwed. And there was no way they weren’t, with it being Timmy and Urban’s last game.

@ Mardy’d Out

You are absolutely correct. In fact, the only reason I was in NOLA for NYE was because I have friends at UC that came down for the game and I agreed to show them around. A part of the problem I guess was that I was a neutral party so all of the trash talking just seemed pointless to me, especially when your supposed to be having fun. Add in the fact that Cincy fans were by far the majority, you get a near mob mentality as far as the “playful banter” went. Another thing that got me; that UC chant. You know, the OOOOOOH, OOOOOOH, OOOOOOH, UC, whatever the hell that was got a little annoying when being bellowed in the Sheridan hotel lobby, which doubled as a UC student respite for the drunk and disorderly. So, what ended up happening was good ole Kevin, who can hold his liquor pretty well, had to play babysitter to the UC friends who saw NOLA as a candy store but for booze. That’s probably where my attitude came from. Although, the quote of the night from a UC chick and a UF chick.

UC Girl: …Well, your coach has to go to the hospital when he loses.
UF Girl: I’ll put you in the hospital, bitch!

Dang Kevin…I didn’t think anyone but that UC girl heard me say that.