CURIOUS INDEX, 1/22/2010

At least Riley will bring more to an offense than 7 versions of the bubble screen and a halfback dive (see Skip Holth’s offensive philosophy)

Go Pirates!

In unrelated news, here’s a Moustache Update from the world of North Dakota politics:

“Is mustache a misstep for Gov. Hoeven?”

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/news/state-and-regional/article_d0c1e910-032b-11df-94e1-001cc4c002e0.html

Oooooooops.

So you linked that already. Sorry. Feel free to delete both this comment and the one above.

Still trying to understand the McNeill hire. Aside from an ECU diploma (for what that’s worth) who has defense ever stopped?

As for the Houston-ECU game and the basketball score, very true Orson. The football team will probably average more points than the bball team averages attendance.

Menges Maniacs!

The link about corners is the twitter link above it? Corners really ARE invisible….

Now, an attempt to not comment fail, regarding the video:

It’s clearly a different era, many things are very different…yet surely I’m not the only one surprised at how much is the same. In particular:

1) Hey! I recognize some of those plays! I could swear one or two even caught Willie Martinez & co. wrong-footed just last year!

2) Clearly this video was the model for Fox Sports’ broadcasts. I’m seeing the cheerleaders frequently, there’s a good long segment featuring bands…and there are more than a few plays where you miss what’s going on because of the camera/editing work!

I want all my modern highlights to look and sound like they’re out of the ’40s.

My how time has flown Orson 12/22/2010 already?

#6, I was thinking the exact same thing. It’s actually kind of cool to see just how many things haven’t changed at all.

Looks like a step up from the Fox broadcasts though.

The camera man covering the UF/Ga Tech game must be the grandfather of some FOX camera guy (you can see the band but not the actual plays on the field). What does TPCH stand for? The announcer says the 92-member ‘aggregation" spelled it out on the field. Though the P doesn’t look like a P.

The MSU football team could come out wearing cuirasses and Thracian helmets and look no more ridiculous than anything Oregon has trotted out in the past few years

Does the MSU PR department believe that now is the right time to jump on the “300” bandwagon?

Love this comment from the youtubes:

“Looks like the crowd has about 30 more people than they do today at Tech games. Guess thats because this was before world of warcraft.”

Funny because it’s true.

#4—as to the ECU Hire, I think the deciding factor for McNeill HAD to be the ‘stache. Can’t be a pirate without one, can you?

If you look very carefully at about the 4:07 mark you can see a very spry 58-year-old Joe Paterno in the 3rd row, just left of the Gator band.

When I clicked on the link or the New MSU logo, I was expecting wholesale changes along the lines of “gritty reboot”.

It may just be the fact that I didn’t go to school there, but it’s not THAT different y’all. To me it’s got a meaner feel, yet still maintains a classic look that wouldn’t be out of place when paired with the block ‘S’.

You have to wonder how Nike manages to be so powerful and omnipresent in college football when just about every new design they roll out is met with general scorn and derision.

If they ever come near my uniforms and try to put some sort of “GRR I ARE A TUFF SHAMROCK” thing on the helmets, I will self-immolate in protest. I’d rather have the Davie/Willingham “worst sweat stains ever” gold flanks jerseys back than surrender to the dark powers of the Swoosh.

You know there has to be somebody at Nike headquarters looking at old videos like that one and cursing the fact that they weren’t around back then to do something about the uniforms.

I’m shocked (SHOCKED!) and appalled (APPALLED, I say) that some journalistic hack in North Dakota would even insinuate that men with facial hair are somehow less trustworthy that those without.

I have half a mind to go up to ND, get to be his drinkin’ buddy, and then burn his house down one night in a drunken stupor.

re: John Hoeven

This is how a great nation falls, people.

Orson,

LOVE the old video clip, how ’bout more of those. Every school has them, could be some fun in there.

What was the deal with the white patch on the back of the UF helmets?

And some bowl games …

1943 Rose Bowl: http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/ugarelated/rosebowl.html

1947 Sugar Bowl (w/ audio): http://www.libs.uga.edu/media/collections/ugarelated/sugarbowl.html

The next time I get annoyed by “la fortuna” or “thunderstruck”, I will chant…“It’s not John Phillip Sousa, It’s not John Phillip…..”.

I actually kinda like “la fortuna”.

That new MSU logo has a bad case of big hair. Sparty 2010: Revenge of the Fightin’ Pompadours.

If only John L. Smith coulda survived to see this.

I was under the impression that Florida did not begin to play football until the 1990’s? Wha?

Also perhaps a simple change to the soundtrack to the clip would be Big and Rich – followed by the Three Daves.

“Does the MSU PR department believe that now is the right time to jump on the "300″ bandwagon?”

Sadly, they feel the right to time to jump on that particular boring-ass bandwagon was: just after it became popular, and the time to get off was: not yet.

Hate, hate, hate. Xerxes can’t have been as bad as Zack Snyder.

Oh, and:
It’s not really confirmed they’re switching to the ugly logo. Hopeful speculation is it might be some one-off Nike promotion.