THE CURIOUS INDEX, 7/27/2010

As far as Clarett goes, best of luck to the man. Hopefully all these positive signs continue and his life turns out to be an epic redemption story fit for a made-for-TV movie.

That said, if he wants to be a grad assistant in charge of teaching ball stripping skills, I might be tempted to say maybe. I agree that his life is a movie waiting to happen. It just needs a happy ending and I’m not talking in the massage palor sense.

I’m embarrassed to live in Pac-10 country and root for Cal.

Look at all those kids in New York who go to college. And Rutgers! Rutgers is good(ish) now! That’s the next generation that’s FINALLY going to make college football popular in New York! All they need is a big, washed-up star to transfer to a New York-area college, and they’ll go nuts for it, I tell ya.

How about the early a.m. post time. For most people, date/time stamps are damning – not redeaming as they are for Fearless Leader

These people in NYC have clearly shown that they have no taste. They’re Yankees fans, for Christ’s sake.

….I thought it might be because SC didn’t tell them they had to wire Lendale White’s jaw shut to keep him from blowing up to parade balloon size

Because we all know that if they had a team worth covering, the Worldwide Leader would play that irritating “New York” song by Beyonce/Ke$ha/Alicia Keys/Jewel/Justin Bieber on infinite loop until the heat-death of the universe.

Delaney was “widely considered the most powerful man in college football.”

Always figured that was Dr. Lou.

…Big XII Media Day pales in comparison. I’ve seen morgues with more life in them. I was hoping Bo Pelini would at least throw out a couple of f-bombs, but no such luck.

Perhaps this has already been discussed in these parts, but shouldn’t the Pac Ten immediately switch their conference name to The Twelve Pac?

They stole UW’s godawful skinny numbers.

Something smells fishy with this latest Kiffin incident (Get it, fishy? Get it. I rule.).

I’m thinking Haden called up Fisher and they hatched a plan to allow Pola to leave so that the Titans could sue. Then Haden would have the first significant transgression he will need to justify firing Kiffy. Now, plant a transsexual who just needed a ride home (Eddie style) and have the LAPD pull over Kiffin and the plan will be complete.

BHAHAHAHA BHAHAHAHA.

NYC doesn’t have too many of those, and still manages to produce football talent. Take Long Island, northern New Jersey and western Connecticut into account and you have fertile ground for recruiting talent and spectators. Hell, the Roman coliseum was the largest-capacity structure on Earth until the Yale Bowl was built. People in the northeast dig football, it’s just that there’s been comparatively little for in the last couple years, decades, whatever.

People need to be invested to develop a rooting interest, and there just aren’t that many D-I football programs up here to create the atmosphere of multiple rivalries needed to engage the region. Couple that with two MLB teams, two NBA teams, three NHL teams, two NFL teams and the fact that there is already plenty of other stuff, you know, to do, and it’s a difficult process.

I can tell you that there are large and fervent alumni groups at many Manhattan bars every Saturday during the season.

“to root for”

Stupid lack of an edit button.

But we’re talking about the most popular sport in America, and saying it’s impossible that it will ever be a big deal in New York? New F-ing York? You can sell bean cakes as dessert on the street by the millions to these people, but they won’t like college football? Riiiight.

New Yorkers will buy anything, so long as it’s pitched as the biggest and the best. A 7-6 Michigan State team taking on UConn would probably be met with a hand gesture, but roll in an undefeated Ohio State against an 11-1 Nebraska squad and they’ll come. This is the city, afterall, that financially powered 50 years of Notre Dame football.

Delany knows what he’s doing. The reason New York doesn’t give a shit is because Rutgers is awful and all the transplants root for their hometown schools. Put Michigan and Penn State in Citi Field and you’re talking instant sellout.

They don’t have a home team. And they can’t really, since everybody there went to different schools — it’s part of the thing. It’s also like eleventy million people — if 10 percent of them are college football fans, that’s a Top Ten fanbase.

Give New York something to really sink its teeth into, over a long period of time, and trust me, they’ll bite down. It’s fucking New York.