THE CURIOUS INDEX, 7/29/2010
by Spencer Hall on Jul 29, 2010 9:46 AM EDT
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PrintGOVERNOR OTTER WILL NOT INTERFERE, THOUGH HE WILL LOOK CUTE OVER HERE. There will be no government interference in the brisk hatred between Boise State and Idaho and their scheduling. This is leading The Curious Index to remind you that even Governor Otter's power has his limits, even if he is capable of standing on his hind legs and holding a beer in adorable fashion. Any further press inquiries will have to wait until after Governor Otter's band practice.
Mmm. Barbecue.
If we owe the Idaho/BSU blowup for anything, it's giving us an excuse to post Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas clips.
DUDE I GOT THE CASH I JUST NEED A FEW DAYS. Texas A&M is not demanding $20 million from the Big 12. It has been promised $20 million a year under the new terms of the Big 12's still-unsigned television deal, the deal Dan Beebe made with God while looking into this special Alamo Bowl hat over here with his magic glasses. This all stems from the Left Behind wing of schools--i.e., Baylor, Kansas, KSU, etc--agreeing to give up portions of their contracts to push OU, UT, and TAMU's share to $20 mill a piece.
UT and OU declined this move, but the Aggies are in the process of repaying a $16 million loan back to the university, and did not in fact decline this payment. Beebe has the cash, and he could pay, but...we'll talk, dude. The Big 12 remains a conference held together by dental floss, hype, and the fluttering hands of Dan Beebe, a raft made of driftwood and garbage coming apart in a light squall, a herd of cats Beebe is enticing across the plains with a dwindling supply of Fancy Feast thrown from the back of a smoking pickup truck with three flat tires and a tubercular engine.
Legal recourse is first, and snuggling into the warm arms of Mike Slive is next.
YURT ROCK. Cal is going to do their training Mongolian-style for the next year as renovations and the construction of their new athletic complex force them into a series of tents the SF Chronicle refers to as "a glorified yurt." It's a fourteen thousand foot yurt, something Genghis Khan himself would have admired, taken from you, and told you about while he ground you to powder and impregnated your women, but he was just nice enough to at least compliment you on the quality of the tent while doing so.
MO ON MO CLARETT: Luke's got the complete review of the Clarett saga, which you think you remember, but then read and recall exactly how bizarre the man's career and subsequent odyssey was, and just how much trouble mileage he got out of one injury-shortened season as an 18 year old freshman.
HOUSTON NUTT AS A BATSHIT INSANE BRITISH COLONEL? Why yes, Michael, that is about right.
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Dental floss is too strong
I think silly string is more like what Beebe is using to hold the conference together. They may not make it thru this season. Hell, they may not make it to the season.
by Crabapple Buck on Jul 29, 2010 10:06 AM EDT reply actions
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/MDWM
"Got a bill that's big enough to twist the Tiger's tail. Husked some corn and made those SORRY HUSKERS BAIL!"
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Jul 29, 2010 3:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeh, this would describe Nutt to a "T"...
Nutt was known for various eccentricities. For instance, he often wore an alarm clock around his wrist, which would go off at times, and a six pack of beer on a string around his neck, which he would occasionally pop a top as a snack. He often went about without clothing. In Fayetteville and Oxford ,recruits were used to having him come out of the shower to give them orders, wearing nothing but a shower cap, and continuing to scrub himself with a shower brush. AD Pete Boone once wrote in his diaries that “Nutt seemed to me hardly sane—in medical jargon a borderline case.”44 Likewise, after Boone’s meeting with Slive in Hoover, Boone writes that, “Nutt proved a short-lived protegé: closer acquaintance caused Slive to realise that he was too mad for any head coaching position.”45
[edit] Commemoration
"Make no mistake, its not revenge Sabans after... It's the reckoning."
by mrpelicanpants on Jul 29, 2010 10:12 AM EDT reply actions
So....all he needs is to escape a murder conviction, cause a sex scandal in some royal family, and whip 6 men in a bar fight...
..and Nutt’s a Digital Viking?
He’s got the colorful part down pat so far.
If a fan is continually hyping the alleged "academic superiority" of his conference, it's for one obvious reason: they're getting get their ass whipped on the field.
That was my first reaction...
The term “bat-shit crazy British colonel” automatically equated to the one portayed by Alec Guinness in that movie. However, upon reading the Wikipedia article about Col Wingate, I realize that the guys who were sent in to blow up the bridge over the River Kwai were commanded by the real-life bat-shit crazy British colonel.
Funny how things go down the rabbit hole ’round here.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jul 29, 2010 12:05 PM EDT up reply actions
Wingate is a bit more competent that Nutt though...
Ole Miss needs one NC, then the comparison is rock solid.
Excellent work, except for the fact that
Pete Boone is in no position to judge one’s sanity.
Red Cup Rebellion - Changing the Culture of Ole Miss Athletics
Take a picture, trick.
by The Ghost of Jay Cutler on Jul 29, 2010 1:55 PM EDT up reply actions
In defense of Wingate,
lots of fellas wore an onion on their belt. It was the style at the time.
by GwinnettGamecock on Jul 29, 2010 6:10 PM EDT up reply actions
In those days
nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. Gimme five bees for a quarter, you’d say.
I ate the blue ones ... they taste like burning.
"giving us an excuse to post Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas clips. "
Emmitt Smith’s Jug Band Christmas, however, neither requires nor accepts excuses. Only injections of equal parts cortisone and Just For Men beard treatment.
the former Big XII
the Steer and Queers Conference will implode soon enough.
Baylor takes issue with being called "Left Behind"
For when the Rapture comes the campus shall be empty (and Texas will gladly pocket their share of the TV money.)
You know who ELSE believed air attack should only support the ground troops?
I can’t believe he Godwined Tuberville. I mean, it’s somewhat apt, but jeez. Couldn’t have gone with Rommel, huh?
And Chijik is Tadamichi Kuribayashi
Brilliant tactician, undone by lack of resources.
by Golden Hand on Jul 29, 2010 10:50 AM EDT up reply actions
Tuberville = General Stilwell
With Tony Franklin as General Chenault (cue “Flying Tigers” joke), and Bobby Lowder as Chaing Kai Shek. Good officer with an abrasive streak sh1tcanned by a bad situation a disloyal subordinate and a devious meddling string puller with his own agenda.
Chizik? Too early to tell. I’m hoping for Manstein, though I think that might be Malzahn in the near future. Also hoping for a Lucian Truscott.
From Wiki
“Let me tell you something, and don’t ever forget it. You play games to win, not lose. And you fight wars to win. That’s spelled W-I-N ! And every good player in a game and every good commander in a war…has to have some son of a bitch in him. If he doesn’t, he isn’t a good player or commander….It’s as simple as that. No son of a bitch, no commander.”
- Bill Mauldin described the time Truscott gave the address on Memorial Day, May 31, 1945, in the military cemetery at Nettuno, outside Anzio: “He turned his back on the assembled windbags and sparklers and talked to the crosses in the cemetery, quietly, apologizing, and then walked away without looking around.”
by sullivan013 on Jul 29, 2010 12:56 PM EDT up reply actions
Geneticists estimate
that about 8% of men in Asia can trace their line of paternal ancestry back to Genghis Khan.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jul 29, 2010 11:26 AM EDT reply actions
Not to mention
a sorely confused public official in the West Country with a predilection for little fur hats, who often wonders why his brain is filled with a thousand hairy horsemen screaming at him.
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
by Go Big Rev on Jul 29, 2010 11:53 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
It's a bypass.
You’ve got to build bypasses.
Brian Kelly says no Spicy Sea Nuggets.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Jul 29, 2010 11:58 AM EDT up reply actions
We'll see who rusts first.
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
Hey, you sass that Zaphod Beeblebrox? That is one hoopy frood...
"...when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
— Martin Luther
I need to re-read the Hitchhiker's Guide
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jul 29, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
I wonder if MU and/or KU...
will decide to actually PAY the big ten $15 M to be apart of that conference.
Not to mention, how much rejection does the Pac 10 feel right now that even with all of this uncertainty and internal fighting, Texas still doesn’t want to be apart of your conference.
As an MU fan
I’m willing to entertain the English Premier League at this point. This conference is such a joke…
ZOMG we lost Nebraska and Colorado!!!
When are MU fans going to stop whining, man up, and win something?
The conference got better in dumping CU. And all these assumptions that it’s somehow a “foregone conclusion” that Nebraska is going to be elite again in the coming years are delusional.
I get that Mizzou fans probably feel like they got stood up for the Prom, but the contract still rewards the teams that succeed and get on TV the most. The Tigers do have control over their situation. I’m a Kansas fan- I know that there’s pretty much a zero percent chance that our football team will ever be on UT, OU, or even TT’s level of national respect. But high earners get paid more. Welcome to capitalism.
Meatybob- if KU looks to put their own money down on a conference in the future, it will be to form a basketball super conference with Memphis, Xavier, and the best teams from the Big East. It would simply be a much better investment.
"Got a bill that's big enough to twist the Tiger's tail. Husked some corn and made those SORRY HUSKERS BAIL!"
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Jul 29, 2010 3:51 PM EDT up reply actions
franklys
Not all that freaking much. The Pac-10/12 has too much self-respect to pay Texas the fees it demands, then hand over the rights to a local network besides.
Don’t think that Texas wasn’t interested in moving west, provided it got to be the dickhead older brother it’s been to the Big XII.
My cat's breath smells like cat food.
I was just checking the specs on the endline... for the... rotary girder...
by Minnesota Fats on Jul 29, 2010 3:04 PM EDT up reply actions
I have to say, when I heard "Governor Otter,"
Emmit Otter was not the first that came to mind…
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Jul 29, 2010 12:01 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs
Another classic movie references today
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did. But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?”
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Jul 29, 2010 12:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I put it to you, Greg! Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
Well, you can do what you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you bad-mouth the United States of America! Gentlemen!
I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
by boddagettaflyer on Jul 29, 2010 1:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Sophomore dies in kiln explosion?
Oh My God! I just talked to her last week… She was going to make a pot for me.
Fawn Liebowitz from Ft Wayne Indiana
What a minx.
by Crabapple Buck on Jul 29, 2010 3:12 PM EDT up reply actions
I thought of this....
Oh sugary goodness, you is mine!
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Jul 29, 2010 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
Don't call him Governor Otter
He’s Governor “Butch” Otter. Actually, Governor Clement Leroy “Butch” Otter.
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