EDSBS'S BEST IN CLASS: WEEK 2
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 10:38 AM EDT
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PrintIn which we reward the highlights and lesser luminaries of Week 2.
IMPROVING! Trent Richardson, the adorable creature who's been toiling in the tailback shadow of Mark Ingram his entire career at Alabama, and who had a nice little outing against Penn State: 144 rushing yards on 22 carries and a touchdown. That's nice, we guess. You know, if you're into having two unstoppable running backs on the same team. S'not for everybody. Whatever.
SUPERSTAR! Denard Robinson and his 502 (FIVE HUNDRED AND TWO) yards of offense against Notre Dame. We touched on this yesterday, but it bears serious examination: What are Freep investigative types going to do with their free time if Michigan keeps winning games?
YOU TRIED! Case Keenum, who sustained a concussion against UTEP and therefore came away with only 297 passing yards on 15 completions. (TRIVIA: Keenum's backup is named Cotton Turner, and by natural law could not have grown up to do anything other than quarterback in the South.)
TAKE TURNS! Kansas, determined to be everything to everyone this season. Punchline to all? Check. Bully to Josh Nesbitt's Heisman campaign? Check. For their next trick, the Jayhawks will turn a hot chick with glasses and overalls (Southern Miss) into a hot chick without either glasses or overalls, then fall in love with her.
GOOD HELPER! James Madison, clearly on the payroll of BCS interests to keep Boise State out of the title game in exchange for ACC consideration. (Which, after this weekend, the ACC could do worse than entertain.)
ADEQUATE! Our sincere congratulations to the Rutgers Scarlet Knights on their hard-fought road victory over Florida International.
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The Colonial is a better conference than either the Sun Belt or the MAC
They were last year, they are again this year. Can we relegate the SB and promote the Colonial in mass?
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Do ACC fans really want to be talking conference smack today?
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions
This isnt conference smack, this is just fact
As Ive made clear, I dont give a damn about other ACC teams.
I repeat from lat week: IM A GT FAN NOT A FUCKING ACC FAN.
Read my sig.
I think the JMU win is one of the greatest things ever. I wish it to happen to VT over and over and over. And UM and FSU losing were also great results. I like Friedgen, he got a solid win, good for him.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
by gtne91 on Sep 13, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
OH YOUR SIG. MY BAD.
[ERROR: image of world’s largest dismissive wanking motion too large to display]
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:06 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Yeah, yeah, for some reason fans of SEC teams dont like it.
Dont know why though, as long as they arent conference homers it shouldnt bother them.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Holly, thank you for defending punctuation, sanity and football.
by gamedaytribe on Sep 13, 2010 12:07 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Is it wrong if I rec that?
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 12:08 PM EDT up reply actions
Other things you don't give a damn about include "apostrophes," I see.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
Actually yeah
I rarely use them in informal writing. There is almost no circumstance in which the apostrophe is necessary, context determines contraction v possessive 99.44% of the time.
This bugs some people for some reason. Professional writers mostly. Female professional writers especially (got into a heated discussion at a beer fest about this with one).
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
SO HOOD.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Holly: grammar cop
Really?
Stop dying, you cowards! -- Zapp Brannigan
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 13, 2010 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Have we MET?
No, you’re right. I must be on my period. <— PUNCTUATION JOKE UP TOP
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:15 AM EDT up reply actions 16 recs
But we know what happened
to this guy, right?
Stop dying, you cowards! -- Zapp Brannigan
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 13, 2010 3:16 PM EDT up reply actions
...brilliant.
Ma’am, you’ve once again shown me why I read comments on the internet. Because for all the horrible, stupid, pointless ones… there’s one like that that makes me laugh out loud, in front of coworkers, and have to explain why I laughed.
Awkwaaard…
by The Commenter Formerly Known as Not You on Sep 13, 2010 11:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Did an argument about punctuatio'n
turn in’to a sex’ist di’a’tribe?
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 13, 2010 1:10 PM EDT up reply actions
Between...
the apostrophes (or lack there of), the comma splices, the short incomplete sentences, and tendencies to nest parenthesis, my internet posting style probably kills a few grammarians a year.
“Huh, another aneurysm.”
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
It also kept you out of MIT.
by Luke Zimmermann on Sep 13, 2010 11:38 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
Nah, that was being a slacker in high school
My formal writing is actually pretty good.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Correction: “My formal writing is actually pretty WELL.”
Oh, wait…
by CanWeBeMature on Sep 13, 2010 11:52 AM EDT up reply actions
I actually stopped mid sentence to consider that.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Although technically
MIT never got the chance to reject me. My application was awaiting a stamp when my GT acceptance arrived. Deciding not to bother with MIT. GT out-of-state tuition was much, much less than MIT tuition.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Just stop
You’ve been bested by Ms. Holly-the-wise and you need to quietly go back to planning more brilliant engineering feats such as Georgia Highway 400 or tend to your beehive, whatever it is you GT grads do when you are undecided about an excuse about losing to a horrible unranked opponent. Quiet now little bee, quiet.
by veal_chop on Sep 13, 2010 11:59 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Ehh, not so much.
No one has refuted his original comment. Everybody just decided to go all Ad-Hom on his ass.
/shrug
THWG!
That comes later in this thread
The general argument is that when the conference does well against the OOC teams, it improves the value of the conference as a whole. It might be difficult to accept that it is possible to dislike or even hate another team in your division (especially if they wear Crimson and White) and yet be pleased when they do well because it improves your value overall.* NOTE NOTE NOTE This is not, I repeat NOT, counting their wins as your own. Cliched, it is the “Rising tide lifts all boats” model.
He might have gotten away with it, too, if it weren’t for those meddling kids and the second sentence of his signature.
*Except me. I really hate that school up the road and was yelling for Texas back in January.
by PalmettoTiger on Sep 13, 2010 2:26 PM EDT up reply actions
I stand by my argument down below
Irrational hatred defeats logic every time.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Only when dealing with Bama
I’m usually very pleased when the ten other teams win their OOC games. Even then, sigh, I suppose it is nice to have yet another crystal trophy brought back down this way.
Simply, we’ve got something very nice down here and we can look at it with a certain cold logic for, oh, about three billion reasons (and change).
by PalmettoTiger on Sep 13, 2010 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions
The new ACC contract isnt *that* different than the SEC one
Sure the SEC one is more $$$$, but not radically different. But then again maybe if I had rooted for FSU and VT the last 3 years we would have got the same money as the SEC.
And that last sentence rightly deserves a mdwm.
My rooting interests have changed the $ amounts exactly squat.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Just as your rooting interests have changed the record of GT squat..?
Rooting not effecting outcome != valid argument.
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
by cantcatchuf on Sep 13, 2010 8:28 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
rec'd for proper c syntax (!=)
As we’re picky about these kinds of things round these here parts…
by gamedaytribe on Sep 13, 2010 11:53 PM EDT up reply actions
On a Monday or Tuesday...
Jim Grizzle’s argument makes a lot of sense. But come Saturday afternoon…fuck that shit.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Oh, and even I forgot my original point
That the Colonial is a better conference than the Sun Belt or the MAC. No one has even proposed an argument to that.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
I agree with this
If Presbyterian could’ve somehow beaten Clemson, that would’ve made the weekend so much better.
I wish nothing but badness on our ACC bretheren, and those wishes seem to be coming true with increasing frequency.
by ramblingamblinjohn on Sep 13, 2010 11:14 AM EDT up reply actions
Unfortunately their return wishes are also coming true.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
The ACC
the best example for the NCAA to outlaw voodoo magic.
by Pariahwulfen on Sep 13, 2010 1:52 PM EDT up reply actions
Clemson I rarely cheer against
Good folks.
Although the Blue Hose beating them would have been hilarious.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
The SEC schools have $3+ billion reasons to want to see their rivals do well out-of-conference. It’s called collectively maximizing your individual worth.
I have pride in the neighborhood (conference) in which I live. I want to see my neighbors (11 other teams) do well because it only enhances my property value (my team’s athletic budget) in the end. That doesn’t mean I don’t want to kick their asses at the neighborhood golf scrambles (on the gridiron on Fall Saturdays). But I’m certainly not going to wish for their houses (programs) to burn down since I would take a financial hit as well.
by Jim Grizzle on Sep 13, 2010 12:23 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
To extend the metaphor
There’s no maximizing your individual worth when you’re homeless. It’s all about drunken hobo fights at this point.
So...Notre dame is a drunken hobo?
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Sep 13, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
*Dame, sorry
I seem to be having issues with proper capitalization this morning.
Yes, I live in Starkville...WHO did I piss off in a past life?
by Queen Hoka-Hotty-Toddy on Sep 13, 2010 12:37 PM EDT up reply actions
Drunkin hoboe fi'ght$
Whe’re’?!
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 13, 2010 1:13 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
People who value money over hatred
Probably a word for them but I dont know what it is.
Its probably not a nice one.
I dont buy the conference == neighborhood analogy either.
Oh, from a pure logic standard, your ideas make sense. But sports fanaticism should never let logic get in the way of hating those you hate. Letting you sports rooting being decided by the cold, hard reason of future ESPN contracts is just wrong.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
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But there’s a reason the SEC doesn’t fall apart every time someone spreads a rumor that Arkansas wants out. The SEC has a conference identity that promotes stability and it’s in the best interest of all member institutions to maintain that. The Big XII, on the other hand, is ThunderDome. No one trusts anyone else and so those conference bonds have never been set. I have no desire to cheer for any other Big XII team, but I would like the conference to be stable.
You can have that without the meaningless conference-dick-size wars
The Big Ten has plenty of stability, yet the reaction when somebody spits the bit in non-conference is more “point and laugh” than “dammit, there goes our strength of schedule”. And honestly, I think the only reason the latter exists at all in the Big Ten is because we’re so sick of the incessant SEC knob-slobbering by ESPN and CBS.
The sports fanaticism of this Ohio Stat fan says otherwise.
I personally want TSUN to be undefeated when we play them for several reasons.
1. It looks pretty damn good when you beat a highly ranked wolvermouse team.
2. Knowing that the pain and suffering administered from ruining their perfect season, and their chances at a BCS title berth can not be increased.
I used to be able to do more of these off the top of my head…
by Pariahwulfen on Sep 13, 2010 2:00 PM EDT up reply actions
and me.
to a certain extent.
"The only thing worse than watching a 3-2 game, is watching your team LOSE a 3-2 game"
by CoastalCowbell on Sep 13, 2010 2:33 PM EDT up reply actions
See, Rebels and Bulldogs can agree on something!
Also, I kind of feel like he thinks we’re Voldemort, and that makes me giggle.
gtne91
You have jumped pretty far for your conclusion of valuing money over hatred. The fatal flaw in your logic is it’s not one OR the other as the SEC has proven.
There is NO shortage of “hate” for rivals within the SEC. The thing is, we just “hate” all the rest of you fuckers more. I’m no fan of Corndog Nation, but I enjoyed watching LSU beat the dog shit out of Georgia Tech in December 2008. It made my team’s win over LSU a month before even better.
If you truly hate us more than LSU
then that makes sense.
But based on games played against certain schools, I dont see that. I havent seen that much hatred directed our way. I really and truly hate FSU more than Auburn, so if they played, I would be for Auburn.
I have no hatred for Vandy at all, so if they want to beat up on Duke, Im all for it (not that I have much hatred for Duke football at all, but its still Duke, so gotta hate em a little). On the other hand, if uga is playing Miami, Go Canes! And I will root for UK against anyone in the nation except GT.
Clemson-Auburn game will be interesting. Not sure how to tell the schools apart if they dont keep showing pictures of the lake.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
In the end, I want to see my team win more than I want to see the rest of the SEC lose their non-conference and bowl games. SEC success has translated into more exposure, more TV money, and better bowl tie-ins for my team. If that makes me a conference homer, so be it.
Arkansas was paying its head football coach $84,000 when we joined the SEC. Now the head coach is paid $2.85MM base with another $400k in incentives. The $300+MM in facilities (not just football) built since joining the SEC are phenomenal. The athletic department which takes ZERO tax dollars, student fees or University money gave $1MM of the new CBS/ESPN money to the University for academic purposes. Large conference payouts due to great conference success have subsidized those facilities, salaries and gifts to the University. It makes no logical sense for me to want conference-wide success to diminish regardless of how much I “hate” other conference teams on fall Saturdays. Or maybe I’m just too practical in my older age.
Joining the ACC
benefited GT way more than Arkansas benefited from the SEC (only because we were basically dead without them, you all had a pulse in the SWC). There was serious discussion of dropping to Division 3. Independence almost killed us. And, as I pointed out, GT gets almost as much money in its TV deals as SEC teams do. Fortunately, there are 2-3 Duke-UNC games each year in some other sport people really care about.
I like GT being in the ACC, some GT fans want the move back to the SEC, I think we belong where we are, we fit better in school size, attendance, willingness to play the dribbling sport and academics. GT/USCe trade (with years of wandering as an Indy for both) was a win/win trade for everyone involved. I think Tulane got screwed in the Tulane-Arkansas deal.
But, that being said, I cant stand the sports teams of some of those other schools and enjoy very much watching them lose.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Tulane-Arkansas deal???
You lost me here.
by Jim Grizzle on Sep 14, 2010 10:23 AM EDT up reply actions
Its called a joke
GT and Tulane left the SEC in the 60s to be replaced by S Carolina and Arkansas in the 90s. See, ACC-SEC trraded GT-USCe (USCe left the ACC ~1970, GT joined ACC ~1980) and SEC swapped out Tulane for Arkansas on the west side. With, you know, a 25 year delay.
See, there was no “real” trade on either of those, but its funny to think about that way.
Glad I didnt make a Sewanee reference too.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
consider if you will...
…that you could’ve been born an ACC-schooled fan.
would you (for any reason) support your conference in football?
gtne91 is being cynically logical in his hatred of his conference foes.
the ACC are sucky suckers and his hope/support of them can only lead to heartbreak, so his motivation to be a ‘homer’ is limited by his expectations that the ACC will continue to play like it did this weekend.
0 at-large bids & only 2 wins in the BCS over 12 years will do that to a potential conference homer…
Big surprise, dawg fan showing his idiocy
A wasnt born a fan of an ACC-school, that was a choice.
I was born a Kentucky fan. Who, last I checked, was in some other conference.
Im sure someone could make an argument along the lines of “the ex-drinker is the most rabid prohibitionist”, but I wasnt an SEC homer pre-1987. Being a fan of an SEC school back then just taught me proper hatred of Tenn, Fla, and LSU. Proper hatred of uga required me to up things a notch or 7 after becoming a GT fan.
Care to explain my lack of SEC homerism as cynical logic? Im sure Jim would say that the $$$ issue in the mid 80s was CFA vs NCAA and thus the proper thing was to be a CFA homer. That conference dollars didnt really matter until the expansion era in the 90s. Speaking of cynical logic.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
A very scientific view of conference loyalty . . .
Looking at the ACC versus SEC debate up to this point I just see it now as almost absolute proof of Football Karma. The SEC rallied around a snubbed 2004 Auburn team and from that point forward really starting hammering the gong of conference superiority. (Note they might have done this before, but the internets made it a lot easier to be vocal.) The reward? 4 straight BCS titles and growing body bag of respectable out of conference wins.
The ACC on the other hand seems to keep holding onto our intraconference hate, especially reserved for the upstart BE expansion squads, and the clamor that conference loyalty is meaningless. The reward? No BCS title games appearances in 10 years and being in the growing body bags for respectable out of conference wins.
I don’t care if hate should win out over logic. The universe has spoken and we must make the enemy of our enemy our friend for OOC play.
Bullshit, sir.
The ACC’s downfall has more to do with the fact that it was never a strong football conference to begin with, not the lack of conference loyalty. Picking out a difference like “the opinions of fans toward other conference teams” instead of things like “recruiting”, “tradition”, “higher athletic budgets”, or, you know, other factors related directly to what’s on the field, is not very scientific at all.
(If this was tongue-in-cheek, I apologize. Sometimes hard to tell.)
He called Karma a scientific view
and you are wondering if its tongue-in-cheek?
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
I have no problem...
with you having pride in the neighborhood.
The analogy breaks down however when you think that just because there are some mansions on the street that you also live in a mansion.
That is, just because Alabama is amazing and you just happen to play them (maybe), does not mean you have a good football program.
If life gives you AIDS, make lemon AIDS.
Since joining the SEC, Arkansas is officially 7-8 vs. Alabama.
Mansion analogy FAIL.
SEC football knowledge FAIL.
What’s Michigan State’s record vs. Michigan or Ohio State in the last 18 seasons?
I have NEVER said Arkansas’ program was as good as Florida, Alabama, LSU, Georgia, Auburn or Tennessee over the last 18 seasons. We had Giggity as our head coach for 10 years, for fuck’s sake, who was 45-47 vs. BCSAQ teams during his tenure. We couldn’t even win a bowl game with Darren McFadden, Felix Jones and Peyton Hillis in the backfield.
by Jim Grizzle on Sep 14, 2010 10:46 AM EDT up reply actions
Trouble is, thanks to the moronic championship system we have
It’s actually rational to be a conference homer, to an extent. Now, doing things like chanting “S-E-C!” is stupid. But in most non-conference games, I like to see the Big Ten do well. (The exceptions are 1) Michigan against anyone, or 2) anyone playing a 1-AA or similarly cupcakey game for which we could laugh at them for years if they lost. And in the latter case it’s not so much actively rooting against them as I don’t really care if they embarrass themselves.)
Hooray Lolphers
Reality has a little-known Northwestern bias
NU prez knows how to get PUMPED
I totally understand why you would not want to see your in-state rival win regardless of conference consequences. Bama/Auburn and Ole Miss/MSU feel the same way.
by Jim Grizzle on Sep 14, 2010 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions
The only problem with this weekend is I cant really point and laugh at UM, FSU, VT
Well, I can, and do, but have to take the smack coming back too.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
No, but seriously
I want the ACC to wallow in this pain and loathing until UNC gets hit with the NCAA Banhammer.
Yes, I’m incredibly bitter about the whole situation.
I side mostly with Jim Grizzle's comments above...
But i side with you, as well, SuperJew, but only because i hate all of the North Carolina schools…
Shoop!
Again. You have my sympathies.
Excuse me for my bellicosity. And spelling. Bellicosity and spelling.
by Blackheartnopants on Sep 13, 2010 1:14 PM EDT up reply actions
I really don't think mass is the appropriate place to do that.
GOD DAMMIT DAN HAWKINS SIT STILL DURING THE HOMILY OR I’M TAKING AWAY YOUR BAG OF CHEEZ-ITS.
Brian Kelly says there's not a whole lot we can do.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Sep 13, 2010 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
In other news, the Pac-10 went 8-0 in OOC play!
Nevermind the opponents included The Citadel, Northern Arizona, Colorado, Syracuse, and Montana State. Any Wazzu win should be a point of pride West of the Rockies.
Despite taking great satisfaction in the accomplishments of my left coast brethren I still found myself pulling for Tennessee, Virginia, ’Cuse, Colorado, Monty State, and obviously the Citadel. God love the internet, where I can change my mind with the speed and agility of LaMichael James and then leave for lunch with zero accountability.
The Citadel, N Arizona and MT St
aka James Madison, Jax St, ND St and South Dakota. P10 and BE are only BCS conferences not to have a team chuck a game to the FCS yet. Unless the BE did and I failed to notice.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
No, sir
The Big East is a perfect 7-0 against the FCS crowd.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 1:56 PM EDT up reply actions
No, but 'Nova is 1-0 against fellow FCS schools
and Georgetown is 2-0.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions
But.. but.. but..
I thought only the SEC played cupcakes?
/confused
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
Hawkins is so bad that CUBuff fans are cheering for their team to lose ...
… so that he’ll get FIRED ASAP!
No way is any recruit gonna wanna sign up to play for Coach Moonbeam, aka the BIG LOSER!
ORSON & HOLLY - fertile lame humor ground for you ...
… doing a comparison of how horrible CU was under Chuck Fairbanks and now under Dan Hawkins …
You could have a competition to see if there are any other DIVISION 1 FOOTBALL! schools with not one but TWO such EPIC failures over the past 30 years … (interspersed with some quality teams coached by actual good football coaches.
Actually, adding Slick Rick into the mix makes THREE EPIC FAILURES during those 30 years. (And I’m not even including Gary Barnett, who actually knew how to coach once upon a time.) YIKES!
Well...
I suppose one could throw “Stan Parrish and Ron Prince” into that discussion.
I was amused to see that Parrish once again coached a team to a loss against an FCS opponent. Not like he’s got no experience with that, hello Austin Peay.
I am now channeling Will McDonald's optimism.
Holy crap how did this post generate so many replies?
Tom Bradley's fortune cookie says: "Best defense is good offense."
Beat Kent State.
by ReadingRambler on Sep 14, 2010 10:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks for the sticker
But at least we won, unlike VT, or Minny, or Ole Miss, or GT.
And we made someone feel that he had to do this:
(Marshall fan burning hismemorabilia)
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
I don't like it.
I was really uncomfortable for most of that game. A win’s a win and the schedule’s very favorable this year, but … I Have Concerns.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:01 AM EDT up reply actions
Join the crowd, m'dear
The crowd over at TSM and I have lots of concerns. There were lots of Fire Bill posts this weekend.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 11:03 AM EDT up reply actions
And when y’all say “fire Bill,” there’s at least a 50-50 chance that someone literally means to set him on fire.
by DevilGrad on Sep 13, 2010 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions 7 recs
GREATEST STATE EVAR, reason 25907B.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:11 AM EDT up reply actions
Would this be a good time
to remind everyone Nick Saban’s from WV?
by SoFla Tideroller on Sep 13, 2010 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions
They make 'em short,
but they make ’em mean.
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by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Is it bad
that I hear this post in the voice of Mr. “I’m burnin’ ever’thang I own.”?
"...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
not at all
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 12:48 PM EDT up reply actions
thahts riite dawg. even duh bobbellheds
not drunk, just overserved
by Gen. Stoopnagle on Sep 13, 2010 12:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Reason #46601A
http://www.roadfood.com/Restaurant/Reviews/466/tomaros
We bought a huge bag of these on the way home from Devil Mom’s last weekend, but my kids ate half of ’em in the car while they were still warm.
Oh yeah, brother
the pepperoni roll is the ticket to bliss
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 12:49 PM EDT up reply actions
Roadfood is a pimpass source for food knowledge
I want to be that guy (ok it’s two of them, so the man) someday.
The new year approaching, click in. Let’s facelift bar! Open the wardrobe is not yet found love after another the right clothes? So, also waiting for? Immediate action bar!
I'd love to have their lunch schedules
But not their cholesterol levels. I really miss their monthly column in Gourmet.
and there's a rec
wish I could give two
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions
I am not a nice man
I was listening to the satellite radio feed of MSN covering the game on the way to a friend’s house, and I have to say I really enjoyed the radio team’s take on the matter.
“Yes, the stadium is actually on fire, but it’s fine. I’m sure it’ll all work out. We’re down big, but we’re really close. Just a few plays and we’ll be back in it.” I know all radio guys are homers, but MAN.
I’m glad you all pulled it out, though. If for no other reason than to keep certain family members from killing again.
If a giant asteroid smashed into the sun and blacked it out forever
Dwight Wallace would point out how nice it will be not to need sunscreen anymore.
His glass is not only half full, but its the best water he’s ever had, Thank You!
I do like when he says “we could really use a turnover” and we get one.
You should've heard Dwight's calls
during the Dark Moments of the 2005 WVU-UL game. I have the DVD with the radio sound, and when Pat White scrambled for a first down on 4th-and-20 or so, Dwight was all “That’s good, pick up the first down. String a bunch of ’em together and you have a drive.”
Nine minutes and three overtimes later, you have a win.
Stop dying, you cowards! -- Zapp Brannigan
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 13, 2010 1:20 PM EDT up reply actions
When I was watching that game
All I could think of was “Man, Mike Leach would love it at West Virginia.” When Bill gets fired, that should be the first coach you call.
by SuperJew on Sep 13, 2010 12:01 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
The Dread Pirate Leach is most certainly high on my list
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 12:21 PM EDT up reply actions
omg.
I would die. Of mirth. And then celebratory alcohol poisoning, but mostly mirth.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2010 12:22 PM EDT up reply actions
Leach and Huggins in the same town?
I know college basketball talk is not allowed around hia, but that would be a beautiful thing.
by TheBlackAttack on Sep 13, 2010 1:02 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm not sure Morgantown can handle that much awesome
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame: Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel, Cris Carter, Kevin Greene and Jerry Kramer
"Don't wory, I'm an untrained professional" WVPF
Canal Street Chronicles resident Steelers Fan
by WVPiratesfan on Sep 13, 2010 2:30 PM EDT up reply actions
just mentioning that idea is enough for a Rec
dear god think of the awesome
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Jesus, I felt like I was watching that video from inside a vagina.
There needs to be a software patch preventing iPhone users from recording videos in Portrait mode.
I'm afraid I have no choice but to sell you all for scientific experiments.
by boddagettaflyer on Sep 13, 2010 2:35 PM EDT up reply actions
A Team Sport
Tackling Trent Richardson has become the only truly democratic process our nation participates in.
by BenSelf on Sep 13, 2010 10:57 AM EDT reply actions 3 recs
WVU may have needed overtime
But given that 14 of Miami’s 24 points came on special teams returns, how much better than Marshall is Miami anyway? Marshall also had seven former WVU coaches on staff and the largest crowd in school history (yes, a whopping 41K or so, but still, fire is hot whether it’s a match in your hand or a towering inferno).
Given that #s 13 and 15 lost to a Div I-AA school and Kansas tells me things could be a lot worse than 2-0. I’ll take it.
Stop dying, you cowards! -- Zapp Brannigan
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 13, 2010 10:58 AM EDT reply actions
Unless special teams points dont count, not sure why Miami scoring they way
changes anything.
I pointed out during the 19th OT of that ARk-UK game (I was there) that the OT rules screwed Kentucky, because their only scoring threat was on punt/kickoff returns. Abney was the only reason UK took that game to overtime and his skills were limited without a kicking game in OT.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Special teams scores
don’t happen against the defense, that’s why.
Though upon further review, Miami didn’t do that badly on offense. They just imploded at bad times coughJacory Harriscough.
Stop dying, you cowards! -- Zapp Brannigan
by An 'eer with a beer on Sep 13, 2010 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
Harris is an INT machine
As I said in earlier thread, no clue why anyone expected anything different from him this year.
Conference homers are the lowest form of fandom. That is why the SEC has so many of them.
Because he's "a year older" and has "matured"...
…despite the fact that if you look at stats, that never makes a difference, ever.
Yeah, I was wondering why the hell people expected him to stop throwing INTs… is there a “Throw Interception Fuse” that was supposed to blow over the summer, or something?
by The Commenter Formerly Known as Not You on Sep 13, 2010 11:27 AM EDT up reply actions
What is this "scoring" you guys keep referring to?
Who knew drinking citronella lamp fluid wouldn’t kill ya!
by Trouble's A Bruin on Sep 13, 2010 11:31 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
So how bad to Goofer fans miss Glen Mason now?
Two losses to former North Central Conference schools. He’s [NAME REDACTED] 2.0.
by Albino Tornado on Sep 13, 2010 11:13 AM EDT reply actions
Not much
Hockey Season starts in a couple of months.
by RynoRedhawk on Sep 13, 2010 11:33 AM EDT up reply actions
.
To the University of Nebraska, for fumbling 8 times in a game and not losing, but only because they weren’t playing Iowa State. Progress!
And this one goes to Coach Pelini for the post-game locker room chat:
"...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
Sharing is the True Measure of Friendship!
Damn communists brainwashing our kids!
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
by cantcatchuf on Sep 13, 2010 8:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Here ya go, Holly
This one’s for for you. Use it when you feel the need.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 12:46 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
I'm hoping this is some kind of new charity we started . . .
I think GT is running a feed the starving OC campaign.
For as little as 6 cents a day, we can guarantee that this poor OC will receive a steady diet of much needed TD’s off of terrible tackling, soft coverage, and boneheaded penalties.
Spurrier's shot at Georgia defensive coordinator
Spurrier took a shot at Goergia’s defensive coordinator, Todd Grantham, a long-time NFL assistant. “When you have a back like Marcus and the linemen opened cracks, I’m sure that Georgia defensive coordinator became frustrated,” Spurrier said. "That little inside zone play, the NFL doesn’t run that play. That’s a new scheme, I guess. “I’m sure they knew we’d run it, but they certainly didn’t stop it much.”
In other words: Georgia got bitch-slapped by a true freshman, in only the second game of the year.
OUCH!
I've said it already this year
but Spurrier’s got his swagger back. He’s kind of like Coach Klein.
Oh, and Stephen Garcia is Mayhem from the All State commercials.
/popculture’d
Weoejuwejhdjwe!
by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Sep 13, 2010 1:08 PM EDT up reply actions
What was it that Footbaw Bob called the old Spurrier [UF] offense?
Duck ’n chuck? Or something like that.
I'm not sure, but it was probably something along the lines of
YOOOOUUUUUUUGE FOOBAW GUYS THROWING THE FOOBAW BUT I WOULD RUN THE FOOBAW.
/buttons polo shirt all the way to the top
Brian Kelly says there's not a whole lot we can do.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Sep 13, 2010 1:31 PM EDT up reply actions
Pass 'n' Crass?
Weoejuwejhdjwe!
by Chekhov's Spread Gun Option on Sep 13, 2010 2:28 PM EDT up reply actions
Yes, he called it the duck n chuck.
He was quickly corrected. Listening to that broadcast was more painful than watching it.
by hailtogeorgia on Sep 13, 2010 2:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Adequate?
Holly, you apparently didn’t have the misfortune of watching the Rutgers-FIU game. I’m still throwing up in my mouth a little thinking about it.
Calling Rutgers adequate against FIU would be like calling Lindsay Lohan “a little too wild”.
A call for guidance
I’m a Kansas fan. I’m pretty sure the team I support has some form of group schizophrenia. Has anybody here had experience dealing with a college football team with a collective mental health disorder? How does one handle it? Right now I’m medicating with moderate amounts of drugs and alcohol. Should I up my dosage? Or should I double my dosage?
by KennyGregoryRockThaCradle on Sep 13, 2010 1:59 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Double UP!
I suffered through the Frank Cignetti, Sr. years at WVU (17-27). Strong drink and stronger drugs are the only way to go.
"I like the taste of danger most of all." - Jonatha Brooke
by MtnEer_in_SC on Sep 13, 2010 2:03 PM EDT up reply actions
"Has anybody here had experience dealing with a college football team with a collective mental health disorder?"
We usually handle it by planting the opposing qb in the endzone.
Consider yourself fortunate
At least yours sticks to one personality per game. MSU during my years at school would start out competent and then switch to Benny Hill mode at some point between halftime and midway through the fourth quarter.
Are you sure it's schizophrenia, or is it maybe closer to multiple personality disorder or bipolar disorder?
I’m a Kentucky fan and it’s just clinical depression.
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Kentucky should just drop football...
Seriously. You have Mike Fucking Hartline as your starting QB. He is the slower, shittier, whiter Hartline.
If life gives you AIDS, make lemon AIDS.
The insults you hurl at Mike Hartline
Cannot compete with the insults I hurl at him. Or 70,000 bourbon-marinated Kentuckians in Commonwealth. He’s been efficient so far and folks are clammoring that “he’s changed!” But he was efficient against crappy competition before, and it all fades once we get into SEC play.
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Cotton Turner
For the life of me, I can’t remember what his role was fighting for the Confederacy in the War Between the States. Is he the one who suicidally charged down Missionary Ridge at the Wisconsin Regiment led by Douglas MacArthur’s father (who originated the term On Wisconsin that day – I’m not shitting you) because he wanted the quick way out rather than endure the dysentary/syphillis dual diagnosis he had just received?
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