THE CURIOUS INDEX, 1/10/2012

as opposed to the rest of their fucking season after October.

I can see the high school one more because of the homeschooling thing causing eligibility issues, but still.

but Michigan would have to be one of the “true blood” families, where that counted for something. See, f’rinstance, that whole “Michigan Man” thing, and compare it to Stannis’ speech about Renly, and why Stannis should be lord simply by right of birth order.

Third and fourth books SUCK. Badly. Just an utter shitshow.

Very much looking forward to DVD release because FUCK YOU, HBO.

Alabama’s offense isn’t nearly as bad as its reputation suggests. LSU’s defense played the entire game with no breathers from their offense. Alabama played as clean an offensive game as you can play, with no turnovers or offensive penalties. Despite that, LSU held Bama to very average 6.9 yards per pass and 4.3 yards per rush. They stiffened as soon as Bama got on their side of the field and only gave up one touchdown, which was already in garbage time. It wasn’t a jaw-dropping performance but any means, but in light of having to play the entire game with no help from offense and no mistakes by Alabama, they played pretty good.

They did pretty well with what they were given.

LSU’s defense was insanely mansome for about 55 minutes of that game.

This will all be settled on the field this weekend.

Right?

Guys????

i just dont see how you can lead after 3 quarters and lose in overtime, and suddenly blame it on the crash. if they had gone out and laid an egg completely, or blown them out, then yes, fine, include it. but to have the game all but won, and then crap it away should be blamed more on the players/coaches rather than a plan crash that while horrible and hurtful to the entire school, did not involve the football team

no one on the field for Okie State actually knew the womens’ basketball staff killed in the crash, other than a “hi, Coach” hallway greeting?

If you think that assuming kids mourn people dying at their school is distasteful, then I’ll gladly take it.

but i never once heard anyone from the alabama side say that their position above Okie St was justified because of the tornadoes and how that affected them.

i heard plenty of Okie St. fans say that the iowa state loss shouldnt count as much because of the plane crash.

i refuse to assume no one group knew the other, because i cant make that assumption.

… you don’t have to be Tom Rinaldi to find that tragedy visits athletes and coaches on every college team. Georgia had a safety play a game two days after his baby son was miscarried days before his due date. What happened to the Oklahoma State family was tragic. I don’t buy using it as an excuse for losing a game, not when Tom Rinaldi had fifteen stories already edited about how it galvanized the team to win.

but saying Florida’s 2006 and 2008 losing games were against mediocre teams isn’t really accurate. I would think you’re not in mediocre range until you drop behind the 20th rank mark at the earliest.

You mean “bcs chair people”

As I joked elsewhere, Gundy should start calling OSU the People’s Champ, call out Bama for being scared, then crash the victory parade with his team and take out Saban with a chairshot.

but you don’t know that. you don’t fucking know that

you have no way of knowing how those coaches would have prepared, what they would have seen in their film review, what they would have tried to exploit. Have you read Chris Brown’s review of the smash routes Bama ran all night against LSU? There are ways to beat any team at any time. Different match-ups and you don’t know. Saban vs. Miles in this context is very similar, very familiar. Somewhat easier to prepare for.

There’s nothing stopping me from saying that the game would have been terribly different from the WVU game or the Aub/Ore game last year. High octane O puts up yards, but risky plays lead to turnovers.