the "Pirates....arrrrrrgh" thing they do for first downs at ECU is really grating

[Edited on August 16, 2010 at 1:44 PM. Reason : .]

8/16/2010 1:44:19 PM

Posted this in the UT thread as well, but since only a few people look there, I thought this would be a better place to put this. Looks like the UNC-UT games for 2011-2012 aren't going to happen.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5469770

Quote :

"KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- The scheduled series between North Carolina and Tennessee, which was to be played in 2011 and 2012, will likely be shelved. Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said Monday night that nothing has been finalized, but that the two sides are currently in the process of trying to work out a contract buyout. With an already demanding schedule in 2011, Tennessee had requested that the North Carolina series be pushed back until later this decade, according to Hamilton. But the Tar Heels weren't interested in moving the series, leading to the current talks centered around Tennessee paying a penalty to get out of the series and nixing it all together. Tennessee was scheduled to play in Chapel Hill in 2011 with North Carolina scheduled to come to Knoxville in 2012. The Vols' 2011 nonconference schedule also includes Cincinnati, and Hamilton said he wanted to "break up" that stretch of games that starts with Cincinnati the second week of the season and then includes trips to Florida and North Carolina followed by home games against Georgia and LSU and then a trip to Alabama. With North Carolina likely to come off Tennessee's schedule, Hamilton said the plan was to add an eighth home game during the 2011 season against a non-BCS team. Tennessee opens the 2011 season against FCS power Montana, which was a recent replacement for North Texas."

8/17/2010 7:05:23 AM

mother fuck, i was really hoping to make my first trip to neyland

8/17/2010 7:06:44 AM

^4

Nah, that seating chart isn't very helpful...there are no row numbers

8/17/2010 7:21:35 AM

hmmm, what State game should I head back for this year?

8/17/2010 9:06:26 AM

You going to the GT game down there?

I'll be there.

I'll buy you a corndog.

8/17/2010 9:16:47 AM

^^ FSU. Take 2 days off, party all day Thursday, ESPN primetime game vs the CrimiNoles, tour around the campus and make yourself feel young again on Friday, head down to Columbia Friday night, go to UT @ South Carolina on saturday, head home on Sunday.

[Edited on August 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM. Reason : .]

8/17/2010 9:17:59 AM

speaking of Cocks, this is their schedule and what i predict they finish

09/02/10 vs. Southern Miss Columbia, S.C. 7:30 p.m. ET W
09/11/10 vs. Georgia Columbia, S.C. 12:00 p.m ET W
09/18/10 vs. Furman Columbia, S.C. 7:00 p.m. ET W
09/25/10 at Auburn Auburn, Ala. TBA L
10/09/10 vs. Alabama Columbia, S.C. TBA L
10/16/10 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. TBA W
10/23/10 at Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. TBA W
10/30/10 vs. Tennessee Columbia, S.C. TBA L
11/06/10 vs. Arkansas Columbia, S.C. TBA L
11/13/10 at Florida Gainesville, Fla. TBA L
11/20/10 vs. Troy Columbia, S.C. TBA W
11/27/10 at Clemson Clemson, S.C. TBA L

6-6, good enough for a repeat trip to the PapaJohn's.com Bowl!

8/17/2010 9:30:28 AM

5-2 start, 1-4 finish

Sounds right up Spurrier's alley

8/17/2010 9:34:41 AM

^^^^ yes I am, and no you won't

8/17/2010 9:37:20 AM

Since I live in SC and am surrounded by Cock fans, I'll do my prediction on their season.

09/02/10 vs. Southern Miss Columbia, S.C. 7:30 p.m. ET W
09/11/10 vs. Georgia Columbia, S.C. 12:00 p.m ET L
09/18/10 vs. Furman Columbia, S.C. 7:00 p.m. ET W
09/25/10 at Auburn Auburn, Ala. TBA L
10/09/10 vs. Alabama Columbia, S.C. TBA L
10/16/10 at Kentucky Lexington, Ky. TBA W
10/23/10 at Vanderbilt Nashville, Tenn. TBA W
10/30/10 vs. Tennessee Columbia, S.C. TBA W
11/06/10 vs. Arkansas Columbia, S.C. TBA W
11/13/10 at Florida Gainesville, Fla. TBA L
11/20/10 vs. Troy Columbia, S.C. TBA W
11/27/10 at Clemson Clemson, S.C. TBA W

8-4, solid bowl game, likely leading to a parade in Columbia and lifetime contract for Spurrier.

I know they'll manage to fold somehow, but they SHOULD win all the games I have them winning and they should also beat Georgia, but as a former Bulldog fan, I could never pick the Cocks over the Dawgs.

8/17/2010 9:49:20 AM

UGA is LOADED this year, only question is QB, should be a great early game

8/17/2010 9:52:31 AM

they should not win in Death Valley.

South Carolina has not beaten Clemson in consecutive years since a three-game winning streak in the 1968-70 era.

a pretty remarkable statistic. and it aint gonna change this year

8/17/2010 9:55:30 AM

^ Maybe they won't be favored, but USC should have the better overall team. Obviously that is a long way from now.

8/17/2010 10:28:14 AM

talk that BYU may leave the MWC and go independent in football and join the WAC for all other sports

http://www.sportsbybrooks.com/sources-byu-bolting-mwc-before-september-1-28849
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=272&sid=11802079
http://bit.ly/9vMqhr

that would pretty much nuke the MWC and end any chance of them getting a BCS bid.

[Edited on August 18, 2010 at 12:11 AM. Reason : .]

8/18/2010 12:10:43 AM

VIA TWITTER:

Quote :

"Spurrier: "I said, 'Golly, times have changed when UT doesn't want to play UNC in football because they're too good for them.'""

LOL

8/19/2010 9:51:31 PM

the visor has a point

8/19/2010 10:04:21 PM

aha



Why does every white guy from Alabama have hair like that

8/20/2010 3:34:32 PM

Quote :

"hmmm, what State game should I head back for this year?"

I'm coming back to see the Boston College game... it was either that or the WFU homecoming game, but I'm figuring the weather will be nicer for a game in early October....

8/22/2010 6:03:41 PM

TRESPASSING NAKED

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5491740

Quote :

"CORVALLIS, Ore. -- An Oregon State University offensive lineman has been dismissed from the team after police say they found him naked and intoxicated in a stranger's home and had to use stun guns to take him into custody. Corvallis police say they received the call about a naked intruder early Sunday. Responding officers ordered 19-year-old Tyler Patrick Thomas of Kalispell, Mont., to get on the ground, Lt. Tim Brewer said. Thomas refused and instead dropped into a three-point stance like a football player and lunged at the officers, Brewer said. At that point, he said, two officers fired their stun guns. Brewer said Thomas "absolutely was intoxicated" at the time. Thomas was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespass, criminal mischief and resisting arrest. He was booked into the Benton County jail and later released. A home phone listing for Thomas couldn't be found. Oregon State coach Mike Riley dismissed Thomas from the team Monday, OSU athletics spokesman Steve Fenk said. Thomas redshirted during the Beavers' 2009 season."

8/24/2010 8:17:19 AM

that's pretty damn funny.

also, it's nice to be able to say that there's college football next week.

8/24/2010 11:07:04 AM

http://deadspin.com/5620076/the-2010-haters-guide-to-the-top-25

I haven't laughed that hard at an article in a while.

8/26/2010 8:12:12 AM

i gotta read that later, i'm about to bust out laughing in class just from the opening paragraph

8/26/2010 8:36:52 AM

i didn't laugh once at that article.

8/26/2010 8:55:48 AM

well then you're just a poophead

8/26/2010 8:57:39 AM

Quote :

"25. West Virginia: WHO'S UP FOR SOME COUCH BURNIN' AND UNCLE-BONIN'?"

Wow, dude really ran out of what little steam he had by the end. That's almost as bad as when they did the same thing for the World Cup.

8/26/2010 8:57:45 AM

the Oregon State kid

8/26/2010 8:59:04 AM

But seriously did Gregg Doyel write that

8/26/2010 9:00:18 AM

Why am I not surprised that Ernie got no enjoyment out of reading that

8/26/2010 9:45:37 AM

Ernie's tough to impress

He walked out of Dumb and Dumber, Happy Gilmore, and The Hangover

8/26/2010 9:46:55 AM

Quote :

"And you know Bear Bryant? He's still fucking DEAD. Super dead. Forever. Alabama is America's ass hair."

8/26/2010 9:48:44 AM

The first ten or so were good, but the last fifteen (after they said they were going to rip through them) were awful. Plus UConn should be in there.

8/26/2010 9:49:15 AM

Quote :

"Why am I not surprised that Ernie got no enjoyment out of reading that"

lol what

I love deadspin, but that piece was amateur hour

[Edited on August 26, 2010 at 12:01 PM. Reason : Wow, "ass hair", who are the ad wizards]

8/26/2010 12:01:07 PM

1 week away. thank god!

8/26/2010 1:27:25 PM

did anyone see where Alfy Hill transfered to ECU from Alabama?

http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/08/26/648164/hill-transfers-to-ecu.html

8/26/2010 2:37:55 PM

quite the head scratcher when you can't get into an SEC school but you can easily transfer to ECU.

8/26/2010 2:42:47 PM

ECU is the easiest school in the country

I spent one year there, didn't do shit, and got straight A's

Two classes I never attended even once

Julius Peppers could have been valedictorian there

8/26/2010 2:46:57 PM

ECU takes partial-qualifiers guys.

Nothing to scratch your head about.

8/26/2010 2:47:57 PM

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5501871

Quote :

" Ohio State president Gordon Gee told the Dayton Daily News he is in favor of a plan that would put the Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines in separate divisions when the Big Ten reorganizes. The conference added Nebraska as a 12th member, which will force scheduling changes. Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez has said expansion to nine games in conference will happen in 2015. Gee is also in favor of a schedule in which Michigan and Ohio State would not play the final game of the regular season, as is tradition. The Buckeyes' fan base may not be in line with the president. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith told The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer he has received about 350 fan e-mails -- 90 percent want the Buckeyes and Wolverines to continue to play the final Saturday of the regular season. "I think in the division or out of the division, you could play the last game," Smith told The Plain Dealer. "There are obviously warts with both of those. But there's no doubt you could do it both ways." The fear is if the two teams are in different divisions, they would play in the final week of the regular season and turn around and play in the Big Ten title game. Gee is in favor of playing the Wolverines twice, just not back-to-back. "We want to beat them twice," Gee told the Daily News. "

pussies.

8/26/2010 10:24:32 PM

Not splitting the Big 10 geographically is a huge mistake. Six years later and most people still can't tell you who's in which ACC division, but everyone know's who's in the SEC West and the BIG 12 South.

ACC tried to get cute thinking Miami and FSU would meet in the championship game every year...hasn't happened once.

8/27/2010 9:43:28 AM

I would fucking hate it if OSU-Michigan could be replayed in a championship game. it's one thing in basketball where most conference teams play each other twice, so any post-season matchup is a tie breaker. But for me, one of the things that makes the OSU-Mich game the best rivalry in sports is that the game is a once a year matchup, and they need to keep it as the last game for both teams.

8/27/2010 9:51:55 AM

Masoli wont be eligible to play until 2011:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/sports/2012771162_apfbcmississippimasoli.html

8/31/2010 5:21:31 PM

LOLing at the stupid dumbass dook fan that called into Packmans show today saying Mark Ingram elected to have surgery so he wouldn't have to face dook.




Not enough eye rolls for that comments.

8/31/2010 9:34:29 PM

New Nike uniforms for VTech and nine others -



http://www.sbnation.com/2010/9/1/1663021/nike-pro-combat-unis-unveiled-as

http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20100901aaa.html

Edit - I think the VTech uniforms make more sense as Oregon State uniforms, but to each their own.

9/1/2010 12:55:26 PM

new divisions for the BigTen announced today:

• Michigan, Nebraska, Iowa, Michigan State, Northwestern and Minnesota.

• Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Indiana and Illinois.

way to fuck up the most important rivalry in the conference, dipshits!

9/1/2010 2:02:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNOk9-Ut3kw&feature=player_embedded

Wow. Just wow.

Player from Iowa riding a moped get's hit by a truck.

9/1/2010 2:26:22 PM

^^^I like the murdered out helmets, but I could take or leave the new uni's

9/1/2010 2:27:42 PM

Quote :

" Colorado officially moves to the Pac-12 in 2012, staying in the Big XII this year and next. "

That's just going to be a big headache for all parties involved in 2011.

9/1/2010 2:43:45 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/football/ncaa/09/01/pennst.qb.ap/index.html?eref=sihp

Good news for Alabama. Penn State to start a true freshman at QB, so good chance they can get through their early stretch (San Jose State and Penn State at home, at Duke) without Ingram.


^^^^
How do the divisions mess up the most important rivalry in the conference? You do realize State-UNC, Miami-FSU, etc. are in different divisions, right?

[Edited on September 2, 2010 at 10:29 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2010 10:28:02 AM

^ but I do like the fact the Oklahoma and Texas have been in the same division every year.
And if tOSU and Mich still want to play on the last weekend, like they typically do, then you are setting yourself up for 2 weekends in a row of tOSU and Mich (if RichRod can right the ship up there). I'm not so sure that's good thing.

[Edited on September 2, 2010 at 11:10 AM. Reason : .]

9/2/2010 11:07:58 AM