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AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 1:37:58 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Termite2 No, Spurrier pretty much was terrible as a pro coach. He is considered one of the best COLLEGE coaches in the game, he is considered a failure as a pro coach. That may be true, but the NFL does not make it onto my radar. I honestly cannot remember the last time I sat down to watch a pro sport of any kind.....

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 3:13:38 AM)
I don't think I've watched a cmplete pro football game since the early 1980s. However, I do love the Atlanta Braves. I listen to their games on radio all the time. I'd watch 'em on television, but I don't have television. :) I am a big fan of college football, but that has been in decline in recent years. To wit: the last time I went to a college game was around 1998. And this level of disenchantment will increase. It looks like the colleges will begin giving stipends to football players. Since college football is a mega-mega-business built on the shoulders of these lads, that seems fair. But it also opens a pandora's box that eliminates whatever feeble vesitgal resemblance the game has to the era when a bunch of guys who attended a university gathered together to play a sport against logical rivals. The chasm between pro and college football is narrowing rapidly. That may be entirely fair under the circumstances, but I don't like the circumstances.

geofflambert -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 3:27:38 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AU Tiger quote: ORIGINAL: Termite2 No, Spurrier pretty much was terrible as a pro coach. He is considered one of the best COLLEGE coaches in the game, he is considered a failure as a pro coach. That may be true, but the NFL does not make it onto my radar. I honestly cannot remember the last time I sat down to watch a pro sport of any kind..... Can I interest you in the Professional Curling Program (PCP) I'm developing? I'm certain it will be a real blast (read horse tranquilizer).

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 3:45:12 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel I don't think I've watched a cmplete pro football game since the early 1980s. However, I do love the Atlanta Braves. I listen to their games on radio all the time. I'd watch 'em on television, but I don't have television. :) I am a big fan of college football, but that has been in decline in recent years. To wit: the last time I went to a college game was around 1998. And this level of disenchantment will increase. It looks like the colleges will begin giving stipends to football players. Since college football is a mega-mega-business built on the shoulders of these lads, that seems fair. But it also opens a pandora's box that eliminates whatever feeble vesitgal resemblance the game has to the era when a bunch of guys who attended a university gathered together to play a sport against logical rivals. The chasm between pro and college football is narrowing rapidly. That may be entirely fair under the circumstances, but I don't like the circumstances. I agree with you, however I believe that the stipend, if it happens, will do incredible harm to Collegiate sports in general. The equality laws under Title IX will easily be interpreted that all scholarship students will be entitled to the stipend also. Very few schools turn a profit from their sports programs, so this will translate to fewer students receiving athletic scholarships, except for the big programs. The rift between the Haves and the Have-Nots will widen greatly IMO, but the bottom line is that fewer kids will have the opportunity to earn collegiate scholarships. Economics, meet the Law of Unintended Consequences......

geofflambert -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:34:06 AM)
Add to everything else how absurdly expensive it is to be educated as well as how hard it is to get any kind of starting job after you get that education. Needs fixing. Who's going to do it?

bradfordkay -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:44:23 AM)
I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother?

Cap Mandrake -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 3:26:13 PM)
Been to a few USC and UCLA games. I think I have been spoiled by HD and slow motion and the cameras over the field. Even if you have great seats at the Colosseum you are still on the other side of the track and the rake of the seats is low so you cant see much. Not to mention you need a concealed carry permit to get to your car afterward. The Rose Bowl has similar issues although the neighborhood is fine. It's in BFE. The party crowd outside the stadium is a bit like a biker convention and I have a hard time believing those people were admitted to UCLA or even ASU. The Rose bowl has concrete bench seats and I had a hard time concentrating on the game because of all the thong underwear on the coeds. This concludes my review of college football in LA

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 3:34:39 PM)
Go to a big SEC game sometime. You can smell the religion in the air. [&o]

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:09:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: bradfordkay I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother? Brad got spoiled by the '80 Georgia Bulldogs, who featured Herschel Walker, the greatest college football player ever. By November of that year, Brad had seen Hershel run over Tennessee's Bill Bates and around the entire South Carolina defense despite the optimal angles of attack for the whole secondary. Then, to cap it off, he saw Belue to Lindsay Scott, the most exciting single play in the annals of Georgia (and therefore American) college football. I don't blame him for retiring. However, I stuck it out, because I am virile and resolute in a winsome yet modest way, and saw the Dawgs beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to win the National Championship.

Bullwinkle58 -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:17:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: AU Tiger Go to a big SEC game sometime. You can smell the religion in the air. [&o] I've been to a lot of ACC football games. It's airborne bourbon there.

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:18:10 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel quote: ORIGINAL: bradfordkay I haven't attended a college football game in person since November of 1980. I've always figured that nothing could beat the experiences I had having my student season tickets as a senior that year, so why bother? Brad got spoiled by the '80 Georgia Bulldogs, who featured Herschel Walker, who was very good, but Bo Jackson was in fact the best college football player ever. By November of that year, Brad had seen Hershel run over Tennessee's Bill Bates and around the entire South Carolina defense despite the optimal angles of attack for the whole secondary. Then, to cap it off, he saw Belue to Lindsay Scott, the most exciting single play in the annals of Georgia (and therefore American) college football. I don't blame him for retiring. However, I stuck it out, because I am virile and resolute in a winsome yet modest way, and saw the Dawgs beat Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl to win the National Championship. Fixed it for you. You are welcome.

bradfordkay -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:42:27 PM)
Tiger heresy!!! Dan... i couldn't afford to make the trip to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. I guarantee that I watched it on the tube and still watch the Dawgs religiously (when they are on television out here) but I was unable to come up with the money to head down to the Big Easy... Hell, after I graduated in March I had to sell my 1862 Remington rifle-musket just to have some cash for living expenses for a couple of months. It wasn't until May or June that I got the library gig.

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 4:51:49 PM)
Brad, I know what you mean about being poor. I was eating peanut butter every meal of the week during my college years. At one point, I was working three jobs. I still remember buying the oversized Sugar Bowl ticket. I think it cost $20. A bunch of us carpooled to the game from Miami, so expenses were slim. My biggest expenditure was buying a western omlet at a restaurant in Gulport, Mississippi. We had something like 12 people crammed into the hotel room. When Georgia beat hated, despised, loathed Notre Dame, it was all worth it. Notre Dame was despised for a variety of reasons. First, they were the media darlings of all time (even more than the New York Yankees). Second, I grew up going to Miami Hurricanes football games. Back in the 70s, when Miami was terrible, Notre Dame would beat them 44-0 (or worse) every year. When I matriculated at Georgia in the autumn of 1979, I learned that seemingly everybody hated Notre Dame, which made perfect sense to me. I can't think of a single school I'd like to see lose to Notre Dame. I'd even pull for Florida and Klempsin to beat the Irish. Maybe not Georgia Tech.

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 5:03:44 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel Brad, I know what you mean about being poor. I was eating peanut butter every meal of the week during my college years. At one point, I was working three jobs. I still remember buying the oversized Sugar Bowl ticket. I think it cost $20. A bunch of us carpooled to the game from Miami, so expenses were slim. My biggest expenditure was buying a western omlet at a restaurant in Gulport, Mississippi. We had something like 12 people crammed into the hotel room. When Georgia beat hated, despised, loathed Notre Dame, it was all worth it. Notre Dame was despised for a variety of reasons. First, they were the media darlings of all time (even more than the New York Yankees). Second, I grew up going to Miami Hurricanes football games. Back in the 70s, when Miami was terrible, Notre Dame would beat them 44-0 (or worse) every year. When I matriculated at Georgia in the autumn of 1979, I learned that seemingly everybody hated Notre Dame, which made perfect sense to me. I can't think of a single school I'd like to see lose to Notre Dame. I'd even pull for Florida and Klempsin to beat the Irish. Maybe not Georgia Tech. I will not very humbly admit that I was a Notre Dame fan for a day early this year. Alas....alas..... [image]local://upfiles/22511/4AA37643BA834436AED8BFF17A5F9AAC.jpg[/image]

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 5:23:51 PM)
The lineup of teams I would pull for against Notre Dame should be very telling since I'm a Bulldog: Klempsin, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Auburn, and Alabama in particular. Not to mention nearly every other "far away" team like Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio State, and Wisconsin. Other than Georgia Tech, I think the only team I couldn't pull for against the Irish would be Southern Cal. When those two teams play, I'd pull for an asteroid to strike.

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 5:25:00 PM)
If said asteroid took out just Lane Kiffin, that would be a beautiful day.

bradfordkay -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 5:29:35 PM)
Remember, Tech tied Notre Dame on that wonderful November Saturday - catapulting us into the #1 ranking. IIRC, that score was announced only about ten minutes before "Run, Lindsey, Run!" became a part of Bulldog lore forever...

bradfordkay -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 5:31:09 PM)
BTW: I would even cheer for Darth Visor against Notre Dame...

crsutton -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 6:09:21 PM)
He was briefly coach of the Washington Redskins where he met with total failure.

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 6:53:48 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel If said asteroid took out just Lane Kiffin, that would be a beautiful day. You may want to re-think that. Speaking for myself, I am VERY happy with him being exactly where he is now, although I think he will be sacked right about the time USCw goes off probation.

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 6:59:08 PM)
There are two coaches in college football for whom no disaster is too small: Lane Kiffin and Bobby Petrino. I'd pull for the asteroid to hit them even if they were doing a terrible job coaching Notre Dame! Steve Spurrier is an Evil Genius, but that's said with nothing but grudging admiration. Kiffin and Petrino, on the other hand, are slimy creatures out of the swamp floor.

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:06:45 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel There are two coaches in college football for whom no disaster is too small: Lane Kiffin and Bobby Petrino. I'd pull for the asteroid to hit them even if they were doing a terrible job coaching Notre Dame! Steve Spurrier is an Evil Genius, but that's said with nothing but grudging admiration. Kiffin and Petrino, on the other hand, are slimy creatures out of the swamp floor. They may both be bottom dwelling slime suckers but there is a BIG difference between the two. Petrino wins. A lot. He will wind up at a big program again once he serves his penance and the bruises fade. [image]local://upfiles/22511/A3D30154CEFF41CFB0557446F3F8651F.jpg[/image]

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:09:57 PM)
Perhaps folks will have more respect for Petrino if you also post of picture of his honey![:)]

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:12:24 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel Perhaps folks will have more respect for Petrino if you also post of picture of his honey![:)] Indeed. [image]local://upfiles/22511/089C22C9BA664E40B88B6CF5B6E5AB89.jpg[/image]

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:19:26 PM)
Okay, she's a little bit scary, but can anybody blame coach Petrino?

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:20:52 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Canoerebel Okay, she's a little bit scary, but can anybody blame coach Petrino? Yes, I believe Mrs. Petrino took a dim view.

Canoerebel -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:21:21 PM)
[:D]

captskillet -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:27:23 PM)
Geaux Tigers..............if they can finally learn to pass Lester may finally have something........Canoe watch out the real Tigers are coming this fall!

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:30:03 PM)
For a glimpse into the dark recesses of AU Tiger's sense of humor: not long after the news broke about Petrino's mishap, I mailed a Harley-Davidson brochure to a Razorback friend of mine knowing full well that his wife opens all of the mail. [8D]

AU Tiger_MatrixForum -> RE: OT - Spurrier Don't Care (8/13/2013 7:30:42 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: captskillet Geaux Tigers..............if they can finally learn to pass Lester may finally have something........Canoe watch out the real Tigers are coming this fall! I was wondering when you would show up!

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