College Football 2012

[NativeSon]

Thought I had finally outgrown this place, but I'm back.

[Jurgen]

Were glad to have you back.


Now get me a beer.

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by linzi

i don't remember which regatta it was at, but it was the night before the races, and coaches and coxswains (only) were supposed to report for a coaches/coxswains meeting to go over the course, rules, etc. So, because i was varsity coxswain and team captain (i know that surprises all of you so very much ), there i was, and everyone is packed into this building, and we're shoved in there like sardines because it's a bunch of high schools and colleges from around the country. The race coordinator called roll, and when they got to texas, there was this huge "yeehaw!" from the back of the room. They had every single member of their team in there, taking up space and generally being obnoxious while everyone else was trying to focus on instructions so they didn't run into a bridge or anything.

It was at that point that i decided texas had the biggest douchebags in all of collegedom. (maybe that's why i dislike muschamp so much?) "hook 'em horns" makes me want to punch somebody right in the nose.

And, another rowing story... It was uf/ga weekend, and we had a race in jacksonville. We're going along, mid-race, and here comes a motorboat cruising right through the middle of the course, right up through lanes and lanes of shells. Every seen a rowboat of eight people try to change course quickly? It doesn't happen. Fortunately, no one got hurt, but there were some close calls. The boat was flying a georgia bulldogs flag. Guy was drunk as a skunk.

...and then there was that time that fsu *did* run into a bridge. Right smack into that big concrete pylon.

Regattas were always more interesting during football season.

g.a.r.?

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by Jurgen

Were glad to have you back.


Now get me a beer.

...and I'm back to my old ways.

[Jurgen]

Originally Posted by NativeSon

...and I'm back to my old ways.

I thought you'd got the gig as the burrowing owl.

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by ScottDill

WLOCP is an ugly game so far...

Here's one for Linzi

how do you guys not watch this and laugh?

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by Jurgen

I thought you'd got the gig as the burrowing owl.

I did. I don't want to talk about how I lost it though.

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by ScottDill

Don't do it. It was the second ugliest thing to happen on a football field Saturday. You're better off not watching either.

Over 200 yards in penalites, 9 turnovers and several additional fumbles recovered by the fumblers. Perhaps the East can decline to send a representative to Atlanta this year.

Just watched it for the second time. It's like watching your own funeral.

edit: oh, and towards the end of the game, they did announce there were 27 personal fouls. I'm sure they got to 30 though.

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by OuttaMyWay

Stop the blasphemy!

Florida and Georgia are SEC teams and members of the only conference that plays real football. The worst team in the SEC is still better than any team from another conference. The only reason they play like shit against each other is that they're so good.

Two of the top defenses in the country. What did you expect?

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by Jurgen

I was trying to create a crafty reply in my head about A&M would be glad to represent then it hit me. An epiphany if you will. Why Linzi and that other guy who left slamming the door a week or two ago resent A&M and Missouri so much.

I thought, "I like A&M, but the SEC isn't my conference." --

I'm sure for fans of University of SEC in Gainesville, Georgia or even that good team in Alabama feel similarly. "What are they doing here?"

It just doesn't work. It doesn't feel right. A&M and Missouri belong in the Big12. A very good A&M (say doing as well as KSt this year) I could get excited about... if they were in the Big12. In the SEC, yeah I'll still cheer for them- but they feel like that cousin that has dropped out of yours and your families life.

That guy slamming the door was being an asshole, and he's sorry.

But of course it's going to take time. Look at a school like Penn State. Are you going to say they didn't take a few years to 'feel' like a big 10 school?

[NativeSon]

Originally Posted by ScottDill

SEC never should have expanded. USC and Arky aren't SEC either.

you're forgetting that the expansion wasn't about adding teams. It was about getting a conference championship game.

[NativeSon]

The end of the season is in sight, so it's time for my favorite topic of the year:

What coach is leaving which school to go where?

Charlie Strong to ?
Kirby Smart to ?
Dan Mullen to ?
The guy at Louisiana Tech?

[Bubwheat]

Originally Posted by Jurgen

Were glad to have you back.


Now get me a beer.

+1 We've missed you like a sore thumb!

[Linzi]

Originally Posted by NativeSon

g.a.r.?

GHS (which I hope is still independent), and UF and USF on occasion. I coxed for the GAR masters folks a few times, but I found the coach to be an unbearable...

...wait for it...

...douchebag.

GAR was really, really shitty to GHS when the joint boathouse was being built, and we GHS kids put just as much work into it. I was there plenty of weekends nailing stuff, putting on the roof, and my grandfather paid for the dock. Then GAR had the gall to put up a sign indicating that it was their domain.

GAR - sore subject.

Welcome back, NS! :)

[Linzi]

Originally Posted by NativeSon

The end of the season is in sight, so it's time for my favorite topic of the year:

What coach is leaving which school to go where?

Charlie Strong to ?
Kirby Smart to ?
Dan Mullen to ?
The guy at Louisiana Tech?

TC predicts Jimbo to Tennessee, but I don't know...