Because Photoshop Is Fun. And Because We Can.
by MaconDawg on Jun 8, 2011 10:01 AM EDT
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PrintReally those are the only two reasons for posting this grainy black and white photo taken several years ago along Interstate 70 outside Wheeling, West Virginia. Buckeye fans, let's just pretend that they're a couple of hippie grifters who blew into town, swindled everyone in sight, then left like thieves in the night. The NCAA will totally buy it.
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I don't think it's that far-fetched.
And after I did this one it occurred to me that hitchhiking Tressel looks a little like he’s about to saunter out into oncoming traffic. Which would be regrettable, but also wholly plausible.
I had that same impression initially, of Tressell just walking in to traffic
as an Ohio version of seppuku. But as I looked at it again, the bag in his hand and the look on his face made me think of Douglas in Falling Down.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Also,
why is TP hitchhiking? Does he lose access to all those sweet, free rides now that he’s not in The Program?
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
I'm still mad at arkansas.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Jun 8, 2011 11:55 AM EDT reply actions 1 recs
Yes, but only for hiring Petrino.
I’m mad at Petrino for losing to OSU.
by first and thom on Jun 8, 2011 1:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Just give it a little while.
I think you’ll find, after a year or two, that they didn’t even play Ohio State last season.
I'm more upset at the NCAA than Arky...
don’t let Pryor and the rest have their supsension delayed in what has to be one of the most head scratching decisions that organization with a glut of head scratching decisions has made.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
For me the question is . . .
what effect will North Carolina’s apparent attempts to be proactive in a similar situation buy them other than a disappointing season? Both the Tar Heels and Bulldogs were forthcoming in the face of much less widespread allegations of impermissible benefits. If the NCAA does not acknowledge this, they might as well be suborning future coverups.
Have they not done so countless times in the past?
If I’m UGA/NC, etc, it risks a rehash of the 80s treatment we and Oklahoma saw after suing for football TV rights, but I’d coonsider a suit on unfair treatment. With the Congressional bruhahah about the BCS and such (not that those guys don’t have better things to do, geesh), it’d be a ripe time to go on the attack and blast them on their decades of extremely unfair and selective punishment decisions.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Most excellent:
it’d be a ripe time to go on the attack and blast them on their decades of extremely unfair and selective punishment decisions.
And I think our AD along with a few other major schools can carry that banner. From what I understand the NCAA rulebook is as big as Atlas Shrugged and following it to a T maybe impossible as it is. And it seems if a school is forth coming and honest (see AJ and Ebaygate) – their is swift and painful punishment, but if you hide and lie, you can get away for years and year until the lid finally blows off the top.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
444 pages...
http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/D111.pdf
And with the twists and connections, it makes the US Tax Code look like a pop up book.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Mr Sanchez -
that deal with a delayed suspension is the most assanine decision I can even imagine. I hate the NCAA.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
In a sea of questionable punishments and bewildering rulings...
… this one is both the stupidest and the one most smelling of blatant corruption.
What can possibly explain it?
besides Gee or some other Ohio St related party begging and somehow convincing the NCAA that their little 0-whatever streak vs the SEC was a threat to the well being of student athletes everywhere.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
For what it's worth, tankertoad, it's "asinine," . . .
. . . although I think I like your spelling better, especially in this instance.
Go 'Dawgs!
You're correct as usual. My browser at work doesn't show me as much love as at home.
Sometimes I am like a kid with my grammar; I write the way it should look or sounds, rather than the way it actually it is. Or maybe I am just a kid. However, I rarely screw up “y’all” which is the most common mistake I see. I do mix up through and threw all the time for some reason, usually in game threads.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Y'all is correct isn't it?
as short for you all, the apostrophe should be after the y since ou are the letters removed.
And I have a hard time hearing that word, and not thinking of the suspect Jeff Foxworthy joke, “I’ll give her face a 10 and …”
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
Yes, Y'all is correct. Often you will see Ya'll.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
asinine
I’d never heard the joke, and it took me several seconds to try to make one using “y’all” until I realized that “that word” to which you referred was not “y’all” but “asinine”.
by NCT on Jun 9, 2011 3:03 PM EDT up reply actions
that's awesome.....
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Very, very fun fact:
“asinine” is from Latin and means “ass-like” (cf. feline, canine, vulpine, lupine, ursine, porcine, bovine, equine, piscine, aquiline, caprine, ovine, corvine, cygnine, vespine, columbine).
no - i am mad at them for losing
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
Methinks...
Pryor should really consider changing his sign from “Ohio” to “Kazakhstan.” I don’t think he’s going to remain safe in The Buckeye State very much longer…
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Ala Reggie Bush & Jason Campbell
I dont hold the kids wholly responsible. These schools knew and know what was what, and let them on board anyway. The
“turn the other cheek” mentallity and the fact boosters break a million rules so they can feel good about their team gives me the leeway to enjoy the crow they must eat. I have been sick of OSU’s endless media support and high preason rankings only to watch them fade by game 6. The world seems better not hearing bout the USC Trojans and soon I wont have to hear about the Buckeyes for a while, and that makes my Saturdays all the better.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
See, I hate Auburn so much I threw Jason Campbell under the bus rather than Cam Newton.
If they can’t keep their mascots straight, I dont think have to keep their QBs straight either. I meant Cammie Cam.
What a wierd typo……….lol. I got three monitors and a million windows open – multitask failure.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
by tankertoad on Jun 8, 2011 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Dang.
I was hoping for more fuel for the fire that burns ever hot in my soul.
by first and thom on Jun 8, 2011 5:14 PM EDT up reply actions
Again, I ask...
at what point, if compliance knew, the coach knew and pretty much everyone outside of the Geology Department knew what was going on, is the dreaded lack of institutional control tag become affixed to this program?
Of course, all this tOSU stuff really pisses me off because invaluable NCAA resources, which are being overtaxed, should be focused on a certain school in southeastern Alabama. Quit hogging the lawyas!
I wonder if the IRS is thinking, Hmm… Up to $40,000 tax free? Not a bad little haul, considering how much a scholarship athlete already receives in potential room & board, training table meals, etc.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Institutional control
Well, if everyone outside the Geology Department knew what was going on, it sounds like the institution had things well under control. They just weren’t doing it right.
by NCT on Jun 8, 2011 4:51 PM EDT up reply actions
Precisely!
That’s how I think Tennessee will avoid being held responsible for a lack of institutional control; they can argue that Lane Kiffin and Bruce Pearl knew exactly what they were doing.
Go 'Dawgs!
And with Ohio St it's not like this is new...
players as far back as I’ve been paying attention, like Terry Glenn, Andy Katzenmoyer, and others have skated by academically and remained eligible with 0.0s (maybe in their last semesters, but still). They’ve had problems with Clarett, with their basketball program, and it just seems a pretty well established culture of this behavior in Columbus, OH. Like NCT, it sounds like the institution had things well under control and a strong styem in place to violate NCAA rules.
http://sportsandgrits.blogspot.com/
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