A Look Around the Big East Blogosphere

Rather than rebel against the Antichrist that is the college football off season, I thought I would just point out that there are some Big East folks that are doing a good job of keeping their readers interest peaked. While all I can muster are youtube's of the Kid's in the Hall and Jesco White.

-Shamefully, this might be the first or second time that I have mentioned Troy Nunes is an Absolute Magician. But if you follow the link and don't find it all funny, you support terrorist. Plain and simple! The part about ROC the Panther being able to get nine inches of his tale in his mouth is priceless.

-Brian over at Orange 44 has done a nice job of putting together an early look at each Big East team for the 2007 season from the eyes of a Syracuse fan. But I might have to show up at the Dome just to prove a point. At least the point about being skinny. He pretty much got me on the better mannered thing after the Wild Turkey starts flowing.

-Mike over at the Card Chronicle gives us his five players from opposing Big East teams he's like to see fall off the face of the planet, or at least make the switch to Louisville.

-Just in case you didn't know that Arron Gray was drafted last night, Pitt Blather says now you do!

-And of course, my fellow Mountaineer bloggers, The Bastard Sons of Pinfall Marks, just because they rock!

And there you have it. Happy fuckin' Friday!

Kids in the Hall- Eradicator

You know what, just because I haven't posted anything here in a week here's my favorite Kids in the Hall skit, The Eradicator!

Bad News For Maryland Quarterbacks

Great news for Mountaineer fans hoping to see the defense get a sack before October this year.

Once-promising Maryland offensive tackle Jared Gaither has been declared
academically ineligible for the 2007 season, sources close to the situation said
Wednesday.
Gaither, a rising junior from White Plains, Md., was held out of
spring drills to concentrate on academics, but didn't meet requirements to play
this coming season. He met with Terrapins coach Ralph Friedgen on Tuesday to
decide his future and is scheduled to meet with him again later this week.

Well, shucks! I mean I really hate to see a star on one of our biggest rivals have to sit out for any reason. Yeah, it's just breaking my heart. I don't know how I will be able to go on with this knowledge.....

Ok, I'm better. Woop! Woop! And yes Ralph Friedgen, I fart in your general direction!!!

Round Table with Fire Mark May

Our pal Trev is helping us make it through this tough time of off season hell by slipping us a few multi-colored uppers and posting this most recent round table discussion. Feel free to leave comments here or add to the discussion on your own blog. We're flexible like that, ya know.

1. Give the more zealous portion of your fanbase a religion. What's this cult following? Feel free to give the splitters a derogatory nickname.

Wow, is that the moonshine worshiping left or the whiskey bottle throwing right? Actually there is a new cult in the WVU family. These are the folks that say "National Championship" first thing when they get up, and last thing before they go to bed. Most have a "S" (Steve Slaton) tattooed on the back of each hand like Robert Mitchum in "The Night of the Hunter". This cross section of the fan base is eternally optimistic, and finally has somewhat of a reason to be. If we're going to give this cult a nickname, we'll go with Knights in Slaton's Service!! KISS, bitches!

2. Your biggest rival is in town, and College Gameday is coming....to your citaaaaaaay... Create a blatant corporate sellout promotion to appeal to the mass unwashed.

What, like Brent Musburger saying Backyard Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl about 50 times in five minutes? Seriously, we both drink like it's going out of style, so maybe some tumblers with a steel worker and a coal miner locked in mortal combat on the side complete with cubes filled with blood that you stick in the freezer the night before the game. I mean, it's not like we really hate each other or anything, right?

3. Add one local delicacy to your stadium's concessions. Post-tax pricing is optional.

Let's see, your grade school cafeteria had a more original menu than the concessions at Mountaineer field. If it isn't a naco, and hot dog, or a pretzel, it doesn't exist! And for that reason, we're going with the pig in a blanket. Maybe about 10-12 PIB's covered in a hot honey bbq sauce. Just because....

4. With an unlimited AD budget, add or subtract one thing to your school's gameday experience that has nothing to do with football.

Unfortunately, I'm going to say we need to get rid of Cornholing moi pronto! That's for fuck...I mean buckeyes!










5. Coin a hilariously unrealistic stereotype that you would like to "make stick" for this upcoming season.

This one really relies on what over rated/undertalented country act is used this year for college gameday. Let's see, could this be the year of the genius? Drinking game will be created and be the cause of death for no less than five college students this year that will drink every time Urban Meyer or Rich Rodriguez is called a genius.

6. Redesign your conference or independent schedule with reckless abandon. Be prepared to include compensation for jilted schools and conferences in your explanation.

Let's see, first we bring back Boston College and replace them in the ACC with UConn. Duke is happy in football to have someone they can play with on a yearly basis and the whole basketball thing that I don't care about anymore shifts the power back to the ACC. Next we get Penn St. just so I can hear Joe Pa say about Rodriguez, "He's a great coach with all this spread stuff. I like real butter myself but you can't tell these kids what to do." In compensation the Big 10 can call itself the Big 10 again.

7. Following up on your new realignment, blow up the BCS and devise a national playoff system, money grabs and missed exams be damned. Using your new fantasy conferences is optional.

Since I am a bastard that isn't really interested in playoffs, I say we go with the one team per conference in the playoff system. That way, you get someone from every conference in there and give the shaft to several team I probably hate anyway. The onus on scheduling a tough non-conference as well as being in a tough conference would be thrown right out the window. Let's be honest, we all want the original Southern Conference back together again, right?

8. Elect one public figure to replace NCAA president Myles Brand. Anyone with proper name recognition is eligible.

We at the Mountainlair would like to nominate Jesco White. If you want to talk about getting down to brass tacks and making things happen and never eating sloppy, slimy eggs again, Jesco is your man!

The Sad Story of Genarlow Wilson

I have to say that this has to be one of the saddest stories I have come across over the last year in the world of sports. Genarlow Wilson probably isn't the best person walking the face of the Earth, but from reading the link you get the idea that he was at least making an effort and doing everything that most high school kids want to do, like making good grades, getting offers to play football at D1 schools, and getting a blow job.

I did a post on it over at In The Bleachers back in January, when I first heard the story. And I was appalled that someone could be sent to jail for 10 years for a bj because of some ancient law on the books. And then that the law was taken off the books, but because Wilson was already convicted, he would have to serve out the sentence.

And now there is still a huge debate going on even after a judge ordered the release of Wilson.

*Genarlow Wilson will have to stay in jail for at least three more weeks after a district attorney appealed a judge’s ruling Monday that he was to be released due to a “grave miscarriage of justice.”

Wilson’s celebration over the judge’s decision was quickly doused by news that Attorney General Thurbert Baker had appealed the ruling, which meant Wilson would not be able to be released from jail for the time being.

Just sad!

Update 6/14/07:

It is just comical now! Let the kid go!

The mother of a then-15-year-old girl in a highly
publicized teen sex case told a newspaper that the boy involved should not have
been criminally charged, but she changed her statement a day later after a visit
from prosecutors, the newspaper said Thursday.

Lawyer B.J. Bernstein, who represents the young man, Genarlow Wilson, called the prosecution's visit "pure intimidation." She said the mother's interview had made clear that the New Year's Eve party encounter between Wilson, then 17, and the 15-year-old girl "was definitely a consensual act."

Wilson was convicted of aggravated child molestation and - based on a law that has since been changed - was sentenced to a mandatory 10 years in prison. That sentence drew widespread criticism as grossly disproportionate to the crime, and a judge on Monday, calling it a "grave miscarriage of justice," ordered Wilson released. But Wilson, now 21, is still behind bars because the state attorney general is appealing the decision. In an interview Tuesday, the girl's mother told The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution that her daughter had told her the videotaped sex acts were
consensual. The mother also said she regretted that she didn't ask prosecutors
not to charge Wilson and four other boys at the party.

Not Smoking Sucks!!!

Well, actually I feel much better, but it has really cut into my blogging. Ah those of you that smoke and blog know of what I speak. Nothing like taking a drag off a cig and then typing for 10 minutes and lighting another up. Some would not really call it smoking as much as burning. But those days are over. I think you get to a point in your life, especially if you use your voice for anything, that you have to make a choice. And yeah, there's that whole cancer thing. (I'm going to hell anyway, so I make light of cancer every chance I get)

And really, the rest of you are going to have to pick up the slack to keep the fine folks at the Tobacco Growers of America out of debt.

I never knew how much I loved anxiety! And nervous twitches? Aw, those are th best!!!!1!

Here's 25 ways to quit smoking for all of you still smoking, but want to quit.

Fanhouse Celebrates 90 Days Until the Start of the Season

Sorry the posting has been light over here, but that's just the way the ball bounces during the off season.

We are doing a celebration of sorts over at the Fanhouse to recognize the 90 day mark until the start of the season. There should be plenty of goodies for you no matter what conference you route for. The posts should start showing up sometime this AM.

Enjoy and hold on! It's almost here!!!! Woop! Woop!