Ask and Ye Shall Receive

A lowly commenter opines to the powers that be here: “If we’re going to cover sports, we should be covering college football”.

Well ask and ye shall receive.

There are only 79 days until September 2. Why is that important?

September 2 is when the 2010 college football season kicks off! The classic, long-standing and bitter rivalries steeped in tradition of Presbyterian/Wake Forest (The Battle for the Protestant Soul), Southern Miss/”University” of South Cackalacky, Miami/FAMU, Norfolk State/Rutgers (“The Drama Department Nicknamed Us”), Minnesota/Middle Tennessee, and USC/Hawaii will be reignited for another year, as the next generation of titans battle for gridiron supremacy and indelible pride that will ring true for generations to come.

And don’t forget, GSU begins its march to FCS glory with the inevitable slaughter of Shorter University that day too. How I fear for the welfare of the boys from Rome when they come face to face with the juggernaut that is the GSU Panthers. Much greater men than those who don the Hawks jersey have fled in terror after the mere mention of GSU’s name.

The Big 11 10 becomes the big 12, while the Big 12 becomes a big 10 conference. Probably the best thing possible, as the Pac-18 would have been too big to foster true rivalries. Also, Kansas would have been screwed and that’s too good a basketball program (with a football team on the up and up) to play in C-USA. Now the former Big 12 lost its two worst basketball schools that had football teams dragging them down. Thankfully though, college athletics, particularly football, remains an amateur endeavor, and money never would have come into these considerations.

What are your predictions for the year?


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22 responses to “Ask and Ye Shall Receive”

  1. JMPrince Avatar

    The only sport where the entire team can be drunk, and not only do well & prosper, but invite you out for some more beers afterwards. JMP

  2. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    Don’t. Fucking. Get me started. On curling.

    When I was up there the regional professional champs or some shit was happening (before the Olympics? WTF?) and the announcer for the commercial was like “THE BATTLE FOR MANITOBA HAS NEVER BEEN MORE FIERCE”. It was insane.

  3. Tony Avatar

    Ask and ye shall receive. What about coverage of curling? Surely, there are professional competitions outside of the Olympics.

    Also, Go Panthers!

  4. JMPrince Avatar

    FYI: From the ‘Drama Dept’: The First College football Game Ever Played: Rutgers vs Princeton. Rutgers won.

    http://www.scarletknights.com/football/history/first-game.asp

    “Rutgers University and its neighbor, Princeton, played the first game of intercollegiate football on Nov. 6, 1869, on a plot of ground where the present-day Rutgers gymnasium now stands in New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers won that first game, 6-4”.

    We remain uncertain if there were extant separate drama departments at the time. But still:

    “At 3 p.m. on that memorable afternoon, the 50 combatants and about 100 spectators gathered on the field”. Dramatists are seldom described as ‘combatants’. JMP

  5. JMPrince Avatar

    Football records: Southern Division:

    http://www2.sewanee.edu/communications/1899

    1899: A Sewanee Legend: The Iron Men 12-0 Record

    “While there are some who would swear to the contrary, I did not see the 1899 Sewanee football team play in person. Winning five road games in six days, all by shutout scores, has to be one of the most staggering achievements in the history of the sport. If the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) had been in effect in 1899, there seems little doubt Sewanee would have played in the title game. And they wouldn’t have been done in by any computer ratings.” — Penn State head coach Joe Paterno

    JMP

  6. Jen B. Avatar
    Jen B.

    You’re right. I always think it’s Division II because it was Division 2A.

    Georgia Southern and Georgia State need to play at the end of every year for something similiar to the lamely titled Governor’s Cup.

  7. Trevor Southerland Avatar
    Trevor Southerland

    ::cough::

    Georgia State is going to be FCS (used to be called I-AA)… Division II is a heck of a lot lower down the poll… think Emory…

    And I can’t wait until we have a team at Kennesaw.

  8. MotS Avatar
    MotS

    Road Trip.

  9. Jen B. Avatar
    Jen B.

    Ha. As a graduate of both UGA and GSU, I hope Georgia State beats the shit out of Alabama.. but, I am not hopeful.

  10. MotS Avatar
    MotS

    Maybe he wanted to see what the future was like.

  11. Jen B. Avatar
    Jen B.

    I seriously cannot believe that Alabama’s backup QB bolted to Georgia, a Division II school! But, I guess playing time is better than sitting around.

  12. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    I’ve been meaning to post this but for a thread I’ll solicit what people want a blog post about. I will then write a well-written, thoroughly-researched post, if I can’t talk about it.

    I’m serious.

  13. Tim Cairl Avatar
    Tim Cairl

    I’m looking forward to GSU games! woot woot!

  14. PaulaG Avatar
    PaulaG

    If that’s how this works, then I want/demand figure skating coverage!

  15. Trevor Southerland Avatar
    Trevor Southerland

    Can’t wait til we have football at Kennesaw…

  16. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    That is the record. Most of Cumberland’s team jumped off the train before they got to Atlanta too.

  17. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    I believe the record is the Georgia Tech vs. Cumberland game in 1916, 222-0.

    Wikipedia:
    Cumberland College, a school in Lebanon, Tennessee, had discontinued its football program before the season but was not allowed to cancel its game against the Engineers. The fact that Cumberland’s baseball team had crushed Georgia Tech earlier that year 22-0 (amidst allegations that Cumberland used professionals as ringers) probably accounted for Georgia Tech coach John Heisman’s running up the score on the Bulldogs. He insisted on the schools’ scheduling agreement, which required Cumberland to pay $3,000 ($59,780 in inflation-adjusted terms) to Tech if its football team failed to show. So, George E. Allen (who was elected to serve as Cumberland’s football team student manager after first serving as the baseball team student manager) put together a scrub team of 14 men to travel to Atlanta as Cumberland’s football team.

  18. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    This will be the Michigan vs. Appalachian State of 2010.

  19. Sara Avatar
    Sara

    Serious questions: will Alabama set a new points scored record when they play GSU this year? And is this the first time that a defending national champion will play a school fielding a football team for the first season ever? Someone should research that. (I’m too lazy.)

  20. Ed Avatar
    Ed

    There was no hyperbole in this post whatsoever anywhere.

    Michigan should win 8 games or more this season.

  21. JerryT Avatar
    JerryT

    Is that the way you write/wrote for that other gig? A little over the top but it sucks less than your usual crap.
    Anyway, the big question to me is, will Rich Rodriguez at Michigan make until Sept. 2, and if so, how many games into the season before he gets canned, and for what reason- NCAA violations or just losing?

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