Nobody wants Bobby

[Hawks86]

[Eastcoastgriz]

You must be pretty old. Your caregiver needs to check your blood pressure about now, doesn't she.

Actually no. But I am old enough to remember that year in and year out, some cat faithfull talk about how the GRIZ are going to fall "this year" and yet it never happens.

[crazycat]

You must be pretty old. Your caregiver needs to check your blood pressure about now, doesn't she.

Actually no. But I am old enough to remember that year in and year out, some cat faithfull talk about how the GRIZ are going to fall "this year" and yet it never happens.

It's a relative term. You fell this year by losing at home in the first round. Last year (semis) you didn't. The year before (one-n-done) you did.

For now, any time UM loses at home in the first round, it's a bad year. Since you're a lock for the playoffs and at least one home game, then losing at home in the first round shouldn't happen, but once every 10 years. UM has lost at home in the first round 3 of the last 5 years. It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

[Eastcoastgriz]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

[crazycat]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

Something about "relative" you don't understand? When you virtually know you're going to the playoffs and are playing at home in the first round year in and year out, your expectations have to better than losing in the first round. Aren't they? Mine would be or I'd lose interest.

I thought it was all about the playoffs and Chatty for the Griz.

[Eastcoastgriz]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

Something about "relative" you don't understand? When you virtually know you're going to the playoffs and are playing at home in the first round year in and year out, your expectations have to better than losing in the first round. Aren't they? Mine would be or I'd lose interest.

I thought it was all about the playoffs and Chatty for the Griz.

I would be perfectly happy to have this past year each and every year.

Let me give you a little history. Bobby took us to the championship game in 04 and to round three in 06. Lost in round one in 03, 05 and 07. That’s a pretty stellar 5 years. We also lost in round one in 97, 98, and 99.

Show me the five teams that would not take our past 5 years. And it is all about the playoffs and Chatty. We have been in the payoffs in each of the past 5 years, made one trip to chatty and one round three finish. Pretty impressive!

[Eastcoastgriz]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

Something about "relative" you don't understand? When you virtually know you're going to the playoffs and are playing at home in the first round year in and year out, your expectations have to better than losing in the first round. Aren't they? Mine would be or I'd lose interest.

I thought it was all about the playoffs and Chatty for the Griz.

I would be perfectly happy to have this past year each and every year.

Let me give you a little history. Bobby took us to the championship game in 04 and to round three in 06. Lost in round one in 03, 05 and 07. That’s a pretty stellar 5 years. We also lost in round one in 97, 98, and 99.

Show me the five teams that would take our past 5 years. And it is all about the playoffs and Chatty. We have been in the payoffs in each of the past 5 years, made one trip to chatty and one round three finish. Pretty impressive!

And by the way, this is from a coach who had never had head coaching experence. Very Impressive.

[Eastcoastgriz]

nm

[catatac]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

Something about "relative" you don't understand? When you virtually know you're going to the playoffs and are playing at home in the first round year in and year out, your expectations have to better than losing in the first round. Aren't they? Mine would be or I'd lose interest.

I thought it was all about the playoffs and Chatty for the Griz.

I would be perfectly happy to have this past year each and every year.

Let me give you a little history. Bobby took us to the championship game in 04 and to round three in 06. Lost in round one in 03, 05 and 07. That’s a pretty stellar 5 years. We also lost in round one in 97, 98, and 99.

Show me the five teams that would not take our past 5 years. And it is all about the playoffs and Chatty. We have been in the payoffs in each of the past 5 years, made one trip to chatty and one round three finish. Pretty impressive!

I'd a done better...

Just kidding, probably... but I think the point is... how hard would it really be to succeed as the head football coach at UM? Given what Bobby was handed... I thing you would be hard pressed to find a college coach in the country that couldn't come in and make the playoffs 5 years in a row. I don't think most griz fans understand how good you have it with a school that largely recruits itself. If I were hired to coach the Griz tomorrow, I would hire the absolute best football minds that I could find to be my coordinators and assistants, I would focus on thre things - managing and holding my coaches accountable, recruiting, and PR. Beyond that I would completely stay the heck away and let them run the X's and O's with the talent that pours in year after year.

Even though this is the smack forum, I also want to add that I am not saying Bobby is a bad coach. I think he's proven himself to be a pretty good coach. If he ever wins a national title, or if he moves up and succeeds at a 1A school then I will call him a great coach. He just hasn't shown me anything yet that says he's a great coach.

[crazycat]

It's a slow painful death Lord Buh-bay is bringing to you.

Your kiding right?? With the exception of 4 or 5 teams, the rest of the FCS that would kill to have our last 5 years. Long live Bobby!

Something about "relative" you don't understand? When you virtually know you're going to the playoffs and are playing at home in the first round year in and year out, your expectations have to better than losing in the first round. Aren't they? Mine would be or I'd lose interest.

I thought it was all about the playoffs and Chatty for the Griz.

I would be perfectly happy to have this past year each and every year.

Let me give you a little history. Bobby took us to the championship game in 04 and to round three in 06. Lost in round one in 03, 05 and 07. That’s a pretty stellar 5 years. We also lost in round one in 97, 98, and 99.

Show me the five teams that would not take our past 5 years. And it is all about the playoffs and Chatty. We have been in the payoffs in each of the past 5 years, made one trip to chatty and one round three finish. Pretty impressive!

Thanks for the history lesson, now let me give you a little history. The five years prior to Hauck the Griz won the NC, were runner up, went to the second round and lost in the first round twice. That's 3-0-2. (3 years better and two the same). The five years before that they won a NC, were runner up, went to the semis, and lost in first round twice. That's 3-0-2, too. The last five years are collectively the worst five years of the past 15 years. I don't think you can find a string of five successive years worse than the last five dating back to 1993.

I'm not saying you're doing bad relative to the rest of the FCS, I'm saying it's bad relative to how you've done.

[Billings_Griz]

Let's be honest, WHO F*CKING CARES?

[Cat Grad]

Let's be honest, WHO F*CKING CARES?

Best quote ever by a fizzled out fan. Check out the bowl following and put the fizzlies, their coaches and "program" in that context

Hell, even Hawaii sold over 25k tickets to the Sugar Bowl. Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

[Billings_Griz]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

[FTG06']

Over the past two years, the only thing more impressive than Bobby's record on the field is Jim O'Day's record of sweeping dirt under the sprinturf rug.


Keep up those winning ways, Griz fans!

We have learned a lot from our bozo little brothers.

Clearly you haven't, because Hack is still coaching and nothing much was said about the events that took place off the field.

[94VegasCat]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

math major?

[Eastcoastgriz]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

math major?

Actually it's a little more than twice (at least for 2006) (Did not find year end 2007 numbers)

UM total attendence 203,400, msu 89,309

[Cat Grad]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

math major?

Actually it's a little more than twice (at least for 2006) (Did not find year end 2007 numbers)

UM total attendence 203,400, msu 89,309

Detach yourself and look at how assinine the numbers you're crowing about actually are.

[cats2506]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

math major?

Actually it's a little more than twice (at least for 2006) (Did not find year end 2007 numbers)

UM total attendence 203,400, msu 89,309

Once again ECG PROVES that um has no math requirment.

2006 attendence
UM 203,400 in 9 games = 22,600 avg
MSU 89,309 in 7 games = 12,758 avg.

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2006/Interne ... NDANCE.pdf

If ECG had anything other than a um education he would understand that 22,600 is not a little more than twice 12,758


Oh and btw for 2007 the figures are

um 182,396 in 8 games for 22,800 avg
msu 85,472 in 6 games for 14,245 avg



Do you think ECG can figure this out or do we need to get out the crayons to explain it to him

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2007/Interne ... NDANCE.pdf

[Cat Grad]

Oh boy, somehow all those playoffs games in mazzola doesn't quite compare:

"THE SUGAR BOWL: GEORGIA VS. HAWAII: 'A frat party for the thousands'
Fans have a wild night that they won't remember in French Quarter.

By Carter Strickland
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 01/01/08

New Orleans —- This is a story where the names should be changed to protect the innocent.

But no one is innocent. Not this night.

Not at the corner of Toulouse and Bourbon. Not with the Sugar Bowl around the corner and debauchery not even bothering to lurk, instead walking up and slapping you in the face at every turn.

Jagermeister shots to the right. Something all you fathers hope your daughters never do to the left.

No, this is no place for the innocent.

This is the French Quarter.

"It's a frat party for the thousands," says Paul Freeman, a Georgia fan from Atlanta in town for tonight's game against Hawaii.

Well, come to think of it there are a lot of Georgia boys in the typical student uniform —- polo shirt, a hat that looks like it has been Uga's chew toy and a drink called a hand grenade sloshing to and fro.

Not familiar with that last one? It's a doozy. Take equal parts gin, grain alcohol, melon liqueur, rum, vodka and stupidity, mix and —- kaboom —- you have this being yelled every six seconds:

"What's that comin' down the track?

A big machine that's Red and Black!

There ain't nothing finer in the land,

Than a drunk, obnoxious Bulldog fan!"

Ah, so true. And this is the place to revel in that obnoxiousness and drunkenness. Just maybe not as long as Sarah Sancken has.

"Twelve thirty," she slurs when asked when she started to party that day.

It is 9 p.m. The night is young. Sarah is obviously young at heart, but there is little doubt the curb might be her pillow at any second.

But at least unlike the others clad in red and black who are handing fistfuls to any barker who promises cheap alcohol —- there are about 723 of those, by the way —- Sarah is trying to make a few bucks.

Her brother, Justin, has printed up red shirts with the phrase "If you don't Knowshon, you don't know $%&" on them.

Capitalism at its finest. God bless America. Pass the kamikaze.

Add a few more people and there is no doubt the balcony at Pat O'Brien's is going to be at street level, quickly.

Ah, but the view makes it almost worth the risk.

Imagine a mass of humanity at your feet, begging for strands of beads that were mass-produced in the Philippines for so much less than pennies on the dollar. These baubles make the masses, most of whom do one day hope to graduate from college, mind you, do ridiculous things. It is a cold night, briefly colder for those who want those beads.

Down in the masses Rod Kaalekahi —- take a guess which team he is pulling for —- is soaking it all in and can do that because he hasn't soaked in as much as seemingly everyone around him.

"It's all the Aloha spirit," Kaalekahi says. "We are out with both teams, fans of both teams getting together, enjoying themselves, it's Aloha spirit."

Another kind of spirit is moving in: The New Orleans Mounted Patrol.

It is like Gunsmoke. Two horses push into the doorway of Tropical Isle's on Bourbon Street.

Two kids, who likely will have to make very embarrassing phone calls in a couple of hours, are pinned between the horses and (excuse the phrasing here) are horse-collared and dragged to a van around the corner.

"We can see so much more on top of the horses and what we try to do is evaluate the situation, move in as quickly as we can and then call for the foot patrol officers to come in and take the person out of the situation," says Sgt. Ray Byrd, a 15-year veteran.

The horses are the most docile creatures on the street this night. Byrd says the horses are taken through an extensive training where firecrackers, as well as every other sort of noisemaker, are used to try and unsettle them.

So some drunk fan, in this case a supporter of Auburn, doing Soulja Boy's Superman right in front of them isn't bothering the horses.

"Everybody has been pretty good tonight," Byrd says. "They are all just having fun and behaving themselves for the most part."

This should be the time to leave. All is well. It is two ticks before midnight. But, at times, intrigue proves as much an intoxicant as anything distilled. And Razzoo is calling. Goodness, is it calling.

Never has a collection of songs from the 1980s ever been so interestingly choreographed as on the stage at Razzoo. Ears bleed from the blaring of "Jessie's Girl." Eyes bulge at the 300-plus pound former Georgia player on stage doing his Kevin Bacon impersonation from the movie "Footloose." Imagine Chris Farley's Chippendale's dance from "Saturday Night Live" and throw a 120-pound girl in the mix.

Sgt. Byrd where are you when we need you? This is criminal.

While his shirt goes up, others' stay firmly in place.

Check YouTube. There will likely to be some video once those intrepid iPhone users sober up.

Georgia players, out mingling before curfew, are strolling the streets in green "Beat Georgia" T-shirts.

Funnier still may be this assessment of the night:

"As a player you never got to come out here and cut loose," says former Georgia center Ryan Schnetzer, who was a part of the 2002 and 2005 Sugar Bowl teams. "Now I can come out here and enjoy it."

Schnetzer, who is in medical school, was not the player who was dancing on the bar. Not even close. He also may have been blind because there are plenty of players enjoying themselves before curfew.

But this is what the French Quarter is. It's the South's Sodom and Gomorrah. It's Larry Flynt in neon. It's 'don't-step-in-that,' but 'give-me-some-of-that.' It's Aloha and Go Dawgs. But it is mostly James and his 15-foot placard that reads: "Huge .%$ Beers," and the Hawaii and Georgia fans queueing up to have some.

"They are running neck and neck," James says when asked which fan base is ahead. "Neck and neck."

[Billings_Griz]

Now talk about how many people drive across Montana for a fizzly weekend

Twice as many as cat fans that travel to Bozo?

math major?

Actually it's a little more than twice (at least for 2006) (Did not find year end 2007 numbers)

UM total attendence 203,400, msu 89,309

Once again ECG PROVES that um has no math requirment.

2006 attendence
UM 203,400 in 9 games = 22,600 avg
MSU 89,309 in 7 games = 12,758 avg.

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2006/Interne ... NDANCE.pdf

If ECG had anything other than a um education he would understand that 22,600 is not a little more than twice 12,758


Oh and btw for 2007 the figures are

um 182,396 in 8 games for 22,800 avg
msu 85,472 in 6 games for 14,245 avg



Do you think ECG can figure this out or do we need to get out the crayons to explain it to him

http://web1.ncaa.org/d1mfb/2007/Interne ... NDANCE.pdf

With the question asked, its over 1/2. Nobody said "per game".

Cheesh.