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Stop hatin' on the Dawgs, or I'll burn your mutha ...

2006-05-05T16:03:00.000-04:00

Stop hatin' on the Dawgs, or I'll burn your mutha forking house down. http://georgiadogs.collegesports.com/traditions/championships.html

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2006-05-04T12:54:00.000-04:00

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The fact that we handled Wisconsin last year relat...

2006-05-04T12:08:00.000-04:00

The fact that we handled Wisconsin last year relatively easily and they were one of the better teams in the Big 10/11 should get us in automatically.

I bet the Big 10/11 pushed to get us out. They problem thought that they could justify excluding us on our last place finish and we worried that, given our past success in the challenge, not having Wake would give the Big 10/11 a better chance to actually win the challenge once.

I personally favor the 'Swofford is an ass theory myself' though

Just for the record, Clemson has lost all 52 times...

2006-05-04T11:46:00.000-04:00

Just for the record, Clemson has lost all 52 times it has played in Chapel Hill, not a mere 42. Oh and this just in, The Ultimate Warrior just turned down NC State's coaching job too.

UGA's won nothing recently (unless you count SEC f...

2006-05-04T10:57:00.000-04:00

UGA's won nothing recently (unless you count SEC football Championships), but I'm a UVA undergrad...so unless we're talking lacrosse and soccer (you're probably not), I got nothing.

I'm just more pissed at the "we" thing when people use it to others. Most of time, if I slip up, it's when I'm talking to other UVA fans. It's just with the case of Maryland, how a lot of fans will treat Juan Dixon and Steve Blake like family but disavow McCray, Strawberry and whatnot when they fuck up, saying "oh, that's the basketball team."

While Wake is certainly a better basketball progra...

2006-05-04T10:09:00.000-04:00

While Wake is certainly a better basketball program than the majority of ACC schools, and I believe the Big Four should always be a part of any basketball "challenge," I think this snub is fair punishment, regardless of Swofford's motivation. Wake didn't just have a bad year last year, they were an inexplicable embarrassment. It's one thing for a talent-starved GT team to manage only four wins. When Justin Gray, Eric Williams, and Trent Strickland can only get three wins in a very weak ACC, well, Wake's lucky they were invited back to the ACC.
Oh, and though Maryland fans are clearly insane, a Nat Champ gives them and Sweaty Gary a 10-year pass to act high and mighty. Though continued rioting and lunacy might reduce that sentence to 5 years.

I have the same level of hatred for John Swofford ...

2006-05-04T00:19:00.000-04:00

I have the same level of hatred for John Swofford as you and I am a Big East Guy (Lets Go....Mountaineers!). Both conferences were great as they were before the expansion of the ACC. It has ruined both of them.

On a side note...
Although I was able to fully support your use of the "F" word when you were referring to the location of Alstott's knee last season on that 2 pt play against the Skins...I am afraid I am going to have to support your mom if she complains about the use of the word in today's post. Just kidding, but the fact you only save that word for so few special occasions, I think we all know how pissed you are about this...with out any defending of Skip P or titleing the post "OK, Now I am so PISSED"

Truth be told, it makes me happy to know it is not just people in the Big East that are pissed about this and have the same level of hatred for John Swafford.

It appears to be.About the whole "we" thing, I hav...

2006-05-03T22:27:00.000-04:00

It appears to be.
About the whole "we" thing, I have no problem with people saying "we" when referring to sports teams. (I only do it when conversing when referring to the Redskins to friends of mine who are also Redskins fans, by the way.) Fans invest themselves in a team's season. They pay the player's salaries. In some cases, they care more about the teams than the actual players. They spend money on tickets, memorabilia, clothing, etc. Fans are the team. If Johnny Damon can sell-out to the Yankees, he should. But a fan never sells-out. And that gives him/her a right to say "we".
And when's the last time Georgia won anything of consequence?

And UVA finished with 4 ACC wins from 2004-2005, a...

2006-05-03T21:55:00.000-04:00

And UVA finished with 4 ACC wins from 2004-2005, and despite having a team presumably light years worse than 2006's Wake team at the start of this year, they still played.

And I'll make fun of Maryland all I want, because a: you went to Maryland and b: you think "you" are somehow involved with the "we" that won the national championship.

This is a completely different Ian by the way.

That's a convenient excuse the ACC has given, but ...

2006-05-03T20:00:00.000-04:00

That's a convenient excuse the ACC has given, but FSU finished last in 2004 and played in the 2005 Challenge. Clemson finished last in 2003 but played in the 2004 Challenge. The Winston-Salem Journal reported there was no critera set prior to the Challenge and Wake expected to be invited even after finishing last.
And how many straight years has Maryland played in the NIT? Two? Ahh, that's right. Keep living in the past, Ian. You and Byron Mouton.
(Also, there was no need to go there? You know I love the Terps. Maybe you should be the one partaking in the dick-eating.)

Wake got left out because they finished last in th...

2006-05-03T17:32:00.000-04:00

Wake got left out because they finished last in the conference this past year. Not because of money. Also, you can make fun of Maryland all you want, we have a National Championship. Eat a dick.