Edwin MacPhisto

Pretty much the worst album I heard in 2003. I'm thinking The Arcade Fire is getting the spot this year! I'm back in Florida for Thanksgiving, so I'm going to come fight you. You can't run, pussy.

Their album is one of the worst I've heard in recent memory. Shrill nonsense, awful lyrical motifs, and some wanky prog that couldn't hold Peter Frampton's balls. I also wouldn't call them overrated, as I don't recall them getting much in the way of favorable press or reaction in the first place.

That's pretty rough. Especially for a Clemson team that overcame that nasty 1-4 start to get bowl eligible. The ACC won't miss the $20 payout from whatever the 7th bowl would have been.

I was going to offer to try to dislike you if you were that hard up, but I thought better of it and went for a chicken sandwich. Which was pretty good. Asshole.

The ACC isn't under review yet, but if the champion finishes somewhere below #14, I think, they might be. Like I said though, no one's going to take a bid away from a conference who, while not yielding a monster champion these past few years, certainly has one of the most impressive aggregate spread of teams in Division I. The Big East may stop the bleeding if Louisville continues to perform well and one of the other new additions can step up. Losing BC is going to be another blow, but with Louisville, West Virginia, Pitt, and UConn, the Big East still probably has a more formidable block of teams than any mid-major. The MAC probably comes closest on a consistent basis, but still doesn't have what it takes to guarantee a bid. One thing I'd like to see would be the Big East's automatic bid replaced by a third at-large slot. This bid would go to the top-ranked team not in any of the 5 BCS conferences. Under this year's system, that would be Louisville (or Utah, if we eliminated the top-6 qualifier thing). The Big East teams that still do well--this year's West Virginias and Louisvilles, for example--will probably have the best chance of winning that bid out of anyone, but mid-major teams will also have a much more likely chance of getting into the BCS every season.

Amusingly enough, the one conference in danger of that review this year is the ACC. FSU juuuuust winning the conference with mediocre records the past several years has brought the average down substantially. Nothing would come of it, of course, but it's interesting to note.

No, Utah is in, barring an insane freak-out from the computer rankings tomorrow. The "non-BCS team in the top 6" rule ranks higher than the "BCS team in the top 4" rule in the hierarchy for defining at-large bids. If Auburn lost the SEC championship game, they wouldn't get a bid unless they stayed in the #3 slot ahead of Cal. Barring a Cal loss to Southern Miss in their final game of the year, the two at-large bids are already automatically assigned to the Golden Bears and the Utes. No one past the top 6 has a chance of sneaking in unless Texas, Cal, and probably Auburn all lose. The only controversy this year will be who goes where.

Good call by Stern. If the punishments hold, they're fine. If the players' union wears them down even halfway, they're still some of the biggest suspensions in league history.

Absolutely yes. Wow, that's absolute prattle, and a horrible way for conservative blogs to be making an argument in favor of the marine's actions. The time/space case is such nonsense.

Yep. It was basically another home game, as was the Duke game - similar attendance setup there. We go all the way when it comes to smushing our pushovers. Speaking of Temple, where do you guys think they'll end up after this year, after getting kicked out of the Big East? Could they get to a winning record in one of the mid-major conferences? As far as regions go, I can't really see anyone but C-USA maybe making the move to get them, but I know the MAC and C-USA already have a lot of shifting going on after this year.

We had a similar thing happen at Virginia. This year, we were supposed to open the season against UTEP, but Mike Price bailed, wanting to take time to get his new team in order before bringing them against some bigger teams. Instead, we had to thrash Temple. I'd much rather have seen a game against now 8-2 UTEP than that shitkicking, but kudos to Clemson, North Carolina, and Akron for grinding out winning records and some big wins along the way to make the UVA schedule look better.

I think Texas is a better team than Tennessee when Erik Ainge is injured, and only in that case. Lots of teams are better than Tennessee is right now with their third-string QB taking all the snaps. If Ainge (or even Schaeffer) isn't ready for Atlanta...yikes. If Texas ends up in the Cotton Bowl against Georgia, I think they get waxed. LSU/Texas would be a fine game. I'm hoping one of those two trickle down to the Peach Bowl in the event that Virginia gets there, but I think Florida's more likely for the Peach unless the Outback Bowl wants to give them another shot. I could be going to Orlando to see Virginia/Colorado...Atlanta on New Year's Eve to see Virginia/Florida...Jacksonville on New Year's Day to see Virginia/Notre Dame or West Virginia...or, in a big stretch, New Orleans on the 3rd to see Virginia/Auburn or BC. What a range.

Loss is spot-on here. People love Clinton now that he's no longer president and hindsight reveals how silly the scandal all was, but the last two years of his term were filled with more venom than I've seen anyone point towards our current president. The media ate it all up. Additionally, the fashion in which the media latched onto shit like Vince Foster hasn't yet been mirrored for Bush's presidency. I'd say the national guard stuff comes closest.

Screw UTEP. I'm an ACC boy all the way.

I completely agree. It's no use even trying to discuss any other team but OU on here. I tried my best with the OaO thread to contain him but it couldn't work without it being enforced. Damaramu I think needs a some enforced time off from this folder preferbly through the end of the bowl season. Yeah ban me b/c none of you agree with me. That's fair. Yeah I would stay in the OaO thread if people didn't go into these threads and bait me by bashing on OU. Hey guess what guys? They're going to the Orange Bowl and are probably going to win! And Auburn isn't! You don't have to be the defender of OU, and I think you rarely have cause too. Your persecution complex is ridiculous. No one else on here defends their team with anywhere near the combination of venom and mania that you reach on a daily basis. I think calling to ban anyone is lame because this is a freaking message board, but no one would be banning you because they don't agree with you; they'd be doing it because you're irritating as shit.

Seriously. It's gotten to the point where I can't even read these threads anymore.

Coat goes for 2 for 2.

So I can't play mp3s, or CDs. WinAmp, iTunes, and Windows Media Player all fail to open whenever I try, and it usually leads to the system crashing. Am I virused-up? Any tips for how to get this working again? I've been trying to figure out what's wrong all afternoon but information is scarce.

Fantastically entertaining fight, but Artest and Jackson deserve at least the whole year off after that. Arrest the jackass fans, yeah, but Artest and Jackson's actions were absolutely unexcusable. What cock-waving dipshits.

Today was a diverse day. Les Savy Fav's Inches, and N.W.A.'s Efil4zaggin, commonly known as Niggaz4life. This is the remaster with the excellent 100 Miles and Runnin' EP appended to it.

Stupid comments, but "unity" shouldn't meaning giving the administration a free pass. Challenge away, but leave the meaningless videotape out of it.

Actual. Regrettably, it's nothing as simple as Autoplay. I really have no clue as to the rhyme or reason behind all this.

The latter. I've now gotten iTunes to open and plays mp3s, but anytime I prompt it to play a CD, it still goes down. Media Player and Winamp die trying anything.

King wins. No, I mean Suicide King.

By contrast, look how huge Maryland has dropped. Yikes. I was thinking they might have a chance at sneaking into a bowl, but so much for that. From three 10 win seasons to not even getting bowl-eligible. Ouch. Tech has been a huge surprise. The rivalry game with UVA and the season-ender against Miami should be great match-ups.