Want to dominate your office pool but don’t know a thing about college basketball?
This would be a great time to create water-cooler talk with the boss, wouldn’t it?
Well here at EJSIC, we’re here to provide exactly what the people want: below, you’ll find the key to winning your office pool, with the EJSIC 2010 NCAA Tournament flowchart.
Brian Kelly's players decide to bathe him in acid for his trouble.
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Sure, he can fish. Just don't ask him to do anything else.
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Well, I don’t know about the rest of you, but I learned a lot over the Thanksgiving weekend. Here are just a few of the things I learned:
So, here we are at week 14 and I’m kind of sad. This will be my last regular season college football game prediction post for 2009. But fear not, I will be predicting the outcomes of as many bowl games as I can and then I’ll be ready to take on the college basketball season (which I might start doing before bowl season). Also, if I can keep away from Big 10 fans that make cement shoes, I’ll be back next season.
Coach Jim Leavitt's South Florida team is playing in Al's game of the season.
This is one of the most exciting final regular season weeks I can remember. We have several conference championship games and the one game that everyone feels is the real national championship game: South Florida vs. Connecticut. Okay, just kidding. Anyway, you know the rules. Winners are in bold and the rankings are based on the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll—mainly because that’s the easiest way for me to do this. I would like to apologize to the EJSIC for not using their polls, but using mass media polls allows me to be snarkier (and whinier).
Thursday’s game
No. 16 Oregon State at No. 7 Oregon. I really think that Thursday is the new Saturday for football. There have been some superb matchups this season and another exciting one’s on tap for tonight. Interestingly, I never thought, in all my years as a sports fan, that I’d ever write that I was excited about Oregon State versus Oregon. In fact, if you had interviewed me at the beginning of this season and told me that I’d be looking forward to a PAC 10 game that didn’t involve the possibility of USC’s being upset, I would have laughed you out of my office. But here it is—the Beavers and the Ducks battling it out for a chance to annihilate play Ohio State in the Rose Bowl and I can’t wait. The Ducks are playing at home, so I think they’ll win this one, but it might not be pretty and it certainly won’t be a blowout. Continue reading
Nothing cries for pleated pants like a FUPA.
According to multiple outlets, Notre Dame has told his assistants that Charlie Weis will not coach the Irish next season. That means two things.
1.) Any team with a successful coach NOT making $3 Million per year should now be nervous about their future.
2.) Mark Mangino has lost his only real competition for most disgusting physique in College Football. The title is all yours, Mark… until you get fired too.
So… Who do you see getting the Notre Dame job next? Butch Davis? Brian Kelly? Chris Peterson? Billy Gillispie? Who you got?
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The lame ACC team that beat Virginia Tech
Feeling emboldened by my prediction that Virginia Tech would lose to some lame ACC team (this time the lame team was my beloved Heels), I’ve decided that I’d like to take a stab at predicting this weekend’s NCAA Top 25 football games. Because I’ve decided that the AP sportswriters are all sitting around a bong somewhere (Kentucky ranked above UNC in the pre-season men’s basketball polls–seriously, Messrs. Sportswriters?), I’m going to use the USA Today/ESPN Top 25 for Week 9. I’m then going to apply a complex set of statistics and algorithms to each game to determine who each winner will be.
<dramatic pause>
Yeah, right. I’m going to do what the sportscasters do and use bias and gut feelings to make my predictions. However, unlike them, I don’t have to worry about my Nielson ratings or kowtowing to rabid fanbases with big bucks. I also decided not to predict scores because I’ve never been good at that. So, with no further ado, I’m going to get right to it. I’ve bolded the name of the team I expect to win.
Friday’s game
No. 21 West Virginia at South Florida. This has the potential to be an exciting game. West Virginia has yet to play a ranked team, so it’s difficult to tell how good they are based on victories against such stellar opponents as Liberty and Marshall. South Florida has lost decisively to ranked opponents Cincinnati and Pittsburgh, although they did beat Florida State. Continue reading
As Flop pointed out in an earlier post forewarning you of our upcoming college basketball previews; we, here at EJSIC, love college basketball. The “homer” previews are all well and good, but I know what you really care about. Who will become ESPN and Dick Vitale’s favorite white guy this season? Who will win the appropriately named ESPN Nut-Hugger Award?
J.J. Redick held the distinguishable honor in his All-American career at Duke University. After J.J. moved on, his mettle was doned by another member of Tobacco Road: Tyler Hansbrough. Hansbrough became the poster boy of college basketball with his hustle and earned national player of the year honors. Now, they’re both gone from the campus hardwood and we need a new white boy to cheer on because America loves whitey like no other. We must keep in mind the central characteristic of this award: aside from the melanin requirement, the recipient must also be expected by fans to have little to no success at the next level. Whether or not they do succeed in the NBA is basically irrelevant.
This year’s nominees include:
1. Jon Scheyer (Duke): Scheyer is a lot like Redick in size and shooting ability. He was named the 2009 ACC Tournament MVP after leading the Blue Devils with 29 points in the championship. He already has the admiration of Dickie V which makes him a top contender for the leading white guy in America. Plus, he’s a team leader and someone Duke will be relying on heavily this season. Continue reading
