I Pinch.
University of Idaho football fans now officially have nothing to watch at Vandals games. The cheerleaders ordered new uniforms after receiving complaints that the old ones were too revealing. They may not sell another ticket the rest of the season.
Update… They actually had a couple of pictures on the FNC this morning and they covered more than most pro football cheerleaders’ outfits.
I think there should be a boycott of the advertisers who support the selection shows for the BCS and mens basketball tournament. Wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to listen to three commentators pretend to discuss whether or not Hawaii would be playing in the championship game; none of them actually believed that was going to happen. I know that they want to sell comercial time, but I don’t want spend a half-hour listening to mind-numbing chit chat.
The list of those sponsors I can remember is below.
Pontiac
Allstate
AT&T
DirecTV
Taco Bell
Sharp
Ford
Nissan
In the interest of full disclosure, although I support the idea of the boycott for which I just called, I am contractually obligated to send money to two of the companies on this list for several months in the near future. Maybe I’ll write them a letter.
I think that Illinois (and OSU) probably came out of that whole thing in a pretty well; good things come to those who don’t play for the last two weeks I guess. I just hope that USC doesn’t embarass them like they did Michigan last year.
Rivals.com declared the Ducks to be the number 1 college team in the nation Monday; from the games I’ve seen I wouldn’t argue too much with that. I might make an argument that it is difficult for me to believe that a school without an engineering program is a real university (it’s the only one in the PAC10), but that’s a whole different discussion; the football team is good.
In any case, I looked up my alma maters, the Universities of Idaho and Illinois, and they were separated by some 99 positions. That’s great for the Illini; the Vandals, however, beat out only Utah State and Florida International, both of which have one fewer win than than Idaho at 0. The Vandals have had a terrible time winning games, but the same could be said about the Illini for the past few years. I’m still holding out hope for Idaho, but I’ve been waiting for that turn-around for several years now, and I guessing that it won’t begin at Boise State this weekend.
So the Big Ten is getting its own network — Great. I checked Time Warner’s website yesterday to see if I even have a snowball’s chance of getting them to throw that into my basic cable package, but it doesn’t look good. The message on their site said:
“We think that the best place for this network is on a sports tier, so people who want this premium sports programming can choose to pay for it. This way, it would not add to the cost of your Standard Service.”
No, it’ll get stuck in a sports package with 12 other channels that I don’t want to watch but will have to still pay for. Additionally, this will undoubtedly require me to also purchase the standard digital cable package with another 20 ridiculous channels for another $12-$15.
And as long as we’re talking about paying for channels on basic cable you don’t want to watch, I get FSN Ohio now. The only teams in Ohio that are worth watching are Ohio State, the Bengals, the Browns, and the Cavs (and those last three are a real stretch) and none of their regular season games are shown on FSN Ohio anyway. You can watch the Reds lose all summer though.
I guess I’ll have to wait and see how it all shakes out, but it looks like I’m going to have to keep choking down all this SEC crap that they keep putting on the TV here.
Apparently the Illini haven’t lost enough football games this season. In a story titled ”Top 10: Most affordable college football towns”, CNN Money actually took away Illinois’ lone DI-A win.
Even though Gillespie [the creator of a price comparison index among college football towns] makes a great case for college towns, he doesn’t live in one himself. That may have something to do with the fact that he roots for his alma mater, the University of Illinois.
The Fighting Illini are 2-7 on the year and have lost to such powerhouses (not!) as Syracuse (3-5) and Michigan State (4-5). They don’t figure to improve on that record this week when they welcome the Buckeyes to Champaign, Illinois.
I promptly sent an e-mail to correct the error.
It was a good weekend for football at schools I have attended. Coming into this weekend, the Universities of Idaho and Illinois had combined for a record of 2-6 with neither yet defeating a DI-A team. However, one week after blowing what was as much as a 17-point advantage against the Irish, Michigan State tossed the Illini a bone. It was a potential momentum changing game for Illinois who will face Indiana, the one Big Ten team that may not actually be favored to beat them this year, and struggling Bobcats of Ohio the next two weeks. It is possible that the Illini could play themselves to winning record by the second weekend in October. Quite a feat for a team that had only managed one conference win (against Indiana) in the last three seasons.
Also, and I know that you didn’t see the highlights from this one, in hills of northern Utah some 8600 fans – and they would have to be hard-core fans to watch this one – showed up to see who would come out on the bottom of the heap when Idaho and Utah State took the field. The Vandals beat the Aggies 41 to 21 giving Idaho its first DI-A win and dropping USU to a sorry 0-5. Despite the decisive victory, Idaho is not likely to challenge Boise State for top spot in the WAC
