I’m lookin’ at you Georgia Tech. Yeah that’s right.

I KNOW I should hate Miami more, but I don’t. Every experience I’ve directly had with GT fans (minus the guys at Legacy x4… but I haven’t actually met them remember), has been one of a foul mouthed, drunken moron. What’s that? You say, college football fans in general act like drunken morons? Well yes, that’s true, but they don’t start yapping about their technical degrees and that they’re SMARTER than you during the diatribe.

I miss the days of a yearly battle between FSU / GT. One of the best games I ever attended was the Joe Hamilton / Chris Weinke affair years ago that was the Keith Jackson definition of a “barn burner.” There was no defense in that 41-35 victory over the Yellow Jackets, and the Yellow Jacket fans were exceptionally (and they’d continually tell you how exceptional they were) obnoxious. Toss in the 2000 campaign and a skin-of-the-teeth win by FSU in Atlanta, with the same brilliant students yapping about “almost beating FSU” and telling the quiet “thank-God-the-Noles-survived-that” FSU fans to shut thier f’ing mouths!

GT has a special place in my heart thanks to those experiences, how about you? Do you hate any particular ACC team the most? It doesn’t just have to be football experience either!

Do you put a Jolly Rancher in that Zima too FOV? Maybe you need medical attention from the:

Sometimes, I just absolutely hate sports fans. Specifically, I hate sports bloggers, who are the guys that are passionate enough to actually write about the team they adore. Yes, I even hate myself a little bit at times too for it, but there’s a fine line between passion, and being one of those idiots that argues on Fanarchy on Versus network. (Seriously, I clicked that on the other night and had a good laugh for 5 minutes, then I felt bad for everyone involved.) I pride myself on being balanced around here, and I don’t think there are too many examples of me just flat out attacking other schools for no good reason. As usual though, a rival blogger is going off half cocked about “THE Florida State University.” Hey, buddy, it’s not Ohio State. If anyone at FSU says THE Florida State University, we’re mocking Ohio State’s idiocy. Mmmkay?

A couple of things for FOV to keep in mind:

• Peter Lalich, just a small reminder that every program has problem children.
• Preston Parker. Yep, blew it. Should have gone sooner probably. I don’t hear anybody arguing with you.
• Cursory suspension? Not really, FSU acted in good faith and suspended those involved for a rather long period of time.
• You may go ahead a turn the argument to baseball, that’s fine. We don’t like our baseball situation either, so you’re not rubbing any salt into wounds that aren’t already wide open and painful from prior lost opportunities. Although, overall it’s an astounding 43 wins, 14 losses for FSU over the baseball Cavaliers.
• I wasn’t calling you a dirty Jefferson loving hypocrite… I was calling you a whiner, which is what you’re telling everyone else to stop. Wait, so I guess I am calling you a Jefferson loving hypocrite.

I just have to wonder, why does anyone care so much about a topic that doesn’t involve them? Maybe I don’t understand the motivation behind it. It’s like me following Florida and posting about all of their problems. Some sites do it, some don’t. I’ve always felt that I shouldn’t bother wasting my time researching a team I can’t stand to begin with! Enjoy the offseason FOV, you’re undefeated and unique, just like everyone else in the ACC.

Excuse the non-FSU news, but I felt as though I had to point out a huge death over the weekend. As Chili once told me, “Billy Mays is an American Treasure and anyone that thinks differently WILL SHUT THEIR MOUTHS.” I couldn’t agree more. Billy Mays got me to try Oxy Clean, and he got me to try Might Putty. Thank you Billy Mays for keeping my high school baseball pants white, and my rain gauge for the sprinkler system firmly attached to the gutter!

Rest In Peace Billy!

(Guest post by Jordi Scrubbings of The Serious Tip.)

If you haven’t heard the news yet, former Florida State guard Toney Douglas was recently selected in the NBA Draft by the New York Knicks*.

(* Technically he was drafted by the LA Lakers, but the Knicks immediately bought the rights to the pick.)

I am admittedly biased, as I have been a Knicks fan since the early days of Patrick Ewing. And of course there is my undying admiration for Charlie Ward. Anyway, here is a pic of Douglas and fellow draft pick Jordan Hill with their new jerseys.

Normally, I’m hesitant to see basketball players wear 23, as comparisons to the game’s greats (Michael Jordan and LeBron James) are inevitable, but Douglas’s case it looks good.

As the newest athletes in New York, Douglas and Hill were invited to Citi Field to a New York Mets game.

In case you missed it, I wrote a post a few months ago on why Toney “Ghostface” Douglas should do well on the Knicks.

Best of luck to Toney Douglas.

P.S. For those who keep track of such things, a bit of FSU-related NBA draft trivia from Seminoles.com:

“Douglas’s selection gives Florida State its fifth NBA Draft pick in the last six years. All-ACC guard Tim Pickett was a second round selection of the New Orleans Hornets in 2004, guard Von Wafer was a second round selection of the Los Angeles Lakers in 2005, forward Alexander Johnson was the second round selection of the Indianapolis Pacers in 2006 and All-American forward Al Thornton was the first round pick of the Los Angeles Clippers in 2007.

Florida State is one of only three teams in the ACC with at least five players selected in the last six NBA Drafts. Only North Carolina (with nine selections) and Duke (with seven selections) have more NBA Draft choices since 2004 than Florida State.”

If developing professionals is the goal of a college program, I’d say Leonard Hamilton and his staff are doing a pretty good job.

We all know that guy. You know what I’m talking about. That guy, who is trying desperately to make up for his own insecurities. He wears a tie to “suit up” at casual affairs and outdress the “competition.” He constantly cracks jokes around women for the attention. He always “selling” himself. He talks about the popular kids behind their back, slowly cutting them down in the eyes of others because he’s jealous.  The guy that’s at the gym pissed off that he has chicken leg calf muscles. We’ve all met a guy like that.

Welcome to the latest post at From Old Virginia, which has something to do about biting a lip and sitting down. Talk about joining the game a bit late when it comes to taking potshots at the FSU Academic Scandal and the FSU Football team.

Boys, boys, boys your I’m-A-Virginia-Cavalier-And-We’re-Better-Than-You-Really inferiority complex is leaking through into your blog. Yes, I know it’s tough having Al Groh as your coach, which gives you a glimmer of ACC hope each season (by hope I mean being perennial Meineke Car Care Bowl contenders), but lets face it, you’re the Virginia Cavaliers. Remember, you couldn’t qualify for a bowl game in a year that included 10 of 12 ACC teams at bowl games. It’s you and Duke, Cavs, and Duke is getting better quickly. Fifty years from now the fan base will still be living through the fact that they handed FSU their first ACC loss. Forget about the fact that the overall record is so lopsided (13 wins, 2 losses for the Noles). Forget about the fact that FSU joining the ACC led to the ACC schools’ spending of cash on it’s sad little football conference. No, just forget about all of that and thump your chest about the Noles long after the point of relevancy. By the way how’s Peter Lalich doing? He was one of those upstanding young Cavaliers, right?

Back to the FSU Acadmic problems. I’m on the record, numerous times, about how FSU should really just give up this appeal process. The garnet colored glasses version of the appeal is that FSU is fighting for Track Championships. I think FSU fans really know that’s about one man, Bobby Bowden. Whether that’s right or wrong is up to the individual fan, but the wasting of Booster money on attorneys cemented my position long ago. It’s not your point that I think is bad, it’s how and when you’re trying to make it FOV. It comes across as the nerd in glass kicking the bully after the other kids beat him up first.

The final thought of the article sums up the blinding insecurity going on at FOV:

Is it any wonder why the rest of the ACC hopes the next winless season the Seminoles churn out is fully earned on the field, and not the last?

Virginia fans and the rest should remember one thing; they don’t schedule Virginia on Labor Day for a national audience, because NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU.

I’ve been looking around the ‘Net lately, and when it comes to UF and their own criminal problems, it seems that the argument is, “Well the problems are all Zook’s kids, so don’t blame Meyer.” That’s what some Gator fans are saying. Seminole fans are quit to jump on Gator fans saying that Meyer is also to blame, that Gator’s should be laying their problems on Zook.

Then, many Seminole fans out there are saying that Jimbo isn’t to blame for FSU’s problems because the 2007 class is the problem, and they were “Jeff Bowden’s kids.”

Hypocritical, no?

I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of all the crap going on with the FSU Football program. Thankfully, Myron Rolle swooped in to save the day with yet another feel good story. Myron, if you remember, is a classy Rhodes Scholar that played saftey for the Noles for the last three seasons. Now Myron Rolle is helping foster children, with a not-so-typical leadership camp. Way to go Myron!

Gee, what a surprise. Yet another Seminole in trouble with the law. This time it’s Maurice Harris, a sophomore linebacker.

More at the Tallahassee Democrat and Orlando Sentinel.

Is anyone else tired of this yet?

***EDIT I forgot a good link over at Tomahawk Nation on the story***

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