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Quotes of the day

March 7th, 2008 by HenryJames

“I’m not saying it didn’t. You did.” - Duane Akina when asked why his defense didn’t work out last year.

When asked if he was happy with his defense, he replied “Yeah, I was.”

  1. Dr. Rosenpenis
    March 7, 2008 at 7:04 am

    Sounds like some Fletch double-talk to me…

  2. Bartoncreek
    March 7, 2008 at 8:18 am

    It depends on what your definition of didn’t work out is. It worked out great for our opponents for instance.

  3. Nordberg
    March 7, 2008 at 8:27 am

    I think I’m going to be sick.

  4. Capt. Insano
    March 7, 2008 at 8:28 am

    If he says it enough times, he’ll start to believe it.

  5. TxTower
    March 7, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Look on the bright side, at least he removed all doubt about his demotion.

  6. Nordberg
    March 7, 2008 at 8:50 am

    More infuriating Akina comment… this one, or last year’s “These guys (the starting “linebackers”) have parents in the stands that want to see them play too”?

  7. Viper
    March 7, 2008 at 8:57 am

    I just shut the door to my office let out an F bomb.

  8. General Custer
    March 7, 2008 at 9:02 am

    Did the Sioux kick our ass? You said it not I. We were making a valiant last stand and we would have won if there weren’t so many of them. I held my best soldiers for the last.

  9. Capt. Insano
    March 7, 2008 at 9:57 am

    THOSE GUYS BLEED BLOOD!!!!

  10. Crown & Coke
    March 7, 2008 at 10:11 am

    Isiah Thomas must be his mentor

  11. BrickHorn
    March 7, 2008 at 11:54 am

    His defense worked out last year. Unfortunately, they worked out in a Jazzercise class at Curves.

  12. SeeingRed
    March 7, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    Sorry, man, as a bloodied fan survivor of the Cosgrove debacle, all I have to say is you guys remind me of some Boy Scout bitching about a paper cut on the side of the road while some poor bastard has an involuntary colonscopy performed on him in the weeds by some drunken railcar bums.

    Yeah, things weren’t great but they could been worse.

    Much worse.

  13. coach Callahan
    March 7, 2008 at 2:20 pm

    “We did an excellent job in all phases” and you feel sick?

  14. Huckleberry
    March 7, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    Calm down, SeeingRed. You guys held Jamaal Charles to only, what, 74 yards in the first three quarters? That’s pretty good.

  15. Capt. Insano
    March 7, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    SeeingRed- I’m willing to bet that you are the guy who gets up in the middle of an orgy and says “We should be wearing condoms.”

  16. Ron Mexico
    March 7, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    SeeingRed- I’m willing to bet that you are the guy who gets up in the middle of an orgy and says “We should be wearing condoms.”

    I wish someone had piped up with that suggestion when I was in college.

  17. og 2008
    March 8, 2008 at 7:31 pm

    Couldn’t Akina have yelled out his answers at the top of his lungs for dramatic effect? He might have been more convincing …

  18. Bl33d
    March 8, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    Let’s not dwell on Akina and his molest-tache, but instead let’s look forward to Muschamp (from statesman) :

    To fix the problems, Muschamp and his staff have instituted more hitting, for a more physical defense. A hard hat is awarded after each practice for bone-rattling tackles like the one Beasley put on Brandon Collins at the end of a rugged, two-hour scrimmage inside Royal-Memorial Stadium on Wednesday.

    “Anytime somebody makes a big-time hit, a crushing blow, they get the hard hat,” Palmer said. “The secondary’s laying out some hard hits. We’re doing a lot more hitting and trying to be a more complete defense.”

  19. SeeingRed
    March 10, 2008 at 5:12 am

    No, this season we were the guys in the middle of the orgy who were being held down & screaming, “Hey, can you guys at least wear condoms??!!!”

  20. huge
    March 10, 2008 at 9:53 am

    regarding muschamp, we were saying the same things about chizik when he got here weren’t we?

    just sayin…

  21. Doperbo
    March 10, 2008 at 11:17 am

    huge is a ginormous dildo for pointing that out. And I hate him.

    Muschamp is an SEC Badass. BOOM MOTHERFUCKER! Yeah. You saw the tape.

    Chizik was a French rim job specialist sell-out, available to the highest bidder and the play-action communists.

    It’s way different this time.

  22. Groundhog Day
    March 10, 2008 at 11:24 am

    The D under Chizik’s 1st year in 2005 won the Ohio State game….Rewatch the first half. It could have been ugly. The common denominator between Chizik’s last year and Akina’s first year was a safety who ran a 4.76. The three other secondary players while badasses could not cover up a huge liability like that.

  23. Scipio Tex
    March 10, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    “The common denominator between Chizik’s last year and Akina’s first year was a safety who ran a 4.76. The three other secondary players while badasses could not cover up a huge liability like that.”

    Horseshit.

    Ohio State ran a vanilla offense and they’d not committed to Troy Smith yet. You should consult the rubber match to see what happened schematically when they opened it up…

    Chizik’s schemes were slavishly emulative and function best against traditional pro offenses or the retarded offenses he was fotunate to face in the SEC West during his tenure. If you introduce the spread or option - anything non-traditional - he’s incapable of making the requisite adjustments (like a Monte Kiffin would) because he’s an imitator, not a creator. His grounding in football is incredibly narrow. Unless you think covering a slot WR with Killebrew is a good idea.

    If you can’t run an effective schematic pass defense unless you have four NFL starters in your secondary, then you’re a horseshit coach. Period. Oh poor me, I only have three NFL guys - I’ll go ahead and finish 107th in the NCAA in pass defense.

    Second, if it takes you three quarters to adjust to a simple unbalanced line, or you have no idea how to play the option, it’s fairly clear just how narrow Chizik’s coaching competencies were.

    Muschamp may be handicapped by similar Mack senior player selection bullshit, but he has a much broader exposure to football and a much more adaptable mentality to how defense should be played.

    That said, it certainly doesn’t guarantee his success.

  24. BrickHorn
    March 10, 2008 at 3:49 pm

    What “rubber match?”

  25. Sailor Ripley
    March 10, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    You know it as the Anthony Gonzalez Pass Catching Seminar.

  26. og 2008
    March 10, 2008 at 5:35 pm

    I rather recall Limas Sweed’s fumble at the 2 yard line where we would have scored easily on the following play. Would have been a different ballgame. Sometimes its better to gather the ball in & go down to ‘lock in’ our gain.

  27. Sailor Ripley
    March 10, 2008 at 6:04 pm

    That was Billy Pitman, I think, and the notion that had we scored there it would have all been a different game is specious at best.

  28. Scipio Tex
    March 10, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Brickhorn is right. A rubber match is the 3rd match. I meant rematch.

    It was Billy Pittman that fumbled.

    Ohio State essentially ran clock from the middle of the 3rd quarter on. They would have scored 38 on us if Jim hadn’t called off the dogs.

  29. Crown & Coke
    March 11, 2008 at 7:31 am

    Scipio is dead on regarding the game in Columbus. tOSU’s woeful redzone offense was much more a result of their own ineptitude (see Hamby, Ryan) than Chizik’s supposed brilliance. By and large, Justin Zwick was completely out of his element under durress against a capable front 7 and struggled to execute basic offensive strategy (see Kelson’s caused fumble when 3 first downs would’ve led to a game-ending FG for the Buckeyes.)

    To call the Ohio State offense “vanilla” would be a complement. Ironically, it was one of their few attempts to throw downfield (Smith to Holmes) that resulted in their only TD of the game.

  30. Capt. Insano
    March 11, 2008 at 11:26 am

    Ohio State- How I remember it, Limas caught a TD pass and we won the game.

    Regarding the orgies, can we just all agree that asking for rubbers in the middle of an orgy, is a buzzkill?

  31. D. Franchione
    March 11, 2008 at 12:53 pm

    Frankly, I didn’t see a problem with Akina’s defense myself. Not sure what the big hub-bub is?!?!

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