T. Boone’s line on UGA-OSU: Cowboys by 363 points
I’ve picked Georgia to lose to Oklahoma State by 10 points. T. Boone Pickens, who has more money than Arthur Blank and I put together, likes Georgia to lose by 363 points.
When I read T. Boone’s “predicted” score of 387-24 in a post by Terrance Harris on Fanhouse — thanks to observant reader Dink for the tip — my first thought was that the oil wildcatter has obviously been scouting Willie Martinez. But after reading Dave Sittler’s original column in the Tulsa World, I’m not sure this was an actual prediction. Sittler used the word “requested,” which is a bit different.
Example: I would like to request that Mr. Pickens give me 165 million bucks, but I’m not predicting he will.
T. Boone is 81. (He and the fourth Mrs. Pickens traveled to Athens in 2007 when OSU lost to the Bulldogs. Both Boone — his pals drop the “T” — and Madeleine spent some time in the press box. They seemed nice.) Three years ago the oilman gave the OSU athletics department $165 million. The refurbished edifice Georgia will enter on Sept. 5 is, you’ll be shocked to discover, named Boone Pickens Stadium.
TBP is already on record as believing his Cowboys will enter their regular season finale against Oklahoma unbeaten. Sittler quotes Pickens thusly: “I know I stuck my neck out in that Tulsa World column when I said we’re going to be 11-0. And I still believe that’s what we’re going to be, but it’s going to be tough getting there. We have to beat Georgia first if we’re going to be 11-0, so I think we’re going to win that game.
You’ll also be shocked to know I have some experience being on the wrong end of a projected blowout. I picked the Rams to beat the Patriots 42-3 in Super Bowl XXXVI, and the Patriots not only beat my 39-point spread but won the doggone game. So now I’m thinking T. Boone might have jinxed his ‘Boys. And, since I’ve also picked OSU, jinxed me.
Great, I say. Just great. Give a guy $3 billion and he thinks he owns the world.
(Oh, and here’s another column on T. Boone, this by Jenni Carlson of the Oklahoman. If her name rings a bell, there’s a reason. Her column provoked the infamous Mike Gundy rant, for which we should all be eternally grateful.)
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August 21st, 2009
9:49 am
(ONE HUNDRED AND) FIRST!
PT
August 21st, 2009
9:50 am
Ding ding, we have a winner. Bruffdawg you are the poster of the day. Nail on Head. Look at LSU vs Tech. D Ends baby
38-3
August 21st, 2009
9:50 am
I see that the insecure RAMBLE ON!!! is posting on a UGA related BLOG once again. What else is new! Hey I know…still waiting on those chick-fil-a bowl rings!
RAMBLE ON!!! UGA owns your SIMPLE MIND.
GeezusDawg
August 21st, 2009
9:51 am
JaxDawg: ““they still won’t be able to stop the triple wing T wishbone h-back option” or whatever GT’s running these days.” NICE
I guess the general assumption by most here is that UGA won’t be able to find their a$ses with both hands and a mirror, but OSU will be hitting on all cylinders. This will be the 1st game of the season for both teams. I expect a sloppy game with a lot of substitutions (as Stillwater will probably be 110 degrees). Dogs are slightly deeper and will win an ugly one based on depth.
FYI, OSU has one of the best O-Lines in the country … just saying.
Go Gators
August 21st, 2009
9:51 am
The U.S. News & World Report college ratings are out today, and Georgia schools retained their rankings from last year for the most part.
I think the rankings influence where students go to college. (I also think many students are influenced by the “Colleges that Change Lives” franchise.)
Many people dismiss college status as a factor, but there’s evidence that where you go to school impacts how much you earn.
PayScale Inc., which compiles compensation data, says the median starting salary for Ivy League graduates is about 30 percent higher than that of liberal-arts college graduates. However, the study doesn’t address whether that pay differential is the result of a better education, or simply because the Ivies attract higher-achieving students in the first place. (I would also ask whether the Ivies attract better connected kids; it’s easier to end up at Goldman Sachs if your mother worked there.)
In its 2009 report, PayScale says the median starting salary for a University of Georgia graduate was $43,900, compared to $60,00 for a Harvard grad, $58,900 for a Georgia Tech grad, and $50,600 for an Emory grad.
I am sorry to report that PayScale also lists degrees that pay you back and teaching and journalism offer some of the lowest returns. The big money is in the STEM fields; science, technology, engineering and math.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
9:54 am
And this has what to do with UGA’s 1st football game?
BruffDawg
August 21st, 2009
9:55 am
Thanks PT. Pressure from the ends destroys the triple option, and hurries the spread option. Let’s hope washington, robinson, houston, or others really start to get into the backfield this year. GO DAWGS!!!
dap01
August 21st, 2009
9:56 am
T Boone knows oil, he don’t know football. Just because you control stuff don’t mean you know about football. Kinda like the government running healthcare. Efficient like the post office.
Charles
August 21st, 2009
9:59 am
Mark Bradley, a fine writer…a very poor prognosticator.
This reminds me of UGA versus Tenn. in the 90s. We would have some nice, shiny skills players and new hope every year heading into the play the Vols…occasionally, we’d even fool the media into thinking we could win.
Of course, then Tenn. would come to town with bigger, faster, better athletes and methodically beat us down. Georgia is going to go into Stillwater and methodically handle OSU. 10-17 point win.
And it won’t be a big deal to anyone afterwards.
Topp Dogg
August 21st, 2009
10:10 am
Fuzzy nuts and Rumble Seat you are both a joke,just like GT football.When will you come out of the closet and star in a sitcom?
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
10:10 am
38-3 “I see that the insecure RAMBLE ON!!! is posting on a UGA related BLOG once again.”
…and what does 38-3 have to do with a UGAg blog?
please explain.
jeffrey d
August 21st, 2009
10:15 am
At least we get 24…..looks like Joe will have a modestly successful game. Defense could use some work, though.
athensdawg
August 21st, 2009
10:21 am
Don’t know about ya’ll, but I am having some SERIOUS UGA v. Hawaii Deja Vu on this game….
Hawaii’s offense was unstoppable. Their Quarterback was unstoppable, their recievers were unstoppable….I think the all knowing Gameday guys even predicted that Hawaii was going to win.
Here’s the problem. If we win….. The media is going to go ape s****, and rocket us up in the polls.
Which is why we were ranked #1…..we beat their “darling” in Hawaii, so obviously that means that we HAVE to be #1….because the folks in the media are never wrong.
How do we handle that – especially with the Evil one coming to town the next week? Could be trouble….i see an alabama beat down…….
If we lose….well…..batten down the hatches, and get ready to spend the holidays in sunny shreveport.
DawginLex
August 21st, 2009
10:25 am
a-dawg,
I’m not worried about the after affect of a win. This team NEEDS to win this game in a bad way. Cox gets confidence. His teammates get confidence in him.
Spurrier is going down regardless.
UGA 36
OSU 35
UGA 21
SC 10
DamnGoodDawg
August 21st, 2009
10:28 am
Hey Techies. Be sure of one thing…no matter what happens to the Dawgs’ season before November 28, Georgia is gonna whip Tech’s ass. Nuff said!
MB Fan
August 21st, 2009
10:28 am
Oh yes – Jack Schitt – assuming that is NOT your real name – I guess you must be one of those english snob know-it-alls. I assume that you never made any grammactical errors – what a Jack off. Know just go back to your english class and grade those papers with your little red pen.
Jay
August 21st, 2009
10:30 am
Wow Mark. That’s a cheap shot to take at Willie Martinez.
jeffrey d
August 21st, 2009
10:32 am
MB Fan – When defending your grammar, it might help to know the difference between “know” and “no.”
PTC DAWG
August 21st, 2009
10:35 am
Hey Mark, I’ll take UGA and the 10…name your price….
SimpleDawg
August 21st, 2009
10:36 am
Hey Jack,
You don’t know Schitt about English grammar. MB used the proper pronoun in stating, “Arthur Blank and I”….break the sentence into 2 separate sentences. Arthur has…I have. You wouldn’t say, “Me have”, unless you’re just ignorant.
Don’t feel badly, T. Boone probably doesn’t know the rule either, and it certainly hasn’t restricted his ability to function in society. He doesn’t appear to know diddley about football either.
Puppy Fans
August 21st, 2009
10:41 am
The Dawgs will not “shock the world” if they win. Okie State is only ranked a few spots higher. I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of “experts” pick them to win based on the fact Okie State has no track record, got spanked last time, and UGA’s great road start record. Puppy fans quit acting so offended.
Joe
August 21st, 2009
10:49 am
This is the crap that we have to read in the AJC. Geez…no wonder the paper is so unpopular- this is what AJC thinks people like to read and hires sportswriters (term used loosly) that have the talent to accomodate us with this crap!
Herschel Talker
August 21st, 2009
10:53 am
RAMBLE ON:
“Bob, maybe I a student of history as well and realize that every year GT has beaten UGAg, they did it the next year too. For the last 30-40 years or so.”
Using that logic, you’d would never lose because you said every year GT has won, they won the next year. So how does that work again, you idiot.
AND YOU LIKE MEN!
BugKiller
August 21st, 2009
10:56 am
So Mark, what the big question everyone is missing here is, is being a man and being 40 linked?
Is this a causal relationship?
Can you be a man and not be 40?
Can you be 40 and not be a man?
I know people give Mike Gundy crap, but the man makes a very Zen statement.
Hahahahahaha.
Benjamin
August 21st, 2009
10:58 am
“He’s obviously been scouting Willie Martinez.”
Sir, I do believe that qualifies as a ZING!
OZZFEST
August 21st, 2009
11:00 am
Again, wake up DOG fans….Oklahoma State has ZERO chance of winning this game. Get for real. Geno, Jeff & Kade will be unlike anything they have faced.
Dawghater
August 21st, 2009
11:01 am
Asking T Boone Pickents to pick football games is like asking Willie Martinez to run a college defensive. Both are out of their line of expertise!
mn possum
August 21st, 2009
11:01 am
Since Mark beat the crowd to “First”, I’ll write something equally obnoxious… “It’s in the hole!”
MegaT
August 21st, 2009
11:06 am
His prediction is wrong. I don’t think Georgia can score 24 points.
Paddy
August 21st, 2009
11:06 am
Oily feathered friend…. Yes, I also think oil spills are funny. Either way, by accident or intentional, they are hilarious. Thought I was the only one.
Whopper Dawg
August 21st, 2009
11:10 am
Mark, nice job on being first. Now, if you could just add “45 – 42″, you will be there!!!!!!
TROTTINGHOMETUDD
August 21st, 2009
11:11 am
only an out of Law school grad could come up with these numbers.
Got any photos of Boone in compromising situation?
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
11:13 am
Keep drinking the KOOLAID dogs. LOL. hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
0-3 start and I guarantee it! Can’t wait to see you azzhole fans on here pointing fingers at every coach and half the players.
Can’t wait to deliver a few bitch slaps and one giant BEATDOWN in November!
Maybe Adams can create a Watkinsville Bowl or something for you to play in December. LOL. hahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
LOSErs (45-42-in your face).
RAMBLE ON!!!
August 21st, 2009
11:15 am
No Herschel Talker. You are an idiot, and you LIKE MEN WHO LIKE MEN!
OZZFEST
August 21st, 2009
11:16 am
Yellow Fuzz….you need to smoke a fat one and chill out. You are a little too angry for what is ONLY AN ONLINE MESSAGE BOARD. You make it personal…I feel sorry for your spouse.
Dawg Pound
August 21st, 2009
11:18 am
The bulldog nation will rise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
11:19 am
Did Boone say 363 “points” or just “yards rushing” like we (and 8 other teams) did against your preseason number one azz last year?
ahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Herschel Talker
August 21st, 2009
11:19 am
Yes, RAMBLE ON, I also change topics when I know I’m wrong.
smashmouth
August 21st, 2009
11:21 am
UGA’s speed on defense is going surprise them. I think Marcus Wahington will be the “IT” factor at DE in this first game especially. He is fast and maybe considered sort of a hybrid at that pos. ZacRob is a fine QB – but IMHO I think that our D-line is going to put a lot of stress on their running game… hopefully making them one dimensional… thus making them more predictable and more sackable. GA is going to disrupt their offense… and we are going to run the ball religiously… and annoy the crap out of them by converting third and short over and over and over and over again. I say it will be a close game until the 4th quarter when we go up by two TD’s – if we make good on the turnover opputunities that WILL present themselves early and often. Call it… GA 38 OkSt 24
TROTTINGHOMETUDD
August 21st, 2009
11:22 am
The U.S. News & World Report college ratings are out today….
That publication was scolded by Stanford University Chancellor as being a poor view of what actually a university does to ensure high standards of integrity and academic success.
Besides the magazine is not going to criticize the very institutes their editors and writters came from.
Ranking are over rated unless your running the BCS….enough said.
BruffDawg
August 21st, 2009
11:25 am
Just words, words, words, till toe meets leather. LET’S play some FOOTBALL!!!!
BugKiller
August 21st, 2009
11:25 am
yellow fuzz, since you’re a tech fan, I have a few math problems for you:
If a university were to offer 1 (ONE) free Coke and 2 (TWO) free hot dogs with every ticket purchased, how many Cokes and hot dogs will go unclaimed out when the university STILL can’t sell out their 55,000 seat Pop Warner stadium and sells only 40,000 tickets?
(55,000(1+2)) – (40,000(1+2)) = 45,000.
45,000 Cokes and hot dogs will go unclaimed by terrible Tech fans who can’t be bothered to come see their pathetic team play.
If a team wins 1 (ONE) game against another team in 8 (EIGHT) years, how many times did the other team win?
8 – 1 = 7.
The other team won 7 (SEVEN) times in 8 (EIGHT) years.
Follow up question: Which number is more, 7 (SEVEN) or 1 (ONE)?
Well, everywhere else but Bugtown, 7 (SEVEN) is always more than 1 (ONE). But in Bugtown, the immutable laws of mathematics must not be the same.
gratefuldawghead
August 21st, 2009
11:25 am
Digger Barnes should stick to the oil Business!
Hunker Down DAWGS!
Doggie dog
August 21st, 2009
11:28 am
Did Florida just call another timeout?
LONG DAWG
August 21st, 2009
11:28 am
Yellow fuzz you are a punk… Georgia had 124 yards rushing and 427 yards passing on Teck. That’s 551 yards of offense on a defense with three guys who went to the pros. They are gone. You got luck and you know. Two turnovers saved the day for teck. We can’t wait to get a hold of your punk ass this year.
dap01
August 21st, 2009
11:28 am
Ramble On: We appreciate your intelligent contributions to a blog dedicated to UGA. You must be a product of that fine institution. With that intellect, perhaps you should focus on improving GA Tech’s program. Try focusing on:
1. How you an continue to play on Thursday nights (you might even get on TV if Boise State is not playing).
2. How you might actually fill up the Division II stadium. Perhaps this year you can ACTUALLY average 38,000 each week (promotions, free give aways, free food).
3. How to look good in yellow.
4. How to keep the drive through clear while still stalking the UGA blog.
5. How to create a Tech blog that is of interest to anyone.
6. How to pretend that you are a major college team.
7. How to get a free pocket protector while your mother goes to college.
TUCK FECK
August 21st, 2009
11:28 am
BugKiller how about when you spend all your money on Gold Rings for the ONE Georgia win and now you can’t afford to fly to FSU and Vandy?
yellow fuzz
August 21st, 2009
11:28 am
BugKiller,
I’ve got a HISTORY question for you. Who won last year?
Georgia News – 8/21/09 | MrSEC.com
August 21st, 2009
11:33 am
[...] plan to furlough Georgia’s coaches for a couple of days in October and November.Apparently some Georgia folks are upset over something Oklahoma State booster T. Boone Pickens said about his Cowboys’ game with the [...]
How2fish
August 21st, 2009
11:34 am
Yellow Fuzz…hell is coming and he’s wearing Red and Black..and when was the last time Tech played in a better bowl than Georgia…and won??