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"Penn ... State. (More derisively) Penn ... State."

From our good friend in the SEC, the mild mannered linebacker of the Florida Gators Brandon Spikes,

"We lost a game in the SEC. Who did USC lose to? [Reporter: Oregon State.] Exactly. Of course he's going to say that, he's the head guy, he's riding high, but he just beat Penn State. (Derisively) Penn ... State. (More derisively) Penn ... State."


May I have more, sir?

Star-divide

I'm just taking this all in now.  There's nothing else to do about it.  It's humble pie.  It'll make me a stronger fan.  Why fight it?  Someone on this blog keeps referring to "cognitive dissonance" .  I forgot who, but he/she kept getting the definition wrong.  Well, this here is cognitive dissonance.  What was believed to be true turns out to be fraudulent.

The first step is acceptance.

Thank you Brandon Spikes.  May I have another, sir?

If a video clip is available of this interview, JoePa should have it playing on HD in the locker room 24/7 for all of 2009. 

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nobody ever said...

they breed ’em smart in the south, and this is another fine example.

For the glory

by lionalum05 on Jan 6, 2009 7:19 PM EST reply actions  

Like my coach in college used to say...

“Fuck him! Fuck him!” (He wasn’t a big speech guy).

But, whatever. Basically he thinks everything outside of the SEC sucks. Notice he didn’t say anything about Utah beating Alabama.

by speedomike on Jan 6, 2009 7:50 PM EST reply actions  

Convenient huh?

And the team we lost to, Iowa beat the other USC who is in the SEC. I know most of us never even pretended to think the big ten was the best conference, but as I said before, you can only bitch if you haven’t lost, we lost so I stopped complaining. UF is in the title game and this albeit talented goon can’t shut his mouth. I’m glad our players keep their mouths mostly shut. Rabble Rabble

by Roland86 on Jan 6, 2009 8:59 PM EST up reply actions  

Wasn't me

I don’t even know what that means. But it sounds really smrt

by BSD on Jan 6, 2009 9:01 PM EST up reply actions  

Yeah, I think that was last night in the B-Ball thread...

Don’t know where the heck it came from. I had never heard of it before until then…or maybe I had stored it away in my memory banks never to be heard from again until someone brought it up.

by phantom818 on Jan 7, 2009 12:05 PM EST up reply actions  

Cognitive dissonance sounds...

nerdy….?

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member

by TheMightyErik on Jan 7, 2009 12:49 PM EST up reply actions  

He's probably referring to me

I know I’ve used the term a couple times, and I’m not going to go back and find what I said, but I don’t think I was using it wrong (though perhaps I was). I’m not a psych major, so maybe I wasn’t using it completely correctly, but I’m pretty sure Cognitive Dissonance isn’t where “what was believed to be true turns out to be fraudulent” but is instead where you believe something is true, even though you know (or really deep down believe) it to be false, leading to the “dissonance”.

According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance

Cognitive dissonance is an uncomfortable feeling caused by holding two contradictory ideas simultaneously

A quick example I’ve heard used would be someone who rationalizes smoking as being healthy because it causes weight loss, even though there is abundant evidence that it causes lung cancer, heart problems, and other serious health problems.

by The JuggerNitt on Jan 9, 2009 4:34 PM EST up reply actions  

oh, and my most relevant example

I believed Penn State would beat USC in their back yard, even though I believed USC had the better athletes, and would beat us 6 out of 10 times on a neutral field

by The JuggerNitt on Jan 9, 2009 4:36 PM EST up reply actions  

PSU < Ole Miss?

Is he honestly trying to say that USC is somehow lessened by beating us (since we obviously suck so much to make it to the Rose Bowl, be one loss and one point from playing in a Nat. Championship [against a team, mind you that would destroy Ole Miss])?

by dawsonPSU10 on Jan 6, 2009 9:20 PM EST reply actions  

Brandon Spikes likes to talk

Which will make him an excellent McDonald’s employee. “You want to super size that? (more derisively) Super…….size?”

What an assclown.

In case you can’t tell, I don’t approve of his comments.

by speedomike on Jan 6, 2009 10:19 PM EST reply actions  

He's an idiot.

Just because a microphone is in front of your face doesn’t mean you have any clue what the hell you are talking about.

by jimbo2psu on Jan 8, 2009 11:07 AM EST up reply actions  

Alabama

I can’t wait to get down there and reintroduce ourselves.

by millzners on Jan 6, 2009 11:04 PM EST reply actions  

Short memory

Brandon is quick to forget the 2008 Capital One Bowl, where his team was whooped by one of those slow Big Ten teams. In Florida, no less.

by Wlvrn99 on Jan 7, 2009 8:35 AM EST reply actions  

Dear Brandon Spikes...

As my 5th grade teacher once told a student (no, not me), “Sometimes it’s just better to let people think you’re stupid than to open your mouth and prove it.”

by PSU Jen on Jan 7, 2009 9:46 AM EST reply actions  

I love this one

Classic, classic quote.

pax et amor

by jtothep on Jan 7, 2009 1:37 PM EST up reply actions  

My Buddy the Florida Gator.......

fan’s response when I pointed this quote out to him…………..“Was he over stating anything ? I think he was pointing out that a victory over Penn State and over the Big Ten in general isn’t a big deal. I don’ t think this is a surprise to anyone”.

Unfortunately, Florida is probably going to murder Oklahoma tomorrow night.

Eric Watters Atlanta, Ga.

by ech2os on Jan 7, 2009 5:10 PM EST reply actions  

It's not like OU

has distiguished itself in BCS games though. Wouldn’t the USC players have the exat same beef, Florida only beat Oklahoma. That’s sloppy seconds to Boise State and West Virginia, among others.

I mean seriously, Oklahoma.

"I honestly think the "Spread HD" is going to work pretty well, and we’ll be just fine this year". - 8-27-2008

by jesse. on Jan 8, 2009 2:54 PM EST up reply actions  

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