SB Nation User Blog: brubby

My New Texas Plates Finally Came

brubby — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:20:55 -0000

My New Texas Plates Finally Came

KY Bourbon Trail Update - Drinkin is fun

brubby — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:16:15 -0000

A few weeks ago I posted some questions about the bourbon trail and got some good feedback so I thought it would be appropriate to update on the trip... since there's still too many days till Zug begins his ascension to complete trancendence.

We only had a day and a half in KY and one of those days was Monday. Apparently KY closes on Monday. 3 distilleries weren't open, half of downtown Bardstown was closed but we went to Makers Mark, and got in a quick 9 holes at My Old KY Home State Park.

MM was beautiful - like somebody painted a picture and then plopped it in the middle of a tiny valley. The tour was cool but not very in depth. Tasting after included some white dog (distilled and pre barrell) as well as the real stuff. Definitely picturesque and the wifester really enjoyed it. The staff was extra friendly and went out of their way to make us an anniversary presentation bottle on the spot. And of course dipping your own bottle in wax was cool too. My ambassador barrel will be ready next spring so I can't wait to get back.

Tuesday we made reservations at Woodford reserve for the Corn to Cork tour. Absolutely fabulous. Just us and one other couple with a tour guide for 2.5 hrs (compared to about 45 mins at MM). We saw everything. EVERYTHING. Coolest part was pulling a pitcher out of the fermentation vat and then distilling it in their lab. We tasted at every stage in the process and even got to hammer the bung into a barrell. SUPER HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Well I've gone on way too long, but thanks to everybody who offered suggestions for the trip and I'll have some cool pictures to post tomorrow - including a ride through SEC country and a scouting report on the Tuscaloosa area we went through on the way home.

NCAA 10 Sounds & Dynasty Info

brubby — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:41:27 -0000

I tried searching through the archives but couldn't find what I was looking for...

Does anybody have a link to the PSU soundset for last years NCAA 09 game? Basically the audio file and when to insert it to make the perfect Beaver Stadium Experience... I've already wasted too much time at work making playable rosters for the 73 and 86 teams along with a bunch of alternate jerseys and stuff and was hoping I could find a shortcut to glory on the sound setup.

Also, I know there was talk last year of an 09 league on xbox live - not sure how it turned out - would anybody be interested in a PS3 dynasty for NCAA 10 this year? I'll voluneer to set it up if people are interested...

KFC Shirt Update - Thanks BSD

brubby — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:40:27 -0000

Well kiddies, thanks for all your help. My design, Stand with the Colonel, won second place (no word on which loser beat me yet) in the KFC Chari-T shirt contest.

I appreciate all the support and votes and hope that you remember poor little Beer League Designs for your next graphic design or logo project. We're now award winning... sort of.

I am now celebrating my years worth of chicken - which I hope comes in a giant truck - and our #1 party school ranking with a syrupy sweet bottle of Jeremiah Weed Sweet Tea Vodka with Bourbon. Half a 1/5th down, half to go... I'm not sure I like it yet, but what goes better with vodka than bourbon?

Help a PSU brother out and vote for my KFC shirt

brubby — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:58:48 -0000

I have a fledgling graphics design company and one of my designs was just named a national semifinalist for a KFC charity shirt.

The voting will be open from today till July 26th at KFC CHARITY SHIRT

I'm entry #6 - Stand with the Colonel

If I win I promise to convert a significant portion of my winnings into bacon for distribution to the BSD masses.

Plus I'd get free KFC for a year so anybody who runs into me gets free chicken and more importantly delicious chicken skin... its the best part.

WE ARE Penn State makes it to FW and it is Grand

brubby — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:13:56 -0000

Came home from work yesterday and lo and behold my fancy WAPS was waiting for me in the mailbox.

I only had a chance to glance through it but it looks AWESOME... tons of pictures & graphs and the articles look really good and the few I read were really well put together. I've never been a big preseason mag guy because they always tended to disappoint. But this might just change my outlook and give me something to look forward to every summer.

I hesitate to offer my first born but maybe I can sacrifice a slab of bacon to the monster in my tummy in honor of the BSD crew and the other folks who put this thing together... no since angering the football gods this early...

Congrats and I hope it sells enough copies to seriously upgrade the grotto

PSU Cornhole Board

brubby — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:20:07 -0000

PSU Cornhole Board

Just thought I'd share my first attempt at a Penn State cornhole board - all painted no stickers... Got a little tilted on the A-Logo, but not bad for an amateur.
Prepare now for tailgating comes sooner that you think...

Random PSU Sighting

brubby — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:17:34 -0000

Random PSU Sighting

Totally random PSU car decal in the parking lot of Safeway in Estes Park, CO this weekend. Just feels like a good time for random PSU pic or ebay item of the day till the fall gets the regular news flowing again.

Saban Vs Kiffen

brubby — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:18:06 -0000

Saban Vs Kiffen

Playoff Possibilities Continued...

brubby — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:27:30 -0000

After lots of good discussion from my last post about a possible realignment and playoff system, I've come up with another one that gets 'football factory' schools a 7th home game and allows more connectivity between conferences with additional ooc games.

The downfall is an extra week of the season and the eventual champ and runner up will have to play 16 games.

First - divide the teams into 7 MAJOR (12 teams each) conferences and 4 Minor (9 teams each) conferences.

Each major conference is split into divisions and plays 5 division games, 3 opposite division games and 4 ooc games.

7 conference championships and a play in championship between the "best" non-conference championship contender and the "best" minor conference team - choose any method you like to pick the "bests" - if you can't win your own division you shouldn't get to argue.

Week after the Conf Champ games - first round of the playoffs at the top four seeds home field (seeding by some sort of super fancy committee) - losers eligible for bowl games.

Bowls proceed as normal with orange & rose as semi finals and sugar the week after as a championship game.

Here are the conference alignments

ACC	Big 10	Big 12	Big East
Boston College	Illinois	Baylor	Cincinnati
Clemson	Indiana	Colorado	Connecticut
Duke	Iowa	Iowa State	Louisville
Florida State	Michigan	Kansas	Pittsburgh
Georgia Tech	Michigan State	Kansas State	Rutgers
Maryland	Minnesota	Missouri	South Florida
Miami-Florida	Northwestern	Nebraska	Syracuse
North Carolina	Ohio State	Oklahoma	West Virginia
North Carolina State	Penn State	Oklahoma State	Central Florida
Virginia	Purdue	Texas	Navy
Virginia Tech	Wisconsin	Texas A&M	Army
Wake Forest	Notre Dame	Texas Tech	Temple

SEC	Pac 10	MWC
Alabama	Arizona	Air Force
Arkansas	Arizona State	Colorado State
Auburn	California	UNLV
Florida	Oregon	New Mexico
Georgia	Oregon State	San Diego State
Kentucky	Southern California	Texas Christian
Louisiana State	Stanford	Utah
Mississippi	UCLA	Wyoming
Mississippi State	Washington	Boise State
South Carolina	Washington State	Brigham Young
Tennessee	Fresno State	Idaho
Vanderbilt	Hawaii	Southern Methodist

WAC	Conf USA	MAC	Sunbelt
New Mexico State	Memphis	Akron	Troy State
Nevada	Western Kentucky	Ball State	Louisiana-Lafayette
Utah State	Southern Mississippi	Bowling Green State	Louisiana-Monroe
San Jose State	Marshall	Central Michigan	Florida Atlantic
Tulsa	East Carolina	Eastern Michigan	Florida International
Houston	Northern Illinois	Kent State	Arkansas State
Texas-El Paso	Alabama-Birmingham	Miami-Ohio	Middle Tennessee State
North Texas	Toledo	Ohio	Louisiana Tech
Rice University	SUNY-Buffalo	Western Michigan	Tulane