An Unbiased Journalist on UM vs. BYU

A little tongue and check at the start, but pretty balanced towards the end.  Not bad for someone who was brainwashed into hating Michigan for so many years.

Yay. Perspective from a buckeye fan. Exciting.

There's nothing original, and it's not well written or structured enough to even be interesting.  Great example of the downside of free internet publishing.

What are you talking about? When he starts out by saying how much he hates Michigan. There is clearly bias. Jebus man.

Is there anything such as "unbiased about Michigan" in that Ohio?

He brings up Green for some reason at running back, (probably due to starz) but not Drake Johnson, who will likely see more carries than Green again this week. He doesn't mention Chesson and misspells Darboh as "Darbo". Doesn't make any note of Wormley or Lewis, who are two of the defense's best players. It's not horribly written, but it's a pretty poor article as far as content and an actual preview of this Michigan team.

Also, I'm not sure you can call this "unbiased", as the author is a BYU writer and a Columbus native. He doesn't display his bias in an obvious fashion, but it smells like it was written by a buckeye. It just stinks.

OK, I just finished it. Most of it is bloody rubbish, but the author makes some good points, like his thoughts about "Darbo," Butt, Peppers, and the defense. He is pretty spot on about that, but the rest is just meh.

The article says Brandon is probably the reason why the Rodriguez hire didn't work, but Brandon was hired AFTER RR's second season (both of which were losing seasons), and he was here for RR's only winning season in 2010. Sooo, no. 

Literally the worst article I've read in months. Thanks for wasting my time

Why?  Because this is the tone I've been longing to hear from OSU fans for years.  Don't get me wrong, I HATE Ohio State as much as any Michigan fan.  But, there's a difference between distain based actual knowledge and personal experiences with a rival program and its fans, and blinded loathing of a caricature.  There have been many times when I thought OSU fans identified more with hating Michigan than taking pride in Ohio State.  In contrast, this article had quips about Michigan that are actually clever and funny.  One old guy story and then I'll shut up.  A coworker of mine said that he knew someone who had some role in the OSU program and had a set of satirical lyrics for The Victors.  I asked him what they were, and genuinely looked forward to hearing them, because as a fan and alum, I know there is plenty to spoof.  What I got, instead, was an exhibition of every word in the English language that rhymed with "Smuckers" and little else.  Thank goodness, someone in Buckeye-land finally gets it!

to hear something whimsical --from a Buckeye mocking the Victors? This is a school that hands out pins for beating Michigan, has a one-hit wonder band of old farts with a name denigrating Schembechler, whose students jump in a lake as a Michigan pregame ritual, and have variously shutoff heat and water at Columbus hotels when Michigan stays there overnight, has little old ladies giving the team the finger, and once had security with drug-sniffing dogs go through the bags of Michigan players after they got off the bus at the stadium. Of course, Jim Tressel, that paragon of virtue, told Lloyd Carr at midfield after the fact that he knew nothing about this. We all know how Tressel's veracity held up under scrutiny and how that hardly mattered in Columbus in spite of the heat, suspension and indignity that caused the school. 

This is the tip of a very large iceberg of shit that accompanies the Buckeye historical approach to playing Michigan. And every time you hear about this grand historical edge that WE supposedly lord over them, it is THEM who bring it up and claim otherwise. Fuck Ohio State and this writer's warmed over recall of square hamburgers.  

"Unbiased journalist."  No such thing.  And I have spent my entire legal career defending them.  They may claim to be unbiased, they may even try to be unbiased, but they don't even recognize how their biases influence what they write.

Coach             W L T Pct

Schembechler 194 48 5

Moeller              44 13 3

Carr                 122 40 0

Total              360 101 8 77.61%

Rodriguez         15 22 0

Hoke                31 20 0

Total               406 143 8 73.61%

Entire History 915 328 36 72.95%

There is really no difference between ancient history and more recent history. In fact, our historical winning percentage at present is virtually identical - just slightly higher - to what it was when Bo Schembechler took over, in spite of the down years with RR and Hoke. Onward and upward with Coach Harbaugh!!!

Gotta love the random MSU fan chiming in on the comments section of a write up that has nothing to do with his team. If I get bored at work today maybe I will try that. Perhaps go troll the Gator blogs on behalf of Tennessee.

One thing I continue to not understand is this harping on Harbaugh *repeatedly* leaving every place after three years.

Doesn't pretty much every successful coach do that until they get where they want to be? Granted, Harbaugh's successful stint in the NFL is an orthodox path, but he was ran out of town by incompetent ownership and management. Other than that he's taken progressively better jobs at higher paying and more historically important institutions. I'm not sure why that's any indication that he is going to dart from Michigan. Not saying it isn't possible if the right NFL opportunity comes along, but people treat it like a foregone conclusion based on a flimsy premise.

funny stuff.  worth the click.  

I appreciate the content, but this is the most biased article I've read in some time, (that's only because i don't read Drew Sharp) buy a journalist who shouts from the rooftops: "I am completely 100% super-biased!!1!1!" In the title, then proceeds to live up to said bias in his conclusions. So maybe put an /s in your title..

understatement! Yes, we hate you just as much, but with a little class.

Nothing is more fun than reading an author whose frame of reference for a team and its atmosphere are assorted cliche blog posts from the mid-00s.

It's just lazy writing.  He ignores the fact that BYU gave up 260+ yards to UCLA last week when talking about their defense, and then mentions how solid the BYU pass rush was against UCLA.  Well, BYU didn't record a sack against UCLA despite them starting a true freshman QB and only had 5 TFLs for a total of 7 yards, compared to UCLa getting 4 sacks and 5 TFLs overall for 29 yards.

BYU is a decent team that always looked tough, even before Hill went down.  They are still tough, but a high variance team that could win or get run off the field.  There, I wrote his story for him.

It's SBNation team blog so I have low expectations, but you'd think someone who tries to write "professionally" would be a bit better with the facts.

I like that, even though the author states up front "I've hated Michigan football my entire life,"  someone in the comments responds:

Typical Michigan fan