Dear Diary Instantly Misses Glendening
Ten nanoseconds after Saban and Swinney cried that high schoolers might get exposed to football programs that actually care what happens to their kids after it, Emmert moved to quickly fix the loophole that allows a football coach from Michigan to ply his trade across state lines.
Harbaugh is already one step ahead:
As a Collegial gesture we invite Coaches from Every College to be involved in our football camp. #Compete #ExposureU pic.twitter.com/lMM4ZiSLx2
— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) April 24, 2015 World: Wait, you can't create a national college football trade fair at your school.
Harbaugh: Just did.
Jim Harbaugh is legend.
FOR WANT OF GLENDENING
Luke Glendening blocked a shot into the neutral zone to seal his own spin-o-rama shorthanded goal as a game-winner to steal Game 1. Red_Lee was so inspired that he created this:
Last night Glendening's Red Wings were cruising to a 2-0 victory (that should have been 4-0 given the play) and a 3-1 series lead when Luke ill-advisedly decided to check a guy near enough to the boards to trip the sensitivities of hockey players towards that sort of thing. While everyone else scrummed about them some Lightning players were able to mess up Luke's hand (Aside: amputating a guy's hand when you're trying to recruit him is some seriously Urban Meyer sh--, Darth).
Without Glendening shadowing one of the top-scoring lines in the country, that line put up two quick goals and a third in overtime. Detroit didn't backcheck properly, and just looked, I don't know, unfocused. The parallels to Star Wars are there, but the parallels to Michigan since Luke graduated are eerie.
IF YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF MERCYHURST YOU'RE NOT A FAN (OR YOU'RE NORMAL)
Via Spath, Michigan's been having a hard time getting sexy programs to come to Yost unless they're small schools with Utah football-quality hockey programs. Of these, next year's schedule will host Mercyhurst, Robert Morris and Niagara. I bet you two petty Notre Dame administrators that the Domers were one of the "of note"s here:
Michigan wants to schedule top-tier programs but they couldn't get anyone to come to Ann Arbor this year. Everyone of note wanted U-M to come to their venue. And Michigan couldn't do that or it would have ended up with two non-conference home games. They agreed to Union and BU so that they could get those two teams in 2016-17 at home but then they HAD to have home games, and so some of these teams were more willing.
The sooner somebody puts this intra-state round robin thing together the better.
WORDS HAVE MEANINGS
It's offseason alright, evidenced by the feely threads (and one diary) popping up to define words that already mean specific things. To wit:
- A fan is someone who roots for that team. To date there is only one remotely worthwhile adjective that's ever been applied to "fan" to distinguish levels of fanhood: "Loud."
- An alumnus is someone who attended that school; graduation is not required.
- A graduate is someone who graduated from that school.
Last word for today: if you are a graduate or alum who thinks this distinction makes you more of fan, you are an "asshole."
WIFI NAMES ARE 21ST CENTURY NEIGHBORLINESS
Good ideas for Michigan-themed WiFi names? thread is how I learned about the Linden Street Flamingo Heist of 2011:
Shout out to the guy with "HARBAUGH" in a Columbus complex.
Etc. The Royals are the new Sparties of Major League Baseball.
Your Moment of Zen:
Yech:
Yar:
April 24th, 2015 at 11:10 AM ^
That Princess Leia is beyond disturbing....
has a hint of Geddy Lee in that gif
April 24th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^
The president looks like someone has just handed him a lukewarm turd.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:14 AM ^
How can I smugly think my shit doesn't stink if I can't rub in someone's face how much better my school is/was instead of actually taking into account the kind of person I currently am?
April 24th, 2015 at 11:20 AM ^
The camps are at the top of the list, oversigning is in a file cabinet in the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:25 AM ^
Is it just me, or does Harbaugh's poster about Exposure U use "insure" incorrectly? I think it should be "ensure."
April 24th, 2015 at 11:32 AM ^
It's incorrect in AP Style, but otherwise the two are interchangeable.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:55 AM ^
I noticed that too, and I'm also not sure about some of the capitalization. And is there a slash between "and" and "or"? I can't see it on my monitor. (I know, I know--pointing out grammatical or stylistic mistakes is one of the most annoying tendencies of internet commenters. But this whole thing needed to go to the copyeditor. Or is it copy-editor? And can you even start sentences, like I did, with "And" or "But"? I think I'll just shut up now.)
April 24th, 2015 at 11:30 AM ^
Guess I'm an asshole. Luckily, it's not the first time I've been told that. Scratched and clawed academically & (still do!) financially to attend and graduate from Michigan. That distinction has spawned a mindset that I have every justification in the feeling a bit more invested in our successes and failures than those who cannot say the same. I don't begrudge anyone their fandom, but don't tell me someone who wrote a letter of intent to attend at age 10 and then incurred massive debt isn't slightly higher on the "fandom" rankings than someone who turns on a TV every Saturday.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:37 AM ^
Someone who wrote a letter of intent to attend at age 10 and then incurred massive debt isn't [inherently] slightly higher on the "fandom" rankings than someone who turns on a TV every Saturday.
Sorry, had to tell you. Be proud of your hard work academically, but that has nothing to do with sports fandom.
April 24th, 2015 at 11:43 AM ^
What about the guy whose adult life began in the middle of the Great Depression, who scratched and clawed all his life to give his children a stable life in Ann Arbor, and took them to football games at Michigan Stadium every fall Saturday since 1950 while saving money to one day send two grandchildren to the University of Michigan, and was attending a Michigan softball game with them when I met him last week?
I appreciate your measured response to my calling you a name. I'm still putting you behind that guy.
I'm absolutely also putting that guy ahead of me. No doubt indeed. I'd put anyone of similar ilk ahead of me. My story has yet to be written to that degree, so who knows.
But as for many others, I think my story nudges them out. I suppose I did not mean to make it sound like a competition, especially considering I appreciate anyone who supports Michigan. My stong opinion on this topic comes more from "outsiders"--when someone who never attended OSU/MSU/ND gives me hell for something Michigan does, on the field or in the classroom. Those people grind my gears FAR more than those who attended.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:15 PM ^
April 24th, 2015 at 11:34 AM ^
From those "feely" threads, I would add another definition:
"If you are an alum who thinks attending your university (say... UM-Ann Arbor) distinguishes you as a better person than those who attended another (I dunno... maybe UM-Flint/Dearborn), you are a douche."
Unless of course the person you think you're better than is an alum of OSU/MSU/ND. In that case, they're the douche! Unless they an alum of UM as well, in which case...
April 24th, 2015 at 12:45 PM ^
Unless they an alum of UM as well, in which case...
Those people only exist in that Star Trek mirror universe where your evil doppelganger is only identifiable by the goatee they're sporting a la Evil Spock.
#restinpeaceleonardnimoy
Hell no. You ARE a douche.
But you're also a douche if you went to UM-Flint/UM-Dearborn and says you went to UofM leading someone to believe it was The University of Michigan (in Ann Arbor).
April 24th, 2015 at 12:24 PM ^
I might be an asshole. Having graduated - twice - and having had both parents, and both children, and my wife, and 6 out of 8 siblings and siblings-in-law graduate, entitles me to feel more "invested" than another fan who is not a graduate, or doesn't have the same connectedness. To be clear though, I don't think that makes me more of a fan, and in fact in some ways I would admit to being somewhat less, because I appreciate that the University of Michigan is so much more than just the Wolverines.
April 24th, 2015 at 12:36 PM ^
To be clear though, I don't think that makes me more of a fan
Breathe easy, then. Per Seth's definition, you are not an asshole. At least not for anything in this comment, although I can't say for sure what you're like otherwise.
April 27th, 2015 at 12:59 PM ^
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