It is Back!!! They have started their winter strength and conditioning program and Mgoblue has some video posted. Mike gets off a classic line about throwing up in sand and he comments on Big Will. Go check it out by going to multimedia and picking the football portion and well you should know the rest. Enjoy.
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Love the title on this one. Thanks!
"He has an uncanny ability to get kids to believe in him and believe in themselves. He doesn't do it with smooth words. He's not smooth. He does it by being the same genuine person day after day." ~Jason Whitlock on Brady Hoke
Yes!!!!
I LOVE BARWIS PORN CAN'T GET ENOUGH. MAKES ME WANT TO PUT THE PADS ON AND ..... OH, WAIT I FORGOT I DON'T HAVE ANY ATHLETIC ABILITY ... FUCK!
Voice
His voice sounds like it hurts to talk
He doesn't so much talk as
He doesn't so much talk as growl
400 Clean
HELLO S&C. If our guys are cleaning 400 lbs. there is going to be a great change in our results next season.
The best quote, though: "the guys love the beach now because they haven't been on it yet..."
"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves."
The military could use an amplified recording
of Barwis's voice to destroy insurgent hideouts. It could be used to saw through concrete on construction jobs. It could be used to sand floors during refinishing. A tiny version of it could be used in those pet-claw rotary sanding devices. It could also be used to save the world if a planet-killing comet or stray asteroid is going to hit the earth.
The sand pit is
like when Rocky trained in LA with Apollo's peeps. Awesome!
"They're stuck with that quarterback (sophomore Braxton Miller) for the next two or three years, that's fine with me. He throws worse than (Tim) Tebow. - Steve Everitt
Barwis porn
Pain is weakness leaving the body . . .
The Team, the Team, the Team.
shwing!
I'll be right back, I need to go punch one out.
The beach
I love the part about the sand as well.
"...until they realize that throwing up on sand is a lot like throwing up on hard ground." Amazing!
"I make plays baby, I make plays"
-Charles Woodson
Except that everyone fails to
Except that everyone fails to point out that Barwis had that beach installed at the complete expense of the Lacrosse team, the soccer teams, and the softball and baseball teams (and anyone else who uses Oosterbaan).
The football team was getting its own new facility, yet they had to put that stupid beach in Oosterbaan b/c Barwis didn't want to have it in the new facility b/c it took away too much space.
Complete disregard and disrespect for the other teams on campus. This is one of the things that pisses me off about the new regime - their arrogance and disregard for the rest of the Michigan community.
It's Great to Be A Michigan Wolverine
Waaaaaah. When the fucking
Waaaaaah. When the fucking soccer team sells 100,000 tickets on a Saturday afternoon let us know.
The fucking soccer team
The fucking soccer team vastly outperformed the football team this year. The baseball and softball teams are the two most consistent (and hold the latest national championship) teams on campus.
They may not sell as many tickets, but I personally love the non-revenue sports just as much (well, actually more) than the football team. That's what the University of Michigan is supposed to be about: egalitarianism.
It's Great to Be A Michigan Wolverine
umm
when exactly was that baseball national championship?
Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik
Really? Gosh, come on
Really? Gosh, come on people, let's give a little attention to the other sports on campus.
Softball won the National Championship in 2005.
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a girl from my high school
was a SS on that team..WOO..GO RICHMOND
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All sports are equal, but
All sports are equal, but some sports are more equal than others.
That's pretty douche-y of
That's pretty douche-y of you. You're saying that because soccer and lacrosse, etc. are non-revenue sports, they shouldn't get to practice?
Not at all what I'm saying.
Not at all what I'm saying. I'm simply saying the soccer team should learn to do corner kicks from the sand.
Sand is a great tool for
Sand is a great tool for training, regardless of the sport. Each of those sports you mentioned could gain from using the sandpit if they decided to make use of it.
I don't think the issue is
I don't think the issue is whether they can use the sand - it's that they lost their practice field.
Does the sandpit cover all of
Does the sandpit cover all of Oosterbaan?
Heavens no. I think it's a
Heavens no. I think it's a liiiiiiittle bit of overreaction to say it was installed at the "complete expense" of the other teams. It looks about 20-30 yards long and maybe five yards wide.
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agreed
That pit looks in my estimation to be less than 3% of the practice facility to say it hampers any of these teams is ridiclous
Soccer fields are 120 yards
Soccer fields are 120 yards long. A full field barely fit in Oosterbaan (by barely I mean by mere inches) before. Now it won't. I'm not sure about Lacrosse.
yeah, they can use it, and probably will. Why couldn't it have been put in the new facility, though? That was the argument of the lacrosse coach.
It's Great to Be A Michigan Wolverine
I don't have any inside info
I don't have any inside info or anything, but maybe the sand pit's location has something to do with the fact that the new facility isn't ready yet, and the football team would like to, you know, train in the offseason. Could be space/power (no Zoltan) issues, too, but I have to admit that I'm not all that concerned about the soccer team practicing on a field that's five yards too short.
I'll say it
Football is more important than soccer. There. It's been said.
1. It brings in the most money. Much of the University of Michigan's revenue is based on being identified with the football team. If their on-field performance suffers, so does revenue.
2. The athletic department runs independently of the university. Therefore, it needs to create its own revenue. Like someone said above, football is the only sport that draws 100,000+ people to its stadium every time they play. No other sports draw that many people in a SEASON, with the possible exception of the basketball team. And the basketball team doesn't give a shit about Oosterbaan.
3. You don't want it to be about money? Fine. The sport of football affects more students than any other sport. How many people are on the lacrosse team? How many people are on the soccer team? Including walk-ons, there are 100 or more students on the football team. This is like a history professor with 15 students complaining that he doesn't get to use an Angell Hall auditorium with 300 seats. On top of that, the morale of the student body is affected more by how the football team is doing. Very few students are going to care if the lacrosse team beats OSU - the whole town, at least half of the state, and a decent portion of the entire country cares if Michigan beats OSU in football.
Instead of lamenting the loss of a small portion of the soccer field, figure out how to use the sandpit as an advantage in training.
Soccer players can learn how
Soccer players can learn how to flop in the sand just as well on the field.
How did the university pay for the new facility ? Football money. How did the university pay for the old facility? Football Money. How did the university pay for the sand pit? Probably just robbed some kids sand box. But still, if the soccer players or any other players, hell combine all of the atheletes that need the field and have their revenue buy a field.
done. soccer players buy their own field.
I couldn't have said that better...
I was thinking exactly what you posted. And might I add one more thing. The football team helps fund the lacrosse and soccer team. It is king. It brings in the most revenue of any of the sports and in turn distributes said revenue to the rest of the sports...save BBall and Hockey. So if they need a small portion of the field to be sand then give it to them. Because they're the ones bringing home the bacon.
If you have to ask twice it means that you didn't get it the first time.
In the event you are ever
In the event you are ever married, and your wife happens to make less money than you, please do me a favor.
Start a thread on MGoBlog announcing the website for a live video stream.
Leave your computer.
Make sure your wife is out of the house.
Choose any room in your home.
Install a sandbox.
Set up a camera to stream a live feed of the room.
When your wife comes home and says "WTF?!? Why the hell is this fucking sandbox here?!?", turn to her and say:
"Because I'm the one bringing home the bacon, bitch."
I really want to see what happens next.
Recent recipient of the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
so soccer is equated to
so soccer is equated to women? i would agree.
come on thats a terrible analogy.
lets rework your analogy. this wife of mine, makes absolutely no money at all, and actually costs money. You come to your massive house and put in a small sandbox in an area. She comes home and asks you for more money and why the hell have you put in a sandbox. "shut up bitch, heres a credit card. leave me the fuck alone"
Remember beggars can't be choosers. Also, don't look a gift horse in the mouth.
Terrible, just terrible. Soccer player?
The comment was solely in
The comment was solely in response to blueblooded fan's comment about who brings home the bacon. It was a stupid comment and stupid rationale for justifying his side of the debate. Quite frankly, I don't give a fuck about the whole thing. But since you've got such a burr up your ass about a sandbox, I'll respond, because I find you entertaining.
You must find the analogy to have some merit, because you've essentially repeated it. Your changes are largely inconsequential. The size of the home or sandbox is irrelevant. The home is jointly held, so it doesn't matter where the sandbox was installed or how big it is, beyond the fact that it interferes with your wife's enjoyment of the property.
The only substantive change you've provided is that she now asks for money. Okay, fine. Why wouldn't she? You and she are part of the same organization. You share in both resources and expenses, because it's a marriage. The athletic department is not so different with its various sports programs. In a marriage you argue over money, who gets to use the TV, the car or any other asset, but that doesn't change your marital obligations (i.e, your wife is still entitled to some of the money). Same as in the athletics department, where the various sports organizations argue over money and resources, but ultimately there is a responsibility to all sports. It's just a question of how much of dick do you want to be. I think I know the answer in your case.
But hey, if you want to be an "I bring home the bacon" douche, go right ahead. I'm sure you will have a long and happy marriage with such sweet talk as "shut up bitch, here's a credit card. leave me the fuck alone." You are a credit to Michigan, men and husbands everywhere.
And no, I'm not a soccer player, and never have been. But thanks for playing, little one.
Recent recipient of the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
I had a response. FF crashed.
I had a response. FF crashed. I do not have it anymore. Fine insult me, thats kind of sad. If you choose to ignore the way that people interact and how that changes by the way I introduced it, then fine. It's not my analogy. I didn't need an analogy.
I'm a dick you're awesome whatever. The point still stands. Paid for by football. If they want their own, they can buy their own. Oh wait, they don't have that money. I'm guessing they don't even have the money to pay for their team to travel, or pay for scholarships. I may be wrong though. I am not the personal accountant for UofM.
If they want to complain, fine. Who cares. Being a whiny little bitch should not get you your way. You want the sand out ? get it out. You can't so stop bitching. End of story.
Hooray! You responded!
I agree with you, you are a dick. But like I said, I find you entertaining. And like I also said, I don't give a fuck about the sandbox. Keep it, chuck it, whatever.
Analogy probably wasn't the best word to use in my response, because I wasn't really trying to draw a comparison between the sandbox situation and a marital situation. At least not initially. It was meant more as an illustration of the stupidity and arrogance of the "bringing home the bacon" attitude, regardless of the situation in which it's applied. Granted, the sandbox was used in the illustration, but it wasn't really the point. If anything, you took it as an analogy to the sandbox situation and ran with it, so I guess that makes it your analogy, buddy. But hey, what's it matter? It was fun, wasn't it?
In any case, your response was very enjoyable, but it's time I get some sleep. I look forward to your next response. Entertain me, kid.
Recent recipient of the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
awesome, a kid reset, and
awesome, a kid reset, and calling me a dick. ha great. any other typical internet insults. you want to say you make a million dollars and you ended WWII ?
you're something. i don't care what. you're wrong and can't seem to handle someone disagreeing with you, and thats awesome. so you just have fun with that. i'm going to talk to other people. kid reset, come on. i thought you were better than that.
Well, to be fair, you also
Well, to be fair, you also called yourself a dick. I just agreed with you.
But for the record, when you are the one that makes derisive remarks about another sport followed up with such gems as "shut up bitch, here's a credit card. leave me the fuck alone" then you are being a dick and I will call you a dick. In the end, your remarks demonstrate a tremendous amount of immaturity that can reasonably be attributed to youth. Hence, the kid reference. If that's not true, then I just don't know what to say.
Ultimately, what you fail to see is the latent arrogance and shortsightedness in justifying the sandbox by simply saying that football brings in the money, so everyone else can shut the hell up. Everyone knows that football is the 800 pound gorilla, and that it's going to push its weight around from time to time. There's no disputing that reality.
But to justify those actions by essentially saying "it's football and it makes more money than you" is myopic. It breeds resentment and discontent that spreads throughout the organization, and ultimately makes the athletic department suffer as a whole, including football. It's simply bad management. On this, I am not wrong, because I have seen things end badly too many times when that justification is used. Find any other justification for putting that sandbox there, but don't be arrogant about it. If you can understand that, then I withdraw by dick and kid remarks.
Recent recipient of the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence
Love internet
I think the best thing about the internet is that even if somehow is 45 years old, you can't hide behind "age" and if you type like a 6th grader, reason like a 6th grader, and act like a 6th grader, you get treated like a 6th grader.
great and omniscient Grand Poobah of the WLA
hmmmmm.....
I understand the rationale behind your analogy of "Being married," and your trying to equate that to this scenario. But your argument is flawed in the fact that in a marriage it is usually assumed that it is a partnership of equals. My wife has an equal say in what transpires in OUR home. This makes sense. However, here is where you analogy is flawed. You are making a huge assertion that the lacrosse or women's soccer team our on equal footing with the football program. When in fact, they are not. There is no merger of equals in the athletic department at UofM. My point was that Michigan football is king and consider the other sports the kings court. The king provides the funding for the lacrosse and soccer teams. So if the king wants a sandbox in a certain area that impedes an area for his court to roam in then well, they just have to get over it. That is what I am saying. Now, as you stated I really don't care about soccer and quite frankly that is the point. Most people don't care enough to support the other sports so that they can support themselves. If it were able to hold its own via revenues then I think that the sandbox would be in the new practice facilities for the football team. But seeing as it can not then it is not.
If you have to ask twice it means that you didn't get it the first time.
Robert Edwards thinks
Robert Edwards thinks training in sand is a horrible idea.
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This deserves an lol, but
This deserves an lol, but since it seems the average age here has fallen to 12 (hence the call to make Glen Rice threads OT), most of them probably don't remember that incident.
I did, however, lol.
great and omniscient Grand Poobah of the WLA
I think you're making a HUGE
I think you're making a HUGE assumption here: that the football team did this without contacting the other teams that use the facility. How do you know that an arrangement hasn't been worked out for this?
I know for a fact that when
I know for a fact that when we replaced the astroturf in Oosterbaan with FieldTurf (c. 2002), the field hockey people were not happy with it, but football got its way. For better or worse, that's how it's always gone - football gets first priority. This isn't something that's changed out of the blue under Rodriguez, as you seem to be claiming.
Field Hockey players
Enjoy joint damage and a higher incidence of musculoskeletal injury?
Damn, those girls are tough.
I'm not going to say that what the field hockey team wants doesn't matter, but who the hell likes astroturf?
He ate too much P.F. Chang's
Mike Barwis took a very big crap 21 years ago. That crap is now the starting quarterback for the Florida Gators.
lol
I just pictured the soccer team forming a human chain to reach the soccer ball as it slowly sinks into the center of the sand pit
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
-Bukowski
Hummm...$50 a ticket, 100,000
Hummm...$50 a ticket, 100,000 people every Saturday. $5,000,000 - $10,000,000 IN REVENUE EVERY HOME GAME. The only reason the other sports exist is due to football. try getting the facilities you have with "non" generating revenues. I've heard that argument so many times it makes me sick.
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But why can't life be
But why can't life be FAIR???!!!!!!!! Oh, wait.....
The night before last some guy died in Detroit because it was -10 degrees outside and he couldn't get in from the cold. Last night people in Royal Oak and Birmingham and Ann Arbor were out spending the equivalent of a week's hotel room (and life giving warmth) for that guy on food and drink. Is it fair? No.
But you know what? Your life will be much easier if you realize football is the big boy on the block. And I'm guessing it'll continue to be right up until.....oh, I don't know- probably until the love child of Jesus and Buddha takes up a bat and turns the memory of your tears into eleventy billion dollars of softball revenue.
Is it right- maybe not. Is it the way things are? Yes. If you want to make a difference, go volunteer at a shelter, don't come on here whining about a bunch of college athletes' loss of warm, indoor practice space.
WE ARE GOING TO BE A MACHINE.
(Just a few years later than I'd hoped)
No offense, but invoking the
No offense, but invoking the fact that the plight of a homeless person eclipses a specific concern someone brings up is about the least insightful point to be made, ever. The next time you complain about a bullshit PI call during a football game, I'll be sure to tell you to shut the fuck up, because people are starving, so who are you to say anything?
tear gas
If this happened at East Lansing you know the soccer team would start a riot.
that video made me so happy
we're training in sand. if it takes 3 steps to crush a QB in the sand pit, it will only take 2 steps to crush Pryor in the big house
good thinking barwis
GO BLUE
"What matters most is how well you walk through the fire."
-Bukowski