Naming Convention for 2008 Season

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Moe Greene
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Naming Convention for 2008 Season

One day, historians will surely have a label for the year that was the 2008 Michigan Football Experience. We're going to need one too. Since we're going to be comparing this season repeatedly to the previous one (and in ways that signify tremendous improvement!), we need a shorthand.

Since Brian refers to the 2005 season as the Year of Infinite Pain, what do we call last season?

• Year of Truly Infinite Pain?
• Year of Infinite Bitching?
• Year Which Must Not Be Named?
• Countdown to TateStock / Denard-a-thon?
• Year Without Completions?
• Year of Many Fumbles?
• The Shafer Interregnum?

Any thoughts?

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July 11th, 2009 at 11:35 AM | How about: THE (Score:1)
Big Boutros
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How about:

THE PURGE.

Michigan purged itself of multiple players who didn't buy in, of the old Big Ten offensive scheme, of most of the coaching staff, of many of its bandwagon fans, and of all those pesky consecutive bowl appearances.

July 11th, 2009 at 11:45 AM | You've been spending too much (Score:1)
GCS
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You've been spending too much time over at the WLA treefort site.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Purge

July 11th, 2009 at 4:29 PM | COMMUNISM ISN'T FUNNY (Score:1)
dex
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COMMUNISM ISN'T FUNNY

great and omniscient Grand Poobah of the WLA

July 11th, 2009 at 7:10 PM | Um...sorry? Never mind? I (Score:1)
Big Boutros
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Um...sorry? Never mind? I honestly wasn't trying to start anything contentious.

July 11th, 2009 at 11:50 AM | I submit: (Score:1)
wolverine1987
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THE HUMBLING

"Everyone gets dumped Gabe. Let me give you some advice: a little coverup on your Adams Apple will make it appear smaller. Which will make you appear less like a transvestite." 

July 11th, 2009 at 12:34 PM | I like this one. It's simple, (Score:1)
KinesiologyNerd
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I like this one. It's simple, and straight to the point. I think last season showed all of us that even Michigan isn't immune to a bad season. I for one will stop taking 8+ wins/season for granted... for a while at least.

I know from experience dude. If you know what I mean.

July 11th, 2009 at 12:19 PM | Keeping with the communist theme (Score:1)
Tacopants
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I would suggest either "The Great Leap Forward" or "The Cultural Revolution"

[Great Leap Forward]

Key Takeaway: A great [football] plan which aimed to use [Michigan football's] vast resources to rapidly transform [Michigan] from a primarily agrarian economy by peasant farmers into a modern [football team] through the process of [implementing the spread offense]. It ended in catastrophe as it triggered a widespread famine that resulted in millions of deaths.

[Cultural Revolution]

Key Takeaway: A period of widespread social and political upheaval... resulting in nation-wide chaos and economic disarray.

July 11th, 2009 at 2:31 PM | Damn, the great leap forward (Score:1)
VivaCommieFootball
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Damn, the great leap forward was my idea. I think it's brilliant.

July 11th, 2009 at 2:34 PM | Not a fan of the idea (Score:1)
jmblue
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I'd like to think our guy in charge is slightly more competent at his job than Chairman Mao was.

July 11th, 2009 at 8:34 PM | Mao was competent according (Score:1)
JediLow
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Mao was competent according to his set of ideals... the real problem was that he mad (in the power sense).

July 12th, 2009 at 5:17 PM | Incompetent (Score:1)
jmblue
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Mao was pretty evil, but he was also almost laughably incompetent. Mao left China much, much poorer, much more overpopulated, and much more environmentally-degraded (huge portions of northern China became desertified because of his clueless agricultural policies) than it was when he inherited it. In no way did he plan this. If China had continued to follow Mao's policies to this day, it would be another North Korea.

July 11th, 2009 at 12:27 PM | The year the Big House got a colonic- (Score:1)
Blue Balls
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how Michigan Fans with brown eyes are once again seeing blue.

July 11th, 2009 at 1:04 PM | How about the year I was very (Score:1)
토린
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How about the year I was very very drunk?

July 11th, 2009 at 2:05 PM | The Year of Infinite Bingeing? (Score:1)
GreyJello
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The Year of Infinite Bingeing?

July 11th, 2009 at 1:06 PM | We still won more games than the lions (Score:1)
MaizeSombrero
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I say we call it by the teams we beat "Miami Wiscosota"

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July 11th, 2009 at 1:17 PM | Being a fan of "Highlander".... (Score:1)
saveferris
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I suggest "The Quickening". Has a nice double entendre to it.

 

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July 11th, 2009 at 1:44 PM | didn't someone call it 'the (Score:1)
bluetell
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didn't someone call it 'the year of infinite sorrow'? i feel that that is appropriate

Rudy watches inspirational movies about Shawn Hunwick

 

July 11th, 2009 at 1:51 PM | I like that. Simple and (Score:1)
aenima0311
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I like that. Simple and catchy, not too hard to explain.

Pronounced Ahh-Neh-Muh

July 11th, 2009 at 2:07 PM | nevermind (Score:1)
wigeon
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n/m

 

Biz hundert azoi ve tsvantsik

July 11th, 2009 at 1:53 PM | Humbling or Yr of Inf. Sorrow (Score:1)
StephenRKass
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Both Humbling & Year of Infinite Sorrow work for me.

"It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up." Vince Lombardi

 

July 11th, 2009 at 2:07 PM | Year Which Must Not Be Named. (Score:1)
jmblue
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Year Which Must Not Be Named. It sums it up.

July 11th, 2009 at 2:07 PM | The Year of Repeated Blunt (Score:1)
GreyJello
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The Year of Repeated Blunt Force Trauma

July 11th, 2009 at 2:10 PM | Tears of sorrow (Score:1)
MichiganStudent
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Tears of sorrow

July 11th, 2009 at 2:10 PM | The Interregnum (Score:1)
Rorschach
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"An interregnum is a period of discontinuity of a government, organization, or social order. Archetypally, it was the period of time between the reign of one monarch and the next."

Since the Glorious Revolution begins this year, this title seems perfect.

July 11th, 2009 at 3:53 PM | The Year of (Score:1)
Wide Open
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The Year of DEATH!!!




...Is catchy but probably too harsh. "The Interregnum" works for me.

Or a more modern term: "The Reboot".

July 11th, 2009 at 4:16 PM | October (Score:1)
RichRodFollower
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The Title song from U2's 2nd Album. For the season that couldn't end fast enough...

"That ball IS the program."

July 11th, 2009 at 4:25 PM | How about just _________? (Score:1)
chunkums
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How about just _________? That's nine spaces representing the nine losses we never want to hear about again.

For today, goodbye. For tomorrow, good luck. And forever, Go Blue.

July 11th, 2009 at 4:45 PM | THE BLOODENING (Score:1)
Sommy
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THE BLOODENING

...and by that, I mean helter-skelter, willy-nilly and putt-putt!

July 11th, 2009 at 5:07 PM | When this was discussed several months ago (Score:1)
CPS
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I offered "The Year of Transmogrification" for this past season, "The Year of Transfiguration" for this upcoming season, and (hopefully) 2010 is "The Year of Resurrection". Or just call it "2009: When Ninjas Attack".

Recent recipient of the First Annual Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence

July 11th, 2009 at 5:27 PM | The Year Michigan was Played off by the Keyboard Cat (Score:1)
pz
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Or just the Year of the Keyboard Cat for short.

This is Michigan.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:31 PM | "Year of infinite _____" (Score:1)
blueblueblue
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"Year of infinite _____" (anything) just doesn't sound right - due to the juxtaposition of two incompatable measurements (year and infinite). Of course they are not really incompatible, one is time and the other is extent, but it just sounds illogical.

I like "revolution" somewhere in the title - most revolutions begin long before they are apparent, long before any major change, and most are hard fought. But we don't know if they were an actual revolution until they are won. One could say that the change process began right after app state, and that in 2008 the revolution wasn't won yet. With the seemingly full installation of his system in 2009, the revolution is over (we hope).

"The Rodriguez Revolution" sounds good for the whole change (up to 2008 and beyond), but to encapsulate just 2008 needs some qualifier.

Interregnum does work - a period between two regimes. RR might have been in charge in 2008, but he didn't have his regime in place. More purging, more learning, and more recruitment of his type of soldier had to be done.

Could be "Interregnum to a Revolution" or "Interregnum to the Rodriguez Revolution" or something similar.

July 11th, 2009 at 5:44 PM | The Aberration.. (Score:1)
Tater
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Because, as our MSU "friends" who now think MSU is a superior program will soon find out, that's all last year really was.

 

 

 

July 11th, 2009 at 6:00 PM | But in the RR world, last (Score:1)
blueblueblue
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But in the RR world, last year went as expected, not an aberration. WHich means this year will be much much much better.

July 11th, 2009 at 5:47 PM | Year Of The Trial Sized Dove (Score:1)
Chrisgocomment
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Year Of The Trial Sized Dove Bar

[DFW rip off]

No question, Jim.

July 11th, 2009 at 6:46 PM | Damn you (Score:1)
WildcatBlue
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You beat me to it, although I was leaning toward the Year of The Depends Adult Undergarment.

July 11th, 2009 at 6:28 PM | The Michigan Chainsaw (Score:1)
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The Michigan Chainsaw Massacre! (without chainsaws!)

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July 11th, 2009 at 8:50 PM | The Year of Infinite Munging. (Score:1)
Brodie
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The Year of Infinite Munging.

When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing. -- Bo Schembechler

July 12th, 2009 at 2:11 AM | Infinite Munging sounds like (Score:1)
Chrisgocomment
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Infinite Munging sounds like a nightmare.

oh.....right.....I think you win.

No question, Jim.

July 11th, 2009 at 10:41 PM | The year of (Score:1)
emmekel
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I can't f---in believe Sheridan is in the f---in game again.

July 12th, 2009 at 8:55 AM | This is actually my favorite (Score:1)
blueblueblue
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This is actually my favorite thus far.

July 12th, 2009 at 10:53 AM | Fuck Me 2008 (Score:1)
nella
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That is what I will always remember it as.

July 12th, 2009 at 11:11 AM | The Year of Unfathomable Sadness (Score:1)
GreyJello
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I think I'll borrow from South Park and Brian's weekly column during the season and offer:

The Year of Unfathomable Sadness

July 12th, 2009 at 8:18 PM | Requiem for a Team (Score:1)
OldManUfer
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Requiem for a Team

God bless every single one of your cotton pickin' Maize and Blue hearts

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