Ring And Run, Kurt Wermers, Ring And Run

The best athletes want a program that can develop their talent and get them into the NFL. In other words, they want the best job training available. The days of playing for the colors are long gone.

This implies that Mealer wants to join Wermers in leaving, and that doesn't jibe at all with what I've read about Elliot. A big ol' WTF? for this one.

Somewhere out there, a Columbus journalist is sitting on a piece he wrote waiting for the inevitable day when everything falls apart at Michigan, and 23 kids leave on the same day.

I do believe most of them think this is true, and it's only a matter of time.

I don't want to make unfounded accusations or assumptions about Wermers' comments, but whether his "kind of crowd" comment was referring to offensive scheme or taste in music or help me god my teammates are violent criminals, it did not come across as particularly tasteful when I read it.

Oh, another note. Apparently this is breathless fiction day. WHEE! I may have to do another.

First, they look funny. I mean, have you seen these guys? Are they rappers or something? Second, they talk funny. They have accents that I don't always understand and they use slang that I've never heard (what does it mean whens someone says "Let's bounce"?). Next, and I don't mean to get vulgar here, but these guys hang out with some pretty fast women, if you know what I mean. I'm not even sure if they've accepted Jesus as their personal savior...Anyway, I just don't like the cut of these guys' jib, and, after all, if you can't judge a book by its cover, then how the heck do you judge it?

Wermers attended the Justin Boren seminar: 'How to Deliver the Parting Shot'

...I think Wermers meant that his teammates were not interested in joining his a capella group.

I saw a fellow at the art fair yesterday with dreadlocks, he looked rather personable, but I am sure evil lurked underneath the well dressed facade.

Maybe Barwis made him cancel his World of Warcraft account.

I heard that doesn't always go over well.

As a fellow nerd, I mourn this loss. When I came to U-M, we had just learned that Peter Jackson was going to make the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, and, being a big Tolkien fan himself (especially his work at Oxford on Anglo Saxon cognates), Lloyd was getting us all really pumped. I remember me and Stephen Baker and like 20 guys named Brackins or Brackens (we hates Brackinses) marching through the rain, arm in arm, to see the latest Star Wars.

Those guys are all gone now, the last of the Lloyd Carr book club and Mike DeBord's Thursday night DnD parties graduated this past spring.

Now there's nobody on the football team as stoked for the new Harry Potter as I am. These guys all wanna see "Bruno" and "The Hangover" and "Big Man Japan." It's a totally different crowd.

So, let me preface this by stating that I am a Rodriguez fan and would be satisfied with a 7 wins this year, and another significant leap forward the following year. BUT...what the hell are we all going to be saying if he ends up with 4-5 wins this year, and then goes like 6-6 his third year? What if he continually loses recruits in the next two seasons? I mean, I'm all for WLA-type allegiance. But what type of entry will Brian write (or how will our comments change in theme) if this whole m-f'er implodes in the next two years? And don't give me a line about "needing to be optimistic" and all that shit. Seriously, in the words of the Wolf, "Let's not go sucking each other's dicks just yet." I'm fucking scared shitless for this season and the next, and I'm a guy who openly pined for Rodriguez on haloscan in the diahrrea hurricane days of the coaching search. Bring on the "look what he did at Tulane and W. Virginia" comments.

So Kurt has gone home to hang with some Indiana boys on some Indiana nights. Cultural diversity just ain't his thing. I wonder if he took his hood off for the interview.

Is the racial makeup of the Ball State football team really that different?

"They were bringing in a lot of different kids that were not my kind of crowd."

Kurt may not appreciate EA for his likeness in the new 2010 game where I believe he is black.

Thought that was pretty funny.

Did Grady's arrest not add any points to the Fulmer Cup? I don't really know how the rules work.

Regardless, RR does a really good job of running a tight ship, and I am very pleased with the higher GPA for the team. I think that this highlights the difference between what RR actually does and how people see him. Some people like to see RR as an unsophisticated hick and/or one of these big-shot coaches who are willing to recruit thugs and win at all costs (Miami or Florida State), a departure from Uncle Lloyd (as much as I like him). When RR was hired, some fans were even gloating, "this is what I want: finally, a coach who is willing to win at all costs."

RR's style is surely different from Lloyd's--more drill sergeant and tough love rather than father figure (which can also work)--and he admits to being less scholarly, but he still has standards and is good at getting his players to follow them. And there is some family dynamic too, I guess. While some are embarrassed about last year's mess with WVU, one thing that I especially appreciate about RR is that he DOES NOT TAKE POT SHOTS!! Seriously. Look at Lane Kiffin, Spurrier, almost every other coach in the SEC, old man Leavitt, classy Dantonio, June Jones, etc. RR does not take shots at other programs or coaches. That's just being professional. The only time I can think of him referring to another team was when he said that Beanie Wells was definitely a 1st rounder.

i dont understand the reason behind all this bashing. He found himself three deep on the roster and was really hoping to get playing time eventually and might have gotten hints he wouldnt get it.

oh and all you academic bashers, he's a CS major