Unverified Voracity Never Forgets

I was going to write a Board post about it, but I wrote him a letter instead. I thought it was funny, sad, and pretty dumb all at once.

David Mayo - major eff up.  How does he still have his job?  Really?  Not only does he sell/distribute pot but he also writes this garbage? 

How is it possible to be as uninformed as David Mayo is? I'm serious. How could you know, for example, where Mallett transferred to, or that Forcier started every game, but not know that the wingless helmet was a motivational ploy? Just absolutely stunning incompetence. Not that it really matters in the grand scheme of things, but man.

turd to its newspaper.

Some people are just truly incompetent.

Would it be OK to start a thread trashing the Grand Rapids Press?

Kidding!

If anyone deserves one, David Mayo does.

David Mayo should have been axed a long time ago.

it doesn't look like he normally covers Michigan -- that seems to be the only Michigan story he has on the site.

http://connect.mlive.com/user/dmayo/index.html

That said, that sort of careless error makes it obvious he spent very little time putting the story together.

"Hey Troy, what's up? Ready for practice?"

"Dude, Tate, wtf is up with your helmet?"

"Oh, this thing? It's just my new 'True Blue' helmet. You pay extra for these things, you know? Doesn't have all that yellow junk all over it."

"That's messed up."

"Yeah, well, I mean, if you don't respect the fact that my helmet is cooler than yours now, that's your problem. Coach Rod actually suggested it. He thinks I deserve a little recognition for all the awesome plays I made last year."

"I'm gonna guess that's not how it went do-"

"It did, man. It did."

This moron and his wife got caught GROWING 71 pots of marijuana in his house about a year and a half ago. On second thought, it is so widely publicized why Tate didn't have wings you would think even an adult stoner wouldn't be this stupid. 

I like to hear that from Molk - this team needs to have a fire in its belly, and for the Center to be that clear of his intentions shows a level of passion that I don't remember seeing with this team the past few years.

As for MSU-FAU, seemingly every MSU alum I know thought it was a dumb idea once the prices were announced.  I'm sure the school will eat some of the lost tickets and give them away (either free or at a very reduced price) to fill the stadium, but I can't imagine that any fans would pay that much to see their team play a crappy opponent (that goes both for MSU and FAU). 

is my Hero for the Idiotacracy for the day. Yes, idiots of the world. You too, with hard work and a bit of luck, can get a relatively cushy, well paid job too.

I've seen a couple different instances where the lack of the wings on the helmet was misinterpreted by reporters with no clue. Like Tate and the others would take them off themselves just to be diva-licious? Think it over, folks.

isn't this game FAU's responsibility, if it's their home game?  the smarter idea would be to allow students in for free with ID (which i'm guessing would be true at FAU) and charge $20-$40 for the other seats.

Freep ban!

is still smoking the ganja.

The departures of Turner and White had nothing to do with off-season conditioning, breaking team rules, or other normal transgressions. Both of them insisted on wearing helmets that they customized themselves with the help of local auto body painter and tattoo artist Roth Von Dutch. The stripes on Turner's helmet were turned into thick strands of barbed wire, and the stripes on White's were filaments of flame, with a flaming, winged death's head where the standard UM wings would be.

This makes me happy.  Its one bit of evidence that may eventually get ADs to stop planning cupcake home games under the false logic that all additional home games bring in equal revenues.  They don't.   If fans are willing to pay an extra $90 on their season tickets for a game against Cupcake U, it means you've underpriced the rest of the schedule.

Why is a Michigan State Beat Writer--aside from freedom of the press, and office assignments----writing anything about Michigan Football? 

With no Mayo.

Guys, call me crazy, but I read it as him saying that Tate practicing in a wingless helmet lost him respect from his teammates because he had (presumably) done enough to get to the point in the coaches' doghouse where they took his wings. I can see that pretty much everyone else didn't read it that way, and it is very likely a product of some bad prose, but I didn't make the conclusion that Mayo thought TF brought his own helmet from home or whatever when I read that sentence. Am I the only one?

EDIT: After re-reading it, the prose leads more to the conclusion everyone else reached. I guess I just think it was worded wrongly, and, when I read it, I guess I was making certain assumptions because, well, EVERYONE knows why Tate didn't have the wings, so I assumed that the author did as well. I still think he just mangled the hell out of the English language, or, perhaps, his editor made some revisions because the editor is ignorant? I'm just throwing out some alternate possibilities- I have no pre-existing feelings for or against Mayo, really, except I kind of thought it was funny when the whole pot thing went down.

Why research when you can just open Word and type combinations of words and/or phrases you may have heard recently.

I need a little mayo for my turkey sandwich and not for a source on Michigan football.  He needs to go back to covering the exciting Grand Rapids Rampage Arena football team. In his defense, Grand Rapids must be an awful place for a sportswriter.

He is comically wrong here, but it wasn't a hit job or anything. I remember him being the "Michigan guy" for that paper when I read it daily (90s). And everyone else there seems to be 40% pro-MSU/60% anti-Michigan.

And the pot arrest is good for a laugh and all, but he is a sports reporter, not a brain surgeon.

But this reminds me that I cannot think of a sadder day than the one we lost Teen Wolf from the Secondary. :-(

please continue to provide us with a large batch of coachable young men who want to play football, who specifically want to play football for Michigan, and who like hitting people really hard. That is all, we will take it from here.

Edit: and please make the season get here, my sanity might depend on it.

What a classic quote, can't wait to see what he does to some Huskies defensive lineman on September 4th.

That Molk quote is... how does one say?.... 100% pure colombian awesome.  "I hate everything else."  Brilliant.

Molk: This is exactly how I felt during my halcyon days of HS offensive line... except Molk is monumentally better at it than I, who was not good enough for any college and lives in exile, forced to reap my only enjoyment in life vicariously through successful linemen.

Mayo: This is monumental stupidity. I've seen poorly-researched articles before, but this is a reversal of logic akin to Nazi racial theories ... oops I just lost the argument automatically! Guess Mayo was right after all.