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Eat Dinner with Coach Carr, Coach Hoke, Dhani Jones, and Mike Martin
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Thank you to Brian for allowing me to post this. I hope this interests the MGoBlog community.
I am a member of a sponsored student organization at Michigan called Appreciate + Reciprocate. We are a group of University of Michigan students that gives back to Ann Arbor and surrounding communities through service and fundraising. All of our fundraising efforts directly benefit the LSA Emergency Student Aid Fund for students in extreme financial crises.
Each year, Appreciate + Reciprocate holds a benefit dinner and silent auction to raise money for the fund. The benefit dinner is open to the public and tickets for this year's dinner are on sale now. Details are located below:
Date: March 28, 2012
Location: Jack Roth Stadium Club (East Tower of Michigan Stadium)
Speakers: Coach Lloyd Carr, Coach Brady Hoke, Dhani Jones, and Mike Martin
Tentative Program for the Event:
6:00pm Appetizers, Meet & Greet
7:00pm Dinner Begins
7:45pm Keynote Speeches
8:45pm Silent Auction Announcements
9:00pm Event ConcludesTickets:
Students - $50
Regular Seating - $100
Premium Seating - $200
Silent auction items will include a game of 1 on 1 basketball with former Michigan Basketball team captain CJ Lee, and a tour of the new Player Development Center with Assistant Men’s Basketball Coach Bacari Alexander. More items will be added as the event approaches.
For more information, or to purchase tickets, please visit our website at umichappreciate.org.
*Table sponsorships for local businesses are available. Please see our website for contact information to receive pricing and availability.
January 19th, 2012 at 4:54 PM | 
Obviously a mistake but you
Obviously a mistake but you
January 19th, 2012 at 4:57 PM |
Fixed
Fixed
Thanks. I missed that.
January 19th, 2012 at 5:03 PM |
Wow, this sounds awesome. I
Wow, this sounds awesome. I
Wow, this sounds awesome. I won't be able to attend, but good luck with it. I hope it goes well.
January 19th, 2012 at 5:15 PM |
How about a game of 1 on 1 in
How about a game of 1 on 1 in
How about a game of 1 on 1 in football versus Dhani Jones or Mike Martin in pads? You know, attempt to get by him without fumbling the rock (or dying)? lol
Hail! Hail! To Michigan the champions of the west!
January 19th, 2012 at 5:42 PM |
Opportunity to Donate without attending Fundraiser?
Opportunity to Donate without attending Fundraiser?
Do you have a link or address or whatever that we could use to donate to the cause without attending the Fundraiser, for those of us who live far away and can't be in A2 for a wednesday night?
Or, we could buy tickets that you could hand out to some students or kids or others who might not be able to afford to attend?
Thanks, and keep doing the good work!
January 19th, 2012 at 6:09 PM |
To donate without
To donate without
To donate without purchasing tickets, just visit umichappreciate.org. At the top of the page, there is a link to donate.
If you'd like to buy tickets for someone who cannot afford to attend, go through the "Buy Ticket" procedure as you normally would. In the form that says "List the names of your guests..." write "Ticket Donation from ____" or something similar (please make sure to include your name). Appreciate + Reciprocate can then match your ticket donation with students or community members that would otherwise not be able to afford to attend the dinner.
January 19th, 2012 at 6:09 PM |
it is really disappointing
it is really disappointing
it is really disappointing that the university continues to associate publicly with lloyd carr...
January 19th, 2012 at 6:41 PM |
I know right. We should have
I know right. We should have
I know right. We should have given him the boot and refused all that money he helped raise for Motts. Having less money to treat sick kids with is totally worth it because we dislike some of his actions regarding football.
Coaching changeover aside, Carr has done for more UMHS, namely Motts, than most others.
January 19th, 2012 at 8:59 PM |
there are hundreds if not
there are hundreds if not
there are hundreds if not thousands of people who raise money for motts that don't get the credit he does...
January 19th, 2012 at 9:18 PM |
this comment
this comment
this comment made me dumber.
January 20th, 2012 at 2:58 PM |
wow, seriously? that was absolutely NOT what he was saying and you know that...shame on you
~Sean
January 19th, 2012 at 9:12 PM |
I agree. We should cut all
I agree. We should cut all
I agree. We should cut all ties with a College Football Hall of Famer, a guy who brought us a national championship and five Big Ten championships, and a great role model and representative of the university. Fuck him and everything he stands for.
Go be an Alabama fan or something.
"2nd and 5. Here he goes again!"
"That's 6."
"They're not going to catch him! Touchdown Michigan!"
January 19th, 2012 at 9:46 PM |
you are living in the past
you are living in the past
you are living in the past and he is not a great role model. he is a bad person.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:11 PM |
You think I am living in the
You think I am living in the
You think I am living in the past.
I think you are living in some sort of Bizarro-world.
"2nd and 5. Here he goes again!"
"That's 6."
"They're not going to catch him! Touchdown Michigan!"
January 19th, 2012 at 11:58 PM |
i don't understand why this
i don't understand why this
i don't understand why this community is so eager to excuse lloyd carr's crimes.
he committed treason against the school he professed to love and serve and no one cares. they just let him sit between beilein and al glick and smile his smug old wrinkled piece of shit smile like "i can't believe i got away with it all so easily."
it's really frustrating.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:37 AM |
I can't select
I can't select
STFU from the moderation menu from my iPhone. Consider this a manual shut the fuck up. And a mythical minus eleventy bazillion.
Man I miss the negbang.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:06 PM |
Got your back
Got your back
I took him out.
Should we point instead of fist pump during the Victors?
January 20th, 2012 at 1:37 AM |
Like All Men...
Like All Men...
Lloyd Carr has his strengths and weaknesses, his good decisions, his good actions, and the ones he or we can look back and think he could have done better. Overall, Lloyd was a very good coach and a better human being, and let he who is perfect cast the first stone!
Being a Michigan Man is an ideal standard that one must strive for, with the understanding that you may never attain that ideal, rather it is in the striving for that standard wherein lies the heart of a Michigan Man.....
January 21st, 2012 at 1:18 PM |
That is basically what Yost
That is basically what Yost
That is basically what Yost said in his nationally televised speech on the Subject of being a Michigan Man.
Ghosts are scary.
January 20th, 2012 at 10:41 AM |
Some of us share your
Some of us share your
Some of us share your frustration GFP.
George Santayana once wrote:
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I don't want to go through this again, and unless we all remember how we got here and who was complicit in that spiral into the gutter, we will do it agian.
And i am sick of hearing how great a man Lloyd was for raising money for Motts. So did RR, so will Hoke, and so did just about every other coach at UM in my lifetime. IF Lloyd was still coaching at Riverview, he might be attempting to raise money but it wouldn't be millions, he got that much because he was the coach at UM not because he was Lloyd Carr great guy. Doing something charitable does not (or should not) wash away every sin you ever committed, just go ask Jim Tressel.
Appologies to the OP as this is a worthy cause that seems to have been lost sight of.
Go Blue!
January 20th, 2012 at 5:34 PM |
So now Lloyd Carr is on the
So now Lloyd Carr is on the
So now Lloyd Carr is on the same level as Jim Tressel, a proven rulebreaker slapped with a show-cause by the NCAA?
Good grief.
January 20th, 2012 at 1:12 PM |
Crimes? Treason? Man, some
Crimes? Treason? Man, some
Crimes? Treason? Man, some people read 3&O like it's a description of the apocalypse. We will probably never know Carr's side of things, as it's clear he doesn't see the need to defend himself to journalists.
January 19th, 2012 at 10:37 PM |
The hardest part about
The hardest part about
The hardest part about reading your comments is whether to mark them as Flamebait or Trolling
If you're doing nothing, how do you know when you're finished?
StraightDave owes me a steak dinner: http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/ot-stefon-diggs-md#comment-1476908
January 20th, 2012 at 2:14 AM |
GFP's comments are over the top
GFP's comments are over the top
but I don't believe he's the only person around here who isn't a little uncomfortable with Carr constantly being feted given everything that happened with RR. How Michigan treated him is embarrassing, and pretending like it never happened compounds the problem. So, personally, I'd be more likely to attend the OP's event if Carr weren't there. If it were only Carr and Carr-era players, I'd have no problem, because I do like Carr. But I'm not interested in any Carr + Hoke events unless I have evidence RR was also invited--it just smacks too much of a whitewashed rewriting of history.
January 20th, 2012 at 9:56 AM |
Why would RR be invited?
Why would RR be invited?
He is the coach at Arizona. Confused.
I poop excellence
January 20th, 2012 at 2:55 PM |
helpful comment.
~Sean
January 20th, 2012 at 11:49 AM |
Lol
Lol
Trolling. Hah!
I poop excellence
January 20th, 2012 at 12:03 PM |
Cut ties with Carr
Cut ties with Carr
this image rehab tour is getting old. Carr's actions should not be forgotten. Brandon is doing everything he can to make Carr look good. Time will show Brandon was involved with Carr in undercutting Bill Martin & RR in an attempt to get the AD job.
Brandon is a human moth jumping in front of every camera he can. Carr committed treason & now will only appear in controlled speaking/PR events.
He is tarnished & his actions are not that of any self proclaimed M Man.
January 20th, 2012 at 12:30 PM |
I'm not sure that cutting ties with Carr makes much sense
I'm not sure that cutting ties with Carr makes much sense
Carr behaved badly from 2007-2009, but he certainly wasn't alone. Do we have to excommunicate everyone who was against RR during that time? And, by doing so, don't you become what you profess to loathe? That is, you (not meaning you specifically, but those who hold this view) become the "Michigan Man Police."
I used to have tons of admiration for Carr because I thought he was an awfully good coach who used his platform as head coach to advocate for rules that were in the best interests of players. But I was at Michigan when Carr dumped his first wife for Laurie Carr, was on the sidelines when Carr yelled all sorts of "non-family values" things at various players. The man was never a saint, and he's not now.
But the good he did for Michigan and for the guys who played for him far outweighs the bad; he never cheated while he was here. By those measures, I don't think there's any utility in cutting him loose. Carr has to live with the bad choices he made--isn't that enough?
As for Brandon, I'm with you: He's the Jerry Jones of college athletics. He's always the story.
That's the building from which LenDale White threw his pretend self as part of the Carroll/White Halloween prank of 2005.
January 21st, 2012 at 1:07 AM |
unfortunately
unfortunately
you are wrong. there is no epic fail and his lloyd rehabilitation tour is working. everyone except maybe 5 people on this board is eating it up.
brandon was not rich rod's backstabber since he wasn't the AD yet but his PR push for lloyd puts him on lloyd's level imo. complicit ideologically. his approval of this old piece of shit in his current urine-soaked jowl-faced dilapidated state is an approval of his pants pissing treachery between 2008 and 2010. meanwhile mary sue coleman is weak and cowardly and has been for several years now.
i hate these people. i hate them. lloyd carr, dave brandon, mary sue coleman. i hate them. they killed michigan. murdered it. and now it's gone forever and all that's left is this dead husk created by brandon and carr.
"but michigan went 11-2 this year. stop whining and enjoy the success." no. i won't. this is not where we should be. hoke should not be michigan's coach. he did not earn the job and he did not deserve the job. rich rodriguez had a resume and he was hired on the basis of that resume. he was not allowed to do at michigan what he did at west virginia. john beilein has been given that opportunity and look at the success it has wrought.
i don't care that michigan went 11-2 this year and that hoke will win x big tens and y national titles because we should not be here. the wrong man won. lloyd carr won.
i would rather go 7-6 every year with rich rodriguez than 14-0 with a hand picked lloyd carr puppet.
January 20th, 2012 at 1:29 PM |
Cut ties with Carr
Cut ties with Carr
His actions are not those of a true Michigan Man. He should check what Bump Elliott did for Bo or even what RR did for Hoke---encourage kid's to stay and get education and play for M. Sadly, LC took the opposite approach---all while getting paid $388K annually as an Associate AD!!!
January 20th, 2012 at 11:43 PM |
+ 1
+ 1
If I could.
January 20th, 2012 at 4:32 PM |
Wow...!
Wow...!
There are few more hardcore Rodriguez supporters than me; but banishment of Lloyd Carr? Get real, people. A few days ago, Carr was entertaining the Athletic Department's Number One Booster, Al Glick, at the last home basketball game.
I'll grant this; if there are any lingering hard feelings with Lloyd Carr following the publication of Three and Out -- and judging by this thread there clearly are some -- it would serve everyone's interest for Lloyd Carr to air out his side of any story and to answer any/all critical questions.
Had Lloyd Carr come out way back in 2009 and condemned the Free Press for its unfounded attack on Rodriguez and the football program, an awful lot of hard feelings could have been avoided. People migh understand a little better where he stood. Or perhaps, the fact that he did nothing tells us where Carr stood.
Anyway, nobody is "banishing" our Hall of Fame Coach Emeritus. But this is why, for the umpteenth time, Carr is serving no interests but his own in clamming up.
January 20th, 2012 at 5:39 PM |
The vast majority of the
The vast majority of the
The vast majority of the Michigan football family (fans included) has moved past the dissention of the RR years. That there is a minority fixated on those three ugly seasons doesn't mean Carr needs to dredge it all back up.
January 21st, 2012 at 3:07 PM |
Reason that I came to this thread...
Reason that I came to this thread...
...was that I had immediately checked to see if I could get a sit-down dinner with Coach Carr for $200. They were sold out even before I knew about the event. Would have been an interesting dinner. Easily worth $200.
January 21st, 2012 at 3:55 PM |
Premium Tickets
Premium Tickets
I mentioned this in response to another one of your comments. Premium tickets are not yet available for the event. There are several reasons why we cannot release them yet. They should be available in about two weeks. If you want us to email you once they are out, please contact us at appreciate at umich.edu.
January 20th, 2012 at 8:45 PM |
I was one of the founding
I was one of the founding
I was one of the founding members of this group, and am only not active in it anymore because I'm at the SPH now instead of LSA. It's a great group and I really encourage anyone considering or able to to help support them by going to this event.
I may actually go myself depending on where my finances are in late March.
January 21st, 2012 at 8:27 PM |
posted from iPhone
posted from iPhone
Is it just me, or is the mobile version of the organization's site all jacked up? I see it fine on my laptop but the mobile redirect (on my phone) seems to be selling me on a hair salon.
Candace: No... That why they make smart word box for tell monkey hard brain-hurty things.
Phineas: Removing prepositions makes it more condescending.
January 22nd, 2012 at 4:42 PM |
On the whole Lloyd Carr situation
On the whole Lloyd Carr situation
It really irks me to see so many people supporting Carr on here. How he treated Rich was downright despicable and for so many people here to almost turns a blind eye makes us look moronic as a fan base. I know he has done a lot for the community and I do think he has Michigan;s best interests most of the time. But too many people praise him like he is a saint. He really screwed Rich Rod and any of you deny that are simply denying the facts.
Also, you guys who keep negging people for bringing up some decent discussion are being very childish. Lets keep this board for open discussion.
"Those Who Stay Will Be Champions"
January 22nd, 2012 at 6:47 PM |
Please, give it a rest. The
Please, give it a rest. The
Please, give it a rest. The thread is about a charity event to help UM students. I'm glad the off-topic, flame-bait ones are all negged, because then I don't have to pick through them to get to the ones dealing with the charity. There's a time and a place for everything. I'm not sure why that's so hard to understand.
Obviously a mistake but you might want to change the title to correctly state "Mike Martin" instead of "Martin Martin." Thanks for the info though.