Am I the only one having a nervous breakdown wondering what's going on at the scrimmage?

Submitted by Wolverine In Iowa on

I'm dying over heah!!!!

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August 17th, 2013 at 10:10 PM ^

Special scrimmage guests- Brad Keselowski, Gary Moeller, Desmond Howard and Rick Leach;

Post-scrimmage

Hoke and Keselowski

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Zone Left

August 17th, 2013 at 10:15 PM ^

I saved you the trouble of telling me who Keselowski was, but now that I Googled him, I can't figure out a) why he was invited, b) why he wore business casual, and c) what the hell his relationship is with the University.

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goneblue32

August 17th, 2013 at 11:08 PM ^

If you would take the time to learn all aspects of stock car racing, you just might gain a little more respect for the sport. These drivers are going 200 mph, bumper to bumper, door to door with each other. A lot can happen at those speeds. On TV it doesn't look that fast, but at 200 mph a car travels the length of a football field in 1 second.

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triangle_M

August 19th, 2013 at 8:18 PM ^

Ok. So where do you get the details of the engineering adjustments that are made? Or is this just a wild ass assumption you're making based on what someone told you about the "sport."  I work with engineering controls every day, you're going to have to come up with something with a little more teeth to convince me.  Also, engineering controls has very little to do with athleticism or sport.  

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SHub'68

August 18th, 2013 at 2:38 AM ^

I live in NC and got a chance to do the Richard Petty Experience for free a couple years ago...it's where you ride along with a driver for a few laps.  I learned that there is no way in he11 I could do what they do at those speeds...didn't make me a fan, but I can respect what they can do.

Think of it this way: someone is going to be the champion, let it be a Michigan fan.

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Tater

August 17th, 2013 at 10:42 PM ^

Keselowski won the Sprint Cup Championship last year, putting him at the top of his sport.  He may have made more money last year than most people here will make in their entire working lives.  He is an athlete who risks his life every time he "suits up."  Most of all, he is a huge Michigan fan whose fandom promotes the brand. 

Michigan could certainly do a lot worse than to have a champion who is a huge Michigan fan hang out and talk to the team.

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rockediny

August 18th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^

I understand that NASCAR is a difficult, dangerous "sport" (based on your definition of a sport) and requires instincts and quick reactions but I don't think it requires much athletism. It's a competition on who is the best at controlling a man-made machine. When steroids don't give you a significant edge over your competition, you can't really call yourself an athlete IMO. At least it looks like a sport, poker on the other hand....

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Wisconsin Wolverine

August 18th, 2013 at 12:31 AM ^

Some games require skill or ability, rather than sheer strength or speed (what we typically think of as "athleticism").  For instance, archery requires an intense amount of coordination, control, and carefully practiced skill.  But you may not think of an archer as an "athlete."  So, I think what we're looking at is a division between physical games that are primarily games of skill, and physical games that are primarily competitions of power.  Driving racecars is clearly a physical activity, but the strength component is pretty minimal.  I'd have to categorize it similarly to archery or bowling, but with an added dimension of engineering fused to it.

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denardogasm

August 17th, 2013 at 11:03 PM ^

Do you really think any of those reasons makes him more worthy than anyone else to get into practice?  Because he makes more money and risks his life of his own volition?  Please.

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MSHOT92

August 19th, 2013 at 8:44 AM ^

Brad regularly wears UM hats and shirts at many venues. The race this weekend was in Brooklyn Michigan and thus made it easy for him to attend the scrimmage. He is the defending champion worth millions of dollars which he donates some to the University. He is the posterboy for Miller Lite/Miller brewing and speaks VERY proudly of his Michigan birthrights and UM sports in general...so while many of you go all dick mode...check his twitter account and figure out he's as loyal a fan as some of you bitches...

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tdcarl

August 17th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^

He won the Nascar championship last year, is from Michigan, and has always been a Michigan fan. I seem to remember him being invited to something before. The Nascar race at Michigan International Speedway is this weekend so he was around this weekend. None of that explains the business casual though.

Also: there is an article about him up on MGoBlue from last year http://www.mgoblue.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080812aag.html

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LSAClassOf2000

August 17th, 2013 at 10:23 PM ^

The only thing I can think of when it comes to "why" is that he's a Rochester Hills native and presumably grew up a Michigan fan. Indeed, in an MGoBlue.com feature last week, he said:

"My interest in Michigan football really started with my cousins across the street," said Keselowski. "They were huge Michigan football fans. When I was seven or eight years old, I would stay with them when my dad and mom were out of town racing [his father, Bob, was a 1997 race winner in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series]. We'd watch Michigan football every Saturday afternoon during the fall. That is where my love affair for Michigan football started."

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