Amazing Week in Sports - Life is Great!
I just have to share my elation right now with the sporting world right now.
1. Michigan picks up Wilson and Kalis.
2. USA beats Brazil in an absolutely EPIC soccer match.
3. Detroit Tigers are back in first place.
4. Uber-Michigan fan Derek Jeter made history.
5. We are not Ohio State.
I feel like this is somewhat summing up a bunch of the below posts, but it has just been an amazing weekend for sports.
Go Blue!
Great weekend. Now I'm enjoying what's left of it with some golf. The ending at the John Deere Classic is getting interesting.
Wow. Those last two shots by Stricker were amazing.
I thought this was going to be just like the last "Life" thread. I'm thrilled that it is not.
Yes to this.
Here's hoping that we have a good start to the Hoke era on the field in 2011, and that this incoming 2012 class makes the impact we all expect.
DIdn't you read that last Life thread? Life sucks. People are mean.
But aside from that guy's problems, this weekend has been amazing. I don't want to go back to work tomorrow..
It seems to me that life's been looking up for the University of Michigan in general ever since Hoke was hired. (Greg Mattison as DC, Broke the MSU curse, Got to the NCAA tournament's 2nd round despite being projected to be at the bottom of the big 10, Got to the finals of NCAA hockey tournament, had amazing recruiting success in hockey, basketball, and football, First 5 games at the big house and 6th one at nwu).
You know, Coach Hoke was probably pointing at the tv screen during today's game.
This is probably about the best summer / off-season we'll ever have. OSU is having a meltdown and recruiting is going incredibly well
OSU won't implode every year, but the offseason after a championship is even better. The 1998 offseason (basking in the glow of the title, plus the #1 recruiting class) is the gold standard.
Don't you think that after these last three years, we deserve it? I'm a life long fan, so I've had good times with the wolverines. However, I feel bad for all my classmates who came in with me as freshmen and have only known 3 good moments at the big house: 2008 Wisconson, 2009 Notre Dame, & 2010 Illinios. Hopefully our senior year makes up for it all at least in part.
I will say, those were three extremely exciting games. Getting one of those per year isn't bad. What you guys have really missed out on isn't so much the high drama as the more straightforward satisfaction of watching Michigan just level a non-MAC team. UConn's the only recent one.
Or the satisfaction of knowing how often we used to win at home regardless of the opponent.
During Lloyd Carr's first 10 seasons, we had a 58-6 record at the Big House. And of those 6 losses, 4 of them were by 6 points or less. I believe only Oklahoma had a better home record during that decade.
That's where I feel most sorry for the current students the last 3 years, seeing how often the team has lost at home. To see teams like Wisconsin, Michigan State, Purdue and Illinois, who got destroyed in Ann Arbor for so many decades, to just walk right in and look like Super Bowl champs...it's not right. It's not what I'm used to and I'm not even that old.
This is another thing I want back under Hoke. I want to see Michigan Stadium regarded as one of the toughest places to play regardless of how quiet people think we are. Heck, before OSU hired St. Tressel, they hadn't won here in 15 years.
double post
also had a great finish to the U19 National team's tournament. He led the team to a win with a pretty solid stat line.
great week for Michigan sports!
Guess we were distracted by things closer to home.
Hardaway is the face on the NCAA.com article:
http://www.ncaa.com/news/basketball-men/2011-07-10/team-usa-finishes-fifth-fiba-u19
Ever see that annoying Jello "pudding face" commercial? I've had a pudding face ever since Friday when Wilson committed and with the Kalis news today, it will probably last a week.
We should be getting our first 2014 commitment soon right? lol