Bill Burr on Rich Eisen Supports UM, Eviscerates OSU
January 9th, 2024 at 3:42 PM ^
Bill had me rolling! Love that he's behind the guys and is happy Michigan won.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:48 PM ^
Buckeye fans are pathetic living in their delusional little box!! FSU fans are doing the same thing!! Despite Losing by 60, they think fsu would magically beat all four playoff teams
January 9th, 2024 at 3:49 PM ^
I love Bill Burr anyways but he absolutely has a solid point about hiring Helow just for the semi-finals game and him dogging on OSU makes it all the funnier
January 9th, 2024 at 3:58 PM ^
Riffing off something Kirby Smart said about Michigan stealing their signs, there is nothing I remember about George Helow’s time at Michigan that would concern me about him working for Alabama.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:29 PM ^
Concern aside here, the timing of that hire is suspect and we know exactly what the motive was.
Let's not kid ourselves. It was about gaining a competitive advantage. Whether he could actually give one or not is a whole different discussion.
It is case in point that these things need to be ironed out sooner than later if the NCAA is going to point fingers about one way and dismiss another as fair game.
January 9th, 2024 at 5:05 PM ^
Advanced scouting is against the rules but handing over signs like PSU/OSU did for Purdue last year or hiring a former coach like Bama did is no different. It's all for the purposes of getting the same advantage. The methods may be different but the results are the same.
Either it's all against the rules or none of it is.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:50 PM ^
"A box of Wheat Chex, Dorothy Hamill, and an arrow."
I like it.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:44 PM ^
I was screaming for them to call that play in the 3rd qtr!!
January 9th, 2024 at 5:04 PM ^
My favourite play is 2 Dorothy Hamels and a llama.
January 9th, 2024 at 6:15 PM ^
Forget the "Hail, Mary" and call for the Wheat Chex.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:50 PM ^
My God that was spectacular. Burr taking shots at OSU is just icing on the cake.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:58 PM ^
100%, they are the most miserable fanbase in America.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:53 PM ^
Apparently now the scandal is that somehow Michigan got the ACC refs and the NCAA to rig the game for them. They are truly the worst losers, and it warms my heart to see how Ohio State has adopted mediocrity as the way forward.
January 9th, 2024 at 3:58 PM ^
Yes, the NCAA wanted Michigan to win a game that those mouthbreathers are convinced the NCAA is going to vacate sometime soon.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:23 PM ^
Doesn't the NCAA lack any authority whatsoever over the playoff committee?
January 9th, 2024 at 4:28 PM ^
When you are delusional like osu and msu little bros reality is a four letter word.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:39 PM ^
RLTY
January 9th, 2024 at 4:43 PM ^
I think the only "authority" the NCAA has over the CFP is the NCAA determines who is bowl-eligible. Once a team is determined bowl-eligible, then the CFP can opt to select that team for the playoff or not.
Once that team is in the CFP, my understanding is that is where the NCAA's jurisdiction ends, because the NCAA does not sanction the playoff.
That's what I don't really understand about all these OSU fans calling for the NCAA to vacate Michigan's CFP title. The NCAA has no jurisdiction there. I suppose they could vacate regular season wins and maybe Big Ten title wins (not sure if that's the Big Ten office's responsibility, and the Big Ten allegedly considers this whole matter closed at this point).
And honestly, even if the NCAA could vacate all of it, it doesn't change a thing. The games happened. There were 75,000 people who witnessed it in person. Millions watched it on TV. You can't just erase that from existence. Its such a hollow, worthless punishment, especially when you have far more egregious issues happening across the college football landscape.
OSU fans say the same thing about their wins from 2010 being vacated. Everyone remembers them punking Michigan 37-7. That game very much happened. I readily accept that it did, even though it doesn't "count."
January 9th, 2024 at 4:13 PM ^
Fowler was absolutely howling about a couple calls and Harbs would have had every right to knock Reece the fuck out after all his bullshit - which he piled up quite a bit higher in the last couple days. Fowler & Davis are gonna co-author a book on how Michigan doesn't deserve its Championship. I expect half of the 12 people in Ohio that can read might buy it.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:22 PM ^
The foreword will be by Thamel.
January 9th, 2024 at 10:26 PM ^
So, it will be written in crayon. Got it.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:58 PM ^
I saw a Spartan claiming that Michigan wore white gloves knowing they would blend in with Washington's white jerseys when we held their players, which means we cheated by planning on holding a lot and therefore the title game is void.
January 9th, 2024 at 5:25 PM ^
Doesn't every team do that every game?
January 9th, 2024 at 6:06 PM ^
Yes but it's Sparty and their mental gymnastics are enough to make Simone Biles jealous
They do whatever they can to cope and seethe out of accepting the truth that Michigan are the undisputed champions in college football.
I'm just eating popcorn and watching the fireworks at this point
January 9th, 2024 at 3:56 PM ^
Burr is a national treasure.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:08 PM ^
A BradyPat fan leans our way. Shocking. Guy is a good actor besides being an excellent comic.
January 9th, 2024 at 9:36 PM ^
That's a coincidence. He talks about becoming a Michigan fan while spending time with his grandparents back in the 70s.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:11 PM ^
F is For Family is a hilarious Netflix show.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:24 PM ^
They left out the punchline that sign stealing is LEGAL. People off this blog seem to completely dismiss that and NEVER explain how advance in-person scouting gave Michigan such an enormous edge. If someone can direct me to one fucking person who has done that, I'll eat a bug.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:57 PM ^
Not only people on this blog but 99 per cent of "reporters" seem to have avoided reading or comprehending the NCAA rule book. Stewart Mandel today said that Michigan was guilty of "brazen cheating. " What a crock of bad reporting. JH was absolutely right to claim innocence last night and I hope that the quislings who run the Michigan Athletic Dept don't knuckle under to whatever further BS is coming from the NCAA. And all these weak, pathetic, and dishonest coaches who are pretending to be shocked, shocked that sign stealing is going on, despite the fact they all have analysts trying to steal signs need to stop talking. What goes around will come around.
January 9th, 2024 at 5:51 PM ^
"quisling" And this is why I read this blog. I had never heard that word before and it is spot on.
January 9th, 2024 at 6:24 PM ^
Thank you and I will pile on to your point . . . The violation of the rule which according to the NCAA
a) is a cost saving rule and
b) a practice (in this age of technology) that brings little or no advantage
It is right there with cheeseburger-gate. I suspect it brought no advantage or else Michigan staff members would know something more about it. Think about it, it really, really works and we were able to keep it to ourselves for two/three years so that we would look good.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:33 PM ^
My dislike of OSU is rivaled only my loathing for Notre Dame. Burr takes down both in this segment. Brilliant.
January 9th, 2024 at 4:49 PM ^
Michigan received all 63 first place votes in the final coach's poll.....
I guess everyone is in agreement that will not be an asterisk next to that Championship
January 9th, 2024 at 9:37 PM ^
Do the coaches have an agreement to vote for the CFP winner like they did the BCS?
January 9th, 2024 at 5:20 PM ^
Didn't think it was possible to like Bill Burr more. I hope he never stops being hilarious. Chappelle was the goat then he went to Africa and came back swollen and unfunny.
January 9th, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^
bill burr is the best.
January 9th, 2024 at 6:35 PM ^
I don't think he's really a college football guy though.You can tell by the comment about the sanctions...because other than the Harbaugh suspension(s) there haven't really been any yet as the investigation hasn't been finalized.
If Michigan gets hit with scholarship reductions, post-season bans etc. (which obviously would be crazy but we also can't pretend isn't a possibility given the way the NCAA feels about Michigan), you definitely can't rule out that the program will take a dip.
January 9th, 2024 at 8:09 PM ^
Vance Bedford says that Alabama hiring Helow is all on Bama-he was always very critical of the play of our LBs when he was "coaching" them. Vance expects Michigan to be sanctioned for not warning Bama about how awful Helow is/was!!!
January 10th, 2024 at 2:31 AM ^
Love those segments w Sam Webb and coach Bedford.