BYU home and home?
Rumors out of Provo...has anyone heard anything about this?
http://twitter.com/DJPKKFAN/status/25927883615
September 29th, 2010 at 8:05 PM ^
Bronco!!!!!!!!!
September 29th, 2010 at 8:10 PM ^
I don't know that I like this game. BYU is that dangerous team that gains you little by beating it, but is huge if you lose.
Unless we're talking revenge for their National Championship game victory over one of our worst teams in the last 40 years...
September 29th, 2010 at 8:20 PM ^
"BYU is that dangerous team that gains you little by beating it, but is huge if you lose."
Agree 1000%.
If we're going to schedule a team that is a non-cupcake, and actually a legitimate challenge, we should make it a sexier opponent.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:58 PM ^
how do we not gain anything from beating a team that is perennially in the top 25? We play cupcakes and people complain. We play good teams like Uconn and maybe BYU and we don't gain enough. If we play a team like Alabama or Texas, people complain that we can't beat them. Lets just be happy its not BGSU or App st
September 29th, 2010 at 9:20 PM ^
I, for one, LOVED the BGSU game.
September 30th, 2010 at 1:25 AM ^
September 30th, 2010 at 12:32 AM ^
What's not sexy about BYU? I'd tap that.
September 30th, 2010 at 7:43 AM ^
Not only are ther plenty of sexies running around Provo, most of the dudes out there don't even appreciate them. The proof is in the link.
http://www.provopulse.com/?q=node/11011
All they want is for someone to tell them they look nice in their new seimwear. Any takers?
September 30th, 2010 at 8:37 AM ^
Dude, that was the weirdest link to date. I can't believe I sat and read the comments. Conservative Mormons (redundant?) blow my mind with the way they think. I'd like to read their opinion on other pressing matters.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:09 AM ^
it was eye opening to say the least. One of the biggest shocks was the role (or lack there of) that women play in their society. To sum it up - shut up, go sit over there and pump out some babies.
September 30th, 2010 at 10:02 AM ^
I like the random guy in the middle who writes "pics or didn't happen".
September 30th, 2010 at 10:41 AM ^
That was my fav part as well. I was going to reply directly to the link, but you beat me to it (by about 45 minutes).
September 30th, 2010 at 10:39 AM ^
Submitted by PastoMan on Wed, 06/18/2008 - 10:46pm.
I nearly cried from laughing so hard...Pics or it didn't happen.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:25 PM ^
Any team not in the top 6 conferences is that way. If we beat them, great, if we lose- shoot yourself in the head.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:10 PM ^
Personally, I think that's a horrible idea. No good can come of it, at least none that I can put my finger on. Why play BYU as an out of conference with a home-and-home when that same type of arrangement could draw many more interesting matchups with west coast teams? Along those lines, I'd love to see a Michigan-Cal matchup. Two of the most liberal institutions butting heads on the gridiron.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:20 PM ^
Yeah! Cause we do awesome with those types of games!
September 30th, 2010 at 9:35 AM ^
How is BYU any different from Cal other than BYU being a better team the last 2-3 years?
September 29th, 2010 at 8:23 PM ^
Why is Cal more interesting than BYU? I, for one, am intrigued by BYU, both as the world's foremost Mormon university and as a good football team that plays a weak schedule. Plus they have Samoans!
September 29th, 2010 at 8:50 PM ^
I love samoas! Best cookies ever! Sign me up!!!
September 29th, 2010 at 9:12 PM ^
Seriously? Pac-10 vs Mountain West/Indy. San Francisco(okay Berkeley) vs Provo. California vs Utah. I vote no to BYU.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:56 PM ^
I agree, unless we played BYU very late in the season. Which would never happen, but a trip where you could combine M football and Wasatch powder would be pretty damn sweet.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^
Non-alum here.... Re. this:
"I'd love to see a Michigan-Cal matchup. Two of the most liberal institutions butting heads on the gridiron."
Is U of M actually *that* liberal? I'm not trying to incite political debate here, I'm genuinely curious. I hear U of M and AA characterized as very liberal a lot, but, in my experience, when something is labelled "very ____" relative to politics, it's usually an attempt to marginalize and in reality the place being referred to isn't as extreme as some would wish to characterize it.... So, is UM/AA really any more liberal than any other college/college town?
September 29th, 2010 at 8:38 PM ^
And its the most liberal place I've been not in Cali or Europe.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:40 PM ^
I'm not sure, but I definitely think our reputation for political activism is way overblown.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:44 PM ^
We were a lot more politically active when my parents where here, in the 1960s. Groups like SDS (a student terrorist group) formed here and such. These days people are a lot less active.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:06 PM ^
The reputation grows from the 60s and the Vietnam anti-war protest. Berkeley, CA and Ann Arbor, MI were the two most active anti-war areas and both because of the universities there. I just think the history behind both schools would make Cal-Michigan an interesting matchup.
September 30th, 2010 at 10:44 AM ^
Alos see Madison, WI (bombing and all).
September 29th, 2010 at 9:52 PM ^
To call SDS a political terrorist group in their days based in Ann Arbor is inaccurate. At that point, they were committed to direct action to change society and the economic system, but didn't advocate violence. Ineffective, self-absorbed, having far more genius at self-promotion than in accomplishing political change, sure, but not really student terrorists.
It's not until the late 60s, when splinter groups (mainly Weathermen and some Trotskyist youth organizations) who advocated and used violent tactics, seized control of SDS at one of their national conventions (I want to say 1969), but that was really the last nail in the coffin of a splintering group.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:44 PM ^
There is a reason Ann Arbor hosts Hash Bash
September 29th, 2010 at 8:46 PM ^
....NTTAWWT.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:46 PM ^
when compared to the definition of conservative by the far right wackos.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:28 PM ^
Trust me you don't know conservative until you've lived in Texas.
There's a reason I came back to Michigan ASAP.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:15 AM ^
Texas, as a whole, is obviously conservative but I'll tell you that Austin is right up there with UM and the schools in CA. I don't know about UM but UT has a MASSIVE population of pot smokers such to the point where the police had to change the laws that carrying a certain amount just gets you a traffic ticket (so to speak) because they didn't have enough room in the jails for all the kids getting busted carrying it around. And beyond that it's a huge liberal center politcally speaking and center of a ton of organizations part of the green movement that many consider to be part of the "liberal camp."
September 29th, 2010 at 9:01 PM ^
"... when something is labelled very ____ relative to politics, it's usually an attempt to marginalize ..."
So true ... Ann Arbor is a large Midwestern town with a decent (and shrinking) population of white-collar professionals and a smattering of LIBRULLS (or, if you want to go talk radio, LLLIBRULLZUH). In no way do the latter overwhelm the town. They certainly give it a flavor that's not found in other towns in that weight class (Madison excepted), but (again) I consider it a pretty tame place. It is much more yuppified/corporatized than it was 25 years ago.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:28 PM ^
Republicans don't even bother to run in Ann Arbor anymore for office. It's usually Democrat vs. Democrat, or liberal independent. Take that FWIW.
September 29th, 2010 at 10:20 PM ^
September 29th, 2010 at 10:26 PM ^
Interesting. What blueheron wrote is about what I expected the "view from the ground" in AA is really like....as opposed to the sensationalized characterizations of it.....war protests and hash bash notwithstanding. =)
September 29th, 2010 at 10:34 PM ^
Even the Hash Bash is past its prime. Not that many students go to it. It's become an excuse for middle-aged hippies to come in and make a mess.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:12 AM ^
OSU has something very, very similar called "ChitFest" where it's just a big massive pot smoking, drug-fest mixed with gratutious amounts of alcohol held on Chittenden Ave. I only bring that up because most seem to think UM is much more liberal than OSU so saying you have a pot smoking party once a year doesn't really equal liberal, it just equals large school that, by raw numbers, has to have a certain number of pot smoking hippies (insert Cartman reference here).
September 29th, 2010 at 9:25 PM ^
Having been to most of the B10 towns and having lived in 3 of them, none come close anymore to Bloomington. This is the city that continually protests against the state building an interstate extentsion that would allow for the rest of the I-69 project to finish and have a continguous interstate between Canada and Mexico.
Bloomington is the only B10 city not on an interstate, and is one of the most difficult to get to because of it.
Add the political activism to the burgeoning gay, lesbian, and transgendered population, and you come up with the most "liberal" B10 campus.
September 29th, 2010 at 10:12 PM ^
I guess I can't give you specifics, just personal experience; i.e., friends, acquaintances, etc. But I would put Madison right up near the top. But maybe you should take that with a grain of salt as I am a self professed conservative.
Edit: On second thought, I probably shouldn't have shared that. Now watch me get negged.
September 29th, 2010 at 10:29 PM ^
who has lived in Ann Arbor, East Lansing and Madison, I will say that Madison is the most progressive/liberal of the three. Ann Arbor is a liberal college town, but still has many conservatives while East Lansing is just a town full of bad pizza and flat beer.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:17 AM ^
It's the 5th law of thermo - conservation of hot air. All their fans are full of it so there's none left to put in the beer :)
September 29th, 2010 at 10:37 PM ^
Why are they protesting the interstate? Is it just a general pushback against the car culture or is there some environmental reason?
September 29th, 2010 at 10:54 PM ^
a couple of times, and to me it seemed more conservative than any other B10 campus I have been to.
September 30th, 2010 at 11:57 PM ^
Maybe you were in West Lafayette and were very confused. Bloomington is the most iberal city in Indiana. That was before the influx of kids from the east coast after 9/11.
And seriously, someone negged me for saying Bloomington is more liberal than Ann Arbor. You stay classy MGoBoard.
September 30th, 2010 at 12:52 AM ^
At one point I think Ann Arbor had the highest per capita contribution rate to the Obama campaign in either the nation or state. I'm having trouble finding a link but this is at least some support. I'm sure that's partly a reflection of the relative wealth of the city but certainly a pretty good indicator of its policital tendencies.
September 29th, 2010 at 9:36 PM ^
If Michigan is going to play anyone on the west coast it should be Oregon St. OSU will play anyone and I live close enough to Corvallis that I could go to the game.
September 29th, 2010 at 11:01 PM ^
Plus we'd be playing OSU... It'd be like THE GAME except really not anything like THE GAME.
September 30th, 2010 at 9:19 AM ^
It'd give us a chance to beat OSU THREE TIMES!!!! ;)