...says Denzel Valentine of Big Ten Tourney favorite MSU, which is 5-7 in its last 12 games. Cumong, man.
Coaches' timeouts are worse. Basketball teams should get one, full stop.
"Though I received no official response to these sophisticated and elegant tweets to the Illini Athletic Department, I would like to think that Beckman spent the evening prank calling everyone in Illinois named George McLellan and then ordering an absurd amount of hats off an internet haberdashery to hoard in his home's hat annex."
in re: is GRIII on a tear
Petway nails threes to death metal. Seriously.
Mike Lantry, 1972
Career-enders coming fast and furious.
"Tonight we were reminded that Michigan is five years further down the road. Which means we have a long road ahead. The State Farm Center renovations start in a few hours and will run for three years. Let’s hope that when they’re complete, we’re Michigan."
unfortunate break for Boilers
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He says ND will come into the big house and win, citing Michigan's lack of a rowdy environment and basically saying Michigan Stadium is not much of a home field advantage.
For everyone that will be there, we finna bring it..
Go Blue! Lets kick some Irish Ass and leave 'em looking like..
maybe I was wrong about their fans
Cowherd is a tool.
Everyone that shows up at the game better be loud! Prove this asshat wrong.
I know using insulting variations of people's names on mgoblog is treated by some as being on the level of breaking wind in the Vatican, but I think an exception should be made for someone referred to by many as "Colin Cowturd."
but every time I read his name that is how it comes through in my head...no joke.
So this wont be popular around here, but what about Michigan Stadium not being that loud is so egregious? I've been going to games for 10 years (5 as a student) and there have been loud moments but this place is just not consistently rambunctious. There are a bevy of reasons for this that are well known, it is what it is. Would I love it to be louder? Absoulutely but until we all decide to take out an ad in AnnArbor.com or something and tell people to loosen their vocal chords we are preaching to the wrong choir.
Also, I dont understand why Cowherd gets such a bad rap around here... For the most part, the guy just tells it like it is and whenever we get any criticism from anyone (constructive or not) we just blow up and start crying about what a loser the guy is. I am not talking about real baffoons like Rosenberg, Valenti or Sharp who are obviously just begging for attention and limelight. Cowherd & Van Pelt are two of just a small handful of radio personalities who aren't turrible and actually make rational points. .
My recollection might be a bit off, but part of why Cowherd is unpopular around here is due to an incident circa 2006 where he ripped off material from the MZone blog and used it on his show unattributed.
Apparently there was more to it than that. He ripped off material and when called out, he was a complete tool about it.
does not make rational points. You must have missed where he said that John Wall will never be an NBA superstar because he didn't have a father growing up. That is pretty typical of the level of logic used in his arguments.
...he's kinda right. I loved my 4 years of attending games at Michigan Stadium, but never experienced a raucous environment until I got to Kyle Field.
But this helps more.
REFRACTION
I'm not going to say I always love the atmosphere at the Big House, but sometimes it's amazing. Check out these blue hairs getting into it:
Unfortunately this clip cuts short the mayhem, but the student section on that play - only difference to your clip is a lack a towels and an excess of people jumping like its a basketball game.
i got a better idea.
why don't just stop watching that idiot?
Can the mods start putting posts on Cowherd in the Sharp Zone? I'm pretty sure every Cowherd post on this board is essentially the same as every attempted Drew Sharp post.
aloooot of people listen to Cowherd including myself so just not listening to him is kind of a lame answer....we do need to bring the noise, you cant say that you havent heard that shit before.....we have a chance on primetime to shut him the fuk up and bring everything we got. Because like I said alot of people listen to him so if we can be loud as hell we will prove him wrong to aloooot of people......
Come on man, "aloooot"? There are so many things wrong with that. It makes my head explode.
what would people get senselessly angry about, then?
Can we put Valenti in that group also?
putting a memeber of the mgocommunity in every section making sure no one sits down. I VOW to do my part.
Nothing like breeding resentment in the seating area by planting people to be intentionally inconsiderate.
I'll never understand the notion that the only way to be loud and intimidating is to be standing up the entire game, even if every single person around you isn't.
when your sitting down or standing up? Maybe it's just me, but I enjoy the whole atmosphere more when people are standing. Just having a little fun, didn't mean to upset
My Bad
Here's a chill pill.
Twice a day with a shot of jack.
stand for 3 hours, then don't come to the fucking game. People who complaim about having to stand at sporting events piss me off to no end.
I'm not complaining about standing up at a sporting event. I can, and I do when it's appropriate to do so.
I'm complaining about people who are so inconsiderate that they completely ignore everyone around them, feign deafness when asked to sit down, and then get confrontational about their "right" to stand up and block those behind them. I've seen it happen at almost every game I've attended over the last three years, almost concurrently with the "Up in back!" phenomenon emerging in the blogosphere.
If you are in row 25 and no one in front of you or behind you is standing, yet you are, you're doing it wrong. A little consideration is a good thing. It's called being an adult.
It's useless though. Last week, I tried talking to a blue haired fellow next to me and he just stared at me and didn't say a word. I don't understand how that makes going to a game exciting. I understand if you don't want to stand or yell but at least enjoy the game and converse about what is going on.
Me: Oh man, nice block by Lewan (talking it) -- did you see him?
That guy: .......(crickets).......
Me: Ok, cool. Nice talk.
Ah, the silliness of callow youth.
Rats, you sussed me out. All these years I've attended the U, donated to the U, gone to non-revenue sports games, married into a U-M family, bought U-M swag, imbued wolverine fandom into my offspring . . . finally, the truth comes out, you have discovered my ugly secret. Yes, I am not a true fan, because I have been known to sit down within U-M stadium.
I thought I was keeping the charade up, but I blew it the moment ass met bleacher. Can't get one past you.
and understand what you mean by that. If your blatinly standing by yourself like a jackass sit down. I mean when there are groups of people standing everyone else should feel they should stand too. I can see how my comment would make you think I am that jackass lol. But I can assure you I don't and get irritated by those people your taking about as well..
blatantly*
and this is why the argument i had last night about florida (not the school part but the fan part) is correct and the other guy was wrong. you don't have this happening at other colleges, at least not to this extent. people who sit at other college games are in the minority, and guess what, being in the majority makes you right. the correct way to view a football game is to stand the entire time, the majority does it that way and the majority always wins
Man, this is stupid, stupid, stupid.
Where's my sandwich, BTW.
A prime example why Cowherd is right...
all the support :) hope all you are going to be there Saturday!
id like to know how many times he has actually been to the stadium..
How many times did western have delay of game last wk?
I mean he kind of has a point. At least he did, but I think the suites help keep noise in. Plus hopefully the night atmosphere adds to it.
Cowherd is right that Michigan is not really a raucous environment.
But the guy is still a tool.
but he does have a man crush on brady
Man Crush on Brady! So I naturally assumed he also had some respect for Brady's Alma Mater. Cowherd appears to like traditional powerhouses (Yes, we've been down a few years, not that bad tho) and he seems like a conservative kind of guy that would appreciate the 'Michigan Way's'. That being said - I NEVER hear him say anything positive about Michigan's Football program.
Today was even more ridiculous. I listen to him at work on the radio everyday, and I've never called in or tried contacting him, but I almost did. He said all the things mass media pundits do when its apparent they only read 'snippets' of info about teams and really never take the time to even watch the first game without throwing out there 'expert analysis'. Cowheard said DRob will struggle because he's still getting used to Al Borges 'Pro Style' Offense and being under center will be tough for him. Hu?? Clearly Cowheard wasn't interested in finding out that we ran 70% of offensive plays from shotgun and DRob will still run, run, run when he wants to.
Then the ususal garbage stuff: Stadium is big, not loud, our D still sucks, etc...
Couldn't have said it better. 110,000+ should be louder than they are on a weekly basis. However, he loses me when he says that's why ND will win.
He had to be right about something once in his life. It's not the loudest. Yet somehow we've still won more games than anyone else ever, so I don't know if that is a reason to predict a win or a loss.
Go to the main page and watch the last clip of the game--the "Toussaint bounces like whoah" play from the UFR. People are pissed that the game has been postponed and are sensing another postponement. Michigan is on offense and I'm sure the stadium is no longer packed. Listen how loud it is, again this is while Michigan is on offense.
I wouldn't call Michigan a raucous environment either and they are 11-11 at home the last 3 years also, but this is a new era and a huge chance for a statement game early in Hoke's tenure.
I think he is giving way too much credit to the fans affect on the outcome of the game. Besides that, Michigan was able to win in South Bend last year.
i have been to both michigan stadium and penn state to watch a michigan game and i must say that penn state was alot more hostile. I still remember the guy a few rows behind me at the big house telling me to sit down when Denard would break a big run. I wanted to tell him that if wanted to sit and watch the game he should have stayed home, besides the student section at michigan it was almost like a golf tournament (golfers cheering). we have the largest stadium in the country and we need to turn it into a homefield advantage.
