Don't turn off this game

Submitted by yvgeni on
Don't you dare turn off this game. Watch every excruciating second. Stare at the TV and let the score burn into your eyeballs. Remember the look on the faces of Pryor and Tressel. Remember their arrogance and our dejection. Hear the announcers voices in your sleep. Let the hatred wash over you and fill your soul. We’ll be back. When we are, you will thank yourself for allowing the hate to fill your heart so that the victory is all the much sweeter. That is what winners do.

sleepdoc

November 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 PM ^

We have been insulted, humiliated, destroyed physically and emotionally. We have been told we aren't Michigan, that we are pathetic and that we are weak. We will have a year (and I cannot tell you when) when we will destroy EVERYTHING WE SEE! WE WILL OWN EVERY KINGDOM IN FRONT OF US! WE WILL SHOW NO MERCY TO ANYONE THAT GETS IN OUR WAY! WE WILL RUN UP THE SCORE AND HAVE AVERY HORN SCORE THREE TOUCHDOWNS!! This is what drives me, for I know failure is not an option at Michigan. This is not what our institution is, this is not what I donate to every year. Rich Rodriguez is angry and that anger will be turned outward, and everything in his path will be burned to the ground. Will you be there "MICHIGAN MEN" when that happens?

sleepdoc

November 22nd, 2008 at 3:35 PM ^

Secondly here is the reality of being a senior at OSU. Number one almost certainly if you aren't going to the pros you will not have a job. Your alumni network is poor, and frankly the degree didn't mean much to begin with (sad but true). There are so few donors of wealth that are OSU grads that they have the hardest time with fundraising for hospital clinics and buildings of any big ten university campus. So imagine being the OSU seniors coming back one last time to get to the national championship game. And then losing, and then losing again. And then being irrelevant and getting excited pretty much by a meaningless game against Michigan. This is your season and it has been your career. You have been blown out in games that matter, you forego riches only to lose again. Frankly, as bad as our season is, imagine being OSU. This season has frankly been a horrific disappointment. And as long as Tressel is there they will continue to over recruit and underperform as there is nothing about his play calling that is exceptional.

Rich402

November 22nd, 2008 at 3:52 PM ^

Why all the bitterness and sour grapes? Also, making fun of OSU's academics, while fashionable, betrays a certain insecurity. Who says the degree doesn't matter much? I'm doing a PhD at a reasonably reputable Ivy League school, and I can claim quite honestly that OSU's department (in terms of faculty renown) is superior to the one I'm in.
Also, I didn't see anything that Tressel or Pryor did that Rodriguez or, say, Taylor would be doing if the roles were reversed.
While today was obviously unpleasant, why not give credit where credit is due?