GERG Taking an Audition
GERG is reportedly taking an audition today at ESPN, I assume for some sort of daycare position to best utilize his storytelling and stuffed animal motivational techniques.
http://twitter.com/#!/AnthonyLimaTV
espn would experience a 10-fold ratings jump just from people tuning in to see that beautiful silver mane of perfection.
...all I'll say is that you'll be happy with it at the end of the year." - Gerg Robinson August 2010
Remind me, was he speaking to Bret Bielema?
Maybe the beaver meant that the defense was playing like a bunch of pussies.
Looks like they are going to get blown out by Fox Sports if he gets hired.
They'll probably launch a Mystery Science Theater 3000 type show where GERG and Lou Holtz seriously talk about football, and Herbie and Desmond mock them off screen.
... that is the funniest thing i've heard today
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Oh, Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate...
I don't care if Mondays black
Tuesday, Wednesday - heart attack
Thursday, never looking back
It's Friday, I'm in love
Monday, you can hold your head
Tuesday, Wednesday stay in bed
Or Thursday - watch the walls instead
It's Friday, I'm in love
Saturday, wait
And Sunday always comes too late
But Friday, never hesitate...
Dressed up to the eyes
It's a wonderful surprise
To see your shoes and your spirits rise
Throwing out your frown
And just smiling at the sound
And as sleek as a sheik
Spinning round and round
Always take a big bite
It's such a gorgeous sight
To see you eat in the middle of the night
You can never get enough
Enough of this stuff
It's Friday, I'm in love
I don't care if Monday's blue
Tuesday's gray and Wednesday too
Thursday I don't care about you
It's Friday, I'm in love
Monday you can fall apart
Tuesday, Wednesday break my heart
Thursday doesn't even start
It's Friday I'm in love
Does anybody on this Board know the real story behind the stuffed animal?
GERG: I like stuffed animals!
The beaver seems to have been some kind of a reward for players who forced or recovered a turnover.
like, how did it get started? What was the origin? The back-story? Is there some funny story, some anecdote, that goes along with it? Something that happened in practice, or on a team bus? I know the players have been asked about it, and the response was something like what you'd get if you asked the Navy, "please give us the names and home addresses of SEAL Team Six..."
But I'd wager that someday it will come out, probably when Mike Martin and/or Kenny Demens wind up their eligibility in Ann Arbor.
misunderstanding between GERG and players upon hearing someone remark "man ive got to get me some of that beaver?"
that I'm going to down a power swig of Kessler's. And we traded this guy for Greg Mattison?
Unless you add, "for something close to a million dollars. Per year."
I always like to give coaches the benefit of the doubt, but that guy was an absolute moron.
Made me long for the days when Jim Herrmann ran our defense. Lets just say I had a healthy dislike for Coach Herrmann as a D-coordinator.
Can we pretend like the whole beaver thing never existed?
I don't tell anyone who hasn't heard of it, about it.
I cringe just seeing pictures/videos of it (you know, like when you think of something REALLY embarrassing you did once and always hope nobody else ever brings it back up?).
Nothing against the OP, cuz he's certainly not the only one to post that pic, but I am SICK of seeing it. I'd like to forget that silliness, and just when I think I have, someone else has to go and post that stupid pic again. Good grief.
How about this one?
Pincher Bug!!
at end of year, but was happy at beginning of this year, when he was fired.
The beaver had a voice box inside that played "You Raise Me Up" by Josh Grobin as a motivational tool.
It was as effective as when RR used the song apparently.
I feel at this point after several months of acerbic post-mortems on the RR Era, all narratives vis-a-vis The Process, The Decimated Defense, even the Mallett transfer backstory, the GERG story remains an immense unknown. I'm not even sure it's all known unknowns, because I suspect there may be unknown unknowns in there somewhere.
When GERG was hired, it made almost no sense given his mediocre statistical track record, though there were some plenty good teams (Texas, SB-winning Broncos, etc.) he coordinated. He seemed like a more personable guy than Scott Schafer, so maybe whatever personality issues existed between the DC and RR's staff would go away, and anyway, with RR knowing his balls were on the line after 3-8, I figured he's done his due diligence with the hire.
If I could get any single person from the RR era to sit down for 30 minutes after injection with sodium pentathol, it would be GERG. Things I would really, really like to know for posterity's sake:
1. When you were hired, was it your understanding that you were going to be given a scheme to run by RR and his carry-over defensive staff, whether you liked it or not?
2. Did you ever attempt to veto the scheme and install something you felt more comfortable with?
3. Were you handcuffed to the 3-3-5 and told to make it work for 2010?
4. Who was making personnel decisions, i.e., Ezeh-over-Demens?
5. WTF was that against Penn St./McGloin?
6. WTF re: stuffed animal?
But mostly, I would like to know the answer to the first two Q's. I am genuinely open to the idea that he was boxed into an impossible situation from the start if he wasn't allowed to choose his own staff (clearly true) and scheme (unknownish). It doesn't seem outlandish to suggest that box was then locked in chains and dumped into the ocean from a modified Blackhawk when Angry Michigan DB-Hating God released the Kraken.
anyone else dreading the potential combo of GERG and millen calling this years UM-MSU game?
I might literally cry if that happens. I'd have to watch the game on silent, or else I might throw things. I still don't understand why they have Millen call games in Michigan; does ESPN really not understand how much we hate that man?
Ever since Coleman Young swore on 20/20 or whatever show he was on, ABC has had a thing for Michigan. ESPN's hockey coverage seemed to like anyone that didn't have red and white uniforms and came from Detroit. ABC's football coverage seems to hate Michigan. When was the last time they showed Detroit on Monday Night Football? So I don't think they care how much we hate the man. In fact, I want to think they relish it because it is one more craw in our side from them.
That is so idiotic I feel embarassed for the player. Maybe that, more than anything clinched the coaching change?
Or it may have been the total and complete disaster of epic proportions that his defense was.
The combo of ron burgandy and gerg? That is alot of good hair.
I wish he had auditioned for this job about two years ago.
I'm confused. How is it possible for him to find employment?
GERG stepped off a delta flight from Detroit to LAX this am. Perhaps he has more auditions in Hollywood? It took everything I had not to ask him about the stuffed beaver