Harbaugh Responds to Sparty Trolling with a Tip of the Cap

Submitted by EastCoast Esq. on

As everybody knows, Harbaugh spent last night at Quinn Nordin's house trying to flip the nation's #1 kicker. He was welcomed to Rockford by this sign:

 

A lesser man would have ignored it and grumbled quietly...

 

Harbaugh responds by recognizing the effort and applauding the fan's commitment to the rivalry...

 

I Respect the preparation! #GoBlue! pic.twitter.com/PVnAuTw8we

— Coach Harbaugh (@CoachJim4UM) January 15, 2016

 

I love our coach.

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StephenRKass

January 15th, 2016 at 10:47 AM ^

Mad Hatter, if you won a game that way against MSU or OSU would you be ashamed? Would you avoid trolling them? At this point, I will take each and every win possible.

The reality is, one of two things is happening:

  1. They are so clueless, they are unaware of their impending and imminent doom.
  2. They are aware of their imminent doom, and are therefore trolling now, because the opportunity to troll us will soon vanish, as things return to their proper equilibrium.

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The Mad Hatter

January 15th, 2016 at 10:56 AM ^

I'll take a win any way we can get it.  My issue is with their attitude towards the game.  Many of them seem to think that they dominated us the whole time, despite never having a lead on the scoreboard.

We squeaked by Minn on a goal line stand and IU played us into overtime.  Do you see any of us talking about how we dominated either team in those wins?

And I don't care enough about any MSU fan to spend any time trolling them.  Although I did throw around a few "Nice game against Alabama" at a few Sparty's I work with.

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ijohnb

January 15th, 2016 at 11:08 AM ^

discussed this with quite a few Michigan State fans.  There are three things that are the most bothersome.  1) They do not ackowledge that the last play of the game was a fluke.  They equate it with "Little Giants" and that it was just "Coach D doing his thing." 2) They use the Houma touchdown (that actually probably was a touchdown) as a way to say that the refs were just bad in general, and not the truth, that the refs blatantly and at times seemingly intentionally kept Michigan State in the game from the first quarter, and 3) They use a ton of hyperbole discussing their injuries, and fail to mention that we lost a key component on our D-line just 2 weeks before the game.

I am not going to begrudge anybody for enjoying a victory, however, after the loss to Bama they have started to elevate that game in their mind like it "saves" them from the Alabama bloodbath that will be the teams lasting legacy.  They are the team that got blanked by a team that gave up 40 points against Clemson, the only bowl team that did not score a point, and they now use the Michigan game to shield themselves from that.

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bluesparkhitsy…

January 15th, 2016 at 1:52 PM ^

Well put. The Sparties I know argued over and over that "luck" had nothing to do with the outcome and that it turned simply on their readiness and preparation. Had we won under identical circumstances, I think most of us would readily acknowledge that luck was critical. We'd say (correctly) that we were in a position to win, but I really don't think we would discount the fact that several fortuitous events had to occur to make that happen. That's one reason why State fans are so annoying -- they don't merely celebrate wins and trash-talk their opponents, but instead they formulate fiction around their wins in a misguided effort to convince us of something.



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laxmangl29

January 15th, 2016 at 9:41 AM ^

There is a crazy high percentage of MSU fans in Rockford... Went to highschool here and it seemed like everyone was a state fan. I wonder if its changed lately

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laxmangl29

January 15th, 2016 at 11:37 AM ^

As it turns out the "city" of Rockford isn't that much bigger, about twice the size.

The school district has something like 10000 though. The highschool averages something like 600 per class, but sends very few football  players to D1 schools despite the success of the program. 

Fun Fact: Braden tried lacrosse out (as a junior in HS i think). He played midfield if I recall correctly.

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WestSider

January 15th, 2016 at 1:06 PM ^

you can pick out the bandwagon or 'reawakened' sparty by the new sheen on their gear. I'm sure this has happened in other areas of the state too; knuckleheads jumping on the bandwagon, which will soon become lighter when they jump back off, or decide to jump on some other bandwagon.

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mgobleu

January 15th, 2016 at 9:47 AM ^

An entire fanbase who will never grasp the concept of "act like you've been there before". They can bitch about Disrespekt©, but they manufacture it themselves. Anyway, Sparties be sparties. Tra-la-la, carry on.

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ThadMattasagoblin

January 15th, 2016 at 9:53 AM ^

Losing that game sucked but honestly I don't care very much. How many times is a play like that going to happen again and we led the whole game in Harbaugh's first year. If Harbaugh does what Harbaugh does, that game will be looked at as an aberration like clockgate or the Desmond trip.

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WolverineHistorian

January 15th, 2016 at 10:05 AM ^

Probably but unfortunately, that game is going to be painful even if Harbaugh goes all Schembechler on MSU and retires having beaten them 85% of the time.

I'd put it up there with the Hail Mary against Colorado. 99 out of 100 times, that last play doesn't happen. But it did in this case.

Now I feel like punching something.



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East German Judge

January 15th, 2016 at 10:18 AM ^

I agree with you completely that the staee loss and the hail mary were to 2 worst gut punches I have ever seen.  I would think that the staee win was more of a fluke/random event as someone calculated that they had only a 1 in 500 chance of winning at that point of the game, and I would think that while a hail mary is also a low probability, it is better than 1 in 500 chance.

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ItsGreatToBe

January 15th, 2016 at 11:15 AM ^

...the Hail Mary and Kick-Six, the latter stings more.

 

With Colorado, we knew the potential of Stewart and Westbrook. Most of the fans had left by mid-4th quarter, and even after they scored to get within 5, any reasonable fan would have given us a 50-50 chance of knocking the last-second pass down or having it land in Westbrook's hands.

 

With the kick-six, there were probably two dozen things in 10 seconds that had to go in MSU's favor for all of that to happen. And they did.

 

By shear proportion, the silence in 2015 was deafening compared to 1994.

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SpikeFan2016

January 15th, 2016 at 12:33 PM ^

Not to mention, a rivalry loss is more than just a loss. 

 

Colorado doesn't really mean anything to Michigan fans and most UM people probably don't know a single Colorado fan (And didn't in the 1990s). 

 

Losing to MSU like that, especially given their recent history against us, was the worst part to me, beyond the play/loss itself. 

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ijohnb

January 15th, 2016 at 10:02 AM ^

Michigan State.  Really, REALLY good game against Bama.  You did the conference proud and didn't at all make a complete fool out of yourself and your program. 

See you next year.

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