Harbaugh tweaks Carroll on cheating.
"Because if you don't, if you cheat to win, then you've already lost, according to Bo Schembechler. And Bo Schembechler is about next to the word of God as you can get in my mind. It's not the word of God, but it's close.''
Shit just got real in the NFC West, yo.
So my comment is overrated, but the nearly-identical one above mine is fine. It seems we have a few severely butthurt posters here.
How did your original account get banned before me?
Because one of the mods succumbed to peer pressure and failed to realize that I really didn't say anything particularly offensive or banworthy. I made a few juvenile jokes that have been made here a thousand times. Magnus complained, and that was enough. Accordingly, my account of four years was deleted. BiSB even admitted that it was probably an overreaction.
No use complaining about it. Your account is gone and sooner or later mine will be too. It's not like it used to be here.
You have the good and cool mods, and you have the tight ass ones that pick and choose what to see and what to turn a blind eye to. If it is something that concerns or offends them, it is negbomb or ban worthy. But if it is attacks something like, say, Catholicism which has been ever so frequent on here in the past four months, it isn't ban or negbomb worthy.
It is very entertaining to say the least.
It all depends on what the established posters here think. If you get guys like Magnus or WolvinLA against you, mods will respond accordingly.
Hopefully it won't be counted as too presumptuous of me if I make an observation, but I would argue that you're the one that's changed, not the mods (well, technically they HAVE changed as some have retired, but I mean policy wise). For a long time you seemed to be a pretty innocuous poster who was just REALLY enthusiastic about Michigan sports. Then out of seemingly nowhere you would occasionally post offensive jokes about Mexicans, feminism, and homosexuality (I think I remember this, maybe it was someone else). I remember being really taken aback when this started, because I hadn't expected it.
Come on man. Take the high road once in a while.
You idolize Ty Cobb?
Wow.
They guy was a racsist asshole and probably killed someone before Craig James made it cool to joke about.
Its important to be willing to take your lumps and move on. In blogging and in life, a dialectic approach is much likely to be win-win than a winner takes all approach to argument. Its easier to move forward with both sides having some concessions than with one side "owning" the other side. This is the internet, and people like to take hard lines - most of us do it at least occasionally. But when you become emotionally invested in the debate it loses its intellectual appeal and people just get annoyed. Its not about this long time poster or that long time poster's opinion, its about the hot air that's making the thread a real drag.
- Disses Pete Carroll whenever he can
- Loves Judge Judy
- Played at Michigan
Yeah, I still like the guy.
Of course, waiting for after Bo passed to do so.
I love Harbaugh the Wolverine qb but he sometimes says stupid things. He looked like he was sent to bed with no supper after the Super Bowl loss this year. Classic
I know I could be waiting a long time but I hope Harbaugh atones for his harsh words so we can welcome him back in the fold.
It's an old, old wooden ship from the Civil War era.
The things Harbaugh complained about do happen at Michigan. At least, if the athletes I know are to be trusted. And I'm talking about for certain non revenue sports/ athletes.
Yes, and my aunt is also a bit pudgy. I don't go around screaming it in public.
I tried to edit my comment before you posted, didn't get it in on time. I didn't finish my post before I hit save. Basically, I'm asking (as an out of state student, so as someone who didn't get to witness the fallout first hand when he first made his comments) why what he said was such a terrible thing.
My bad. Anyways, I think the reason why people have such animosity is that even if what Harbaugh said was true, there is no reason to target your alma mater like that in a public forum. When Harbaugh was here, people liked him. He was the leader of the team. To hear him disparage the Univeristy years later, seemingly out of nowhere, is just self-serving and completely unnecessary. The fact that it came quickly after Bo died also made it seem extremely cowardly. Furthermore, he's proved to be an asshole at pretty much every coaching stop along the way.
is here in Brian's take on it originally. http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/harbaugh-harbaugh-harbaugh.html
Plenty of articles you can google and peruse at your leisure. Some people were really vocal and pissed off at the time. Some were fairly indifferent.
Not aimed at you, PFP...Stanford essentially did the same thing academically for their football players (as does ND) to offer, and the players enthusiastically enroll in, courses that are titled "Kinesiology" here, BGS or some such at ND and Stanford. My thoughts back in the uber-successful days of football for The Cardinal was that it seemed the tatted/mohawked football players didn't seem to share much in the way of culture or background with the student population in general. That thought still holds...
But. He's. Back. In.
The.
(just SAY it)
Fold.
Perhaps I'm missing the joke, but that sounds more like incontinence than a symptom of obesity.
My aunt is so fat, every time she turn around it's 'er birthday.
Ok she may be fat, but calling her a guy is a little much.
That just about everywhere Pete goes, violations occur?
The ranking is based on my own personal opinion, which is definitely debatable. Controversial = Everyone has an opinion about this person, half of them positive, half of them negative.
1. Rich Rodriguez
2. Jim Harbaugh
3. Chris Webber
4. Dave Brandon
5. Al Borges
Jimbo is working his ass off to take over the #1 spot.
To be fair, he did say "past decade". Under that criteria, Moeller and Fisher don't apply.
But then why does Webber apply? He literally wasn't allowed to associate with us the last decade.
Harbaugh won't top Rich Rod. A few soundbites < going 15-22, going on probation and having an awful APR.
College sports are better when alternatives to the football factories or 1 and done basketball programs exist.
I am a Michigan man ride-or-die but I love seeing similar Academically focused schools succeed in athletics.
My litmus test is that if you take away football or basketball from Virginia or Berkeley or Duke or Umich, that school would still be an excellent place to study.
Harbaugh ran his mouth to serve Harbaugh's interests, no different than any other hyper-competitive hot head I know. Got love for his spirit