November 9th, 2013 at 9:13 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 9:20 PM ^
her keynote speech for her Honorary degree at MSU this spring. . .
November 9th, 2013 at 9:48 PM ^
+1, Realistic
November 9th, 2013 at 9:25 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 9:26 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 9:26 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 9:48 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:33 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:25 PM ^
oh man, that is a great youtube call. I can just picture MSC pulling that out.
November 9th, 2013 at 9:53 PM ^
I gotta say Mary Sue can put down the MD 20/20. And that means a lot coming from a pro like me!
November 9th, 2013 at 10:07 PM ^
November 10th, 2013 at 9:47 AM ^
Wait, are you referring to MSC or the offensive play calling?
November 9th, 2013 at 10:12 PM ^
I was there and all I and others around me could say was WTF or derivatives thereof.
November 9th, 2013 at 11:07 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:14 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
Great point earlier about MSC's stance on alcohol sales at the Big House. While it is embarassing for an institution like UM, I can live with it and find some joy and laughter in it, it is pretty hypocritical. What - she's responsible and wise enough to know how to use alcohol but the rest of us aren't?
I just hate hypocrisy. But I do love an unplanned drunken speech.
November 9th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
I was reminded of Joe Namath. Half expected her to kiss Dave Brandon.
November 9th, 2013 at 10:59 PM ^
...we are stah-rug-a-ling. So that would have fit.
November 9th, 2013 at 10:24 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 10:30 PM ^
Does anybody else find it bizarre that there isn't a video of it yet? (at least that I've seen) Have to imagine the UM Media people will try to make sure this doesn't become a story. Either way I found it pretty telling when the student section went nuts about her speech and everyone else seemed unsure of how to react.
Awwww. 1 Point!
November 9th, 2013 at 10:36 PM ^
Fire Borges. Mary Sue provided that halftime entertainment
November 9th, 2013 at 11:09 PM ^
November 9th, 2013 at 11:24 PM ^
She was not drunk.
Sincerely, Joe Namath.
Clearly not drunk.
Regards, Diane Sawyer
Not acting spacy at all
Book it, Eminem
November 9th, 2013 at 11:27 PM ^
not talking slowly for the loudspeaker, listen to her voice inflections and the idiotic things she said. we were laughing our tails off in the stands.
November 9th, 2013 at 11:47 PM ^
Actually, the thing that I was discussing with those near me was that she had some profound neurological problem; MS or a Parkinsonian syndrome.
The simplest explanation -- that she was completely drunk -- is probably the better one.
It was embarassing.
I do know that there was a big kickoff meeting inside the Crisler Center for elite-level donors to start to raise the $4 Billion-with-a-B, that took place before the game. Maybe that's where/how she got so completely inebriated.
November 10th, 2013 at 12:21 AM ^
/s
November 10th, 2013 at 12:43 AM ^
When the president of a major university gets drunk in front of over 110,000 people, I think it's time to celebrate. It's much better than the normal "stick up the bum" routine that most college admins use as SOP.
I think it's great when a president remembers she was once a student, too.
November 10th, 2013 at 12:49 AM ^
Seriously, how is there not video of this yet?
November 10th, 2013 at 3:29 AM ^
"I'm totally videoing the surprise Mary Sue ceremony", but looking back, it would have been a great idea. I guess we should have, though, as this season has been full of hot mess surprises. Who knows what the final game has in store!
November 10th, 2013 at 5:58 AM ^
is they had a #12 jersey out there with her name on it, had a montage on the jumbotron describing all the great and wonderful things she's done for the University, and she came out to give a completely impromptu speech. First thing she said was that Brandon surprised her, so you know she was completely unprepared. She basically slurred through as many Hoke-isms/Bo-isms as possible, mentioning "the team" and "fergodsakes" without any coherence between them at all. After it was clear that she was completely smashed, I walked to the concourse because I'd never felt more awkward or embarrassed at a football game. If I saw it on TV, it would have been one of those things where I muted it or changed channels because I just wouldn't have wanted to see it.
November 10th, 2013 at 8:56 AM ^
November 10th, 2013 at 11:30 AM ^
November 10th, 2013 at 1:40 PM ^
A friend of mine who knows somebody who works in MSC's office said she had been told to speak slowly before the speech so her words could be heard through the loudspeaker. As someone who witnessed the speech first-hand, I call complete and utter BS and that MSC was in fact absolutely trashed.
I wish I had thought to take video of it, but I think part of the reason there isn't anything up right now is because no one thought much of MSC giving a speech at halftime and so no one though to record it. I should have at least got the end of the speech once I realized she was wasted though, I could have been a YouTube sensation!
November 10th, 2013 at 7:41 PM ^
Here's the video. It sounds like she's just getting her speech jammed. Maybe the acoustic delay in the stadium was only a couple hundred milliseconds.
November 10th, 2013 at 10:05 PM ^
Good find.
I learn so much on this board.
November 10th, 2013 at 8:35 PM ^
Say what you want about E. Gordon Gee, but at least he enunciated.