META - If you were Brian, the next MGoBlog banner would feature.....
The "Kneeling Denard" banner was an awesome choice for DRob's final season, especially when paired with the "This love's for gentlemen only" tagline. Previously, the Hoke banner from last year was excellent although the "Your shoes sparkle in the moonlight fancy dancer" tagline was over my head and didn't turn up any google results.
Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, assumes you are in the shoes of the esteemed proprietor of this here blog who is faced with an urgent need to redesign the banner ASAP. What say you, MGoCommunity? Who/what would be featured on the next banner and what does the tagline read?
If it were up to me, I'd go with a picture of Jake Ryan and his glorious coif coupled with a tagline along the lines of "Resting his head on a pillow made of concrete" - a lyric from Pearl Jam's "Even Flow".
EDIT: Wasn't even thinking along the lines of a basketball banner since it's never been done here before, but the posters who suggested it may be on to something. A good one might be a picture of Trey Burke's (supposedly) vacated dorm room that caused panic last year with the tagline "Psych" or "Sike", however you youngsters spell it these days.
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:53 PM ^
Comments commence.
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:57 PM ^
Maize and Blue Canadian flag.
also, blame Canada
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:55 PM ^
A basketball player. Keep the Denard one for a couple more weeks, but then go with a hoops player. We have a possible Final Four (national champion?) team on our hands here.
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:56 PM ^
Jake is clearly my favorite Michigan player right now.
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:56 PM ^
I think it would be nice to have a basketball themed banner for the 1st time
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:58 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 1:59 PM ^
Caption: JMFR
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
I'll leave the tagline up to Brian
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:55 PM ^
Why use Jake Ryan's mad flow when you have the chance to enshrine Mitch McGary and Jordan Morgan's magnificent manes?
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
Staying with the music theme...
"... on a bicycle built for two."
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
The coaches until a standout for 2013 arises.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
of our best/favorite/ect players either currently (ala, Jake Ryan-Trey Burke-Trouba (hockey love)- and maybe DG?) orrrrrr we go old school Mt. Rushmore with people along the likes of Des, CWood, Comrie, Turco, Barry Larkin, Brady, Cazzie, ETC.) Itd be nice to incorporate all 4 major sports.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:17 PM ^
anyone have any idea about the status of the MGoHallofFame?
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:00 PM ^
Naked guy. Always the mgoblog naked guy
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:03 PM ^
We should at least have Naked Guy banner day each year, where the banner reverts back to its most glorious form for 24 hours. January 2 would fit nicely AND IT"S TODAY!
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:05 PM ^
MY EYES!!!!
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:15 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:19 PM ^
because "this love's for gentlemen only"
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:38 PM ^
*unzipppppppps*
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:54 PM ^
Dad?
Seriously though I am always a sucker for the naked guy. Love that guy.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:01 PM ^
It's not that often you have possibly the best player in the country to cheer for.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:01 PM ^
How about a picture of a 'Good' Borges and a 'Bad/Evil' Borges with a tagline of, "It's a love/hate relationship".
I mean threads about him do dominate the board during the season.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:06 PM ^
how about a picture of our new offensive coordinator?
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:02 PM ^
Being on the banner should be like wearing the #1 jersey. It has to be earned. For now I would say no one should be on it.
January 2nd, 2013 at 7:39 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:02 PM ^
it doesn't show a single solitary pixel of uniformz.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:03 PM ^
I echo the basketball banner idea, for the first time I can remember it actually makes sense to have one (hooray!)
After that though, if we don't have a great one lined up for next football season I wouldn't have any problem going back to the Hoke banner, that one was 100% pure class, and really awesome work by blog banner standards. I'd much rather have that than any generic/poorly made banner.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:04 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:06 PM ^
A whale named secondary beaching himself with Ace Sanders shoving bananas down the blowhole.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:06 PM ^
A basketball one would bee nice. Or it could be dual themed, basketball and football.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:32 PM ^
I think basketball deserves solo placement. That program has absolutely gone through the crapper and is now ranked #2 in the country . . . it's an incredible story and really satisfying for the long-suffering fans. If you were a kid in the late '80s/early '90s, as I was, you probably followed Michigan football and basketball about equally. Football didn't definitively become the #1 sport in my mind until the basketball program collapsed and it was downright painful to be a fan (I still followed them, but it was hard not to become disengaged after awhile). It's an awesome feeling now to have them back where I feel they belong.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:07 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:35 PM ^
His record-setting, multiple NBA 3-point contest trophies.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:08 PM ^
I'd say Devin Gardner. He's pretty much going to be the face of team 134.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:12 PM ^
YES!!!
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:15 PM ^
Brendan Gibbons with a bevy of brunettes.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:16 PM ^
Denard statue. Chiseled in stone.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:22 PM ^
How about text from a UFR, so we all remember what it looks like?
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:37 PM ^
when sand gets in there....
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:25 PM ^
It's been said already, but I would love to see Trey Burke
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:25 PM ^
I want a montage or photoshopped image of the face of a "Michigan Man". He would have at least, Jake Ryan's hair, Mealer's beard, paired with Hardaway's facial reactions
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:25 PM ^
Kate Upton....come on, given a choice between an afternoon with Kate, or a game against UConn and a DVR?
But if you had to put something Michigan, I'd have to go with Denard.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:28 PM ^
Use your imagination...
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:38 PM ^
Imagination not necessary, we saw 50 shades of maize on the uniformz yesterday.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:30 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:47 PM ^
Bring back the Hoke banner. We did quite well when that was up.
January 2nd, 2013 at 2:49 PM ^
January 2nd, 2013 at 9:41 PM ^
How 'bout a GIF banner with rotating images of Dave Brandon and Honey Boo Boo saying "A dolla makes holla honey boo boo!"