MGoConfessions
Deep, dark, dirty secrets.
What is your guiltiest moment / secret / thought as a Michigan fan? I'll go first:
- If I was Terrelle Pryor, I would have chosen Ohio State, too. In Columbus...he's a friggin rock star.
- I like Jimmy Clausen a lot and wish Henne had put up his numbers...from junior year anyway.
- I like watching Penn State and their machine like defense....especially the linebackers.
- I have yet to ever feel as awestruck as the time when I met Mike Hart my sophomore year. A couple years later, I was hanging out with some ball players, Forcier included....and truly was unexcited about it.
- I like Brent Musberger... a lot.
Yours?
that you don't live in Ohio.
I have tickets to every home game available to me but choose to stay home cause I like being alone on game day and the beer is closer.
I hate tosu with every fiber of my being but think Sweater Vest is is a damn good coach and probably a great guy to be around.
Even though he never beat tosu Henne is my fav QB
I think he's gonna be a bad NFL QB but I root for Tebow
I'm Toledo born and graduated (Bowsher '08), but never made it up to the Big House for a game. Now that my daughter is 1, I think she'll be able to appreciate a live game. If you've got any tickets that aren't spoken for yet . . .
Never my actual tickets but if i happen to get my hands on a couple I'll see what I can do. You're lucky it's Bowsher not Central Catholic or you'd be sol :) (Whitmer '99) Just bought a house down the street from where Bowsher used to be.
I graduated from the Engineering school in Winter of '01. haven't been back since Spring of '02. Coincidentally, my wife (UT graduate of '00) is heading back there today for her first time since my graduation to visit a friend and take the kids to the Zoo.
Ha! My wife and kids will also be at the zoo this morning... small world.
I can't really claim to root for them, but when I see a UT win scrolling by on the crawler, I feel good for their fans. I would love to see them change their mascot to the Torpedo. Better rhyming, similar theme.
I wish the season would start because I hate the offseason.
I had the chance to go back to Ann Arbor for a job and chose to go to Boston instead.
I am a huge St. Louis Cardinals fan, but watching them beat the Tigers in the world series was bittersweet.
I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die.
- And always want to beat MSU & OSU . . . but I don't HATE MSU & OSU. In fact, I have rooted for them in some bowl games.
- Because my daughter wants to be a vet, she is in all likelihood going to Illinois, MSU, or OSU, and not Michigan.
- I think Michigan is a great school, but there are a lot of good schools out there, and great guys who went to rival schools.
- I sometimes feel pretty guilty when I choose to watch Michigan or go to a game instead of spending quality time with my family.
- I often feel guilty for spending time at mgoblog instead of doing something more productive at home or at work. (like, why am I reading and posting at 6:20am in the morning?)
At least you're not posting at 6:20 AM in the evening - that would indicate issues of a mental or illicit chemical nature.
of getting into MSU's vet program if she is a Michigan undergrad (all things being equal).
I recruit academically for Michigan and can provide compelling proof, if you would like. Just respond to this and we will figure out how to get together on it.
Let me know.
When I first started dating my current gf 3 years ago (she's an tosu fan by family but not die hard) I made her leave my house during The Game. I've gotten softer and now only make her leave the room.
I am amazed at how diverse LLoyd Carr is and imagine he's one of the guys you'd be awestruck sitting around for an evening talking too him, but the last couple years of his career I was ready to move on.
I married a sparty.
It used to be so easy.
I concede basketball and she concedes football.
Now? I concede.
So, you really are married...
I always wanted to go to Notre Dame (family pressure thing.) Needless to say, my step dad, a proud ND alumnus, also had me apply to Michigan. The Lord works in mysterious ways.
I cussed out an elderly woman at the end of the first half of the Oregon game in 2007. Reason being she asked me 100 times to sit down, everyone was standing, still pissed about the week before, unbelievably drunk. I proceeded to leave after this happened and threw up on the golf course.
I had a Notre Dame hat as a kid.
I root against Ohio State, but always bet on them as an underdog or close favorite, this has treated me well over the years, financially.
I would rather listen to Tim Staudt call a Michigan / Michigan State game than Musberger.
Sometimes I choose not to where my M gear just so I don't have to put with the stupid comments from locals who weren't even fans during the Cooper years.
I ike Tressel. He just a good guy and I can't ever bring myself to say anything bad about him.
I am annoyed with Michigan fans (not the students) every time I go to a football game because of their lack of enthusiasm and noise.
I pee in the shower. Just sometimes, and usually just a tinkle.
Uhh where else are u supposed to pee in the morning. Every guy knows some things knees, elbow, penii etc aren't supposed to bend the opposite way. There's no way i'm doing some crazy bending squat thing that early in the morning, besides it helps with athletes foot or so my DI told me.
(sobbing) Why, God, WHY???!!!
I cant read Brian's writing. I can tell he is good at the particular style he writes in, but I read academic writing as a career and, therefore, find Brian's writing too scattered, too full of turns of phrase (though I can tell some are quite good), and I think just too 'hip' for me to follow. The best I can do is skim.
I really respect Jim Tressel. I think he is a great coach both on and off the field. I actually want to see OSU do well because of him. And because it is more meaningful when we beat them.
I lean a little when reading Brian's writing as well, but usually I'm just leaning closer to the screen.
I teach English and love to read, but I find academic writing too stultifying to be close to worth my time. I'd much rather re-read some fluff like Mark Twain or Steven King, or watch sports on TV. Kudos to you for being willing and able to read it on a daily basis.
'Can't' - I guess I was defining reading more in terms of the process rather than the duality of can/can't. I can skim Brian's stuff, but I cant read it sentence by sentence and follow what is being presented. In terms of fluff literature, I am finding, much to my dismay, that I am having more and more trouble with that also. Basically what I do now is read academic stuff all day and then watch tv in the evening. Nothing in between. It kind of sucks.
My ex-wife and her entire family are lifelong Notre Dame fans. After the divorce, she moved my very young son back to her hometown outside of Cleveland. Once I realized that their brainwashing had begun to take effect, I took my son on a 2-day recruiting visit . . . to Ohio State.
He was 7.
From EDSBS:
They actually admit it:
5.) The SEC's sole difference is that we care more. Facts be damned: dispense all discussions of draft picks by conference (who gives a shit about the NFL?), conference television revenue, national titles, conference records...the only thing truly differentiating the SEC from the rest of college football is the degree of obsession. Thus the futility of engaging in any debate with an SEC fan. We invented conference monotheism, and practice it with a fervor bordering on the tribal.
You have facts? That's cute. We have concentric circles of loyalty familiar to Bedouin swordsmen and AK-47-toting guerillas alike. Cross them and the ALL CAPS come out every time no matter what happened last bowl season.
I chose to be a michigan fan around second grade because I liked the colors and hated green and white together.
I went to a michigan state v tOSU game with my sister.
People consider me a Wal-Mart Wolverine because I didn't go there but I feel like being a UM fan is like being a die hard fan of any detroit team pro team. I went to Grand Valley so it's not like I am betraying my Alma Mater.
Not sure when you were looking at grad schools but I was a physics undergrad at Michigan and I don't think MSU has ever had a better physics program than Michigan for undergrad or graduate level.
The most recent US New and World report rankings have Illinois as the best big ten physics program and U of M # 2 in the Big Ten, tied for 11th nation wide. MSU comes in at # 8 in the Big Ten and tied for # 36 nationwide
I hate university rankings generally, and for most academic grad programs they are nearly baseless. The reason is that one's choice of grad school may be very subfield-specific. Depending on what the OP wants to do, MSU may well be the best place on the planet.
That said, I was choosing between SUNY Buffalo and UC Santa Barbara for grad school - both were excellent in my subfield. Which offer do you suppose I accepted? How much better would Buffalo have had to be for me to go there? I don't know... but a lot!
Michigan is a quality research program for atomic and molecular physics and cosmology, especially before Daniel Axelrod retired . However, for nuclear and astro it is not even close. MSU's faculty for nuclear and astrophysics have several national academy members. Michigan's AMO physics program took a major hit when Philip Bucksbaum went to Stanford.
I went into biophysics and Michigan has great analytical chemistry, bioinorganic chemisty, and biochemistry faculty members. MSU, in terms of biophysical research tends focus more on x-ray crystallography and AFM, which in my experience is a dead field, with the rise of structural dynamic experimental techniques such as NMR, time resolved crystallography, and multidimensional optical and IR spectroscopy.
Seriously, only complete morons and teenagers with little if any experience in academia take US News rankings seriously. US News rankings do not take into account average faculty research funding, citation numbers, number of publications, average rate of faculty reaching tenure, and average rate of graduate program completion. If you are going to take into account undergraduate rankings, then Purdue has the top program in the big ten. However, you cannot correlate a great undergraduate program with having a great graduate program. Purdue's graduate physics ranking is somewhere in the middle of the Big Ten.
- I root against OSU in every game, but if they lose, I feel kind of bad for my uncle and family down in Ohio who are all die hard OSU fans.
- I think that Michigan fans can be really weak some times and don't have much back bone at Michigan Stadium when the team is losing or things look bleak. It sickens me to see how easily opposing fans can take over my endzone (I'm in Section 16). I try my hardest to rally people around me, but most just sit/stand there and stare at me or do nothing.
- I wish that Michigan fans traveled as well and were as loud as OSU fans. Instead, we sell our tickets to any opposing fan and let them into our stadium without any fear of our fan base. You would never see this at OSU.
- I respect the hell out of Tom Izzo and wish we had a coach like him. I'll give Beilein more time and want him to succeed badly.
- I don't like the rawk music at Michigan Stadium and feel its poorly executed.
- I still wish we had gotten Pryor.
- I have heard from numerous sources that if Carr had retired a year early, we would have hired Dantonio and I wouldn't have been upset about this. I believe he is a good coach and a great recruiter in state, don't know if he would have done better out of state with the Michigan name though. Only downside to him is that he would always be in the talks to replace Tressel when he retires. I do believe strongly however that we would not have been nearly as bad the past 2 years and wouldn't be facing any NCAA probe and very little media scrutiny probably. I love RR, but the man needs to take a class in the Lloyd Carr school of "don't say anything revealing to the media".
1. I absolutely hate the state I live in. And it's state college.
2. My second favortie NHL team is Columbus.
3. Wisconsin is my 2nd favorite Big Ten team.
4. I secretly rooted for Canada in the 2010 gold medal game against the US.
5. I was happy Duke won the national championship.
6. I have a blonde hair blue eye fetish when it comes to women.
7. I love the hat Fidel Castro wears.
8. I want the Blackhawks to win the Stanley Cup this year (after Detroit lost)
9. I have every Primus song on my Ipod.
10. I am still bitter about the App. State game and always will be.
I hate both work and Ohio - too bad I live and work in Ohio. Also, I grew up a State fan because my uncle was a Sparty and my parents are artists with not a drop of sports fandom in them. I turned Maize 'n Blue immediately after oppening the acceptance letter.
but didn't go because it was over Thanksgiving break and I didn't want to drive 45 minutes back to school.
- Other than The Victors, I like OSU's band and 'song catalog' better.
- If I was building an athletic department and could pick coaches, I would pick Tom Izzo for basketball and Jim Tressel for football, no question.
- I'm jealous of Ohio's much-more-successful high school football tradition, and the fact that most of the OSU football team (and coaches) is from the state of Ohio. I think that only adds to the team comradarie and eagerness to win The Game. Plus, it really is easier to cheer for a team of people from your home state rather than when they're plucked from around the country. Just my opinion, being a native Michigander.
- I don't like it when our players/coaches try to downplay the importance of The Game as just another game, and just as important as any other. No it isn't.
- It really bugged me when, after a loss, Carr and his players would only talk about looking forward and forgetting about the past. No, you need to look at the past and figure out what went wrong so that you don't repeat it in the future!! You failed at something - stop being too proud and try to fix it rather than repeating it! Of course, this is only what they told the media, but it was still frustrating to imagine them not worrying about what they had just screwed up and plowing ahead.
- Nebraska is my second-favorite team and so I really hope that they come to the Big Ten. I like their old-school, tradition-laden, squeaky-clean corn-fed midwestern stereotype. I grew up in farm country and appreciate that way of life, idealized as it may be.
- I'm never all that excited to actually attend a football game because of many reasons, including lack of audio commentary, very difficult to see what's happening depending on seats, much fewer replays, the weather is rarely ideal, sloppy drunks, etc. There are positives, like getting to see the band, but so much of it is just kinda annoying.
- I would much, much rather see the band's halftime (and pregame) show on tv rather than listen to announcers summarize what's happening in some other game a thousand miles away that, if I were actually interested, I would just go watch.
I just farted and it smells really, really bad. Sorry.
to mention that the Bob Seger song "Main Street" is about Ann Arbor. Oh, and anytime an alumni is on TV, in a movie, or referred to in the news, I never fail to point that out...it happens a lot, James Earl Jones voice is everywhere...
* My best friend is a Sparty alum and huge fan
* I walked out of the stadium in the third quarter during the 97 game vs. Syracusse. Only time I've ever done that.
* Last November I was traveling in Brazil during the OSU game. I did not go out of my way to try to find the game at a local bar or something. First game I have missed in 14 years.
* Checking MGoBlog is probably my biggest addiction. I was able to pretty much quit smoking, but I have not been able to stay away from Michigan sports and recruiting.
I left early during the '04 MSU game and the '05 PSU game.
Michigan Stadium hates me...you are all welcome.
I slapped a man's (Marlin Jackon) ass on the field after the '03 OSU game, but am not ashamed whatsoever.
I also left early during the '04 MSU game. Clearly a huge mistake. But at the time - Sparty was handling us and it was one of those "I just want to walk home pissed off, smoke a bowl to calm me down, then cross my fingers as I watch the rest" games.
I don't smoke, but I had the "I want to go home and get pants-pissing drunk" mentality.
if you could leave every home game early?
I went to a science camp at App State between 7th and 8th grade.
I participated in burning The Rock many times.
I missed two home games as a student. (We went 6-6 in 1984. So I skipped a few.)
I booed when Bo Schembechlers called up the middle on 1st down.
I was set to root against OSU in the Rose Bowl, but couldn't do it, and was happy when they won convincingly despite the concern that maybe Tressel has figured out how to win big with Pryor.
I have neighbors who are OSU alumns, and we actually hang out at parties.
I stopped asking for an OSU collegue at work to pay up when we bet a bottle of bourbon for The Game each year back in the Cooper days. I felt sorry for him. (It kills me that he is now treating me with the same concern.)
an unhealthy addiction to pornography and I fear it is growing violent. I am becoming a monster in a man's body, and I am growing powerless to control my bloodlust. There has recently been a substantial drop in the number of prostitutes in my area.
Unless my third sub-basement which I dug myself counts as "my area".
Me? Is that you?
But if so, I welcome the company. It gets lonely in my brain.
I went to Michigan State University for graduate school and I liked the program I was in.
That said, I still sported Michigan gear on campus, receiving unbelievable shit for it.
i once dotted the i with an enormous bowl-wrapping turd.
I am a HUGE Pittsburgh Steelers fan, and rooted for Kordell Stewart when he played for us. Man it feels good to get that off my chest.