Quick Poggi Update
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From our good friend Tom-
Henrys dad spoke with the coaches on Friday, Henry spoke with them yesterday, and he's getting a visit from Mattison tomorrow. Tom said it'd be very surprising for Poggi to end up at Alabama.
From the sounds of it, it was just about him going to see his friend at Alabama. The coaches were well aware he was going, so lets end the his offer is pulled chat.
Sorry for the interruption, please go back to being excited about Derrick Green and being #1 in the polls.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:14 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:41 PM ^
What constitutes an offical? Does the school pay for everything: travel, hotel for player and parent; gifts and even dancing girls?
January 28th, 2013 at 7:14 PM ^
Nothing calms my recruiting nerves like Mattison visiting.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:15 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:19 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:38 PM ^
Truer words were never spoken.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:48 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:54 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 8:27 PM ^
January 29th, 2013 at 7:28 AM ^
we get 20 hilarious replies internet punching that particular idiot in the dong. So, stop ruining all our fun by posting /s.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:39 PM ^
what is 'rcmb' and can someone tell me what '/s' means?
oh i am so not hip...
January 28th, 2013 at 9:47 PM ^
RCMB = Red Cedar Message Board. It's the fence and brick wall of the internet that drunk idiots urinate on.
/s = is a foreshortened form of a fake HTML tag. An HTML Tag is opened with < tag > and closed with < /tag >. So /s is a foreshoretened form of < /s >. The S, in this case, stands for sarcasm. It means that the preceding post was made in sarcastic jest.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:51 PM ^
= funny.
Dont forget they light it on fire occasionally too.
January 29th, 2013 at 5:17 PM ^
so the red cedar flows in what town, maybe EL? would make sense with your description.
and the '/s' = sarcasm.
i am noticeably hipper now than i was this morning thanks to you.
January 29th, 2013 at 1:02 AM ^
MGo has charts, and data, and rules, and moderation. RCMB is a bit more:
Henry Poggi
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HOLY SHIT ITS A CONSPIRACY!!!!
January 29th, 2013 at 2:29 AM ^
I'd expect this kind of behavior from Herm....but even he keeps in touch.
/s
January 29th, 2013 at 8:08 AM ^
.....or intelligence, or couth, or civility, none of these things are necessary when referring to the RCMB.
January 28th, 2013 at 8:06 PM ^
Never understood the need, want, or desire to check out a rival message board.
January 28th, 2013 at 8:13 PM ^
I dont want to jack the thread but msu is not our rival.
January 28th, 2013 at 8:24 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 8:51 PM ^
My personal view, despite being from out of state is that Sparty is a rival, but more because they hate us so obsessively than because they are a team that we compete with. I know that they are coming off of a few good years against us, but historically, they beat us about as often as purdue or Minnesota. To me, a rivalry implies teams that are at least oddly matched more often than not, who battle for the same recruits, who respect each other despite being on opposite sides and who recognize each other as standing in the way of winning something big. Look at the Michigan - Ohio rivalry. Setting aside a few recent years, we are traditionally evenly matched, we battle for the big Midwest recruits, there is a respect amongst the hatred and often we battle for b10 championships. Now compare MSU. Setting aside the rr era, we historically dominate them. Until 2008, they were viewed as nothing more than a conference cupcake game on the difficulty scale. As for recruiting, while we compete geographically, again historically, Michigan and Ohio had their choice of Michigan talent, and MSU took what was left. Sure, that changed when rr was here, but it is going back and it will continue to do so as we keep reeling in talent and MSU reverts to their mean. As for respect, there is none in this rivalry. We do as a fanbase look at MSU as the scuzzy, kind of stupid punk little brothers and they look at a us jealously as arrogant, pompous self-important (yet successful) older siblings. Finally, historically, our games with MSU mean nothing - there is no more on the line than there would be when we play any other non-Ohio b10 school.
So, a rivalry, but only in the local sense. Just my view as an out of state fan.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
I agree completely with your assessment.
January 28th, 2013 at 9:48 PM ^
Wrong.
Since Bo got here in 1969, only OSU has more victories against us than Michigan State.
Ohio State has 20 victories against us
Notre Dame: 14 victories against us
Michigan State: 13 victories against us
Iowa: 9
Purdue: 7
Wisconsin: 7
Illinois: 5
Northwestern: 4
Minnesota: 3
Indiana: 1
January 28th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
I certainly cannot argue with your stats here Don. We should point out that those 13 wins have 2 footnotes: Clockgate and the hold on Desmond in the end zone.
January 28th, 2013 at 11:23 PM ^
Agree, personally, I think the Irish are a greater rival than MSU. (And I grew up in MI) Thought Hart summed up my feelings fairly accurately as they are and have always been “The Little Brother”.
January 29th, 2013 at 1:05 AM ^
Wins against us by percent of games played (also since 1969):
- ohio - 50%
- ND - 50%
- Penn State - 38%
- Michigan St - 29%
- Iowa - 27%
- Wisconsin - 21%
- Purdue - 18%
- Illinois - 13%
- Northwestern - 13%
- Minnesota - 8%
- Indiana - 3%
State is definitely in that middle tier with Iowa and Wisconsin when it comes to competitiveness. Poor Indiana.
January 28th, 2013 at 10:57 PM ^
MSU's insistence on us being their rival makes it so that they are. It's why 'lil bro works so well- we are their biggest rival and they aren't ours (very little brotherish). It's almost sad- at least now that we won't play ND every year they maybe will jump them to be our number two rival making it less pathetic for MSU...
What are some other examples of teams whose biggest rivals don't recipricate?
January 28th, 2013 at 11:52 PM ^
I thought everyone was our rival?
January 29th, 2013 at 2:34 AM ^
January 29th, 2013 at 6:52 AM ^
Our new 2nd rival is: Nebraska -- that team we have to beat every year to be able to play Ohio twice in two weeks.
Agree with the poster above: Hart was right: Sparty is the upstart little brother. They had their few years while we were in turmoil, and will continue to be the little attack dog that puffs up and wins more often than they should (by playing as dirty as they are allowed). However, just as Mike said: sometimes you have to let them think they are getting ahead, just to smack them back down again.
January 29th, 2013 at 12:05 AM ^
what you're saying is "rr" ruined everything.
"Setting aside the rr era"
"Sure that changed when rr was here"
I don't know what this "rr" is, but something tells me I'm glad it's gone.
January 29th, 2013 at 12:17 AM ^
'rr' is my main roadblock when it comes to properly pronouncing dog, car, and iron in Spanish.
Damn you, rr!
January 29th, 2013 at 1:20 PM ^
I am not saying that he "ruined everything." I am just referencing the record during his tenure, which was very bad. Before he came, we routinely beat MSU, losing the occasional game here or there. During his tenure, and in the year following it, we lost 4 straight to MSU.
Just stating a fact, not assigning blame. If you want me to opine on why that happened, I will be glad to, but that debate is tired and has been done to death.
January 28th, 2013 at 8:42 PM ^
Not in SoftBall.... Football and Basketball... With out question they are.
January 28th, 2013 at 10:02 PM ^
sport or acedemia. We have only one rival.
Its like asking: Can you love more than one wife? Err scratch that one. We have many 20-24 yo on this board.
January 28th, 2013 at 11:03 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:20 PM ^
Can these last few days get any better? Michigan receives a commitment from the # 1 RB in the nation, MSU loses a heartbreaker to Indiana while maintaining they didn't actually lose and it was the refs fault, Michigan beats Illinois convincingly on the road to get to first place in the big ten and # 1 in the nation.
January 29th, 2013 at 8:02 AM ^
Maybe it's just me, but it certainly seems like it is always the refs fault when they lose. I mean, ask the football team and they'll tell you only the black & white stripes beat them.
They are just plain sore losers, which unfortunately for them only further reinforces their whole little brother image.
January 29th, 2013 at 1:11 PM ^
After watching Sparty's offense in a few football games this past season, I must conclude that the black and white team fielded their strongest defense in years.
January 28th, 2013 at 10:22 PM ^
January 29th, 2013 at 5:48 AM ^
go really well together.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:21 PM ^
We need stronger D-lind play and Henry Poggi is one of the best in this class.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
MOARRR Happy Stuff !!!
January 28th, 2013 at 7:22 PM ^
January 28th, 2013 at 7:34 PM ^
does not make it over here. I know everybody likes to tell themselves that all the information makes it over here, but you really do miss a lot of it.
January 28th, 2013 at 7:41 PM ^
Obviously you can't really go into specifics, but like what kind of stuff?