Reliving the last coaching search...
Couldn't resist re-posting this, from my old haloscan comments from MGoBlog in the last coaching search:
It has been forever since I last posted anything, including even a comment. While I am still a regular follower of MGoBlog, as well as the new WLA, I've basically been a casual onlooker on the blog scene the whole season. As some of you may (or may not) recall, I was a regular commentator and contributor late last season, as well as over the Winter during the coaching search. In fact, I commiserated with many fellow U-M Law alumi, and basically wasted like 1,000 potential billable hours spending endless hours on MGoBlog tracking the coaching search and waiting for Brian to start a new thread that we could comment on. In any event, today I decided to google my MGoBlog handle and read through my old posts during December of last year. A time, I might add I originally referred to as a "shit storm", but later termed "a diarrhea hurricane." I thought some of you might might enjoy a sampling of some of my posts/comments during that time. My favorite is a "memo" I wrote to all of you summarizing the general malaise and paranoia of everyone following the coaching search on MGoBlog. For those that don't remember, "Spicy BM" was a nickname attributed to Bill Martin at a time (I generally analogized him to a bowel movement). As some of you may also remember, I was a Les Miles fan, and believed he would "crawl through glass" to come back to U-M. I also openly pined for Rich Rodriguez. In any case, after re-reading the threads from that time, there is NO FUCKING WAY I can handle another coaching search any time in the near future. The coaching search makes a 3-7 mark look like the 1997 season. LOL. In any case, hope you enjoy the sampling of some of my old posts (current labeling in bold).
ON THE GROBE MAFIA:
Success! I brought my laptop and am at a Starbucks. GJ delayed (fucking AUSAs).
I've decided to give Grobe a pass -- like the Gambino LCN. He gets freedom from bad commentary from me, but he will be required to win a MNC within 3 years of his hiring at Michigan. Sorry, those are the rules. As a former gov't lawyer who proscuted organized crime cases, I don't give a fuck what the Grobe mafia says about it. 3 years and a national championship. If half of what you guys says about Grobe is true that's not asking to much.
Christ, I'm halfway on the Grobe bandwagon.
DCBlue | 12.06.07 - 1:02 pm | #
I think gsimmons85 is Jim Grobe's handle. He's sitting in his office in Winston-Salem typing away.
DCBlue | 12.06.07 - 1:11 pm | #
ON BILL MARTIN, Generally (Sidenote: Can you fucking believe we thought PSU's Bradley even had a chance? LOL)
How great would it be if BM's "process" included having his AD staff run unsubtantiated rumors of potential candidates up the MGoBlog flagpole? Brady Hoke. Nope can't hire him. Urban Meyer, definate possibility. T. Bradley, definately not.
DCBlue | 12.06.07 - 1:13 pm | #
On "Premium" message boards:
I can't imagine paying money for this rumor mongering. "Premium" message board? Unless they furnish coke and hookers, that's ridiculous.
DCBlue | 12.06.07 - 2:00 pm | #
Bill Martin, revisited:
As much as I want to believe that spicy BM's "process" is just like "Fortitude South" in WWII (the plan to deceive the Germans into thinking that the main attack would come in the Pas-de-Calais and the low countries to the east), I just don't buy it. I think Saturdy and Sunday was a huge clusterfuck, probably brought on a little from both sides and now BM is racing for a plan B to save face/his ass.
I mean Jesus, he's not planning the fucking Normandy landings, he's hiring a football coach. This CIA/KGB stuff would be funny if it wasn't so ridiculous.
DCBlue | 12.06.07 - 3:14 pm | #
The "Memo" summarizing the MGoBlog threads at the time:
TO: Blog Fags
FROM: DC BLUE
RE: MICHIGAN COACHING SEARCH
CLIENT CODE: Spicy BM
After extensive research, and in an attempt to save all of us the trouble of following new threads, please feel free to print out the following cheat sheet that gives a synopis of every MGoBlog discussion.
1. Les Miles = Crawl through glass.
2. Spicy BM = fucked things up
3. Malfunctioning Blackberry/Sailing
4. KING GROBE
5. Oh my god we're fucked.
6. What a shit storm/diarrhea hurricane.
7. Relax, it will all work out.
8. Fuck you, this is Michigan.
9. Who is the hot coordinator
10. Martin said no coordinators.
11. Kittens
12. Mike Debord
13. Urban Meyer/Sean Peyton/Rich Rodriguez.
14. English/Hoke
15. I need a drink
16. You guys are the greatest
17. Troll
18. We need a profiles in heroism [insert name]
19. Michigan Student provides bi-polar anaylsis.
20. We're like ND
21. No we're not
22. THIS IS MICHIGAN
23. Clean house
24. Pat Forde/Drew Sharp = douche
25. I trust Bill Martin.
26. Fuck that, we're fucked.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Finally, isn't this the truth:
Maybe Harbaugh does warrant a look. sigh.
Whoever it is, we'll all be bitching after the first three and out next year.
DCBlue | 12.07.07 - 11:16 am | #
November 29th, 2010 at 5:07 PM ^
Oh man, Jim Grobe. Blast from the past. Memories...
November 29th, 2010 at 5:10 PM ^
I just keep thinking that maybe your mother should have washed your mouth out with soap more often.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^
I know Jim Grobe is a bad word but I don't get it...?
November 29th, 2010 at 5:13 PM ^
it might be in reference to how much I curse in the original postings. Obviously, the poster has never been a litigator or played college football.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:19 PM ^
Maybe thats it. The lawyers I went to school with are in patent law so they curse in big stupid words that no one else understands.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:19 PM ^
Or college hockey.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:28 PM ^
As a fellow lawyer and an early member of GSimm's Jim Grobe Mafia, let me say this: I still think Grobe's orbit offense would have been effective.
Loved those Haloscan conversations.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:48 PM ^
Just goes to show how one good season, no matter how shiny, shouldn't color too much of your perception.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:19 PM ^
I can hardly wait for a another round of leaks, misinformation, hysteria, tripping over ourselves. Crap.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:58 PM ^
I mean, I guess it's based on an assumption that Michigan wanted Les Miles, but even if they did, weren't they waiting until Les's season was over before discussing it with him?
Yes, LSU brought a new bucket of money to Les, and Les tried to call Michigan for the counter offer, and Michigan declined. Couldn't Les have told LSU to just wait? Sure LSU said their offer would be pulled, but would it really never come back if Les started talking with Michigan?
I think Les took the money because he didn't think he had a shot at Michigan.
Bill Martin was on a boat because there was no reason to take the call.
anyway, I don't know why it's a fuck up to not hire someone you didn't necessarily want.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:12 PM ^
I'm just glad Brandon isn't much of a sailor.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:17 PM ^
Some things never change.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:22 PM ^
Outstanding. History continues to repeat itself. Why can't those guys simply go away?
November 29th, 2010 at 5:31 PM ^
was an embarrassment of murderous death. The general consensus seems to be that DB will have his pick waiting in the wings should RR depart, as it should be.
November 29th, 2010 at 5:57 PM ^
People weren't actually serious about Jim Grobe right?
November 29th, 2010 at 5:59 PM ^
dead serious. So much so that the Grobe Mafia sprung up, mostly jokingly but with some substantive basis. GSimmons was a very vocal proponent. Those were pretty dark days.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:11 PM ^
Don't judge. GSimms told a sweet, sweet tale about Jim Grobe's Tressel-like development of talent, underrated recruiting abilities at a good academic school, and creative orbit motion on offense. Couple that with legitimate Brady Hoke talk, and, well, I was flat out snowed.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:25 PM ^
As painful as that coaching search was, moments of the 2008, 2009, and (to a far lesser extent) 2010 seasons were way worse. If I had traveled back in time to that point in 2007 to tell my 2007 self what was going to happen over the next three years, I think my 2007 self would have a hard time coming to terms with what I was saying.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:27 PM ^
then again, if you'd told me in 2003 that Michigan would lose 7 straight to Ohio State, I think my 2003 self would have blown his head off.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:27 PM ^
If Coleman and Martin had a crystal ball which showed the past three years under RR would they have hired RR?
As a litigator I suspect they would not and the jury would agree.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:28 PM ^
we'd all have a merry Christmas.
November 29th, 2010 at 6:31 PM ^
If we become successful with whatever coach and he creates a new tradition of success, I'll bet we never get caught without an internal heir apparent again.