South Quad/West Quad Snowball Fight
Confirmed visitors:
Marcus Hall
Barkevious Mingo
Cameron Gordon
Travante Stallworth
Michael Schofield
All seemed to be enjoying the snow, and each had a few people working on selling them on Michigan. Someone asked Mingo and Stallworth if they liked the snow and they laughed it off. All in all, I'm glad they were there for the spectacle and could see that snow can be fun.
FYI - I took a giant ice-ball in the nuts. Fucking baseball players. Barkevious laughed, so if he doesn't commit, I took it in the nuts for nothing.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:57 AM ^
Over here on the west side of town all the snow is powder and making a decent snowball is impossible.
And Barkevious Mingo is one of the great all-time college football names.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:58 AM ^
A horrible snowball fight. Ice chunks were flying. It was kind of epic, the way each front would charge across the street and be pelted by powder, and then retreat.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:05 AM ^
for a snowball fight.
I saw probably 6-8 guys who looked like football players on the West Quad side, and was personally tackled (and whitewashed) by one. I didn't recognize any of them, though.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:23 AM ^
Patrick Omemah
JB Fitzgerald
JT Floyd
Martavious Odoms
Branden Smith
Rocko Khoury
Kenny Demens
Terrence Robinson
Vincent Smith
Plus the recruits. Omemah was a beast and Kenny Demens was wrecking fools. I asked them to save it for Pryor.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:27 PM ^
say my rhymes are sissy
...why?
January 12th, 2009 at 3:03 PM ^
I'm the hiphopopptamus
My lyrics are bottomless...
January 12th, 2009 at 4:50 PM ^
at the snowball fight or something?
January 12th, 2009 at 5:21 PM ^
I'm the mother flippin'
January 13th, 2009 at 8:07 AM ^
God I loved that monkey
January 11th, 2009 at 3:14 AM ^
were you out there hiphopoptamus or were you a recruit
January 11th, 2009 at 3:25 AM ^
just one of the few SQ students who fought on, despite being greatly outnumbered and outmatched.
And in retrospect (and having scoured the internets for pictures) I definitely got Khoury good once, and I think it might have been Demens who took me down. Hard to tell in the dark though.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:58 AM ^
The football players can get pretty nasty during the South Quad - West Quad snowball fight. In fact, two years ago Greg Mathews shattered my roommate's ankle with a tackle during the fight. Honors kids vs. football players never was quite fair.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:07 AM ^
There was surer tackling during the snowball fight than I saw all season.
January 11th, 2009 at 6:40 PM ^
wrecked my roommate sophomore year despite the fact he was supposedly nursing injuries at the time. So yeah. They're pretty big.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:44 AM ^
I enjoyed reading this. thanks, you guys.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:52 AM ^
good work MGoAndy and The Hiphopopotamus. Your services to the michigan football program are greatly appreciated. I saw Tate at the Utah game and told him how badly we need and wanted him. Well, he committed that weekend so i'd like to think my actions went a long way in securing his commitment (but really, he had actually committed like 2 hours before that but that's neither here nor there). i did see anthony fera but kept walking cause i really didn't give a shit about a kicker.
but yeah, i think this stuff does have some type of effect on the recruits, even if it is just a little.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:02 AM ^
No wonder Fera decommitted. It's your fault. You'd better hope he doesn't go on to win any Grozas.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:59 AM ^
dont' worry i've already sent brendan gibbons a fruit basket to solidify his commitment.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:31 AM ^
Good times. I was in West Quad for 1 year 1999-2000. I remember the fight. A taxi cab drove right down the road, the car took several hits, and the foolish driver tried to get out and yell at kids. Anyways, the snowball fight ended inside of south quad. It had cops and everything.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:09 AM ^
wow, I was in the fight as well this year. I wistfully glanced at the new, younger generation of kids and nodded, almost imperceptibly, at the way these kids grow up (im a junior, and this was my third year living in one of those 2 dorms.)
Btw, I walked into my neighbor's room last night, where 2 football players and friends of minewhich i will keep nameless for their and my privacy live, and who should I see but Tate Forcier and Anthony Lalota glance up when i walked in?
I slapped hands all around, then i was off to party.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:21 AM ^
Was he there by any chance if so did he look like he enjoyed the snow.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:28 AM ^
But got hit by far too many snowballs. I just wish he was more elusive.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:31 AM ^
I think the best part about this weekend was the snow. Think about it. Many of these kids have never seen the stuff, so it is like a novelty to them. This was probably their first snowball fight, and they probably think now that this type of tomfoolery surrounds snow, which it really does. Snow is a good thing, and I bet they talk to the kids from the south about it before they decide. This snow can only help us.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:42 AM ^
than howling winds, 25 degree highs and banks of dirty plow snow like some winter weekends.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:16 PM ^
I remember seeing Mike Hart at the snowball fight when I was a student. There was also like 5 fist fights. It reminded me of an old timey western bar brawl.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:20 PM ^
I fought on the South Quad side in 2002. We lost, of course. Braylon Edwards bodyslammed a friend of mine, and Marlin Jackson was in the middle of the street calling people out. Thems were the days
January 12th, 2009 at 10:11 AM ^
Come on guys. That's you tube quality kinda stuff! Where's the film at 11?
January 12th, 2009 at 10:57 AM ^
During the snowball fight, my friend got hit in the face... by a pumpkin.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^
The baseball players were fighting dirty towards the end, as the football players, namely Tay Odoms and Kenny Demens, started laying people out. The started throwing rocks and objects like peanut butter jars.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:35 PM ^
If you had one chance to talk to a mondo 5-star recruit and address the cold/snow issue, what would you say - especially if they're also being recruited by USC, Florida and schools where the coeds are in bikinis half the time?
January 12th, 2009 at 1:44 PM ^
I just remember Dhani Jones, who lived in east Quad, showed up when I was a sophomore with about 25 random kids he recuited from East Quad and two coolers full of water-balloons.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:05 PM ^
back in the 70's, residents of Rumsey House made slingshots with surgical tubing and provided covering fire for the assault on South Quad.
It was so successful that many people kept snowballs in their minifridges all spring and attacked South Quad once more in April, before going home for the summer.
I also recall seeing Dennis Franklin throwing snowballs, during the winter of '73-74, when Ohio State was voted to the Rose Bowl, in part because everyone thought Franklin was hurt.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:19 PM ^
Last year I went to see a movie and Will Campbell was at the theater sitting a couple rows in front of me.
He was talking the whole movie, and on his cell phone, and when my girlfriend told me to say something to him to get him to be quiet I told her "False" and let him on his fun.
Then a few older guys got pissed (Had to be Sparties) and told them to shut up and I lowered down in my seat so in the faint glow of the projector all you could see was my Michigan hat and said "He's only a kid, who cares!"
So anyway ... welcome.
January 12th, 2009 at 3:56 PM ^
Would you want to fuck with Will Campbell? No thanks.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:11 PM ^
Fuck her.