Sparty bros to pay $20,000 to see my Michigan degree
My twitter feed has been spicy since Monday. Buckeye and Sparty are trying to tweet through it.
One particularly brave Sparty bro (@CogitoMSU) has been in my mentions a concerning number of times. He/She is broken. And now his poor ass is gonna be broke broke, along with his equally stupid pal @AshlonJefrey. They said they'll pay $10,000 each to see my Michigan diploma. I'll donate every penny to charity. Let's see how these internet tough guys stack up when the chips are on the table.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:19 AM ^
Reminder: Champions Circle is a charity
EDIT: Doh, Hail! Impact is the charity, not Champions Circle.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:58 AM ^
You'll make my day if Champions Circle is a tax-deductible charity!
It's a good cause, nonetheless. I hope it helps us keep a couple top players who were on the fence about coming back for another year.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:16 AM ^
I was going to say as a CPA it is not. But it also says that on the website under its FAQ section that it is not.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:13 AM ^
It's not. The IRS ruled against the collectives being deductible.. Now, if you own a business......hmmmmm
January 11th, 2024 at 11:20 AM ^
AHH my bad. Its Hail! Impact that is a 503.c charity.
https://hailimpact.org/
January 11th, 2024 at 12:25 PM ^
This is not tax advice. But:
Make the Twitter losers pay Champions Circle directly so OP doesn't receive their cash and therefore no taxable income.
Or, if you already committed to giving to charity and think that CC wouldn't count, use Hail impact or Mott or your charity of choice. Again, if you make them pay directly, you don't have any income from winning the bet. They can even get the charitable deduction themselves, so they get a tax benefit to donating 10k.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:17 PM ^
If he receives the money and donates all $20K to a 501c3 charity then isn't it all wiped from taxable income?
HailImpact passed the irs sniff test and was even applauded by prominent attorney Mit Winter. It received its 501c3 letter after the IRS memo because it gives 70% to charity and makes the players earn the remaining 30% by performing service for charity.
You could pick your favorite charity which would receive $14k and then raise $6k for NIL in the process.
Spartans donating $6K directly to the players that are going to beat down on them next year would be peak State 😂
January 11th, 2024 at 1:27 PM ^
Playing Michigan State in football every year is charity too.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:20 AM ^
You are 'Due#'? I've been liking your tweets.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:28 AM ^
This feels like a massive reveal! I, too, was not fully aware.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:02 AM ^
I Due believe he actually played for Michigan back in the day. I'm not going to dox him but it's in the twitter replies.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:46 PM ^
And readyourguard has said the same thing here throughout the years. He has always been a solid and very knowledgeable poster. When he posts something, I always read it.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:02 AM ^
Not sure if he really wants to be doxxed here?
January 11th, 2024 at 11:12 AM ^
I'm not really sure it rises to the level of doxxing for someone to willingly link to their social media account and that social media account to state who they are for someone else to basically just sum up the exact information the person has voluntarily shared about themselves?
January 11th, 2024 at 11:17 AM ^
I'm not sure if the guy did voluntarily share that info about himself?
January 11th, 2024 at 11:30 AM ^
Twitter account (that he just posted here) is JDue51. John Duerr played football at Michigan, wore #51. The twitter account has a picture at the top of the account of himself touching the banner.
I don't follow the account, but I'm going to guess his account has made it fairly clear who he is.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:50 PM ^
In addition, I'd consider this pretty solidly volunteered identifying information https://twitter.com/JDue51/status/1550857409026990082
January 11th, 2024 at 1:06 PM ^
It's all good.
January 11th, 2024 at 1:11 PM ^
Appreciate your low-hanging fruit so very very much. Gives me something to look forward to on Sunday mornings while I'm waiting for grocery pickup.
January 11th, 2024 at 1:12 PM ^
He's a really good follow. The "Low Hanging Fruit" game review he does on Sunday morning during the season is a great primer for UFR.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:39 PM ^
Well, first I'd need an account.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:42 PM ^
Not doxxing, he volunteered his information and it's all very front & center. If I gave his home address, phone number, etc., I could see that as being highly inappropriate, but there's really nothing about saying the guys' name and his history on the team that he's made a point to make known.
January 11th, 2024 at 1:02 PM ^
P sure Brian/Seth have said it out loud on the pod. I'm no insider but I knew who Due# was, though not his MgoIdentity.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:19 AM ^
I'll be "Due#" and show them my degree if it gets me $20k lol
January 11th, 2024 at 11:46 AM ^
I have never understood the thought from virtually all of sparty nation that nobody ever actually went to Michigan. It's like because they didnt get in, nobody got in, and the entire campus is filled with fake people or something.
I've had similar exchanges with Spartan slappies on the Twitters and they simply cannot wrap their heads around the fact we have actual alumni.
Go take their money JDue.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:19 PM ^
There's definitely a universal consensus that you must be an alum to be a fan. I was a fan long before I could even go to college, didn't have the gpa to get in so I didn't even apply, and went elsewhere. Am still a "friend of the university." But I have relatives who have multiple degrees from MSU and work for MSU and they are adamant that their fandom means more than mine does, whatever the hell that means.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:49 PM ^
I was born with maize and blue running thru my veins. As if I had a choice. Very thankful my blood wasn't green.
January 11th, 2024 at 4:13 PM ^
If it were green, you could've gone to the Starfleet Academy.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:35 PM ^
They are mad that we have so many people who did not go here that love the team and are 100% part of the fan base. That really just isn’t a thing at MSU, especially outside of mid-Michigan. So, they try to discount our fan base by saying you don’t “count” if you aren’t an alumn. It’s the whole tried “Walmart Wolverine” troupe they pull out. Like most allegations, it’s actually an admission.
January 11th, 2024 at 12:40 PM ^
I think it stems from the fact that MSU has, what, 147 non-alumni fans?
Nobody’s choosing to be an MSU fan if they aren’t obligated to by a degree, because it’s a miserable, joyless, bitter existence built entirely upon a raging inferiority complex. Who’s signing up for that?
Meanwhile, there are tens of millions of non-alumni UM fans, because UM’s cultivated something people actively want to belong to.
Sparties know this. And it kills them.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:19 PM ^
So is their position that they don’t accept Sparty fans that didn’t go to MSU?
January 11th, 2024 at 4:21 PM ^
HTTP 404
That fan doesn’t exist.
January 11th, 2024 at 2:53 PM ^
Literally yesterday I had an employee ask if I went to Michigan as we discussed my fandom and trip to Houston. Sigh.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:44 AM ^
Yeah, similarly, readyourguard has long been one of my favorite posters here and I always dug Due's stuff on Twitter (though I have long since deactivated) but never realized it was the same person.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:22 AM ^
Shoot, I might pony up a couple hundred for the reaction video.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^
Get it in cash, "Spartybits" are not a real currency.
January 11th, 2024 at 10:35 AM ^
what about Tuck Bucks?
January 11th, 2024 at 10:40 AM ^
eww...
January 11th, 2024 at 10:42 AM ^
This $10k is 100% a Tuck NFT
January 11th, 2024 at 10:23 AM ^
Zero percent chance those idiots pay.
I also don't understand their comment in the first place. If you didn't have a Michigan diploma...that means what?
January 11th, 2024 at 10:54 AM ^
i'm pretty sure you're also not allowed to root for the Lions unless you work for the Lions.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:04 AM ^
Even with a Michigan degree I still just don't get this at all.
Do they sit there and beg for the msu fans who didn't go there to show their degrees or they can't be fans?? I've never, ever understood this stance.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:09 AM ^
ARE there MSU fans that didn't go there? ...and if so, what exactly is wrong with THOSE people?? ;-)
January 11th, 2024 at 12:38 PM ^
Some, but as many as we have. Thus, the saltiness.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:30 AM ^
As a Michigan die hard fan with no Michigan degree i have a go to answer to anyone who tries to act ridiculous about rooting for a school you didnt attend.
Ive been a Wolverine since I learned to walk and if you didnt start cheering for a school until you attended it then you arent even a real college sports fan.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:31 AM ^
Or if you actually belong to genus panthera leo.
January 11th, 2024 at 11:09 AM ^
Somehow MSU and OSU cranks (but mostly MSU) think Michigan is the only fanbase that has fans that aren't alums. These guys will look down their noses at non-alum Michigan fans while calling us elitists out the other side of their mouth
January 11th, 2024 at 12:22 PM ^
OSU fans aren't really like that. They expect every man, woman and child in Ohio to be a loyal supporter of their university, so by nature that includes lots of non-alums.
This is specific to MSU fans because they feel insecure with their school's academic reputation compared to ours. They see someone in Michigan colors and it triggers that insecurity, hence the "Where'd you really go to school?" stuff. But honestly, they shouldn't feel that way. MSU is a solid school in its own right.