Stauskas' Girlfriend Immortalizes Craft in Meme
Nik is living the good life based not only his basketball skill set, but quality of his significant other both in photogenic ability and ability to put Aaron Craft to epic meme.
In comments section of her instagram ESPN has asked her if they can use on Sportscenter - lol.
March 16th, 2014 at 12:59 AM ^
I really like Aaron Craft. He is one of those players you would hate to play against but love to have on your own team. But he choked this game away between the two late missed free throws and the "oops" at the end.
I would love to have him on my team as a backup.
March 16th, 2014 at 11:10 AM ^
Naaah. He wouldn't have beaten out Spike.
March 16th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
We'd be talking about retiring his number. In part, because he'd not only be a starter and a leader, he'd be an invaluable part of the machinery on our team. Michigan would be a much, much, much better team with Aaron Craft.
There seems to be a peculiar thing in sports where your rival's "white guy" gets special treatment as a hate-object. So you see comments at a normally clear-eyed and smart place like Eleven Warriors, about how many faces on the Michigan bench they'd like to punch. (A reference to Spike Albrecht, Mitch McGary and Andrew Dakich.) And, apropos of this thread, all our rivals are saving a special brand of hatred for none other than Nik Stauskas. Unlike any hatred of any of our quality black players.
Our rivals didn't hate Trey Burke that way. (They hated Burke, in all liklihood, but not "that way.") They did hate Zach Novak that way. We don't hate anybody at MSU (Appling, Harris, Mateen Cleaves, Steve Smith), the same way we hated Scott Skiles. It's a kind of a universal license in sports. Lines that you'd not normally cross, in hating on a black opposing star, fall away in hating on a rival white star.
Anyway, someday very soon, Aaron Craft is just going to be a former Ohio State basketball player. He'll be remembered for playing very well, and harder than anybody had ever seen, and being a remarkably good kid. And he'll go on to medical school, and a department chairmanship at the Cleveland Clinic or the OSU medical faculty at the Wexner Medical Center, or some such thing. Aaron Craft is going to do just fine.
So; yeah, I didn't much like Magic Johnson and Jay Vincent. Or Mateen Cleaves. And our friends over in East Lansing probably didn't care for Glen Rice, or Antoine Joubert. People like you and me probably shouldn't be polled about our feelings as to any of the Spartans. But none of those guys are anywhere near as polarizing as a Skiles, a Novak, a Stauskas, a Steve Grote, etc.
And yes, the Fab Five did everything humanly possible to make themselves lighting-rods for attention (and, consequently, rival-hate).
I'm glad that you at least "agree with some of [my] argument," because I don't claim it to be any sort of mathematically perfect algorithm. You make a good point that we tend to love our own white guys (the way that we would love a Novak/Grote/Stauskas; and the way that Buckeyes would love a Deibler/Craft/Allan Hornyak) and hate the opponents' white guys (ditto every one of those names).
Dude, leave your race-bating shit off of MGoBlog.
The object of my ridicule is basically the entire world of sports fandom...
I didn't criticize whites, or blacks. I didn't pick on any one team. (I think all fans, from all quarters, are mostly alike in this regard.) I didn't single out any one player or group of players for criticism; my one and only point was how "polarizing" white basketball players can be amongst their rivals.
Is that what gets called out nowadays as "race-baiting"? Shheeeeesh.
If you follow Duke basketball at all, there are a couple of players I remember that were the subject of the type of dislike that you are talking about. - Christian Laettner and JJ Reddick.
Christian Laettner is a wonderful example of what I am talking about. Bobby Hurley (not Reddick) would be next on that list.
My own feelings are of course mixed up in anything I write, so yeah; Christian Laettner. Bobby Hurley. Kent Benson. Steve Alford. Kelly Tripucka. Bill Laimbeer. Larry Bird. Danny Ainge. (The guys from Duke, IU and Notre Dame are twofers.) Etc., etc.
Steve Blake at Maryland, I believe had many people who loathed him.
"There seems to be a peculiar thing in sports where your rival's "white guy" gets special treatment as a hate-object."
Dude, you brought race into your argumentthen you ask WTF? Seriously, what does his race have to do with it? It seems that you trying to make the point that the "white guy" gets no respect, which most certainly sounds like race baiting to me.
Just as I clearly wasn't doing anything remotely like "race-baiting."
WTF.
The 2nd definition given in urbandictionary.com defines race baiting as, "baiting people, using racially-inflammatory issues or stereotypes." On an innocent post about Stauskas' girlfriend making Aaron Craft into cereal, you decided to write about how "white" players are more hated than black players, or that we have a special hatred for white players. How is this not a stereotype? What was the purpose of your post other than to bait people to comment about which white or black players they hate? It was just a stupid comment. I cannot understand how your account survived the great purge of '13 that claimed folks like M-Wolverine. I will never upvote one of your posts even if I agree with it, just because of the shear volume of nonsense you regularly post.
...my comment does make it sound stupid. That's on you.
and she's smoking hot. Lucky guy for sure!
She's a keeper.
She's hot, clever, and goes to my school. Nik you dog you.
Who is she exactly? Does she go to Michigan? Is she an athlete too?
Not that I'm going to stalk her or anything...
This is merely a general reminder to the board, but for the sake of everyone, this might be as specific as anyone should dare get. There have been "incidents" in the past where the privacy of players has been potentially violated.
A couple months ago, in a thread that was eventually deleted for its overt creepiness, someone revealed some very personal information about Nik Stauskas' girlfriend and that user was removed from the site as a result.
and this is one of the reasons I love MGoBlog.
BUT, do hafta say -- if the above *is* true, that information might be useful in improving Toledo's local rag's coverage of our fair team. Even the assigned Michigan reporter showed no faith in the team -- or the rivalry -- in November for the OSU - Michigan game (predicted a blow-out).
Positively sucks of late -- oozing in Craft-love as Michigan wins the B1G, which you'd hardly know it from reading the paper.
They do, however, love to tout anything related to "their" kids out in the world.
So... Go GF!!!
Outstanding. ESPN ought to just go ahead and replace Olberman with Nik's girlfriend.
:::where's my glass?:::
Just replace oberman. Can't stand that smarmy whack job.
How do you know that poster isn't a 17 year old high school senior gazing his eyes upon a hot girl?
March 16th, 2014 at 11:12 AM ^
March 16th, 2014 at 12:02 PM ^
Pretty much everything about this post - including the avatar - is creepy.
lulz...Oh man I'm just getting home and half tanked..this is gold
March 16th, 2014 at 11:26 AM ^
HEY! There is NOTHING wrong with creepy avatars.
NO. Crosses the line. That's somebody's kid.
Smart girl