Valenti says his Juwan Howard take was top 3 worst of all time
February 17th, 2021 at 5:15 PM ^
I don't trust him. He's trying to jinx us.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:40 PM ^
Clickable link:
https://app.radio.com/xtGf1wkCXdb
Reminder of what the Sparty hot-take artist said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iBKdP9eeGWk
February 18th, 2021 at 11:52 AM ^
Thanks for putting a clickable link up!
February 17th, 2021 at 6:38 PM ^
The team/coaches already jinxed us. We won't do anything special this year.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:35 PM ^
Are you looking for the RCMB?
February 17th, 2021 at 8:24 PM ^
It may be the reverse reverse jinx?
February 17th, 2021 at 9:31 PM ^
Either way, there will be no Dr. Pepper for 10 straight Saturdays.
February 18th, 2021 at 5:45 AM ^
Can’t believe my avatar twin brother feels this way!
February 19th, 2021 at 8:54 AM ^
Evil twin
February 17th, 2021 at 5:18 PM ^
Oh ok Valenti. Now that you state this it makes it alright that Juwan got hired, we're so lucky to have your blessing you enormous douche bag!!!
February 17th, 2021 at 5:19 PM ^
That's nice to know, but he's still a dick.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:19 PM ^
Unless you can put an exact timestamp on it, I'm going to have to take your word for it.
All I heard was some traffic news and then a Brady discussion.
February 17th, 2021 at 6:26 PM ^
It’s at 3:00 eastern. 2:00 since you are in Minnesota.
February 18th, 2021 at 5:21 AM ^
And what about Moscow?
February 17th, 2021 at 5:21 PM ^
Let me guess, he says he was wrong and Juwan was a good hire, while simultaneously poking at Juwan’s “history of poor character” and implying Michigan is cheating on the recruiting trail again? Fuck that guy either way, not gonna listen.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:26 PM ^
No, not really. He didn't say any of that stuff.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:33 PM ^
Uncle Leo! Why did you get me to listen, only to find in the first 5 mins of the segment he mentions Juwan’s “checkered past”, makes a joke about bringing back Ed Martin to recruit, oh, and takes a shot at Howard for not being an “Xs and Os” guy?
February 17th, 2021 at 5:34 PM ^
LOL crap- I must have missed that segment.
I only heard like the last couple minutes.
Retracted.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:34 PM ^
On the Xs and Os- even if we give him the benefit of the doubt, who cares? Team's winning- doesn't matter to me how it gets done.
February 17th, 2021 at 6:02 PM ^
Apparently people care if that line or thinking is racist or not
February 17th, 2021 at 10:15 PM ^
He's an anti-Michigan ass hat. Does that make him racist? Or is he a racist anti-Michigan ass hat? I've never heard him on the radio. He may be racist. But anytime someone's called racist I automatically discount it because that's become the primary insult for someone who doesn't agree with your perspective for a large part of this country. It's ridiculous.
February 17th, 2021 at 10:38 PM ^
No but the sentiment is borderline racist...because he puts all his success on the only white assistant coach he has ??♂️
February 18th, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
It also implies that Coach Howard isn’t smart enough to be calling the plays, which also leans in the racist direction.
He veils it with “he lacks head coaching experience”, which, LOL what? You know who lacked HC experience when he was hired? TOM FUCKING IZZO! You think Valenti would be saying this shit about him?
Coach Howard has been playing elite basketball for the better part of his young life and learning to coach from some of the best basketball minds on the planet since retiring. But yeah Valenti, it’s Juwan Howard that lacks basketball Xs and Os experience. Give me a fucking break.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:26 PM ^
I ALMOST fucking listened, thank jeebus you posted this. I fucking hate Valenti, not giving that Finebaum of the north any clicks
February 17th, 2021 at 7:48 PM ^
So Valenti's "show prep" is reading RCMB...
...that's word for word the rubbish there from after the Wiscy game.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:53 PM ^
You think Valenti parrots RCMB? You should hear Brian on his podcasts. It’s like he’s reading directly from front page posts on Mgoblog. What a ripoff artist!
February 18th, 2021 at 8:17 AM ^
Wait a second. The guy who apprenticed under one of the best Xs and Os coach in the NBA, and whose recruiting pitch is "I give you experience running NBA sets" isn't an "Xs and Os guy?"
February 17th, 2021 at 8:15 PM ^
No Sparty supporter wants to open up the “they are cheating” issue. Glass houses and all.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:26 PM ^
FWIW my personal top three "worst take" awards would be:
1.My temper tantrum last year when the Browns so obviously fucked up and hired that no-name Stefanski (NFL coach of the year) as their HC and somehow passed, yet again, on Josh McDaniels.
2. My unbridled happiness at our hiring of Rich Rodriguez as the HC in 2008. Spread & shred baby - national title game here we come!
3. The Browns again, this time when we absolutely STOLE Johnny MF Football with the 22nd pick in the 2014 draft. Take THAT Dallas.....ha, ha, ha, ha we win! I was so happy.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:28 PM ^
We've had them all. We get caught in the emotions of the situation.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:35 PM ^
Here's mine
1. I thought Hoke would be a better hire than Harbaugh in 2011.
2. I thought the Harbaugh hire would be one of the biggest hires in college football history. Instead it has resulted in OSU fans being a bigger fan of Michigan's head coach than Michigan fans are.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:05 PM ^
Oh man. Hoke is my second worst take.
I was really leery of Hoke coming in, though, but I remember watching Hoke's San Diego State team beat Navy in their bowl game and thinking it wouldn't be that bad. The defense was well-coached and the offense was competent; Ryan Lindley was a decent pro-style QB for that level of a program and Ronnie Hillman looked pretty good at running back.
Then after a shaky start he out-performed expectations in 2011. I thought, hey, Hoke is going to turn out to be all right.
My absolute worst take was looking at Ohio State losing to Purdue in 2018 and their close calls with Maryland and Nebraska and thinking Michigan had a chance in that game. I was stuck flying home for family reasons and I watched the first half in a bar in the Dayton airport. We boarded as the half was ending and I fell asleep before the plane even got in the air.
I woke up when the plane touched down and I think it was 48-19 by then.
February 17th, 2021 at 10:14 PM ^
I bought tickets to the 2018 Big Ten championship game a few weeks before The Game and ended up selling them to an OSU friend of mine from high school. Good times.
February 18th, 2021 at 9:08 AM ^
Your basketball team is really good. OSU's football team is really good. Even as a OSU fan that has had the pleasure of watching OSU regularly in Indy since the start of the B1G Championship game, I have never bought a ticket before the ticket is punched. It's bad karma, don't do it (for future reference haha).
February 18th, 2021 at 10:16 AM ^
Now I know why UM lost that game...
February 17th, 2021 at 8:27 PM ^
I was absolutely despondent about the Hoke hire. I'm a grown-ass man and it made me want to cry. Went home and complained to the wife that we just signed up to be mediocre, at best, for the next several years. On the other hand, I thought Harbaugh would have had us contending for NCs before now.
February 18th, 2021 at 12:58 AM ^
Same on the Hoke hire. My brother-in-law likes to tell the story of the day he was hired. I left work in the middle of the day only to wander around the mail for hours despondent, and on the edge of breaking down. I knew we were so fucked. I’ve never felt that shitty about any hire, ever.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:44 PM ^
That's nothing. I once believed that life had meaning.
February 17th, 2021 at 6:30 PM ^
- I believed Apollo Creed would win the rematch! I thought he just underestimated Rocky in the first fight.
- I believed Lucy would let Charlie kick the ball just once
- I believed Kyrie Irvin when he said the world was flat
February 17th, 2021 at 7:53 PM ^
I believed Kyrie Irvin when he said the world was flat
What was your reaction when Hank Johnson expressed concern that if Guam got too populated, it would risk tipping over and capsizing into the ocean?
February 17th, 2021 at 7:33 PM ^
I know your take is sarcastic, but like most your understanding of reality is inverted. It is also likely distorted by modern individualism. Life isn't a thing with properties, it is a result of meaning and creativity itself. Your own, seemingly empty and meaningless life is only so when viewed as if in isolation from everything that makes it what it is, much of which is beyond the capabilities of an individual mind to perceive. Whatever you believe, your existence has impacted reality and being itself. There is novelty, for instance, in your particular brand of dark, sarcastic humor, and it cannot be measured what that may bring to someone's life. This nihilistic joke, for instance, prompted my response (however creative it is).
February 17th, 2021 at 5:49 PM ^
Well mGrow, I was very leery of the RichRod hire from the get go and knew midway through 2008 season that it was gonna end badly and we were in for some lean years.
I remained hopeful and rooted like hell but to no avail, sigh.
That fucking hire is still affecting us negatively and somehow we're still trying to overcome it.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:35 PM ^
Good deal for everyone who has ensued when you can still blame it all on RichRod.
February 17th, 2021 at 9:25 PM ^
Not Rich Rods fault, but its fair to blame the guy that hired him.
February 17th, 2021 at 5:55 PM ^
1 & 2 are understandable takes that you assuredly are not alone in.
#3 not so much if you're on the outside looking in. Not so bad, I have 10 times more than this.
Joey Harrington is our savior!
February 17th, 2021 at 7:06 PM ^
The worst part about Harrington is that he'd play just well enough to make you think that maybe he'd eventually figure it out. Wrong!
February 17th, 2021 at 6:18 PM ^
1) Leaf is just a shade better than Manning
2) The Lions will be 8-8 or better (just about any year between 2000 and 2010 but then I stopped assuming the Lions understood how the parity thing works.
February 17th, 2021 at 6:43 PM ^
Rich Rod--yeah, I remember that random co-workers (I live on East coast) were congratulating me on Michigan's progressive, fwd thinking break from the past. :(
February 17th, 2021 at 6:56 PM ^
I don't know if I have something I can boil down to a top three.
I know that I was so convinced that Hoke was going to go toe-to-toe with Urban Meyer that I was posting something like "bring it on!" in threads in 2011 or so here. Well, Urban did.
I thought Devin Gardner would be Michigan's greatest QB.
Here's a deep cut: I thought trading Jerry Stackhouse for Rip Hamilton was a step down for the Pistons.
I thought Tom Brady's career was on the downswing when he tore his ACL in 2008.
February 17th, 2021 at 7:33 PM ^
To be completely fair, Devin Gardner might be the greatest QB of all time at UM, but we haven't found all the pieces of him yet