Who knew UM had a bass fishing team?
U-M Fishing Team to Compete in Bassmaster College Series National Championship
https://seas.umich.edu/news/u-m-fishing-team-compete-bassmaster-college-series-national-championship
Anything to wrest the Director's Cup away from Stanford!!!
Team theme song....
That's right!
Hope you can stay up late because the UM Euchre team is taking on IU for the NCE Championship tonight on ESPN 8 The Ocho.
:)
Wake me up when the school forms a bass slappin' team.
Freakbass and ND are ready and rested for this challenge
I've been going to therapy to treat the Freakbass trauma caused by that video. I need back on the couch now.
Primus Sucks!
no one ever gets this reference ... when I yell it out people argue with me
It means you're old, embrace it....
Davie504 approves.
OP username checks out.
Why is it always BASSmasters? Why don't these fishing competitors ever try for a good eating fish, like perch or walleye or trout?
#AllFishesMatter
Fishing for perch is not that hard. Drop multi-hook line, bring up multiple fish. Repeat until you hit your limit.
Bass is actually pretty good.
Small or large mouth?
I had some small mouth that we caught on an inland lake last summer. Just a simple egg wash and coating and dropped them in the fryer. Delicious.
Does Michigan still have a Super Bass-o-Matic '76?
I can't imagine fishing competitively - it would be way too stressful. I prefer to fish just for the halibut.
I'll show myself out ...
Please do...
Edit: Shit too late - threw the hook.
will you tuna in for the results?
Walleye ever!
...but I hope we do not flounder in our attempt to win it all and that we can skate right by!
I'll be watching, perched at the edge of my chair.
I'm gonna need an aspirin. This thread is giving me a haddock.
Put your faith in Cod.
....and if we beat out Stanford for the DC, I am sure they will carp about it!
That pun smelt...
bassically everyone knows that.
Is this a Title IX thing? Is it varsity? I can't imagine its a varsity sport, but I also can't imagine the AD sending an intramural team to a collegiate championship event.
Good luck to the team! This is definitely one of the weirder sports within the AD, right?
I'd wager it's a club sport. I was on the club cycling team in college and we'd usually send a few cyclists that qualified to nationals most years. The University provides the framework and support, but the club sports mostly rely on dues and fundraising to make things happen.
There are a wide variety of club sports (ultimate frisbee, fencing, rifle, etc) that compete with other schools across the country.
Yep, definitely part of Club Sports, which are run under the Student Activities department, not athletics. The school lets them use the logo and throws each team some money to travel and stuff, but otherwise the club teams are all student-run, just like any other on-campus activity.
Probably a club sport. Club sports at all levels compete against other schools around the country, and have national championships.
Just as an example, the Michigan Men’s Club Ice Hockey team competes at the D2 level of the ACHA. In January, they will be traveling to Texas to play a weekend series with TCU. While their league schedule consists of teams from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky.
Club sports are sometimes sponsored by the school, but aren’t ran by the AD (ran by a student activities committee of some sort instead) and offer no scholarships. The team itself is often in charge of staffing, fundraising, scheduling, and travel accommodations. With the schools typically offering financial assistance or use of facilities (the club hockey team plays at Yost free of charge for example).
Those snobs at Stanford are looking down their noses at us across their chess boards. Redneck championships count as much as country club ones.
I used to work overnight at the A2 News doing page design and editing for the sports section. I'd get off work at 6 am and head out fishing. I caught what was at the time the biggest largemouth of my life in Barton Pond one of those mornings, around 6 lbs. The Huron River also has some great smallmouth fishing upstream from Ann Arbor.
Stanford probably has a fly-fishing team.
Aside: Ever meet a fly-fishing nerd? Very special, like all nerds, with a better-than-average chance of being annoying.
Honestly this strikes me more as a Bama or Clemson thing.
However they are living my childhood dream. I've never met another person who grew up with Roland Martin as their idol.
Then we should meet. I once met Babe Winkleman at the Novi Fishing Show, talked to hm for a while about how to get into outdoor media (I've had a few hunting and fishing stories published including one that got syndicated and made it into 8 newspapers that I know of), and he took me out for dinner. Had to have the lobster bisque.
Probably the best bass fisherman of the past 15 years is a Michigander!
....the real story is the NIL compensation deal!
But can they catch one of these:
(my father-in-law had one and was very proud of it)
My absolute favorite joke from the What we do in the Shadows TV show involved one of those.