August 13th, 2017 at 4:50 PM ^
I think a dual statue - of Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke holding hands - would be pretty cool
August 13th, 2017 at 6:20 PM ^
Holding hands was more of a RichRod thing, with 'You raise me up', playing in the background.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:45 PM ^
That's ok, I changed my mind. We need a statue of Stephen M Ross. But a statue of him making it rain $100s, with $50s coming out his butt!!!
August 13th, 2017 at 7:49 PM ^
Pennywise, you excited for your big screen debut?
August 13th, 2017 at 7:43 PM ^
just metaphorically walking together into the sunset ...
August 13th, 2017 at 4:51 PM ^
Gordon "Red" Berenson
August 13th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
Thank you. I appreciate it.
But Red (soon) and Hutch (on opening day after her final home game).
August 13th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
Mr. Yost: Built the Athletic Department, created the Big House, and most importantly has the highest negged post in MgoBlog history.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
Epic meltdown. My second favorite thread of all time, slightly behind the original Lloyd Brady Photoshop thread.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:23 PM ^
As the unoffical, self-appointed Curator of Negs, I approve of this footnote.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:07 PM ^
should definitely get statues eventually, but Yost is way overdue.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:02 AM ^
Yost, maybe, but one would have to consider his social views. Does his immense success as a football coach outweigh his overt racism?
But I would definitely erect one of BOB UFER, right outside the entrance to the Big House Press Box -- bless his cotton pickin' Maize and Blue heart. With audio loops of his greatest calls playing before each game.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
No real comment. It just felt really good placing those 3 names on the same line.
August 13th, 2017 at 4:52 PM ^
Dave Brandon sitting thinker style on the giant macaroni.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:21 PM ^
This is the only right answer
August 13th, 2017 at 5:32 PM ^
You Know You Want It
August 13th, 2017 at 9:01 PM ^
with his mouth wide open at the bottom of every urinal on campus.
August 14th, 2017 at 9:09 AM ^
I think we should purchase the statute of Joe Pa that Ped State has in storage and place it outside the Washtenaw County Jail on Hogback Rd.
August 14th, 2017 at 11:47 AM ^
around the stadium with Brandon on it and have fireworks going off and plane circling the stadium with his name on a banner to boot.
August 13th, 2017 at 4:54 PM ^
Horace Prettyman
August 13th, 2017 at 5:02 PM ^
I had a good, if not particularly news-worthy, academic career back in the 90s.
August 13th, 2017 at 4:55 PM ^
That would be a nice touch
August 13th, 2017 at 4:58 PM ^
walking away, dropping his arm in disappointment.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
Yeah, but how long would that purple face hold up in the elements?
August 13th, 2017 at 9:20 PM ^
How about this Brian instead....
August 13th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
A statue of Gerald Ford falling down the steps of Air Force One?
August 13th, 2017 at 6:54 PM ^
Or being mauled senselessly by a circus lion in a convenience store?
August 13th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
Red, Ford, Harbaugh and Beilein if he hangs another banner.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:00 PM ^
Obviously Yost should've had a statue by now. My opinion is that a Yost statue should be built at the football stadium, as a centerpiece somehow, the name should be changed to Yost Stadium and Yost Arena should be recommissioned to Berensen Arena with a Red statue out front. Can we please make this idea happen?!
August 13th, 2017 at 5:03 PM ^
Your ideas except everything you said about changing names, especially of Michigan Stadium. I've read books about Yost building the Big House and I doubt he would want it named after him.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:48 PM ^
after he retired. Yost was opposed and wanted it to be a memorial.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:09 PM ^
Unabomber
August 13th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
Only if H.H. Holmes gets one outside the medical science building.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:18 PM ^
They should put up a statue of me, Clarence Boddicker.
August 13th, 2017 at 7:46 PM ^
With a plaque reading "Bitches leave!!!"
August 13th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
I don't think we need more sports statues. I'm curious what the breakdown of professions receiving statues has been over the century and what that says about us as a society.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:21 PM ^
Idk man, I think you could extend that to all entertainers as well. There's freakin statues of Brittany Spears, Kim Kardashian, Amy winehouse.
I think the threshold for enshrinement just needs to be higher. Leave it for the war heroes, civil rights leaders, scientists, President Harbaugh, etc.
August 13th, 2017 at 10:56 PM ^
Ned Stark. Except I'm afraid anyone who's familiar with his face is already dead.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:39 PM ^
Hutch and Red are sound answers. Depending on how the next 20 years of football goes...Hackett.
August 13th, 2017 at 5:51 PM ^
Has only been here a couple of years but if he stays 5-10 and we do as well as I think we will...In the grand scheme of things I've only been a diehard for a little over 40 years and I gotta say, I don't know another coach who has a faster and greater (positive) impact not only on the football program, but athletics.
We've been fortunate to have a lot of incredible coaches; Red, Beilein, Hutch etc.
GO BLUE!!
August 13th, 2017 at 5:59 PM ^
Hackett
August 13th, 2017 at 6:11 PM ^
Naked MGoBlog banner guy
August 13th, 2017 at 6:14 PM ^
and Hutch whenever she retires.
Having your name on an arena is a much higher honor. Next would be on a building. Then a statue. We may not see any new buildings named that way, not unless a donor insists on it. So I'm okay with how Yost, Crisler, Canham, Fisher and Keen have been honored. I know Bo got both, but if we're just going to have a handful of statues, I'd stick with my list above.
August 13th, 2017 at 6:19 PM ^
I don't know way but I just feel like statues of coaches are kind of gross. Yost Ice Arena yes, statue of FH Yost no. Shembechler hall is good. Statue of Bo is creepy.
Just one man's opinion.
August 13th, 2017 at 7:30 PM ^
Also: No one is going to put up a statue on campus of a virulent racist (and, no, the revisionist "Yost wasn't -that- racist/he was a product of his time" arguments do not hold much water--the guy was racist). Might as well put up a statue of CC Little holding Yost's hand.
August 13th, 2017 at 8:00 PM ^
I'm starting to think that forgiveness is a concept you are not familiar with.
Despite Yost’s error in judgment in 1934, Ward believed Yost had successfully “flip-flopped from being a segregationist” two years earlier when Ward made the team.
Ward recalled his first trip to Chicago with the team in 1932. At the time, black players usually stayed with local families because the pricier hotels still did not accept black guests. Sure enough, when the team tried to check in, the hotel manager told Yost they did not admit blacks, and they weren’t about to start now.
According to Ward, Yost became outraged. “‘We’ve been staying at this hotel since 1900,’” Ward recalled Yost saying, “‘and we’ll pull every [Michigan] team and I’ll get other Big Ten teams to not stay here!’” The angry appeal to their financial interest was enough to desegregate the hotel for one night. Ward became only the second African-American to stay in the hotel, the first being the singer Marian Anderson.
There are other examples of Yost’s surprising change of heart from his racist past. He successfully lobbied to get black track star DeHart Hubbard into the university; he volunteered his influence and field house to support an athletic exhibition to raise funds for the Dunbar Center, a local organization that promoted social betterment for African-Americans; and he started Benny Friedman, a practicing Jew, at quarterback in the mid-1920s, then helped him become athletic director at Brandeis University.
http://annarborchronicle.com/2012/03/16/column-the-other-side-of-fieldi…
August 13th, 2017 at 8:57 PM ^
How can we honor anyone if moral purity is our measure for honoring someone?
I think it better if we acknowledge the sin while still honoring the achievement rather than simply tossing a person aside or damning them to hell.
August 13th, 2017 at 9:12 PM ^
He already has an arena named after him. That's enough.
Putting up a statue for a racist is not something that plays well. Because look at America in 2017.