Wilbon No!
I like Mike Wilbon but... ugh. From ESPN front page:
I like to take shots at Michigan football and Notre Dame football … though not as much lately because both have become so irrelevant. How much dislike can you work up for programs whose primary December activity is deciding whether to hire a new coach? Of course, I'd send my son to either school proudly, but there's no way you could have attended Northwestern before the mid-1990s and not at least smile at arrogance getting some comeuppance.
December 8th, 2010 at 2:19 PM ^
he's one of the two PTI regulars. On ESPN every day. Lots of clowning around -- they only spend 30 seconds or so on each topic, so it's more of a sports gossip show than anything else.
December 8th, 2010 at 12:51 PM ^
Isn't the fact that our coaching issue is still being talked about non-stop in the media prima facia evidence that we are, in fact, relevant? Hell, if Northwestern fired their coach, would anyone even care? Would it make the national press as anything other than "in other news that only 11 people watching will care about, Northwestern has fired its football coach and hired some other guy. NW still plans, however, to remain a program that is regularly decent but about which nobody who did not attend Northwestern cares. "
December 8th, 2010 at 1:00 PM ^
Indiana and Minnesota...
No splash, nary a ripple through the media.
December 8th, 2010 at 12:55 PM ^
I agree with his stance but it's hard to take a mongoloid seriously.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:01 PM ^
Poor form, dude.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:03 PM ^
I think that one really pushed you over the edge. You've officially worn out your welcome.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
King of Belch, is that you? Or is it Tom Hagen? Regardless, I smell me a negbang coming....
and why would anyone choose as their name a term signifying chronic abuse of one's own privates? Is that something to be proud of now? Kids these days...
December 8th, 2010 at 3:06 PM ^
Hagan won't be back until RR is gone. He really backed himself into such a corner that his options are severely limited. If DB does decide to depart from everything Bo taught him and pull the plug on RR in January, though, I am guessing that Hagan will reappear with a vengence on every blog, newspaper forum, and comment field concerning Michigan football. He will be the first to say "I told you so," even if it is under a different handle.
At this point, though, no matter who it is, I am pretty much in favor of anyone who calls anyone else a "retard" or "mongoloid" getting one of those million mgopoint negbombs from the mods. Making fun of a person born with all of their facilities who does something stupid is fair game in my book, but making fun of someone born with a learning disability is about as classless as it gets.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:28 PM ^
That's not right.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:14 PM ^
He's entitled to his opinion, and I'm sure that UM came across as arrogant when they were crushing teams left and right. It happens - winning leads to an expectation of winning, and that can be tough on teams that don't have that tradition or feel they are being dismissed. Honestly, though, I could care less what sportswriters have to say about this team.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:23 PM ^
He's dead? Oh, crap. Still alive :-(
December 8th, 2010 at 1:38 PM ^
Where were these hard hitting opinions during "The Decision?" Oh, right- stooped over, shining Lebron's shoes.
December 8th, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^
I yawn in his general direction. Wilbon is not a reporter making editorial decisions based on his dislike for Michigan. Nor is he fomenting conspiracy theories and launching them secretly inside Schembechler Hall.
He's a full-fledged press personality. Nobody takes his words as anything other than his opinion. If he's pissed at getting hammered by ND and Michigan, that shows we were successful back then. Something to emulate for the future.
If he wants to waste press space playing out his schadenfreude inferiority complex, I welcome him to do so.
December 8th, 2010 at 2:29 PM ^
I mean are there any analysts on ESPN who are not just complete douche bags? Almost none of them are worth listening to now. WHO? I want Craig Kilborn back and not cheating on his girlfriends in movies anymore.
December 8th, 2010 at 4:48 PM ^
Op-ed writers and talk show hosts are the folks becoming increasingly irrelevant thanks to blogs and boards like this (I'd include sonsofsamhorn.net, because I'm also a Red Sox fan), I rarely get my sport news from 'traditional' mediums like tv, newspapers and radio. Hell, I rarely click on espn.com or other web based newspaper sites anymore.
December 8th, 2010 at 4:49 PM ^
I just negged my own post b/o sloppy punctuation. Sorry.
December 8th, 2010 at 6:15 PM ^
I rarely agree with Wilbon, but if you notice further down in that column he does what few sportswriters have the balls/brains to do: refuse to jock Peyton Manning as a better QB than Tom Brady. I respect him for that, even if he throws out misguided/biased opinions about Michigan the rest of the time...