MGoPodcast 6.Supplemental: Vincent Smith, Liz Crowe, And The Summer Of Harbaugh
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SUMMER OF HARBAUGH PLUS FIVE MINUTE KLINSMANN RANT
Top five best Harbaugh things of the summer. Partial consensus. I give myself exactly five minutes to thunk my head about the Gold Cup, and I tell you when they start so you can fast forward if you're so mad
VINCENT SMITH!
Vincent talks Team Gardens and fall camp and tells Fred Jackson stories.
LIZ CROWE!
We have our first-ever sponsor so what do we do? We have her on for a segment that starts out ridiculous and goes down/uphill from there.
If you're around Ann Arbor you have a 50/50 chance of knowing Liz (E.T.) Crowe (t: @beerwencha2) personally, but for the other half and people not from around these parts, Liz is a best-selling, (usually sports-themed, not exactly censored) fiction author, Ann Arbor real estate agent, craft brew consultant and blogger, and mom times three. She will be backing the Podcast this year so we can keep making it, and we had her on for a special entire segment in this one as an introduction. During the season we'll have briefer bits with her.
FOOTBALL RECRUITING
Where Michigan stands and where they may go.
MUSIC
"Across 110th Street"
"Sad Penance Raps," Open Mike Eagle
"Playing Your Game, Baby", Barry White
"I'm Not Part Of Me," Cloud Nothings
THE USUAL LINKS
Get on Stitcher plz.
I have it on Stitcher and get it just fine. It's there I think but Stitchers search algorithm was borrowed from ask jeeves.
Thanks for the support Liz Crowe, your interview is hilarious!
And while I can admit that Xabi Alonso is a handsom man, I can't get on board with Tim Howard's beard (he should consult WolvinLA2 about proper beard grooming).
Way to go Brian and Ace! You guys found a sponsor who rolls with MGoHumor.
It's crazy that Vincent Smith is more inspiring off the field than on. I didn't think that was possible.
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Glad they are back.
Congrats!
Nonsensical leaving Donovan at home? Are you nuts? Dismissing a entitled brat who took a freaking sabbatical during training camp is nonsensical??????? If Harbaugh made that move you'd be like "yeah man -- everyone has to compete"... but since Klinsmann made it, "fire the bum.' Whatever!
JK's decision making on the back line sucks because the American defenders have been pure shit for 8 - 10 years now. The marking on the back line, or lack thereof, at the USMNT level is more lacksdasical than my U14s. Go watch the Jamaica goals again and tell me, where was the basic, fundamental, defense?!
You are way off base regarding Klinsmann. That man is the best thing to ever happen to US Soccer. Regardless of the 4th place stinker in the Gold Cup. Notice I said US Soccer and not USMNT. JK is NOT just the head coach but he's charged with transforming the organization too -- all the way down to the ODP level. I for one am all for it. I train my kids like in Europe and I got nothing but shit for it. Now, the methods I've been teaching are what is expected. These kids will take time to grow up and get through the system.
The USMNT isn't going to have players that can lock down the back line or move the ball through the midfield like a Rapinoe for a few more years. That's why JK looks to Europe rather than MLS. He's not anti-MLS, that's such an lazy ad hominem to fall back upon.
If MLS (which I fully support) was a top tier league, we'd be getting 20 something studs from overseas rather than 30 - 40 year olds on their last contract doing their best Brett Farve immitation... and MLS would find a way to bend the salary structure rules if that were the case... they did for Becks afterall.
JK is doing what the Red Wings did in the 80s and 90s in their scouting getting all those studs in the late rounds by looking under ever rock to shore up the roster.
Firing JK now is trendy and popular in some circles -- but not letting the man finish his job will guarantee that MLS will stay stagnant, ODP won't be cranking out talent like the football powers... and if you're happy with wins against Trinidad and Tobago (Purdue) and not advancing in the knock out round of the World Cup (Moo U and tOSU), then keep calling for Klinsmann's head so we can get another MLS or lax type who has plateaued to lead the team. Bob Bradly is a 7-5 Coach Hoke -- we need to move on and transform the men's side.
Completely agree. Klinsmann is doing a tough, yet necessary job; and is trying to move US Soccer into the next realm.
Kind of surprising that Michigan Football bloggers would be so short-sighted, and have such knee jerk reactions to a poor Gold Cup performance, after what Michigan Football has been through the last 8 years or so. You have to be patient and see the process through.
Completely agree on Klinsmann.
The gap between Jurgen's actual coaching skill and perceived coaching skill is vast.
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The possible fallout from leaving Donovan off the roster is pretty much nil. We got out of the group of death in the WC and lost in ET in the R16 to a better team. I don't think JK is an amazing ingame coach or anything. He is incredibly stubborn. But he usually does a good job of adjusting his tactics after halftime. And he's expanded the talent pool for the US. We will feel the positive effects of JK being coach and technical director moreseo after he is gone than immediately. I think the next coach will benefit greatly. And I'm hoping for Jason Kreis or Peter Vermes after he's done.
This is way out there and will never happen, but I think Jose Mourinho would do wonders with the US team. Our players are typically incredibly fit and play their hearts out. Offensively I don't think we'd do much, but we'd be so hard to score against.
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that the podcast was taking sponsors. i would sponsor a podcast if it meant i just got to sit and talk nonsense for 15 minutes. how much does that cost?
Plenty since:
a) The sponsorship is for the length of the season.
b) The extended segment was to introduce her as such.
c) You have to be as entertaining on air as Liz Crowe or your introductory segment will be 2 minutes, and most of that Brian vamping while trying not to look annoyed.
Seriously though I've been looking for the right sponsor for our Podcast for a long, long time, and when Liz left the beer company she was working for to break out as a consultant and real estate agent, I approached her specifically for this, and made the price a secondary concern because she's the right kind of sponsor. She is, like Harbaugh, herself at full volume all the time, and part of the fabric of the Ann Arbor and Michigan Athletics community. With most of the things I sell we're just helping them market their thing because we have the right audience to market their thing. But this is one of those things where it's more like the sponsor wanted to help us and can justify it if a handful of MGoBloggers use her as their real estate broker.
The podcast is a marketable thing that a lot of our advertisers have been interested in; it's not like it took us this long to find a sponsor; it took us this long to find Liz.
I wonder if she meant Gerard Pique. The Men in Blazers talk about how good looking that guy is all the time, and even his FIFA avatars are good looking.
Yeah, it had to be him.
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We here in Seattle agree 100% with Brian.
Ace has really stepped up his Andy Richter game. Perfect compliment to Brian and either guest on this podcast.
good call.
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