While the Caitelynn (h/t MGrowOld 🙂) incident was worse, Doyle should've been fired long ago for his shitty hot takes on everything, and especially about Harbaugh
But would you say that Ryan Day is more Cobra Commander (insecure schemer who was born on third base) or Serpentor (impeccable pedigree but raging tantrum thrower)
OSU fans holding out hope that the NCAA will hammer us for SignGate is about as pathetically desperate and even more acne-ridden than high-school me holding out hope that my crush would see me for the sweet and funny guy I am and go to prom with me instead of her steady boyfriend.
Yeah, I read Kareem's autobiography as a kid and distinctly remember his really liking Michigan's seriousness about academics and the overall vibe there (though to be fair UCLA is also no slouch academically)
The part he charitably left out was him recoiling at how antiquated our hoops facilities were.
Just as with the actual football program, 11W has a culture problem that starts at the top. For whatever reason, a lot of people seem to think Ramzy, their blogrunner, is a great writer with worthwhile content, but as SignGate showed in spades he's ultimately nothing more than BUCKNUT_42069 with a Grammarly account. People should remember that he's also the same guy who admitted that he, along with the rest of OSU's sycophantic mediasphere, "wrote around" Zach Smith being a shitty human being.
Al Borges was the talented jam band guitarist who mostly noodled around aimlessly with boring 12-minute arpeggio wankfests but at least once a month he hit on a masterful melody and hook (i.e., 2013 ND and almost all of 2013 OSU) and when he was on, he was on
REPORTER: So, first week of practice. Talk us through what you've seen from the running backs.
LOCKLYN: Well, just lots of talent in the room and just night and day from what I had to work with at That Team ❌ut West. I'm excited to be here and put all that behind me and show everyone that actually I'm also a sensitive and highly well-endowed lover who centers the pleasure of my partner first and foremost and I've heard nothing but praise from all of them.
While I understand the movement to no longer name teams after tribes who aren't really cool with it, it was a missed opportunity for NoDak to not rename their teams Siouxsiouxdio so they could get their band to play the iconic Phil Collins tune during timeouts
While it is idiotic to stand right at the edge of the Grand Canyon or other similar places, especially for a selfie, there's an odd part of our brains that subconsciously seeks out that danger, often described as the "call of the void" where a very small part of you very fleetingly ponders what it's be like to jump down.
To be clear, it's very very bad to do this and if you are ideating sustained thoughts about this you should seek help, but the passing idea of 'what if I did This Bad Thing's is a very normal and human impulse.
I don't even really follow hockey but if you were a SE Michigan resident during the late 90's you hated the Avalanche more than anything else on the planet.
The word on the street about Warde being brought to do this by others was IIRC implied by Bacon, whose overall veracity is, I think, fairly up for debate.
I've given him a bit of crap in this space and stand by much of it, but honestly this looks as good a job as Warde Manuel could've managed. Fired Juwan on a Friday afternoon as one does and moved on to as reasonable a get as you could ask for.
Obviously we still have to see how May pans out and we still have to get our NILand transfer issues sorted but I think Warde done good here
I mean... Beilein once lost a 4-13 match to Ohio (YTO)
(in retrospect though we now know he was playing 5D chess and threw that game to a) get carus levert and b) lure Jon Groce to Illinois so he could tank that program for half a decade)
While Egbuka is probably a little overrated he's a good player who will be a first day pick, whereas Q-Jo probably will have to hit in free agency.
That play was all about film study, preparation, and coaching. It was always about film study, preparation, and coaching. Whatever sign knowledge both teams had about the other was a non-factor that you only cite if you don't know ball, or are a weak-minded bitch baby who is incapable of self-reflection.
That seems like a some reallllly heavy wishcasting. Obviously Sam Webb hears stuff none of us do, but as you've rightly noted here and elsewhere our NIL and/or transfer quagmire is a huge roadblock that any half-decent coach is going to side-eye big time before even answering the phone call from us.
While it's hard to take many positives from this, Sherrone took a one-day story and made it.... a one-day story. And you all have been around long enough to know to not take that for granted at all.
I mean... It was immediately after the game when Warde Manuel made those comments with Juwan standing right next to him. A politically correct non statement is exactly what you should say in that moment.
This was, relatively speaking, a lay-up but to Warde Manuel's credit he made it.
Seriously though. I would like a different athletic director as well, but can we cool it with the hyperbole especially now that Warde did the right thing this time? There are plenty of valid things you can and should criticize him for (which - yes - does include his pattern of reactivity) so it just looks like teeth-gnashing rabble when you have to make up reasons to be mad.
My specialty is apple cranberry pie. I’m still not great at making neat crusts but once I learned to chill the dough before rolling it out, it made it so much easier to get the top shell on in one piece which I was terribad at before. But yes, I love any and all fruit pies.
(I’m meh on cherry pie but that doesn’t really warrant its own tangent)
Edit: okay, one note. One argument you can make for Juwan if you squint really hard is that he was thrown under the bus by our admissions department shenanigans. But even that excuse falls about as short as most of our second half jumpers. He was thrown under the bus (much like RichRod was) but also didn't do nearly enough to extricate himself from under said bus (again, like with RichRod). Many of his failures are his own, and there's no reason to expect that things will get better. He's not getting recruits. He's not getting buy-in from the players that are here. So what are we even doing here?
Spoken as someone who wrote recaps for ~24 of 32 games this season, I feel qualified saying this was a terrible basketball team
Me: Dang, Alex is understating things almost to the point of parody
*reads rest of column*
Me: Nope, no he is not.
It is a supremely sick irony that his team finished 8-24 in a sad accidental Kobe Bryant tribute when its on court effort and execution were one of the most profoundly blasphemous affronts to everything he represented to the sport of basketball basketball. Like, I think I can make an honest case that Brian Ferentz is better at coordinating a football offense than Juwan is at coaching hoops. Fire everyone.
In a case of revenge that neither school really cares about, Penn State will be content run the same play thirty times, literally only throw eight passes and still win because the opposing coach can't game manage his way out of a wet paper bag
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While the Caitelynn (h/t MGrowOld 🙂) incident was worse, Doyle should've been fired long ago for his shitty hot takes on everything, and especially about Harbaugh
This confirms my longstanding theory that Graham Couch is secretly Gregg Doyle disguised with a sandy comb-over wig
Fair point.
But would you say that Ryan Day is more Cobra Commander (insecure schemer who was born on third base) or Serpentor (impeccable pedigree but raging tantrum thrower)
GI Joe like he's shooting blue lasers?
Seth, you should know that in the GI Joe cartoon, the Joes had red lasers and Cobra had blue lasers.
/pushes glasses up nose
To be fair, the conference not suspending Frames Janklin for the @ Penn State game is pretty compelling proof that they went soft on us.
OSU fans holding out hope that the NCAA will hammer us for SignGate is about as pathetically desperate and even more acne-ridden than high-school me holding out hope that my crush would see me for the sweet and funny guy I am and go to prom with me instead of her steady boyfriend.
Um.... where in my statement was I referring to Garnett's possible recruitment?
Yeah, I read Kareem's autobiography as a kid and distinctly remember his really liking Michigan's seriousness about academics and the overall vibe there (though to be fair UCLA is also no slouch academically)
The part he charitably left out was him recoiling at how antiquated our hoops facilities were.
Kobe was possibly a Wolverine in the same way that Brian Kelly was possibly our coach after Harbaugh
Just as with the actual football program, 11W has a culture problem that starts at the top. For whatever reason, a lot of people seem to think Ramzy, their blogrunner, is a great writer with worthwhile content, but as SignGate showed in spades he's ultimately nothing more than BUCKNUT_42069 with a Grammarly account. People should remember that he's also the same guy who admitted that he, along with the rest of OSU's sycophantic mediasphere, "wrote around" Zach Smith being a shitty human being.
Al Borges was the talented jam band guitarist who mostly noodled around aimlessly with boring 12-minute arpeggio wankfests but at least once a month he hit on a masterful melody and hook (i.e., 2013 ND and almost all of 2013 OSU) and when he was on, he was on
It will be called "Post game: Nobody Knows Anything"
Come now, you should be the bigger person. We have anywhere from 21-47 reasons to not be vindictive towards Brady Quinn
Unlike 2022 OSU though, Michigan over achieved and succumbed to superior talent and not their own internal softness
At the Woody Hayes Athletic Center
REPORTER: Coach Locklyn - may I call you Carl...
LOCKLYN: No you may not.
REPORTER: So, first week of practice. Talk us through what you've seen from the running backs.
LOCKLYN: Well, just lots of talent in the room and just night and day from what I had to work with at That Team ❌ut West. I'm excited to be here and put all that behind me and show everyone that actually I'm also a sensitive and highly well-endowed lover who centers the pleasure of my partner first and foremost and I've heard nothing but praise from all of them.
Affirmative
Hopefully this helps them recruit better wings
I'm just commenting to signal boost Feet Mammal as that hack's new name for the rest of time
GO
FORKING
LET'S
While I understand the movement to no longer name teams after tribes who aren't really cool with it, it was a missed opportunity for NoDak to not rename their teams Siouxsiouxdio so they could get their band to play the iconic Phil Collins tune during timeouts
While it is idiotic to stand right at the edge of the Grand Canyon or other similar places, especially for a selfie, there's an odd part of our brains that subconsciously seeks out that danger, often described as the "call of the void" where a very small part of you very fleetingly ponders what it's be like to jump down.
To be clear, it's very very bad to do this and if you are ideating sustained thoughts about this you should seek help, but the passing idea of 'what if I did This Bad Thing's is a very normal and human impulse.
I don't even really follow hockey but if you were a SE Michigan resident during the late 90's you hated the Avalanche more than anything else on the planet.
The word on the street about Warde being brought to do this by others was IIRC implied by Bacon, whose overall veracity is, I think, fairly up for debate.
(apologies to Cro-Magnons for the invidious comparison to Biddle)
Proof will be in the pudding obviously, but I cannot think of a better omen than smooth-brain Cro-Mag Dave Biddle pooh-poohing this hire.
I've given him a bit of crap in this space and stand by much of it, but honestly this looks as good a job as Warde Manuel could've managed. Fired Juwan on a Friday afternoon as one does and moved on to as reasonable a get as you could ask for.
Obviously we still have to see how May pans out and we still have to get our NILand transfer issues sorted but I think Warde done good here
I mean... Beilein once lost a 4-13 match to Ohio (YTO)
(in retrospect though we now know he was playing 5D chess and threw that game to a) get carus levert and b) lure Jon Groce to Illinois so he could tank that program for half a decade)
While Egbuka is probably a little overrated he's a good player who will be a first day pick, whereas Q-Jo probably will have to hit in free agency.
That play was all about film study, preparation, and coaching. It was always about film study, preparation, and coaching. Whatever sign knowledge both teams had about the other was a non-factor that you only cite if you don't know ball, or are a weak-minded bitch baby who is incapable of self-reflection.
(Hi choir, I'm preacher)
That seems like a some reallllly heavy wishcasting. Obviously Sam Webb hears stuff none of us do, but as you've rightly noted here and elsewhere our NIL and/or transfer quagmire is a huge roadblock that any half-decent coach is going to side-eye big time before even answering the phone call from us.
Come now, that's nothing if not perfectly on-brand for actual literal senators
While it's hard to take many positives from this, Sherrone took a one-day story and made it.... a one-day story. And you all have been around long enough to know to not take that for granted at all.
Deodorant
Ok people wrap this thread up, we're done here
Did we have one this year?
Will preface by saying I don't really follow the Bears but it seemed to me that while Fields wasn't the problem, he also wasn't the solution.
Welp, clearly the background checks also need to include the reciting the alphabet backwards bit LOL
John U Bacon is verging into Balas territory with the engagement bait.
I mean... It was immediately after the game when Warde Manuel made those comments with Juwan standing right next to him. A politically correct non statement is exactly what you should say in that moment.
I started a change.org petition to have peace in the Middle East, mitigate climate change, end corruption in FIFA, and make Ryan Day tough.
This was, relatively speaking, a lay-up but to Warde Manuel's credit he made it.
Seriously though. I would like a different athletic director as well, but can we cool it with the hyperbole especially now that Warde did the right thing this time? There are plenty of valid things you can and should criticize him for (which - yes - does include his pattern of reactivity) so it just looks like teeth-gnashing rabble when you have to make up reasons to be mad.
Even tu, Brutus?
My specialty is apple cranberry pie. I’m still not great at making neat crusts but once I learned to chill the dough before rolling it out, it made it so much easier to get the top shell on in one piece which I was terribad at before. But yes, I love any and all fruit pies.
(I’m meh on cherry pie but that doesn’t really warrant its own tangent)
Will have to agree to disagree. As a Columbus resident, I’m mainlining schadenfreude more lustfully then Jim McElvain during Shark Week
Donated to both of you jerks. Go Blue and wishing you both good fortune and better days ahead
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Edit: okay, one note. One argument you can make for Juwan if you squint really hard is that he was thrown under the bus by our admissions department shenanigans. But even that excuse falls about as short as most of our second half jumpers. He was thrown under the bus (much like RichRod was) but also didn't do nearly enough to extricate himself from under said bus (again, like with RichRod). Many of his failures are his own, and there's no reason to expect that things will get better. He's not getting recruits. He's not getting buy-in from the players that are here. So what are we even doing here?
Spoken as someone who wrote recaps for ~24 of 32 games this season, I feel qualified saying this was a terrible basketball team
Me: Dang, Alex is understating things almost to the point of parody
*reads rest of column*
Me: Nope, no he is not.
It is a supremely sick irony that his team finished 8-24 in a sad accidental Kobe Bryant tribute when its on court effort and execution were one of the most profoundly blasphemous affronts to everything he represented to the sport of basketball basketball. Like, I think I can make an honest case that Brian Ferentz is better at coordinating a football offense than Juwan is at coaching hoops. Fire everyone.
M00P?
In a case of revenge that neither school really cares about, Penn State will be content run the same play thirty times, literally only throw eight passes and still win because the opposing coach can't game manage his way out of a wet paper bag