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| 2 hours 20 min ago | Perhaps, but isn't it the case... |
...that if you feel like DAB is always insulting then pretty much everything he says becomes offensive to some degree or another? I think that's where we are right now with a large segment of this readership. I choose to be unperturbed by such utterings. |
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| 2 hours 30 min ago | So, as you are probably aware... |
...Michigan has a Hall of Honor...
There are currently 61 Michigan Hall of Honor inductees who played football. Presumably, some of these student-athletes who were multi-sport stars made their mark primarily in another sport. That said, that's a ton of people who have already been deemed worthy of special recognition by the University. Each student-athlete with a retired or Legends jersey is in the Hall of Honor. The extensive list:
The Hall of Honor should not be forgotten amongst all of this Legends jersey discussion. It's a legitimate way to review Michigan greats who have been forgotten to current fans. If there's one player on this list who hasn't been honored with a retired jersey or Legends jersey who probably ought to, it's Benny Friedman, member of both the College Football and Professional Football Halls of Fame. |
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| 4 hours 9 min ago | This Mike Rothstein... |
...WolverineNation piece ($) covering Michigan targets in ESPN's 2014 Super 60, Beilein's 2014 haul may be similarly impressive if he hits on two or more of these guys. Among the targets: |
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| 4 hours 35 min ago | Yost's hatred of... |
...Notre Dame was hardly irrational (at least not the anti-Catholic part of his hatred). Regarding DAB's comments: Here's a thought. Ignore them. They're patently ridiculous. Why? Because they're trying to come up with any reason at all to support the their abrogation of the (unwinnable) fight for campus or bidded sites for semfinal games. The reason they abrogated isn't because he thinks all that much about players' site preferences or the real B1G slavish devotion to the Rose Bowl, it's because no other conference would support this fight. None. Nada. Zilch. Therefore, that fight was/is not worth fighting, especially when the fight they really care about (top 4 vs. conf champs vs. hybrid) is being actively waged. So these reasons they're throwing out are non-sensical to you because they are in fact, non-sensical. Don't pull your hair out as a result. |
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| 5 hours 6 min ago | Ace, there's a third option... |
...to consider if you turn this comment of yours on its head:
The fact is that Michigan's is the most historic program in college football. It therefore stands to reason that Michigan should have a substantial number of players who have made their mark on Michigan football and in many cases on college football in general. So option three is to recognize that we have dozens of legends and embrace it. Stop trying to pretend that because Michigan football has an embarrassment of riches that it should downplay this fact. In contrast to your statement I quoted, I think that it would be pretty freaking cool to see an offense or defense with multiple Legends jerseys running around on national TV. Finally, the way you solve the #1 conundrum is that instead of simply honoring AC, you honor AC and Braylon on the patch. Essentially if a player wears a Legends jersey and he himself becomes a Legend, his name should be added to the patch. So after #77 is made a Legacy jersey and the next #1 overall pick of the draft dons it, his name would be added to Jake Long's. If Roy Roundtree somehow turns his senior season into a Heisman Trophy season, he has his name added to the patch. Now, both of those things are really unlikely to happen, but no more unlikely to happen than if that future #1 overall pick OT was wearing #71 or Roundtree was still wearing #12 when he won his presumptive Heisman Trophy. Essentially we want players to revere the tradition of Michigan football from its inception to its today and embrace the players who came before them. We also want to show everyone who tunes into a Michigan game or watches a game highlight or a feature on a Michigan player or comes on a recruiting visit to be constantly reminded of what makes Michigan football special. |
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| 7 hours 27 min ago | What I like about this particular post... |
...is that it's attracting the 60s/70s era MGoBlogerati into the conversation. We need more of your perspective, gents. (And I'm not just saying this because I'm in my mid-40s and I get called the old guy. Well, maybe that's part of my motivation.) |
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| 1 day 4 hours ago | Well, I certainly marched... |
...onto it. The installation of grass forever altered the Tri-Service Color Guard flag raising routine. When we had Tartan Turf, we formed up in two columns facing west on the east sideline around the 30-yd line, executed a column left af the flagpole and halted the vanguard of the formation on the goal line. I presume they found that the sometimes wet grass made this unworkable. So they changed it to what they do now. Simply march over to the flagpole from the west sideline at the goal line in ranks, halt and face, forming the two columns. Given today's Field Turf, I wish they'd go back to the old method. Somehow we figured out the timing with the band every time.
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| 1 day 6 hours ago | Very well done... |
...Seth. Must reading for the youngsters among us. This is Michigan Fergodsakes! History matters! |
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| 1 day 22 hours ago | Any details on what sorts... |
...of recruiting activities Yost found offensive? |
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| 2 days 3 hours ago | You beat me to the... |
...punch as I was about to post this myself. MVictors.com has several outstanding treatments of this topic that shed some additional light, including much that's offered by John Kryk, author of Natural Enemies: So what was the feud all about? Undoubtedly there was some anti-Catholicism in spite of his protestation to Rockne that:
But ultimately, it was about Yost's conclusion that Notre Dame simply flouted the rules. Yost was ruthless about protecting the Michigan program and fighting anyone who dared to upset its dominance. He clearly felt that Notre Dame ran a program that gave it advantages over its competitors (more games on the schedule, freshmen team that played intercollegiately, questions about the eligibility of players, and the use of the Notre Dame shift that put up to 4 players in motion at the snap). In particular:
So Maisel did a good job capturing the feud, but washes over the validity of Yost's concerns about Notre Dame's 1909 and 1910 teams. |
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