Strange when 40 year old men wear 18 year old boys' jerseys like some sort of middle-school cheerleader wearing her boyfriends away jersey to a high school football game. Do you wear your cargo shorts and lesbian adventure sandals with the jersey to complete the tri-fecta? Or are you spicing it up with the flat-brim and white sunglasses look?
Well, if Hoke doesn't work out this year, I want Michigan to put some of that money going to all the news sports fields to good use and get Saban up here. Texas will pay $100 million? Michigan will pay $120 million. That will show the college football world Michigan is going to football seriously. That's a signal.
No, but Wolverine Devotee found one and uses it nightly. It's just re-runs of the Fab Five, the 97 season, and uniform changes.... all climaxing in the "Hello Heisman" money shot.
Care to refute any of my arguments directly or would you rather stay on the sidelines to speak from there? I'd suggest you are doing the latter, and just as Mary Sue should have done.
I heard Sterling is paying a law firm and private investigators to look into all of the NBA owners to see what they can dig up. I hope this devolves into an absolute war.
Though, I'd wager bet Cuban's closet is full of only genius.
Well then it's time someone took back the horseshit measures of public opinion the media and businesses are using these days. Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest. Bunch of unemployed narccists and teenagers are the group these businesses are judging public opinion by. I don't know a damn person who was actually offended by half of the shit the media twitters on about. Bunch of primadonna gender studies grads making decisions for these companies PR departments and in the newsroom.
Geez, throw a few more questions out there, Nancy Grace.
What combos are most likely? Pizzeria pretzel. Probably whatever Hoke prefers.
Stribling and Lewis got some spring hype. Does anyone get the opposite of hype or do they just not get hype during the spring?
Ramon and Blake are vets? Can they take a look at my dog? He keeps rubbing his butt on the family room carpet and now it looks like a four lane high way.
Peppers has some hype coming in. So does Onions.
Who plays the most in all likelihood? A teenager watching reruns of Christina Aguillera's "Durty" video.
Thoughts on safety other than Wilson? I prefer Rawlings helmets and some Louisville SLugger products.
Should be a good group. Is there any bad group? Group-er? Group-ie? Group-think?
You do understand the comparison, correct? I do understand that the NFL and NBA are different leagues, though they do hold similar positions in society and are held to similar standards by the general public. Funny that "Redskins" is a perfectly fine franchise name, but being a cringe-worthy old man is the single worst racial abuse of the past decade, judging by the penalty.
Funny how quick the media was to completely ignore the fact that he's likely senile and losing his mind. They found a convenient white, Jewish old man that was easy to hate. These leagues apparently have no problem having TEAMS with more racist names than the words Donald used, but will throw the old Jewish man and force the sale of his property.
Great, so saying a few mean things in private is apparently $2.5 million and the sale of a billion dollar team worse than risking people's lives. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/06/10/report-6-8-game-suspension-expec… I could understand the penalty more if it went with the discrimination lawsuits which actually hurt people, not some nasty words.
When the hell do I get my Big Ten Champions shirt then? Hoke has had one fluke good year with Coach Rodriguez's players and managed to shit the bed since then. Ooooohhh recruiting rankings! Tell me when that matters in November and December. Michigan couldn't rush the ball forward for TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS and nearly lost to what, three MACish teams in the first weeks of the season?
Simply being a "Michigan Man" (not even a damn graduate, just being a position coach for a few years doesn't earn you that title in my book) does not buy you unlimited time. You know what other alumni don't donate money? Ones who see the Michigan brand and tradition driven into the fucking ground by Dave Brandon and his incompetent hires.
Ohio State got the University of Florida's old coach. We got San Diego State's. That should tell you enough about this program's problems. Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke have watched this team drop from a 1b level program, to a 2b level program. We got our asses handed to us on a national stage by a mediocre Big 12 team in Kansas State. Didn't even look like we wanted to be there. Alumna like me who pay big money to go see a bowl game don't donate to programs who look like they just want to go home. Great job Coach Hoke, you've really earned your top-5 coaching salary.
Have you seen what Coach Rodriguez has done at ARIZONA? Something tells me it isn't all Coach Rodriguez's fault it didn't work out here... in fact, I lay a minority of the blame at his feet.
Yet another one of our former President's failings is a roughly half-decade of continuously lower rankings in almost every ranking I came across. Note, I did not say LOW, I said LOWER. Apparently Mary Sue's greatest accomplishment as President was her ability to accept accept checks written by numerous super wealthy graduates. Besides drinking herself into a near stupor, it isn't obvious she was doing much else. Besides of course implementing the smoking ban at the behest of her other part-time employer, Johnson and Johnson (because being President of UM is apparently such an easy job you can maintain a position on one or two other executive boards. Don't let service to Michigan stand in the way of pocketing another few hundred thousand for "administerial" roles.)
Not that much under a commercial airliner. Plus, I'm not familiar with the geography, but shooting from a mountain that is ~6,000+21,000range=28,000.
Ever wonder why the one weapon the US wouldn't give to the Syrian "rebels" (*cough* now ISIS) were long-range anti-air despite Assad's main tool being aircraft? It'd sure be bad to have a US anti-air missile take down an American plane in Baghdad.
And remember, the Ukrainian military is split, those saying Ukrainians couldn't "teach" themselves to fire these things? They were formerly IN the USSR.
Ann Arbor is going to start to look like Jacksonville, Florida with all the desperate pleadings for people to buy season tickets. And the schedule of promotions and games is going to remind me of a Single A baseball team.
Saturday
Aug. 30
Appalachian State Mountaineers - "A Night to Remember"
Take a look back with our Michigan family to the game that started it all.
Watch with the entire nation as every broadcaster re-hashes
Michigan's most embarassing moments!
Listen, as Dave Brandon explains to "60 Minutes" just HOW
"I don't even know who would want to watch this game. They still play on GRASS, have lame-o uniforms, an old scoreboard, and live in a boring old college town." - Dave Brandon
Video shows that she hit him first, he gave her a medium-weight "pop" immediately after then backed away. Honestly didn't look like something that would break a bone. And the girl looked to be almost exactly the same size as him (he's a CB, she's a basketball player). Certainly not one of those "BUT HE HIT A GIRL!!!" instances.
An even better quote: “I love fireworks, but not at a Michigan football game. We are not Comerica Park or the Super Bowl or Disney World or a circus, and the important point is we shouldn't try to be. At a certain point, enough is enough.”
At least two people get it. We're there to watch a FOOTBALL GAME. We're not all five years old and don't need to constantly have flashing lights in front of our eyes to stay awake.
Christ. How many tickets do they still need to sell? Are we this badly in danger of missing out on 100,000? AFTER touchdowns? Why? For what purpose? Are we going to get a smoke machine too? A mascot?
Good, maybe he'll have a little better handle on the AD than the previous President. I'm still waiting for her apology for making a fool of herself and the University by getting trashed in front of 100,000. Or is she still doing the mature thing and claiming she sounded like Lou Holtz because she was "tired"?
I have a passion to preserve tradition. We didn't stand up to Brandon in years past and look where it has gotten us. We don't stand up to him now, and in a few years we'll have strippers riding on mascots' shouldiners while shooting hot dog guns and dancing to Miley Cyrus.
Perhaps not. But damn well better believe there will be ads in the Big House and a bunch of needless faux-NFL horseshit.
Honestly, this idea is as good, if not better, than any that the AD has had lately. Although the AD would lose some $ from other vendors, hot dogs are cheap, so they'd likely break even with the cost of the dog + labor. It'd help students sober up, everyone likes hot dogs, they are warm for the winter, people get hungry.... those are better reasons to hold a promotion than these cockamamie, amateur ideas.
Remember what a farce the Ad pretending to care about students is. Does anyone have the Student Body President's comments about what students SAID they cared about vs. what the AD implemented? The answers and results were diametrically opposite.
Remember a few years ago when the changes started and everyone proclaimed, "Oh, they won't take it too far. Learn to change with the times!"
Horseshit. I knew it the second there was a goddamn giant macaroni statute outside the Big House. That tells you all you need to know about the current AD's priorities.
Money > Fans, Tradition, Winning, Alumna > Students
Thank God someone has respect for tradition over Brandon's almighty dollar. "Will be shot multiple times during game." Are these people insane? Are we going to have laser shows tied to that awful, repetetive music that gets played every game? That White Stripes song was obnoxious when it was on the radio A DECADE AGO. Kill it already.
When they see the attendances estimated to be under 100,000, they will need a reason already in place for more people to buy tickets. The issue is moot for now.
Oh I do love getting smacked in the face by those things due to the little girl standing in front of me. And the drunkards stumbling over themselves after the game. Just so we can look pretty on television. Every year Michigan football is less and less about football.
No. You missed my point. He did not do this a few years ago, when presumably, just as now, the fans wanted movie nights. He is forced to use this ploy now that his miscalculated tactics failed and his coffers are suffering. He cares nothing for the fans. He only cares about his bottom line.
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Strange when 40 year old men wear 18 year old boys' jerseys like some sort of middle-school cheerleader wearing her boyfriends away jersey to a high school football game. Do you wear your cargo shorts and lesbian adventure sandals with the jersey to complete the tri-fecta? Or are you spicing it up with the flat-brim and white sunglasses look?
Well, if Hoke doesn't work out this year, I want Michigan to put some of that money going to all the news sports fields to good use and get Saban up here. Texas will pay $100 million? Michigan will pay $120 million. That will show the college football world Michigan is going to football seriously. That's a signal.
And if Saban's not available, Miles.
Oh man don't accidentally google that at work. Whoa.
No, but Wolverine Devotee found one and uses it nightly. It's just re-runs of the Fab Five, the 97 season, and uniform changes.... all climaxing in the "Hello Heisman" money shot.
Care to refute any of my arguments directly or would you rather stay on the sidelines to speak from there? I'd suggest you are doing the latter, and just as Mary Sue should have done.
I heard Sterling is paying a law firm and private investigators to look into all of the NBA owners to see what they can dig up. I hope this devolves into an absolute war.
Though, I'd wager bet Cuban's closet is full of only genius.
Someone just ask him what a bundle of sticks is called and get it on video. We can start the Twitter war with just as much justification.
That firepit was kind of a piece of shit anyways.
Well then it's time someone took back the horseshit measures of public opinion the media and businesses are using these days. Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest. Bunch of unemployed narccists and teenagers are the group these businesses are judging public opinion by. I don't know a damn person who was actually offended by half of the shit the media twitters on about. Bunch of primadonna gender studies grads making decisions for these companies PR departments and in the newsroom.
Geez, throw a few more questions out there, Nancy Grace.
What combos are most likely? Pizzeria pretzel. Probably whatever Hoke prefers.
Stribling and Lewis got some spring hype. Does anyone get the opposite of hype or do they just not get hype during the spring?
Ramon and Blake are vets? Can they take a look at my dog? He keeps rubbing his butt on the family room carpet and now it looks like a four lane high way.
Peppers has some hype coming in. So does Onions.
Who plays the most in all likelihood? A teenager watching reruns of Christina Aguillera's "Durty" video.
Thoughts on safety other than Wilson? I prefer Rawlings helmets and some Louisville SLugger products.
Should be a good group. Is there any bad group? Group-er? Group-ie? Group-think?
So make sure you don't beat your wife, drive drunk, use racial slurs, or offend feminists when Twitter is having a slow day?
Issues are judged not by their value, but by the number of times they are retweeted. ~ Public_97_Ivy
You do understand the comparison, correct? I do understand that the NFL and NBA are different leagues, though they do hold similar positions in society and are held to similar standards by the general public. Funny that "Redskins" is a perfectly fine franchise name, but being a cringe-worthy old man is the single worst racial abuse of the past decade, judging by the penalty.
Funny how quick the media was to completely ignore the fact that he's likely senile and losing his mind. They found a convenient white, Jewish old man that was easy to hate. These leagues apparently have no problem having TEAMS with more racist names than the words Donald used, but will throw the old Jewish man and force the sale of his property.
He's probably had Alzheimer's already. Surprised no one has brought this up as a defense. Have you heard him speak? It's barely intelligible.
Great, so saying a few mean things in private is apparently $2.5 million and the sale of a billion dollar team worse than risking people's lives. http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2014/06/10/report-6-8-game-suspension-expec… I could understand the penalty more if it went with the discrimination lawsuits which actually hurt people, not some nasty words.
"Thanks, old rich white men. Thanks a lot." Hey. I'll take back Coach Carr any day.
And let's not let Mary Sue Coleman escape without taking her share of the last decade's fiasco.
When the hell do I get my Big Ten Champions shirt then? Hoke has had one fluke good year with Coach Rodriguez's players and managed to shit the bed since then. Ooooohhh recruiting rankings! Tell me when that matters in November and December. Michigan couldn't rush the ball forward for TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS and nearly lost to what, three MACish teams in the first weeks of the season?
Simply being a "Michigan Man" (not even a damn graduate, just being a position coach for a few years doesn't earn you that title in my book) does not buy you unlimited time. You know what other alumni don't donate money? Ones who see the Michigan brand and tradition driven into the fucking ground by Dave Brandon and his incompetent hires.
Ohio State got the University of Florida's old coach. We got San Diego State's. That should tell you enough about this program's problems. Dave Brandon and Brady Hoke have watched this team drop from a 1b level program, to a 2b level program. We got our asses handed to us on a national stage by a mediocre Big 12 team in Kansas State. Didn't even look like we wanted to be there. Alumna like me who pay big money to go see a bowl game don't donate to programs who look like they just want to go home. Great job Coach Hoke, you've really earned your top-5 coaching salary.
Have you seen what Coach Rodriguez has done at ARIZONA? Something tells me it isn't all Coach Rodriguez's fault it didn't work out here... in fact, I lay a minority of the blame at his feet.
Yet another one of our former President's failings is a roughly half-decade of continuously lower rankings in almost every ranking I came across. Note, I did not say LOW, I said LOWER. Apparently Mary Sue's greatest accomplishment as President was her ability to accept accept checks written by numerous super wealthy graduates. Besides drinking herself into a near stupor, it isn't obvious she was doing much else. Besides of course implementing the smoking ban at the behest of her other part-time employer, Johnson and Johnson (because being President of UM is apparently such an easy job you can maintain a position on one or two other executive boards. Don't let service to Michigan stand in the way of pocketing another few hundred thousand for "administerial" roles.)
It's now 5:30. Still waiting.
Well thank God Brady Hoke is still a great recruiter, right?
Uhhh the Antanov was at about 21,000 feet. "Ukraine Defence Minister Valeriy Heletey said the plane was flying at an altitude of about 6,500 metres" http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2014/07/ukrainian-military-transpo…
Not that much under a commercial airliner. Plus, I'm not familiar with the geography, but shooting from a mountain that is ~6,000+21,000range=28,000.
Ever wonder why the one weapon the US wouldn't give to the Syrian "rebels" (*cough* now ISIS) were long-range anti-air despite Assad's main tool being aircraft? It'd sure be bad to have a US anti-air missile take down an American plane in Baghdad.
And remember, the Ukrainian military is split, those saying Ukrainians couldn't "teach" themselves to fire these things? They were formerly IN the USSR.
Ann Arbor is going to start
Ann Arbor is going to start to look like Jacksonville, Florida with all the desperate pleadings for people to buy season tickets. And the schedule of promotions and games is going to remind me of a Single A baseball team.
Saturday
Aug. 30
Appalachian State Mountaineers - "A Night to Remember"
Take a look back with our Michigan family to the game that started it all.
Watch with the entire nation as every broadcaster re-hashes
Michigan's most embarassing moments!
Listen, as Dave Brandon explains to "60 Minutes" just HOW
important HE is to building the Michigan BRAND.
Saturday
Sept. 6
at Notre Dame Fighting Irish
Notre Dame Stadium, Notre Dame, IN
"I don't even know who would want to watch this game. They still play on GRASS, have lame-o uniforms, an old scoreboard, and live in a boring old college town." - Dave Brandon
Saturday
Sept. 13
Miami (OH) RedHawks - Fireworks Night!!!
Every Fan Gets A Free Michigan T-Shirt Sponsored by
Arby's, Jiffy Lube, and Domino's. Wear your Michigan
(Arby's, Domino's and Jiffy Lube) pride on your chest year old
with this 100% cotton crew neck!
Saturday
Sept. 20
Utah Utes LIVE Halftime Performances by:
Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Nickleback, ABBA, Yoko Ono
Saturday
Sept. 27
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Celebrate the SECOND biggest game of the season and
one of, if not the BEST team to visit Ann Arbor in 2014 - the
Minnesota Gophers. Listen to halftime speaker John Madden
as he attempts to remember that one great Minnesota season
in the mid-1970s. Or was it 50s?
Saturday
Oct. 4
at Rutgers Scarlet Knights
High Point Solutions Stadium, Piscataway, NJ
Celebrate Big Ten PRIDE by welcoming RUTGERS! Bringing
it's proud tradition of... I honestly don't know a single thing
about Rutgers. I can't even make fun of them. It's like picking on that kid
in elementary school who just sucks at EVERYTHING. Well, at
least all you New York alumna will be happy every other year
whilethe rest of us have to sit here and sadly admit to other big
conference schools that, yes, we're actually not joking...
Rutgers is actually in the Big Ten.
Saturday
Oct. 11
Penn State Nittany Lions
THE GAME OF THE SEASON! Penn State. A team which
hasn't been to a bowl game in a few years and probably can't
this season either... who even knows anymore. There will be
fireworks. And it's before Halloween so it's still nice out. And
there will rock music during every 3 second break in play. And
a movie night the week before. Please just buy a ticket. Please. Seriously
please buy tickets.
Please.
He was suspended for three games. Where is her punishment (or even discussion thereof) for punching him first?
Thanks, but I'll pray for ALL involved in the Middle East.
Annnnnnd Israel just invaded Gaza. Wonderful Thursday to everyone.
Video shows that she hit him first, he gave her a medium-weight "pop" immediately after then backed away. Honestly didn't look like something that would break a bone. And the girl looked to be almost exactly the same size as him (he's a CB, she's a basketball player). Certainly not one of those "BUT HE HIT A GIRL!!!" instances.
An even better quote: “I love fireworks, but not at a Michigan football game. We are not Comerica Park or the Super Bowl or Disney World or a circus, and the important point is we shouldn't try to be. At a certain point, enough is enough.”
At least two people get it. We're there to watch a FOOTBALL GAME. We're not all five years old and don't need to constantly have flashing lights in front of our eyes to stay awake.
Christ. How many tickets do they still need to sell? Are we this badly in danger of missing out on 100,000? AFTER touchdowns? Why? For what purpose? Are we going to get a smoke machine too? A mascot?
Good, maybe he'll have a little better handle on the AD than the previous President. I'm still waiting for her apology for making a fool of herself and the University by getting trashed in front of 100,000. Or is she still doing the mature thing and claiming she sounded like Lou Holtz because she was "tired"?
I have a passion to preserve tradition. We didn't stand up to Brandon in years past and look where it has gotten us. We don't stand up to him now, and in a few years we'll have strippers riding on mascots' shouldiners while shooting hot dog guns and dancing to Miley Cyrus.
Perhaps not. But damn well better believe there will be ads in the Big House and a bunch of needless faux-NFL horseshit.
Honestly, this idea is as good, if not better, than any that the AD has had lately. Although the AD would lose some $ from other vendors, hot dogs are cheap, so they'd likely break even with the cost of the dog + labor. It'd help students sober up, everyone likes hot dogs, they are warm for the winter, people get hungry.... those are better reasons to hold a promotion than these cockamamie, amateur ideas.
ASU also has extremely attractive girls in bikini tops at game. I've seen it on TV.
Get on it Brandon. That's one "WOW" innovation we can all get behind.
Remember what a farce the Ad pretending to care about students is. Does anyone have the Student Body President's comments about what students SAID they cared about vs. what the AD implemented? The answers and results were diametrically opposite.
Remember a few years ago when the changes started and everyone proclaimed, "Oh, they won't take it too far. Learn to change with the times!"
Horseshit. I knew it the second there was a goddamn giant macaroni statute outside the Big House. That tells you all you need to know about the current AD's priorities.
Money > Fans, Tradition, Winning, Alumna > Students
Lasers and sky lights. Maybe Dave can get a block M up there Batman-style.
Thank God someone has respect for tradition over Brandon's almighty dollar. "Will be shot multiple times during game." Are these people insane? Are we going to have laser shows tied to that awful, repetetive music that gets played every game? That White Stripes song was obnoxious when it was on the radio A DECADE AGO. Kill it already.
Notre Dame's average SOS will far outpace Michigan's for the visible future. It isn't like Michigan's AD done its part scheduling properly.
"Mr. Brandon, where do you want the hot dog cannons?"
I can't wait to see the damn mascot.
Dave Brandon would auction ad space on the Brown Jug if we let him!
You are just getting into pedantics.
When they see the attendances estimated to be under 100,000, they will need a reason already in place for more people to buy tickets. The issue is moot for now.
Or better yet, the CNBC "Scams and Scounrels" episode on the real Rudy. That's what a Notre Dame education gets you.
Last time I checked, Michigan Stadium's operating costs were already covered by the Michigan football program.
Apparently, this movie night is what having the most expensive student season tickets gets you. I've seen how much my son pays for tickets.
Oh I do love getting smacked in the face by those things due to the little girl standing in front of me. And the drunkards stumbling over themselves after the game. Just so we can look pretty on television. Every year Michigan football is less and less about football.
No. You missed my point. He did not do this a few years ago, when presumably, just as now, the fans wanted movie nights. He is forced to use this ploy now that his miscalculated tactics failed and his coffers are suffering. He cares nothing for the fans. He only cares about his bottom line.
Don't tempt him. He'll be selling booze to the already liquored up students.
Ha. Can you imagine Notre Dame Stadium showing sappy Disney movies?
Neither can I.