Valenti goes ape on MSU
SIAP For those interested... link is below.. .was surprised at some of the things he said, especially acknoledging Michigan has passed them...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lmd6lWp-RDo&feature=youtu.be
October 8th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
Valenti is an ape
October 9th, 2018 at 6:49 AM ^
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October 8th, 2018 at 11:15 PM ^
Acknoledging?
October 8th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
You learn that word in cowlege.
October 9th, 2018 at 5:38 AM ^
+1 for clever wordsmithing
October 8th, 2018 at 11:22 PM ^
whoops.... i do know how to spell ACKNOWLEDGE, but didn't spellcheck it, and cannot edit it... go watch the video, its great...
October 9th, 2018 at 1:54 AM ^
Off topic --- why is it that some people can edit their work and others cant? I can edit ,,,
October 9th, 2018 at 7:16 AM ^
The editing feature is backwards in 3.0. We can no longer edit OPs, where there is the greatest use for the function. We can, however, now edit comments after they have been replied to.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
So that explains it! Alumnus93 is "THE KNOWLEDGE"
October 9th, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
After the season, a poster claiming to be the THE ACKNOWLEDGE should recap the season. YES.
October 9th, 2018 at 6:54 AM ^
Seems like a guy that is too angry. Even on a good day he is cranky.
October 9th, 2018 at 7:17 AM ^
He reminds me of a buddy of mine who isn't happy unless he's angry.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:02 AM ^
He's one of those talk radio guys who is always predicting the collapse of the world as we know it. Mark Scott from the old WXYT AM 1270 days (pre-sports talk) comes to mind. Valenti is just his spiritual successor.
October 9th, 2018 at 11:06 AM ^
exCELSIOR!!!
October 9th, 2018 at 12:08 PM ^
Its the easiest way to get people to call in . Be negative. It gets the fans riled up .
He never has anything positive to say . Then when he is negative about something and the negativity is accurate he can say , see I told you so . Which is exactly what he is doing here .
I always laugh when people call in and say " You tell it like it is Mike "
October 9th, 2018 at 1:57 PM ^
Mark Scott backed his shit up with facts. He was talking DeepState before it was vogue.
October 9th, 2018 at 12:37 PM ^
Not a fan, but the "Cover-Soft" made me chuckle a little.
October 9th, 2018 at 2:46 PM ^
"Dantonio's pride is destroying this program."
-heh
October 9th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
Yes! Hmm...what was Dantonio saying about pride in the past...oh, that's right, now I remember.
October 9th, 2018 at 2:02 PM ^
I've never listened to his show prior to this viewing this clip. If he's that annoying while bashing sparty, he must be absolutely unlistenable on a normal day.
Sounds like he's trying too hard to be a poor man's Jim Rome, but he can't even pull that off.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:19 AM ^
STAEE
October 8th, 2018 at 11:16 PM ^
The guy is a neanderthal, don't care what he 'thinks'.
October 9th, 2018 at 4:46 AM ^
And if you listened to him later in the day, you saw how he segwayed from this into discrediting Michigan. Now, as Valenti puts it, since Wisconsin and MSU “suck,” the BIG is “a joke” and Michigan has literally no way of validating itself and this weeks game against Wisconsin is “meaningless.”
Seriously, when it comes to football, even when he speaks ill of MSU, his only real intent is to hate on Michigan. He is a little more genuine when it comes to basketball, but not much.
October 9th, 2018 at 6:10 AM ^
His only sure-fire way of baiting people to actually react and call is by insulting or trolling Michigan. Otherwise he doesn't get that many calls, especially from Sparty fans.
Even when Michigan is successful, he starts with "Michigan SHOULD HAVE won... but unless Michigan wins x, y, and z, their season is a failure."
Everything is either a success or a failure. Then again, that's the tried and true method of sports radio sucking in callers; set up a dichotomy and get callers to call in and argue.
October 9th, 2018 at 6:12 AM ^
I agree. He also said MSU quit vs. NW. It's a built in reason for now if MSU loses. Well we suck so it doesn't matter if you beat everybody on your schedule. I just wish 1050am had better signal so I never have to hear his whiny voice again.
October 9th, 2018 at 6:57 AM ^
you saw how he segwayed from this into discrediting Michigan.
He rode at a very slow pace on a goofy-looking scooter?
October 9th, 2018 at 7:29 AM ^
I was talking into my phone. That is what it came up with I guess.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:52 AM ^
He rode at a very slow pace on a goofy-looking scooter?
Watching that would still be preferable to listening to him.
October 8th, 2018 at 11:23 PM ^
disrespekt
October 8th, 2018 at 11:26 PM ^
Funny, just last week he was calling Northwestern a high school team.
The guy is a clown of the highest order.
October 9th, 2018 at 2:53 AM ^
Meh... he’s basically a guy posting on the internet at Rcmb , or many other sports blogs...he just managed to somehow get on the radio.
1 week- we’re amazing!
next week- we suck, fire everyone!
great to see such a troll and fan base meltdown though
October 9th, 2018 at 7:59 AM ^
He is good at remembering names and naming obscure sports figures. I once saw a story on religious cult leaders. One guy said if you learn a few Bible verses, people will be impressed with that. When you speak about anything as if you believe it as well, people will want to listen to you. That's really all he's doing.
October 9th, 2018 at 8:13 AM ^
He is so calculated about how he talks about Michigan, so that he will never have to say anything nice. Yesterday I tuned in for some schadenfreude, he just kept saying how bad Wisconsin is. "Michigan should kill them. Bet your mortgage. They lost to BYU. MSU sucks too, so we won't know anything about Michigan until after Penn State."
While I don't think Wisconsin or MSU are great, Wisconsin is a top 15 team with an elite OL/DL. MSU is still the 31st best team (s&p+) and would be a road rivalry win. Neither of those are EASY wins, FPI gives us a 50/50 shot of going 2-0. Even if we manage to go 3-0 the next 3 games, it'll still be "There's a top 4/5 and everyone else. Harbaugh still hasn't made Michigan into an elite team like OSU." Michigan could win the national championship this year and he'll say it was because CFB had a down year, even though this year's Alabama is probably the best team in the last 50 years. In his mind, Michigan can never have beaten a good team, because if Michigan can beat them, they're a bad team...
I am actually surprised he talked about the MSU loss as much as he did. He usually either takes Monday off after a loss, or will say "Yeah, MSU sucked. WHAT ABOUT THOSE LIONS THOUGH!?!?!"
October 9th, 2018 at 11:07 AM ^
Valenti talks about how Michigan and Penn State have pushed past MSU (as if that's an actual challenge), but guaranteed should we come up short in chasing a Big Ten Conference Championship this season, Mike will be on the radio the following Monday with the "Harbaugh in Year 4 with nothing to show for it", hot take.
October 9th, 2018 at 7:41 PM ^
"In his mind, Michigan can never have beaten a good team, because if Michigan can beat them, they're a bad team..."
That sounds like a lot of Michigan fans, including some on this blog, TBH
October 8th, 2018 at 11:32 PM ^
October 9th, 2018 at 7:19 AM ^
Decades? They had the RR and Hoke years (3 + 4) where they were actually dominant. Aside from an occasional lucky (sometimes shady) win against Carr and Harbaugh, that's about it.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:07 AM ^
Yeah...
That's why I said "they act like they have been dominating us for decades."
October 9th, 2018 at 10:17 AM ^
Agree. Valenti thinks the MSU spiral is due to MSU, when it's really b/c these two guys named Harbaugh and Franklin showed up (the latter aided by softening of PSU penalties). Dantonio started his "run" in 2010, which was Rodriguez's last year, and Sandusky was indicted in 2009. Dantonio's run really ended in 2015. Harbaugh started that year and Franklin started in 2014. Coincidence? I think not.
October 9th, 2018 at 1:41 PM ^
I think Sandusky was indicted in 2011.
October 9th, 2018 at 8:36 PM ^
MSU has also never been able to recruit at the level of OSU and (good quality) UM and PSU teams. They don't have the national name recognition (in football at least.) I don't know if his scheme is outdated or not, but I suspect if you took OSU or Bama's players and ran Dantonio's scheme it would work just fine.
October 9th, 2018 at 10:34 PM ^
That argument doesn't hold any weight when he managed to beat both programs last year and has also beaten Urban twice. Also, your timeline is off.
MSU being a good program is not mutually exclusive with Michigan and PSU being good. Yes, it makes it harder to be B1G champions, but it wouldn't affect the product on the field for MSU.
October 8th, 2018 at 11:34 PM ^
Come at me bro!
October 9th, 2018 at 12:15 AM ^
He might have sprained his wrist with that weak punch
October 8th, 2018 at 11:41 PM ^
Ummmmm did he call him Dantoni around the 1:45 mark? I couldn’t bear to rewind to check but I could swear he did. Only made it 3 minutes, he, Valenti, is still a whiny bitch. But I like what he was saying.
October 9th, 2018 at 9:52 AM ^
Yes he did! I heard that too.
October 9th, 2018 at 12:39 PM ^
At this point, I'm not sure I even know his real name anymore.
October 10th, 2018 at 1:28 PM ^
Listened to it. He clearly pronounces the last 'O' sound
October 8th, 2018 at 11:41 PM ^
This stuff is great for talk radio, and is exactly why I can't stand this kind of talk radio. Valenti does anger and ranting well. He is good at eliciting emotion.
But this is emotion at the expense of reason. He's talking about "arrogance" and "quitting" and "country club" and "pride." Nothing quantifiable, nothing that can be analyzed or disproven. It's feelingsball.
I mean, I would love for him to be correct here. But if he's correct, it's by accident. He's good at attracting a big mouth-breathing listener base, but he isn't good at building a case and drawing logical conclusions.
Michigan has its share of anger-baiting, too, but at least there's a good subset of Michigan types that try to go deeper and understand more about what they're covering. Brian, of course, and other folks in the blogosphere. Baumgartner produces mixed emotions, but he at least tries and works at it. MSU has Valenti and Couch. That alone is reason to root for someone else.