February 8th, 2019 at 7:27 AM ^
In all fairness, Brady was on the National Championship team in 97. He did win the Orange Bowl for us.
He's worthy of a statue.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:03 AM ^
Brian Griese actually won the national championship. Shouldn't we start there?
February 8th, 2019 at 11:09 AM ^
Hey, if Brian Hoyer won the Super Bowl, Tom Brady won the national championship.
February 10th, 2019 at 8:50 PM ^
Griese was a game manager. The defense won us the NC and everyone who watched that team knows it.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:50 AM ^
We might have lost the Illinois game anyway in '99, but I've always felt like we would have won the MSU game if Brady hadn't been benched in the 2nd quarter. He was bringing us back in the 2nd half but ran out of time. The 2 QB rotation in '99 was truly one of the dumbest things to have ever occurred in the modern era of Michigan football. This isn't revisionist history. It was obvious at the time that Brady was better.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:30 PM ^
Appropriate
February 7th, 2019 at 10:38 PM ^
Here's an idea
Beat osu.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:51 PM ^
Yeah so far it has been just a story, and a sad one at that.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:21 PM ^
"Beat OSU"
Yep.
Jim Harbaugh will probably get his own statue if he beats OSU consistently going forward and wins multiple National Championships.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:57 PM ^
I liked Brady at Michigan but he wasn’t the best Michigan athlete. Why not someone else first?
February 7th, 2019 at 11:31 PM ^
Will they swap it out every couple days for a Drew Henson statue, just like when he played?
February 7th, 2019 at 11:38 PM ^
I dont mind statues of living people. Guys like Woodson and Brady reached a pinnacle others may not reach in my lifetime. But, I do think we should at least wait until Brady is retired.
Would love a Woodson statue of his MSU interception. Maybe a Desmond Heisman one too.
Edit: maybe a better Dez one is his TD vs. Notre dame. More unique to him.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:30 AM ^
I would think the pose he literally invented is pretty unique to him
February 8th, 2019 at 12:04 AM ^
I'm not going to sugarcoat it: I didn't love the Bo statue, don't love this idea, either. Less is more. It's not about individual people, it's about the university.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:09 AM ^
I agree. I don't understand the fascination with statues.
February 8th, 2019 at 2:41 AM ^
Tom Brady is so GOAT at QB he should be honored with a statue ASAP. Here in Ohio, it drives Buckeye fans crazy that he is the GOAT but they admit the fact although out of pure disdain for anything *ichigan by a very few jerks some have audacity to bring up Montana or Elway.
Tom Brady is the embodiment of everything you want the GOAT to be. May he play several more years if HE desires to do so.
God bless Tom Brady.
February 9th, 2019 at 1:34 PM ^
My Buckeye fan brother-in-law loves to say “JT Barrett threw more TDs as a Freshman than Brady did in his entire career. Think how many Super Bowls JT would win with Belichik.” I hate him so much. Tom is the GOAT, and I want to punch my brother-in-law in his face.
February 10th, 2019 at 8:55 PM ^
Last I checked, no one was holding Belichik back from signing JT. It’s a shame the Pats don’t have your brother-in-law around to keep offering his amazing nuggets of wisdom. If they did, they would have played in all the Super Bowls over the past 18 years and win them all.
February 8th, 2019 at 7:41 AM ^
As to whether or not TB deserves a statue over other players, I will make one comment. There are better players who came through Michigan, but there aren't better winners than Tom Brady.
And that is why he deserves a statue.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:19 AM ^
Yes! And crowd source the inscription. Here is my (terrible) idea:
"That's when we knew he was no longer the Comeback Kid; he was the Comeback Man"
February 8th, 2019 at 8:24 AM ^
Neat idea, but would it distract from our mantra?
The Team, The Team, The Team
Ultimately, I think it would.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:47 PM ^
You can still be all about The Team and honor past greats.
The Team, The Team, The Team was a speech about everyone playing together as a team and as one. This existential crisis that Michigan fans have adopted from it when it comes to honoring players is ridiculous.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:27 AM ^
Charles Woodson should be the first statue of a player at Michigan. Not only is he the GOAT when discussing players who went through Michigan(Not going to list it all everyone should already know his accomplishments) he is a sure fire first ballot HOF for the NFL. I'm having trouble thinking Tom Brady deserves this honor first or maybe Jim feels it will help him recruit and land a future QB will actually start a game for him by year 10
Let the Pats put that statue up.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:00 AM ^
Ehh I don't know. Don't get me wrong, he's the GOAT. But strictly for his NFL accomplishments. He was good here, but I would not say his achievements here are worthy of a statue.
In my mind, building a statue of someone on campus should be for the accomplishments he/she achieved ON that campus. So I'd say build one for him at Foxboro, but I don't know if he deserves one in Ann Arbor.
There are plenty of other Michigan greats, athletes and non-athletes, who think would deserve a statue before Brady.
Just my opinion.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:14 AM ^
Add one for Desmond and Charles and I agree.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^
Build the Wall (of Fame) - Brady, Woodson, Harmon and some of the all time leaders like Hart and Edwards.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:27 PM ^
Hart? Why the love for him? He was 0-4 against OSU
February 8th, 2019 at 9:49 AM ^
to save precious funds ,perhaps we should have a blowup one like the inflatable santas. the haters could always cry " underinflated"
February 8th, 2019 at 10:59 AM ^
I’d like wins over ohio state on the football field.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:03 AM ^
Name the field after him.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:04 AM ^
Strongly disagree. Make no mistake, I love Tom Brady and I love that Harbaugh has found ways to connect him to the current program. But statutes of living people cause problems -- see Joe Paterno, for example. The living people statutes problem is even more pronounced with fairly young people, who may not only have embarrassing things in their past, but who have plenty of time to do something embarrassing in the future. Imagine, for example, if we were talking about Tiger Woods, who once was known as the GOAT for golf, but then became the walking symbol for an out-of-control libido.
We should embrace Brady without qualification, but a statute should wait.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:30 AM ^
The more statues that highlight the unique and rich history of the program, the better. I believe we should have an area with a statue for every man named to the College Football Hall of Fame, all Heisman winners (although, as of this year, all of ours are now in the College Football Hall of Fame - but it would have given us license to erect a statue to Woodson before now), all former U of M players named as NFL Hall of Famers, Willis Ward, and Jerry Ford. I think that would be quite a group, a cool attraction to see on campus, and something to show new recruits along with the All-American wall we have.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:33 AM ^
What a stupid idea.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:56 PM ^
I loathe this idea. Why would we commision a statue for an athlete (especially since he was really only amazing once he hit the NFL) with dodgy morals, instead of the myriad of Nobel laureates, astronauts, famous public servants, and famous researchers that we have had? It seems to be the antithesis of what this university stands for. Hell, I'd rather have a JEJ statue than a Brady one
February 8th, 2019 at 1:40 PM ^
*whispers* because the masses care about sports the most
February 9th, 2019 at 1:56 PM ^
If we start building astronaut statues, Purdue fans will start running their mouths about how “Neal Armstrong is the GOAT astronaut”. God forbid, the Suckeyes will bring up that Armstrong is from Ohio. We are safe with Brady. He’s the unquestionable GOAT and he’s not from Ohio.
February 11th, 2019 at 7:55 PM ^
And Hotel Putingrad would be all like, “You want to talk about the best spaceman? Yuri Gagarin was better than all of you comrades. He was orbiting the earth while you were still sending monkeys into the stratosphere.”
February 8th, 2019 at 1:53 PM ^
I'm all for it as long as the statue:
- is designed by Tom Goss
- has a halo around the head
- is no larger than the ones for Tom Harmon, Ron Kramer, and the other UofM greats who have had their jersey retired
February 8th, 2019 at 2:59 PM ^
Brady is a Patriots great. He is not a Michigan great. Few things drive me crazier than Michigan fans' infatuation with Tom fucking Brady.
February 9th, 2019 at 3:54 PM ^
How is Tom Brady not a Michigan great? He won the Orange Bowl. Won a national Title. He wasn’t used properly by Lloyd Carr.
February 8th, 2019 at 2:16 PM ^
This is a joke, right?
February 8th, 2019 at 2:32 PM ^
I'd rather a Woodson statue than a Brady statue. Brady is known for his NFL success. His college playing career at Michigan barely even got him to the NFL.
February 8th, 2019 at 6:07 PM ^
Cool.
Highlight the fact the Michigan staff was too ignorant to start the best QB in NFL history. A nice warning to all players coing into the program.
"Beware, your talent will go unrecognized here"
February 8th, 2019 at 7:38 PM ^
I’m voting for a Pep Hamilton statue
February 9th, 2019 at 1:29 PM ^
All the Michigan greats should have statues. Brady, Woodson, Harmon, Harbaugh
February 9th, 2019 at 4:03 PM ^
Is Brady a Michigan legend in the same way that Woodson is? I'd give him a statue. But had Brady not gone on to win all the SB's I'm not sure he'd be viewed in the same light. I'd be telling every recruit and promoting the fact he's a UM guy everywhere but there's other Michigan men more deserving
February 10th, 2019 at 9:00 PM ^
My idea is that they should build something similar to Monument Park from Yankee Stadium and honor a number of deserving U of M athletes from the gridiron. I would love taking my kids there to learn about and appreciate the greats that wore the maize and blue.