META: Footballscoop trolling MGOBLOG as "MICHBRO"
I'm not sure if many saw this, but a writer from football scoop posting under "MichBro1" came to defend his reporting in a thread today:
http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/cc-rumors-and-harbaugh-open-thread?page=5
The handle "MichBro" just killed me. It's stressful pounding f5, thought this might crack some people up.
EDIT: Now posting as MichBro2
Update: Now MichBro3, we've got a live one!
December 16th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
RollDamnTide is that you?
December 16th, 2014 at 5:47 PM ^
Bleacher report is football scoop!! #AceVentura'd
December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
More like #AceWilliams'ed
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December 16th, 2014 at 5:49 PM ^
FootballScoop blows.
December 16th, 2014 at 5:51 PM ^
more on oakland?
December 16th, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
Bigfoot, how's your new girlfriend? Reports are that she has a penis, it is...
December 16th, 2014 at 6:28 PM ^
I heard the mailman coming again, it is.
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:29 PM ^
Ps you are a shitty interviewer
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:49 PM ^
Havent listened to stern all week, this coaching search has me in fits
December 16th, 2014 at 6:57 PM ^
But, how are you feeling?
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
Yeah I hear Brian Kelly is their leading candidate. Not sure that purple goes well with black and silver personally.
December 16th, 2014 at 5:54 PM ^
Except can we confirm it was actually someone from football scoop. Or just some crazy that is among us trying to be funny.
December 16th, 2014 at 5:55 PM ^
Did someone say "bro"?
December 16th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
You win. I was looking for the Sparty basketball bros with the days that we last beat them painted on their chest, but it's too hard on my phone.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:10 PM ^
This is prob one of the best gifs in creation.
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December 16th, 2014 at 5:58 PM ^
....and he was banned (again) a few minutes ago.
It really isn't that often that you see someone apparently so genuinely hurt that you find a source less than credible that they troll the boards - even certain users - in an effort to get them to refute something which, in their mind, cannot be refuted. It's such a useful exercise.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
You have to give credit to that level of lunatic fringe to not accept that you work for a crappy site that has "hits" because it throws literally everything it hears out on the board an hopes a couple pieces stick.
December 16th, 2014 at 7:05 PM ^
Except nobody yet can link 1 of these so called misses on calling a job. Still waiting.....
December 16th, 2014 at 7:12 PM ^
Didn't football scoop report this when Harmon won a couple hours later... That's pretty bad reporting.
December 16th, 2014 at 7:50 PM ^
It's not worth responding to him. People have brought up the many times they've been wrong and he keeps coming back with the "You have no proof!" garbage.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:15 PM ^
You know, just because you are being such a cool bro.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:01 PM ^
Football Scoop = Ace Williams
December 16th, 2014 at 6:05 PM ^
Every time he posted I just imagined that poorly-dressed backstabbing POS Rousell banging away at his keyboard
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December 16th, 2014 at 6:06 PM ^
for Michbro2 to come in this thread and set us all straight.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
Ask and ye shall receive.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:08 PM ^
I really thought footballscoop was a legit sight but after 2 days on Twitter I couldn't take it anymore.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:19 PM ^
Ditto. Exactly my experience.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:10 PM ^
I love how he thought people ignoring him meant he was right.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:21 PM ^
Didn't someone prove him wrong right before that, too?
December 16th, 2014 at 6:38 PM ^
Not yet, still eagerly waiting for a link
Apparently it should be easy, but the rocket scientists in here haven't pulled it off yet.
December 16th, 2014 at 7:33 PM ^
I had never heard of footballscoop and I have zero preconceptions about their reputability, but I can tell from this short interaction that Michbro1/2 is condescending, petty, and unprofessional. In the other thread, someone pointed out that footballscoop got Bret Bielema to Nebraska wrong, to which he replied:
In conclusion, it does look like they got one coaching change wrong. I'm trying to be fair and not just go by what everyone else is saying, so I don't have any other examples. I was interested enough to write this, but not interested enough to do any actual research on the topic. I don't care enough, but demonstrating the Bielema error was just too effortless to pass up. I leave the rest to all of you.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:00 PM ^
A fair attempt, but look at what was actually said. Nebraska seems locked in....certainly they had a hire roughly one day after that post.
Nebraska has a short list maybe as little as one (not the same as only one) we've since learned it was very short only 2 guys, plan A, plan B. he knew his B would take it.
Bielema was Plan A, that's been verified by papers now.
The next morning Bielema had a contract extension in the works from Ark, pulled his name out, plan B Riley was offered and accepted by the afternoon.
Pretty easy to follow.
At no point did the scoop say Bielema had accepted the job there.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:17 PM ^
I agree, you never claimed that Bielema was for sure the new hire. But my interpretation of the reporting was that there was a high probability that it was going to be Bielema. So if you were to assign an arbitrary confidence level to it, maybe it's like 90% confident? Then perhaps it would be fair to say you were 90% wrong? Anyway, I'm sure it's a difficult job and it's not surprising that things sometimes turn out differently than expected, even when there's good information to support the expectation. And again, I know nothing about footballscoop, so I don't want to even attempt to criticize your track record. I'm sure you take great pride in your work, and rightfully so, but hopefully you and the users here on mgoblog can be fair to each other.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:23 PM ^
Thanks Francisco for being the only person that wants to have a convo.
Again I'm not the scoop, just a Mich fan tired if people writing off legit sources than are way more involved than a message board guy....like me and you.
My point has always been, people write off the scoop or Ian etc, when you can't find a single thing they've officially called, that hasn't been the case.
Again with Bielema since this is all in the papers, again I feel safe saying the scoop called it as it was as it unfolded.....just like the Pelini thing turned out today.
December 16th, 2014 at 8:39 PM ^
Credit more to Bronxblue for posting this but you've yet to refute the point that FootballScoop got this wrong.
Lane Kiffin has won the Broyles Award per @jimdunaway
— FootballScoop Staff (@FootballScoop) December 9, 2014
December 16th, 2014 at 9:26 PM ^
We've discussed this on previous threads that were deleted.
Long story short that's not about a coaching hire. So it's not on point.
December 16th, 2014 at 9:29 PM ^
Lol not on point? It's plenty on point, as it shows the factual nature of which FootballScoop is reporting can be called into question.
December 16th, 2014 at 9:35 PM ^
Very weak spin attempt. You're trying either way too hard, or barely putting any effort in. C'mon man, give us something to be riled up about.
December 16th, 2014 at 10:01 PM ^
It sounds like your site does a great job of wording stories ever so precisely as to leave an out if and when something you "predict" does not pan out. Kind of like the "barring a last minute change of heart" thing. I am sure that you are not very connected because someone who acts as immature as you do would not have people running to you with inside information.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:20 PM ^
Certainly not from FBScoop.
Oakland county raised as a matter of fact WB High on Orchard Lake. Judging from the logic I've seen in here. My family might have more combined degrees from Mochigan than the rest of the posters on this site. I have an issue with the immense amount of inaccurate things people are saying. I have routinely asked for links supporting claims of FBScoop lying about hiring info.....and as of yet zero of the lemmings in here have emerged. It's incredibly important to me to hold people accountable. If anyone would like to take the challenge on please do. Don't give me the "FBScoop said this or said that" show the link....please.
That brings me to my second point why have I been banned twice. I have said nothing attacking anyone, broke zero mod rules, and have been treated poorly by others. Can someone in charge explain the expectations here to me? My crusade has been merely to bring accurate statements to light....is that not the goal here?
December 16th, 2014 at 6:23 PM ^
Mochigan.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:25 PM ^
Valuable response, thanks.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:27 PM ^
I like to respond with a value equal to that of the initial post.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:34 PM ^
You certainly come across as trying to be one. Glad you're self aware enough to recognize that.
December 16th, 2014 at 6:24 PM ^
University of Mochigan. Is that in Bolivia.