Who is your least favorite Big Ten coach
I am with you on Danny Hope. The obvious answer would be Tressel due to his recent success but overall I'm going with Danny Hope. I can't put a finger on exactly why but he just bugs the shit out of me. I think he comes off as extremely arrogant and more of a drill sargeant than a football coach. Every time he talks it's just uncomfortable.
I love the comparison. And I agree with the choice for #1 Turd Burglar of Big Ten coaches. My number 2 (ha ha, number 2) is Hope. These two are both pricks and their teams need a severe thrashing from the Maize and Blue this year!
Manny Hopetonio
Dantonio and Bielema.
The "Little Brother" Incident sealed it for me. Regardless of how you felt about Hart's comment, it was classless for Mark to respond. I have despised MSU Football and their coach from that moment forward.
....comment by Hope, he's probably edging ahead of Dantonio, but they're neck and neck.
August 8th, 2010 at 12:02 AM ^
...I wonder how he plans to explain it after RichRod runs it up by 40 this year...you have to figure Rodriguez has a memory.
How can Joe-Pa be your least favorite Big Ten coach? That's like hating your grandpa.
I think you missed what he did there
I think I did.
hate them all (except RR, of course). If I had to pick one, it would be Dantonio because he's a douchenozzle and he got PWND by Mike Hart, which is very funny. He's also got the Buckeye-Michigan myopia where he is willing to bag it against CMU and OSU for a better chance at beating us.
It is Tressel for me, mostly because he pretends to be innocent with that dopey sweater vest on, but the dude was rotten to the core at Youngstowns St, the whole Clarrett thing at OSU, and he is somehow viewed as squeaky clean. Jerktino comes in a close second but it sure looks like Hopeless is trying hard to crack the top of the list.
I hate Tressel too. I mean, just once I'd like to have early January free; it's hard to schedule time to watch bowl games and travel to visit family.
OSU is just one undercover investigation away from giving you a couple years off from those January bowl games. In this era, a program can't get away with providing as many illegal benefits as OSU without eventually getting caught. The "Scarlet Wall" has kept the NCAA from getting enough facts so far, but all it takes is a couple of reporters with agendas ala the rag in Detroit and a few lies to get players or "donors" to open up.
Clarett admitted to being provided money, a "job" where he didn't have to work, a car, "tutors" to do his work for him, and, IIRC "escorts" to help him with those silly dating decisions. Someone convinced him to shut up by the time the NCAA investigators got there, but "your" school can't get lucky forever. Eventually, they will get caught. And they will be made an example of.
And all it is going to take is one pissed-off reporter with an agenda, and he will uncover a lot more than the nebulous "violations" uncovered by Carty, Rosenberg, and Snyder.
Blah blah blah assumed violations and conspiratorial nonsense. The best you can do is quote some Clarett BS that has been proven false; that's pathetic. I should expect as much from someone who writes a blog with "tin foil hat" in the title.
August 4th, 2010 at 12:59 PM ^
Not all of it was "proven false."
Most of it, if I recall, turned out to be true. It was just that the things in the most of it category were stunts pulled by boosters directly with Maurice (e.g. the "can borrow whatever car he wants" deal) and didn't implicate the program. Clarrett said Tress set him up with those guys, but there was nothing to substantiate it. See the big scarlet wall.
I won't claim I know OSU was guilty, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if there was some institutionalized shit going on there.
August 8th, 2010 at 12:12 AM ^
Jesus guy...enough with the myopic aplogism for Tressel and his crew. You're lucky that the program hasn't had the USC treatment...yet.
Anyway, see you in November. Oh yeah, maybe if you win the next 20 in a row we can have a real rivalry. Ass hat.
[Edit: this is in reference to "OSU is just one undercover investigation away from giving you a couple years off from those January bowl games." As we all know about the NCAA and their undercover stings!]
August 4th, 2010 at 10:57 AM ^
Sometimes you actually make good points and are objective about things. Other times, like TW, I just hate looking at that fucking "O." Gets me upset.
August 4th, 2010 at 11:03 AM ^
A lot of us here would do the same thing on an OSU board, providing rationality & objectivity - but you gotta remember, we're still Michigan fans. Homers still have to root for the home team.
Zook. It's like Tater is running a Big Ten team. WTF?
1. Dantonio (Aside: He needs a bucket of prunes.)
2. Hope (Classless hillbilly.)
3. Brewster (He just seems like a tool.)
I did not expect any Brewster votes. Minnesota just sucks so bad.
Just because of his first name.
In football, Bret Bielema by a landslide. I still remember the blank look on his face after John Thompson's pick-6 in 2008
Didn't Bielema try and take his team out toward the banner before that game when they came out of the tunnel? I remember being pissed off when they "pretended" to go toward the banner and then made a quick turn to the sideline as Bielema smiled. He's up there for me too.
If so, then it's awesome. But if his parents named him "Thad" -- ouch.
are way ahead of the others. I get mad every time I see a picture of either of them.
Danny Hope. Guy is a twatwaffle.
you may want to think about shortening it up to twaffle...
St. Dantonio, the guy whom confused State fans think was U-M's real first choice for head coach.
Dantonio and Hope. Everyone else is tied for fourth place.
1a. Hope
1b. Dantonio
Dantonio is a douche, but he's more of a reflection of the university he represents. State has a huge chip on its shoulder with respect to U of M, and Dantonio plays to that.
Hope, on the other hand, is a complete asshat. Calling out RR was one thing, but then bringing his player over for the handshake showed his total lack of class. In his free time, he probably punches kittens and yells at babies.
enough said.
August 4th, 2010 at 12:12 PM ^
"Big W, on the helmet." "Big L, on the scoresheet."
August 8th, 2010 at 12:25 AM ^
Rich Rod's hand looks like the dude who got dumped in toxic waste in Robocop
Tie between Tressel and his personal ball carrier Dantonio.
care more about Michigan beating? I'd go with Dantonio. I ASSUME we beat Purdue. But knocking Dantonio on his keester assumes real importance this year.
by a scowl. They both suck balls, but something about Dantonio makes you want to hit him in the face with frying pan. (Ala Betty White in Boston Legal).
I still can't see out of the eye where his gum hit me last year.
Dick.
Brewster. Worst coach in the league.
I think he makes it a point to look like a gay accountant so that you feel that much worse when you lose to him.
I seriously wonder how can we lose to this guy?! He looks like a gay accountant! Who would want to play for him?!
August 8th, 2010 at 12:28 AM ^
A gay accountant would have a better sense of style.
When over ten percent of a coach's scholarship players have misdemeanor convictions, but he is constantly praised for "doing things the right way," there is something seriously wrong. When this is combined with his constant bragging and negative recruiting tactics, nobody else comes close.
And I still can't figure out how he has bamboozled most of the MSM into thinking that he has MSU poised to become an elite team.
Dantonio by far. He is the single biggest jag off in the conference. I have no clue how he can comment on pride comes before the fall when he is jawing off with Mike Hart and letting his players' judicial records slide. I am pretty sure he is the only coach in some crazy situation where a MSU loss would keep us from going to a bowl, would prefer his own team to lose.
...And, after this year (and the next, and the one after that), and Rich Rodriguez is going to be very high on the list.
Danny Hope, without question.
Don't like Tressel, but honestly, he doesn't arouse much ire in me.
Dantonio is likely the close 2nd place finisher behind hope.
I feel like I'm supposed to hate Tressel b/c of the rivalry... and yeah, I think he's kind of a weenie... but he actually doesn't bother me that much.