WikiLeaks: New info re coaching change

Submitted by J.Swift on

Michigan Daily

Ann Arbor, February 6, 2011.  New WikiLeaks documents surfaced in Cheyenne, Wyoming this morning that shed fresh information on AD Dave Brandon's decision to fire Coach Rich Rodriguez.  To protect the identity of the leaker [editor's note:  retired Wolverine's lyricist Stan Jones], the decisive moment has been redacted in lyrical form].

The AD's office was contacted this morning but refused comment.  Coach Brady 'Hoss' Hoke at the Schembechler Spread was unavailable.  Text of the lyrics follows.

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Ghost Buckeyes in the Sky

A new AD went riding out by Stadium and Main

A Process he did Ponder as he thought of old A-Train,

When all at once a mighty herd of Buckeye fiends he saw

A-plowing through Ann Arbor’s sky and up the Big House draw

Yippie yi yaaaaay

Yippie yi Ohhhhh

Ghost Buckeyes in the sky



Their Bribes were still on fire and their cleats were made of Steal

Their Nuts were gray and crimson and their hot breath he could feel

A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through our sky

For the Wolverines were coming hard and he heard their mournful cry



Victors yi yaaaaay

Victors yi Ohhhhh

Ghost Buckeyes in the sky



Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, their jerseys soaked with sweat

They’re riding hard to catch that herd, but they ain't caught 'em yet

'Cause they might just ride forever on that range up in the sky

On horses snorting fire as they ride on hear their cry

Victors yi Ohhhhh

Victorsy yi yaaaaay

Ghost Buckeyes in the sky



As Wolverines loped by him he heard one call his name

If you want to save your team from Hell a-riding on our range

Then Brandon change your Coach today or with us you will ride

Trying to catch the Tressel’s herd, across Ann Arbor’s skies




Victors yi Ohhhhh

Victors  yi Yaaaaay



Ghost Buckeyes in the sky

Ghost Buckeyes in the sky

Ghost Buckeyes in the sky

Comments

Hugh Jass

February 6th, 2011 at 12:48 PM ^

I always appreciate posts which take a risk.  Sometimes they work - sometimes they don't.  But where would we be without the risk takers.  Beats the hell out of another "What is RR doing now?" post.  Nice job.....and keep posting.

J.Swift

February 6th, 2011 at 1:32 PM ^

My only hesitation was the original tune.  MGOBlog has many followers in their salad years whose memories may not go back to the ancient past when the song was first released (1948!).  Johnny Cash and and others have done versions, of course.  What the Hell.  You have to have heard the original to see the joke.