February 7th, 2019 at 10:27 PM ^
I agree with this.
February 7th, 2019 at 9:59 PM ^
NO
Less is More
February 7th, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
Les is Miles
February 7th, 2019 at 11:01 PM ^
LeAnn Rhymes
February 7th, 2019 at 11:32 PM ^
Les Nessman
February 8th, 2019 at 5:05 AM ^
A statue for a man who won something called the "Buckeye News Hawk Award?"
Surely you can't be serious!
February 7th, 2019 at 10:28 PM ^
I’m Xtremely and udderly appalled that you gave Tom a sex change without his permission!
February 7th, 2019 at 10:04 PM ^
I want a Tom Brady statue in my bathroom.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:07 PM ^
Magnus, what you do in the privacy of your own bathroom is nobody’s business, man!
February 8th, 2019 at 10:32 AM ^
I give Magnus credit to have the bravery to admit what we all secretly would love to have in our bedrooms.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:33 PM ^
NTTAWWT!
February 7th, 2019 at 10:05 PM ^
For all the NCAA success he had? He’s an all time great NFL player, but his best individual college achievement was All Big Ten honorable mention, I guess? He never won a conference title as a starter. The Patriots, not U of M, should and will build a giant statue of him in Foxborough, not Ann Arbor.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:12 PM ^
This is where I'm at. Brady's talent was wasted here and his accomplishments here do not warrant a statue, sorry. It would be kind of weird, saying, yeah we had one of the greatest QBs of all time here, but best we could do with him was 10-2, because the head coach couldn't make up his mind if he was the true starter or not.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:48 PM ^
Very sad that the said head coach could not see or didn't change the offense to accommodate the GREATEST OF ALL TIME qb!!!
February 8th, 2019 at 12:38 AM ^
It’s a total Michigan move to handicap the GOAT. Then again Lloyd Carr being dumb and trying to please Henson gave Brady his giant size chip on his shoulder so... *shrugs*
Still blows my mind how much offensive firepower Michigan has had over the years and still managed to fuck it up.
February 8th, 2019 at 6:52 AM ^
What I've heard was that Henson outplayed Brady in fall camp in '99 (or at least some of the staff thought so) and that the platoon was actually a favor to Brady. This was before Brady became the workout freak that he is now. But when the games actually started it wasn't much of a contest.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:17 AM ^
Fall Camp? We talkin about practice...
February 8th, 2019 at 6:48 AM ^
He never won a conference title as a starter.
He did, in 1998. But I'm also not a huge fan of putting up statues in general.
February 8th, 2019 at 10:01 AM ^
I should have said a solo title. 1998 was a three team tie with Wisconsin and OSU, where both other teams finished higher in the polls and OSU beat Michigan 31 to 16.
February 8th, 2019 at 12:16 PM ^
Well, we were the only one of the three to play both of the others and went 1-1. We don't know how the race would have shaken out if OSU and Wisconsin had played.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:11 PM ^
Of course
And how epic would it be if years after Brady retires and gets that football itch again he comes and coaches QBs at Michigan. One can dream!
February 7th, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
We had the GOAT, and Lloyd benched him for the 2nd quarter for most of his senior season. We don’t deserve a statue.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:49 PM ^
How about giving Lloyd CREDIT for even discovering him, and successfully recruiting him first....
February 8th, 2019 at 12:59 AM ^
He was ranked fairly high as a recruit...he chose us over USC and UCLA. It's not like he was some unknown. Why does Lloyd deserve credit for recruiting stupid amounts of NFL talent at QB and WR in the late 90s and early 2000s including one of the best to ever play, but getting a bunch of 3 and 4 loss seasons out of it (and one 2 loss season) because he didn't know how to use it?
February 8th, 2019 at 11:08 AM ^
Bo Schembechler's winning percentage at Michigan was .796.
Lloyd Carr's winning percentage at Michigan was .753.
Jim Harbaugh's is .731.
Michigan's all-time winning percentage - for the winningest program in NCAA football history - is .730.
It blows me away that people knock Carr for not winning enough when the guy won a national championship and raised the winning percentage of the best program in history.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:25 AM ^
I tend to agree and overall thought Carr did a good job. The decade we spent in the wilderness after he retired proves his worth. However, I still think he did a really bad job handling the Brady/Henson situation in '99. He let politics get in the way of giving his team the best chance to win that year.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:08 PM ^
And nobody thinks Harbaugh is currently an elite coach. Nobody thought Lloyd was either after he got average for the program records with multiple top five recruiting classes, one of them #1. We have a higher win percentage than any other program. So how is it possible that other programs get more results than us?
February 8th, 2019 at 1:22 PM ^
Carr should have won 4 titles. The only one he won was with Moellers recruits.
February 9th, 2019 at 4:23 PM ^
I was just looking at the numbers the other day. The Suckeyes are #2 at .727. Jim needs to make sure they stay behind us, or we will never hear the end of it from their idiot fans.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:18 AM ^
Lloyd was a DC when Brady signed. You mean give Gary Moeller and his offensive staff credit.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2563825-the-college-recruitment-of-tom-brady
February 8th, 2019 at 1:20 PM ^
Brady Hoke is the one that Recruited him.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:17 PM ^
Can we have a Brady statue and not one for Woodson? Or for Harmon, Desmond and a few more former players?
Maybe a Brady statue helps a little in recruiting, but surely a Heisman winner that led Michigan to a national title deserves one in Ann Arbor more.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:08 PM ^
A statue of a former QB will not in any way help recruiting. It would be for honor only.
February 8th, 2019 at 11:56 AM ^
I would love to see a Brady statue...but really, a Woodson statue would be a requirement...and Woodson has even been just as great of an ambassador as Brady
February 7th, 2019 at 10:20 PM ^
This is like legends jerseys. Once you start, where do you stop? I think Woodson deserves a statue every bit as much as Brady does. For that matter, so does Benny Friedman. And Harmon. And Oosterbaan.
A better way to commemorate Brady would be to create some way of recognizing players on the stadium structure facing the field.
February 7th, 2019 at 11:23 PM ^
agreed!
February 7th, 2019 at 11:49 PM ^
....or facing away from the field, like, like a HALO!!!!
February 8th, 2019 at 8:10 AM ^
Once you start, where do you stop?
Tom Brady is arguably the greatest football player of all-time. I think you can stop at "Greatest Football Player of All-Time."
February 8th, 2019 at 12:38 PM ^
Calling Brady "the greatest football player of all time" is ridiculous horsecrap.
Best quarterback of all time? If the metric is league championships won, sure. Calling him the best single player in the entire game? Better than all the HOF running backs, receivers, OL, DL, DBs, etc? Bunk.
February 8th, 2019 at 6:28 PM ^
Great point, Don.
Before Brady I might suggest
George Jewett
Willis Ward
Benny Friedman
Willie Heston
at the very least.
And if the response might be "Who are these guys?" I would suggest that's a better reason for such a commemoration.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:00 PM ^
Let's start with a criteria of 6 super bowl rings, and then the next alumni that gets that mark automatically gets a statue?
February 7th, 2019 at 10:21 PM ^
Does he really deserve one over Woodson, Howard, and Oosterban?
There's a long list of guys that'd come before Brady for a statue based on their success AT Michigan. Brady deserves a statue, in Massachusetts.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:42 AM ^
I thought the same thing, but then again, we retired Gerald Ford's number, and I don't think that was strictly because of his accomplishments while on campus.
February 8th, 2019 at 1:11 PM ^
I think retiring the number of a former U.S. President (plus the Willis Ward story) is a bit different than putting up a statue due to NFL success.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:24 PM ^
A statue for a guy who we coached to a 6th round draft pick, never got a fair shot to lead here, and probably used that negativity as motivation to be where he is today? He is the GOAT, but the statue is for Foxborough — not Ann Arbor. The NFL is where he got to do his work.
February 7th, 2019 at 10:32 PM ^
Yep.
Many of these MGoBloggers praising Brady's accomplishments and cheering for him now are some of the same Michigan fans that wanted Henson to be the starter because of starzzzzzzzzz.
They won't admit it now but look at how people wanted O'Korn to replace Speight and then Peters to replace to O'Korn.
Yeah..."Ooops."
Tangent: Lloyd Carr squandered a National Championship caliber team in 1999.
If we had gone undefeated, we would've played against Florida State. I like to think Brady's intangible greatness would have won us the National Championship (given what he did against Alabama).
February 7th, 2019 at 11:17 PM ^
After Rashan Gary's career here I will never believe a 5 star player will be automatically better ever again. Our best QB since Chad Henne was a 3 star who lost his job at Iowa. Fuck, Rudock might have been better than Henne by the end of 2015.
February 8th, 2019 at 8:43 AM ^
Denard Robinson was our best quarterback since Henne.
February 8th, 2019 at 9:58 AM ^
Disagree, and doing so publicly because I love that people get all worked up over Denard. He was a hell of a running back.