Jim Delany - Why Does He Hate Michigan?

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We all see the manifestation.  What is the genesis of his hatred toward Michigan?  Time for him to retire.

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You Only Live Twice

December 4th, 2016 at 10:26 PM ^

Rather than appreciate the extreme gifts received, it's bothering the trolls that the victory was not earned.  The ref crap on a national stage makes the win seem hollow.  Hence the effort to influence the narrative with garbage about how Michigan made mistakes, stop crying, etc.   Michigan fans, do not play into this.

My son watches a lot of NFL, I am constantly hearing "HOLDING"  "INTERCEPTION" etc.  Foot ball has never been a mistake free game, until this year when Michigan would surely have beat OSU had they not made mistakes.  What drivel.

It's only true to a point that teams have to play past the hometown refs.  Past that point it stops having any legit meaning.  There are NOT infinite opportunities to play past the screw jobs.

 

 

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deebeeinCanton

December 4th, 2016 at 10:37 PM ^

I agree big John. 2 questions I'd like answers to are 1. Did the refs intentionally give OSU a big advantage or was it just poor biased refereeing? 2. Was it just a coincidence that 2 refs are openly OSU fans or were they selected for that reason? Rather than argue what the answers are, an investigation here seems like a real good idea. (Or are all the "investigators" too busy with more important things like excessive stretching and deflated footballs.)

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BleedBlue4U

December 5th, 2016 at 8:07 AM ^

I am going to hate myself for this but I was told by an OSU fan to look at the PSU offciating breakdown. It's pretty much the reverse of what happened to us, PSU had 1 penalty called on them the whole game and some very bad no calls.

So you think the same B1G that conspired to screw us in favor of osu decided to screw osu in favor of PSU? 

We need to drop the conspiracy theories, focus on beating FSU

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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 5:36 PM ^

In order to be a true Michigan fan, you must spend every waking moment seething about one blown call. You must get all of your friends and relatives blown up glossy pictures of The Spot for Christmas this year and spend the entire dinner talking about how you've found an article from 1983 indicating that one of the referees in The Game went to prom with Urban Meyer's fourth cousin twice removed. 

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Brandywine

December 5th, 2016 at 2:41 PM ^

Can I ask you a serious question? With all due respect, did you go back and look for all the calls that officials missed on M, that would have benefited OSU? There may have been holding calls on M that the refs missed, or PI that you didn't see, or borderline late hits that weren't called, that you as a M fan don't pay attention to. I guarantee you, that if M had won, OSU fans would have come out with their list of blown calls too. 

Any objective analysis of the refs has to include both perspectives, yet due to human nature people don't understand that. They only focus on their own wrongs, because they are inherantly biased observers. 

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 5:52 PM ^

ONE blown call?! ONE?!?!?!

Where have you been all week Brodie? How many video clips and freeze frames do you need to see that 2 penalties for 6 yards in a 2 OT game is a virtual impossibility?! PI called against M that are ignored when osu does it. Not one holding called when our DL was getting straight mugged?!

You haven't been around here to learn that one of the refs in that game actually is stupid enough to "Like" anti-Harbaugh posts on his Facebook, and another was once banned from working osu games because if his avowed fandom!?

I see you have a nice block M in your avatar, but every word you post screams ohio to me, friend-o!

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uminks

December 4th, 2016 at 8:36 PM ^

Interesting while visiting my sister and  her family who are big STATE fans were even saying that Michigan got screwed by the refs in the game. I still think if the team just played better down the stretch we could have taken it out of the hands of the referees.

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Ty Butterfield

December 4th, 2016 at 5:19 PM ^

Michigan won't get a fair shake against Urban Meyer as long as Delany is around. I know the hatred for PSU here but they have to just as pissed. As Brian Kelly once said, "Get used to it."

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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 5:22 PM ^

Jim Delaney gives zero shits about anything other than making money for the people who pay his salary. He has no personal aniums toward any team in the league. Jesus Christ. 

The game was poorly reffed, it happens. It has happened in our favor. It wasn't even the worst called game of the season involving a team from Michigan playing one with the initials OSU. Time to stop crying now and put on your big boy pants. 

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 5:42 PM ^

The perfectly valid complaints WILL NEVER STOP, Brodie!

I STILL to this very day complain often about the "Phantom Touchdown" from the Rose of 1979. Met Ronnie Lott and told him the same! He said it was a TD from where he was but he was glad they didn't have replay then too!

How about the "Phantom Hold" on the fake punt in the Rose of 1990?!?! Bo's last game - ROBBED!

DO NOT ever come on here and tell people to grow up or stop whining about perfectly horrible officiating that costs us... AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!

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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 5:51 PM ^

I wish I had so little going on in my life that I could still be upset about blown calls from the Carter administration. 

Maybe invest in a stress ball or something. It may surprise you to find this out, but college football is supposed to be entertainment that distracts you from life's actual stresses. 

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 5:58 PM ^

You, sir, are NO Michigan football fan, not with an attitude like that!

You should totally move out here to the Bay Area, you'd fit in perfectly with all the 49er fans - bandwagon riders who always mock passionate fans as being from someplace where there's nothing better to do!

And for someone with so many more important things to do, you certainly post on here a lot!

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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 6:01 PM ^

Fuck you. 

I did not freeze my ass off in the Big House watching us lose to fucking Purdue to sit here crying about a bad call a week after the fact. I didn't watch us lose to Toledo to be told I'm not a real Michigan fan because I would rather be happy about the Orange Bowl than sad about some bad calls that cannot be changed. I have not watched every single Michigan game whenever possible over the course of the last 15 years to be judged inferior because I do not subscribe to asinine conspiracy theories.

I have no time in my life to be upset about the results of sporting events. I watch them, I react and I move on. I do not love Michigan any less than you because I don't let it impact my day to day life or because I do not approach it through a life or death lens. You will not shame me for being rational. Go fuck yourself and your high horse. . 

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MGoUberBlue

December 4th, 2016 at 6:09 PM ^

Too many angry pops before 6:00 PM.

Everyone has opinions.  Don't take it personally that some of those don't conform to yours.

But posting a "Fuck You" in response to a  disagreeable point made by another fan if pretty fucking stupid.

BTW......wear more colthing to those freezing games.

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 6:59 PM ^

Steve, I mean this in all seriousness - if you "move on" after a tough loss, particularly one where you feel Michigan was unjustifiably over penalized and our detested opponent was under penalized to the point it swayed the outcome - then you are not a "True Michigan fan" like any I've ever known.

To further characterize it as "one blown call" after all that that has been published and proven to the contrary, does not smack much of Michigan fandom to me either. Even if the guy did once under dress for freezing rain, as he claims.

To say it's in the past and there's nothing that can be done about it is not my kind of observer of any contest - athletic or electoral.

If there has been a wrong perpetrated, every effort can and must be made to rectify it - even if it's just to shine a light to assure it does not occur again!

Go Blue!

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 8:42 PM ^

I didn't "imply" he wasn't a Michigan fan because "he doesn't believe in the conspiracy theories" - I said it (tongue in cheek) because he says get over it and move on after tough losses, especially a tough loss where we got jobbed!

I wasn't raised in a family of Michigan grads & football fans (4 generations in now) that "get over it" too quickly - in my case NEVER!

The heartbreak of Bo's heart attack on NYE '69 happened last week in my mind.

Getting screwed by the conference in '73 was like yesterday.

The many many times we've been jobbed by refs ('74 Game, '79 & '90 Rose, '16 Game chief among them) are as fresh to me as if I was just slapped across the face 10 seconds ago!

 So I'm that guy, I dwell on Michigan disappointments - for LIFE!

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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 10:31 PM ^

You have 8 years of posting history to review. I have never, ever sat here dwelling on a loss. I don't post in game threads or snowflake threads. I come here to discuss Michigan football because it interests me, but I have never used MGo as a platform to vent my feelings about losses. That's who I am. I do have a problem with people shitting on what this team accomplished by dwelling on the OSU game. It's over, man. It sucks, but it's over and these players have one more game left to bring us some joy.

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burtcomma

December 5th, 2016 at 7:14 AM ^

Take all the posts and video from both fan bases and use it to show that this group of referees were incompetent and should be fired.  Yeah, the game is over, but the way to fix it is to bang on the league office's head to act to provide the entire conference with better football officials.  The simplest explanation (incompetence) is usually the best one.  That's why Michigan's coaches went through the film and made a video of all the missed and wrong and questionable calls.  They understand where the real battle needs to fought.

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Michigan Made

December 4th, 2016 at 6:45 PM ^

but is certainly a serious serious issue that needs to be rectified. If you don't see that and instead run roughshod over people who do you see it when you are the one who should fuck off. we lost a very important game with a lot of student-athletes who worked way too hard for it to have been taken away by pathetic, unprofessional and dishonorable refereeing. If you haven't seen the smile on the face of the referee after Barrett's score then I suggest you find it and think about it. The man was happy. is home team score.

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You Only Live Twice

December 4th, 2016 at 8:57 PM ^

sorry to break it to you

and unlike many of life's actual stresses and unfairnesses, CFB provides a platform that can gain attention and awareness to fix the unfairness.

Conference based officiating is a dinosaur left over from the days when conferences weren't awash in dollars, when travel and training budgets had to be micromanaged, and so on.  This isn't a problem where there isn't enough resource to remedy the problem.

 

 

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big john lives on 67

December 4th, 2016 at 5:42 PM ^

Nope - this was corrupt. We should not stop speaking out until something is done to address the situation. It is about the future even more then the past.

Delaney and crew desecrated The Game and the Big Ten Championship. It is either corruption or incompetence and must be fixed either way.



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Brodie

December 4th, 2016 at 5:55 PM ^

It was a couple of blown calls, man. It was unfortunate. It's not a big conspiracy. Jim Delaney does not give a shit whether it is Michigan or Ohio State or Illinois who makes the CFP so long as one of them is there and the university presidents who pay his salary are happy. If you think otherwise, you are deluding yourself. 

Sports are supposed to be fun, honestly. Nobody actually lives or dies, nothing is actually impacted by the results of these games. If you feel more strongly about several bad calls in a game than you do about actual injustics ocurring every single day then you seriously need to take a hard look at your life and reconsider the emphasis you are placing on a bunch of teenagers beating other teenagers for a piece of metal. 

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Mediocracy3

December 4th, 2016 at 8:00 PM ^

the offsides call on us the caused Harbaugh to lose his shit to the point it drew a 15 yard penalty? That offsides looked fair and square to me - the following personal foul on Coach may have been extreme but they usually don't throw that unless they've already warned a coach and he keeps doing it anyway.

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schreibee

December 4th, 2016 at 6:04 PM ^

I'll sum this up very briefly Brodie, then we can be quits with each other for good:

Jim Delaney is ultimately responsible for placing that officiting crew in our game because he's the commish. Instead of claiming there was "one bad call" after reviewing that game, he should be firing the person who put avowed buckeye fans (including one who'd previously been banned from working their games due to bias) in as the crew for that game.

They should have been the crew for IU-Purdue or whatever, but not Michigan-osu, not ever.

 

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1VaBlue1

December 4th, 2016 at 6:13 PM ^

Delany didn't setup the officiating to determine the outcome, but he sure as hell did let it go after the fact.  And yes, he does appear to have a bias against Michigan.  OSU has gotten every benefit, every bit of B1G push when they needed something.  Remember the Sugar Bowl that 13 players (or so) should have been ineligible for?  Delany made them eligible and suspended thier players for the beginning of the next season - after they left school.

What has Delany done to help UM with the satellite camps and spring training stuff in Floriduh?  Nothing.  That is Delany's MO.  Nobody expected him to do anything because OSU wasn't involved...

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JBE

December 4th, 2016 at 6:28 PM ^

Serious question, how has Delany helped OSU, or stood up for them? It seems everybody in the conference thinks he's biased against their team - MSU thinks he likes M, PSU thinks he likes everybody but them, OSU thinks he doesn't give them enough credit as the big fish in the conference. It's an easy argumentative out when something doesn't go your team's way to blame it on the commish, and it's a shitty argument, frankly. Just wondering if there's anything actually to this argument, or it's just a easy way to put the blame on someone/something else when something bad happens to your team.

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charblue.

December 4th, 2016 at 8:38 PM ^

the offciating of Big Ten football games, Bill Corollo's office does. He's the one we should be beefing about and challenging the selection of the crew that worked The Game and simply vacated the idea of setting an equitable officiating standard for calls in that contest.

I think the league owes Michigan an explanation for what occurred in that game in its name, and that explanation ought to be made public, if, for no other reason to assure anyone who bet that game, that the outcome wasn't fixed, because of the pattern of calls made in Ohio State's favor clearly could give that impression.

This has to do with fairness and the impression that the league, in fact, supports officiating that is substandard and biased with plenty of evidence to suggest that even past standards for this contention are no longer considered.

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big john lives on 67

December 4th, 2016 at 6:26 PM ^

Man, if you think this is the equivalent of an intramural basketball game at the CCRB, then you are deluding yourself. This is way more than that. 18-22 year old kids devote their lives to this game. It is at least a learning laboratory where integrity and hard work are instilled in young men.

What happened at OSU this year tarnished all of that. Having OSU fans determine the outcome of The Game goes against all of what college athletics stands for. That the Big Ten let this happen was wrong. It was not crimes against humanity, but still wrong.

You need to look at yourself in the mirror, if you want to pretend that this was acceptable. It was not, and we should keep screaming until something is done about it. Period.



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