MSU Does not reach goal of 3-9 players selected in 2017 NFL Draft (But Toledo Did)
A Toledo Rocket Football player friend of mine, happened to mention an anomaly with this year's NFL Draft - that quite simply made my heart grow 3 sizes the day he told me.
In case you missed it, my former team and Alma Mater - THE University of Toledo Rockets - had MORE players drafted than Michigan State.
As a former player (siren alert!!) this makes me proud A.F.
As a Michigan fan, it makes me giggle with glee.
Perhaps next year they can try to get 2-10 players drafted and yet again fall short.
Am I the only one who thinks this joke is getting really old?
I think there's like 3-9 other people who agree with you
Nah, I think 23 - 32 people may agree.
words of my 3-9 children...
"YOU'RE OLD!!!"
haha
What about your first 2 kids or numbers 10 on up? How many kids do you have?
Have between 3-9 children with between 3-9 women?
actually have 6...not quite to 9...yet. :P
Especially because Michigan had the same record a few years ago.
"A few years" being almost an entire decade
in the history of Michigan football.
You can't get to be the winningest college football program with a lot of sub 500 seasons.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THIS?
The only way you could come up with such a statistic is if you had access to the missing pages of my SUPER GUIDE?
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH IT?!?
I need those 3-9 pages back IMMEDIATELY, or I'll call my aunt to email your boss to get you FIRED.
Welp
PAGE 3,674 OF THE SUPERGUIDE
PLACES THAT I HAVE WORKED:
BURGER KING
SPORTS AUTHORITY FOR THEIR DISCOUNT ON MGOGOODS
MOWING THE LAWN FOR MY MOM
JIMMY JOHNS BECAUSE THAT'S THE NAME OF BOTH HARBAUGH BROTHERS HEHE
WD taking a beating. No need to kick a man when he is down. Someone stole $600 from him. Be gentle...men.
That's part of what makes the joke though,
"embarrassing would have been 3-9 coming into this game." - Mork
Had he not made those comments the joke probably would've died a lot sooner.
Michigan went 3-8, which is a much better record than 3-9.
Nevermind. I am not a smart person.
That was also year one in a new system following a mass exodus of starters and expected starters. Not year 10 of the Messiah.
Spartan fan doesn't like it when you poke holes in their argument for things that seem equivalent actually have a simple explanation for why they're not really equivalent.
I mean, nobody denies the context was different, but losing Mallett and a couple of receivers certainly shouldn't have accounted for Michigan losing to 5-7 Illinois, 4-8 Purdue, 3-9 Toledo, and blowout losses to OSU, PSU, and ND. But as I've learned around here, everyone else sucks and a good joke only gets better with constant repetition.
That's the point. We shouldn't have gone 3-9 and the coach was fired a couple years later. This wasn't year 10 and we definitely didn't make the playoffs the year before.
The whining look isn't the winning look.
And Hart, Henne, Long, Crable and Adams along with several other starters.
Yes, we all know Michigan went 3-9 in 2008. We beat the joke to death because MSU fans did the same thing when we had our 3-9 season. Karma is a bitch.
And they did it for 3-9 years after it happened, so they have a few more years of karma to burn off.
You guys might want to look up the definition of that word. If you believe it, you are knowingly asking for UM to have another shitty year. In short, karma and retaliation are different things.
Karma is a couch manufacturer in the outskirts of Lansing. On the east side, I think.
Oh okay so we have to stoop to their level? I'd rather not.
I'd prefer to give MSU the exact amount of attention they deserve, which is none. It's very likely Dantonio's best days at MSU are behind him. There is absolutely nothing positive stemming out of that program right now. Or the entire university for that matter.
I know we all think we're poking funny little jabs with these 3-9 jokes coming out of the woodworks. Want to know what really pisses MSU off? Ignoring them. Giving them no attention whatsoever. Reminding them that no matter what they do, no matter how good or bad they get, beating them will never mean to Michigan what beating OSU means to Michigan. They are a very distant #2 rival, and depending on who you talk to, #3 behind Notre Dame.
if you legitimately dont care about msu than by all means ignore them. but dont advocate for ignoring them under the guise that this pisses them off more. that's some kind of contradictory reasoning there
in the meantime, let people have their fun with the 3-9 thing
What is contradictory about saying ignoring MSU since they mean nothing to us hurts them more than being overly excited the moment we have a better season than them. I know plenty of MSU fans and I believe this to be absolutely true. The same blatantly factual insult over and over again doesn't hurt them, it allows them to point to a dillusional fan base and the recent past when they have regularly beaten us.
I'm guessing, but it seems like the people that love the 3-9 jokes are younger (under 30) and don't remember the good old days when MSU really was nothing to us. As part of the over 30 crowd, I'm a little saddened to see that we care about this stuff.
It's like being excited that Michael Bolton had a bad year of record sales. I'm not surprised - he sucks - but why bring that up? I don't give a shit about Michael Bolton. Michael Bolton is probaby just excited that someone remembered him as being good in relation to him sucking now. I guess what I'm trying to say is MSU is like Michael Bolton. They are both no talent ass clowns and I don't know why we've been talking about them so long.
I must be an immature over-50 year old, because I still laugh at 3-9 jokes -- and upvote them pretty frequently.
Delusional, not dillusional
Michael Bolton may get pissed when people don't buy his recordings, but I'm pretty sure he gets more pissed when people don't buy his recordings while loudly saying "Michael Bolton sucks!" And while some MSU fans might really hate us saying nothing, I think most fans of a 3-9 football team would kind of prefer not to have that number continually mentioned. Hey, I live in Kansas. I know a lot of fans of a miserable football team.
This is sadly true, but comes with a major caveat in that UM had just lost an incredible number of starters and projected starters to eligibility and transfer, as well as having a completely new staff and system that was trying to uproot the existing system.
What was sparty's excuse?
When Michigan went 3-9, everyone knew LC had emptied the cupboard and that it was gonna be a struggle. Some even thought they would go as low as 7-5.
Sparty was ranked #12 in the AP poll and #11 in the coaches' poll. Michigan was ranked #26 in numerous polls and that was more as a "they can't really go any lower, can they" pick than anything having to do with the actual talent they were putting on the field.
Sorry, but you are comparing apples to orange jumpsuits here...
It's like ice cream. In small doses it's awesome. In really large doses, less so.
You are crazy. Ice cream in large doses is awesome, too.
somehow i agree with both of you
and Caesar.....was a salad dressing dude
"Want a twinkie Genghis Khan?"
As I said in another thread, any good joke has a lifespan of between 3 and 9 years.
We could spice it up a little for you
Technically they went 2-9 against D1 opponents ... so they did have as many people drafted as wins against D1 opponents this season
It always struck me as sorta dumb considering Michigan went 3-9 not all that long ago itself. I mean, it was funny once or twice, but constantly making fun of a team's record feels like super low-hanging fruit.
Very old
You currently have 3 negs and 9 upvotes and I really hope it stays that way
I hate this joke. I think this joke is a perfect example of why people say UM fans are arrogant. We seem to be obsessed with a bad team and go way out of our way to kick a dead horse.
While I'm happy with the current team, it wasn't that long ago that UM went 3-9 and 5-7, twice.
Everyone knows MSU is a mess, no need to take it to this level everyday for months after the season. It stopped being funny months ago. I just don't get the obsession with them. we're supposed to good and they are supposed to suck - all is right with the world so let's just leave it alone.
I think my biggest complaint about this post is that it is all about the joke and not the content. Tell me how many players Toledo/MSU had drafted, names, positions, rounds, etc. I'd be tolerant of the title if the content was to be taken seriously.
Coincidence that you have 3-9 votes for your comment? I think not...
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