He didn't give them anything at all on MSU....There are so many familiar themes coming back with Jim from the Bo era, and one of the most recongnizable is to let all of your smack talk be done on the field. Generally, Bo and his players never gave the other team any locker room bulletin board material - Harbaugh's OSU guarantee being a glaring exception - and that's way the game should be played. If talk meant anything in sports, you'd devote the second quarter to debates, podiums and effective use of hand gestures. Urban Meyer's pretty good at keeping on the down low, and that insufferable child coaching in East lansing and his whole culutre are the kings of unwarranted smack talk. I like that Harbs defers all toxcity and rancor to the field. Bodes well.
I fess up, fellas, t'was I who conscripted the dirty deed. I actually sacrificed a young male goat out in the mid-Michigan woods a month ago, per this "deal" with a dapper gentleman, and I hope you'll all agree it was worth it: "In exchange for blood purchase by healthy mammal forthwith, and a) one victory over Indiana via Kat Chatman, b) 2016 NCAA tournament bid for UM and play-in game victory in same, c) arrest of Mateen Cleaves and Branden Dawsen, d) first round NCAA tournament upset of Thomas Izzo* team, e) firing of Drew Sharp from his radio gig; CONSPIRATOR hereby agrees to endure equalizing karma in the form of a) NCAA tournament loss to Notre Dame; b) an as-yet- to-be-determined Michigan snowstorm sometime in April 2016; c) release of debt owed by M. Dantonio* for his blood purchase of UM punt fumble at 59:50 of 2015 game, and d) cancellation of deal for one-night-stand with Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilara sometime before July 1, 2016." (* negotiating parties both agree they already know these two individuals; as either rivals, or ones with whom many similar deals have been made in the past.")
Don't now how old the average MGoBlog poster is, but I'm an old ***. I grew up on Bo Schembechler philosophy, a fan that went to the point of renting my senior UM year house across State Street from the practice field just to hear the whistles and yelling. And if it's any comfort, I can tell you that the Dreno-Durkin interviews are vintage Bo Schembechler. I can translate both interviews a bit for us here: "Hi. My name is Drevo-Durkin-Harbaugh-Schembechler-Other. You reporter guys are going to ask a lot of questions, but screw you - we don't like any of you in the media. We can't actually SAY that, so we'll pretend to be nice. If you're smart, you'll catch a ton of sarcasm from us. You ask us demanding questions like we're supposed to divulge any and all information and team strategy to the Dantonios, Meyers, Utahs and Penn States of the world. You really think we're going to? We report to Jim Harbaugh, who is Bo Schembechler 2.0. We tried to tip you off to how much we dislike you when we had second graders interview us on media day....did you catch that? No? We can't help you then. We can't help you at all, really, because winning football games is not dependent upon you. Yeah! We'll see you next time, when you'll ask the same questions, and we'll give the same evasive answers, and then get back to what's important - winning football games. Have a nice day."
if we could just wire up Bo Schembechler's grave right now - he's gotta be rolling over in that thing at 4 million MPH these days.
As a UM alum, donor, booster, ticket holder, and guy who's actually worked on projects with the Athletic department, all I gotta say to this whole current mess is "HOPEFULLY SOON."
HOPEFULLY SOON, this unbelievable butchering of our brand and the reputation slaughtering that we've experienced in the new millenium (Ap State, Amaker, Barwis, Beilein, Boren, Bullock, Carty, Carr, Crawford, Danielson (G), Dantonio, Dorsey, Draper, Ellerbe, Evan Turner, Fab 5 Banners, Ferentz, Freep, Goss, Harris, Herbstreit, Horton, Izzo, Jackson (M), Labadie, Martin (E), Martin (B), Miles (L), MSU, Meyer (U), NCAA, Robinson (R), Rodriguez, Rosenberg, Repeat Offender, Schaffer (S), Sharp, Snyder, Taylor, Traylor, Trent, Udoh, Webber, etc.) gets to smelling SO BAD that either a) The fumes descend into the earth and resurrect Bo, or b) The fumes get so far up in the grill of David Brandon that he channels Bo.
HOPEFULLY SOON, the mere mortals, and weak ones at that, in our athletic department who use letterheads that say "Leaders and Best" on them, take a dictionary and look up what the words mean, and then either live up to it or turn in their two weeks notice.
HOPEFULLY SOON, Mary Sue Coleman says "David, I'll run the school, you run the athletic department, and you can just update me every month. We run a school that happens to have sports teams, not the other way around, and we'll let you borrow some of our students every day to run around in sneakers and shorts. I want them all to fairly and squarely win national championships in every sport every year, or as close as they can get, but only AFTER they get their homework done. How you find, train, and manage coaches to do that is up to you. But I won't accept anything less, and other than that I'm staying out of it."
HOPEFULLY SOON, David Brandon thinks, "I've gone from a 6'5" Michigan Wolverine Student-Athlete to a 6'5" CEO Millionaire fully appraised of how filthy business practices can get to a 6'5" AD of my alma mater, and I'll be G*dd*amned if these snivelling little bastards anywhere get in the way of what Mary Sue Coleman just asked of me."
I can sit and debate with every Tom, MSU fan, and Harry everyday about SAT scores and facilities and seconds left on the clock. But f*** that, just throw all that out and let's get to the bottom line here:
UM just plained sucked in the new millenium. In everything. In sports, in grades, in integrity, in leadership, in admissions, in our athletic department, in facilities,in marketing, in hiring, in firing, in recruiting, in being F'ing nice and coopersative with each other.......in EVERYTHING. And it must stop now. The first step in recovery is to admit that you're failing. And Michigan has been in denial...... "We cannot be just "good" because we're leaders and best. So, when you say we're kinda bad, you're wrong, because we're leaders and best. Hello - thank you for calling leaders and best - press one if you want leaders. Press two if you want best. Press 3 if you want tickets. Press 4 if you want to leave praise on our voice message. We do not accept any other calls."
If I lived any closer to Ann Arbor, I'd drive in every morning myself with my "M" baseball cap, a bullhorn, and 40" of hard plastic hose and park somewhere in the square mile around Stadium Drive and State Street, and just Frickin' BO the livin' daylights out of all those associate administrative assistant countable salary takers. I'd yell, I'd light bonfires in cubicles, I'd put my foot up people's rear ends, I'd write pink slips, and scarlet and grey slips, and green and white slips, and golden domed slips. I'd make people cry. I'd make people vomit. I'd make them pay dearly but they'd be the best conditioned athletic department in the country. I'd yell so loud Drew Sharp and Michael Rosenberg would show up to cover it, and then I'd kick their asses.
But G*dd*mmit, HOPEFULLY SOON, 6'5" David Brandon will do that for me.
It's a beautiful day. I think I'll go enjoy some sunshine and listen to the birds.
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He didn't give them anything at all on MSU....There are so many familiar themes coming back with Jim from the Bo era, and one of the most recongnizable is to let all of your smack talk be done on the field. Generally, Bo and his players never gave the other team any locker room bulletin board material - Harbaugh's OSU guarantee being a glaring exception - and that's way the game should be played. If talk meant anything in sports, you'd devote the second quarter to debates, podiums and effective use of hand gestures. Urban Meyer's pretty good at keeping on the down low, and that insufferable child coaching in East lansing and his whole culutre are the kings of unwarranted smack talk. I like that Harbs defers all toxcity and rancor to the field. Bodes well.
I fess up, fellas, t'was I who conscripted the dirty deed. I actually sacrificed a young male goat out in the mid-Michigan woods a month ago, per this "deal" with a dapper gentleman, and I hope you'll all agree it was worth it: "In exchange for blood purchase by healthy mammal forthwith, and a) one victory over Indiana via Kat Chatman, b) 2016 NCAA tournament bid for UM and play-in game victory in same, c) arrest of Mateen Cleaves and Branden Dawsen, d) first round NCAA tournament upset of Thomas Izzo* team, e) firing of Drew Sharp from his radio gig; CONSPIRATOR hereby agrees to endure equalizing karma in the form of a) NCAA tournament loss to Notre Dame; b) an as-yet- to-be-determined Michigan snowstorm sometime in April 2016; c) release of debt owed by M. Dantonio* for his blood purchase of UM punt fumble at 59:50 of 2015 game, and d) cancellation of deal for one-night-stand with Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilara sometime before July 1, 2016." (* negotiating parties both agree they already know these two individuals; as either rivals, or ones with whom many similar deals have been made in the past.")
Exactly. You don't win football games by talking and typing.
Don't now how old the average MGoBlog poster is, but I'm an old ***. I grew up on Bo Schembechler philosophy, a fan that went to the point of renting my senior UM year house across State Street from the practice field just to hear the whistles and yelling. And if it's any comfort, I can tell you that the Dreno-Durkin interviews are vintage Bo Schembechler. I can translate both interviews a bit for us here: "Hi. My name is Drevo-Durkin-Harbaugh-Schembechler-Other. You reporter guys are going to ask a lot of questions, but screw you - we don't like any of you in the media. We can't actually SAY that, so we'll pretend to be nice. If you're smart, you'll catch a ton of sarcasm from us. You ask us demanding questions like we're supposed to divulge any and all information and team strategy to the Dantonios, Meyers, Utahs and Penn States of the world. You really think we're going to? We report to Jim Harbaugh, who is Bo Schembechler 2.0. We tried to tip you off to how much we dislike you when we had second graders interview us on media day....did you catch that? No? We can't help you then. We can't help you at all, really, because winning football games is not dependent upon you. Yeah! We'll see you next time, when you'll ask the same questions, and we'll give the same evasive answers, and then get back to what's important - winning football games. Have a nice day."
if we could just wire up Bo Schembechler's grave right now - he's gotta be rolling over in that thing at 4 million MPH these days.
As a UM alum, donor, booster, ticket holder, and guy who's actually worked on projects with the Athletic department, all I gotta say to this whole current mess is "HOPEFULLY SOON."
HOPEFULLY SOON, this unbelievable butchering of our brand and the reputation slaughtering that we've experienced in the new millenium (Ap State, Amaker, Barwis, Beilein, Boren, Bullock, Carty, Carr, Crawford, Danielson (G), Dantonio, Dorsey, Draper, Ellerbe, Evan Turner, Fab 5 Banners, Ferentz, Freep, Goss, Harris, Herbstreit, Horton, Izzo, Jackson (M), Labadie, Martin (E), Martin (B), Miles (L), MSU, Meyer (U), NCAA, Robinson (R), Rodriguez, Rosenberg, Repeat Offender, Schaffer (S), Sharp, Snyder, Taylor, Traylor, Trent, Udoh, Webber, etc.) gets to smelling SO BAD that either a) The fumes descend into the earth and resurrect Bo, or b) The fumes get so far up in the grill of David Brandon that he channels Bo.
HOPEFULLY SOON, the mere mortals, and weak ones at that, in our athletic department who use letterheads that say "Leaders and Best" on them, take a dictionary and look up what the words mean, and then either live up to it or turn in their two weeks notice.
HOPEFULLY SOON, Mary Sue Coleman says "David, I'll run the school, you run the athletic department, and you can just update me every month. We run a school that happens to have sports teams, not the other way around, and we'll let you borrow some of our students every day to run around in sneakers and shorts. I want them all to fairly and squarely win national championships in every sport every year, or as close as they can get, but only AFTER they get their homework done. How you find, train, and manage coaches to do that is up to you. But I won't accept anything less, and other than that I'm staying out of it."
HOPEFULLY SOON, David Brandon thinks, "I've gone from a 6'5" Michigan Wolverine Student-Athlete to a 6'5" CEO Millionaire fully appraised of how filthy business practices can get to a 6'5" AD of my alma mater, and I'll be G*dd*amned if these snivelling little bastards anywhere get in the way of what Mary Sue Coleman just asked of me."
I can sit and debate with every Tom, MSU fan, and Harry everyday about SAT scores and facilities and seconds left on the clock. But f*** that, just throw all that out and let's get to the bottom line here:
UM just plained sucked in the new millenium. In everything. In sports, in grades, in integrity, in leadership, in admissions, in our athletic department, in facilities,in marketing, in hiring, in firing, in recruiting, in being F'ing nice and coopersative with each other.......in EVERYTHING. And it must stop now. The first step in recovery is to admit that you're failing. And Michigan has been in denial...... "We cannot be just "good" because we're leaders and best. So, when you say we're kinda bad, you're wrong, because we're leaders and best. Hello - thank you for calling leaders and best - press one if you want leaders. Press two if you want best. Press 3 if you want tickets. Press 4 if you want to leave praise on our voice message. We do not accept any other calls."
If I lived any closer to Ann Arbor, I'd drive in every morning myself with my "M" baseball cap, a bullhorn, and 40" of hard plastic hose and park somewhere in the square mile around Stadium Drive and State Street, and just Frickin' BO the livin' daylights out of all those associate administrative assistant countable salary takers. I'd yell, I'd light bonfires in cubicles, I'd put my foot up people's rear ends, I'd write pink slips, and scarlet and grey slips, and green and white slips, and golden domed slips. I'd make people cry. I'd make people vomit. I'd make them pay dearly but they'd be the best conditioned athletic department in the country. I'd yell so loud Drew Sharp and Michael Rosenberg would show up to cover it, and then I'd kick their asses.
But G*dd*mmit, HOPEFULLY SOON, 6'5" David Brandon will do that for me.
It's a beautiful day. I think I'll go enjoy some sunshine and listen to the birds.
Love,
OOST