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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
OK, I'll give my four.........
Ed Martin: The Ed Martin scandal, concerned National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) rules violations resulting from the relationship between the University of Michigan (or Michigan), its men's basketball program, and booster Eddie L. "Ed" Martin. The violations principally involved payments booster Martin made to several players to launder money from an illegal gambling operation. It is one of the largest incidents involving payments to athletes in American collegiate history
Jim Harbaugh and Connor Stalions: Obvious choices, especially when the NCAA hammer drops later this year. Harbaugh would have made the list even without Stalions' cheating violations. Besides being a lying cheating booger eating moron and (basically) a total jerk, Harbaugh already had scUM on 3 years of NCAA probation due to BurgerGate.
Mike Lantry:
Had two of three field-goal bids by an ex-Vietnam soldier, Mike Lantry, have been even inches tighter, the Wolverines would not have lost a single regular-season game for three consecutive years.
But no. These moments for Michigan, and for Lantry, were sports scripts not of sweetness, but savagery.
The kick from 58 yards with 1:01 to play in that 1973 showdown with Ohio State was long by plenty but trickled left. The one — same game — with 24 seconds on the clock, from 44 yards, slid a hair right. Game over. Unbeaten teams finished in a 10-10 deadlock, leaving — of all unlikely tiebreakers — Big Ten athletic directors as deciders. They voted to send Ohio State to the Rose Bowl even after Michigan had, by almost all accounts, out-punched OSU for four quarters.
Twelve months later, at Columbus, the Buckeyes led, 12-10, with 16 seconds to play. Lantry’s try from 33 yards seemed to travel so true and high that many there that day never quite believed that it missed the right upright.
But fail, they did. All three kicks. With consequences that crushed a college football cosmos.
For three consecutive winters, Michigan stayed home while Ohio State won three Rose Bowl tickets that then were the only bowl game Big Ten teams were allowed during an era of illogical bowl-season deprivation in the Big Ten and elsewhere.
So many good choices from the "Fab"-5 era alone. In addition to Weber and Ed Martin, you have:
-Juan Howard, with his throwing a punch on live tv as well as he and his sons being involved in multiple other physical altercations during his coaching tenure.
-Jalen Rose, who put his foot in his mouth countless times about race, outing nonpublic figure affair partners, and many other topics during his broadcast career before being unceremoniously dismissed from ESPN.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
OK, I thought of another good one, a scUM legacy player who eventually "saw the light" and transferred to the "good guys"......
Justin Boren:
The son of 1982 and 1983 Michigan Wolverines tackles leader Mike Boren, Justin was widely recruited by the nation's top schools, including both his father's alma mater, the University of Michigan and its archrival, Ohio State University, Boren's hometown school.
After an intense recruitment, Boren choose to play at Michigan despite leaning towards attending Ohio State early in his recruitment. He played in several games as a true freshman, making one start. As a sophomore, he became a regular starter, earning 2007 All-Big Ten Conference honorable mention. When head coach Lloyd Carr retired and was replaced by Rich Rodriguez, Boren became unhappy with the new staff and transferred to Ohio State. After transferring he had to sit 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was also required to pay his own tuition, per Big Ten conference rules. He earned recognition as a selection to the 2009 and 2010 All-Big Ten team by both the coaches (second-team) and the media (first-team). He was also a 2010 College Football All-America Team second-team selection by several selectors. In 2009, he became the third player (following Howard Yerges and J. T. White) to play for both sides of the Michigan – Ohio State rivalry. He was also teammates with his brother, Zach Boren, who was a starting fullback and linebacker for the Buckeyes.
Now the 3 brothers (Justin, Zach, and Jacoby) have a career after football of "taking out the trash", see photo (below) on one of their trucks.
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Guys, how is everyone forgetting one of the greatest weaselfucks of all time? A man who is revered and venerated above all others? The man who older Buckeye fans sit their grandchildren on their knee and regale them with stories of the miracles the man performed?
I of course speak ( in hushed reverence) of The Man, the Legend, St. Bill Martin of the Yacht.
GBYBMYMSOB.
I of course speak ( in hushed reverence) of The Man, the Legend, St. Bill Martin of the Yacht.
GBYBMYMSOB.
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