You know what you just don't hear much of anymore?
JimBo talk
Talk like this, before he ever coached a game
JimBo talk
Talk like this, before he ever coached a game
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And the best part? They said for YEARS that if anybody could "fix" them, it was Rainman. He was the answer. If they could just get Jim to come home. Well, if he can't do it, who can?
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Abenaki
Ohio against the world.
Michigan: Why didn't you just... kill me?
Ohio State: You don't fear death. You welcome it. Your punishment must be more severe.
Michigan: Torture?
Ohio State: Yes. But not of your body... Of your soul.
Michigan: Where am I?
Ohio State: Rivalry losses, where I learned the truth about despair, as will you. There's a reason why this place is the worst hell on earth... Hope. Every man who has rotted here over the years has looked up to Harbaugh and imagined climbing to victory. So easy... So simple... And like shipwrecked men turning to sea water from uncontrollable thirst, many have died trying. I learned here that there can be no true despair without hope. So, as I terrorize Ann Arbor, I will feed its people hope to poison their souls. I will let them believe they can win so that you can watch them clambering over each other to stay in the sun. You can watch me torture an entire city and when you have truly understood the depth of your failure, we will fulfill Woody Hayes' destiny... We will destroy Harbaugh and then, when it is done and Ann Arbor is...ashes... then you have my permission to die.
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This article is so instructive concerning the mind of Michigan Man - the entitlement, the arrogance, the delusion, the living in the past. It's all right here:
"The university's 40,000-plus students are essentially the cream of the crop...."
"Those who stay will be champions encapsulates Michigan's self-image. Only the best need even apply, but if you enter, you are elite...."
"Michigan's calling cards were fullbacks, wingbacks, tight ends, occasional option, ball-control passing...."
"Michigan's culture is resistant to non-manball strategies...."
"However, an approach that relies on throwing a lot or spreading out opponents ... isn't perceived to match the identity of Michigan. Going around foes is not what Michigan men do."
"If you can recruit the biggest people in the country, why use tactics that allow your opponent to determine the terms? Instead, power over him. Michigan is no exception to this rule. Indeed, Michigan is the rule. (my emphasis)"
"Harbaugh's offense features a brutal running game of the sort that even SEC programs dream of fielding."
"Harbaugh has another advantage over many other head coaches, in that developing quarterbacks is his specialty."
The article begins with this quote: "You can't understand Michigan culture until you take in a game in the Big House." Oh, yes we can! We understand Michigan culture perfectly well, even without ever setting foot inside that dump. We see it every day displayed on message boards, social media, condescending comments from current players, idiotic predictions from former players.... And, of course, in articles like this.
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We've been hearing that for a decade. I'm sure there is somebody out there that can do it, but can they find him and convince him to go there? If/when Harbaugh fails officially, people are gonna look at that job and say "oof, if he couldn't do it..."
There are a lot of parallels between them, Texas and ND. All three have all of the ingredients to be a power, but for whatever reason, none of them have been able to put it all together for an extended stretch in a very long time.
scUM has been a picture of mediocrity for over a decade now
Texas, outside of a nice run under back-to-back generational QBs have been an also-ran program for 40 years.
ND hasn't been good consistently since Lou Holtz was there a quarter century ago.
It is very difficult to be competitive on the national-level almost every single year. That's what makes tOSU's current run so impressive. Every single blue-blood program has experienced valleys in the last 10-15 years except tOSU. Even Bammer was down for a decade before Saban came to town.
tOSU has been a consistent NC competitor for 16 years going back to 2002.
Bammer emerged in 2008 after a decade of barely being a blip
Clemson really emerged in 2012-13
USC had a nice run from 2002-2008, but has been largely "meh" outside of that window since the late-seventies.
OU has been largely excellent since Stoops' 2nd year in 1999, but there were a few years where they weren't really competitive nationally.
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They need to find their Tressel, a low-profile semi-outsider who can come in and completely revamp the program while still keeping in touch with the tradition.
Harbaugh will be a tough act to follow. He came into the job not only as the ultimate Michigan Man (JimBo), but also a proven savior of programs (Stanford, 49ers). Well, the Michigan Man routine didn't work, and the savior didn't save. Michigan rolled the $7-million dice and crapped out. What hotshot coaching prospect wants to clean up that mess?
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Woodson, Howard, Grbac, Lytle, Dierdorf, Mandich, Friedman, Chappuis, etc.
Might want to actual recruit ohio at a competent level. Or keep doing this thing and let MSU and UW take your lunch money after OSU is done doing so.
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Nope
Doing just fine with under-scouted kids from Europe and Vermont.
Ohio kids are the devil
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Don't forget about the Missouri State Basketball commits and flipped baseball players. Build a program around em, I say.
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Agreed.
Keep it as closely held a secret as the ref fund for PSU but I fear the path they are on will soon start dominating football the likes of which we have never seen.
They are on the doorstep, just need to give it a few more years.
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