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It's a tough job, but somebody has to make Desmond Howard look smart. Not even Frosted Tips can do that.
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Nigel Tufnel
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Does he have an axe to grind with simple Jim? I mean, he’s not wrong, but still....he seems to be wailing on him.
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Fungo Squiggly
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Jimmy accused the SEC of cheating. Finebaum is an SEC honk.
Forbes Magazine, August 19, 2019 (reviewing John Ü Bacon's latest scUM fluff piece)
Perhaps more interesting than the dollars Michigan spends on football are the standard that recruits are held to if they ever hope to leap and touch the large maize and blue banner that is stretched across the Block M at the 50-yard line inside Michigan Stadium. It’s a standard that Harbaugh and his staff makes clear isn’t held to everywhere across the country.
“We’re doing a better job figuring out who will fit here athletically, academically, and culturally,” Michigan director of recruiting, Matt Dudek, tells Bacon in the book. “All three have to work. A lot of guys can’t make it here.
“Name another school that competes with the bluebloods athletically – we’re talking Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson – while competing with the bluebloods academically: Stanford, Northwestern, Princeton. Most of the players we recruit are good enough to play for Alabama or Clemson and smart enough to play for Ivy League schools. If you don’t win in the classroom on Monday, you won’t be here for many Saturdays.”
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“Look,” Dudek says in the book, “we know there are people who don’t operate on the same moral ground that not only Michigan expects, but that coach Harbaugh demands. So, the last thing I’m doing is going down that rabbit hole – probably the fastest way to get fired around here.
“The good news is we so rarely go so far down a path with a guy whose character we’re not sure about that we get to a point where a kid or his family asks for a bag of money. I’ve never had anyone directly for anything. If they’re going to do that, they probably don’t consider us very long.”
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Harbaugh, who has made plenty of enemies south of the Mason-Dixon line since taking over at Michigan, has poked the cages of SEC coaches repeatedly and in the book, speaks to the disparity in spending by simply telling Bacon, “(It’s) hard to beat the cheaters.”
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[Perfectly defining Michigan Man] “If you want to make Michigan great, and make yourself great, this is a great place to be,” Harbaugh says in the book. “The ones you have to oversell what we have to offer, you know it’s not going to work. If you don’t get the appeal of the program, of a Michigan education, of the kind of camaraderie you get working with like-minded people – well, I don’t know what to tell you. You’ll probably be happier somewhere else – and maybe we will be, too!”
By the way, I'd love for Harbaugh or Dudek to name just one Michigan player who is good enough to play for Alabama or Clemson and smart enough to play for an Ivy League. Name. Just. One.“We’re doing a better job figuring out who will fit here athletically, academically, and culturally,” Michigan director of recruiting, Matt Dudek, tells Bacon in the book. “All three have to work. A lot of guys can’t make it here.
“Name another school that competes with the bluebloods athletically – we’re talking Ohio State, Alabama, Clemson – while competing with the bluebloods academically: Stanford, Northwestern, Princeton. Most of the players we recruit are good enough to play for Alabama or Clemson and smart enough to play for Ivy League schools. If you don’t win in the classroom on Monday, you won’t be here for many Saturdays.”
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“Look,” Dudek says in the book, “we know there are people who don’t operate on the same moral ground that not only Michigan expects, but that coach Harbaugh demands. So, the last thing I’m doing is going down that rabbit hole – probably the fastest way to get fired around here.
“The good news is we so rarely go so far down a path with a guy whose character we’re not sure about that we get to a point where a kid or his family asks for a bag of money. I’ve never had anyone directly for anything. If they’re going to do that, they probably don’t consider us very long.”
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Harbaugh, who has made plenty of enemies south of the Mason-Dixon line since taking over at Michigan, has poked the cages of SEC coaches repeatedly and in the book, speaks to the disparity in spending by simply telling Bacon, “(It’s) hard to beat the cheaters.”
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[Perfectly defining Michigan Man] “If you want to make Michigan great, and make yourself great, this is a great place to be,” Harbaugh says in the book. “The ones you have to oversell what we have to offer, you know it’s not going to work. If you don’t get the appeal of the program, of a Michigan education, of the kind of camaraderie you get working with like-minded people – well, I don’t know what to tell you. You’ll probably be happier somewhere else – and maybe we will be, too!”
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OSU_Buckguy
Head Coach
look at hoity-toity mr. ralph lauren over here with his "i'm too good to buy my clothing and accessories at marathon oil."
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LovelandBuckeye
You never lose to those pricks. Ever. Ever. - UFM
Pretty sure it would stop right there at zero.
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