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St. Bill Martin of Ann Arbor (official thread of magnificence, GBYBMYMSOB)

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JBaney45;1805007; said:
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Award for the most concise and insightful ESPN board post in history:

rcmad (12/16/2007 at 2:42 PM)
Rule of Thumb: Never hire a loser.
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There is some pure comedy gold in there from the scUM faithful but this is perhaps the best summation of scUM arrogance;

ptgvn (12/16/2007 at 2:46 PM)
Uh, I'm pretty sure Michigan isn't worried about becoming WVU. They may have had a bad year, but they could never fall that far.
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Ok, just one more I promise (but you could do this all day)



navylax12318 (12/16/2007 at 2:37 PM)


this hire just made my scar from the App State game (getting old now) go away... with michigan having the spread, mallet is out of a job but who cares... it will be Um and Illinois at the top of the Big Ten
holla
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Holla back playa. :lol:
 
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I feel like posting some of those quotes over on the scUM boards would result in a rather hilarious bit of chaos...Scout might be an especially fun place for some of them. Watching the Beav go on ultimate backpedaling would be amazing.

Some of the posts by WVU fans were very concise and true.
 
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Bill Martin;1807723; said:
Damn. Miracle got Zooked in OT.
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It's o.k. Bill.

It was a day when it was the Illini's turn to get Zooked, scUM sucks so bad it took them 3 OT's and a failed 2pt conversion to actually beat a team Zooking itself and now they are convinced they are good and have their sites set sky high again.

I've said it many times sir but you are a got damn genius.
 
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O.K. now they have gone too far.

Blaspheme


Don't you blaspheme St Bill around here!!
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Here's a great quote, I especially love the third sentence.


osted: 11/19/2010 10:24 AM
RE: Bill Martin
Builder of buildings, demolisher of sports programs. If you're looking for praise for Bill, stay off the UM football forum and go to an architecture forum. Or an Ohio State football forum.

I don't think Bill knew much about football. And that's the kindest assessment I can think of. Because the other possibility is he just didn't care that much about the UM football program. And, sadly, I think that's probably the more accurate assessment.

Martin had years to prepare for Lloyd's departure and find his successor. Yet the way that process unfolded...nah, too orderly a word, more like unhinged...it was apparent he was just indulging petty personal agendas, his own bad habits and making it up as he went along. I've seen non-profit boards staffed by young hippies handle the basics of a hiring process more effectively than Bill did. It was embarrassing for weeks and led to a panic hire that was wrong for the program, which led to at least a couple years of embarrassing on-field results and the end of streaks that dated back more than a couple decades. None of that seemed to particularly bother arrogant Bill either.

Then there was his deft handling of the NCAA investigation, resulting, in large part, in a jaywalking offense being treated for a long time like some major scandal. And BM's media relations were abominable, something we are still paying for.

Bill Martin wasn't hired as UM's chief architect or engineer, but as our Athletic Director. The first word in that job title is Athletic. And the first and foremost athletic program at UM is football. The state of the football program when Martin finally "retired" tells you all you need to know about why Bill Martin is not spoken of highly by many on a UM football forum.
 
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