THE SITUATIONAL: DOMINION
"I'm telling you here today, 212 days from now, your Michigan Wolverines team will go down to Columbus, march into that stadium and we will beat you-know-who to bring back that familiar feeling of victory back to The University of Michigan again."
That broken promise is 214 days old today. Charles Woodson delivered it during his commencement speech to the University of Michigan's Class of 2018 on April 28, and newspapers and web sites - this one included! - quickly ran the story about how the Michigan Heisman Trophy winner had guaranteed the Wolverines would beat the Buckeyes in The Game, which was finally played four days ago.
Woodson's promise was problematic from the moment he made it.
Bringing that familiar feeling of victory back is a mild contradiction, for one. His math was also off;
212 daysvwas Monday. Jim Tressel's famous 310 days speech included a countdown too, which continues to be distracting from how he strategically went about ending Michigan's dominance and creating a sustainable era that is only threatened from within.
Woodson casually broadcasted Michigan's big, catastrophic systemic failure to the newest crop of Leaders and Best in an attempt to ape Tressel's moment from 17 years earlier. We'll discuss that feature-which-is-definitely-not-a-glitch in time, but first we need to flip the 2018 calendar forward from April to June, and we need to move the location from Ann Arbor to Allendale.
Michigan enthusiasts: Welcome to the hell of your own making.
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