The strange royalist tendencies of Michigan football are one of the angles examined in our latest Sporting News column.
Wolverines: monarchists on the cheap? Photoshop by Peter.
Orson Swindle and Stranko Montana are two men pushing thirty who should know better than to run a college football blog, but evidently don't. Both graduated from the University of Florida, and both agree that college football is far too important to be left to the professionals.
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What if they just shit the bed during this whole ordeal?
How’s that for a metaphor? I’ll ask Paul Wulff what he thinks.
Comment by Rival — December 11, 2007 @ 1:57 pm
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Michigan is Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
Comment by Scalz1 — December 11, 2007 @ 2:09 pm
3
Those should be fake blue gems, not fake green gems.
Comment by Clem — December 11, 2007 @ 2:10 pm
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Does this mean Les Miles is Mary Queen of Scots?
Comment by TigerNacho — December 11, 2007 @ 2:18 pm
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ucla buins in Ruins Dept:
If the Wolverines are natural monarchists, then are the ucla bruins lately representative of Banana Republics?
Both get fearless leaders that are leading anything, not just a country, one day, and either hanging or in jail almost the next day? (I think I heard someplace that Dorrell was at Duke University interviewing for that job recently, methinks.)
Comment by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me — December 11, 2007 @ 2:22 pm
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Kansas just scored again
Comment by SpookyJuice — December 11, 2007 @ 2:34 pm
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Gadzooks! Is this fearsome denizen pictured above related to The Burger King? Don King? Neither! Methinks he looks bears resemblance to Houston Nutt screaming “GIGGETY GIGGETY!”, doth he not?
Comment by yoyofutbawl — December 11, 2007 @ 2:35 pm
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Orson,
Would “The Man” not allow you to refer to Ron Zook by his Christian name (Name Redacted)?
Comment by TideInTx — December 11, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
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First thing they need to do is get rid of that mascot.
Looks like a trash-can raiding coon if you ask me.
Comment by hunglikehussain — December 11, 2007 @ 2:57 pm
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#9
Why do you have be all racist and stuff ?
Comment by Scalz1 — December 11, 2007 @ 3:06 pm
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Mike Leach = Al Czervik.
To Miles: “I bet you get a free bowl of soup if you buy a hat like that, oh, looks good on you though.”
or…”Hey Wang, it’s a parking lot!”
To the UM President’s wife: “Hey you musta’ been somethin’ before electricity.”
Comment by Brian — December 11, 2007 @ 3:10 pm
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#10
Hmmmm….PETA flamer.
Comment by hunglikehussain — December 11, 2007 @ 3:24 pm
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minor threadjack-
Nix to defend Ole Miss’s Nutts.
Comment by Out of Conference — December 11, 2007 @ 3:27 pm
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If Michigan is Monarchist, then the mighty Gators shall be the Revolutionary Republic that shall destroy their despotic reign and ruin the retirement coronation of King Carr in the arena of Capital One somewhere in the wilds of Spanish Florida…and I’m still pissed that Miles is going to be their next coach…now LSU may actually get a good coach, which would suck…hard.
Comment by sb — December 11, 2007 @ 3:28 pm
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It’s about time for Subcommandante Wayne to declare a coup d’ etat in this obvious anarchy environment.
Only then can the people truly be free!
Comment by hunglikehussain — December 11, 2007 @ 3:39 pm
16
That dog could take that mangy wolverine.
Comment by NativeSon — December 11, 2007 @ 4:19 pm
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App St. plays Delaware in the ‘Not good enough to be in a real bowlgame but we have a playoff final’. So? Delaware has the same helmets as Michigan. Nice way to start and end the season.
Comment by drogue — December 11, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
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Excellent job on the article as always Orson, but I have to be a paleo-nerd even though I shouldn’t.
Coelacanths are actually pretty advanced fish, they branched off of the path leading to amphibians. Sharks would be a better example of a primitive fish that predate Coelacanth’s by a couple of hundred million years. The very best metaphor (or most accurate paleobiology-wise at least) would be agnathids or jawless fish. There are two of those around today, lampreys and hagfish and both are pretty disgusting.
Comment by oc phil — December 11, 2007 @ 5:02 pm
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Is it wrong that I saw this post and immediately thought of . . . Alexander Hamilton?
Damned Constitutional History final.
Comment by Chuck — December 11, 2007 @ 7:17 pm
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Michigan set the standard when they hired John “class” Beilein. They are going to have to work hard to top that. Maybe John Mark Karr took some coaching classes when he was in Thailand.
Comment by Hossnfeffer — December 11, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
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Trust me, as a Michigan student and fan, this crap frustrates me like nothing else. The idea that our coach needs to have prior ties to the school is absurd BS. Yost, Crisler, and Schembechler had no ties to UM before taking the HC job. They turned out pretty well IIRC.
I like to think that most UM fans are as disgusted as I am with the way Bill Martin & MSC have handled this search.
Give me Chuck Martin!
Comment by MikeGoBlue — December 11, 2007 @ 10:51 pm
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Pretty good column right up until the end, ol’ Spence, but your take on the Tressel hire - specifically the “third or fourth choice” bit - is wrong, wrong, wrong.The Glen Mason/Mike Belotti/John Gruden rumors were really just that - nobody else even got as far as an offer. I won’t bore you w/ the endless praises that need to be sung to then-AD Andy Geiger, but the search was always his to run and The Senator was surely his number one guy from the git-go.
Comment by El Caballo de Sangre — December 12, 2007 @ 12:07 am
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#21,
What cares if Tressell was choice #1 or #5?
Darrell Royal was texas’ 5th choice (Duffy Daugherty at Michigan State said no).
Pete Carroll was SC’s third or fourth choice.
Who gives a damn how far down the list you are if you’re wildly successful when you get there?
Bottom line is, when you’re hired doesn’t matter, if you win, everyone forgets that stuff.
Comment by Beergut — December 12, 2007 @ 5:05 am
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#19, you were entirely correct in your assessment…Hamilton, that creole bastard, was a monarchist of the first order, who insisted that Washington be the “king” of the United States and to be referred to as “your Eminence”…an appelation which flew about as well as “king” GW’s teeth when he sneezed.
Hamilton, as you know, paid the ultimate cost for his not- so-private and slanderous musings on the character of his political foes…I wonder if NY would still attempt to indict for murder someone killing a NY political hack in NJ?
Comment by sb — December 12, 2007 @ 9:44 am
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#23 - Bobby Dodd turned down Texas and then said, “you should hire Royal” - UT, that one’s on the house.
Comment by Brian — December 12, 2007 @ 12:05 pm