Comments on: WOLVERINES=NATURAL MONARCHISTS

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:05:03 +0000

#23 – Bobby Dodd turned down Texas and then said, “you should hire Royal” – UT, that one’s on the house.

By: sb

sb — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:44:54 +0000

#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?

By: Beergut

Beergut — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:05:23 +0000

#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.

By: El Caballo de Sangre

El Caballo de Sangre — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:07:43 +0000

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.

By: MikeGoBlue

MikeGoBlue — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:51:44 +0000

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!

By: Hossnfeffer

Hossnfeffer — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:22:45 +0000

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.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 00:17:20 +0000

Is it wrong that I saw this post and immediately thought of . . . Alexander Hamilton?

Damned Constitutional History final.

By: oc phil

oc phil — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:02:45 +0000

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.

By: drogue

drogue — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:27:35 +0000

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.

By: NativeSon

NativeSon — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:19:34 +0000

That dog could take that mangy wolverine.

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:39:09 +0000

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!

By: sb

sb — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:28:55 +0000

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.

By: Out of Conference

Out of Conference — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:27:22 +0000

minor threadjack-
Nix to defend Ole Miss’s Nutts.

By: hunglikehussain

hunglikehussain — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:24:49 +0000

#10

Hmmmm….PETA flamer.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 20:10:22 +0000

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.”