Pats -14 not enough.
i've said it before and i'll say it again...
brian's the best
Tenacious D and American Gladiators in one sentence? Bravo.
I absolutely love the intensity on this staff. Finally, we'll be able to know that the guys in maize and blue are the ripped and conditioned ones on the field who are in the right spot to make vicious plays. I've been waiting for this killer instinct my entire life as a Michigan football fan (I'm 21).
Just like professional wrestlers, you're new staff is also fake!
Can't wait to take on tOSU in the Gaunlet
Just watching that video makes me want to hit they gym immediately. And also:
They are also the sort of talk that would cause Mike Barwis to eat your soul and crap it out as a little doll to follow you around, berating you about how you could lift that car if you weren't such an irredeemable knob.
Wow. Well done, Brian.
I was impressed listening to Barwis' interview the other day. The video adds a new dimension. He just doesn't slow down. He talks a mile a minute and cannot stand still (does he even breathe?). Wow.
WOWWWWW..barwis is on top of his stuff like few others..like someone else said he went thru everything, no hesitation, he has his entire plan laid out.
getting him will turn out to be great for michigan football
Man...couldn't one of the hockey players have given a 30-second tutorial on how to take a shot prior to Score-O? I'm no hockey fan, but even I recognize that that was pretty ugly.
Of course, RichRod's hockey ineptitude notwithstanding, the future looks bright.
It sounds like Barwis is going to put these kids through a "Those Who Stay Will Be Champions" type of conditioning program like Bo did in '69. That's just exciting.
whats funny about that, or what i should say is sad about michigan old s and c program. Is that you Barwis looks unique. In fact every s and c guy i have ever been around acts and talks just like him. And i would say (minus the lingo and the fact im sure he could spell better than me) reminds me of me and my staff. Passion for the wieghtroom, passion for planning and beating up the opponenet, is what makes coaching great, and makes great coaches. ANd its what michigan has been missing, minus a few bright spots, for the past 5 years or so.
Give him a break, when was the last time any team from west virginia ripped through college hockey, or professional hockey, or jr league hockey, or peewee hockey?
Give him a break, when was the last time any team from west virginia ripped through college hockey, or professional hockey, or jr league hockey, or peewee hockey?
Fair enough. Had I even tried to walk out on the ice like he did, I would have broken my neck.
Amen, gsimmons, amen.
Me want more heroin...in my eyeballs.
With Pryor coming to visit soon it makes me think of what exactly his visit will be like.
Will we take him to the big house and have his bio up on the big screen while an announce calls his name over the loud speakers?
Will we take him to Chop House or BTB?
Will we have a brothel of 20 sorority virgins (oxymoron?) waiting to seduce him?
We have this golden opportunity right before signing day and we have to make sure we give him everything we've got.
I just wonder what that will consist of. Anyone with any insight on this matter out there?
the first hilarious post (the Barwis crapping a doll) in a long long time.
@ Nick Stadts
1) YES
2) BTB for lunch, chop house for dinner
3) The oxymoron perplexes me. Take him to skeeps and give him a key to the restrooms.
4) Indeed.
awesome.
I'm pretty sure Barwis got one of those invisible tracheotomies that they're doing nowadays...
"most winningest"...?
Sorry, that kind of grated on me, seeing as he said it twice.
Re Barwis...
Talk about loyalty. It's got to rub off on the players.
Meanwhile, Mallett's trying to find any port in a storm. Good riddance.
If anyone needs me, I'm quitting the practice of law and going to train with Barwis. These buses won't lift themselves, people.
I want a rod of steel in my back.
Looks like Barwis himself could pull a few recruits. I got tougher just listening to that.
i brought my NO explode today to school anyway, seeing how i dont have practice till 6:00... 2 hour workout ahead if anyone wants to join me at 4:00
I was going to skip my run today seeing as if its like 10 degrees wind chill, but now after watching that Barwis video, I am a little scared to skip it. He might look up my seats in the ticket database, find my address and drive down here to Toledo to kick my ass.
Very afraid......yet very pumped up to see a pack a wild wolverines on the field next season.....after dealing with Barwis for an off season, just think of the punishment they'll want to inflict on anyone once they can hit with full anger.
Poor Utah!
Chunks, perhaps that Barwis fella could get you off the streets? Maybe a lack of motivation is your ailment. He'd probably take your chunks and bake a high protein cake from them.
Barwis has my vote for AA Sheriff.
If I'm a Junior or Senior, I am crapping myself right now. Imagine going 3 or 4 years in the old system, and then one day somebody shows you this video? The fun's over boys.
some of that is new s and c coach rhetoric. just like some of you were complaing about the new dc saying what all new dc's say.
just been a long time, if ever, for some of you to hear a s and c coach talk i would imagine...
and talking with some of the guys on the team..they are scared sh*tless of him.
I'm buying an iPod for the express purpose of downloading everything Barwis has ever recorded...so I, too, can lift the buses.
This has been posted previously RE: Barwis, but it bears re-reading:
http://www.steveslaton.org/
steve...ews20070628.php
I want to send my son to see Barwis. He's only 1 but I'm guessing this guy has the right message for him
"All I want is all you got"
anyone check out this article about who a and m hired as thier new s and c coahttp://tamu.scout.com/2/716832.htmlch?
Hey Mister Flabby Barwis Man,
We've come to pump *clap* you up!
http://tamu.scout.com/2/716832.html
sorry
gsimmons, if that says gittleson I may shit a brick from shock.
Barwis will take the chunks, bake a humongous high-protein cake from them, eat it, then crap out a thousand high-protein little dolls to follow us around and berate us for what pathetic weaklings we all are.
A Barwis Bobblehead needs to be manufactured yesterday.
I'm scared of Barwis. And I am 600 miles from AA.
help! my little crap dolls are chasing me around the house and demanding better weights!
i'm soooooo excited, heroine is coming out of my eyeballs. i've never been this excited about anything in the middle of fuckin' January!
God, it's great to be alive. it's great to be a Michigan Man in the dawn of a new era! Tressel, we're coming to rip you a new asshole!
check out this guys impression of barwis, a former wrestler...
lol
http://jasonseville.blogspot.com...and-
barwis.html
oh. my. freakin. gosh.
skip bayless (I don't know why I'm even getting so pissed at what he just said cuz he's clearly a moron): "that's different, [lloyd carr] got fired! Dungy is leaving on his own terms"
no its osu's old s and c coach...
seriously, what is wrong with ESPN? SERIOUSLY?
There are so many fun things about that video beyond Barwis:
1.) Notoriously rotund Detroit News reporter Bob Wojnowski looking over at Barwis and deciding he's not interested in what a conditioning coach has to say.
2.) WDIV sports anchor and former collegiate basketball player Katrina Hancock towering over Barwis.
3.) Drew Sharp popping in for 10 seconds and determining how he can spin what he heard into an anti-UM column.
And THAT's the Bottom Line!
I read somewhere that Barwis took Pacman Jones on as a personal project after Jones' initial screwup at WVU, and that Barwis is basically single-handedly responsible for getting that mess of a kid through school.
Wow.
Watching Barwis gave me motion sickness. It was much like watching salmon spawn. That head of his never stops moving. But if he helps us win I can tolerate it. Thats the bottom line.
That's the bottom line, because Stone Cold said so!
Great hire by A&M.
"I'm not your friend. If you see me on campus, don't smile at me. Don't nod at me. You're meat. You exist for the upperclassmen to beat on."
--Mike Barwis to freshman wrestlers
I can only hope our scout teams are treated the same way.
Both R. Lee Ermey and Chuck Norris are scared SHITLESS of Mike Barwis.
That jasonseville link was awesome. The dude had pet wolves, maybe still does?
He calls every player stallions? Do we have any italian players?
Do we have any italian players?
Mike Milano. Oh, and Boubacar Cissoko.
This whole mania about S&C (which I enthusiastically take part in) is partially due to the abysmal lack of interest by mainstream sports "journalists."
I've been reading stuff about S&C on the internet tubes for over a year now, and it was obvious way back then that there was plenty of information available about the subject, both specific to UM and the field across college football in general. And it should have been obvious way back then that serious questions needed to asked about UM's program.
Yet if I had a dollar for every time I heard some alleged sports writer say "gee, I don't know anything about S&C, so I can't really comment," I could treat Alex Mitchell to an all-you-can eat session at the Chop House. What the hell do these journalists do with their time, anyhow?
Once again, so-called traditional media guys are asleep at the wheel (or more likely, gorging themselves at the media buffet tables) while the weirdo bloggers like Brian and others do the hard work of actually, you know, researching something.
that WVU blog on Barwis is great. Has anyone else noticed that Barwis is probably the 2nd most popular (after RR) and talked about coach on staff? And he is the S&C coach!!!
Alex Mitchell just crapped himself.
This is awesome:
"My first interaction with Barwis was on the first day of wrestling practice when he called all the freshman and first-year wrestlers into the training room, locked the door, and gave us a 20 minute tongue-lashing. The most memorable part: "I'm not your friend. If you see me on campus, don't smile at me. Don't nod at me. You're meat. You exist for the upperclassmen to beat on." After his "motivational speech," he walked out, slammed the door, and left a room full of silent athletes wondering What did I just get myself into? I think one kid was crying. We went from there to our first workout. No less than 5 kids quit during warm-ups that day."
and every safety-convert-LB (jonas mouton)
M legend-
That is not surprising at all.
Adding to the S&C mania is the fact that the S&C coach spends FAR more time with the team during the offseason than any other coach.
This is mainly due to NCAA regulations that allow workouts/conditioning, but do not allow formal practices.
It is also due to the fact that this is what it takes to be the best conditioned team in CFB circa 2008.
I want to give Mike Barwis a hug but after hearing how he choked out a 300lb wrestler all I can think of is what he would do to a 175lb chubby white kid. I don't want to die badly enough to be within 100 feet of this guy.
I'm officially more excited for his hire than anybody else on the staff.
Not sure some of the prima donnas we recruit at MICH are going to survive Barwis. Can you imagine talent like the Fab 5 tolerating a Barwis program? Jalen: "Shit Barwie, you gotta just chhhhiiiilll man... ain't no sense in getting all spaz on our ass!" (Fisher didn't even bother coaching those guys.) Sure, I know they're BB players but the point is WVU wasn't getting the 5 star egos we attract.
Oh well, as long as we can keep 11 "pieces of (Barwis) meat" on both sides of the ball then we're better off now then when Gittleson was putting our guys through the 'Nam workout regimen.
DC Joe-
Great quote!
Maybe I'm the only one, but can anyone else imagine the pure fight we'll see from in-state 2* and 3* guys who live, breathe, and die Michigan after going through Barwis' conditioning?
"Not sure some of the prima donnas we recruit at MICH are going to survive Barwis."
100% right...I'd bet a big box of money that there will be more than one high-profile defection from the team between now and next September. Just go back to the attrition that occurred during Bo's first pre-season.
And if anyone with a rivals or scout account has noticed, now that the dead period is over RR & staff have been getting to work. Offered the kid from TX (5'10 4.4) and apparently another former WVU commit from Florida who is also listed as a all-purpose back (5'10 4.4). His name is Onterrio McCalleb and at the Auburn camp earlier this year he ran a 4.34 40. unreal.
we will be the fastest team in the Big Ten easily. and well, enough talk of only the SEC having speed and athletes. so far, i love RR.
http://westvirginia.scout.com/2/...m/2/
397367.html
“Tomorrow there will be a bus out front of the building (the Puskar Center). I want everyone on it by three. Don’t wear cleats,” says Barwis in his heavy Philadelphia accent.
“What are we going to do?” asks one timid soul, wondering what lies ahead, as so far all the workouts have taken place at Mountaineer Field.
Barwis chuckles, a little too sinister for comfort, “You’ll find out tomorrow. But I can promise you one thing, we’re not going to #$@%& Kennywood (the Pittsburgh area amusement park).”
(*swoons*)
This is the funniest thread since the Ferentz flight aware night when Mangino made his first appearance.
T-Shirt: something on crap dolls.
"Those who stay will be champions"
RE: Pacman Jones & Barwis...here's the article Bluewolverine may have been thinking of:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/ne...tory?
id=2790076
Brian, I need to purchase a shirt from you that is related to Barwis. I won't feel complete until I do.
as in defection..i bet that there won't be any transfers just guys that don't want to be part of the program and football anymore. ie, every OL from the 2004 class (GALLIMORE, Ciulla, Debenedictis, Mitchell, etc.). 6 of them have left the program and only a handful (obviously Henne,Hart, AA) have actually contributed in any way..
Barwis is serious scary. Not just a little bit off, but actually insane. I love it!!
Any chance that he can scare the Big House crowd into actually showing some intensity?
barwis will probably go buy a wolverine as a pet.
http://deathrattlesports.com/mic...a-good-
way.html
\Lloyd Carr even conducted a year-long study of the strength program a couple years ago to determine if it was still up-to-date with other teams and supposedly found that it indeed was. But that's not what a lot of other people were saying around the country.
Former UM safety Ryan Mundy went to West Virginia last year as a transfer and said that Barwis' programs were far more intense and advanced than what he experienced at Michigan and Barwis said it was a difficult transition for Mundy to make considering what he was used to.
Former UM player Dhani Jones worked out with the trainer who worked with USC LB Brian Cushing and supposedly was told that the program he had been on at Michigan was not getting it done in terms of flexibility and explosiveness.//
Barwis is actually going to be training the Big House crowd on the proper form for push ups. This will be important for the student section "points push ups" as we will be conservatively scoring 80 per game.
What are the chances that if/when Barwis and Weis meet...Weis has a heart attack as soon as their hainds touch?
I have never waited for the beginning of football with this much anticipation.
This is the dawn of a new day.
And no, all hope does not hinge on getting Pryor.
I love the quote in the freep about Barwis strategically locating puke pails for the newbies. Only the strong will survive. Those that stay WILL be champions.
B/richrobots dude,
If you make a Barwis shirt, I will buy 14 of them: One for each time I will be going to the gym in a given week.
You always hear about loads of former OSU players working out in the summer with the team in Columbus. I never heard about that here, maybe Barwis changes that.
maybe?
I also love how ridiculously loyal he sounds to RR. This speaks volumes on the kind of person RR is through the loyalty he inspires in others to him.
DcH,
Not sure many of our former players would voluntarily subject themselves to Barwis' brand of torture.
I am not concerned about the bowl streak or a "learning curve." RR has NEVER had the talent he has now. His system has specialized in compensating for talent deficiencies. He now will apply a S & C program and offensive and defensive scheme that elevated marginal talent to premium talent. Expect to see all sorts of fringe players emerge as big-time contributors: guys like Mouton, Stewart, Moosman, etc. And look for mega-talent to explode...someone like BGraham, who came in doing standing backflips and seemed to fade, to become an animal. Exciting!
And of course my favorite:
http://dailymail.com/Sports/WVUS...ts/
200712200194
\It had been such a tough workout that afternoon in 2004, Patrick Beilein and Mike Gansey decided to make their move.
Mike Barwis, who at the time was the strength and conditioning coach for West Virginia University men's basketball, was finishing the workout and for some reason Beilein and Gansey thought he was vulnerable.
"I don't know if it was ultimate fighting or what, but he did something crazy and he was always wrestling with us," Beilein said Wednesday. "We thought we could catch him off guard and go get him."
That was a mistake.
"Bad idea," Gansey said. "We both jumped on him and you know how every part of his body is like a rock? He had me on his back and gently put me on the ground and gave me a neck strangle and blacked me out for like 20 seconds. No lie.
"All my teammates saw it and at the click of his fingers I was back to normal. Crazy, huh? But that showed how strong he was and all the stuff he can do - and nothing was wrong with me afterward."//
That's some serious ninja/Delta Force stuff going on over in Morgantown.
83 is right, DcH! "Maybe"?? Barwis eats such indecisiveness and craps out lifeforms. He doesn't "maybe" anything!
Meeechigan Dan,
You're right. What RR had done with 1,2, and 3* recruits is amazing. We have to be patient but I can't imagine what he and the staff are capable of doing with all the resources they have now. unreal.
i think alot of his commitment to RR has to do with the fact taht RR gives hi the latitude to do whatever the f he wants to do. Most Young head coaches wnat their hands in s and c, RR lets Barwis do it all....
and yes he isnt any crazier then my buddy SIX, a player at marshall, fan of WVU, fullback, benches about 450, sqauts about 600, cleans about 285... the S and C guy at my old school... all s and c guys, if they are good, are nuts!!!
re: barwis -
sounds like this guy is the next chuck norris.
barwis doesn't do pushups - he pushes the earth down. etc etc
Rumor that we just got a verbal from Taylor Hill. (A LB from OH) Anyone know anything about him?
http://rivals100.rivals.com/view...y=59783&
Sport=1 Hill...I dunno anything about him but that's his rivals page.
new t-shirt...
get off my barwis-steel spine!
If it's someone out of Ohio, BuckeyePlanet is always the best:
http://www.buckeyeplanet.com/for...aylor-
hill.html
good point MRG. Thanks
dan,
where'd you hear that rumor?
Gotta love the Chuck Norris comparisons:
When the boogeyman goes to bed at night, he checks the closet to make sure Mike Barwis isn't in there.
Offers from LSU and Oklahoma, to go along with most of the Big Ten (not OSU). I'm surprised I hadn't heard of him before.
hope someone is there with a mic, the first time an upperclassmen asks what happend to all the old hammer strength equipment
It was actually me, not Dan...I saw it on Michigan's recruiting planet-
http://www.recruitingplanet.com/...gan-wolverines/
Just watched the video again. 2 thoughts occurred:
1. Love Drew Sharp in the background. He walks up stuffing his face, then starts sweating just from being in proximity to Barwis and has to walk away.
2. I'm pretty sure Barwis' son could kick my ass, regardless of how old he is.
\all s and c guys, if they are good, are nuts!!!//
Awesome.
btw,
my 4 year old has known the proper technique for squats since he was 3....
without weight of course....
Taylor Hill commit confirmed. Projected to be a WLB at Mich. Scout notes him as being "Unblockable at times"
Reminds me of this little dude:
http://www.digitaljournal.com/
ar...e_Mini_Superman
Class of 2025!
Did we get a new recruiting comit today?
Hill - Rivals has him as a Pitt commit?
He was a WVU verbal, but he's from Ohio, so I assume when Rod went to UM, and he had a chance to stay closer to home, he took it.
"without weight of course...."
Stop coddling him.
U of M researchers have found that Mike Barwis' tears cure cancer. Unfortunately, Mike Barwis never cries.
Do the tears he makes other cry have any benefit. There will be alot of them.
scout is reporting that hill committed but that they haven't yet heard it from him. wonder what this means for fitz/spoon.
i bet he cries all the time.. he is problaby an emotional wreck.... wonder what impact he will have on the rest of athletics, or is he just the football s and c
Hill seems very similar to Witherspoon in terms of size, speed, stats and ranking. Interesting...
fitz and brandon smith have apparently become really good friends over their recruitment, I highly doubt Fitz de-commits. The only one on shaky ground is 'Spoon.
At one point wasn't Hill committed to Oklahoma? He is from the same high school as Stoops. I seem to remember hearing something about Rodriguez trying to steal him for WVU just before he left.
Yep. Mooney has had a ton of defensive studs this year...kinda crazy to have Zordich, Beachum (if he ends up at LB, not RB), McCarthy, and Hill going to big time D1 programs. Is this normal for Mooney or any other H.S's?
Barwis looks like he is about 4 feet tall.
My inside sources at the M Ticket Office say that nobody will be allowed inside the Big House unless they can do 50 pushups in 50 seconds. You get one chance at a re-do, and if you fail that your season tickets are yanked.
Shirt ideas:
"Pain is Weakness Leaving the Big House"
"You Can't Have Those Ho-Hos"
"Ho-Hos Are For Buckeyes"
"If You Can't Do It, You're Too Fat"
"We're Hitting You With Steel, and We're Hurting You"
"They Think I'm Crazy"
...
If Barwis didn't have S&C and athletics to pour his manic energy into, one of two things would be the case: he'd either be a Special Forces guy chewing the last scraps of meat from Osama Bin Laden's leg bone, or in prison.
Bottom Line = Pain
@ don
sign me up for ho hos are for buckeyes
"Barwis looks like he is about 4 feet tall."
About 30 years ago a movie came out called "Trilogy of Terror" and one of the stories involved a tiny and indestructible African devil doll accidentally brought to life in Karen Black's apartment. That's what Barwis used to be.
@ kgh10: I know last year, Long Beach Poly had D Warren, Telemaque and Herman Davidson all in the same defensive backfield. But that's par for the course for LBP.
T-shirt idea - "I'm not your friend. Don't nod at me."
About 30 years ago a movie came out called "Trilogy of Terror" and one of the stories involved a tiny and indestructible African devil doll accidentally brought to life in Karen Black's apartment. That's what Barwis used to be.
Don | 01.14.08 - 4:11 pm | #
Ah, yes. I believe it comes with sprinkles.
brian should start a facebook group dedicated to barwis..
Mallett to Ar Kansas. They will be damn stronger with him as their qb I guess.
Sadly, the frogurt is cursed.
Doesn't Petrino run a form of the spread attack or am I off on that one?
Re: Stallions and his speech to the frosh wrestlers make me think of Mick, Rocky's trainer (Burgess Meredith) in Rocky II: "You're gonna eat lightning and crap thunder!" Watch for severe weather warnings on the Doppler radar iso'd to Stadium and Main!
Looks like Pizza House and Damon's won't be catering training tables anymore.
"sign me up for ho hos are for buckeyes"
Antonio Henton's should read
"Hos Are For Buckeyes"
who was the blond behind barwis?
@ dude: Katrina Hancock. See my comment above...
Mike Barwis is a 10 ft tall beast man who showers in vodka and feeds his baby shrimp scampi
i'm gonna get flamed here, but aren't we all getting a little carried away? granted, i'm as excited as can be about the new energy and direction of the program, but i can't help thinking that next year might still be a bit of a struggle. i'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade - i just think maybe we're all getting ahead of ourselves here. there's no doubt our conditioning should be improved next year and in the future, but we more than likely aren't going undefeated next season just b/c of barwis.
i say we should eat stewie and chew on his leg bone for bringing such negativity. Hoo-rah!
of course it could just be the lack of news lately and people are getting crazy. and believe me i hope everyone here is right and we dominate everyone next year. i'm just trying not to get too excited when realistically i think there will be some bumps in the road next year.
and i disagree with eating me and chewing on my leg bone. strongly.
ah, stewie, you're right. slow news day. the thing is, though, people are getting excited about this program again. it's been stagnant for quite sometime. it's good to see this kind of excitement.
nobody here, i believe, really thinks we'll go undefeated and win the national championship. i say 9-3 and a Jan. 1 bowl would be acceptable.
we'll hold off on your leg bone. i'll get myself some BBQ ribs instead. Hoo-rah!
thanks Fla. and i agree - the excitement is great. i can't ever recall being so ready for an upcoming season. i just hope that when that first loss comes next year, we don't get all bent out of shape about it. now the '09 season is another story - no losses will be tolerated!
3.) Drew Sharp popping in for 10 seconds and determining how he can spin what he heard into an anti-UM column.
MRG | 01.14.08 - 2:46 pm | #
That's exactly what I thought... aside from the fact that it looked like he had no idea who barwis was...
but it is just hilarious that "the a**clown" is stuffing his face while Coach Barwis is talking about how the team will be transformed... talk about irony
I like how Barwis says "ho ho's" just as Hancock is leaving, giving her a second's pause and a quick check to make sure that that comment didn't have anything to do with her.
If people are expecting the '08 Wolverines to all show up 25 pounds more heavily muscled and lean as a bodybuilders, you've got another thing coming.
Barwis may be good, but he speaks the typical S&C jargon of the modern age. It sounds like not many on this board have listened or been around S&C coaches.
The boring truth (and this is the dirty little secret about the S&C world) is that no matter how complicated, how innovative, how cutting edge a program sounds, it all boils down to one thing: hard work.
If Michigan's previous system really was not working (and I do not make that assumption), it was not due to "HIT" or whatever derivative of it they were using. It was due to a tired staff, a lack of motivation on the players parts, or both.
There is no "magic program".
From EDSBS comment thread
Antonio Henton's OHIO - O-H-Hi-Ho
--
Jake Long like tackles would absolutely punish Taylor Hill's of the world. The kid needs to put muscle, mass etc.
Clamoring for LC's head, I now fear that Michigan football has become too modern and has left us behind. Need to catch up. Barwis pisses intensity.
did will just say exactly what i said earlier?
Whatever barwis is on, I want some. dude looked like he had to go to the bathroom. Plus he talks in the third person! I'm geeked. HE'S geeked. I'm happy about getting Rod, but I'm 2000times more thrilled to get barwis. (mike barwis, mike baris, ryan mundy, dude always uses full names too.)
Duane Long, recruiting analyst for Bucknuts.com, also followed the race for Pryor closely, and he believes OSU will ultimately prevail.
That was from the previous post
Yeah whatever, what the hell do you think Buckeye Nuts are gonna say.
I would laugh my ass off if he came to Michigan.
By the way Brian great articles/posts today. Thanks for the work you do my man!!
So I get home to update myself on M football and read up on the comments.
while I sit here and peruse and eating the best pizza in town I had a thought.
Let's figure out how much our wins total lead is right now(we'll call this pre RR) and how long it will take to improve that lead(post RR) over ND, Texas and Neb., I believe they are 2,3,4 behind us.
Just thinking out loud.
hancock is sure easy on the eyes.
Heck, I'm an SEC booster and I'm fired up after watching Barwis.
It pains me to say this, but ya'll got a good one. It'll be painful for a little bit, as RR gets the system in place, but then just watch it click.
Barwis looks like a great coach, but I am getting tired of the new guys dissing the old regime (see Rodriguez comment about needing a bit more strength and athleticism after watching the bowl game). I am getting the feeling they are a bit too full of themselves.
Last year's 11-2 Michigan team (12-1, except for Shawn Crable) would have kicked the ass of any WVU team ever fielded. Ditto the team that played on New Year's Day 2008.
Hopefully this attitude will self-correct when they realize they are starting a true freshman quarterback and that the Big Ten is a little tougher than the Big East.
Barwis is closer to a pro wrestler than you think. I used to live with a women's soccer player at WVU who was coached by Barwis. I don't remember the details, but she said he used to do some sort of ultimate fighting-esque sport and was said to have finished a fight even after breaking his leg.
I loved this. But did anybody else notice that he said something about "providing fuel" and providing it "in the weight room" and "within NCAA guidelines" and then "you have to be willing to give over 100 percent of your life" to "nutrition."
I want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt, but the subtext there is a little scary. It makes me worry the professional wrestling comparison might be more apt then I wish.
dh
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