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Aaaand cut!!!! Next scene, Mr. Walrus!
RIP Diabeetus Theories Everywhere
Brian, this post is bullshit and you know it. The Wizard still lives, along with all of his snake oil and I refuse to believe otherwise.
I think we need a shirt:
(Picture of wizard hat)+(Picture of snake oil)=(Picture of the angry Wilfred diabetes face)
Here's the link to the Brimley pic.
http://www.toadking.com/6x9=42/d...2/
diabeetus.jpg
Seriously, I think it would sell out.
she has a good point. Wizard hat resurrected!
Damn, there goes my idea for a "Wizard Hat and Snake Oil Emporium" on Stadium Blvd. next to the Little Caesars and the Party Store.
This makes Tressel's "gentlemen" dig that much more ridiculous. I CAN'T WAIT for us give him a good beat-down (maybe 2 or 3 years from now)...
Oh you know it won't die this easy. No sir.
Ten months to find replacment vs ten days.
@Zingerman:
Or it makes it not a "dig" at all...as in Tressel doesn't care if he is called a gentleman or not as it relates to college football recruiting.
No -he ain't doin' snake oil no mo- now he gotta "confidence man" in coach Magee and learnin' his new trade -"Flim Flam Man"
Hmmm... So Michigan is Penn State's homecoming this year? Why do I feel they scheduled that way post Lloyd retiring?
Thanks Brian for the post. :)
...you mean to tell me the wizard hat and snakeoil I purchased isn't any good? That Tree made his decision based on sound evaulation and and deep assement of all his options...I believe in the Wizard.
What about Tressel's offer to Omawhatshisname on the eve of signing day last year? Like politics, CFB is mostly about perception, especially as it relates to recruiting. Tressel is smart in that regards and is trying, alebeit subtly, to perpetuate the idea that RR is suzzy.
It's ridiculous how brainwashed OSU fans are. My grandfather, a born and bred Columbus native, informed me that OSU has the highest entrance requirements of any big ten school. I promptly shut him down, but it's unbelievable how OSU fans set aside all rationality when thinking/talking about the Buckeyes.
I am posting this again because I originally posted this after the new post went up:
I hate to sound like Jim Carty here, but I was a little unsettled by Magee's accusation of racism a few months ago. He could be right for all we know, but I was a little worried that he was playing the race card, and they didn't follow up on the accusation i.e. it was mentioned once and didn't come up again until now.
Optimistic, pro-Michigan theories: It could be that Mike Brown was too quick to pull the trigger on that one, and Magee didn't really get a chance to explain himself. It's like Magee brought it up and Brown said it in hopes of scoring one against WVU. Magee might not have thought much of it.
Or, this is an elaborate plot by WVU and Aschebrooke to make RR look like a liar and they caught RR red-handed looking soft on racism, knowing that A2 is pretty liberal. I doubt it.
I'm getting married on the day of the Wizard vs. Diabetes Man game. Any advice?
I'm getting married on the day of the Wizard vs. Diabetes Man game. Any advice?
Maize4Blue | Homepage | 04.22.08 - 12:19 pm | #
first, congrats.
second, i think you should wear a wizard hat during the ceremony. not only would you look edgy and dapper, you'd be making a statement on the status of CFB recruiting.
Getting Married? My Advice?
DON'T!!!
End.
I second Jay.
What if when it's time to commit and say "I do", I change my mind and say I'd rather go to the bar?
There's clearly more chances of having top-end fun and drunkeness.
@ Tim
If Aschebrooke was a confident of WVA why did he leave and go to AZ? He's the one spouting the scheme theories- The only thing I can up with is he trying to get back at RR... the whole thing smells...
My fiance also grew up in a Big 10 state, which is not the Big East. I hope she knows the difference... some do not...
My advice:
1. Don't
2. Go to the football game instead.
Have you encountered any angry friends that will be mad your wedding is going to keep them from watching a Michigan game. Whenever there is a wedding that overlaps with a Michigan game that I've been around there is always a problem. Either the friends are mad they can't see the game or the bride is mad everyone is watching the game on a TV in the corner or some combination of the two.
Maize4Blue:
Far more top end fun.
Anthony nailed it.
I'd be the guy who smuggles this in:
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/
...552921665327724
My solution:
Don't get married in the Fall, and if you must, don't do it on Saturday.
I do think an early signing period would be appropriate. If kids can choose to commit and decommit, they can choose to sign early and avoid the recruiting process their senior year. It also helps smaller football programs plan their scholarship offers better. As the "signing period" has in reality been reduced to a single day, coaches I think could use more time to plan their offers.
Maize4-- if you let her schedule it on that day (fess up you let her) you've already lost -there is no hope just ask for an apron as a wedding gift....I'm a therapsit , I know these things
@Anthony,
There's going to be a collection of Michigan, Michigan State, and Ohio State fans.
There's already a rule in place that for every "Hang On Sloopy" request, the Michigan fight song will play in honor of the requestee.
Guys... she's a Michigan fan who grew up in NE Ohio. I call that a winner!
Signs point to no
@BGH: Sorry I jumped your shit man, you caught me right after my boss completely pissed me off. (And she reall is nearly that hot, or was 12 years ago anyway- no idea how I pulled that).
I'm completely torn on the whole Newsome/Forcier.
Newsome has the size, speed, and is a hurdler (all hurdlers have a certain insanity). He's academically inclined as well, and you can't really go wrong there.
Don't know anything about Forcier academically, but he has completion percentages of 70 and 77 the past two years?!!! Are you kidding? Most qbs couldn't throuw screen passes only to the tune of 77%. I think that'd tip it for me- he's going to be just fast enough to do the running, but his accuracy would be an outstanding asset.
As for the white/black thing, and I'll probably get in a huge shitstorm for saying this and be branded a racist, which I'm not: I think the culture change itself will be very difficult for some of our older fans, mostly the Bluehairs/Down in front crowd. That was part of the reason I was preferential to Shepard over Pryor. I think that our next QB will be the face of the program, and the culture shock will be lessened to some degree if that person is either well spoken, or white. I just can't imagine Terrelle Pryor, with his near inability to form sentences, being accepted readily as Newsome, Shep or Forcier by that older generation.
How do your friends feel about missing their teams' games?
Ninja-
Gotta disagree with you somewhat.
I could really care less what the older generations think.
If Michigan was an SEC school, then perhaps you're right. I don't know how racist Michigan fans are. According to ND fans, UM fans are very racist, anti-Catholic, and narrow-minded.
Ninja --she caught you F'in-off on the computer right?
You didn't have the "No Fall weddings conversation" on the first date? Good God man what's wrong with you?
Our game is at Purdue.
Who goes to Purdue anyway?
As for the others, who cares. They're going to buy me Michigan stuff.
Can anyone find a full 2009 schedule yet? I haven't found one that reflects the changes yet.
Anyone know what jersey the mden is going to offer this year ? I mean, there's really no one left. Matthews ? Warren ? Zoltan ?
bluewolverine is right. Who cares if people are racist? Fuck 'em. Serves the bastards right if they're upset. Nice dose of shock therapy.
This assumes that many UM fans are racist. UM fans and alumni will continue to support the school regardless of the QB's skin color.
Tim,
I don't know where you live, but, 97.1 here in Detroit is talking about the Aschebrook/RR & Magee thing right now. You can listen to it online at www.live971theticket.com.
What would be a better date? It's the week after the MSU game and 2 weeks before the OSU game. That gives us time to get married, go on the honeymoon, and still be back in time for OSU.
All I miss is the (probable) 1:00pm start time at Purdue, which I can watch while getting ready.
Hahah I got busted looking at new mountain bikes this morning, but I segued into my (HONEST) excuse that, "Oh, I was just about to leave for a meeting in the other building!"
Hahaha.
#1. No Fall weddings on Saturdays. What the hell, man. But then again, I suppose this just means I'm more obsessed than you.
#2. Who gives a fuck what the "down in front" generation thinks. You oughta be ashamed of that whole thought process, Ninj.
Tim-
Re: ND Fans
They tend to project a lot when it comes to Michigan.
The website is www.freefm971.com
I'd way rather see my buddy get married than watch Michigan beat up on Purdue. I mean, if it was big game (ND, PSU, MSU, OSU. Wisky, that's a different story. But Purdon't is a joke who will give Northwestern and Iowa a run for their money as the shittiest team in the B10 this year.
Not saying I agree with them in any way, shape or form- I think it's an ignorant, disgusting world view, but I could see it being an issue. If R2 struggles for the first few years, who's to say that the older generation doesn't start clamoring for someone with a more "traditional" (read: tall, white, non-mobile QB) offense. It jusy happened to some extent at ND, it could happen here, too.
caup '91-
"Down in front generation" is the perfect term for those people.
I'd add that they're only for "down in front" when it's someone else being spirited.
When they feel entitled to getting all riled up, whoa Nellie!
Fortunately, my fiance wants to get married as soon as possible, so we can do it before the spring. We sort of met through Mgoblog as a matter of fact. Her name is Anastasia and she is from Russia. She's beautiful. We have never met but I know that we are in love. All I have to do is marry her so that she can get her citizenship, and then she is all mine!!
Ninja, no problem on the blow up. I was not commenting on your ability to pull some hot tail.
In re: to the face of the program, well, Hart was the face of the program for the past three years. While he was well spoken, he engaged in a lot of trash talking, which when coming from an African-American is usually percieved very negatively by the old guard. There was no real outcry there, so I don't think the next face of the program needs to fit a certain mold.
Maize4Blue-
I was curious more than anything else, definitely not criticizing your choice. a couple days ago I was invited to a wedding of an acquaintance on the day of the ND game and it was the first time I have been invited to one on a football Saturday (I declined, BTW).
Like I said I was just curious and definitely not criticizing. You're obviously a big enough fan to spend time on this site so I figured there had to be some obstacles that you encountered getting married on a fall saturday, thats all.
Dude, a honeymoon too? So you're not only missing the Purdue game but the one after it as well????
Fucking balls on a platter man.
It's hard to turn down a wedding. A wedding is like alcohol in that it causes women to just throw away their inhibitions and makes them horny. Wedding Crashers was right. Women at weddings are DTF.
keep pitching this crud - go ahead. until, that is, the tables turn, then go ahead and pitch the other angle.
damn, i hate this time of year in the CFB blogosphere.
@Dave,
@ Minny (during the honeymoon)
If I ever find a young lady that I'm comptabile with (for life, jesus), I'm going to be so embarrassed at my wedding. I just want an open bar so that my friends and family can get wasted and forget about my stupid wedding.
@maize4blue
You're doin it all wrong, my friend. If you must get married, wait til the end of December, and do like I did; convince your wife that the most romantical honeymoon spot in the world would be the 30yd line at the Rose Bowl. (Of course, preferably a Rose Bowl that doesn't include Michigan getting a good ol' fashioned ass-whoopin.)
My engagement was 1.5 years, partly driven by not wanting to get married during College Football Season.
I'm still happy about it.
I had a friend from Michigan who was married about an hour west of Lansing (in State territory) DURING the M MSU game a few years back. You can imagine what that church was thinking.
@Anthony,
It's cool man. We tried to pick a date that wouldn't ruin too many games for us. We decided that Purdue and Minny were the best back to back games to "miss", though we'll both be watching. We're both huge UofM fans.
I don't want to miss any other games. Besides, if we push the wedding off to December/January, we could potentially miss the Alamo Bowl game or the National Championship game. I wasn't willing to take that chance.
So based on schedules, I'm guessing we get the Miami & Toledo games on BTN.
@ND is NBC. I'd bet the opener vs Utah is shown for the new offense/coach shenanigans on ESPN2.
As for Conference week 1, we're probably 1st pick (who gets first pick we won't know for a while). ILL @ PSU already has the primetime slot with ABC/ESPNs locked.
Week 2 vs ILL, I would imagine second pick behind OSU/Wisconsin. Maybe first.
Week 3 vs Toledo, obvious BTN game.
Week 4 we're locked into a primetime game @PSU on ABC/ESPN
Week 5 vs state, I'd imagine ESPNs.
Week 6 @Purdue, 2nd pick behind WISC@MSU
Week 7 @MINN, this is a shitty week in big10, no overwhelmingly big games. PUR@MSU? OSU@NW? PSU@IOWA? WISC@IND?
Week 8 vs NW, OSUvsILL is a late game lock to ABC/ESPN. MINN@WISC, IND@PSU, PUR@IOWA. Maybe we get 1st pick after the OSU/ILL lock?
Week 9, ABC/ESPN for sure. OSU
Ah, I thought that Mike Hart's trash-talking was played up a bit. Yes, he said some provocative things. I don't think that what he said after 2006 OSU was as bad as OSU fans thought it was. IIRC Hart has never said something like "OSU is really not that good" like David Boston did. And with MSU, he was really getting back at Dantonio and Jehuu Caulcrick for their comments. Then again, I don't know what Mike Hart might have said on the field.
Tiller should just be quiet and stick to things he does best:
Losing to UM (1-6-0), OSU (2-5-0) and Penn State (2-7-0) every year, and selling oatmeal and diabetes testing equipment for seniors.
He's brought a winning tradition back to Purdue, but what a lame comment to make about an incoming coach he doesn't know and against whom he's never coached a single game.
Tim - I was referring more or less to what was being said on the field. I agree, he never really said anyhting trashy in press conferences or publicly. Jusst, I suppose, if folks were going to get down a face of the program type player (assuming some sort of racially-charged preference was, in fact, present), Hart would have been a target. But he wasn't.
Maize4,
Did you ever read Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer? One Alabama fan skipped his daughters wedding because it was on the day of of a game. Said it tore the family apart and they weren't the same since. He also said that was her choice to schedule it on a gameday and she shouldn't have made him choose. I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.
@Maize
I'm getting married on the day of the Wizard vs. Diabetes Man game. Any advice?
Congrats, but never ever get married on a Michigan football Saturday.
Any chance of rescheduling?
Keegan,
that just seems...pathetic. sports are certainly a big part of many people's lives but one would think any rational human being would...identify the things in life that actually matter, ie your daughter's wedding.
You said rational human being. Therein lies the problem with most 'Bama fans.
@Scalz
Anyone know what jersey the mden is going to offer this year ? I mean, there's really no one left. Matthews ? Warren ? Zoltan ?
My guess would be Mathews, Warren, and maybe Trent? Perhaps a #2 if that is the number McGuffie chooses.
@Jim Harbaugh Scramble,
No chance. It was the right month and the easiest game to miss.
I'll just be sad having to miss the smoke and misdirection DickRod is going to use on Tiller.
The game probably won't be on TV where the wedding is being held. Since BTN and Time Warner can't agree on anything.
Dude, a honeymoon too? So you're not only missing the Purdue game but the one after it as well????
Go to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands for the honeymoon. I can tell you a great place to catch the game, the locale is amazing, and there are a ton of Michigan transplants down there to watch the game with. Plus, $2 Jagers for happy hour 4-7pm, and I'm a big believer in planning honeymoons around happy hour specials.
I bet he would have missed the wedding for the UL-Monroe game.
a friend is more of nfl fan and is getting married in sept, 09. on a saturday. he asked me to be in it, i said, 'hold on.... let me check the schedule... looks like they haven't scheduled an OOC game for that weekend, it probably won't be ND, yea, i think i might be available. pencil me in.'
i was kidding... kind of. true story.
I thought St. John's was so much nicer. It's beautiful there.
@Ninja Football,
We're going to St. Lucia. You know of any places there?
Oh wait, what am I thinking? We'll be back for the game on Saturday.
Could we pleeeeease make a "Little Brah" t-shirt? Please?
Please?
make it "Li'l Brah", as that would be reminiscent of "My Li'l Pony"
When I got engaged last year, I told my friends that if, due to some horrible circumstance, the wedding was on a Michigan football Saturday, they had my permission to skip the wedding. Fortunately it's August 15th -- Crisis averted.
The first M home game I missed in five years was the CMU weather delay game in 2006. Even worse, BOTH friends were Michigan alumni, and BOTH were in the Marching Band for godsake. It was completely beyond me how this wedding overlapped a home game.
i missed last year's appy state game bc i was taking the gre... long story short, my performance on the gre resembled michigan's performance on the field.
Aschebrooke
Help me out here. He's the guy that supposedly relayed to Magee that he wouldn't be considered for the open WVU HC spot because he was black, right? Now did Aschebrooke say "I won't hire you because of your skin color." Or did he say "WVU won't hire you because of your skin color." Guess I'm just confused because I had understood the Aschebrooke character to be the unfortunate messenger (hence, RR's phone call doesn't seem unusual) rather than the actual offender. Anyone?
I wouldn't say you *missed* it, BGH...
First off, congrats.
The forgotten peril of the fall wedding is the fall anniversary. Anniversary gifts will get you through most years, but eventually you'll be expected to have a romantic weekend getaway. Schedule wisely.
jeremy, i probably would have just broken things in my house. the feeling of scoring below your ability on the gre, then coming home to find your team has lost in the most humiliating of fashions threw me into a spiraling depression that lasted several days.
NEW THREAD
it's actually about recruiting
JAKE GOING #1
The guys that sit in front of us at the games wear a "Up In Back" T-shirt. They're classic!
Jake Long guaranteed $30 million as #1 overall pick. 2 top 3 picks in 4 years. Space, bitches. Space.
You've got to be joking Brian.
http://nittanywhiteout.com/2008/...-get-defensive/
Common, you can definitely do better.
1) Scheduling the engagement is just as critical as scheduling the wedding. Propose in late summer/early fall and chances are that the wedding will fall in the spring/summer. It certainly does not leave enough time to plan a proper wedding for that fall.
2) Maize4Blue, decommit at the alter for the bar? I hope that means you're also being recruited by Hot Bartender Chick.
3) I failed at #1 above. We were married in October. Cocktail hour was unusually long and we delayed the reception until Michigan finally lost to Iowa. Blech.
4) If you honeymoon during the season, make sure you go somewhere with game access. So yes, I did manage to watch the entirety of the 2003 comeback against Minnesota, with Navarre rumbling down the sideline for a TD.
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