December 22nd, 2018 at 4:26 PM ^
Why are you the way that you are?
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^
Because spending one's career working in HR makes one cranky and angry.
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:59 PM ^
Look on the bright side, at least you don't have to do work. I kid, I kid...
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:28 PM ^
I think Toby deserves one of the other lines too....
December 22nd, 2018 at 10:25 PM ^
I’m literally watching this episode right now LoL
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:29 PM ^
Sounds like a fun way to spend a Saturday.
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:51 PM ^
What I was gonna post.
Cue piano.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
Gerg Robinson and Al Borges.
Did I do this right?
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:55 PM ^
Nope. The correct answer is accepting the Head Football Coach position at The University Of Michigan.
FIFY
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:30 PM ^
I agree with Robinson, not withnRobinson per se, but not getting a dang defense. Robinson might have been a good coordinator, but not when RR made him run 3-3-5 against Wisconsin.
Hoke just flat out could not coach. Recruiting was not his main problem.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
pretty sure vinopal started several games his freshmen year, idiot. then transferred.
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:19 PM ^
I recall liking Vinopal, who was a breath of fresh air in a horrible secondary. I was bummed to see him go. I think he went to WVU or Pitt and was a contributor there. Give me 5 minutes with RR’s lists of commitments and I bet I can find a pile of guys who I liked less (from a football player perspective, I have nothing against them personally)
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:32 PM ^
I presume Ray Vinopal did your ex girlfriend.
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:52 PM ^
Same person
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:01 PM ^
Shut the internet down. We have the winner.
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:29 PM ^
My wife asked: “Why are you laughing?”
Not willing to give any context (and sleep in the doghouse), I just kept my answer to “the Michigan blog”
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
The entire 2013 OL class
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:03 PM ^
I didn't even know we had an OL class in 2013???
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:34 PM ^
2010 o line class had only Christian Pace.... :(
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:41 PM ^
That's a good one. It seems like we have been paying for that mistake ever since.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:51 PM ^
How exactly did we pay for that in 2018, eight recruiting classes later?
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:44 PM ^
One could argue it helped to create the class imbalances we experienced under Hoke and depth issues that we’re still recovering from. A small class of OL is hard to overcome, especially if that OL doesn’t pan out. You’re left with a void of upperclassmen at a crucial position and you have to pray you hit linemen in your future classes.
Hoke’s refusal to recruit a QB in 2012 after missing on Shane Morris in 2011 and following that up with Russell Bellomy has created QB depth issues that we’ve just now overcome, and it’s taken 3 QB transfers in addition to recruiting actually QBs to overcome.
December 22nd, 2018 at 8:35 PM ^
The deal Morris dad made with Hoke that if Morris commits he cannot take a QB in the next cycle. Chicken shit of competition. "Sugar Shane" .
December 22nd, 2018 at 10:57 PM ^
You get into these cycles of young guys and no guys. Same thing happened to Paterno his last decade. For Michigan we got nobody out of 2010 and that compounded things when 2011 was a transition year.
So now Hoke has to get 11 guys in 2013-'14, and in the meantime he's got Mealer at C in 2012 and started a true freshman Cole in 2014. The line is young and sucks for a few years so OL recruiting falls back AND the one good guy they got in 2014 is out of eligibility for 2018, when the 2012s and 13s were all gone and no 14s and 15s who could play meant Michigan had a true sophomore and two true juniors on the interior and was trying to decide whether to live with some questionable dudes or freshmen outside. In a year from now Bredeson and Onwenu and maybe Ruiz will be gone and the 2018 class was damaged by a bad season, so we have to hope these 2019s and maybe a 2020 can play.
It's not a direct cause and effect thing. But it's very hard to have a consistently good OL and missing out on a class means missing out on crucial opportunities and having to fill in later with younger players. Sometimes you get some luck and bust the cycle. Michigan did not get enough good luck (eg Glasgow) to offset the bad (Pace, Fox, and Newsome injuries)
December 28th, 2018 at 12:17 PM ^
I think there is some alternate universe in which better OL depth enabled us to redshirt Mason Cole who anchored the offensive line for a Michigan team playing in the BCS. We'll never know.
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:18 PM ^
Looking to blame Hoke for Harbaughs failures hmmm
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:41 PM ^
Looking to post on your MGOBLOG one day anniversary. Precious.
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:53 PM ^
Two posts: one disparaging Shea the other disparaging Harbaugh. Something seems aMAIZENingly familiar!
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:14 PM ^
Guy just can't help himself.
Moving on...
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:54 PM ^
Not to be that guy but some of the best kids on UM the last few years have been Hoke’s recruits. Harbsugh took a lot of under the radar kids and not very many have worked out
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:07 PM ^
Until this year "Harbaugh's guys" have been true sophomores at the oldest. His 2015 class was a partial class he had all of a month to get together after leaving the NFL. Of course Hoke's guys were the contributors for the majority of Harbaugh's 4 years. That's common sense and not at all unusual unless you hit on multiple starting freshmen/sophomores.
December 23rd, 2018 at 1:50 AM ^
enlighten us on all of the 4th year and 5th year seniors contributing on this 2018 team?
December 22nd, 2018 at 6:06 PM ^
How about turning down Joey Bosa? That has to be Hoke’s biggest recruiting mistake.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:36 PM ^
Denard and Peppers. Just awful, awful recruiting decisions.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:37 PM ^
Hey let’s all reminisce about the bad decisions we’ve made in our lives. Sounds like a great topic.
December 22nd, 2018 at 7:27 PM ^
Anything involving a female...
December 22nd, 2018 at 8:26 PM ^
Don’t most bad life choices involve a female in one way or another?
December 22nd, 2018 at 9:41 PM ^
I feel most of mine have involved alcohol and peer pressure around destroying inanimate objects. Always too scared of females to make bad life choices around them.
There was the thing with the Thai strippers and the chicken, but I’m not sure that was a “bad” life choice per se, except maybe the chicken had regrets.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
It’s really cool to start a thread with the goal of taking shots at former players.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
RR: Denard
Hoke: Peppers
December 22nd, 2018 at 10:47 PM ^
Surprising more people didn't get the obvious /s there..
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:50 PM ^
Isn't there an electrical socket you could stick your tongue into instead of this?
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:21 PM ^
Or a flaming hibachi you could squat over after stuffing your ass with firecrackers?
December 22nd, 2018 at 9:30 PM ^
Or find out how many ghost peppers you can fit up your ass.
December 23rd, 2018 at 4:35 AM ^
Quethtion: Doeth thticking your tongue in a thocket cauth permanent damagth?
Athking for a friend.
December 22nd, 2018 at 4:59 PM ^
What in the flying fuck?
If this is meant to be the drinking thread then I got eagle rare in my glass. Neat.
December 22nd, 2018 at 5:01 PM ^
These week long layoffs are the problem imo. Should be back in the groove once we start playing a regular spaced schedule come Binghampton and Penn State
Edit: Oops wrong thread. Oh well.