Response to the NCAA needs to be F*CK YOU and loud!
We all know the absurdity and arbitrary nature of the NCAA - picking and choosing battles of minutia and looking the other way on legit criminal activity. I could do an entire grad thesis on the hypocrisy and malfeasance.
That said, Ward Manuel and Jim Harbaugh need go full court press, burn it down PR campaign in regards to this bs.
Hang the Fab 5 Final 4 banners Warde - everywhere.
Call out the SEC bullshit and years of "bagging" on ESPN Jim
This hit job is absurd and I can't even imagine the frustration of Jim and staff given the shit they know and hear about that goes on in recruiting, and UM gets dragged through the mud - absolute joke.
Time to fight back.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:06 PM ^
I'm drafting a strongly worded letter to Santa and Warde at this very moment.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:06 PM ^
Underrated movie.
Michael Ironside saying "They sucked his brains out" and everyone on set keeping a straight face when he did is one of the great moments in cinematic history.
January 6th, 2023 at 2:56 PM ^
It’s one of my favorite movies, if I see it’s on I’ll flip over to it. My girlfriend hates it lmao.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:03 PM ^
Awesome movie. I love Heinlein. My favorite book of his is - Have Spacesuit, Will Travel. Mainly because it was the only book I found where the hero had my first name.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:08 PM ^
I concur.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:09 PM ^
Agree 100% but Warde is much more likely to lay low - no fire in his belly.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:13 PM ^
Or more likely because dealing with this behind the scenes will yield a better result for the program than OUTRAGE!
January 6th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
Outrage all the time doesn’t work, but you have to have a time when you go ape shit for something that really matters and people will remember that. Can’t be afraid of something if you know they won’t ever really fight back.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:42 PM ^
At some point Warde needs to find a balance between yes, not flying off the handle and being OUTRGAED but also having a fucking spine...
... and telling the NCAA to go fuck themselves on this one.
January 6th, 2023 at 2:50 PM ^
Yep, there's plenty of room in that belly for both!
January 6th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
Well Dave Brandon had lots of fire in his belly and sucked shit, so maybe public vitriol isn’t always the best course of action.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:10 PM ^
Dear NCAA:
January 6th, 2023 at 1:39 PM ^
I love her.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:43 PM ^
You lust her.
If you spent 5 minutes with her IRL, you'd be poking your eardrums out with a rusty icepick.
January 6th, 2023 at 2:28 PM ^
I honestly don't even know who she is.
January 6th, 2023 at 6:38 PM ^
Corinne Olympios -- think of if a Kardashian was dumb as a box of rocks, blonde, and slutty, that would be this person.
January 7th, 2023 at 6:39 AM ^
*google seach*
Ah, someone from the Bachelorette/Bachelor, that would explain my never having heard of her once.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:13 PM ^
Yeah, all of this definitely seems to be a bit of stretch.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
I think I see what you did there.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
Or a nothing burger only served at the Jug.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:34 PM ^
The Jug should market the NCAA Nothingburger, and use the money from it to give the kids NIL.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:44 PM ^
This needs to be a sticky.
Fucking brilliant.
Post it on the Jug's FB page. Tweet it at them.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:40 PM ^
That one and this one!
January 6th, 2023 at 1:09 PM ^
Hope Warde and Jim do this during their live meeting with the NCAA:
January 6th, 2023 at 1:45 PM ^
Hook em
January 6th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
Hey NCAA
January 6th, 2023 at 1:46 PM ^
Jesus christ that guy has vienna sausages for middle fingers.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:16 PM ^
This is what they should do because the NCAA is corrupt as shit, but we know M is going to take a shot of whiskey and not put up a fight.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:20 PM ^
Why not take a shot of whiskey and tell them to fuck themselves?
January 6th, 2023 at 12:35 PM ^
I say bring burgers to every meeting with the NCAA and give them the finger while eating them.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
Got me thinking and maybe it's a dumb question but:
Is the BBQ at the Big House event (in the summer) even legal? (am not 100% serious)
January 6th, 2023 at 4:21 PM ^
Burgers at the Bighouse for National Signing Day!
Invite the whole team and have it catered by the Brown Jug.
Burgers for everyone!!!!
January 6th, 2023 at 12:49 PM ^
Ha! I love it.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:17 PM ^
Said the same. Mock them openly. Let it be known that while programs are giving kids multimillion dollar inducements and tampering via the portal in ways that would cost an NFL team draft picks, this dead organization wants to issue a Level 1 over a hamburger.
Scream it from the mountain tops. Never stop pointing it out and mocking it. Delay, deny and mock. They will back down because they will lose the battle of public opinion. The only people on their side will be the "he shouldn't have skipped up the tunnel" types. Every rational CFB fan will be on your side.
January 6th, 2023 at 1:51 PM ^
Hamburger....I remember when it was over cream cheese
January 6th, 2023 at 2:07 PM ^
I have a feeling this is almost precisely what Jim said to warrant their charge of "not cooperating."
Something to the effect of, "A&M just offered those kids $1M and you're giving me grief over a burger. Fuck off."
I also want to add: how can anybody with a straight face criticize Harbaugh for 2020 when he wasn't even legally allowed to coach guys practice over Zoom?
January 6th, 2023 at 3:25 PM ^
What is more surprising to me is Brown Jug charging Harbaugh for burgers!
January 6th, 2023 at 4:05 PM ^
Charged him for the whole milk. The only sensible answer here.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:17 PM ^
Is the report out? I think the NCAA is probably full of it, but we can't know for sure until we see the report.
The leaks suggest that the NCAA thinks Harbaugh lied to them during the investigation. I seriously doubt it, but we haven't seen the evidence, so nobody but Harbaugh knows right now.
Edited to add: I just read the other threads, and I guess the rumor is that Harbaugh bought two burgers at the Brown Jug for recruits, and the NCAA thinks he lied about it? If true, I want to see the evidence that he lied vs he honestly never thought about it when they were questioning him.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:34 PM ^
He probably said
"No man knows what's for lunch"
January 6th, 2023 at 12:48 PM ^
Will agree. Harbaugh is honest to a fault - it's a big reason why people hate him, because he speaks honestly and it pisses people off. All the twitter crap we laughed at, the camp issues, the international trips, the sniping responses to others coaches tweets... I'll believe Harbaugh before I believe the NCAA.
BTW, if this is the reason that he's looking at the NFL after saying he was done with that, then everything I said about him losing that trust is thrown out. I take it all back. If this is why he's looking for an out, it's entirely justified.
Just fuck the NCAA.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:28 PM ^
If Michigan has any evidence, even circumstantial against other schools I hope they empty the notebook. “We’ll suspend Jim Harbaugh for games as soon as you look into XYZ”.
January 7th, 2023 at 9:01 AM ^
Kind of inspiring how so many can hold on to this trope for so long. LOL
You really think the other teams are cheating, we're not, and we have EVIDENCE of it that we're holding back because....because why?
Hilarious
January 6th, 2023 at 12:29 PM ^
Obviously, the NCAA can eat my ass, but if we could somehow parlay this into a 2-game suspension for whichever coach put the Philly Special into our playbook, I wouldn't entirely hate that.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:50 PM ^
Putting it into the playbook is one thing. Unfortunately, Jim fell on the sword for actually calling/approving the play. As well he should - and I'd expect nothing less that that from him. Other coaches? I'd expect Dabo and Freeze to implicitly blame someone else...
January 6th, 2023 at 1:48 PM ^
The problem with the Philly Special call was they did not even run it right.
January 6th, 2023 at 4:32 PM ^
That was a problem with it, not necessarily the problem. A(nother) problem with it was asking a tight end to throw a pass on the goal line. Pure stupidity.
January 8th, 2023 at 11:37 AM ^
I mean if the defense doesn't leave their assignments doesn't every trick play fail. Coach thought TCU would bail to stop a goal line run, they didn't, and the play is kind of dead in the water at that point.
January 8th, 2023 at 11:37 AM ^
I mean if the defense doesn't leave their assignments doesn't every trick play fail. Coach thought TCU would bail to stop a goal line run, they didn't, and the play is kind of dead in the water at that point.
January 6th, 2023 at 12:30 PM ^
Maybe we can get the MSU secret shadow society to help us!!!