SI article on Connor Stalions (with text conversation from 2021)
I really hate to add another thread to this whole b.s., but... there is actually some new/relevant information in this article. Provides insight into Stallions previous duties and his character.
The guy seemed a bit... too emotionally invested, for quite some time.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:22 PM ^
I feel like The_Knowledge would also be on brand.
October 25th, 2023 at 2:29 PM ^
Is Connor Stalions THE KNOWLEDGE?
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yes
October 25th, 2023 at 12:53 PM ^
There's a guy from 2012-2014 whose user name fits:
https://mgoblog.com/users/cstalionsuofm
All those posts, however, don't vibe with someone who writes a 600 page (!!!) Michigan Manifesto. So maybe not.
October 25th, 2023 at 12:54 PM ^
October 25th, 2023 at 12:56 PM ^
Can we all make a pact right now not to try to become part of the Michigan staff and then push the envelope re: NCAA rules?
October 25th, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
Too late. I’ve already bought fake mustaches to give to the entire Linebacker corp. Me and Junior Colson are about to spy into the Wisconsin/OSU game.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
Aren't you supposed to be our HR guy?!
October 25th, 2023 at 1:06 PM ^
NEW RULE: SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING
October 25th, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^
I’m an assistant in the special teams unit. We are getting closer to my vision - almost got there against sparty
October 25th, 2023 at 12:58 PM ^
Talks very highly of Frank Clark, including “he gave me his gloves”…
This is WILD
October 25th, 2023 at 1:11 PM ^
... and he was keeping an eye on StubHub for tickets to the Purdue game. lol
October 25th, 2023 at 1:50 PM ^
Why the hell are you a member of this blog? I see based on your joined date you joined in 2011 right before the game to....talk shit? And have kept coming back ever since to keep an eye on things?
October 25th, 2023 at 2:06 PM ^
He's a good guy who roots for a bad team. Guys who join to "talk shit" don't end up with 15,000 MGoPoints.
October 25th, 2023 at 2:20 PM ^
Don't trash Chuck. Dude is more than welcome here.
October 25th, 2023 at 12:58 PM ^
I'm sure he is normal when Jim is hired in 2015, his excitement is taken up another level plus marines, and he becomes more intense.
October 25th, 2023 at 12:59 PM ^
Wow. This is totally him. His avatar is a pic of him in his Navy uniform.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
My guts are churning thinking we helped home grow our own extremist
October 25th, 2023 at 1:08 PM ^
This extremist barely broke a rule he may or may have not known existed.
I still admire him a bit for the level of enthusiasm.
Although thinking he would take the program over one day is delusional.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^
Ehh. I’m willing to bet Harbaugh had a manifesto about taking over Michigan Football at one point in his life.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:56 PM ^
He's on step 113 of his Michigan Football Manifesto, which includes an entire latter third of the book under the heading "After OSU Gives Up Trying to Play Football and Cancels Its Program."
October 25th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
Enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
October 25th, 2023 at 2:42 PM ^
Jim Harbaugh: Welcome to the team Connor!
Connor: Thank you coach! This is TRUELY a dream come true! I would do anything for Michigan football!
Jim: That's what I like to hear! Enthusiasm unknown to mankind!
Connor: Hell yeah! Glad you brought that up. Here is a 600 page manifesto on my passion for Michigan football!
Jim: ...Uhhh, that's great...
Connor: Oh and here is all of my scouting reports! I took the liberty of scouting all our opponents and potential opponents! Even bought tickets on my own dime! That's attacking the day with enthusiasm unknown to mankind, am I right?!
Jim: ... (thinks - maybe time to change that saying)...
October 25th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
He's wearing a Marine uniform.
October 25th, 2023 at 2:49 PM ^
No it's not. It's a Naval Academy Midshipmen's SDB's
October 25th, 2023 at 1:02 PM ^
I remember his Michigan Football 101 series in the days leading up to our ass-kicking at the hands of Alabam at Jerry World!
October 25th, 2023 at 2:04 PM ^
Hoo boy I remember that “series” too. Oh man.
October 25th, 2023 at 3:15 PM ^
One of the things I remember about that series is that he launched out with it and understandably started to get some flack after a post or two. I figured it would die out on its own, that it was some 14-year-old who thought it would be fun a bit off more than he could chew.
He kept at it for longer than I expected, and I believe he stopped due to what became a “dog pile” of pushback. I now realize, with some awe and some horror, that he both fully intended and was fully capable of writing all 101 planned entries.
Now I wish we’d have let him finish.
October 25th, 2023 at 3:43 PM ^
In the thread, Happy Gilmore trashes him, and then tells him to “get a job”. I commented of course that we are all blaming Happy Gilmore.
October 25th, 2023 at 4:03 PM ^
He posted two diaries in the series (if you go to the diaries page and advance past the front page, you can change the url “page=1” to find any page of them; his are on page 74 or 75 or so, May 2012, counting down to that Alabama game). His posts quickly became the subject of animated debate, including appearances from guys like profitgoblue and even Seth. Pursuant to feedback he switched from diaries to board posts, one of which I posted in with a modest (and, unsurprisingly, lengthy) mix of encouragement and “try this instead” suggestion. Found this on page 1680 of the board archive.
So the real question is, if you could go back in time and post feedback on those threads, what do you pose? Do you plead with him to avoid a life of crime, or just to stick with tv broadcasts?
October 25th, 2023 at 4:15 PM ^
Connor, you seem like a nice kid, so I'm going to let you in on the secret. Every Michigan victory is earned by sacrificing a young child to Cthulhu; OSU wins call for twins. Also, Michigan football is uniquely polluting and will cause the heat death of the universe within a decade.
For the love of all that is holy, please redirect your passion to those glorious saviors of humanity who are working to try to rid the world of evil before it's too late, The® Ohio State Buckeyes.
October 25th, 2023 at 4:19 PM ^
I found these threads and it made me chuckle, thank you
October 25th, 2023 at 8:27 PM ^
I only wish I could have given you up the upvote in the original thread.
October 26th, 2023 at 8:28 AM ^
The sad chap went way back on the board, shit posted incessantly in old threads to accumulate points to 100 so he could start his own OPs, then started hammering the board with his "content" that was...not well received. By the fourth entry, enough was enough
October 25th, 2023 at 1:03 PM ^
Ho. Lee. Poop. It's him.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:04 PM ^
So the real question is not if he was a member of the blog, but... why did he stop posting?
October 25th, 2023 at 1:13 PM ^
Name change? Involving less of his personal name?
October 25th, 2023 at 1:15 PM ^
MGoBlog isn't a path to get closer to the program itself. He must've realized that.
The MGoBloggers have some connections, but they are very much fans first, and if anything quite respectful of the boundary that this guy wanted to smash through.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:38 PM ^
Same reason as everyone else who left. He hated Draftageddon.
October 25th, 2023 at 3:08 PM ^
underrated post
October 25th, 2023 at 2:24 PM ^
Because that's when he started volunteering.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:05 PM ^
We've got a scoop...
Lol. Purdue tickets are going for $30 on stubhub.
MICHIGAN STAFFER AT CENTER OF SIGN STEALING SCANDAL WAS BUYING TICKETS TO OPPONENTS' GAMES IN 2012
October 25th, 2023 at 1:10 PM ^
Fantastic work, holy crud. Maintaining hope the 600-page manifesto sees the light of day.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:16 PM ^
Further down he confirms he is Connor. So there is no doubt.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:21 PM ^
Yea, and he's the OP (looks like the beginning of what was intended to be a 100,000 word manifesto)...and a commenter suggests he thought the OP had been banned:
thought this guy got banned. Oh well..
Joined: 11/11/2011
MGoPoints: 858
October 25th, 2023 at 2:03 PM ^
Lol. He tagged his post with his own name. Dudes been self promoting for a long time
October 25th, 2023 at 1:11 PM ^
Wow. As they say around here: Good shit, NittanyFan.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:14 PM ^
He was like 12 years old then
October 25th, 2023 at 1:20 PM ^
That's gotta be him. A dude in that avatar picture is wearing a Navy uniform.
October 25th, 2023 at 1:23 PM ^
Hmm, IDK about your conclusion only because there's some posts from 2012 about if Michigan were to beat Alabama (I think even the more unrealistic among us saw that as unlikely), and lashing out at other posters for questioning the quality of Michigan's program, etc. Would be funny if that really was the guy.