Has there Been Any Official B10 Congratulations?
Have I missed anything, or has there been no congratulatory statements or even acknowledgment from Tony Petitti or the Big Ten on UM's National Championship? I am shocked--although not surprised--that what should be a crowning achievement for the conference by one of its core members is being completely ignored. If there has been some statement, please forgive me, but I have not seen anything substantive to date (other than a news item on the B10 home page)
January 10th, 2024 at 2:51 PM ^
I think about how much Michigan would be getting dragged if we had lost and I'm just grateful all the ammo they have is a played out asterisk joke.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:37 PM ^
how'd you get sent to Bolivia?
January 10th, 2024 at 3:56 PM ^
We've petitioned the US Supreme Court to get this overturned.
January 10th, 2024 at 4:09 PM ^
An unfortunate interaction with King Arthur
January 10th, 2024 at 4:23 PM ^
He was being a bad old woman.
January 10th, 2024 at 4:37 PM ^
He’s 37
January 10th, 2024 at 4:57 PM ^
Once in awhile Dennis gets his account hacked for a short period of time.
January 10th, 2024 at 5:51 PM ^
I act like a dumbass on rare occasion
January 10th, 2024 at 8:02 PM ^
Everyone does.
January 10th, 2024 at 10:38 PM ^
The name is Dumass.
January 12th, 2024 at 12:41 AM ^
It’s French.
January 10th, 2024 at 4:13 PM ^
Most of the people posting the asterisk symbol on social media are doing so because they can't spell the word asterisk. I am not worried about the opinions of Buckeyes and Sparties.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:24 PM ^
This is the splash page for the B1G website
January 10th, 2024 at 3:43 PM ^
Congrats, give us money.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:58 PM ^
Thank you. Now fire that pinhead running the boat.
January 10th, 2024 at 2:53 PM ^
I honestly have no idea if it is customary for the conference to send a "formal congratulations," but the B1G Network has been about basically nothing but our game since Monday. It's hardly like the conference is pretending the win didn't happen. As for Petite Tony? He can shove his congratulations in a sack, as far as I am concerned.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:24 PM ^
I don’t know what that means.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:57 PM ^
scrotum
January 10th, 2024 at 9:51 PM ^
If I recall correctly, neither did Jerry.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:36 PM ^
He can also stuff his sorries in a sack, mister.
January 10th, 2024 at 2:54 PM ^
Don't care.
January 10th, 2024 at 2:54 PM ^
There is a congratulatory splash screen on the Big Ten website. Check it out right now, bigten.org. I am not sure there is any more that you could typically expect in such situations.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:06 PM ^
Also on LinkedIn
January 10th, 2024 at 3:33 PM ^
Personally glad to hear this. Still think it was a great question to post under the ridiculous rush to judgment punishment engineered by too many other B10 schools, so upvotes around.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:36 PM ^
Our reply...
January 10th, 2024 at 2:57 PM ^
There was a congratulatory tweet from them on the scoreboard after the game. I remember thinking, "sure, just act like we're best buddies..."
January 10th, 2024 at 2:58 PM ^
A "thanks for the paycheck" would be more appropriate
January 10th, 2024 at 2:59 PM ^
Fuck'em.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:01 PM ^
They’ll for sure take the cash and advancing of their brand. Strange this dipshit doesn’t get it (Petitti)
January 10th, 2024 at 3:01 PM ^
Who gives a fuck … FUCK the B1G and petit… we don’t need their congratulations
January 10th, 2024 at 3:02 PM ^
do we really need one??
January 10th, 2024 at 3:02 PM ^
I think some strange envelope arrived at Schembechler Hall with a return address of the Big Ten headquarters. Wisely, the envelope was not opened and the police were called.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:03 PM ^
I hope we spit on each of the checks we have to send to those ingrate takers.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:04 PM ^
All you have to do is look at the viewership of the past three games we've played in to know how important we are to the conference. I don't think it's necessary to throw our weight around in public but I sure hope we do it behind Big Ten headquarters doors.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:23 PM ^
Got to imagine Petitti regrets breaking a century of precedent and going after the coach of his conference's flagship program now.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:05 PM ^
I don’t know about the customary response from the conference, but this is as good a time as any to say Tony can go F himself and so can the rest of the pearl-clutching coaches and ADs who smeared our program. And the media. F you too.
Thank you OP, I needed that. Take my upvote.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:08 PM ^
Who really gives a crap about the BIG at this point?
January 10th, 2024 at 3:11 PM ^
Who cares. Screw the Big Ten. They tried to sabotage one of the best teams of all time.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:14 PM ^
Petitti was quoted in this article. But he only was quoted in the context of how an expanded Play-off would have helped other good teams like Ohio State having a deserved chance at a title.
“Petitti said his focus was "respecting how difficult that job is," and that this season's controversy further showed that four "isn't the right number" of teams in the field.
"I say that because I look at Ohio State's season," he said. "It's not just Florida State. We had some pretty good teams that could get on a roll and win a national championship that weren't included." ”
January 10th, 2024 at 3:17 PM ^
Would be nice to one day have a commissioner that doesn't work directly for OSU
January 10th, 2024 at 3:24 PM ^
Yeah, this was before the game, though. And I find it hilarious that he specifically calls out OSU and not PSU.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:47 PM ^
Well this is totally irrational but I really dislike him so much more now.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:59 PM ^
Fuck him.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:20 PM ^
Fuck them hoes.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:26 PM ^
Really do think the thing to do would be to join the ACC with Notre Dame. Go out of the Big Ten on the absolute peak of peaks.
I know its probably not feasible or legally possible, but it would be the world's greatest mic drop, just like the second half of this season was the world's greatest "Ball Don't Lie".
January 10th, 2024 at 3:29 PM ^
Yes.
Pettytitty released a statement praising new BT member Washington for a great season and hard fought contest.
January 10th, 2024 at 3:31 PM ^
I spent about five minutes looking before the game to see if Petitti was going to be in Houston or at the game. It seemed the disgraced Pac-12 commish was. There was some question as to what would be his presence if Washington won, but no mention of Petitti.
It would seem like Petitti might have wanted to be there since whoever won was a Big Ten team, though not technically true for Washington.
I didn't watch every minute of the BTN coverage, but it seems like he would have been a guest on his own network at some point. But if he was, I would think it would be a blog post somewhere.
I assume he is keeping his name and face out of the whole thing just to avoid the noise. And frankly, I think that's just as well.
Edit: Should have googled first.
January 10th, 2024 at 7:51 PM ^
Douche
January 10th, 2024 at 3:35 PM ^
Fuck them