The Banner is Cursed
This has been discussed before. Since the banner has gone up the following (totally comparable list of things) has happened:
- Isaiah Livers gets hurt (twice)
- Z gets suspended
- UM Bball slumps
- Football loses another bowl game
- There's a god dang global pandemic
- Sports get cancelled
- Michigan's heralded recruiting class implodes
It's time to take the abomination out back like Ole Yeller.
I am handling this well.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:21 PM ^
Can DDJ un-enter the transfer portal? That would be kewl.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:22 PM ^
It goes much deeper than that.
The Mgoboard in its current form debuted in June of 2008. Here's the very first thread, posted by Brian. The football program subsequently collapsed. The hockey team went through its worst stretch in 30 years. Basketball, the highlight? Well, you've seen the last 12 hours.
It's not the banner. It's the board. It's us.
We are the curse.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:27 PM ^
Michigan's sports culture since BO died is the curse. We're all talk and heroes in our own mind with no spine to back up the fake prestige.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:45 PM ^
Before Bo died, our hoops program sucked, baseball was an afterthought and we were 1-4 against Tressel with an aging HC who wanted Mike DeBord to succeed him. Our one bright major sport was hockey and it had been almost a decade since we won our last title.
You could argue that all of our programs look better positioned for success now than on the day Bo died.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
... with an aging HC who wanted Mike DeBord to succeed him.
This, again, is one of many reasons it's difficult to give Lloyd an overall score and why debate is so "lively" when he's the topic.
Mike DeBord would have done better than RR.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
You could argue that, but in the case of football you’d be completely wrong.
We went into the worst 7 year stretch in program history while falling clearly behind our two biggest rivals, until the program regained respectability, but still hasn’t won any titles and is nowhere near as close to OSU as it was in 2006
They were 1-4 against Tressel? WTF?
You do realize they’ve gone 1-13 vs OSU since?
It started somewhere. Lloyd finished 1-6 against Tressel and owns almost half of our losses in that stretch. We averaged over 3 losses a year under Carr in his last eight seasons.
From 2000-2020, OSU had five seasons with more than two losses. And they beat us three of those years. The two programs were trending in different directions before 2006.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:48 PM ^
Bo died, Shawn Crable hit Troy Smith out of bounds, and it’s been all downhill for football from there.
I had to DVR that game and the timer ran out just as that hit was being laid out. It froze on my screen, and that is an image that has been burned into my head. I think you are right, everything against that school down south has crashed and burned since hten
I had to DVR that game and the timer ran out just as that hit was being laid out. It froze on my screen, and that is an image that has been burned into my head. I think you are right, everything against that school down south has crashed and burned since hten
We're all talk and heroes in our own mind with no spine to back up the fake prestige
As someone said after the Wisconsin embarrassment, we're a stadium, a helmet, and a song.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:35 PM ^
Not us. Him.
Damn, I remember the poster aaamichfan from his profile pic. He was a character
I ate the sheep shit.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:26 PM ^
f*ck!
Just got an email from Geico, turns out they are charging me 15% MORE instead of 15% less
April 14th, 2020 at 12:43 PM ^
Lib mutual did something similar to me so I dumped em for esurance.
But but but you only pay for what you NEED!
April 14th, 2020 at 12:31 PM ^
We even got Arizona State's pitchfork torch thing on our banner!
Get it off! Now!
Get the fork outta here!
Fork off! Fork off I say!
April 14th, 2020 at 12:32 PM ^
Look at the silver lining, people.
Yes, it sucks that we lost out on both Christopher and Todd in a 12-hour span. However, to me, that's a surefire sign that the basketball season and by proxy semi-normal life should resume later this year.
Because... considering our luck, if we HAD gotten both five-stars for our team does anyone here seriously think the fates would've let there be a basketball season for us to enjoy their talents?
April 14th, 2020 at 12:52 PM ^
Considering 5* Jabrill lost his first year to injury and 5* Gary lost a lot of his last year to injury, I just want the ranking services to drop JJ McCarthy to a 3* now. Good things stop at 4-stars for us.
Jabril is the lat 5 star we have had to play like a 5 star. Kyle Kalis, Grady, Gary, Isaac, DPJ....sigh...solid starters but never the game changers we hoped they would be.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:36 PM ^
Agreed. It's all because of the banner. It's science.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:36 PM ^
I told y'all. Todd and Christopher are only one year rentals. I wish both kids good luck.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:41 PM ^
Trident is cursed.
What about Extra or Orbit?
April 14th, 2020 at 12:45 PM ^
yeah...CHANGE IT!!!
April 14th, 2020 at 12:45 PM ^
Honest to god, Michigan is the ultimate “Always a bridesmaid never the bride“ sports program I can think of. It’s fucking painful being a Michigan fan. Always sooo close, but never closing the deal. Throw in the ass rapes by Ohio State in football, and I don’t know how much more I can take.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:49 PM ^
Wrong...
Before the latest few generations of entitlement arrived, Michigan in the 90's and early 2000's had a lot of success. No NC's but it would have come had they stayed the course.
Where I think you're wrong is that we're NOT a Bridesmaid at this point... we're someone sitting in the audience HOPING with clenched sphincter that we catch the bouquet just once in our life!
Yup... that's us waiting for lightning in a bottle! Change the culture at the University "and they will come".
April 14th, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
Jabrill, Gary, Derrick Green, DPJ, Dax Hill.
All in the last 7 years.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:57 PM ^
So OSU gets as many 5-stars in one class that we get in 5 years. Averaging one 5-star player every 0.75 years doesn't change the bridesmaid narrative.
Those are not all of the 5 stars we've gotten, just the highest hyped recruits, Hinton and Solomon were both 5 stars
Compare that rate of 5 star signings to every other school in the country and we're behind like 5 programs and that's it
April 14th, 2020 at 12:58 PM ^
All singularly good players... would you rate them up their with Brady, Howard, Woodson, Woodley or others? Meh, not so much
In an uncomfortably similar way, wasn't there a saying of this older coaching icon...
"THE TEAM, THE TEAM, THE TEAM" *head scratch
(We haven't had an identity as a team in a decade or two now, just a bunch of players runnin' around the field)
April 14th, 2020 at 12:46 PM ^
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Website double posted me... interesting.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:55 PM ^
Donovan edwards will go to georgia, rocco spindler will go to notre dame, damon payne will go to ohio state, garrett dellinger will go to lsu, we will fill out our class with with 3 stars from rhode island with grit, we will lose 5 games this fall in football. Rinse and repeat.
April 14th, 2020 at 12:57 PM ^
Can't lose 5 games when the whole country plays 0
April 14th, 2020 at 12:56 PM ^
Cursed or not, as someone who lives in Urbana, IL I don't need to be looking at the f-ing beard.
Fuckin' Romulans FTW!
Just sayin'...and Howard with a beard does look like Commander Sisko from Deep Space 9.
Not enough Romulan ale in the galaxy...
April 14th, 2020 at 12:59 PM ^
I think its all the PitBull references. He tanked the football season and keeping him up there is now costing us in basketball. Is he really that funny of an inside joke anyways?
Implodes? Bball? We are number four in the country.
I don't really believe in curses, but I do believe that the banner is stupid and ugly. Why in the flying fuck is a University of Michigan sports blog defacing its head basketball coach with a skanky old man beard worn by an Illinois football coach?
Because Brian and only Brian finds it funny.
Agreed, not sure who is responsible for them, but they are beyond dumb.
Original Pitbull banner was undefeated.
Pitbull themed banner goes up, football sucks as well.
Maybe the site shouldn't use stupid banners?
It's not "the banner" when bad shit happens for every stupid banner they stick up there.
More than you know. I changed it and cleared the cache and guess what