Hang The Damn Banner

Submitted by Cali Citrus Man on

Michigan has been in a string of unlucky events.  There comes a point when justice must be done.

We legitimately won the 2013 NCAA basketball national title!  Hang the damn banner!  Enough of Michigan being kicked around by corrupt institutions.  National champs baby!

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mGrowOld

February 7th, 2018 at 4:01 PM ^

I watched the game and remember it clearly.  We LOST.  We might've lost to a team illegally recruited based on the sexual favors of hookers but we lost.  There's no banner to hang, no "moral victories", no nothing.  

We finished second in the nation in 2013.  If there's a banner for that go ahead and hang it - 250 other schools cant make that claim but to try and re-write history cause of subsequent recruiting violations is beyond silly.

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Kevin14

February 7th, 2018 at 6:27 PM ^

The officiating overall wasn't great.  

BUT, the block/foul call did not determine the game.  We would've had a better chance of winning, but we were still losing when it happened.  As time has passed, I feel like people equate "the block was clean" with "JT was short."  If they called JT short, we win.  If they don't call a foul on Trey's block, I still think we're less than 50/50 to win.

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remdog

February 7th, 2018 at 5:28 PM ^

beyond the obscenely bad Burke block call, the officiating was a travesty heavily tilted towards Louisville all game.  They missed a goaltending OFF the backboard.  They called a phantom foul on Burke on a 3 point shot. They called a foul on the WRONG player.  They let Louisville get away with murder defensively.  That was not a basketball game but a mugging aided by the refs.

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Roy SquareTree

February 7th, 2018 at 4:14 PM ^

Hanging that banner is worse than UCF claiming to be National Champs. At least they have an argument. "We came in second but lost to people who cheat" is not a reason to crown ourselves national champs. 

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crg

February 8th, 2018 at 12:49 AM ^

The only reason that UCF's claim has some legitimacy is that, after all these years, there is still not one, single, unambiguous and incontrovertible method of selecting a D1 champion. The is better than the bcs, which was better than the polls before it; however, it is still just a four team invitational based on the whims of a closed door committee. Currently, any team that goes undefeated could have a claim (and many that do not go undefeated, as was the case this year). And, honestly, the main stakeholders want the controversy and arguments since it keeps people interested and watching the games.

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Perkis-Size Me

February 7th, 2018 at 4:17 PM ^

I've thought about this a little bit ever since Louisville's title was vacated. If we'd found out that they'd been juicing the whole season, or they'd spiked Michigan's gatorade bottles to somehow weaken the team before the game (first examples I could think of), that'd be one thing. Then you'd have justification. 

But none of that happened. As far as we know Louisville was clean ON THE COURT. Off the court is a whole other ballgame, but for the purposes of this argument, what happened off the court is irrelevant.

I was at the title game. We were beaten by a better team. Wasn't by much, and 1-2 plays could've swung the title to Michigan. Absolutely. But Louisville was the better team that night. 

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remdog

February 7th, 2018 at 5:17 PM ^

You didn't watch the same game I did.  The officiating was a travesty.  It was literally the worst I've ever seen in a college basketball game and tilted heavily towards Louisville. The Burke block call was just the tip of the iceberg.  Michigan was the better team that night.  The fact that Louisville wasn't even eligible to play due to extremely egregious rules violations is icing on the cake.

So.. on and off the court... Michigan was the real national champion that year.

 

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TavianBanks

February 7th, 2018 at 5:39 PM ^

.. than they didn't legit lose either... just like UL didn't legit win.  There is no official winner/loser for that year's NC game.  And we can thank UL for f-ing that up, since I highly suspect a clean UL program does not field the same squad, and while we'll never know, UM very well may have ended up the best team in the country that year under those circumstances.

That is why I hate UL so much... their cheating robbed UM of an opportunity to win a NC against squads playing largely by the rules (as much as your average program does).

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Helloheisman

February 7th, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^

We didn't win the game. Ask Louisville fans if they won a title. Sure as shit they'll claim it. Just as every Michigan fan I know didn't celebrate a victory that night. Get over it.

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mm92.

February 7th, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^

That loss stuck with me for a very long time. I didn't want to get out of bed the next day. No banner will cause me to forget that feeling. We lost, even if it wasn't fair and square.

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