Michigan Football recruiting going all-out
Saw this on my twitter feed. This is pretty cool. I'm sure this is just the tip of the iceberg of custom stuff they do for recruits.
u of m cold with these edits pic.twitter.com/kNH5paw29t
— Uncle Mike (@mikeweber25) May 21, 2014
I feel like every team does this. I think it looks silly, because I'm an old man who hates fun.
Back to watching the local news and glaring at young kids and their inappropriate clothing.
Does every team also spell American "Amercian"?
Ugh.
#TheMichgianDifference
Oh no........
Mods? Delete before it becomes fodder?
Eh, I wouldn't worry too much about it. Rivals already have five pieces of fodder: our offensive line!
/zing
/weeps
Yeah, good heavens, if a fan of another team saw this edit made by some middle schooler in his basement we would be forever shamed. Someone call the internet office and have them delete every copy from every server!
Great Googly-Moogly...
This was never to be spoken of...
/looks ominously upward
Time to resurrect the U-M Department of Geography.
I thought it was supposed to be "Murican!"
I'm guessing it has to do with "branding."
I figured this was a direct move with MSU recruiting galactically and we just found a new region of the universe, Amercy. I guess Mike Weber would be a really good American Football player in that region. Could be a good thing. I'm not sure.
This mistake is all too common
I notice this one didn't pan out too well...Hopefully the recruiting goes a bit better.
Americium but he spelled it wrong....
Amercian't?
Ohhhhh Lawwwwwwd!!!
but not Proofreading.
This shit is sorta pathetic to begin with—surely Damien Harris got the same thing—but it's even worse if you can't even get the simple stuff right.
Even if they can't get the simple stuff right, I'm still pretty sure they could turn Weber into the best RB in Amercia.
Damien Harris got the template that features him on an SI cover. Come on man, you're making this into a competition again. How is Michigan supposed to land two recruits if people on the internet are saying they received the same ESPN cover.
How can we expect this staff to coach right? What an embarrassment.
Two thoughts:
1. I'm guessing that graphic design skill and football coaching ability probably aren't all that highly correlated.
2. I'm also guessing that the coaches themselves weren't the ones to put this together.
...actually, scratch that last point. I really, really want to believe that Hoke did this himself. I'm picturing him hunched over his desk, tongue sticking out one side of his mouth in extreme concentration, "yeah, yeah, 'B1G time players play in the BIG House,' that's the ticket!"
no way was Hoke involved.
Because I'm in an embedding mood and this is never not amazing:
I think I read that Hoke doesn't do email or much of anything else on a computer.
In the big scheme of things this recruiting poster spelling goof isn't that big a deal, but we'd be mocking MSU or OSU bigtime if they did it.
"...we'd be mocking MSU or OSU bigtime if they did it."
Oh, definitely. But it's a totally harmless mistake. I think it's funny, even if it is at our expense.
I'm guessing Hoke didn't jump on his computer in his spare time to draw this thing up. I don't expect Mattison and Nussmeier getting into their photoshop and trying to one-up one another on best fake ESPN the mag covers featuring Weber and this is the best they came up with.
To be honest, I'm not overly concerned with this piece of recruiting material and how it translates to coaching ability. I dunno, maybe that's just me thinking out loud here.
There's no reference to the ess-ee-see on that cover. Can't be real.
Clearly spelling ability doesn't translate to coaching ability, this was more a comment about the lack of attention to detail that I perceive to be rampant throughout our program. It's the mindset that every little thing counts regardless of how small, from something as simple a recruiting poster to attention to game planning (which we all know has been dreadful under Hoke) that has me concerned.
In all seriousness, I understand the concern. Attention to detail, oversight, etc. I can see how one would have concerns. Personally, I think the whole thing is silly even without the spelling error, so I'm generally of the mind that it's sort of a comical but unimportant turn of events.
But the idea of missing a typo somehow predicting poor coaching brought the following to mind (no real reason, but c'mon...you know...):
Just commenting that Hoke has created a culture where details aren't important, which trickles down to the rest of the staff, which results in poster's like the one in the OP. Maybe I'm wrong and am reading way way way too much into this (I hope that I am), but it's just something I thought I'd share.
If I were you, I'd stop hoping that I was wrong and start hoping I wasn't an idiot.
as an alum and a medical student, I know i'm not an idiot. Now if I were you I'd start hoping I could stop acting like such an a$$
Acting like an ass is my most endearing quality...
And I work around way too many medical professionals for me to assume that medical school would rule out that whole idiot thing.
you mind me asking what you do?
As a fellow worker in the healthcare system I have to agree that being a Doctor doesn't preclude someone from being an idiot. In fact at times it seems like being an idiot is a prerequisite, except in my case of course.
ask him to post his w-2. douchebag.
be so quick to find a negative coorelation between intelligence and idiocy.
I just didn't like the insinuation that I was stupid solely because I don't have an opinion of the staff that is all sunshine and roses