Michigan Monday Is Up-Did Not See Posted Yesterday

This is not directed at the OP.

The reality is that "Michigan Monday" or other miscellaneous 11W, or Buckeye content, or stupid mouth-breathing RCMB content has been posted here periodically in the past. Having said that, I think all of it needs to stop immediately. Zero tolerance. 

We thought we were involved in sports rivalries. The joke, sadly, is on us. Neither Ohio State nor Michigan State views us as sports rivals. They view us as subhuman. They despise us. The despise our players, our coaches, our administrators, and maybe most of all, us, the fans.

Assaults after the game? Our fault. We win on the field after a nearly two decade decline? We must be cheating (or it's the weather, or it's the flu, or it's the refs, or it's 5 fluke plays). The days of Woody and Bo are gone. They're dead. They're never coming back. And we need to get over it or we're going to be the ones on the outside looking in. 

We no longer have rich sports rivalries. I hope the Board of Regents continues to wake up. We need to leave the B1G while we have value and leverage. There's a future if we have the courage to seize it. 

Of all the opposing takes on the scandal, the one I suffer the least is the idea that there will be some kind of karmic justice delivered on the field that will validate every single fever-induced delusion about Michigan.  Grudeman's post is dripping with it. He blindly ignores the simple and obvious fact that what happens on the field, win or lose, has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than what's going on in the game itself.  There is no objective truth about the morality of the school, team, or coaches to be gleaned from the game.  Yet he and so many other OSU fans are so eager to (excuse the crassness) blow their wad, that they continue to wrongly equate a Michigan loss on the field with the rightness their moral position.  Anything denying them that release is a cause for scorn and rage. 

To that, I will happily declare, as was wonderfully explained in a prior Opponent Watch, "Vae victis" - woe to the vanquished.   I truly hope that, in two weeks, our team marches the Buckeyes straight back to Columbus with their third L in as many years, that Ryan Day will be left fending off calls for his removal, and that Grudeman and OSU fans be forced to stare into the face of the all-consuming BPONE as they look upward into a moonless night sky, into the uncaring eyes of the universe, for an explanation why could that terrible cheating team from up north be allowed to defeat their righteous football team for a third year in a row. 

And then, mercifully, after their rage has gone unanswered and all that is left are the embers of resentment and jealousy, may they be granted a shred of perspective and realize that it's just a fucking football game. 

Think how terrified they are.  This year they’ll lose both too WR’s, Henderson and Stover and the backups haven’t emerged like in the days of MHJ and JSN already pushing Olive and Wilson.   Their two DE’s are leaving.  This program is in decline.  This is when it starts to hit, year 4-5, when a guy born on third base who’s never built anything starts to have the program look like his vision.  Ryan Day cannot develop players to the defeee that Urban could.  

Agreed. Same thing at 11W with their Threat Level segment. The delusion that Michigan ran so much because no one trusted JJ is nearly universal.

In usual times, I like reading the column and find Gerdeman's analysis enjoyably witty. Right now, I don't see why this needs to be posted and I regret giving him a click.

Gerdeman these days seems to be suffering from the same fragile psyche as the rest of the Buckeye fanbase. They are desperate for an excuse for why we've gained the upper hand in the rivalry, so they're latching onto this "cHeAtInG" war cry, even though we know that (1) Ohio State changed their signs last year and had ours, and (2) sign-stealing played no role in our physical dominance in 2021.

The willful blindness of that fanbase is pretty amusing to watch. The meltdown on November 25 will be even better.

We are the only ones who read it.  Don't read it.  Starve it of clicks.

I don't know why we post something that measures the number of four letter words written in a game thread every week.  The first time it was cute and a nice test of a search function.

Reading Michigan Monday is no big deal.  After all of the crap that has been hurled at us over the last few weeks the read seems quite benign and frankly more interesting than some of the threads that have been posted over the last few weeks.

As hilarious as it would be, I don't think Day would be fired if they lose next week (unless its something like a 49-0 beatdown that's even less competitive than the score indicates). Outside of Smart or Saban, there's literally no one else they could hire and reasonably ask to do better than what Day has been doing, unless somehow they lured Meyer back, which would be a PR nightmare for them. 

That all to say, I think coordinators and position coaches would absolutely be on the chopping block. Day may have to clean house and start fresh with a new staff if he loses again next week. Maybe even ditch Hartline. Yeah the guy recruits and develops WRs like no one else can, but what does it matter if you lose the most important game? 

Wait, sports fandom affects where your daughter should apply to college.  The best neurosurgeon I ever worked with trained at Ohio State.  The director of my residency program came to Colorado from Ohio State.   Seems like you’re conflating concepts.  

Heavy and sustained sarcasm throughout the entire thing.