I always thought that the Reggie Cleveland All Stars was a "list of sports figures whose names would seem to indicate that they are of a different race or ethnicity than they actually are" so Basil Smotherman or Luol Deng are also on the list.
The opposite of a Reggie Cleveland All Stars would be a list of people whose names are very stereotypical of their ethnicity.
Let's say there is a restaurant called Allez Bleu, that had 20 dishes in the menu. While the restaurant is excellent and all food is good, not all dishes are great. For a few items in the menu, the average person would be willing to pay only $5 but the same person would be willing to pay $100 for two of them. The owner decides you have to pay $200 for all 20 dishes. So for the average person decides that he can skip a few meals he paid for - he was willing to shell $200 for the two things he really wanted to eat and the other dishes are a nice bonus that he may skip if he has to collect a couple of data points in the lab.
Well, the owner of the restaurant gets very angry at this behavior and decides that now, not only you have to pay for all the 20 menu items, you'll also have to eat most of the 18 dishes if you want to ever smell the two items that you were more excited about. The average costumer than gets outraged by this owner and says he doesn't want to eat there anymore.
Of course, there are always the people that LOVE LOVE LOVE the restaurant and thinks that you should love it as much as him and feel like you should eat every single item in the menu, including Akron and Delaware State, and are outraged by your outrage that you are being forced to eat subpar food just to get to the main course.
Of course, tickets are not food items - arenas don't change size so you have the same number of available tickets for each game and you kinda have to force the sales of season tickets or else Akron will have a lot of unsold seats. My point is that the people that don't go to every single game are not terrible people that should be stoned to death.
The AD policy of overselling tickets to fill Crisler is a fine policy from the risk management point of view. You get more money and it won't affect too much. Hey, that's standard practice among airlines. But there is a reason why airlines have such poor costumer ratings.
I had less time as a student than I do now that I am a graduate. I skipped a few Saturdays to work in lab, and now I have time to watch games every Saturday (if they're not blacked out, thanks ESPN). I think a lot of PhD grads share this sentiment.
In football with an OSU or MSU season, those tickets in student section can reach easily +$200 in the open market, but if you buy season tickets, you get face value, for the price of $300 and you get to see a couple of extra Big Ten games, and ND, and you don't have to run around the Big House before the game. So, in practice, skipping the few Akrons that roll to town is not a loss. Some here will crucify me but I gave away my student tickets to one of these bad games because I rather spend my time in lab than watching Michigan beat some team by 40 points. If the AD had an option to sell individual student tickets early in the season at face value (or at face value + 40% convenience fee), I'd take that. I also had friends that did the opposite: bought season tickets and sold the OSU and ND to cover for all the other games.
My time in Ann Arbor never included Crisler tickets being hard to get, but I can imagine that the recent success drove the price up and messed with the student incentives. The new AD policy is actually very effective at targeting people with my behavior. Well, you want to see Sparty lose at Crisler, you'll have to watch us clobber Eastern as well. It feels a bit like being a hostage, can't have pudding if you don't eat your meat. But I actually like meat, so it's ok.
I think there's a very easy solution for retiring the shirts of student-athletes that don't graduate but deserve it. The university often gives honorary doctoral degrees (Humane Letters, Engineering, Science, Fine Arts, Law) for VIPs every commencement cerimony. I'm sure there is a way for university higher uppers to create an additional honorary Michigan degree (Masters of Athletics or Gymnastics or something) for the ones who deserve to have their jerseys/numbers retired. They can do it around the retirement period (which tends to be way after actual graduation) and this would be quite rare so I don't think standard "devaluation of degree" arguments apply.
If that is the team, we have to do really well in the non-conference part of the schedule. I think the Big Ten will be almost as brutal next year as it was this year, and this roster feels very Northwestern to me.
For those like me that already saw all the interviews and hype videos at least twice, and saw the Fab 5 documentary in the DVR over and over, here is a NCAA video on the 1989 Final Four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0zUkfTzoTU, with Coach Bo appearances and all.
Does what the seniors said about the lack of support from the Michigan Men during the Rodriguez years as well as the meeting on how they didn't quit on the coach like happened in the last coach change also matters? Because that's the type of thing that people are talking about when they talk about RichRod. Yes, he failed miserably at winning at Michigan, but the lack of support for him and how that impacted the players, OUR students, was just disgraceful.
We're not talking about RichRod because of RichRod. We're talking about him because it is an evidence of how disfunctional the Michigan family became because we hired a coach. We're talking about how internal fights generated pre-game speeches about cockroaches. We're talking about Braylon on SNF saying "Carr's University of Michigan" because he feels he's the owner of the #1 jersey. We're talking about something we never thought possible at post-Bo Michigan: that something, someone can be more important than the team.
Yesterday I heard Toomer on ESPN radio criticizing RichRod (still, after this weekend's victory) rehashing the tired old meme that the spread offense doesn't work on the B1G, while saying why he thinks Meyer will fail. When it's a consensus that last year's offense was actually good but the defense was the worst thing in the universe. We want to set the record straight, because we're Michigan and here we care about right and wrong more than we care about losing or winning. That's why people still talk about Rodriguez.
They both have helmets with wings. They also manage to lose in games where the matchups are supposed to be the most favorable. They both make me drink.
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I always thought that the Reggie Cleveland All Stars was a "list of sports figures whose names would seem to indicate that they are of a different race or ethnicity than they actually are" so Basil Smotherman or Luol Deng are also on the list.
The opposite of a Reggie Cleveland All Stars would be a list of people whose names are very stereotypical of their ethnicity.
Let's say there is a restaurant called Allez Bleu, that had 20 dishes in the menu. While the restaurant is excellent and all food is good, not all dishes are great. For a few items in the menu, the average person would be willing to pay only $5 but the same person would be willing to pay $100 for two of them. The owner decides you have to pay $200 for all 20 dishes. So for the average person decides that he can skip a few meals he paid for - he was willing to shell $200 for the two things he really wanted to eat and the other dishes are a nice bonus that he may skip if he has to collect a couple of data points in the lab.
Well, the owner of the restaurant gets very angry at this behavior and decides that now, not only you have to pay for all the 20 menu items, you'll also have to eat most of the 18 dishes if you want to ever smell the two items that you were more excited about. The average costumer than gets outraged by this owner and says he doesn't want to eat there anymore.
Of course, there are always the people that LOVE LOVE LOVE the restaurant and thinks that you should love it as much as him and feel like you should eat every single item in the menu, including Akron and Delaware State, and are outraged by your outrage that you are being forced to eat subpar food just to get to the main course.
Of course, tickets are not food items - arenas don't change size so you have the same number of available tickets for each game and you kinda have to force the sales of season tickets or else Akron will have a lot of unsold seats. My point is that the people that don't go to every single game are not terrible people that should be stoned to death.
The AD policy of overselling tickets to fill Crisler is a fine policy from the risk management point of view. You get more money and it won't affect too much. Hey, that's standard practice among airlines. But there is a reason why airlines have such poor costumer ratings.
I had less time as a student than I do now that I am a graduate. I skipped a few Saturdays to work in lab, and now I have time to watch games every Saturday (if they're not blacked out, thanks ESPN). I think a lot of PhD grads share this sentiment.
In football with an OSU or MSU season, those tickets in student section can reach easily +$200 in the open market, but if you buy season tickets, you get face value, for the price of $300 and you get to see a couple of extra Big Ten games, and ND, and you don't have to run around the Big House before the game. So, in practice, skipping the few Akrons that roll to town is not a loss. Some here will crucify me but I gave away my student tickets to one of these bad games because I rather spend my time in lab than watching Michigan beat some team by 40 points. If the AD had an option to sell individual student tickets early in the season at face value (or at face value + 40% convenience fee), I'd take that. I also had friends that did the opposite: bought season tickets and sold the OSU and ND to cover for all the other games.
My time in Ann Arbor never included Crisler tickets being hard to get, but I can imagine that the recent success drove the price up and messed with the student incentives. The new AD policy is actually very effective at targeting people with my behavior. Well, you want to see Sparty lose at Crisler, you'll have to watch us clobber Eastern as well. It feels a bit like being a hostage, can't have pudding if you don't eat your meat. But I actually like meat, so it's ok.
I think there's a very easy solution for retiring the shirts of student-athletes that don't graduate but deserve it. The university often gives honorary doctoral degrees (Humane Letters, Engineering, Science, Fine Arts, Law) for VIPs every commencement cerimony. I'm sure there is a way for university higher uppers to create an additional honorary Michigan degree (Masters of Athletics or Gymnastics or something) for the ones who deserve to have their jerseys/numbers retired. They can do it around the retirement period (which tends to be way after actual graduation) and this would be quite rare so I don't think standard "devaluation of degree" arguments apply.
If that is the team, we have to do really well in the non-conference part of the schedule. I think the Big Ten will be almost as brutal next year as it was this year, and this roster feels very Northwestern to me.
This is awesome! What is the source and who is Grantland Rice? Thanks!
That, gentlement, is real sacrifice for the team.
So much win in a single picture. I need a picture of Kovacs and his helmet now!
Spike is a self-aware irrational confidence guy. Love his ball handling skills.
It's a Monday night game!
Cannot believe this is happening! That is all!
For those like me that already saw all the interviews and hype videos at least twice, and saw the Fab 5 documentary in the DVR over and over, here is a NCAA video on the 1989 Final Four: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0zUkfTzoTU, with Coach Bo appearances and all.
Does what the seniors said about the lack of support from the Michigan Men during the Rodriguez years as well as the meeting on how they didn't quit on the coach like happened in the last coach change also matters? Because that's the type of thing that people are talking about when they talk about RichRod. Yes, he failed miserably at winning at Michigan, but the lack of support for him and how that impacted the players, OUR students, was just disgraceful.
We're not talking about RichRod because of RichRod. We're talking about him because it is an evidence of how disfunctional the Michigan family became because we hired a coach. We're talking about how internal fights generated pre-game speeches about cockroaches. We're talking about Braylon on SNF saying "Carr's University of Michigan" because he feels he's the owner of the #1 jersey. We're talking about something we never thought possible at post-Bo Michigan: that something, someone can be more important than the team.
Yesterday I heard Toomer on ESPN radio criticizing RichRod (still, after this weekend's victory) rehashing the tired old meme that the spread offense doesn't work on the B1G, while saying why he thinks Meyer will fail. When it's a consensus that last year's offense was actually good but the defense was the worst thing in the universe. We want to set the record straight, because we're Michigan and here we care about right and wrong more than we care about losing or winning. That's why people still talk about Rodriguez.
From his twitter: Biggest win I've ever been apart of. Congrats to the seniors! Also the look on my face after the dropped snap was
#pricelessNot saying that this would have happened under Bo, but if he was the one under fire, I wonder how Mary Sue Coleman would have reacted.
Matt millen? /s
Matt millen? /s
They both have helmets with wings. They also manage to lose in games where the matchups are supposed to be the most favorable. They both make me drink.