Hang The Damn Banner
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!
February 7th, 2018 at 3:56 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 3:58 PM ^
No to both of you.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:41 PM ^
Now I agree with wd.
This place really is going to hell.
February 7th, 2018 at 3:57 PM ^
I agree. Hang it.
February 7th, 2018 at 8:27 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 3:59 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 3:59 PM ^
I say hang 'em all
February 7th, 2018 at 4:07 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
<3 Halo 1
February 7th, 2018 at 4:42 PM ^
Could have used your insight sooner than today to spread out some of our disappointment.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
However, we should rehang the first Fab Five banner since it (by winning region) was won legitmately with all eligible players.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:00 PM ^
We did not legitimately win the 2013 title. Should have, but didn't.
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:10 PM ^
but the block was clean...
February 7th, 2018 at 4:27 PM ^
God damn it now I'm pissed off again.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 6:46 PM ^
Chuck seems to have lost a little of his edge. He's shilling exercise equipment QVC style now.
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.
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:05 PM ^
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:45 PM ^
Legiterally.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:48 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 4:06 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 4:08 PM ^
From today's results, I am surprised everybody is not drinking.
February 7th, 2018 at 5:31 PM ^
I took a break in mid-December and picked right back up around 3:00PM on New Years Day.
February 7th, 2018 at 5:42 PM ^
you live around here often?
February 7th, 2018 at 4:09 PM ^
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 5:49 PM ^
February 8th, 2018 at 12:49 AM ^
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:52 PM ^
or were the refs? It was incredibly close.
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:30 PM ^
I watched the game. We lost. There's nothing to celebrate.
February 7th, 2018 at 4:33 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 4:38 PM ^
UM didn't legit win anything. The team lost the title game.
Keep drinking but put the MGoBlog down.
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).
February 7th, 2018 at 4:46 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 7:14 PM ^
Manipulate the media and put on a signing of the stars show proclaiming that we really have the #1 class. Anyone who disagrees will be subject an intense interview.
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.
February 7th, 2018 at 5:07 PM ^
February 7th, 2018 at 5:08 PM ^
Can't we just hang the NCAA instead and find another governing body to run things?
February 7th, 2018 at 5:26 PM ^
than to lace em up with the Shockers and determine a champion.
February 7th, 2018 at 5:35 PM ^
Now that would be fun to watch!
February 7th, 2018 at 5:29 PM ^