Callahan

January 13th, 2014 at 2:03 PM ^

It's not even that well developed. His columns are nothing but lazy HOT SPORTZ TAKES, Baylessian monkey feces tosses in the dark in hopes one comes true and he will spend the rest of his career reminding you of the time he predicted the Wings would come back from 3-0 down against the Sharks in 2012. 

VAWolverine

January 11th, 2014 at 10:25 AM ^

has been downgraded in the DET NEWS and irrelevent for years. He could be technically  telling the truth about making changes to the article if he had someone else do it.

His quality of life may not be the best since he has to play second fiddle to Valenti.

 

Mgodiscgolfer

January 12th, 2014 at 11:27 AM ^

because Teri has become the biggest sparty slappy, agreeing with him (Valenti) like a 9 year old son would his father. Their radio show should be called the UM beat-down or the Spartan review.

Wolfman

January 17th, 2014 at 7:25 AM ^

If anyone has watched Bama, and who hasn't, they realize that Saban has dictated the running game would always set up the well-timed passing game. This was mysterious to me as well. His column did not really bother me inasmuch as what he was merely stating is that "He is not sure we got the right OC" and who the fuck here can argue with that until the offensive 11 takes the field. Last season, after we put up a hundred in our first two games all was good. We kn0w what occurred after that.  He is also correct in stating if Bama's players had come along, we could do whatever the hell we want. Such is not the case right now. We are down to OSU and MSU, but that has happened before in our past and we have always managed to right the ship to the point that no one has come close to overtaking us in all the numbers that count. MSU ans OSU both dominated us in earlier periods but when the smoke cleared we could count on beating OSU 6 out of 10 and MSU 7 out of 10. History bears that out.                          ^Because it does, coupled with the fact we had some major period of mediocrity, especially after Crisler, things will return to norm.  The thing that scares me somewhat is that when Bo reestablished the program he did so in one year and there was no doubt after that. Brady had his best year here using much of RR's offense and his defensive players. We thought after that initial 11 win season we were back despite the fact many of those games were not dominant victories that gave an immediate impression all was good. Our defense played their asses off to perhaps create the best TO ratio we've experienced in modern times and the offense, under RR's strategy simply kepy putting up huge numbers.                                          I do know that now in his fourth year, BH had better to be able to bring his great recruiting to the point they show up on Saturday and run the offense he has recruited to. This is the guy to do it, but only if his coaching is adequate because Bama did it in the toughest league in the country.  It is not the losses to MSU and OSU that bother me greatly, because as stated above, that corrects itself. What bothers me is close wins over the new kids on the block and losing to PSU in the last 40 seconds of a game when they are led by a freshman qb.  That shouts "piss poor" coaching and a coordinator, be it onouefense or offense couldn't change that because after those first two games we went into a funk that we never came out of.                         It's not our coordinators we need to worry about. It's our HC that has to light the fire under these young men so we don't have to sweat out victories, or losses in the PSU game as we did last season. Kick the shit out of everyone you are supposed to and the close games will go our way when we outplay our opponent because that is how it's done.                   ^If lighting the fire under the kid's ass entails doing the same to the coordinators then so be it.  If you can't motivate your staff to coach to the level that you want your players to perform at it won't matter.  Watching Brady on the sidelines the past two years has reflected a coach running more on hope than one that's convinced his players will control the action. That to me is scary and that is not UM football. 

Raback Omaba

January 13th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^

I will go on record as saying that I have always liked their program throughout the years. Despite Valenti being somewhat of an MSU fanboy, I felt he was always fair in his criticism and his praise when it came to MSU and UofM. He's always been good radio and entertaining to listen to.

Having said that, something happened over the past 18-24 months that changed things - perhaps it's MSU's rise in football which has given him the confidence to really come out as fanboy, because he is over the top in his picking, criticism and antagonization of UofM - - to the point where it's obvious and really bad radio. He's definitely in Drew Sharp territory.

I know that they do that type of stuff to get ratings, but it's "jumped the shark" in my mind - to the point that they have lost a level headed, fair and balanced listener who used to enjoy their show.

It's been an obvious decline over the past couple years that has really gotten me.

Raback Omaba

January 13th, 2014 at 10:47 AM ^

I will go on record as saying that I have always liked their program throughout the years. Despite Valenti being somewhat of an MSU fanboy, I felt he was always fair in his criticism and his praise when it came to MSU and UofM. He's always been good radio and entertaining to listen to.

Having said that, something happened over the past 18-24 months that changed things - perhaps it's MSU's rise in football which has given him the confidence to really come out as fanboy, because he is over the top in his picking, criticism and antagonization of UofM - - to the point where it's obvious and really bad radio. He's definitely in Drew Sharp territory.

I know that they do that type of stuff to get ratings, but it's "jumped the shark" in my mind - to the point that they have lost a level headed, fair and balanced listener who used to enjoy their show.

It's been an obvious decline over the past couple years that has really gotten me.

Wiseguy

January 18th, 2014 at 9:25 PM ^

Mike Valenti has always caught most of the hatred from Michigan fans but I've never understood why.  Valenti is just a loyal alumnus who loves his school. He has always been fair in his criticism of Michigan.

Terry Foster on the other hand is nothing but a troll. He adds nothing of intelligence to their show and just piggybacks off of Mike's opinions.

joycehuff

April 3rd, 2019 at 2:19 AM ^

Honestly, I am no more obsessed with Foster than David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, Happy Wheels, Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel are fixated on Sarah Palin. You go where the content is — and Foster is a goddamned reservoir.