Michigan
Beats the Hoosiers!
Yea Team!!!
(Imagine The MMQ Waves little Maize and Blue “Block
M” flag). And they looked decent doing
it…But IU is on its 4th string QB, and doesn’t have much of a
defense. So again, you better win if you
play them from here on out. I believe it’s
written somewhere in Michigan’s Football history that you have to beat the “I”
schools…Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana. It’s
just the way it is.
I was gone
and traveling for a major portion of the last part of last week – Thursday and Friday
to be exact…Did I miss anything? (And
you know what really bugs me about travelling in Europe? We’re showing all their crap regarding Soccer
over here on our Sports Wraps and even live feeds of games and tournaments, etc. Would it KILL THEM to have one out of
the 150 or so stations that they have over there dedicated to AMERICAN
SPORTS? Or just one hour of
Sports Center on a channel…somewhere?
Sheesh…
I missed a
Game 7 of the World Series – which really bugged me because, well, Game 7 of
anything is worth tuning in for. I missed
the FSU-Louisville game on Thursday night because it came on at around 1 AM my
time and I sat on a bar stool web-casting it via my phone and ESPN (which I will
say this for Europe – EVERYONE, and I mean EVERYONE, has Wi-Fi, or as I
like to say, just to piss my daughters off, “whiffy” – short “I”), but after
Louisville went up 21-0, I figured that it was over and called it a night. Surprise, surprise, surprise. The Noles just do what the Noles do…Win baby!
Then…Huh…seemed
like something was happening (or rather – HAPPENED) Friday when I got back on
US Soil and I turned off the “Airplane Mode” on my cell phone and the phone
practically vibrated its way up the aisle and off the plane all by itself
around 2:30 Friday afternoon.
Yes – thank you
for all the texts and Twitter was overloaded.
Ding-Dong…The Witch is Dead.
BranDictator had decided to do whatever was in the best
interests of Michigan and move on in order to restore the faith in the fan
base. Well, at least that’s what he
said. I noticed ole’ BranDictator made
sure to take his last pound of flesh out of the Wolverine’s Athletic Budget and
take $3M over the next three years with him.
It seems that if he truly wanted to do what was best for Michigan, he
would have just said, “I’m leaving, keep the severance.” But, for the almighty “Bottom Dollar Dave”,
that wasn’t an option. In fact, I
thought if you resigned you weren’t even entitled to severance? I guess if your employer wants to give it to
you out of the goodness of his heart…
I will say
here that I truly believe that “E-Mail Gate” accelerated
this action. Once Olbermann reported it
and Brian at mgoblog.com hit us with his summary of all the different e-mails
he received from all the different, un-related parties…well, you kind of knew
that the “Writing was on the Wall”. I
received several great e-mails from people who all said, “If you don’t want it
to be found, don’t put it in an e-mail or a text.” This next e-mail was “e-mailed” to me by a
loyal reader (TJH) who has some experience in this area:
Based on the Legal cases I was involved in where email is the Valhalla
of the Plaintiff lawyer
I predict
-One of Brandon’s spokesmen will issue a statement denying everything
and state that they are conducting an internal investigation
-They will try to destroy everything they can, but invariably miss
something because they are clowns and won’t get the experts involved because
they know better.
-All his computers are Discoverable if a Legal Case is filed and if it
is found you destroyed things after there was even the faint hint of potential
future litigation you are liable if you destroy evidence. The discovery experts
can unravel an amazing amount of “deleted” email especially when deleted by the
actual guy or his toddy secretary.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see a Class Action Law Suit on behalf of
season ticket holders get filed. May not get far but with the right lawyer a
lot of good stuff will get dragged into the public eye.
I’ve seen this a bunch of times, the arrogance is always the downfall of
these guys
So, based on
THAT, this really starts to smell like the following scenario: “Gee, Dave, as The New Prez, I don’t want to
have to fire you so if you’ll do me the courtesy of making this easy, I’ll let
you. And oh, if I fired you, I was going
to have to pay you something anyway, so let’s make it right for you.”
So, are we happy
that BranDictator is gone?
I for
one couldn’t be more tickled. And it
took way too long. The embarrassment was
for real and he needed to go.
I do,
however, still believe that there’s enough of the BranDictator “Pizza-Natzees”
that are still around and a little more house cleaning needs to be done within
the Athletic Department. Not to mention
that the Coaching Staff on the football team will need a cleansing, also. I’m not accepting nor expecting any kind of “November
to Remember” to save Brady. Too
much has happened on and off the field there as well to let a couple of more
wins over Maryland and Northwestern convince me otherwise. Those two wins only get you to the Little
Ceasar’s Pizza Bowl and that really, should be enough to sharpen the ax and get
him out. I never thought I would root
against my own team or for that ohio team – and I probably still won’t, but I
guess I will do whatever needs to be done for the good of the program overall. I hope Hackett makes it easier for all of us
by announcing the end of Brady before ohio so we can cheer like idiots and hope
against hope that we beat the Suckeyes...that would be fitting.
The Rest of the Mess
OOOOOOUUUUUCCCHHHH! If you haven’t seen the last play of the Ole’ Miss –Auburn Game, Laquon Treadwell reminds us why
A.)College Football is a violent sport even when it’s played correctly. B.) Student Athletes need some sort of
insurance and long term medical coverage for life-altering type of events C.)
you probably shouldn’t eat anything prior to watching a game that doesn’t sit
well in your stomach when something like this happens. And finally, D.) How quickly things can go
from elation to absolute depression in the span of microseconds. What everyone thought was the game winning
score turns into losing a player, a turnover, and losing the game. Too much emotion and I’m really glad I’m NOT
an Ole’ Miss Fan this AM…I think I’d
still be too stunned to talk about it.
WARNING- IF
you haven’t seen this, it’s a little graphic.
In another
epic clash between Duke and Pitt…Oh,
what am I saying – There haven’t been that many “Epic Clashes” between ACC
newbie Pitt and Duke, but the Pitt Kicker couldn’t seal the deal and the
defenseless Pitt let Duke walk in to the endzone in double OT to keep a pretty
clean record in the ACC Coastal.
Miss State took care of business over still SEC
Win-less Arkansas. Beliema may really want to take his wife’s
cell phone away and never, ever, let her text the word “Karma” again….
Illinois is so bad that I can see now how they
lost to Purdue. That ohio team keeps looking better and
better all the time.
Maryland and Penn State now have a “Rivalry” thanks in part
to Maryland winning the game where they have more or less been a “road bump” in
Penn State’s history of success….but the real issue may have been the decision
on the Maryland side to not shake hands at the coin toss…..Not sure what that
proved, but whatever.
The Ole Ball Coach is simply exasperated
with his team..So much so that a loss to the Vols left him in a mood that he
simply came into the post game presser, spoke about how crappy his team played
for 45 seconds, and then marched out.
Spurrier is a guy that likes to hear himself talk and even he’s a little
fed up….and marching right into retirement.
The Gators somehow had a “Save the Coach!”
rally and beat their arch-rival but Gurley-less BullDawgs at the World’s
Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party by running... a lot. I mean… REALLY a lot. 2nd most yards against Georgia on
the ground. Ever. And it looked like they kept running the same
play. Constantly. If I’m a Georgia fan this AM I can only
think of one thing. And that that thing
is the same wailing sound you heard from the Georgia fan base screaming Fire
Richt! Which is a great lead
into
The 5 Stages of
Slappy Fan Grief
- Denial and Isolation: Sparty, domers and Georgia. Sparty loses ground by not playing…domers
lose ground by being behind a Navy team in the 2nd half that they
should have domintated. And
Georia? Those fans have endured a
lot…Don’t know what to say there except it COULD BE WORSE!!!
- ANGER: MICHIGAN FAN….Still here…AIN’T LEAVING!!!! BranDictator resigning was half the
battle. We still have a ways to go
and I don’t think Brady will do the “Honorable” thing and quit. So, he will need to be evaluated at the
end of the season.
- Bargaining: Ole Miss – only lost two games by a total of less
than 5 points I think? Fans still
believe that with some help, they could be the SEC West Representative….
- Depression: The Depression stage would like to welcome: Michigan, Georgia, Ole Miss, Arkansas, Stanford,
Okie State, Arizona, and Utah to the group. You’ve all got nothing but
flea-bag bowls to look forward to, assuming you make it.
- Acceptance: Northwestern, Vandy, Texas Tech,
UCF and others…many, many others…
The MMQ’s Top 10
So, the CFP
is ranking ‘em one way – Here’s how I see it with the first two being “Easy –
Peasy, Lemon Squeezy” or whatever…its after that it gets tricky. My BOLDS
are the teams that I think have the most like or favorable chance to make it in
if anyone else stumbles….
- Ole Miss – but the Egg Bowl and every
other game on the Bulldogs schedule just got harder…
- FSU- ditto FSU. Louisville showed them how
- TIE: Auburn – Alabama – To be sorted out in
the Iron Bowl, or sooner if the Hatter has anything to say about it with
Saban Saturday…
- Oregon – Mariota for Heismann…Just
cause…This hurts…domers…
- Sparty – Has to keep the record
clean….and maybe there’s a chance.
- TCU – Cause Big 12
and I think they’re just a little better than
- K-State – Snyder is as Snyder does
- Arizona State…cause Pac 12
- Domers: You
have to destroy Navy…this one will hurt for a while.
Idle Thoughts From Saturday
-First home
game I’m making a game time decision to not go…
-Too much
travel and too much Halloween
-Exhaustion….
-Bad excuse,
I know.
-Early games
kind of boring, except for this Pitt-Duke thing…
-I can’t
believe I’m watching Pitt-Duke.
-But it’s a
good game.
-Oh, Jeez…He
missed the kick.
-And Duke
wins….I kind of wish we played Duke in Football.
-Just cause.
-Okay,
Michigan hot early. Looking good.
-Who is the
Drake Johnson kid?
-I mean,
Indiana, but still…Doing WAY BETTER than anyone I’ve seen to date.
-Kind of a throw-back
running style, too.
-Will really
like seeing him in the games that are left.
-And is this
just Indiana defense?
-Ah,
yes. There’s the Gardner we know and
love (INT!)
-Has there
been a game where he hasn’t thrown one this year?
-Besides the
cream-puffs?
-It’s an
epidemic.
-He’ll cost
them one more somewhere…
-Northwestern?
-Middle –
Late games are good!
-Ole Miss in
a game against Auburn.
-Miss State
and Arkansas more of a defensive struggle, which, well, yeah.
-Ole Miss
going to score!!!
-No! Oh man….What happened there?
-Oh, please…Stop
showing that.
-STOP SHOWING
THAT!
-FERCRYING
OUT LOUD!!!! PLEASE STOP SHOWING THAT!!!!
-OKAY, I know
we’re supposed to look at the football here to see that it didn’t cross the
goal line…BUT STOP SHOWING THAT!
-What a
complete and utter crappy way to lose everything….if you’re Ole Miss.
-Miss State
hangs on…
-Yes, it was
Arkansas – so what? They’ve nearly beaten everybody that they’ve played.
-Navy coming
back…Navy takes the lead!
-Too much
Gholson.
-But, Navy,
good job. That will hurt the domers
later..might even drop them in the polls.
-(Say “Thank
you” Sparty!)
-That’s it –
another week of CFB in the books.
-And next
week will be really interesting!
The Hot Seat
You know…The
FMQ has missed two Fridays for whatever reasons (bad planning, just too much going
on) but the MMQ and his HSM duties have not been missed..Ever. I can’t remember when I didn’t have a Hot
Seat Mascot and this week is no different.
Joanna Krupa eeked out a victory last week and made the finals. For Week #10, in honor of her summer movie, “Guardians
of the Galaxy” which I missed seeing on the Big Screen but caught on my flight
home: Zoe Saldana!!!
Hot Seat Rank
Brady
Hoke – It’s a foregone conclusion…
- Beckman: He’s
got problems….
- Hazell: Purdue
beat Illinois….
- Will Muschamp:
Hey – he finally wins the Cocktail Party…he moves down…
- Norm Chow:
Hawaii.
- Mike London:
Needs wins…
FMQ
The FMQ will
return this week. Sorry about anyone
that makes his weekend bets betting the opposite direction that I do in order
to win! Hopefully, you made money
regardless!
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