Blue End Zones Are Here
I’m not 100% sure how I feel about
these yet. And of course, EVERYONE IS GOING
TO HAVE AN OPINION on these!!!
OLD
vs
NEW
Texted this weekend:
Russ – Blue End Zones. Did anyone
know this was coming?
Answer: I had no idea.
I guess the powers that be knew…But
why keep it a secret? Afraid of “Halo
Backlash?”
I mean, as everyone knows at this
point, I really don’t like screwing with tradition. I guess as long as we don’t go “Totally Blue”
or “Totally Maize” on the field, I’m fine with it. Examples of people “getting it wrong: OLSM Red Field is hard on the eyes. And I simply cannot stand the Boise State
turf, either….
Football Fields need to be GREEN,
as in Grass Color.
Again, I think this might – MIGHT
– Actually grow on me. I couldn’t stand
when Goss pimped out the Big House with the Halo and the addition of the suites
actually improved what the Big House looks like from the outside.
Time will tell…
In Case You Want To Skip the Season And Just Jump To the Bowls
If the bowls ended up looking
like what Vegas is predicting, well, Michigan is stuck in the Citrus.
And your national title
contenders? Here:
- Cotton semifinal
(Arlington, TX): No. 2 Clemson (11) vs. No. 3 Ohio State (10.5)
- Orange semifinal
(Miami): No. 1 Alabama (11) vs. No. 4 Washington (10.5)
I love predictions like this just
to see how wrong they are when the time comes.
I mean, Washington out of the Pac
12? I’m thinking that’s not likely. I also think that Clemson and Bama could
lose this season. Don’t ask me
why. Not a lot of logic behind that
thought process.
LNU Saga Continues: Engler Called Out By Survivors
It just feels like this thing is never
going to end. I’m not sure why Engler is
even hanging around at this point as everyone from Regents, Faculty, Students
and now Survivors have called for his ouster. I “thought” the president served at the
behest of the Regents and they could bounce him any time.
What’s everyone waiting for? More bad press?
More than 120 victims
of Larry Nassar issued a statement Tuesday saying that Michigan State
University Interim President John Engler needs to leave the post.
The letter also
said the five trustees that didn't call for Engler to step down
must "stand for what is right."
Engler's behaviors
have "sent a chilling message across MSU's campus, causing damage
that cannot be repaired until he is gone," according to the
statement.
The statement follows
calls for Engler to step aside and calls for the board to fire him after
private emails emerged last week in
which Engler suggested that Rachael Denhollander, the first gymnast
to publicly accuse Nassar of sexual abuse, might get a "kickback"
from her attorney for "manipulating" other victims
Last week, Engler said he was focused on the work
ahead at MSU and would not step down.
"I continue to look
ahead," Engler said then. "Whatever the tensions were before, we have
successfully negotiated a settlement agreement — something that is fair and equitable
to both sides, and that both sides agreed to. We are now committed to
continuing our efforts to strengthen sexual misconduct prevention on and off
campus and to respond promptly to and appropriately if prevention
fails."
Denhollander said
Engler's remarks clearly send a message that anyone who speaks out will
"either be viewed as manipulating for personal gain, or being foolishly
manipulated."
Michigan Offers A 7th Grade
QB????
Michigan is now in the “Early
Offer” mode that is sweeping the country.
IT’s gimmicky as this kid will probably get a lot of offers, but it’s a strategy
that wakes the country up to talent they might not otherwise know about, shows
that Harbaugh is “outworking” the other guys, and hey, Michigan was first!
Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh has offered
a scholarship to a seventh-grade quarterback.
Dante Jacob Moore, a
13-year-old who will enter eighth grade in the fall at A.G.B.U. Alex &
Marie Manoogian School, a charter program in Southfield, received the offer
Monday after participating at U-M’s football camp in Ann Arbor, according to
Moore's father, said Otha Sr.
“(Harbaugh) just said he
had heard word about him and (asked) was I bringing him to the camp," Otha
said. "He was looking forward to meeting him. He has been working out with
Devin (Gardner) a lot, as well as Quarterback U. He has been on Devin’s
Instagram. I think that’s where Harbaugh saw him."
The Mailbag, Texts and Social
Stuff
Why do
you think LNU hasn’t done the right thing with the regents and especially Engler? This is becoming a farce.
I’ve been as vocal a critic of LNU since the beginning
of the whole Nassar incident and in fact, I think I was more outraged than a
lot of the LNU Alumni. Which, IMHO, is
still a BIG part of the problem.
But whenever I think, “What
if that had been one of my daughters?” I
get sick to my stomach. I guess that’s
why I’m still outraged. Massively outraged.
FIRE EVERYBODY!!!!
Everyone knows I’ve
been as hard on LNU as I was on Michigan during BranDictator Gate. I believe I posted just about every day
regarding some issue that BranDictator was F-ing up somewhere. Especially near the end. I don’t have that kind of time to dedicate to
LNU, but there should be a dedicated blogger out there that is compiling all of
this information as a tool to go after everyone still involved at LNU that was
part of the lack of oversight and everyone needs to go down.
In ANOTHER BAD Move by the Regents,
they’re meeting “unofficially” this week “In Private” at a two-day Retreat,
starting on Wedensday, so as to avoid being subject to the Michigan Open
Meetings Act. This is happening much
to the chagrin of everyone that’s watching the Regents closely. I’m not sure how the Group that’s meeting can
decide what is and isn’t private, however.
It seems like there should be a Governing Board that reviews the agenda
and makes that decision for the Regents.
But the retreat, an
annual event, is closed to the public — which critics say sends the
wrong message given the key decisions facing the board at a public meeting
Friday. Among them: a $500 million settlement with Nassar's victims, tuition
rates for 2018-19, the appointment of a chief legal officer and,
potentially, the future of interim President John Engler.
Though MSU's trustees are
subject to Michigan's Open Meetings Act, which requires deliberations
of public bodies to occur in an open meeting, a 2016 ruling by the state
Court of Appeals determined that university boards had discretion to determine
which meetings were considered official.
Two of MSU's trustees — Brian Mosallam and
Dianne Byrum — last week called for Engler to resign amid the
controversy over his emailed comments criticizing one of Nassar's most
prominent sexual assault victims.
But Engler said then he wasn't leaving, and planned to "continue
to look ahead."
Mosallam said Tuesday that he will be talking informally
with the other six trustees to get enough votes to call for Engler's firing
during Friday's formal board meeting.
Five of the eight trustees, or a majority of a meeting
quorum (four trustees out of seven, for example), would be needed to
terminate Engler, according to MSU spokeswoman Emily Guerrant.
"The situation is fluid," said Mosallam, who
said it was a mistake to hire Engler nearly five months ago. "It's amazing
that he has yet to apologize. An apology is powerful. It is an
acknowledgment of failure. It is an act of contrition and an act of empathy.
His lack of apology clearly shows he's lacking."
I may be an idiot in some people’s
eyes (stop laughing – I know there’s a lot of you!), but all of that
sounds pretty important and public to me – especially the part about whether or
not you can get enough votes to can the sitting Prez. If I was on the proposed Governing Board that
approved private meetings for university officials, I’d tell them this one
needs to be open to the public. Again,
part of the reason why I think there was a lot more knowledge of what was going
on with Larry Nassar and people just ignored it or swept it under the
rug....
Again, it all seems VERY SHADY when it
comes to LNU any more….
And The Board of Regents FAILS TO
FIRE ENGLER!
Glad I waited to post. Hot OFF the PRESS!!!
From the article:
It took less than four
minutes for the effort to replace John Engler as Interm President to jump from
behind closed doors to out in the public.
As the MSU board met
Friday morning, trustee Brian Mosallam - the most outspoken board member critic
of Engler - interrupted Engler as the agenda for the meeting was being
approved.
Mosallam called for the floor, surprising Engler. Mosallam then made a
motion to amend the agenda for the meeting to place an item on it that would
have fired Engler for cause.
The crowd of protesters - most wearing teal t-shirts - erupted in
applause.
But it was short-lived.
The board voted down the change, 2-6, with only Dianne Byrum joining
Mosallam in voting for the change.
During public comment, speaker after speaker called for Engler to go.
Bryan Tarrant, the parent of a Nassar survivor, said when he looks in
mirror, he sees a father who failed his little girl. Tarrant, who was very
emotional during his speech, says Engler is a monster hiding in plain sight.
So what now? With a public outcry being as loud as it is,
does Guv Snyder have the guts to step up and axe the Board along with Engler
for being incompetent and for cause?
Time will tell…
ETC
Burger King Baby???
Under the category of, “You can’t make this shit up!”, Burger King
launched an ad campaign that promised a cash prize and free Whoppers for life
to any women that became pregnant by a World Cup Soccer Player and could prove
it. I’m sorry…But you GOTTA LOVE
RUSSIA!!!
Lefty Hits A Moving Putt
I didn’t see it when it happened on Saturday, but
the outrage was everywhere. IS this that
big of a deal? I mean, the USGA sets up
the US Open courses a year in advance to frustrate the best of the best. To drive them nuts. In that, I think they succeeded. I’d actually feel pretty good if I was one of
the guys creating the challenge. But the
golf world snapping their collective caps and stating that this will forever
tarnish Lefty’s career? Nah…Calm
yourselves people. It’s not the end of
the world. Daly did it first, after
all. At least in the modern era of
golf. And I’m sure there have been
others.
