Over A Decade Of Annoying The Rich And Powerful Alumni of U of M

"The Spirit of Michigan: It is based upon a deathless loyalty to Michigan and all her ways; an enthusiasm that makes it second nature for Michigan Men to spread the gospel of the university to the world's distant outposts; a conviction that nowhere is there a better university, in any way, than this Michigan of ours." - Fielding H. Yost

Are You Ready For Some Football?!?!

And after the last two years, who isn't ready to get this taste out of our mouths?

Wow. I thought that 2009 was the winter (and summer) of my discontent. That was nothing compared to the nonsense we've been through since the Wolverines left the field after last year's annual beat down by They-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

For those of you that have enjoyed wintering in Zimbabwe or are just learning impaired Sparty-style, let me provide the Cliff Notes version of the Michigan Football Offseason. This shouldn't be used when preparing for your final exam on Saturday, September 4th...but maybe it will help put you in the right frame of mind when the Maize and Blue come charging out of that tunnel.

1. Other teams played on or around the New Year. Ohio State won a big game for the first time in decade.

2. Players transferred.

3. Players went to jail.

4. Recruits were...and then weren't...part of the University community.

5. Staff 'voluntarily' explored other opportunities.

6. Michigan took accountability for some minor unintentional infractions that are the NCAA equivalent to jaywalking.

7. The Detroit Free Press is still full of crap and Michigan fans will never, ever forget or forgive.

8. Oh...and according to many "experts"...both professional and amateur...we might as well not even take the field this year.

For extra credit:

9. If you haven't heard, they've made some minor changes to the Big House.

10. In unrelated University news, our basketball program is still a damned disgrace and is an affront to everything Michigan tradition is about and Red Berenson is still a god.

Now what does that mean as it relates to the 2010 Wolverines? Nothing. Nada. Not a damned thing. To quote Samuel L. Jackson and Bo Schembechler, "Not a goddamn thing!" To paraphrase the real general George S. Patton...not to be confused with Bo George Patton Schembechler...the thoughts and prognostications of some experts that don't know anything more about prognostication of college football than they do about fornication.

Why not pile on the Wolverines? Why not predict doom and gloom? It sells papers. It makes people tune in. Buckeyes and Spartans eat it up and nothing gets Michigan fans more wired than telling us how bad we are and will be.

It means nothing. NOTHING!

All that matters is if the 2010 Wolverines truly are a team. All that matters is if the 2010 Wolverines believe in themselves and each other. All that matters is if this team is sick of the losing and the rot it breeds. All that matters is if Rich Rod shows that he is the great coach many believed him to be when he took the job in Ann Arbor.

Does any of the offseason negativity mean boo...or is even remembered...if...not if...but WHEN we come out and smack UConn right in the mouth? Does anybody admit then that they openly pegged us to win 4-5 games this year when we march down the South Bend and we run through that defense like a knife through butter? Are the Spartys still giggling when they make the return trip to their own person house of horrors and we give Dantonio the ass beating he so richly deserves?

Speaking of people that need to be smacked in the chops. Allow me to digress. No Michigan fan...no Michigan Man...is happy with what's been going on around here for the last two years. Hell, most Michigan Men also realize that things haven't been right around here for over five years...if not longer. Regardless... No matter how you feel about Rich Rodriguez and the job he's done, you can not cheer for Michigan...you can not be a Michigan fan... and cheer against Rich Rodriguez. If you think you can, you're not a Michigan homer, slappy, or fan...you're a damn fool.

No man, no coach, and no player is bigger than the program. No man, no coach, no player is bigger than THE TEAM, THE TEAM, THE TEAM! However, no matter how you feel about him, Rich Rod is the current keeper of The Team and the TRADITION. You can't hope he fails and still be cheering for Michigan.

Let the season play out. Let Rich Rod's story be written before you close this chapter in Michigan Football History. If all goes as it should, Michigan Football is currently in very talented and gifted hands in Rich Rodriguez and Dave Brandon. I'm a Rich Rod fan. I truly want him to succeed here. I thought he was the best hire then. I still think he was probably the best hire.

Who else did you want? Who else would you trust with the job? A former Michigan Man that divides the Old Blues as much as he unites some and is closer to the end of his career than he is the beginning? Maybe you preferred the hot up and comer from southern Ohio that is so dirty that Michigan State wouldn't even touch him...and yet the Golden Boys under the Golden Dome sold their souls again like they did for Lou Holtz in the hope that they will once again be relevant? Maybe you like the sexy choice of a certain former quarterback that has publicly bashed his beloved school...the same University that not only shaped him, but endured many of his indiscretions that I will not go into in this forum?

I don't care what you think of Rich Rod and the job he's done. HE'S YOUR COACH! HE IS THE KEEPER OF YOUR TRADITION! YOU CHEER FOR HIM AND YOU CHEER FOR MICHIGAN FOOTBALL IF YOU FANCY YOURSELF A FAN!

Bo, who as you all know is a god to me, always said that maybe it was his crappy bowl record that kept his ego in check. Let's hope at the end of the day when Rich Rod looks back at him Michigan career...with all of the Big Ten Championships and victories over the Irish, Spartans, and Buckeyes...he can say it was the first two years at Michigan that kept him humble and his ego in check.

Ok...back to the preseason predictions. I know this will be a shock...but I'm a bit of a biased opinion. I'm a little bit of a homer. My prediction doesn't mean any more than anybody else's at the end of the day...but by God I don't see a big gray cloud when I look to the corner of Main and Stadium. Laugh all you want. Say what you want.

Where others see disaster in 2010, I see the beginning of our return to glory...or at least the seeds to that return. Do I think we'll have a world-beating defense? No. No and that kills me because it's my favorite part of the game...but after the last two years, I don't care if we win 52-51 or 3-2. A win is a win. I think Michigan fans are beyond complaining about style points with a victory at this point.

The Michigan Football Wolverines will be 7-0 heading into the bye week in October. UConn....done. Notre Dame...done. Sparty...done with prejudice.

It smelled like fall in the air yesterday morning. The air was a little chilly (although we know it will be 90 degrees for that first game). Football is here. Michigan Football is back...and there's no place I'd rather be. There's no team I'd rather have be a part of me. There's no team I'd rather have my baby boy grow with.

Since I clearly have nothing original to say, now I'd like to paraphrase the greatest evil fighter ever known in American cinema....Ash from the Evil Dead/Army of Darkness series. You Huskies want a piece of us the day we reopen and rededicate the Taj Mahal of college football???

"Come git sum."

You better gird your loins you Huskies! Michigan Football is back and the church has an all new look! Can I get a Halleluiah!?! Can I get an Amen?!? Can I get some freakin' cowbell?

Go Blue and God Bless Ya!

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