tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post7804070027172633510..comments2023-11-02T12:37:45.738-04:00Comments on DUMP the chUMps (Spartan Resource): MICHIGAN FOOTBALL EXPECTING ANOTHER "YOUNG OFFENSIVE LINE" NEXT SEASONreturn2gloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10627394589459313945noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-3097514491509950772014-03-07T11:27:09.124-05:002014-03-07T11:27:09.124-05:00Anon - I have to assume that you'd prefer post...Anon - I have to assume that you'd prefer posting under a more specific pseudonym. Let me help you... <br /><br />Go to "Comment As", select "Name/URL", enter whatever name you'd like to comment under. Easy as it gets, you'll not be signing up for anything, you won't be asked to set up a user name and password, and your fellow readers get to attribute a "name" to your commentary. <br /><br />You wouldn't deny us that, would you? I mean, you are the guy who advanced the, "Yeah... well... You're SO stupid" argument from which I'm sure we've all profited. Mr. Old Gloriesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-59426052263429066112014-03-07T10:00:36.237-05:002014-03-07T10:00:36.237-05:00Well, CMann, somebody had to say it, glad it was y...Well, CMann, somebody had to say it, glad it was you.<br /><br />The MSU injuries have definitely been a negative factor limiting the team for the past two months. But they do not excuse some of the "other problems" that have led to our team failing to play to its potential.<br /><br />To deny them as relevant is an idiot's argument, and many idiots are using it. To use them to explain every problem and failure this season is, in some ways, and to some extent, at this point, an "excuse".<br /><br />(By the way, don't mean to nitpick, but I'm thinking MSU was actually "more talented" last year. The difference is Derrick Nix versus Alvin Ellis and Gavin Schilling. I'll take Nix over those two. The difference this year was that we should have been much better due to the extra experience, an expectation I obviously held along with you and many others.)American Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053609741082503574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-85373250176708265652014-03-07T09:56:12.726-05:002014-03-07T09:56:12.726-05:00And wow, your remark was so intelligent!And wow, your remark was so intelligent!American Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053609741082503574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-26886879092351821882014-03-07T09:55:08.397-05:002014-03-07T09:55:08.397-05:00Thanks for your input, MSUJIBBOO, we appreciate yo...Thanks for your input, MSUJIBBOO, we appreciate your comments.<br /><br />I think the main point touched on here is the FACT that a lot of UM fans continue to talk about their dropouts from last year, as if kids who drop out of school are the same as those who came to play but got injured.<br /><br />Also the FACT that a lot of UM fans want people to view Mitch McGary as a "lost starter" even though he has started only 25% of his career games played. McGary is a substitute player, and that's according to decisions made by John Beilein. It's not up for "debate".<br /><br />Finally, to highlight the belief of many that it would take an injury to only one starter at UM to derail their storybook run. It wouldn't have to be Stauskas, but obviously, without him they are dead in the water.<br /><br />I don't see this comment as a "straw man", nor do I see the article as a "straw man". We use actual points of reference from current reality and past history to lead our discussions.American Reporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18053609741082503574noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-38062406371464286022014-03-07T07:55:45.179-05:002014-03-07T07:55:45.179-05:00I know this is a football article but jibboo turns...I know this is a football article but jibboo turns the subject to March. I have watched a lot of basketball this year. With more talent than last year, State has been a big disappointment to me. Four home losses including Nebraska and Illinois does not make a championship team. You won't hear excuses from me but they will be out there when we make an early exit in the remaining two tournaments. As for the team representing the chUMps out there, they are a surprisingly good team. After their big losses to the NBA not many saw this coming. That guy from Canada can beat anybody. I think their success rests on his shoulders. If they get beat in March or April, it will be because he has a bad shooting night. I'll still be cheering for a B1G Championship and another final four but I'm sure not going to make any excuses if we don't get there.C Mann 1979https://www.blogger.com/profile/02526079800158109378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-81159870190917796502014-03-07T06:49:05.997-05:002014-03-07T06:49:05.997-05:00You are obsessively, compulsively stupid. You and ...You are obsessively, compulsively stupid. You and your buddies set up up one UM straw man after another and then pounce as though they were real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4160896203399392588.post-21385702656948820662014-03-06T20:16:10.797-05:002014-03-06T20:16:10.797-05:00No need to wait until football season to hear UM f...No need to wait until football season to hear UM fans make excuses. Even though they somehow managed to win the outright Big Ten regular season basketball championship, while somehow dodging any significant injury/illness to a second or third starter, they constantly invoke the names Burke/Hardaway/McGary, and lament how awesome they would be if that holy trinity still played for UM. <br /><br />They have set the stage so that if they fall short of the National Title, they have the excuse already: just think if we had Mitch! (And Trey and Tim!) They will lament, and ponder, and whine, and make excuses. And even should they win it all, they will lament how with THOSE guys, it would have been the best team ever assembled! And then if they all came back, and managed to dodge significant injuries to multiple starters NEXT year, it would be multiple National Titles!<br /><br />Just wait and watch their comments, when (if) they get beat in the tournament. And be ready to pounce.msujibboonoreply@blogger.com