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I just wanted to try it once since I see you guys doing it all the time
Hey now, hold up there the only one who does this is THE WIZARD and he has been doing it for EVER! He did it way back in the worldcrossing days. You might think he would be tired of doing it, but he has a lot of resolve. Talent likes it though.
Betting on baseball and steroid use are still illegal. The fundamentally American concept of receiving some sort of fair benefit (in this case, in the form of a loan) for your talents is now fully recognized and endorsed by the NCAA. A mere two years later. So, you know...
He also had a Ton of sex toys delivered to the Ohio State Football facilitys.
In retrospect that was some forward thinking. Preparation for playing Michigan in 2021.
The opportunities to beat them have been few and far between, because more often than not nice guys do indeed finish last, but when the reverse happens those folks do tend to whine about class and ethics and it's just so damn fun to throw that back in their craven faces. They've given Michigan so much material to work with.
(That said, Desmond didn't have to. No need to open your mouth when Tebow is already saying it for you.)
Its a bit embarrassing that I keep linking to stuff at mgo but I'm hoping that posters that don't check in on occasion to read the featured pieces and diaries that appear there (not mgoboard) will read them. The link below is a nicely composed and insightful piece on the "Michigan Difference"........ derided by outsider fans and often characterized as arrogance.
The piece pushes to the fore an essential truth about Jim Harbuagh's and his Wolverine team's accomplishments in the 2021 CFB season ...... that pursuing goals - in this case winning championships by following rules and the concepts of meritocracy - is doable in a world where taking short cuts (cheating) and borderline behaviors seems like a reasonable thing to do because everyone else is doing that to get ahead and win.
Within this calendar year, responses to the announcement of Jim Harbaugh’s reduced-salary contract extension on this site included words and phrases like “apathetic,” “off the rails,” “laughingstock,” “worst deal any coach of a major program has ever signed,” “none of this matters,” “mediocrity personified,” “failing marriage,” and “weird, quirky, catatonic failure.” Now he is a Big Ten champion; his seat is only hot in the sense of being warm and comfortable. It may vibrate a little, to gently massage his buttocks, which are lean and healthy this season. Elsewhere, coaches with less impressive résumés are getting larger contracts, while coaches with comparable résumés are getting waaaaaaaay larger contracts. Harbaugh and Michigan’s response was to announce that he will be giving the performance bonuses he earns this year, which are already substantial, to athletic department employees who have had pandemic-related pay reductions. It’s a classic Harbaugh move, justified in the abstract but also seemingly intended to really needle the hell out of someone, like, say, a rival school that may have signed its own coach to a 10-year, $75 million extension during its team’s second straight year of having a losing record in conference. It’s also—and look, I was as tired of talking about this trope as anyone else, but I have to call ‘em like I see ‘em—the ultimate triumph of the Michigan Man (and Woman). A year ago the University of Michigan’s entire philosophical deal, which Harbaugh embodies, appeared outdated. Without rendering any political judgment on the hows and the whys, we can likely agree that the concept of “meritocracy” has become an increasingly controversial one at the same time that long standing American institutions which rely on rules and “norms” have become less stable. This puts a tradition-obsessed institution like Michigan, whose self-conception involves meritocracy and rule-following, but also being the best at everything, in a tough spot. [After THE JUMP: Sorting out trite from faith]
Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.
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