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ulukinatme

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Michigan tears are delicious. I like how some people are still pulling for Hoke to win out (They must think Penn State was some turning point) and '15 will be his breakout year.
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Of 10,746 who signed "Fire Brandon" online petition (w/UM IDs): 4,788 students, 30 professors, and 110 from "Intercollegiate Athletics."</p>— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnubacon/status/522730392114446337">October 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>If accurate, that means roughly one-third of Dave Brandon's staff has signed a petition to have him fired.
<a href="http://t.co/UH1wasbrJd">http://t.co/UH1wasbrJd</a></p>— John U. Bacon (@Johnubacon) <a href="https://twitter.com/Johnubacon/status/522730489107714048">October 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Michigan's chances of going bowling are SLIM: <a href="http://t.co/nP51saCzgb">http://t.co/nP51saCzgb</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/MaizenBrew">@MaizenBrew</a> <a href="http://t.co/YOkdEEXrS5">pic.twitter.com/YOkdEEXrS5</a></p>— SB✯Nation CFB (@SBNationCFB) <a href="https://twitter.com/SBNationCFB/status/522789283946459136">October 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Going through the UM Student Survey (<a href="http://t.co/DlBz844aOw">http://t.co/DlBz844aOw</a>), the Athletic Department must love this gem: <a href="http://t.co/Yy51z5E0LM">pic.twitter.com/Yy51z5E0LM</a></p>— Jeff Mason (@JW_Mason) <a href="https://twitter.com/JW_Mason/status/522846152215900160">October 16, 2014</a></blockquote>
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There's a suburban Minneapolis high school football team nicknamed IRISH. While I applaud their choice, there are these uniforms:





All I can say is Fuck Rosemount!
 

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There's a suburban Minneapolis high school football team nicknamed IRISH. While I applaud their choice, there are these uniforms:





All I can say is Fuck Rosemount!

Not sure if I dislike those uniforms more or the Wayzata Trojans. It's like Minnesota HS football was designed from the ground up to screw with our emotions.
 

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There's a suburban Minneapolis high school football team nicknamed IRISH. While I applaud their choice, there are these uniforms:





All I can say is Fuck Rosemount!

How did they pair something awesome like Irish with something shitty like Michigan?
 

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Because it's Minnesota.......

Them could just be fightin' words.

I'll have to check my Minnesota Nice Handbook.

If Paul Bunyon and Babe show up at your door to stomp your Hoosier ass, you'll know who sent them.
 

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There's a suburban Minneapolis high school football team nicknamed IRISH. While I applaud their choice, there are these uniforms:





All I can say is Fuck Rosemount!

I know some people who work there. Great people, great district, great schools. Terrible helmets.
 

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Them could just be fightin' words.

I'll have to check my Minnesota Nice Handbook.

If Paul Bunyon and Babe show up at your door to stomp your Hoosier ass, you'll know who sent them.

You, MNIrishman, and I can whoop him. We'll probably have to buy him a drink afterwards though.
 

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Why, why, why ...

I'd hit him with a participial phrase to the right jaw. Then a gerund phrase to the gut. I'd finish him off with a a series of Oxford Commas jabs to the chin.

I'll take all the support in my corner I can get, though.
 

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Why, why, why ...

I'd hit him with a participial phrase to the right jaw. Then a gerund phrase to the gut. I'd finish him off with a a series of Oxford Commas jabs to the chin.

I'll take all the support in my corner I can get, though.

My kind of fight. Reality is that we'd take him to Bryant-Lake Bowl, News Room, the Guthrie, Grand Old Creamery, chain of lakes, Sebastian Joe's, the Walker, and any of 100 other amazing places. He'd come around.
 

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Big board of regents meeting today at UM....among the topics to be discussed was the whole Shane Morris and concussiongate. Apparently every varsity coach at the school (including Hoke) signed some letter saying what a great AD Dave Brandon is....

Believe me.....I would hate to see Hoke go, but as long as Brandon is still AD, that program would still be in trouble
 

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And ohhhh btw.....Did I mention how much joy seeing UM football in the crapper brings me?? I sleep like a baby :)
 
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Big board of regents meeting today at UM....among the topics to be discussed was the whole Shane Morris and concussiongate. Apparently every varsity coach at the school (including Hoke) signed some letter saying what a great AD Dave Brandon is....

Believe me.....I would hate to see Hoke go, but as long as Brandon is still AD, that program would still be in trouble

Seriously. The guy is a PR genius. I mean who could have come up with the "purchase a Coke and get free tickets to our home game against Purdue."
 

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Seriously. The guy is a PR genius. I mean who could have come up with the "purchase a Coke and get free tickets to our home game against Purdue."

Well to be fair that wasn't a Michigan promotion.
 
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Well to be fair that wasn't a Michigan promotion.

According to the school, Coca-Cola purchased a block of tickets for the promotion, which was apparently not given the green light before it ran.

"Coke is a great partner of ours and had purchased a limited block of tickets for the Minnesota game for a Coke retail activation aimed at Michigan students," a Michigan spokesman said in an official release. "Due to a miscommunication in the approval process, this promotion should not have run as is.

"As a result, it is being pulled immediately. However, all purchases to date will be honored by Coke."

Devin Schott, a student manager at one of the stores in the student union offering Cokes-for-tickets, told CBS Local Detroit that the deal was "embarrassing" for the football program.

"It definitely doesn't reflect well on the program and how well we're doing – for sure,” Schott said. “It's honestly kind of embarrassing that that can even happen. It's definitely not a positive outlook.”

Michigan and Minnesota are scheduled for a 3:30 p.m. ET kickoff on Saturday in the Big House. The Wolverines are currently 10.5-point favorites in the contest.
Well...technically, Coke purchased a block of tickets and ran the publicity stunt for the Minnesota game , not Purdue (my bad). Brandon said it was not approved (but yeah... not buying that one). So it did happen, and they honored the tickets that were sold as part of it.

Brandon touts his corporate approach as an AD so this happening is on his watch, and its embarrassing.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>envious of purdue</p>— mgoblog (@mgoblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/mgoblog/status/523528548821106688">October 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p>envious of purdue</p>— mgoblog (@mgoblog) <a href="https://twitter.com/mgoblog/status/523528548821106688">October 18, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Literally laughed out loud for that one. Michigan should be envious of Purdue. They should be envious of everyone. They need at least two decades of extreme humility to temper their arrogance.
 
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