Ah yes, the sleepy town of Fraud City. After a tumultuous past few weeks full of tumult and, uh, uous, Fraud City has turned into a Midwestern town full of good, land tilling families, where people go about their own business and everyone knows everyone.
See, this week had a few frauds, but these frauds were known to be frauds long before the past Saturday. Like I said…the sleepy town of Fraud City.
First off…Ohio State’s uniforms. Those things were fucking hideous. Never EVER wear those again. I love Nike, but they went too fucking far with that shit. Seriously…what the fuck was up with those stripes on the back of the pants? That was completely unnecessary. You made one of the most aesthetically pleasing matchups you could want look like utter crap. Michigan blue vs. Ohio State in white is GORGEOUS…and you ruined it.
Wisconsin is a fraud, but did anyone believe in them to begin with? Fuck no. Aside from John Clay, this team sucks.
Wisconsin West, Stanford, was just as meh. These teams wouldn’t stand a chance in the mayoral race even if they were the only team to be upset this weekend. Why? Well, first of all, they lost to decent teams. I’ve been saying all year long that Northwestern is better than people think. Losing to Northwestern is not a bad thing. It happens. They run a good, solid offense and are disciplined on defense. And while the don’t have the greatest athletes, they’re still a team that can beat you, especially when Mike Kafka is goin’ philosophical on your ass. And losing to a ranked team in Cal, like Stanford did? Shit happens, especially in rivalry games.
That’s why there’s only one legitimate mayoral candidate this week.Michigan.
Just kidding. They played as well as they could’ve against Ohio State in spite of their coach who runs an “exotic” spread that has Denard Robinson in an empty backfield run keepers for two downs and then decide to bring in another QB, who instantly throws an INT. That loss wasn’t on their players, who played their asses off, it was on Rich Rod. And thank whomever’s calling the shots up there that Brandon Graham is gone. That guy is nightmare fuel.
I may have talked all sorts of shit about Michigan this year, but I have respect for the players (aside from Tate Forcier, who’s a walking, talking pile of human waste) and the program. They just made the wrong choice in coaches. Sorry, but it happens every now and then. I’ve said that changing coaches two years in would be just retarded, but at this point, when Rich Rod started pointing fingers at the previous regime and the players in his postgame presser, he’s just not a good fit. While you have to consider things like recruiting and personnel moving forward with a new scheme, you also have to think about all those new luxury boxes that need to be sold to the blue blood fanbase that hates his guts.
Ok…Tate Forcier is a fraud. Fuck that douchebag.
Anyways…this week’s mayor, LSU.
I’m not really going to delve into a whole bunch of reasons why, instead, I’ll just ask this…if you didn’t call for the spike, Les, who did?
DAMNING!!!
But should we be surprised? No.
LSU was average all year, scraping by against poor opponents. They were anemic on offense and inconsistent on defense, and really, even though they were facing perhaps the fraudiest of all preseason frauds, a loss here wasn’t going to be that big of a shock.
But, as with US Grant actually becoming a president, someone had to win this race, so why not the Mad Hatter and his squad full o’ Cajuns?
(H/T .gif: EDSBS and the gloriously talented LSUFreek)
I am glad that people are finally being exposed to the fraud that is Les Miles.
I remember he got all that credit a few years for scoring a TD in that one game, where all he needed was a field goal, and the play was a miracle to begin with. He is an idiot and a horrible coach.
That is one way to look at it. Not the correct way, but whatever.
But I heard they were 5 oz. lighter. Thanks, ABC, for the 10 minute spiel explaining this to me.
i just want to know why they couldn’t have used that technology in OSU’s standard unis. instead, they forced the buckeyes to look like that without any buckeye leaves. fuck that noise.
Nike demands your soul in return for doing business. Trust me, I’m no stranger to this.
Awesome gif.
Care to give us the correct way to look at it?
bbryan, have you ever been to the Nike employee discount vault? I heard it’s the tits supreme.
Sure, but you are going to have to put your anti Michigan bias aside for a second. Anyway, the quote that people are referring to is this(paraphrasing): We need to get better, we have had a few bad Februarys. when RichRod said that they have had a few bad Februarys, that isn’t necessarily a shot at the previous coaching staff (although Lloyd was falling off a bit on the recruiting). He was trying to say was that the outcome has not been as expected with attrition and players not living up to their star rankings. Neither of these things are necessarily Lloyd’s fault. The media, and Michigan haters in general have been quick to take everything RichRod says and turn it into something negative. The truth is that RR isn’t media savvy and tends to talk too much, something Lloyd never did.
This is true. Been there several times. Always drop several hundred dollars.
I get what you are saying but it sounds like that is exactly what he is doing.
Maybe, but it’s kinda true anyways, Lloyd’s last few recruiting classes did not live up to his standards. Also, he was recruiting for a different type of offense.
I’m excited anytime Les Miles is mentioned because it means I can get Mor Miles out of the Les Miles joke.
I liked the Buckeye helmets. Now if only Penn State and the Browns would just add numbers to the side of the helmet, it’d be jizztastic.
I actually thought the throwback helmets were better than the normal helmets.
I was most impressed by the Minnesota Vikings home uniforms yesterday.
I believe this is the correct answer.
I still don’t think he was throwing anyone under the bus.
Genius. Well played.
Yeah it is awesome, Quizz is right, always drop a few hundy going in there. And it’s well worth it.
@Paris – quotes like that develop legs in a hurry, but I see what you are saying there. Do you think he’s the right guy at Michigan?
I see some good things, next year will be the make or break year. The offense can move the ball, the defense is horrendous. Firing him now would be a bigger disaster in my opinion.
I would tend to agree that firing him now is not the correct play, but he sure doesn’t seem to fit. Although nothing a winning season couldn’t fix.
Ohio State’s uniforms. Those things were fucking hideous.
they were awesome waist up. they would look so nice with the normal pants.