Wolverine Liberation Army

He was quietly adamant during recruitment. His demands, you may say, were to simply have a legitimate chance to play quarterback.  That is what he played in high school. He had a rocket arm and oh, yes, may run a sub 1 second 40.

Unfortunately for him, it seems most coaches were less than impressed by his relatively meager throwing highlights in high school and more enthused with the promise he showed carrying the ball.

I do not have the impression that he was demanding a starting spot or any guarantees. Rather, a simple chance to show that Yes, He Can (play QB).

Fortunately for him, Rich Rodriguez, perhaps desperate, told him he’d be able to compete at the position.

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Bring on Notre Dame.

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We have an orgy of content for you! See our UConn game roundtable, cfaller’s paean to Cam Gordon, chitownblue’s breakdown of the laughable UConn program, and dex strapping his hands across MICH’s engines once again.

Finally, this was written/posted before I read Orson’s eerily thematically similar (and excellent) post here.

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After agonizing over musical accompaniment for this season … I returned to an old friend. Take it away, Professor …

I picture Rich Rodriguez hunched on a couch with a notebook in hand while silent practice film flickers on the screen. He takes a note, rewinds, and takes another.

I imagine Denard Robinson, Devin Gardner and Tate Forcier nodding in compliance as yet another offensive meeting rolls on. They occasionally look at each other with the friendship forged among a unit in combat together, mixed with an aloofness that comes with the knowledge only one of you will emerge the victor.

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Who in the fuck wears a double breasted suit?

Comrades, I am from Connecticut. It’s a nice, albeit boring place. Yes, there are clam-bakes, town squares, and copious amount of lobster. Even some appreciable amounts of political corruption. There’s plenty of money (highest per capita income in the US!), lots of cigar wrappers, Julia Roberts’ old pizza parlor, guns, subs, helicopters, and plenty of Insurance. And Yale. And boat shoes, obviously.

What there isn’t, comrades, are many sports fans. Their one professional franchise – the Hartford Whalers, slinked off to frigid North Carolina after decades of being sentenced to play in a mall. Depending on their locale in the state, people generally follow New York or Boston franchises. So what I’m saying, really, is that there are plenty of front-runners. The single largest rooting interest in the state is Women’s Basketball (wonder why?) and the lone professional team is owned by (and plays at) an Indian Casino. UConn Basketball grew in possibility the moment Tate George propelled them to the Sweet 16 in 1990, and now, apparently there are college football fans.

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