Eastern Michigan

[Inyatkin]

Less than a minute from taking down Michigan. Derrick Dial memories come flooding back.

 

[Penfield]

hey, at least we're not Michigan right?

 

[UconnU]

They shouldn't worry they only have to go to Arizona next.

 

[Gurleyman]

hey, at least we're not Michigan right?

Michigan has recently been in the national title game, they're slumping early this year with 3 losses, their last two losses were one-possession games at home, their last loss was to an in state rival despite only allowing 45 points, and they're in the Big 10.

I wish we were just a little more like them.

 

[superjohn]

Michigan has recently been in the national title game, they're slumping early this year with 3 losses, their last two losses were one-possession games at home, their last loss was to an in state rival despite only allowing 45 points, and they're in the Big 10.

I wish we were just a little more like them.

UConn won the national title last year and is slumping early. Yes we would all like to be in the Big 10 but Michigan's last 2 losses are rancid. NJIT is known as the worst program in D1, jealous of Michigan being in the Big 10 but any UConn basketball fan that wants to be anything like Michigan in hoops is bonkers.

 

[champs99and04]

You gotta remember that only about half of gurleyman's posts are serious.

 

[chapwilvaug72]

lets seize wolverines vs huskees; a fun forties funk; who wins; who cares

 

[HuskyBballFan]

What's interesting is that Eastern Michigan is Syracuse-light - they're coached by a Cuse guy, they play the 2-3 zone, etc. Of course, they don't have 6'9'' guys flying all over the court like Syracuse does. But only one of those teams went into Ann Arbor and got a win.

 

[mauconnfan]

hey, at least we're not Michigan right?

The problem is we are until we beat Coppin State!

 

[chapwilvaug72]

Coppin has some 6-8's that can clog wit zone

no cakewalk for dis Iditerod challenged sledteam

 

[Kitaman]

I know we aren't making fun of Michigan's mess, are we? Our glass house is still under construction.

 

[Kembacity]

ugh chap just give it a rest, really

Cant stand reading legitimate posts and then while scrolling down I get to one with purposefully awful prose, spelling, littered with the term "sledteam" and I am forced to sigh before scrolling down past it.

mods, please make a dummy forum where he can post and words from our posts are randomly re-ordered and posted there as responses. He will make perfect sense of them, he will be happy, its basically a forum version of a mental institution

 

[Penfield]

I was just trying to lighten the mood a bit, but I guess it was "too soon".

 

[CAHUSKY]

ugh chap just give it a rest, really

Cant stand reading legitimate posts and then while scrolling down I get to one with purposefully awful prose, spelling, littered with the term "sledteam" and I am forced to sigh before scrolling down past it.

mods, please make a dummy forum where he can post and words from our posts are randomly re-ordered and posted there as responses. He will make perfect sense of them, he will be happy, its basically a forum version of a mental institution

Put him on ignore. Haven't seen one of his posts in months.

 

[7774]

I know we aren't making fun of Michigan's mess, are we? Our glass house is still under construction.

The thing is, we can accessorize our glass house with two National Championship trophies from the last 4 years. So unless Michigan won the other two, I'm probably going to make fun of them if I want. They lost to a team that doesn't even have seats on one side of their gym.

 

[Penfield]

Misery loves company. If we are having a rough time I usually enjoy seeing other programs (Michigan, Cuse, PC) having a tough time too. Maybe it's just me though.

 

[tcf15]

Misery loves company. If we are having a rough time I usually enjoy seeing other programs (Michigan, Cuse, PC) having a tough time too. Maybe it's just me though.

Me, too. Losing to Yale sucked, but then I can say well at least we didn't lose to NJIT.

 

[HooperScooper]

Put him on ignore. Haven't seen one of his posts in months.

I did the same. Only poster on the Boneyard I've ever put on ignore.

 

[Inyatkin]

Me, too. Losing to Yale sucked, but then I can say well at least we didn't lose to NJIT.

Of course, that might be because we didn't play NJIT.

 

[pj]

You gotta remember that only about half of gurleyman's posts are serious.

OK, which half of this post was serious?

I was always pretty sure that his name was only half serious, but I couldn't tell which half -- the gurl or the man.

 

[Shabazzkets]

Who is more likely to make the tourney, Michigan or UConn? Michigan has a recent history of performing badly in the non-conference, but really well in conference, so you'd almost give the edge to Michigan. But, all UConn needs to do is win a super-winnable AAC tourney here in Hartford, whereas UM has a tough conference tourney with Wisconsin waiting. So I give the edge to UConn, although only slightly.

 

[Gurleyman]

OK, which half of this post was serious? I was always pretty sure that his name was only half serious, but I couldn't tell which half -- the gurl or the man.

Grew up on Gurleyville Road (down a hill and up a hill from UConn's campus), and Hans+Franz (where the phrase came from) was a popular SNL skit from my college days, so it worked as a generational reference as well. My last handle was actually specific to the area I was living in at the time, and then I moved, so it didn't make any sense any more. This one will work until I vacate my earthly vessel, or UConn stops playing sports, whatever comes first.

As for the last post, the serious part is that I really wish we had our conference situation all locked and in place (I'd prefer Big 10, but understand we are in full beggar mode when it comes to choosing our home). I don't, however, want to be Michigan's basketball program right now or equate it to ours in recent history (they lost the title game in 2013, and while EMU and Yale are perfect parallels, NJIT and Texas aren't quite so much).

However, I can't help but think of a scene from Airplane where the flight attendant, fearing the end is near, is all sad about never getting married. Another woman (who didn't hear the conversation) strolls by and says, "I've never been so scared in my life, but at least I have a husband." I feel like when we experience a little schadenfreude, a Michigan or whoever can say, "We've never had a worse loss, but at least we have a conference."

 

[CallMeBruce]

I used to live on Gurleyville Road!

 

[Gurleyman]

I used to live on Gurleyville Road!

Too late. Handle is taken. If you get tired of Bruce, you can maybe take one of the adjoining streets and be Chaffeeman or Horsebarn Hillman.