good for you
yeah, i've been busy, so get off me. i have a paper to finish for tomorrow but i'm going to warm up (for an hour and a half apparently, because the last post took 45 minutes to write and this one will probably take just as long if not longer) by writing a couple of posts and reviving this a little.
the msu spartans just upset #2 wisconsin in basketball, a win they desperately needed. since the pistons were destroying the bucks, and since state's game was close, i decided to tune in until the end. after drew neitzel hit two incredibly LUCKY shots the spartans pulled ahead and basically clinched the game with clutch free throws and wisconsin airballs. a big congrats to state, but they undoubtedly now think they're hot shit with a guaranteed berth to the final four. in typical sparty overconfident and cocky style, they'll talk shit to us even though our basketball team is worthless (i mean, cmon now, our basketball captain was arrested for an outstanding warrant) and the fact remains that they're still a bubble team. they still have to face the fuckeyes and us at crisler, and you never know what'll happen at our house because similar worthless michigan teams have beaten state (SEE "72-67" from last january). spartans, despite their seemingly impressive 20-8 record, seem to forget about the two spankings (and on top of that, big ten asswhuppings) of the 51-73 game against indiana on january 7, and the disastrous 12 point second-half performance with their 38-62 dropping-the-soap-and-bending-over-to-pick-it-up-in-a-maximum-confinement-prison debacle on february 7 (seven is clearly NOT a lucky number for them). remember, we got lucky and somehow beat indiana, so upsetting state, particularly in our arena, is not unrealistic. even if they beat us and talk shit, we can simply counter that OUR BASKETBALL TEAM SUCKS so there's nothing to brag about. beating michigan in basketball is like a pro athlete winning a medal at the special olympics.
one thing i find funny about state is their shifting from a final four championship program to one currently with a lack of prestige. where is there evidence for this? not only is msu unranked, but their fans rushed the court after the beat wisconsin. sure, an upset is an upset, but did you see unranked michigan rushing the field and tearing down the goalposts after we upset then #5 ranked, big ten leader, and undefeated penn state in football? no, because we know we have the highest level of prestige and no one even thought to rush the field because we know we're just that good.
my point of this article is not to compare athletics, in which michigan is already historically and currently superior anyway, but rather to make an analagous critique of michigan state with the following edited Apple ads (i'm not an expert ok, give me an effing break):
we own DARTH VADER for shit's sake!
michigan is well, better at, y'know, life stuff. we don't charge $5 for cups at parties and our mary jane is much better. we have the hash bash (and the art fair) for goodness sake! not only our are athletics superior to state, but our academics go far, far beyond. don't even try to shit me on this, i know people who transferred from state and told me the academic difference in significantly different. if you're talking about the overall programs compared side by side, there's a reason why Wikipedia quotes: "According to the 2007 edition of the US News and World Report, nearly 90% of incoming students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 28% of the university's incoming class of 2006 earned a high school GPA of 4.0, while 89% earned a GPA of 3.9 or higher. The middle 50% (THE MIDDLE!) of applicants report an SAT score of about 1900-2160, and an ACT score of 27-32. AP credit was granted to over 3000 freshmen", and there's a reason why all the people who get rejected by michigan go to state (ok, you're second best, i'll give ya that). "if you can't go to college go to state, bla bla if you really really suck go to state bla bla i forget the rest."
i normally respect people from state, but now i refuse to give respects, props, whatever to a college whose students talk incredible wack shit and make up for their inadequacies by insulting wolverines and bragging about stupid fucking shit. yeah you can put up your "mgoblow" bumper sticker and say that michigan's girls are ugly, but chances are very likely that these women will wind up being your bosses in the future and so the only chance you have of advancing is by brown nosing them and possibly having to have sex with them to get ahead. how does that feel? these girls will also be ordering delivery pizzas from you in the future, so be nice to them and they may just leave you a 10% tip, even though you're an hour late per usual. you can insult us by saying we're a school of nerds, geeks, and the like, but not only are we a better athletic school in general than state, the nerds, geeks, etc. turn out to be world leaders. there's a reason why the words have been ameliorated through recent years as people desire to become more like bill gates instead of o'doyle from billy madison.
yes, i have good friends at state, and no doubt they are making advances in science and otherwise that may someday change the world. but i refuse to give respect to a school who refuses to give respect to US, who are not only a superior institution in many respects (why do you think neutral kids, and even those in state families desire to go to UM throughout their maturity?), but even if we were of equal or lower standing than state, they still wouldn't give us respect. that's just the character of their student body. maybe they're jealous, but i see them collectively as angry emo'd teenager of the youtube/myspace generation, who think the entirety of the world is gay and none of it is their fault.
maybe i'm being too harsh, and i think much of the anger will settle after my adrenaline rush (which is why english majors can crank out papers the night before they're due, such as what i have to do after i'm done with this post) wears off. but i'll still hold the basic sentiments that people from michigan state IN GENERAL (so not everybody, but mostbodies), because they have this innate sense of inferiority to the university of michigan, have a rebellious, bullied, and overall apprehensive angry attitude towards michigan, and when they have some triumph, no matter how trivial, they LOUDLY let wolverines know about it. anytime, which is mosttimes, we can brag about things and choose to (which we normally don't because we're generally humble due to our being accustomed to being better than state), they simply reply that michigan's girls are ugly or that we're geeks. get over it. the day i respect state is the day they respect us, and i don't think that will change anytime in the near future.
from the 2004-05 "top ten reasons why state sucks" tshirt (current editions widely available at pro-michigan stores and ann arbor street vendors everywhere):
10. sparty looks like a felon
9. to get a state grad off your porch, pay him for the pizza
8. alumni phrase: "will you have fries with that?"
7. team sucks more than rutgers (keep in mind this was two years ago, when rutgers wasn't good)
6. east lansing smells like fertilizer
5. sheep training/research center on campus
4. undergrad course: advanced couch burning and other moronic behavior
3. cowtipping is favorite student pastime
2. kindergarten is the only prerequisite
1. state cheerleaders and football players both suck for 4 quarters
nuff said
this wasn't supposed to be about athletics, but here's braylon anyway
now, to start my paper
the msu spartans just upset #2 wisconsin in basketball, a win they desperately needed. since the pistons were destroying the bucks, and since state's game was close, i decided to tune in until the end. after drew neitzel hit two incredibly LUCKY shots the spartans pulled ahead and basically clinched the game with clutch free throws and wisconsin airballs. a big congrats to state, but they undoubtedly now think they're hot shit with a guaranteed berth to the final four. in typical sparty overconfident and cocky style, they'll talk shit to us even though our basketball team is worthless (i mean, cmon now, our basketball captain was arrested for an outstanding warrant) and the fact remains that they're still a bubble team. they still have to face the fuckeyes and us at crisler, and you never know what'll happen at our house because similar worthless michigan teams have beaten state (SEE "72-67" from last january). spartans, despite their seemingly impressive 20-8 record, seem to forget about the two spankings (and on top of that, big ten asswhuppings) of the 51-73 game against indiana on january 7, and the disastrous 12 point second-half performance with their 38-62 dropping-the-soap-and-bending-over-to-pick-it-up-in-a-maximum-confinement-prison debacle on february 7 (seven is clearly NOT a lucky number for them). remember, we got lucky and somehow beat indiana, so upsetting state, particularly in our arena, is not unrealistic. even if they beat us and talk shit, we can simply counter that OUR BASKETBALL TEAM SUCKS so there's nothing to brag about. beating michigan in basketball is like a pro athlete winning a medal at the special olympics.
one thing i find funny about state is their shifting from a final four championship program to one currently with a lack of prestige. where is there evidence for this? not only is msu unranked, but their fans rushed the court after the beat wisconsin. sure, an upset is an upset, but did you see unranked michigan rushing the field and tearing down the goalposts after we upset then #5 ranked, big ten leader, and undefeated penn state in football? no, because we know we have the highest level of prestige and no one even thought to rush the field because we know we're just that good.
my point of this article is not to compare athletics, in which michigan is already historically and currently superior anyway, but rather to make an analagous critique of michigan state with the following edited Apple ads (i'm not an expert ok, give me an effing break):
we own DARTH VADER for shit's sake!
michigan is well, better at, y'know, life stuff. we don't charge $5 for cups at parties and our mary jane is much better. we have the hash bash (and the art fair) for goodness sake! not only our are athletics superior to state, but our academics go far, far beyond. don't even try to shit me on this, i know people who transferred from state and told me the academic difference in significantly different. if you're talking about the overall programs compared side by side, there's a reason why Wikipedia quotes: "According to the 2007 edition of the US News and World Report, nearly 90% of incoming students graduated in the top 10% of their high school class. 28% of the university's incoming class of 2006 earned a high school GPA of 4.0, while 89% earned a GPA of 3.9 or higher. The middle 50% (THE MIDDLE!) of applicants report an SAT score of about 1900-2160, and an ACT score of 27-32. AP credit was granted to over 3000 freshmen", and there's a reason why all the people who get rejected by michigan go to state (ok, you're second best, i'll give ya that). "if you can't go to college go to state, bla bla if you really really suck go to state bla bla i forget the rest."
i normally respect people from state, but now i refuse to give respects, props, whatever to a college whose students talk incredible wack shit and make up for their inadequacies by insulting wolverines and bragging about stupid fucking shit. yeah you can put up your "mgoblow" bumper sticker and say that michigan's girls are ugly, but chances are very likely that these women will wind up being your bosses in the future and so the only chance you have of advancing is by brown nosing them and possibly having to have sex with them to get ahead. how does that feel? these girls will also be ordering delivery pizzas from you in the future, so be nice to them and they may just leave you a 10% tip, even though you're an hour late per usual. you can insult us by saying we're a school of nerds, geeks, and the like, but not only are we a better athletic school in general than state, the nerds, geeks, etc. turn out to be world leaders. there's a reason why the words have been ameliorated through recent years as people desire to become more like bill gates instead of o'doyle from billy madison.
yes, i have good friends at state, and no doubt they are making advances in science and otherwise that may someday change the world. but i refuse to give respect to a school who refuses to give respect to US, who are not only a superior institution in many respects (why do you think neutral kids, and even those in state families desire to go to UM throughout their maturity?), but even if we were of equal or lower standing than state, they still wouldn't give us respect. that's just the character of their student body. maybe they're jealous, but i see them collectively as angry emo'd teenager of the youtube/myspace generation, who think the entirety of the world is gay and none of it is their fault.
maybe i'm being too harsh, and i think much of the anger will settle after my adrenaline rush (which is why english majors can crank out papers the night before they're due, such as what i have to do after i'm done with this post) wears off. but i'll still hold the basic sentiments that people from michigan state IN GENERAL (so not everybody, but mostbodies), because they have this innate sense of inferiority to the university of michigan, have a rebellious, bullied, and overall apprehensive angry attitude towards michigan, and when they have some triumph, no matter how trivial, they LOUDLY let wolverines know about it. anytime, which is mosttimes, we can brag about things and choose to (which we normally don't because we're generally humble due to our being accustomed to being better than state), they simply reply that michigan's girls are ugly or that we're geeks. get over it. the day i respect state is the day they respect us, and i don't think that will change anytime in the near future.
from the 2004-05 "top ten reasons why state sucks" tshirt (current editions widely available at pro-michigan stores and ann arbor street vendors everywhere):
10. sparty looks like a felon
9. to get a state grad off your porch, pay him for the pizza
8. alumni phrase: "will you have fries with that?"
7. team sucks more than rutgers (keep in mind this was two years ago, when rutgers wasn't good)
6. east lansing smells like fertilizer
5. sheep training/research center on campus
4. undergrad course: advanced couch burning and other moronic behavior
3. cowtipping is favorite student pastime
2. kindergarten is the only prerequisite
1. state cheerleaders and football players both suck for 4 quarters
nuff said
this wasn't supposed to be about athletics, but here's braylon anyway
now, to start my paper
posted by KTrain at 11:42 PM
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