I swear it would be a bit you guys do every now and again, to rile things up. ;)

WTF is this kid’s problem anyway? I don’t go trolling MGo to look for shit that pisses me off.

who does this guy think he is?? it would have been ridiculous enough if he hadn’t specifically called people out. with this list he discredits about 100 blogs i’d much rather read before mgo. is this guy 55 years old?? b/c he really does come off very buzz bizzinger-ish.

...there is a reason he’s a giant in the sports blogosphere. The guy is absolutely amazing at covering the Michigan Wolverines, and were I a Michigan fan mgoblog would be the first thing I checked every morning and the last thing I checked at night. His problem is that he likes to shoot his mouth off about other stuff that he really shouldn’t and, despite being a hell of a writer and an amazing stats cruncher, he’s just a dick.

BTW-

180 DAYS (+,-) TILL UM RECEIVES ITS ANNUAL BUCKEYE BEATDOWN!

...about those god-awful countdown posts. Memphis Tider does it right: countdown is an addition to other content. The number of days until kick-off is not, itself, content. Adding some photo to the giant number doesn’t really save it.

The tag on this post should bring up far more responses than it does.

Let him sit in his tower. Keep on doing your thing, RBR. Although, the spam comment above this probably couldn’t have come at a worse time…

I did find Brian’s post a little odd. I also find it amusing that the interracial dating spammer hit both of our posts about The Great Cheesecake War.

I really wouldn’t get bent out of shape about what he posted. Almost all of Brian Cook’s writing has an undeniably tongue-in-cheek tone. He might poke at people, but I doubt he means anything by it. There’s really no need to get upset. If he doesn’t like what you do, big deal. You can’t please everybody. Try not to feel insulted.

I don’t know why I’m defending the guy, but judging from what I’ve seen he spreads his criticism equally and it all seems to be meant humorously. He probably thinks everyone should lighten up. Again, I don’t know him, but I do think people might take his stuff way more seriously than he intends for them to take it. He’s joking.

I mean, this is football, a game played by kids, by egomaniacal jocks and scholastically incompetent meatheads in most cases; it’s coached by older versions of the aforementioned meatheads. All I’m saying is, it is a little ridiculous that we get riled up about something that’s a little silly to begin with, you know? Cook’s not trying to start stuff, he’s just taking a friendly jab.

Secondly, the interracial dating spammer is the first one I’ve seen on RBR. I know the benefits of interracial relationships better than most Caucasians, having dated almost everything (and they looked good, too, homie) and married an Asian babe with an awesome booty, so I will say this: people are people. It’s all the same. If something seems better or turns you on more, it’s all in your head. Yeah…so in other words, do whatever you want. But if you just go after one particular race you’ll probably be disappointed when you actually date someone from that race. If you set these kind of expectations for an interracial relationship, no one can ever live up to it.

I wrote a bunch more but I erased it. He looks down on the south, which obviously gives him a hard on and shows how ignorant he is.

I also echo Bamagrad’s sentiments. My wife is black, and I have dated all races as well. It has nothing to do with race, but the person inside and how well you connect.

Shouldn’t it REALLY conclude with, “Without Brian Cook, we are nothing?” Just checkin?

I am still stunned by the idea that he wrote: ” who is McPhee.” I would be willing to give him a little more credence with the whole Snow thing, but what? McPhee is an incredibly beautiful women, and was definitely my favorite sweetheart. I always kind of dug it that RBR did not just put up pictures of the new it girl.

I think we can all come to agreement, Cook is a flaming douche bag! I would make some statement about how I will never read his blog again, but frankly I could care less about UM football.

Cook didn’t mention having a problem with the beefcake pics.

Just saying….

what a dick.

i mean i am an auburn graduate raised a vol and i really don’t like you guys (but this blog is really well done and i check it every day), but, srsly, screw cook and screw michigan

that guy is a smarmy prick

do on their blogs is humorous, but I prefer Outside the Lines coverage and not just because it’s about Bama. While both Orson and Cook are talented, they lack the discipline of real journalists. I’m sure they prefer it this way, but I’m old school in this regard. I likes me some discipline and I don’t find the “I’m so much smarter than you…look at how obscure my word choics are” work of most bloggers to be anything more than pretentious, juvenile writing. They are capable of doing it the right way, they just don’t want to. So whatever. if they want to make fun of coaches and players who would physically hurt them badly if their paths ever crossed, that’s their mistake. I’m sure it’s easy to make fun of people who have no way of returning the favor (because it’s always easier to criticize than to actually do) but it’s not right. I’ve been there in the locker room. I know guys get bothered by what the newspapers say and I know they don’t like what bloggers say (especially if it makes fun of them the way EDSBS and Brian Cook do). I’d also be willing to bet Orson and Brian would reconsider a lot of what they post if they actually had to face the coaches and players they rip on a daily/weekly basis. They don’t strike me as big, physical, athletic, and tough guys, so I can’t believe they would say some of what they say. Maybe they think they’re so smart that they can get away with it. Either way, it’s not cool and it would never be permitted in a real newspaper.

For my preference, I like RollBamaRoll. OTL does a great job because he has a sense of integrity and I’ve never seen any of the childish, “Tommy Tuberville is a hermaphrodite” posts, which you see frequently at some of the other blogs. If I want to read Hunter S. Thompson, I’ll read Hunter S. Thompson, not an imitator, and certainly not an imitator who comes across as smarmy and meanspirited more often than he should.

I honestly don’t want to see anyone get bothered by any more of this. People are too hateful in this age. I know Cook was being a jerk by singling Todd out, but try to brush it off. If anyone has a problem in this situation, it’s Cook. Don’t keep the fire going if you can just turn the other cheek or walk away from the conflict. A wise man once told me an asswhipping can be the best thing that ever happens to a person. Why? Because it brings a cocky person back down to earth, because it knocks the smartass out of a smartass. I’m not suggesting someone beat up Brian Cook, but I do think he should learn some humility. It’s clear he has gone through life without being humbled.

“Football’s version of Comic Book Guy”

“Tommy Tuberville is a hermaphrodite”

That made my day…

Cookz es n AZZHOL…RBR Rulez teh Intrnetz Wo0T!!!!!

Is there any doubt this is a pre-emptive strike for the inevitable “Brian Cook was wrong to single us out for oversigning and here’s why” article? I mean, we all knew it then, but obviously couldn’t “prove” anything. As the weeks have passed, it’s become clearer and clearer that, as usual, Saban knew exactly what he was doing. Which, zero sum speaking, means Cook is probably realizing as well, yet he comes out on the bad side of that equation.

Hey, I just had what I think might be a genius epiphany. Not only do I think y’all should savor this knowledge, I think there should be a “Brian Cook was wrong and let us count the ways” article countdown. Easy way to drum up offseason interest AND you get to push an admitted button. Win-win.

this guy is a complete moron who predicates his arguments on outright fabrications. it’s childish behavior and we only reward it by visiting his blog. for example i have a 4 month old puppy, when she pisses on the floor, I tell her “NO” in a stern tone and take her outside, but do not reward her with attention. we need to treat this d-bag the same way.

and like an earlier commenter said, michigan is pretty much irrelevant at this point. they just upgraded their head coach but the boosters dont like him, so he’ll be hamstrung and gone after 3 seasons, then they’ll be back to square one. in the meantime, if JoePa’s successor takes the reins smoothly, then michigan will likely wind up hoping to compete for third and fourth place in their feeble “conference”. (tOSU and Wisky are set up to run smoother than teddy pendergrass for the next several seasons. UM will be slugging it out w/ illinois, penn st, and iowa for holiday bowls at best)

. . .talk about Appalachian State? How about Rose Bowl vs. USC and their vaunted offensive and defensive lines?

I don’t know about you Brian Cook. You wanna arse-whoopin’, you can sure as hell come over here and get one. (i’m gettin’ my belt out already, you silly duncebucket. why i oughtta. . . . .;-)

Cheesecake? I’m sorry, that’s just a tad too close to “beefcake”. I try to make it a point to not tap out switch hitters. It just ain’t fair.