Reversing the Rivalry:Michigan State vs. Michigan

:Dear Michigan fans, 

 
     You now know what it was like to be us (MSU fans), before 2009. Your team can't beat ours unless we make so few plays or so many mistakes it happens on accident. We're now, over the last six years, way better in every facet of football. So the roles have reversed, sort of. The difference is what hasn't changed. For the past 25 years you were supposed to be better and you still are. You have better recruits, spend and make more money and stretch your academic standards further (by proxy of Michigan's outstanding academic reputation of course). In East Lansing, little brother has to make due with three star recruits more often than not, in A squared, five star recruits are annually en vogue. So why doesn't Michigan still make mince meat out of the seemingly second-rate Spartans?

 The reason, and few if any of you will admit it, is that your coach stinks. Brady Hoke, a bumbling ball of ineptitude, tired cliches and plagiarized rhetoric is arguably the worst coach in Michigan History. Say what you will about Rich Rodriguez, but he failed because Michigan University and it old guard/good ole boy network set him up to do so. They convinced players to transfer, leaked true and false information to the press about Rodriguez, and even got NCAA violations charged against their own team. Some Michigan fans rooted against the Wolverines hoping for his firing. And now, three years later Michigan is mired in a methodical regression as the aforementioned Rodriguez' recruits continue to start over the supposedly superior and frequently five-starred Hokeamaniacs. Gardner, Fitz, Gallon, Lewan, Ryan, Schofield, Countess are all RichRod recruits. Many more as well. 

   So why do I know that Hoke stinks? Well aside from the fact that Michigan has never beaten a quality opponent in two and a half years with his heftiness at the helm, and the fact that they have no identity on offense or defense and never seem to develop any players at any position, most notable in the trenches were Michigan had always been elite under Carr, Moeller and Bo...HE DOESN'T WEAR A HEADSET. Guess who else doesn't wear a headset, NO ONE. All other FBS coaches do. Hoke calls them overrated, like his recruiting classes. Meanwhile his team is among the worst in close games during his tenure of any major conference contender, losing three times for every win against a ranked opponent. The only other major program coaches I remember without headsets in the last decade are ceremonial figure heads Bobby Bowden and fellow Octogenarian Joe Paterno. Perhaps if Paterno had a headset he would have been aware of what was going on within his pedophile friendly program. For Hoke the hope is maybe he'll put one on now after a third embarrassing loss in five rivalry games and another on the way against Urban Meyer and the Bucks. If nothing else maybe he can listen to Kanye Wests' Yeezus, I love that album.