Beware of the Michiganders

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shenvalvol said:
The back bone of the UT staff is from Michigan.
Life is tough in Michigan. It produces some of the nicest people because they have to have a community spirit and dedication to family just to get through winter. They also have to be tough, real tough. As to how it relates to coaches from MI, i give you Schembechler and Izzo as examples. After digging for some info on our staff and coach, i believe that he/they will bring this toughness and relentlessness to UT. CBJ is known to a be a very, very tough, disciplined coach. There will be no coddling or prima donnas here and attrition will be a short term problem. As a further prediction when we start to win again, it will often be in the 4th quarter. Finally, CBJ will be one of the nicest, most personable men while he is stepping on our opponents neck.
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You are correct, the winter's can be brutal in Michigan. Also, the Detroit area is beautiful, but rough. Bo Schembechler was from Ohio though.

How many Tennessee players have come from Michigan???
Terry McDaniel is the only one coming to mind right now. Bur it is early.
 
#54
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BookVol said:
Memphis isn't so bad. But west Tennessee loses in every category except agriculture to Middle and East.
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Memphis drags the whole state down. If you were to look at crime and education statistics for the state sans-Memphis, Tennessee would be very competitive with other high ranking states.

Also, Michigan is pretty dumpy, but not as bad as Ohio, especially northeast Ohio. I lived in Cleveland for 8 years and I can honestly say I would rather live in Arkansas or Louisiana.

I liked visiting South Haven, MI with my family, but South Haven is right on the lake. The rest of southern Michigan is nothing like that.


Anyway, none of that pertains to CBJ. I still dont trust that he can do the job in the SEC until I see him actually beat Bama or Florida.
 
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shenvalvol said:
The back bone of the UT staff is from Michigan.
Life is tough in Michigan. It produces some of the nicest people because they have to have a community spirit and dedication to family just to get through winter. They also have to be tough, real tough. As to how it relates to coaches from MI, i give you Schembechler and Izzo as examples. After digging for some info on our staff and coach, i believe that he/they will bring this toughness and relentlessness to UT. CBJ is known to a be a very, very tough, disciplined coach. There will be no coddling or prima donnas here and attrition will be a short term problem. As a further prediction when we start to win again, it will often be in the 4th quarter. Finally, CBJ will be one of the nicest, most personable men while he is stepping on our opponents neck.
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Bwahahaha! I've got plenty of experience with the wave of Michiganders who moved down to work at Saturn. As a group, I'd say that most of them are 180 degrees from what you describe. Of course, I've dealt mostly with self-entitled union, member types who tend to think the effort ends when the probationary period OTJ is up.
 
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I have an entirely different perspective on Michiganians- They migrate in droves to Crossville(esp. Fairfield Glade), and we have quite a few that have been patients at the surgery center where I work. I pre-op patients for surgery, and they are the very ones that I hate to get medical history from, as they are rude , abrupt and often antagonistic. They often have the opinion that they are far superior to us common folk in the South in education, culture etc... and they want to change the South into a Michigan clone. Excuse me, but we certainly don't want to be like Michigan.... But perhaps some of our Southern gentility can eventually rub off on them.
 
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I thought it was Meeechiganians...

Seriously though, they got some interesting ones in the Upper Peninsula (UP), "you-pers" for short.
 
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bornbleddinorange said:
Don't forget to add IMO at the end of your sentence so you don't make the rest of us look like ass holes
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"IMO" is a good qualifier for non-factual opinions. I don't use IMO for things that I have actually observed on repeated occasions over time (i.e. beliefs based on empirical evidence). There was a qualifier in my post for those whose reading comprehension skills exceed remedial texting acronyms.
 
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84vol said:
They often have the opinion that they are far superior to us common folk in the South in education, culture etc... and they want to change the South into a Michigan clone. Excuse me, but we certainly don't want to be like Michigan.... But perhaps some of our Southern gentility can eventually rub off on them.
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When they get to yankee this and yankee that, I always say, "Ifin it was so good there what the hell yall doin here?
 
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Vol in Mich said:
How many Michiganders do you actually know?
FYI, I was born & raised in Chattanooga, why else would I be a Vol fan? :p
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Is it appropriate for me to play the "I have Michigander friends" at this point? Or has that horse left the barn? I don't know why but I felt compelled to respond to the goofiness of the op in this thread. There's no inherent ethic of any state's residents that's going to make them win more games as a college football coach. If that were the case, every program would hire coaches from that hail from the same place. I'm giving this staff my patience, which is about all I can give at this point. I'm too old and too pissed off about the state of the program and the debacle of search to grab my orange pom poms and go get a backpiece tattoo in the shape of the Upper Peninsula with a script BUTCH in the center.
 
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Well living in So. Bend In which is right on the Mich boarder I have to say Michiganders and Michiganians(both are actually used and correct) are the WORST drivers EVER!!! I'm not sure the policies in some of the southern states but Michigan is a no-fault accident state, meaning it doesn't matter who or what caused the auto accident, each driver is responsible for their own damages and injuries. With this being the case they driver like complete and total "donkeys" and don't realize that that "policy" doesn't carry over into other states. My mother was in an accident, in indiana, that was caused by a Michigan driver. Well it took over 2 years to get the other driver and thier insurance company to understand that in indiana, if you caused the accident, you pay all the damages and injuries and during that whole time and process my mom received LOTS of threatening calls from both the driver and insurance company.
So while some may be tough and driven, My experience with them has been that they are more arrogant and ignorant than people from any other state. But as always while this may be the case with some and maybe even most, does not mean that we should just assume that its true for all. Theres great people everywhere and just because someone is from a certain area we can't assume anything about them. The only way to find out if someone is a great person, is driven, is tough, or is a "donkey" is to give them time and let them prove themselves.
 
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shenvalvol said:
It produces some of the nicest people because they have to have a community spirit and dedication to family just to get through winter.
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I have never met 2 people from Michigan I actually liked... and I have family there. They lack the Southern hospitality and manners that we have all grown to expect. a rudeness... snubbish attitude that makes me want to cram a fist through their teeth.
 
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There are nice people and rude people from every state. I've met some wonderful people from Michigan
 
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