(09-06-2013 12:30 PM)Max Power Wrote:  I for one don't think there's nearly enough posts in this thread devoted to analysis of what one teenager thinks "matters" and why.

I concur my good sir. Please people, get back to the cattiness.

(09-06-2013 12:42 PM)HuskiePride12 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 10:57 AM)niu79 Wrote:  Where in this article does it say that NIU Huskie football does not matter? The kid said he wanted to play for Michigan, where football matters, that's all.

Besides never dissing NIU, the kid is absolutely correct.

You guys need to stop reading S%$t into every article you read.

+1

Agreed. Who cares? They're 18. I'd rather have kids that wanna be here come play for the Huskies. NIU gets and develops good recruits regardless.

(09-06-2013 12:21 PM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 12:07 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 12:02 PM)GCD70 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 11:50 AM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  why does any of this matter? moving on.

does it really matter what this kid says

it does not!

Yes, it matters, cause their dad was the NIU doctor. It's lack of respect for the university and the league in which NIU is a member. Period. If the dad didn't work for the university it would be a non-issue.

this means nothing, why sweat the minutia of such irrelavant things.

(09-06-2013 12:57 PM)GCD70 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 12:21 PM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 12:07 PM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 12:02 PM)GCD70 Wrote:  

(09-06-2013 11:50 AM)huskiealum03 Wrote:  why does any of this matter? moving on.

does it really matter what this kid says

it does not!

Yes, it matters, cause their dad was the NIU doctor. It's lack of respect for the university and the league in which NIU is a member. Period. If the dad didn't work for the university it would be a non-issue.

this means nothing, why sweat the minutia of such irrelavant things.

Becker took Graham to Ann Arbor and “Brady (Hoke) was beautiful. He grabs Graham by his arm, he starts pinching him, testing him to see what he’s made of all over his body. He gave him the beef test.”

Hoke gave him the beef test?

(09-06-2013 09:43 AM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  This kid disrespects NIU, the school that signs his dad's checks! What a pompous ass! Story says the kid was getting recruited some by MAC schools in high school but he wasn't interested (never mind the fact that no scholarships were being offered!). He says he started paying attention to Jerry Kill when he went to Minnesota, because if he's gonna continue playing in college he wanted to play in the Big Ten where it "mattered!" (And yet, NIU is the same team that beat Minnesota the year before Kill arrived! Glasgow has a short memory or doesn't want to give his dad's team any props!)
I'm not on Facebook. You posters who have Facebook accounts can post comments on the end of this story in the Detroit Free Press about the Glasgow boys.



http://www.freep.com/article/20130906/SP...an-glasgow

Really? Exactly where did that happen?

Pen1s envy much? Geezus, let it go. They are good kids and from a good family.

(09-06-2013 12:21 PM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  Yes, it matters, cause their dad was the NIU doctor. It's lack of respect for the university and the league in which NIU is a member. Period. If the dad didn't work for the university it would be a non-issue.

His dad is one of the very best orthopods in the country and became associated with NIU at a time when the program wasn't as successful. He has helped countless Huskie athletes in many sports, but especially football. His dad more than earned whatever he was paid while he was -- note he is no longer the team physician -- with the program. As others have noted, you're reading way too much into the comment of a kid who is, by the way, entitled to his opinion. Your comments are more disrespectful to a family that is well-liked, respected, and appreciated in this community for the institute they run.

think skinned NIU fans? there's a first.

(09-06-2013 07:46 PM)perimeterpost Wrote:  think skinned NIU fans? there's a first.

Quit trolling and Go back to the MAC board.

1 new page later, and this still does not matter

we are coming off of a MAC championship, an ORANGE BOWL appearance, a highly enjoyable win at Iowa City...why will some pimple popping teen's preference to play at Minnesota (whom we can beat) burst that euphoria that we have already

We will see if football matters at NIU on home opener!! If we don't sell out a game after a BCS birth that is sad!!!!!


This article doesn't matter they didnt get offered MAC and they said they went where football matters!!! Look at the crowd and fan difference!!!

Who cares!!! We are winning and that's all that matters

(09-06-2013 11:02 AM)BarsemaBone2 Wrote:  Can we please close this thread? It's kind of embarassing.

You. Are. Right.

I'm a NIU homer and alum, but given a choice to play for NIU or Michigan I would choose Michigan every time. This is no slight on NIU and our program. Michigan is now and will always be a better alternative. If you can't see this, the rose in your classes is not transparent enough.

(09-08-2013 09:59 AM)shack66 Wrote:  I'm a NIU homer and alum, but given a choice to play for NIU or Michigan I would choose Michigan every time. This is no slight on NIU and our program. Michigan is now and will always be a better alternative. If you can't see this, the rose in your classes is not transparent enough.

That he chose Michigan over NIU is not my beef when I started the thread. My problem with him was that he dissed the MAC and niu in general, even though his dad was the Huskies' team doctor. He showed no respect to the MAC at all, even though coming out of high school he was a marginal D1 talent.

(09-08-2013 10:06 AM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  He showed no respect to the MAC at all, even though coming out of high school he was a marginal D1 talent.

Did you happen to see that "marginal D1 talent" as one of three linemen making their second starts for Michigan in last night's victory over the vaunted FIGTHING IRISH?
Here's the deal, there are a lot of really talented players in the MAC, some of whom play with a chip on their shoulders because they didn't get the offer they're convinced they deserved from a B1G, SEC, ND, etc. and they have a great career. Then there are those who pass up scholarship offers, greater playing time and starting opportunities because they did get that "big" offer; they work their tails off and succeed while some others like them spend their careers on the bench. Which was the right move? How do you expect a teenager to make the right decision and why would you expect that kid not to say he made the right decision?

All he had to say was it was nice of NIU to show interest, but I really wanted to try to play football in the B10. No need to take a jab at NIU or the MAC. 18 or not shows the kid needs an attitude change.

oh for goodness sakes...move on, I'm sure the kid was just answering the questions asked and had no idea how it came off...

(09-08-2013 11:50 AM)HuskieJ Wrote:  All he had to say was it was nice of NIU to show interest, but I really wanted to try to play football in the B10. No need to take a jab at NIU or the MAC. 18 or not shows the kid needs an attitude change.

He never said that.

I think you need an attitude change.

(09-08-2013 11:50 AM)HuskieJ Wrote:  All he had to say was it was nice of NIU to show interest, but I really wanted to try to play football in the B10. No need to take a jab at NIU or the MAC. 18 or not shows the kid needs an attitude change.

When you were 18, did you ever say anything without first considering how it would upset some people with blinders on posting on a website?
For God's sake, go back and read the frickin article.
Mid-American Conference schools were chasing Graham. Western Michigan wanted a visit during Marmion’s title-game run, offering both boys scholarships. But they weren’t stepping away during the season. Eastern Michigan showed interest, then never called back.
Not that Graham would have reciprocated.
“I told my dad, if I’m going to try to play college football, I’m going to do this at the highest level, where it matters,” Graham recalled.

The majority of posters on this board want EMU kicked out of the league, just about everyone can't stand WMU because of PJ, and yet you guys want to string this guy up because you consider it a major slight for him to say "if I'm going to try to play college football, I'm going to do this at the highest level, where it matters."
NIU and MAC schools weren't just "chasing" Miles Osei, we offered him a scholarship, he verbally committed, he changed his mind, he became part of the ILL-ness. A lot of young kids define "the higest level, where it (football) matters" as being the B1G, SEC, or whatever.
Where exactly in this article does it say how much interest NIU showed? Did you read the part where one of Marmion's coaches -- a Michigan grad -- played an influential role.
All of this does not translate into the major dissing of the MAC, or NIU, like some on here are trying to make it. And if nothing else, the years of service and outstanding job the Glasgows have done in helping Huskies from all sports should earn some measure of slack for their son deciding his own future. Figure out where the atittude change is needed the most.

(09-08-2013 11:10 AM)uiniu57 Wrote:  

(09-08-2013 10:06 AM)bramedonas1 Wrote:  He showed no respect to the MAC at all, even though coming out of high school he was a marginal D1 talent.

Did you happen to see that "marginal D1 talent" as one of three linemen making their second starts for Michigan in last night's victory over the vaunted FIGTHING IRISH?
Here's the deal, there are a lot of really talented players in the MAC, some of whom play with a chip on their shoulders because they didn't get the offer they're convinced they deserved from a B1G, SEC, ND, etc. and they have a great career. Then there are those who pass up scholarship offers, greater playing time and starting opportunities because they did get that "big" offer; they work their tails off and succeed while some others like them spend their careers on the bench. Which was the right move? How do you expect a teenager to make the right decision and why would you expect that kid not to say he made the right decision?

I said "coming out of high school he was a marginal D1 talent". Glasgow is not the first preferred walk on to come to Michigan and become a starter. Jordan Kovacs is a good example. Bowling Green was the only school that offered him out of high school. He walked on at U of M and was a team captain as a senior in the defensive backfield.