On the topic of the state of the rivalry.
Iām pretty sure Stu Douglass has said once or twice on a podcast somewhere that he didnāt really ever give a sh*t about rivalry games, MSU or OSU.
On the flip side, I think Chaundeeās Snapchat stories might mean that he cared more about the rivalry than he apparently led on in the interviews referenced.
oh yeah itās Moving Screen time!!!
Having listened to some of his podcast stuff, I am not even close to surprised that he said this. Iād also be extremely surprised if that view represented a sizeable chunk of players.
Based on past podcasts, Stu didnāt seem to care much about anything haha. Not surprised at all. Iām guessing Novak would give a completely different answer
We believe in nothing, Lebowski. Nothing.
Starting to listen nowā¦ Quinn doesnāt say it explicitly here, but his entire post-game story being about it kinda brings up how fixated outsiders get on it. Dickinson being good because heās a 20 year old freshman is like Juwan Howard being good because he hired Phil Martelli to me. Iām tired of it being used to qualify his successes.
Yeah I didnāt say anything because I feel like it gets talked about a lot, and I donāt want to insinuate its a bad thing, but Stu is Stu. And he is a pretty unique guy and just generally doesnāt go for the whole concept of college fandom, which is actually funny to me now that he has a Michigan basketball podcast.
Yeah with regards to the basketball rivalry stuff, I donāt think itās that hard to explain. Michigan-OSU football is the rivalry, itās bigger than any other rivalry in any other sport. So residual hate from that leaks into every other sport. I donāt hate OSUās basketball team nearly as much as I do football, but I still hate them and want them to have little to no success.
For Michigan, itās clear that MSU is the #1 basketball rival. OSU falls way behind them there. But OSU doesnāt have an MSU equivalent for basketball, so we still take the #1 rival spot for them in basketball. Which is probably why you see those intense pre-game packages for Michigan games in Columbus. So between us being OSUās #1 rival, and most Michigan fans still hating all things OSU even when itās not football, these games will always register as some sort of rivalry game. But itās not going to come close to what we see with Michigan-MSU. It only really becomes a big event when both teams are good, like this year or the 2012/2013 years.
I havenāt watched it back in a while, but in the Fab 5 doc I remember Jalen and Jimmy still holding on to some hate for OSU.
Really looking forward to this podcast. Iāve been thinking itās about time I had my update on Michigan State.
All my years of posting and hot takes have paid off
Wouldnāt a tennis or volleyball match be a back-and-forth? I always thought, like BQ, that a boxing match meant a slugfest.
Hereās the āgold pantsā video that got everyone all hot and bothered
New traditions. Playing for soāething āore on Sunday. #BeatTTUN pic.twitter.com/CFc23Z0KkU
ā Ohio State Hoops (@OhioStateHoops) February 20, 2021
Listening now, Dylan your observation on the rivalry is on point. Itās the plight of Michigan in general, everyone considers Michigan their rival, and several consider Michigan their main rival. But we can obviously only have one ourselves. What you described for OSU basketball is similar to MSU-Michigan football, though Iād say thereās much more vitriol there for obvious reasons. But Holtmann giving out gold jerseys is the dumbest thing Iāve seen in a long time. Civil ConFLiCT level stupidity
good point! a year older or even two years older doesnāt automatically make a freshman good at anything.
Mady Sissoko says hi.
So does AJ Hoggard
@umhoops loved the pod! Only one detail I wanted to point out is that we have an Ohio kid on the roster still. Donāt forget about Zeb!