• @BertramDitore@lemmy.world
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    153 months ago

    Michigan who? The state? The school? The team?

    I’m guessing they mean the school? But the word University never appears in the article. I know nothing about sports, so this is all extremely confusing to me.

    • @RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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      92 months ago

      Yeah, it would be the University of Michigan. It should include it. It felt like the title was missing something, like “Michigan man”, but as a sports fan I was able it figure it out by the name of the coach. Should definitely include the full name. UMich would have been a least a little better as that is often used as an abbreviation.

      • Omega
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        22 months ago

        I have never seen “UMich” before. And I follow college football.

        • @CoconutPetesPaella
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          22 months ago

          Thats wild! I have seen it all my life but I also grew up in michigan.

          • Omega
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            12 months ago

            I think it’s kind of like here in Arkansas we see “UofA” a lot. But I don’t think I’ve heard anyone else call us that.

    • HobbitFoot
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      32 months ago

      It isn’t just sports but college sports, which seems to be a uniquely American kind of sports.

      Universities created collegiate sports as a way to help colleges teach leadership skills. The competition between universities in sports became a measure of which to judge universities and later became a source of profit for universities. The NCAA regulates most of the colleges in the US.

      If you see a state name when referring to sports, it is likely referring to a university with a name “University of State”. There are no state based games and professional sports in North America usually refers to a team by their name.

  • SolidGrue
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    2 months ago

    Ah, another Harbaugh scandal.

    Its possible to be too competitive. See: Harbaugh, Jim and Harbaugh, John. Not a fan of either. Glad to see the team of Harbaugh the Lesser finally being sanctioned.

    (College sports in the US is a grift.)

  • @yol@lemmy.world
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    32 months ago

    That’ll show em. And by em, I mean the student athletes who get the short end of the stick while the coaches and administration endures a brief slap on the wrist and then most likely does the same thing again.

    • @RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      Fortunately it has never been easier to transfer to another school that doesn’t have sanctions. Maybe thier better players can transfer to Ohio State.