Ohio shirt pokes fun at Brady Hoke, Michigan's short tournament run
Now, it's dancing on the grave.
The Bobcats are soaking up their victory with a playful shirt that reads "MichiGone" on the front and "Now you know! We are OHIO" on the back.
That's a not-to-subtle jab at Michigan football coach Brady Hoke, who has taken to calling rival Ohio State "Ohio." It has irked the Buckeyes, who returned fire by calling the Wolverines "That Team Up North," and also Ohio, whose basketball coach called it "disrespectful."
More on the shirt, from the website of College Book Store in Athens, where the it is being sold:
Those folks up in Ann Arbor seem to have been confused lately, frequently referring to a certain other school in our state as "Ohio" when well (sic) all know there's only one Ohio!Well, now that the Bobcats have defeated them in the NCAA basketball tournament, we bet they know our name now! And if they don't, well, maybe you can help remind them by proudly wearing this shirt.
Ohio won its following game against South Florida and will play North Carolina this week in the Sweet 16. It is the highest-seeded team remaining in the tournament.
Kyle Meinke covers Michigan football for AnnArbor.com. He can be reached at 734-623-2588, by email at kylemeinke@annarbor.com and followed on Twitter @kmeinke.
Comments
Bmore_Wolverine
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 : 2:35 p.m.
For a team that decries Hoke for the use of "Ohio", they quickly ceded the highground. Perhaps we should just call them "Hypocrites", so there is no confusion over who we call "Ohio."
Matt
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 3:51 p.m.
Being an avid OSU fan, yeah MIchigan beat finally beat us. It was a close game to the finish but you guys won. That was 4 months ago and the Bobcats beat Michigan. Its amusing because it was by the same team that you refer to as OSU. Karma can be an SOB. I'm Buckeyes first but B1G second. You guys should seriously start focusing on Alabama as you "kick off" the 2012 College football season. We will see on national television if Michigan is legit. Do the B1G proud and then we can start talking about your November visit to the 'shoe. Beat the National Champs then you can talk all the smack you want. Can a Michigan fan please answer this question... Are you guys worried about Robinson's ball control? Watching several Michigan games last season I'm amazed to see how many times Robinson fumbles the ball. He better learn to hold on to the ball or Bama will tear him apart. He had a few fumbles against a mediocre OSU defense. To me, that is one of the keys to the game.
Blue Marker
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 10:29 p.m.
It's been an issue I suppose but I think if you looked at his fumble to carries ratio it's not way out of line. You have to take the good with the bad with D-Rob. To be honest, his interceptions worry me more. I hoping he can have a big senior year. With the schedule much tougher and the D-line hurt by graduation I don't think 11-2 is possible again. That said, I never would have thought it possible last year. I believe Michigan is headed in the right direction and the game this year in C'bus in going to be epic!
Roger
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 3:29 p.m.
Hope u sell those shirts....u r out of the Tourney next game. Might have a lot of inventory left. Maybe you can hand them out @ the horseshoe to the first 114,000 fans....oops my bad the BIG HOUSE holds that many I don't know how many Ohio accommodates. Maybe 2200.
Tru2Blu76
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:30 p.m.
I doesn't bother me either - that Ohio v.1.0 school might want to sign their football team on for a little session in the Big House WHERE MICHIGAN plays. :-)
Jfl41
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 11:40 a.m.
If you're going to talk the talk, you've got to walk the walk. Hoke did but the basketball team wasn't able to.
DB
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 4:35 a.m.
Im not implying you're not a fan. Not at all. And this has EVERYTHING to do with Coach Hoke cause this has EVERYTHING to do with Michigan. No one called osu Ohio before Hoke did it publicly. And JB wasn't trying to appeal to anyone. He's a Mich Man... so he did as Mich does. That goes for Dave Brandon, the current and future players, and fans. It was ohio yesterday, its ohio today, and will be ohio forever. GO BLUE!!!
Matt
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 3:17 p.m.
DB, I'm a big OSU fan. A lot of us are not offended by Hoke's refering to OSU as "Ohio." It's funny. But when your basketball coach does it and gets beat by the Bobcats you have to admit its ironic... and kinda funny. Your boys are eating a little crow. Congrats on finally beating us last November. You finally got us. It was a great game. A freshman quarterback kept us in the game till the end. Had he not missed a few open receivers (freshman mistakes) it could have gone either way. At the end of the day you got the W and we got the L. Its over. I really think you need to start focusing on Alabama as you guys kick off College football season this year. I'm Ohio State first, Big Ten second. . Do the B1G proud and beat Alabama! But make no mistake about it... your beat down in the 'Shoe is coming in November.
DB
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 9:02 p.m.
Im wit u Rude J. Im from Birmingham Alabama and Michigan is deeper in my blood than some of these midwest folks. GO BLUE!!!
RudeJude
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 8:38 p.m.
Many among the Michigan fanbase need to find their backbone.
Engineer
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:51 a.m.
Perhaps they would like to play Mr Hoke's football team in football. I doubt they would be running their mouths so much then.
EyeHeartA2
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 12:49 a.m.
Well, I guess we got that one coming. ..and next time I watch a basketball game on TV, I'll stew over it, but that probably won't be for a few years, 'cause really, I don't give a rip.
DB
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 11:43 p.m.
Im so p/o I couldn't even get the words right. But yall got my drift.
DB
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 11:40 p.m.
I can't believe some of these soft hearted UM fans. Because Hoke calls them Ohio, then OU comes and beat the basketball team, u ppl r talking abt maybe we should call of quits cause it's gonna her thrown in our faces...? And now its even childish? I just can't believe what im hearing. Some or u should turn on your fan cards, but then again thats all that u r. "This is Michigan for God sakes." And Michigan is a FAMILY. So if its Ohio to Coach Hoke, u better damn well believe its Ohio to me. GO BLUE!!!
RudeJude
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 8:31 p.m.
Right there with you, DB. These are the "fans" that ask you to sit down when you're cheering at the Michigan games and complain about the dangers and the noise of night games. This isn't foreign policy, people. This is college football.
azwolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 1:10 p.m.
I'm with you, db.
Wally the Wolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 1:20 a.m.
Uh, DB, this isn't necessarily about coach Hoke. The point is coach Beilien chose to pick up the whole Ohio schtick too. Maybe it was his way of trying to appeal to the masses or in some way seek Brady's approval. Regardless, the whole Ohio thing had nothing to do with basketball until JB made it part of his lexicon. The name calling makes look us look a little delusional when we're not exactly dominating our rivals. Case in point, the repeated reference to "little brother" though they've had our number more times than not as of late. Yet this line of reasoning somehow makes me less a fan? C'mon, man!
umstudent_osufan
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 12:01 a.m.
Call tOSU anything you want, but the last 26 of 31 times you played them in football and basketball you called them the winner after the game was over.
pseudo
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 10:10 p.m.
Hoke set himself and the rest of Michigan teams up for just this sort of 'Hoke' because he did insult Ohio University. Their chant is (and has been for more than 30 years): We are Ohio. O-HI-O. Ohio State has no such cheer and their fans chant various other things. If you are going to Observe history...call 'em 'the team down there'. Ann Arbor's coaching staff looks stupid for this hokey baloney. Play ball people, play ball. Stop talking trash and stop stomping around like this stuff actually matters to the real world.
clearwaterkeith
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 4:19 p.m.
Lorie - - If it is such a big deal about referring to OSU as Ohio then why do the OSU faithful constantly do it? Many times during a game half the stadium or arena will shout O-H followed by the other half finishing with I-O. Hmmmmmm. What is it they are spelling? And what is it that the band spells out before every football game? It is not OSU or Ohio State. (BTW it was the Michigan marching band that first performed the floating Ohio formation. Four years later the Ohio band picked up on it and started their tradition. And UM did it out of respect, not arrogance.) Don't the two fine universities in Ohio need to lighten up a bit and get a little more self esteem?
Jfl41
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 11:46 a.m.
I don't think so. Hoke was able to win so there wasn't much osu fans could say. I don't think beIlein was ready to join in. If you can't beat a mid major team, you should keep your mouth shut. Perhaps he's the right guy to turn this team around but as someone who can remember when um really contended in the 80s bast on talent rather than streaky 3 point shooting I hope it happens soon.
umstudent_osufan
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 9:51 p.m.
UM fans thought it was cute to disrespect tOSU by calling them OHIO and it blew up in your face. tOSU has beaten you in 9 of the last 11 football games and 17 of the last 20 basketball games. Call tOSU what you want, but you seem to call them the winner every time you play them. Instead of the "OHIO" insults started by your chubby coach why not try to put more talent on the football field and some white guys who can jump on the basketball court. You can down play your loss to the REAL Ohio in basketball all you want, but the fact is you played nothing like co-champs of the BIG. If you want to make dumb comments like OHIO, you should have the talent to back it up.
Trisha
Fri, Mar 23, 2012 : 9:12 p.m.
Geez. We love our team, support our team, and you criticize us because we do that win or lose. Unlike buckeye fans, we choose to always let our athletes know how we feel about them. We don't treat our athletes and coaches disrespectfully. So, if we boast, win or lose, it's for our team. If you don't like it, don't read it!! lol GO BLUE!!!
genetracy
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 12:57 a.m.
3/10/12, OSU 77, UM 55. Michigan players refused to wrinkle their skirts playing their main rival.
azwolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 1:08 p.m.
40-34. Hoke backed it up.
Engineer
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:55 a.m.
Perhaps you were not at the Big House but you got beat last November dude. Hoke is down in your state cleaning up on recruits. The party is over. Hoke-a-Mania is going to rain down on you!!!!
genetracy
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 10:12 p.m.
Well said. Michigan fans are the only fans I have ever met whose team will lose a game to an opponent but they will still boast like they won. Case in point, they lost by two TD's to MSU but still continue their "little brother" crap. Like any big brother will allow his little brother to slap him around like MSU did to UM.
Jaxon5
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 9:26 p.m.
I hope both Ohio and Ohio State play against each other. That way, no matter what the outcome, Ohio beats itself.
genetracy
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 9:20 p.m.
Send some size XXXL's to Hoke, Borges, and Mattison.
genetracy
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 12:49 a.m.
It not like these guys look like Richard Simmons.
Blue Marker
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 7:05 p.m.
I love it when our rivals are reduced to fat jokes. Is there ever a UM article you don't post something negitive on?
southernblu
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 9:01 p.m.
Looks to me that our so-called "slight" to the Bobcats might very well turn out to be a financial boon for them. You're welcome, Bobcats. Anyway, I say let the Bobcats have this moment. And hey, thanks to Michigan, their profile has been raised. Now maybe they'll finally get some respect from the people of their own state. Aw, who am I kidding? Once football season starts the Bobcats will still be considered nothing more than a scrimmage team for the Buckeyes to practice trick plays on. But there's always the shirts. So you've got that going for you, Bobcats.
Jacob Bodnar
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:43 p.m.
Solid grammar in that description.
aanative
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:26 p.m.
If it so bad to refer to OSU as Ohio, why don't they do a script OHIOSTATE and not OHIO?
Mick
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:51 p.m.
My momma once told me that life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what bucknut you gonna get!
Engineer
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:57 a.m.
That would be a larger word than what they could spell. They are buc nuts after all. IQ down there averages in the high 50s at best.
nowayjose
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 7:36 p.m.
At least its not a Appellation State Shirt
braggslaw
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 7:11 p.m.
To the winner goes the spoils. I find the "Ohio" schtick tiresome and sily
azwolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 2:43 a.m.
I'm with eagle man.
eagleman
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:12 p.m.
That's your opinion. I find it funny and harmless.
Terry Star21
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:31 p.m.
Does anyone read Hoke's comments, watch the field when the ohio marching band is aboard, or know the history behind the marching band ? Hoke said he has called the bucks ohio since he was a boy. The bucks marching band spells out ohio on the field and always have. The Michigan band use to copy that spelling as a tribute and history buffs on both sides agree the Michigan band was the first to dot the 'i". That is respect. When I was a boy, I used to respect ohio - then their 80,000 drunkin truck drivers abused me at games and I was beaten up walking to my car - for wearing a Michigan sweatshirt w/ my mouth shut. Now I read their fans disrespect on my football site. I wish I was like Hoke and could respect ohio, but never will.
pop coats
Thu, Mar 22, 2012 : 12:01 a.m.
Your right ts21 the ohio s. fans are without a douby the most rudest and uninformed fans in the big ten. they also have the stupidest looking mascot I have ever seen, I have 3 favorite teams, the wolverines and the teams playing the spartons and bucks
azwolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 2:42 a.m.
No doubt. A mob of buck fans were chasing my friend and I after John Cooper's last game for simply walking out of the Shoe with UM gear on. They kept shouting, in their very civilized and intelligent fashion, "What is the M for? MORON!!!" Luckily we ran into a huge throng of UM fans and they backed off. Ever since that day, I've truly despised buck fans, and came to be enlightened that the scarlett "O" that most of us assumed stood for 'ohio' is actually a swollen sphincter.
cmb
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:24 p.m.
Ummmm... Ohio is NOT the "highest-seeded team remaining in the tournament". It's the LOWEST-seeded team remaining. Please fix this. All four Number 1-seeded teams are still on the tournament.
Forever27
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 5:24 p.m.
typical Ohio anything. Everything they do is with an eye toward how it reflects on them, relative to Michigan. We are the center of their universe. For us, they're just one of many annoyances.
nowayjose
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 7:35 p.m.
Whatever helps you sleep at night
Basic Bob
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:14 p.m.
Certainly Ohio is the center of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball universe. At least for a few days. Then it will shift back to Kentucky where it belongs.
ThoseWhoStayUofM
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 5:03 p.m.
I swear... everybody wants to be the victim! What does the Buckeye marching band spell in script during every pregame show? What word do the fans spell out "WMCA-style" in pictures while at the stadium? Where were those shirts during all of this? Being a Michigan student, one of my favorite memories is watching the Bobcat mascot punch Brutus in the face! Trust me... we know who you are!
Terry Star21
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:34 p.m.
Those.....forgot about that mascot....didn't he say he tried out for that job with one purpose - to beat up bucky, just like he planned ? Priceless...
Wally the Wolverine
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:50 p.m.
We reap what we sow. I would like to thank our football and basketball coaching staffs for creating the ill-fated attempt at gamesmanship that now has transcended into an embarassment. Talk about your unintended consequences. Can we now admit the whole "Ohio" thing was misguided and should be brought to an end? If not, this surely will be thrown in our faces every time we bring up the name Ohio.
clearwaterkeith
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 4:04 p.m.
If it is such a big deal about referring to OSU as Ohio then why do the OSU faithful constantly do it? Many times during a game half the stadium or arena will shout O-H followed by the other half finishing with I-O. Hmmmmmm. What is it they are spelling? And what is it that the band spells out before every football game? It is not OSU or Ohio State. (BTW it was the Michigan marching band that first performed the floating Ohio formation. Four years later the Ohio band picked up on it and started their tradition. And UM did it out of respect, not arrogance.) Don't the two fine universities in Ohio need to lighten up a bit and get a little more self esteem?
Howard the Duck
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 3:42 p.m.
"When I was a boy, I used to respect ohio - then their 80,000 drunkin truck drivers abused me at games and I was beaten up walking to my car - " This explains a lot!
aarox
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 4:29 a.m.
agreed. from "Olio" to "Little Brother" we make a name for ourselves across the nation. And it is not pretty.
azwolverine
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 2:35 a.m.
The loss to the Bobcat basketball team has no bearing whatsoever on the UM v. 'ohio' football rivalry. Hoke BEAT 'ohio' and resurrected the UM football program, and he can't spend his time worrying what the Bobcat program thinks of him. Kudos to them for beating our basketball team, but to say that Hoke's calling the bucks 'ohio' is an "ill-fated attempt at gamesmanship that now has transcended to embarrassment" is not only a bit of an overstatement, it's a completely overboard exaggeration. The bucks are 'ohio.' Period. And, if 'ohio' ever loses to MSU, Northwestern, Minnesota, or any other northern team, should they forever be embarrassed for losing to a different "team up North?"
Wally the Wolverine
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 11:09 p.m.
Eagleman, you miss the point entirely. "That school up north" doesn't reference another school's name as a punchline. Besides, I'm not here to defend that idiot "urban decay". Sorry, but I can't be one of those who blinly follow what the coaches say and do regardless how ill-conceived it may be.
eagleman
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:11 p.m.
No. Ohio is here to stay. Michigan won the game that matters on the gridiron. Losing to Ohio U in basketball has nothing to do with it all because Ohio U has nothing to do with Hoke use of the term "Ohio". Ohio refers to UM as "That School Up North". Where is your complaint about that?
Terry Star21
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:23 p.m.
Wally, we're not trying to insult your team. If you read, Hoke said he always called osu - ohio. No insult intended to your team.
Rico
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 5:08 p.m.
Agreed. I'm a big U-M fan but I find calling tOSU, Ohio is childish. It reminds me of the bucktards and Sparty fans referring to UM as scUM.
RudeJude
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:40 p.m.
That sure taught are football coach a lesson, beating our basketball team!
Doug
Wed, Mar 21, 2012 : 6:17 p.m.
Aye sher lik yer englich!
RudeJude
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 7:24 p.m.
If you define this as "disrespect," then you must have have had an easygoing life. This is highjinks. These shirts are proof of that. Are you offended when Michigan is referred to as "That Team Up North," too?
Wally the Wolverine
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:56 p.m.
Yeah, buddy, nobody over there felt disrespected, right? C'mon, Rude. I now have to put up with my friend's jabs about how we lost to Ohio 3 times this season. Ughh.
Hookemhorn
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:18 p.m.
Go Tar Heels!!!
Forever27
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 5:26 p.m.
your name is "hookemhorn" and you cheer "go tar heels"? I think you're more confused than i am.
David Vande Bunte
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:01 p.m.
This doesn't bother me at all, they won, they get bragging rights.
Terry Star21
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:37 p.m.
You are right. If I was painfully honest I would say make coach B wear that shirt until December 1st. But I won't say that.
Blue Marker
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:32 p.m.
Absolutely! More power to them. The fact they felt compelled to make a t-shirt to celebrate the win over Michigan is a left handed complement.
genetracy
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 3:38 p.m.
Is it still possible for Michigan to enter the NIT?
genetracy
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 9:21 p.m.
Where Michigan belonged. "Not in the Tournament"
Unusual Suspect
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:55 p.m.
I think it was Tony Kornheiser who said "NIT" stands for "Not In the Tournament."
a2miguy
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:44 p.m.
LOL!!!!ZOMGGGGG!!!! SO FUNNYYYY HAAHHAahaa.... zzzzzz.... zzz. zzz .not.
Craig Lounsbury
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 3:44 p.m.
Winning the NIT has lost its luster since the NCAA added those play in games..... "WE'RE #65" had a ring to it that "WE'RE #73" seems to lack ...;)
JGS
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 3:26 p.m.
"Now you know we're Ohio" And in less than a week you will realize that Ohio was just another flash in the pan and won't contend for the NCAA Tournament title. Funny how teams hang on to their current win when in the grand scheme of things means nothing. There's winning and losing and if you don't win it all, you've lost - period! 2nd place is just first loser. They don't play the game for fun, they play to win. Michigan is out. Got out played, out coached and out hustled. Good for you Ohio Mac school, bravo! When that freight train called North Carolina rips you apart, don't say I didn't warn you. Focus on what's in front of you, not what's behind you. In the end OHIO UNIVERSITY will become just another casualty of the Tournament and forgotten about until next year. PS - Michigan has a LONG way to go to be competitive and "Good." Coach Beilein needs at least 2 more years to do this. The current team living and dying with the 3 pointer and being 2 dimensional (Burke/Hardway) isn't going to get it done. /rant
JGS
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 8:23 p.m.
TSTAR - Rock on!
Terry Star21
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:43 p.m.
"The current team living and dying with the 3 pointer and being 2 dimensional (Burke/Hardway) isn't going to get it done". So true, I felt like someone was kicking me in the head every time a three went up ! SEC Fan...funny, all I remember is Sugar Bowl BCS win, 12-2 , and finishing higher in the standings than sparty and ohio. j......thanks, keep forgetting about those 895 wins - every other college's dream !
j
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 6:37 p.m.
SEC fan has it right So current wins mean nothing? What about old wins? Cause there is a school constantly described as having "the winningest program in . . . . But I would hope that most U of M fan's don't agree with your sentiment
SEC Fan
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 5:03 p.m.
Interesting. Everything being lambasted here is exactly what we heard from UM football fans all Fall. Don't throw rocks...
a2roots
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 3:25 p.m.
Wrong, ohio is the lowest seeded team remaining in the tournament.
SEC Fan
Tue, Mar 20, 2012 : 4:59 p.m.
I believe they were refering to UNC...in which case they are still wrong as UK is overall #1 and still playing.