Input: [Date] 5 years 6 weeks ago [Title] So the hesitation with [Body]

Output: So the hesitation with lesser academic schools joining the B10 is that they potentially wouldn't contribute appropriate research opportunities for B10 faculty? And without those added research collaboration opportunities, getting a bigger slice of the world's research financial pie wouldn't happen?


Input: [Date] 5 years 13 weeks ago [Title] LOL [Body]

Output: Well played...that was a perfect retort.


Input: [Date] 5 years 14 weeks ago [Title] $0.99 [Body]

Output: Okay, you just got my $0.99 (or whatever portion of it Apple doesn't keep). Quick suggestions: 1) Add the DetNews to the News section 2) Can you make re-orient to landscape if I turn my phone on its side? It re-orients for the actual articles but the listing of all articles doesn't. 3) Any chance we can see comments in response to the main page entries? Maybe this suffers from the same limitation as the MGoBoard though... Hopefully Brian has an MGoMobile in the pipe with access to everything but this is a helpful addition for now.


Input: [Date] 5 years 24 weeks ago [Title] anything in psych [Body]

Output: First discussion section, the TA says that 30% of our grade would be based on participation...but that she realized some of us were shy so she wouldn't penalize us if we didn't say anything. This was a 300 level class too...


Input: [Date] 5 years 24 weeks ago [Title] no way [Body]

Output: I took Fluid Mechanics (in the ME dept, I think it was 370) after some brutal 400-level physics classes and thought it was cake in comparison. There was a girl sitting in the front row who stopped lecture one time to ask about the "giant S". The prof couldn't figure out what she was talking about so she walked up to the board and pointed to a integral sign. The professor, incredulous, said it was an integral. She replied, "And we're just supposed to know that?" I knew then I'd be getting an A.


Input: [Date] 5 years 24 weeks ago [Title] Amen [Body]

Output: Just saw yours after I added mine. I had Aronson as a prof. One of my classmates went to her office hours for help and she said that providing help to him wouldn't be fair to the other students. He started to break down and begged for help. She told him "That which doesn't kill you only makes you stronger." He dropped the class.


Input: [Date] 5 years 24 weeks ago [Title] Physics 401 [Body]

Output: This list starts and ends with Physics 401. It was the weeder class. Seems like every other major was trying to attract students and the physics dept was trying to get rid of as many as possible. Problem sets took a group of 6-8 students 2 days to do and we had means on the exams in the teens. Just brutal.


Input: [Date] 5 years 24 weeks ago [Title] same deal [Body]

Output: I can't remember her name but I had a prof in the Nuclear Engineering dept pull the same crap. I was meeting with her to figure out what I wanted to do after undergrad. She told me to my face that my grades weren't good enough for grad school...especially at a place like Michigan. 5 years later when I was finishing my Ph.D. in EE - at Michigan - I almost had an extra copy of my dissertation printed to throw on her desk.


Input: [Date] 5 years 26 weeks ago [Title] I don't get it... [Body]

Output: This is really two points: 1) I read this and just looked very briefly through Rivals. tUoOS only has one OL commit, USC only has one OL commit, UF only has one OL commit and Alabama only has two. Seems like a lot of schools are below average in OL recruiting so far. 2) Penn State has 5 but they aren't from the midwest. Where did everyone end up if this was such a bumper crop? I didn't see your earlier post on the OL quality. Was it on your genuinelysarcastic blog?


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Yeah, I'm with you. The D is [Body]

Output: Yeah, I'm with you. The D is my big concern unless they increase their scoring average by another 12 pts again next year. RR will be successful at UM or if we fire him prematurely, he'll be successful at his next gig while we're breaking in the next guy.


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Wolverine Nation needs a [Body]

Output: Wolverine Nation needs a wakeup call. The "because we're Michigan" mentality has to stop. I never realized this until I moved away but we sound so stupid everytime someone says it.


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Never. Food sucks. Service [Body]

Output: Never. Food sucks. Service sucks.


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] LOL [Body]

Output: LOL


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Just compare the job offers... [Body]

Output: "And, really, I think had we hired a different good coach who didn't need to blow everything up to fit his system, we wouldn't have had losing records last year and this year." This is exactly my point. Schiano, Ferentz and Miles all turned us down last time. You think the job looks more attractive now? What other different good coach are you getting? You're an executive with two job offers... 1) A smaller company that hasn't had a lot of success but wants to get better. Exists in a small-ish media market and kinda flies below the radar. Pay is $300k/yr. If you make the company bigger and better, you're a legend in the business world. 2) A larger company that has had a long history of success but has been losing market share for 10 years. Exists near a Top10 media market that compares all teams and coaches to a ghost that existed almost 30 years ago in a different business climate. Pay is $300k/yr. If you make the company bigger and better again, the best you can expect is a marginally favorable but never equal comparison to said ghost. Seriously, which one would you choose? Job1 is a lot of other schools. Job2 is UM. No matter how egocentric you are, Job2 doesn't look so hot.


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] West Hills [Body]

Output: West Hills


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] It's true [Body]

Output: Michigan people are a lot like GM people. They ignore the slow erosion of market share (GM) or the program (last 5 years of UM football under LC) and just keep on believing they're better than everyone just because they are GM or UM football. Move away from SE Michigan and you realize GM/UM football are basically jokes around the rest of the country. GM/UM football need to be torn down before they can be rebuilt into a more viable long-term organization. Wait - we won the Capital One bowl!!! And GM turned a profit at about the same time...


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Humor me [Body]

Output: Anyone who wants to fire RR now or after the next two games or even after next year, please humor me and at least put forward a credible strategy to move forward. I work in a corporate environment that encourages constructive criticism. However, it places responsibility on the person raising the issue to prepare a credible solution to the issue. I'd love to see that ethic here before there are any more "FIRE RR!!" posts. Use some of the critical thinking you learned (and paid $$) for at UM. "Fire RR" is not a solution "Fire RR and hire Pete Carroll" is not a credible solution And before you propose some other big name coach who of course wants to come here "because we're Michigan", consider that 1) they'll have seen us can a successful BCS coach after only two years and 2) Michigan fans are the only ones who have been buying into the Michigan brand the last few years. It's not as plum of a job as we would like to think.


Input: [Date] 5 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Being Michigan... [Body]

Output: "Being Michigan, we should be able to reel in the big-fish recruits." Occasionally yes but as a rule no. I grew up in Michigan in awe of UM and then got three degrees from there and totally drank the Kool-Aid. It was a reality check when I moved away and realized the rest of the country isn't quite as in awe of UM as we think they are. If you think we're recruiting on the same level as Florida, USC, LSU, Alabama and even tOSU, you're kidding yourself. We've been a second tier school for a while. And Jim Harbaugh might be showing promise but he didn't get Stanford to a bowl in his first two years. UM nation is in meltdown mode because we might not get to a bowl again. If we brought in Harbaugh would we fire him after two years if we weren't in a bowl?


Input: [Date] 1 day 7 hours ago [Title] I thought the whole point [Body]

Output: I thought the whole point being the legend jerseys was that the honored players and their families wanted to see the numbers out there again. Retiring them send like a step in the wrong direction. Hopefully the retirement ceremony will induced some sort of memorial for the numbers in the stadium. They were no where before, and no one but the die-hardest of the die-hards knew we had retired numbers, let alone what they were.


Input: [Date] 1 week 9 hours ago [Title] Could you please switch the [Body]

Output: Could you please switch the link in the main post? Links give other sites more hits and attention, and please don't give that site any more hits or attention.


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Title] I don't think cable demise is [Body]

Output: I don't think cable demise is imminent, but it's happening eventually. I think the demise will go down at about the rate newspapers have disappeared - they've been dying for 20 years now, but most of them are still around, if very cut back. So cable isn't going away any time soon, but I bet 20 years from now the thought of expanding the conference solely for cable fees will look about as stupid as if the conference had expanded based solely on newspaper distribution 20 years ago. The sports channel race was always a house of cards based on getting fees from people who don't watch that particular sport. It's a bubble driving demand for entertainment without paying for 20 sports channels you don't care about, and eventually someone is going to reliably fill it.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 hours ago [Title] Potential explanation for the [Body]

Output: Potential explanation for the Houston Texans being so high: Don't they own their stadium outright, where the other teams you listed play in publicly finanaced stadiums? That could be a big part of the value of the franchise. I'm pretty sure it's the same for the three NFL teams in the top 10 as well.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Title] When there is anything else [Body]

Output: When there is anything else worth talking about. Welcome to the middle of the summer on a college sports blog!


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I don't have a list in front [Body]

Output: I don't have a list in front of me or anything, but there were many debates about it on this site back when Three and Out came out. There were multiple places where the descriptions of games and events were factually incorrect, and some of them were immediately apparent to die hard fans. I didn't think any of the errors made a difference in the overall theme of the book or any of the conclusions reached, but some people looking to refute someone writing negatively about Michigan latched on to them as reasons to discredit the whole book. The difference between benign factual errors and making up and embellishing stories depends on your point of view after all.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] The orangey-yellow....not [Body]

Output: The orangey-yellow....not so much. That orangey-yellow reminds me of an era when color control wasn't as good, so if you asked for something in yellow, it could come in just about any shade. I'm pretty sure most of the love for orange is coming from people remembering their cheap shirts from Steve and Barry's. Five shirts for $20, who cares if they are the right shade of yellow!


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I don't care what [Body]

Output: I don't care what the official color is, stephenrjking made a post yesterday full of historical photos and the football team hasn't been wearing the official color for as long as color photography has existed. The only pants in those photos that are close to the official color are on other teams. So I think all the people lobbying for the official color seem to be traditionalists longing for a past that never existed. This was the photo he posted at the end, and I agree. This is how the football team should look, whatever the "official" colors are. And the official colors are nowehere near this or any other color we've ever worn. I tried picking as close to this as I could without going too highlighter, and picked FECF200*. Maybe one of the lighter ones would match replicate the picture better, but it wouldn't be an orangey one. *Extra zero? FECF20?


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Michigan pretty much is doing [Body]

Output: Michigan pretty much is doing this as well. We had the ND series scheduled instead of those games though. And we had the Arkansas series scheduled in the break in the ND series, and have been scheduling home-and-homes with teams like that in the future in place of the canceled ND series. The problem is that these home-and-homes are being scheduled many years in advance, and the way the ND series was suddenly canceled made it hard to find games for the next few years. So it sucks for the next few years, but the blame lays mostly outside our athletic department, and change is coming in the future.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] We need some sort of hall of [Body]

Output: We need some sort of hall of fame for t-shirts that seemed like a good idea at the time. I can add my Fergodsakes t-shirt.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I'm not implying that - I've [Body]

Output: I'm not implying that - I've said in other places I don't think apparel matters anywhere near as much as the Nikebots on the board make it out. But the sort of thinking that has multiple posters here fretting about leaving money on the table *has* affected fan attendance in other ways. So while this one deal won't make much of a change in attendance, it's a hopeful signal that maybe the new leadership in the athletic department will consider something other than next quarter's revenue when making decisions, whether it affects the players or the fans.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] This is true to a certain [Body]

Output: This is true to a certain degree, but once you're revenues are high enough it doesn't hurt to leave a little bit of money on the table to make players and/or fans happy. In fact it may pay off even more in the long run through better recruits who win more games or happier fans who won't stop buying tickets if the team has a down period. I think the Brandon era would show the perils of making every decision based on next quarter's spreadsheets.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] You may not have been that [Body]

Output: You may not have been that dumb, but I'm sure a whole bunch of people your age were.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] All 18 year olds are idiots. [Body]

Output: All 18 year olds are idiots. Millenials just happen to be the ones who are 18 now. Most of us grow out of it when we get older, so give them time and they'll be replaced by a new generation of idiots who care about some other stupid thing. You were an idiot too, and if it wasn't about athletic apparel it was something else...


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I'm kinda sad though. It will [Body]

Output: I'm kinda sad though. It will make zero difference to me in buying apparel, and I've seen enough crappy Nike jerseys to think it will make a difference in how the team looks. But I was sorta hoping we re-upped with Adidas so I could bath in schadenfreude during the meltdown of the Nikebots on the board.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I hope it's better than [Body]

Output: I hope it's better than Falk's last book though. The number of new stories those walls would tell were few and far between. Half the book was repetitive letters by other people talking about what a great guy Falk was, and most of the Falk stuff was season in review stuff that wasn't new to anyone familiar with the recent history of the program. For someone who had been inside the program for almost 40 years, there weren't very many inside stories. I wasn't exactly desparate for Falk to get back together with Ewald to get more by the time I finished.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Well, he was right about the [Body]

Output: Well, he was right about the private jet tour. But the jet just went directly to Ann Arbor.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I was wondering why he was [Body]

Output: I was wondering why he was left out of HTTV. I guess he was one of the supposed potential medical redshirts and Brian left him out because of it?


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I think it's stupid for the [Body]

Output: I think it's stupid for the same reasons Brandon's focus on expanding the brand was stupid. The marginal gain from cornering the market on college football fans in Mexico City is going to be more than offset by upsetting long time season ticket holders who don't get marquee out-of-conference games with their season tickets. This is an example of taking the main revenue sources for granted while chasing people who are never going to buy Texas tickets, and that was what started the ball rolling on getting Brandon driven out of town. Any expanding the brand that occurs won't matter if your main fan base doesn't want to buy tickets any more.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 10 hours ago [Title] It's way easier to justify [Body]

Output: It's way easier to justify the status quo rather than further expansion if they can claim no one wants gigabit. Of course people would want gigabit if it were somewhere below $300, but they'll leave that part out.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Is this going to be a [Body]

Output: Is this going to be a replacement for mgoblue.com? Because I.... don't like it. At least in comparison to mgoblue.com. Maybe it's because I'm an engineer, but as far as I'm concerned function >>>>> form. Give me something that's kinda ugly but makes it easy to find the information. This looks pretty, but makes it harder to find out actual information about the teams. The worst thing I saw was the roster listing under "The Team" section for different teams. It shows 6 photos at a time, and you have to side scroll to see all the players. Not awful for the basketball team, which only has 15 members, but totally useless for the football team. Who the hell is going to scroll all the way over to Moe Ways?


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 1 day ago [Title] So Harbaugh is allowed to [Body]

Output: So Harbaugh is allowed to have only satellite camps or only camps in Michigan? Seriously, Mullen is saying this stuff as Harbaugh is in the middle of the SMSB and Exposure U camps right here in Michigan.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I think Drupal has less to do [Body]

Output: I think Drupal has less to do with the server issues and more to do with the site design though. And it seems like it's the servers that are the issue here. IIRC Brian is self-hosting this site (along with his brother's site) on personally owned servers. Anyone have a clue how much it would cost to upgrade to an actual hosting service? I think that would do way more to improve reliability than switching to WordPress.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 hours ago [Title] Is anyone here not owning it? [Body]

Output: Is anyone here not owning it? I don't think anyone here is disputing that the ultimate goal of the camps is to make connections and spread Michigan's recruting influence. But as long as Michigan is doing it in a way that is positive for the high schoolers and their coaches and not against NCAA rules, what's the problem? There isn't one unless you're and SEC coach trying to prevent outside coaches from making you work harder to land recruits.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Title] CFN is generally awful [Body]

Output: CFN is generally awful because they take a newspaper approach to the internet - in an age when there is unlimited space for anyone to go in depth with a team of their choosing, they expend all their resources doing 30,000 foot overviews of *every* team. As a result, you can count on them having something about your team, but it won't be nearly as good as the stuff from sites that actually focus on your team. Way back in the day Brian reserved the Fiutakin' it tag for clueless columnists who didn't let their cluelessness get in the way of hot takes, but even that got old five years ago. And CFN is somehow still going...


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Does this mean he passed his [Body]

Output: Does this mean he passed his TOEFL or whatever and actually been accepted into the University? Because that seemed to be the question surrounding him. Officially signing his LOI is nice, but as far as I know you can do that before you are accepted. But maybe things are different for international players.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Man, people were doing so [Body]

Output: Man, people were doing so good with the No Valenti rule for a long time, but I guess something had to happen to remind everyone why it's a rule.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] Because not everyone got the [Body]

Output: Because not everyone got the offer Michigan got. Adidas gave Michigan an offer that was way beyond what anyone else was getting with Nike (or anyone else), plus they guranteed Michigan would be the highest paid team for the length of the contract. Obviously they can't gurantee every team be the highest paid, but Michigan was a big enough name to make it worth the big price to make a splash and get the Adidas brand out there.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Ugh embed, let's try in the [Body]

Output: Never mind, it worked


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] Ack, you locked out my edit. [Body]

Output: Ack, you locked out my edit. But that's not what I was talking about. It was actually during the first Hoke spring practices, and here is the post I was talking about. Here is the best picture, I don't see why anyone would have a problem with this being the road uniform: EDIT: Going through the whole album, found a couple more decent looks:


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Title] you may not know..... [Body]

Output: He enjoyed male fans as well. Not that there is anything wrong with that.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Its time for Fran Tarkenton to shuffle off [Body]

Output: Given the way Stabler lived his life its amazing he lasted this long. I wonder if Kenny's switch-hitting made it into his book.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] kinda sorta [Body]

Output: Well, the flexbone is *kinda* like the wishbone. Its really a cross between the wishbone & run-n-shoot. These days the R&S portion of the attack isn't run so much. But when the scheme was first used at Hawaii 25 years ago the shoot was a significant factor. There are other differences as well. In the typical wishbone the fullback lines up much closer to the QB than the B back does in the flex. As a result the physical profile of a B back often looks much different than the traditional bone fullback.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Its funny because its true. [Body]

Output: Its funny because its true.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 6 days ago [Title] First 20 mins of Manos are [Body]

Output: First 20 mins of Manos are epic. Goes kinda downhill from there.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Muppets forever [Body]

Output: Link Hogthrob and Dr Strangepork *rule*.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 6 days ago [Title] a little worried [Body]

Output: I hope there is money in the budget for a hearing aid, because this kid has a hard time hearing the whistle.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 min ago [Title] icing on the cake [Body]

Output: Local media covered SC media reaction post-game. Complete shock and complete respect. They thought Jokisch was a beast.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 4 days ago [Title] awesome [Body]

Output: Goldens are great. Be careful with food; that golden goodness masks a voracious appetite.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 3 days ago [Title] a little tidbit [Body]

Output: And that splitter enabled Roger to become just the 2nd manager in history to take a team from 100+ losses to > 0.500 in his first season. The best manager in history, Billy Martin, did it *3* times.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] some things have improved [Body]

Output: The Pointes do have more interesting restaurants than when I grew up there. Way more.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] true but..... [Body]

Output: In many ways RO does indeed have more going for it. But strictly on the subject of schools Berkley is definitely in better shape.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Woods, Farms, Park, Shore & City [Body]

Output: There are 5 Pointes. And they're a tad more diverse than you think. And after the real estate crash, quite a bit more diverse


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] there is an alternative [Body]

Output: Schools are decent in Berkley.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I can see that [Body]

Output: East of Woodward a couple blocks south of 9 used to have a pretty high WT quotient. There used to be a decent sweet spot that started maybe 3 blocks south of 9 and went to a little south of 8 1/2. Never got too familiar with the west side just south of 9. Really use to love the neighborhoods northwest of 9 & Woodward.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] what neighborhood? [Body]

Output: That might depend on the specific block in Ferndale. Close to RO Township? Not good. Close to 8 Mile? Not good. And you wouldn't believe it but there is some crime right on 9 Mile steps from the police station.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] not so fast [Body]

Output: Schools in B'ham ain't what they used to be, depending on the building.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Fashionable. Fabulous. Funky. Most of the time. [Body]

Output: There is definitely a hipster happening in Ferndale. But the schools..... depending on the building violence can be a problem.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I hate this [Body]

Output: Darn it, its Grosse *Pointe*. The Woods is nice, but unfortunately its not quite as nice as it was a generation ago. Royal Oak? Schools are very uneven.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 6 days ago [Title] ftw [Body]

Output: HARBAUGH.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 1 day ago [Title] its a trap! [Body]

Output: Best listed alternative to Fighting Sioux? Admiral Ackbar of course. Ole Miss' loss could have been UND's gain.


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 2 days ago [Title] been there [Body]

Output: I gotcha. I was 7 or 8 and went with the family to a well-known ice cream place in Traverse City. Its Friday, warm, tourist season. Like the last Friday in June. Threw up right in the middle of the crowd just moments after getting daquiri ice. Absolutely cleared the place out within 90 seconds. Dad consoled me in the car afterwards by explaining how the owner had just a dozen weekends to make enough money for the rest of the year.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 50 min ago [Title] not fair [Body]

Output: Any thoughts of non-play action aggression were long ago choked out of Davis by Ferentz.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 3 days ago [Title] but your way works too [Body]

Output: I think this is even better learned.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Title] better talent than App State [Body]

Output: That Eastern Washington squad was no joke. They would have been pretty good in FBS.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 6 days ago [Title] waitaminute [Body]

Output: Ball State was uber spready. SDSU not so much.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 6 days ago [Title] pot meet kettle [Body]

Output: Well, if they are afraid of war porn make sure they don't read Ibn Ishaq.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 1 day ago [Title] follow the money [Body]

Output: Its less about morning/afternoon and more about budgets. The News had deeper pockets. Always did. And a few years before the JOA the ENA started a morning edition to compete directly with Freep. It cost a ton but was steadily eating the Freep away.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 1 day ago [Title] um, no [Body]

Output: Back in the old days DN had a larger staff for more in-depth stories. A few times per year the Sunday edition would go all out on a subject that kicked off a weeklong series. There was detail you couldn't get anywhere else. Freep could never hang with that.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 1 day ago [Title] snatching defeat from the jaws of victory [Body]

Output: The Evening News Association should never have signed the JOA. They had the Freep on the ropes. A couple more years and it would have been the Freep folding up shop.


Input: [Date] 1 hour 15 min ago [Title] In basketball we've had the [Body]

Output: In basketball we've had the success and our recruiting has gotten worse from the days of us getting Mitch McGary or Derrick Walton. In football, we did fine last year recruiting with a coach on the hot seat. Butch Jones, James Franklin, Charlie Strong, and Brady Hoke had great first year classes. Why can Harbaugh not after being on tv late in the NFL playoffs for the last 4 years?


Input: [Date] 1 hour 40 min ago [Title] You need players too to win [Body]

Output: You need players too to win as well as coach. I'm sick and tired of recruits we have been in on in basketball spurning us to go to Kentucky and Duke and those schools winning championships. If the same thing happens in football as our miss rate has been higher than I can ever remember at Michigan for this class, they'll wind up at places like Alabama, Florida State, and of course Ohio State. Guess which teams were in the playoffs this year? Guess which teams have won the last three championships? Even your poster child for recruiting not mattering in MSU has a losing record to Ohio State and has never played in a NCG. Lets cut the bs and realize we need the best players coming in to win.


Input: [Date] 2 hours 5 min ago [Title] A guy offered by Uconn, [Body]

Output: A guy offered by Uconn, Syracuse, and Air Force. How's it going to go when he faces Ohio State's secondary who's three deep has been offered by everyone in the country.


Input: [Date] 2 hours 22 min ago [Title] What's happening with [Body]

Output: What's happening with recruiting that we're getting whipped like this? We had three highly regarded TEs in three classes with a defensive line coach in Hoke and now that we have a highly successful NFL coach at that position we have nobody at the TE position who wants to play here.


Input: [Date] 3 hours 13 min ago [Title] This is where DD proves his [Body]

Output: This is where DD proves his worth. We better get some good pieces for Price. Hopefully in the bullpen.


Input: [Date] 20 hours 10 min ago [Title] Football will never leave [Body]

Output: Football will never leave the top spot in America even if less people are playing it. It's the Super Bowl vs. the MLS championship.


Input: [Date] 20 hours 23 min ago [Title] Hiring Mel Peason and getting [Body]

Output: Hiring Mel Peason and getting the big ten to have MSU play twice in a row in Ann Arbor are the only 2 things left.


Input: [Date] 20 hours 25 min ago [Title] Yeah. Things like fan [Body]

Output: Yeah. Things like fan relations are important to being AD but if he hired Schiano and we signed Nike for 1 million a year he would be just another AD.


Input: [Date] 1 day 2 hours ago [Title] That looks more like Thad [Body]

Output: That looks more like Thad Matta to be honest.


Input: [Date] 1 day 2 hours ago [Title] Are we now the big ten big [Body]

Output: Are we now the big ten big ten network facebook page who posts something about Urban Meyer and Ohio State every day? So far this week, they've posted about a butter statue of Urban, a dummy prank, Cardale Jones tossing a boy into a pool, is Urban Meyer the best coach in college today, and breaking down reigning national champion Ohio State's qb options.


Input: [Date] 1 day 4 hours ago [Title] I'd definitely take him but [Body]

Output: I'd definitely take him but I'm not sure that it would look good for us to take someone denied by another big ten school but it could be non academic related.


Input: [Date] 1 day 4 hours ago [Title] Agreed. Hopefully we can [Body]

Output: Agreed. Hopefully we can still get Bridges if he wanted to go here. Hopefully we don't get too complacent as other big ten teams are starting to get better recruits and lose our foothold in the league.


Input: [Date] 1 day 6 hours ago [Title] Looks like Dantonio is making [Body]

Output: Looks like Dantonio is making space after cutting ties with a recruit a few days ago and this.


Input: [Date] 1 day 18 hours ago [Title] Best case: We win every game [Body]

Output: Best case: We win every game by 50 enroute to a national championship while Urban Meyer leaves for Utah State. Worst Case: We lose 77-7 to UNLV and go 0-12. Jabrill Peppers breaks his ankle on the first series against Utah and is out for the season. Jim Harbaugh leaves coaching to open a Culvers and we hire co-head coaches of Rich Rod and Brady Hoke.


Input: [Date] 1 day 18 hours ago [Title] I wonder what the Spartan [Body]

Output: I wonder what the Spartan reaction to this is. If Michigan let him back on the team, they would be crying foul.


Input: [Date] 1 day 22 hours ago [Title] Agreed. Women are qualified [Body]

Output: Agreed. Women are qualified enough to coach football but it's going to be hard to find a female who has the experience to do it compared to sports like baseball or basketball where there's a female equivalent in playing it.


Input: [Date] 2 days 3 hours ago [Title] Also, if they did it like in [Body]

Output: Also, if they did it like in past years, the line for Harbaugh might end in Saline.


Input: [Date] 2 days 3 hours ago [Title] I wish the adults could still [Body]

Output: I wish the adults could still get autographs and go but the ebay people ruin it for the genuine Michigan fans.


Input: [Date] 3 days 3 hours ago [Title] 90 percent of Ohio is rolling [Body]

Output: 90 percent of Ohio is rolling farm lands. It's no surprise that they are what they are without another college team and such a big state.


Input: [Date] 3 days 5 hours ago [Title] I think 2015 was a pretty [Body]

Output: I think 2015 was a pretty terrible recruiting class on par with 2011 but 2014 was a relatively good class that just had only 16 players bringing it down.


Input: [Date] 3 days 6 hours ago [Title] August 8th: Upshur [Body]

Output: August 8th: Upshur announcement day


Input: [Date] 3 days 6 hours ago [Title] I'm not sure he has a huge [Body]

Output: I'm not sure he has a huge dislike for Urban Meyer. He just has a huge ego and a need to be a dick to everyone possible at all times.


Input: [Date] 4 days 23 hours ago [Title] Didn't Mattison get guys as [Body]

Output: Didn't Mattison get guys as recent as last year that were pretty good recruits? Harbaugh still has guys he turned into great players on the defensive side like Richard Sherman so I thought it could be a selling point to get at least some 4 stars to commit in the defensive backfield.


Input: [Date] 4 days 23 hours ago [Title] If thats what 93grad was [Body]

Output: If thats what 93grad was saying, it sounds like the typical spin job he does to make us look worse than we actually are. Dantonio has coached for twice as long at MSU than Harbaugh has at Stanford. Of course his accomplishments are going to look better than Harbaugh's college accomplishments given that Harbaugh has only been a college FBS coach for 4 years and was kicking ass in the NFL for half of Dantonio's MSU tenure.


Input: [Date] 5 days 29 min ago [Title] Dantonio accomplishing more [Body]

Output: Dantonio accomplishing more than Harbaugh. You can't be serious. Our guy has been in the super bowl and went to 3 nfc titles. That is much harder to do than going to one rose bowl and cotton bowl in 8 years coaching.


Input: [Date] 5 days 49 min ago [Title] Harbaugh would be up there [Body]

Output: Harbaugh would be up there with Saban or Meyer if he had been at LSU or Florida prior to coming here like those two instead of two typically downtrodden places like Stanford and the 49ers.


Input: [Date] 5 days 3 hours ago [Title] We could end up with only 1 4 [Body]

Output: We could end up with only 1 4 star on the defensive side if we lose Gary. I was hoping to do better than that considering the offense we'll have to go up against in the last saturday in November. Kind of strange that Mattison's recruiting prowess has fallen off and Durkin hasn't lived up to his billing.


Input: [Date] 5 days 20 hours ago [Title] I don't think you ever should [Body]

Output: I don't think you ever should get to retire when you want to if the team's not winning. If you're not producing wins and are getting paid millions to do so, why are you entitled to stay around and coach?


Input: [Date] 5 days 20 hours ago [Title] I don't think he's a [Body]

Output: I don't think he's a superstar but he's clearly one of our better players at his position.


Input: [Date] 5 days 21 hours ago [Title] Isn't a 3.0 gpa pretty good [Body]

Output: Isn't a 3.0 gpa pretty good at a place like Michigan? It seems weird that he would be kicked off for competitive reasons for his 5th year as he would bring a lot to the table in kick return and slot.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I'd feel worse for him [Body]

Output: I'd feel worse for him staying on the Kings. Both franchises have been awful on the court, but the Sixers have a (very tenuous) path forward, which Nik could potentially be a part of. I don't see any evidence at all of such a path with Sacramento.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Yeah, I dunno, I'd probably [Body]

Output: Yeah, I dunno, I'd probably decide on "better franchise" based on something along the lines of their respective chances of being late-round playoff teams in the next five or so years. By that metric, I'd go with the Sixers. Who could be all means continue being terrible. But given their assets -- lottery 5s and otherwise -- I think they def have a better chance of breaking through than do the Kings.


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 2 days ago [Title] The occurance of disasters is [Body]

Output: The occurance of disasters is an excellent prompt to donate, and I also encourage everyone who can to do so. I'd also encourage everyone to do some research about where their money is going and how it's likely to be used. Specifically, I'd strongly encourage givers to resist the urge in give in such a way that their money is earmarked for Nepalese disaster relief. The bottleneck in providing immediate disaster relief is generally not money (as we saw in post-earthquake Haiti, post-Sandy NY, post-tsunami Japan, etc.), and making generalized donations now can help improve the responses available for future disasters. Along these lines, Felix Salmon, in the aftermath of Sandy, made what I thought was a strong case for giving to MSF rather than the Red Cross: "Which isn’t to say that donating money is a bad idea, when disasters hit. But it is to say that donating money to the Red Cross might not be the best use of your dollars. My advice is to give instead to MSF, or an organization like it, which is dealing with disasters every day of the year. That gave them the experience ability to respond quickly when disaster struck in the USA — and it also means that if your money would be put to more urgent use somewhere else, like Zimbabwe or Honduras or Chad, then that’s where it will go. We should spend as much money as is needed here — but don’t force the matter and earmark $117 million for Sandy relief, when no one knows whether even the Red Cross thinks it can sensibly spend that much. The Red Cross didn’t need to promise to spend all that money on Sandy and Sandy alone, but it made that promise anyway."


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 6 days ago [Title] This point tends to get [Body]

Output: This point tends to get carried too far. No reasonable idea of usefulness would reduce to immediate and specific vocational preparation. Case in point: the training that a good student receives in a good philosophy department (cultivating, namely, the ability to think precisely and to manage complex ideas) can be of enormous value, both in a variety of employment contexts and in the general practice of citizenship.


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 6 days ago [Title] So in otherwords: you like [Body]

Output: So in otherwords: you like the aspect of the uniform that looks very much like a million other uniforms Michigan basketball has worn, but you're not a huge fan of the glaring dick-cumberbun that's been vomited onto the shorts? To me, that would mean that I don't like the uniform.


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Head injury vs. joint injury [Body]

Output: I never played past high school, but I did manage to accumulate a fair amount of joint injury: a torn ACL/meniscus and four subsequent knee surgeries and continued wear left me unable to do anything ballistic with my legs at a young age, and I already have a fair amount of arthritis in that knee and same-side hip, both of which I assume will have to get replaced at some point going forward. I know that this pails in comparison to the joint injury/pain that a lot of guys go through, but I say it to establish the fact that I can appreciate the costs of joint damage. That said, I'm grateful that, aside from getting my bell rung a few times, I never accumulated much head trauma. I just see a qualitative difference between brain injury and bodily injury; bodily injury can alter your life, making it inconvenient and painful (in ways that I acknowledge can be pretty awful), but brain injury can fundamentally change who you are. And this is what I, and I assume others, find so frightening about the risk from concussions. I could see myself with full information trading a few years of playing a sport that I love for a future of moderate physical disability. I could never see myself making that trade for a future of middle-aged advanced dementia.


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 6 days ago [Title] It's interesting to see this [Body]

Output: It's interesting to see this outcome after reading a really fascinating Grantland piece recently on advanced defensive metrics: http://grantland.com/features/department-of-defense/. Among other things, the article makes the case for Chris Paul as the best perimeter defender in the association.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Honest, straight-faced answer: I would give zero [Body]

Output: Honest, straight-faced answer: I would give zero fucks if I was largely clueless about where guys would end up before they committed somewhere. I would care more about losing scouting content, but that content doesn't seem to me to be dependent on the element of the business model in question.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Me directly answering your question does not [Body]

Output: Me directly answering your question does not qualify as going off on a wild tangent.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] With respect go the question of whether anyone [Body]

Output: With respect go the question of whether anyone would pay him a cent: possibly, though at the margin, certainly fewer. my broader, more tangential point: the world would not be a poorer place if some of these hypothetical guys were to empty their contact lists of 16-year-olds and go back to selling insurance or whatever.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] The 'certain definition of value' I referenced is [Body]

Output: The 'certain definition of value' I referenced is the one that you presuppose: the one that centers entirely on the guy running the site. A piece of recruiting info also carries value for (at least some) of the people who absorb it, whether or not they pay. It also carries some (possibly negative) value for the players/coaches/families from which it was extracted.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Under a certain definition of 'value', yes.Also, [Body]

Output: Under a certain definition of 'value', yes. Also, I'm not entirely convinced by my own argument, but I'm much less convinced by your fact/opinion distinction, either with respect to its logical structure or its application to statements about what recruits will do.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Title] I dunno, man. I have a really hard time swallowing [Body]

Output: I dunno, man. I have a really hard time swallowing the notion of statements of fact about the world as property. Whatever the legal framework, items of prose seem to me to be qualitatively different from kernels of knowledge, and it seems to me that the latter can't properly 'belong' to anybody. Granted, there's a collective action problem here; if everybody gets info for free, then nobody gets paid to collect it, and everybody gets less recruiting bits. But I feel confident in saying that the socially optimal level of recruit pestering is way lower than what goes on now.


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I could be mistaken, but my [Body]

Output: I could be mistaken, but my impression of the twitterverse is that you could find a cure for cancer, and you'd still get a dozen people telling you that you're a vagina that rhymes with "punt". Which is not to say that York hasn't earned some vitriol.


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Whatever. Facebook is rightly [Body]

Output: Whatever. Facebook is rightly horrified at Swift's suggestion: http://literallyunbelievable.org/


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Before or after the game? [Body]

Output: Before or after the game?


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] The success of autodidacts [Body]

Output: The success of autodidacts doesn't mean that schools are useless. And I think we may have to agree to disagree on the interpretation of my experience; in my view, there is vanishingly little danger here, and the use of (very modest) university resources to encourage students to be less shitty than I was at times in undergrad seems reasonable.


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] So if I'm Roma, and I'm kind [Body]

Output: So if I'm Roma, and I'm kind of bummed out that my ethnic identity is used as a shorthand for fucking people over (an association that has been used as a pretext for my ancestors' systematic extermination at various points in history), I should realize that I'm part of the problem. Got it.


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] The thing with a simple "be [Body]

Output: The thing with a simple "be considerate" message is that many people (and I would place my 20-year-old self firmly in this camp) have no idea that some of the things they're saying actually are deeply incosiderate. I would regularly call things retarded, and I would regularly admonish my friends to not be such fags when they wouldn't want to go out in the cold and such. I don't do this anymore, not because I'm such a better person now, but because I realize now that I was being demeaning and shitty.


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Self-control vs. understanding of context [Body]

Output: In requesting that people not say certain things because other people find them hurtful and demeaning, the university isn't providing a nudge to exercise self-control so much as it's letting people know that some of those things actually are hurtful and demeaning to others. I used to say a lot of things in friendly conversation that I now consider socially unacceptable and, with the exception of the occcasional slip up, rarely use. It's not because I'm so much more in possession of myself, but because I now realize in ways that I didn't before that I was kind of being an asshole.


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Free thought [Body]

Output: There is an enormous gap between 1) censoring ideas, and 2) requesting that people be civil to each other. The notion that my ability to formulate and openly argue for ideas is somehow compromised because Big Brother has asked that I not call anyone a fag is...not particularly compelling.


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 2 days ago [Title] An onerous task: don't be an asshole [Body]

Output: Belle Waring: "98% of what people angrily claim is “Political Correctness” is just manners. Politeness. If something I were saying at a dinner party offended another guest and my host explained why, I would stop saying that thing, in all likelihood. I myself used to call things “retarded” all the time when I was a kid, and I carried it into adulthood, and then people on the internet made it clear that they found this hurtful and demeaning, so I stopped. I explained to my children, I have a left-over bad habit in that I will occasionally call something retarded and it’s not an appropriate thing to say; will you please correct me when I do it? Thinking about what I wanted my children to say helped me here. Likewise, although I don’t know that I said anything particularly unpleasant about it ever, I was comparatively ignorant about issues facing trans people until some years back. Does this make me angry because the word “cisgender” exists now? No, because I’m not an asshole."


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I'd actually disagree about [Body]

Output: I'd actually disagree about Westwood village being awesome. It's kind of like a scaled-up South U, except with more douchebags in Maseratis and 50-year-olds with plastic faces. Other things of note: CTools is a lot better than UCLA's course computing website, and people get ticketed for jaywalking on campus all the time, which totally sucks. Let the negative recruiting commence!


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Another thing to not click on [Body]

Output: Burt and Ernie did MOP's Ante Up:


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 1 day ago [Title] As a current UCLA grad [Body]

Output: As a current UCLA grad student, that is absolutely true. I went to the Oregon game this year, and most of the stadium seemed to not completely realize that a football game was happening. The campus in general seems pretty detached from football. That said, the university is not without amenities...


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Statistics [Body]

Output: Article is paywalled, but you can get the gist from the abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.20287/abstract Auto insurance 'redlining' is an empirically verifiable thing. To your initial point: this isn't to say that insurance companies are extracting excess profits from people in affected neighborhoods. But it does demonstrate that a lot of (potential) drivers take a huge hit on premiums through no fault of their own.


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 2 days ago [Title] This raises an interesting [Body]

Output: This raises an interesting point over what counts as "political". I'm assuming that you're objecting to the comments on race and racism because they cross the no-politics line. But I'd argue that discussing the stability of Grosse Pointe's elite status without acknowledging that the form of segregation from which it draws its status represents one of the biggest moral failings of 20th Century America is, at the very least, a tad political.


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Let's not drag Harbaugh into [Body]

Output: Let's not drag Harbaugh into this.


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 1 day ago [Title] The point is that "grown men", as used in the [Body]

Output: The point is that "grown men", as used in the initial comment, refers to the stage of life development at which dudes are likely to be not so into being led around on a string. Yes, 22yos are often asked to bear tremendous military burdens, and we should all solemnly introduce this point in as many threads as possible. But the relevant sense of "grown men" has a lot more to do with not getting care packages from mom, making solo trips to Bed, Bath and Beyond, etc.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Try this [Body]


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Title] iPhone won't let me correct [Body]

Output: iPhone won't let me correct but that's supposed to say last night he lost his battle


Input: [Date] 29 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Anyone who was at the Elite [Body]

Output: Anyone who was at the Elite Eight game in Indy back in March can confirm, it's Kentucky. I'm still in shock of that fanbase. That was something else.


Input: [Date] 40 weeks 5 days ago [Title] How about the goal horn for [Body]

Output: How about the goal horn for hockey? Don't hate it with a burning passion and not sure it's Brandon's doing (although it started during his tenure, so will be attributed to him) but man what was wrong with just playing The Victors and having the crowd go nuts?


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Title] Great topic [Body]

Output: For me after some thinking about what games I've been to, I realized that the only choice I have is the '08 Capital One Bowl over Florida. Wanted to pick a Michigan Stadium game but most of the ones I've been too have been against cupcakes (ticket price/availability). This game/trip was my 16th birthday present from my parents. Dad and I went down the day after Christmas and enjoyed a week in Florida. Went to the BC/MSU Champs Sports Bowl where I proudly wore a Big Ten Conference T-shirt and pretended to root for Sparty because of my sister being a student there but really, could care less. Realize now that it was the BC team that was Quaterbacked by Matt Ryan and was probably the best team they've had in 25 years, so that was pretty cool. Really remember the fan fest for the two bowl games that they had. That had the bands of all 4 schools and a bunch of activites. Tebow's Heisman was there as well. My dad's quote to the M fans next to us in line for a photo with it? "Desmond's was bigger." Remember Brandstatter getting up and getting the Michigan fans in attendance to chant "one more win" for Lloyd. Anyone else who was there have memories from the fanfest? Honestly probably one of the best gatherings on Michigan fans I've been too (Up there with the bars pregame for basketball vs Kentucky in Indy this past spring, beer may have helped that one though). Of course there's the game itself. Which was pure awesomeness. No need to rehash that. But there being maybe at best was 10% Michigan fans, the rest true down deep south ESS EEE SEEE Florida fans, many of which bought shirts for $20+(!) saying "Beat Michigan and that rat they brought with them". Watching those guys walk out while we stayed and celebrated was priceless. But the postgame interviews with players? That will always stick with me. Listening to Shawn Crable answer the ESPN reporter's question about being prepration for the game? "We had to listen to KIRK HERBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSREIT say we ain't got no chance" to a roar from the MIchigan fans was the best. Getting to walk out from the upperdeck, to a crowd of Gators waiting still for with everyone in maize and blue chanting "It's Great to Be a Michigan Wolverine" will always stick with me as a moment of pure fandom" Anyone else with memories from this game? Sidenotes: Best Michigan Stadium game?: My first, Rice 1999 a 7 year old, amazing seats by pure luck. 6th row 45 yard line. Was first row until a week before the game we got a call from the Athletic Department telling us we were moved so recruits would have those seats. Worst games?: The Horror.... and Toledo '08. Idk how a 15/16 year old me got through those games without drinking Best worst games?: Northwestern in '08. Nothing to play for. Lost. Miserable weather. We sat under the construction of the luxury boxes, in a spot that dripped on us the whole game. Never been so cold and wet. But Damnit we stayed until the final play and then went to the basketball arena for the open practice before the team went and upset UCLA in NYC. How's that for fandom endurance badge?


Input: [Date] 1 year 27 weeks ago [Title] Oh c'mon and here I was [Body]

Output: Oh c'mon and here I was hoping to not have to root against Hart's team anymore. Wish him and the running backs there much success. Hope the rest of the team just blows it for them. Fire Up Chips


Input: [Date] 1 year 31 weeks ago [Title] To be fair with the new rules [Body]

Output: To be fair with the new rules of the NFL, in addition to more pass first teams, I doubt we ever see a true lockdown secondary for anyone again.


Input: [Date] 1 year 31 weeks ago [Title] Not familar with the Michigan [Body]

Output: Not familar with the Michigan program but I'm in my final year of the Sport Management program at Central Michigan. It's been a fantastic expirence and one I wouldn't change. Yes you catch a lot of flack for being a "jock major" and so on but like any other program it's as serious as you take it. Sports in a glamour industry so as far as inital jobs go, it's internship heavy and/or low-paying. However if it's what you are passionate about you won't want to trade it for anything. Yes there are ways to get into the sports industry that don't involve the majoring in Sport Management. However those are becoming tougher and tougher, as more and more qualifed Sport Management grads are entering the workplace and organizations are looking at them first over other disciplines. Also networking as with any business is key and the connections you make in the program can pay big dividends when it comes to moving up in the sports world. Overall I have had nothing but great expirences and while there are some specfic challenges with being a Sport Management major, so does every other degree program.


Input: [Date] 1 year 38 weeks ago [Title] Few beers and a whiskey and [Body]

Output: Few beers and a whiskey and cokes. Watching the Wings and looking ahead and hoping that my Chippewas can pull off some MACtion against Ball State on Wednesday. And then salvage the in-state rivalries aginst Western and Eastern later this month.


Input: [Date] 1 year 51 weeks ago [Title] Nice, always good to have [Body]

Output: Nice, always good to have more Chippewas around here. Fire Up Chips and welcome aboard


Input: [Date] 2 years 4 weeks ago [Title] Yes because those PSD [Body]

Output: Yes because those PSD revenues won't be there in years to come unless you give a new generation and new potential clients the opportunities to come to games and feel those expirences that come with it for themselves. Creating a future demand for season tickets and therefore PSD's in the future. Without that when the current season ticket holders give up their tickets (for whatever reason price, death, moving etc.) and therefore by extension their PSD's, there wouldn't be a demand created to fuill those voids and you would lose out on future revenues.


Input: [Date] 2 years 4 weeks ago [Title] Simple Sports Management, you [Body]

Output: Simple Sports Management, you want to grow your fan base to new fans and younger generations. The best way to get these potential fans to games. This cannot happen if you sell every seat as a season ticket. You need to have a good portion of tickets available for single game consumption. A variety of ticket options gives the biggest number of people a chance to sample the product and become fans that will then day demand more of the product. If you only offer season tickets, you will see fan growth stagnate. So after a period of time all the sudden you won't have the demand to sell every ticket as a season ticket.


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Baltimore fans do this [Body]

Output: Baltimore fans do this (rather impressively for the crowd sizes of games I've been at I might add) during the "O" of the anthem at O's games. They just love the anthem down there in general though. Been doing huge celebrations the last two years for the War of 1812 and anniversary of Key writing the anthem


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Downtown GR right now at the [Body]

Output: Downtown GR right now at the Outlaws bar for the USMNT game. Lets get rowdy tonight Grand Rapids!!


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Pretty much, things are [Body]

Output: Pretty much, things are getting kind of sketchy... butttttttt did outplay the Crunch tonight though, outshot them by like 30 just gave up good chances that Syracuse took advantage of when we didn't with similar chances


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Rooting for Mahan, seems [Body]

Output: Rooting for Mahan, seems like a good guy and I will forever root for any and all of the Golf Boys


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Spent the night watching the [Body]

Output: Spent the night watching the Griffins lose game 5 and drinking whiskey and cokes. Still have a 3-2 series lead but losing two in a row at home that could have clinched makes me nervous to go back to Syracuse...


Input: [Date] 2 years 7 weeks ago [Title] If I have time in between [Body]

Output: If I have time in between summer classes I'm going to attempt to write a more in depth preview on CMU, seeing how I have first hand knowledge after watching all their games the last three years (not looking forward to the two teams I rise and fall with playing each other but such is the nature of the beast) . Maybe I'll be able to use my MACtion knowledge to try and put a little bit more on Akron if people are interested.


Input: [Date] 2 years 7 weeks ago [Title] Look like a generic logo for [Body]

Output: Look like a generic logo for a create-a-team in a video game


Input: [Date] 2 years 16 weeks ago [Title] God if we can win it, it [Body]

Output: God if we can win it, it would feel really good for Coach Beilein. One of the good people in sports during a time where that doesn't always seem to be the case.


Input: [Date] 2 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Gongshow [Body]

Output: What the fracking shit was that icing getting blown off?!


Input: [Date] 2 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Beat the Irish! [Body]

Output: Beat the Irish!


Input: [Date] 2 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Was hoping someone would make [Body]

Output: Was hoping someone would make this thread. Love this weather but not when we need a result as bad as we do


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Title] So Wisconsin makes at least 5 [Body]

Output: So Wisconsin makes at least 5 buzzer beaters each year right? I'm not imagining this?


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Title] God can we just move the next [Body]

Output: God can we just move the next series up to tomorrow? This team wants to play some hockey


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Title] And just like that, I have [Body]

Output: And just like that, I have forgiven the refs despite the gongshow


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Title] Gahhhh, that's an unfortunate [Body]

Output: Gahhhh, that's an unfortunate one. Rather give up one like that then one like our second goal though (sustained offensive pressure from them)


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Title] Dare I say that this team has [Body]

Output: Dare I say that this team has become fun to watch the last few weeks? Never would have guessed this with some of the uninspired play earlier in the year


Input: [Date] 2 years 22 weeks ago [Title] Thank you very much for this, [Body]

Output: Thank you very much for this, the very first Michigan game I ever attended!


Input: [Date] 2 years 25 weeks ago [Title] Meh, sounds like a whole lot [Body]

Output: Meh, sounds like a whole lot of nothing to me


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 3 days ago [Body] By the way, love the Antione "the Judge" Joubert nom de plume. Joubert and Gary "the General" Grant were my all time favorite Michigan guard combo until Tim and Trey came along a few years back. [Title]

Output: By the way, love the Antione


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Pretty sure the water just parts when he comes near. [Title]

Output: Pretty sure the water just


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Plus he looks just like Jabrill Peppers which can't hurt. [Title]

Output: Plus he looks just like


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] Love that clip. Everitt really wanted to hit him but probably held back because he didn't want to give that little jock-sniffer the free publicity. [Title]

Output: Love that clip. Everitt


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 weeks ago [Body] Won't be able to call it a fluke when Caris Levert goes in the top 10 next year. [Title]

Output: Won't be able to call it a


Input: [Date] 1 year 4 weeks ago [Body] I think we are going to have a really good defense this year. Especially the back seven. Not sure if Jabrill will win the Heisman, but maybe in another year or two. [Title]

Output: I think we are going to have


Input: [Date] 1 year 5 weeks ago [Body] Can't comment on Justified but I loved Timothy Oliphant in Deadwood. [Title]

Output: Can't comment on Justified


Input: [Date] 1 year 5 weeks ago [Body] Yeah, no GoT really sucks. But a couple of new shows I've been watching and am now really into are Penny Dreadful (Sunday nights) and Salem (Thursday nights). And I too am looking forward to The Leftovers and Strain based on the trailers I've seen. [Title]

Output: Yeah, no GoT really sucks.


Input: [Date] 1 year 6 weeks ago [Body] Hmmmn, interesting news but seems to contradict other recruiting.... It sounded like we were recruiting Hjalte Froholdt (who is an interior lineman) pretty hard up until he committed to Arkansas. I wonder what changed? [Title]

Output: Hmmmn, interesting news but


Input: [Date] 1 year 10 weeks ago [Body] Wow, so much negativity. I bet at least one of these guys turns into a great receiver eventually. And I bet at least one of them sees significant playing time this year, not just on special teams. I know not every recruit is going to be a stud, but I would be very surprised if all three of them turned out to be busts. As bluekoj said, there is almost nothing to go on at this point. Lets give them a chance before we just write off the entire 2013 receiver class. [Title]

Output: Wow, so much negativity. I


Input: [Date] 1 year 11 weeks ago [Body] After reading the above comments, I'm now convinced the NFL draft is the perfect Rorschach test for Michigan fans. The optimists see the silver lining and the haters see confirmation that the coaches suck. [Title]

Output: Rorschach Test


Input: [Date] 1 year 12 weeks ago [Body] I'd be really pissed if I were the security guard. He suffered a vicious attack for simply doing his job. If it were me, I'd want Jayru Campbell to receive the full wrath of the law (as a minor, not the bs where they often find some loophole to charge kids as adults), not some slap on the wrist. Counciling and anger management classes.....what a joke. [Title]

Output: I'd be really pissed if I


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Body] I have no problem holding the coaching staff accountable. But I absolutely insist that we give them a few years to rebuild first, then fire 'em if they aren't getting the job done. I'm not sure RR was the best for Michigan but I definitely don't want his replacement to be run out of town before he even has a chance to field a decent team. And I don't want to be in a 20 year cycle of rebuilding like Notre Dame. [Title]

Output: I have no problem holding the


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Body] Seems like stability to the program arrived with Hoke. I hope we actually follow through and give him a chance to rebuild the program. Otherwise we will be rebuilding for another 3-4 years if we get rid of him after this year. [Title]

Output: Seems like stability to the


Input: [Date] 1 year 14 weeks ago [Body] Yep GoT and Walking Dead are great. I also am absolutely loving the first two episodes of Turn on AMC so far. Another good one that I just watched is the first season of Black Sails (on Starz). And Vikings (History Channel) is pretty awesome too if you haven't seen that yet. I've heard some people say that The Black List is good. I liked the first few episodes but it got silly when every week they catch a new super-criminal/terrorist. I don't really like one hour self contained shows anymore. Instead I prefer the series format. And yeah, Project Free TV is the best. [Title]

Output: Yep GoT and Walking Dead are


Input: [Date] 1 year 15 weeks ago [Body] Not so fast. We're still in it. Found this on twitter: Ryan Bartow @RyanBartow 4-star Chris Clark informing ppl he's de-committed from #NorthCarolina. Plans to visit #OhioState & #Michigan next. [Title]

Output: Not so fast. We're still in


Input: [Date] 1 year 15 weeks ago [Body] I'm surprised no programs have offered to let star recruits design the team uniforms as an incentive to come to their school. Or maybe we just haven't heard about it? [Title]

Output: I'm surprised no programs


Input: [Date] 1 year 17 weeks ago [Body] I don't have any inside info or anything, but from what I've read it sounds like Sterling Jenkins is leaning towards Penn State. [Title]

Output: I don't have any inside info


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Body] I only drink at work. My problem is that I am a workaholic. [Title]

Output: I only drink at work. My


Input: [Date] 1 year 19 weeks ago [Body] It says the University of Michigan is 2.67 times more influential than Ohio State University, 3.43 times more influential than Michigan State University and is 2.94 times more influential than the Univerisity of Notre Dame. Clearly this must be true. [Title]

Output: It says the University of


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 weeks ago [Body] Unfortunately Stidham just committed to Texas Tech. Hopefully this is just a "place-holder" commitment and he will still look around. [Title]

Output: Unfortunately Stidham just


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 weeks ago [Body] Apparently someone familiar was just a year ahead of you guys... Andrew Dakich @daycheck3 · 50m We haven't won an outright Big Ten championship since 1986. I think @JustJMo was a junior in high school back then. [Title]

Output: From Twitter


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Body] Unfortunately, I saw a disheartening tweet from Steve Lorenz today saying he is changing his "crystal ball" pick to Penn State for Sterling Jenkins. [Title]

Output: Unfortunately, I saw a


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Body] From what I heard, Nicholson was a good athlete and had nice size for a safety, but didn't like contact. I believe Penn State passed on him for the same reason. [Title]

Output: From what I heard, Nicholson


Input: [Date] 1 year 22 weeks ago [Body] Perhaps you guys know more about this than I do. I live many states away and have only read a little about this but from my understanding, there were never any charges filed against Gibbons because the alleged victim did not want to pursue the matter. Then many years after the alleged rape that never warranted any charges, Gibbons is suddenly expelled because of a change in University policy. So Gibbons gets thrown under the bus by the university and now his reputation is forever destroyed.....and he may not have even done anything wrong? If anyone's civil rights were violated, it was Gibbons. Or am I missing some important legal details? [Title]

Output: What About Gibbons' Civil Rights?


Input: [Date] 1 year 24 weeks ago [Body] I don't know about that. The fans demand wins or the coaches head. Are we willing to trade our higher academic and character standards for wins on the field? LF is saying yes, loosen the standards. I'm not saying he's right, but he does sound like much of our fan base. [Title]

Output: I don't know about that. The


Input: [Date] 1 year 24 weeks ago [Body] Don't heap too much praise on him. Everytime we get a good recruiting guy (Steve, Tom) someone comes along and snatches them up. Just kidding. Nice job BB. [Title]

Output: Shhhhh......


Input: [Date] 1 year 27 weeks ago [Body] I had the opposite reaction. He completely embarrassed himself and will probably regret these comments when he grows up a bit. Now, instead of everyone talking about what a great corner he is, we're all talking about what a jackass he is instead. [Title]

Output: I had the opposite reaction.


Input: [Date] 1 year 28 weeks ago [Body] When I emailed my dad about this last night, his reply was classic... "Can we hire some of their players too"? [Title]

Output: My father's words


Input: [Date] 1 year 34 weeks ago [Body] What a big effing baby. If you're so unhappy then don't go. Whaaaa I'm locked in, whaaaa! Its my career, whaaa! The ticket prices, whaaa! Jesus dude, be happy you don't have a shit job like some of us. [Title]

Output: Whaaaaaa


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Title] If he tweeted that after the [Body]

Output: If he tweeted that after the thing about the 49ers being 7-4, he has since deleted that, as well. I couldn't find it.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Maybe he didn't like how he [Body]

Output: Maybe he didn't like how he phrased his response. It's not easy when people are picking apart every single word used in 140 character bursts, and looking for positive signals or something that suggests a lack of credibility.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I suggested to him that the [Body]

Output: I suggested to him that the 49ers would have been 7-4 at the time of these alleged initial discussions. He responded that it might explain why interest was low at that point. I responded again that it would have been an distraction (with Harbaugh reasonably focused on making the playoffs). He deleted his response to me. I'm not sure why. I always find that odd.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Brian has cited him in some [Body]

Output: Brian has cited him in some of the coaching search updates. Moss has been around a long time. He has some sources. This isn't totally random internet rumormongering.


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 6 hours ago [Title] I think he first tweeted that [Body]

Output: I think he first tweeted that day that the press conference would be held and that Brandon would be fired. It beat everyone else. It wasn't a random guess. And, he's not really in that business, from what I can tell. That said, I'm not the guy who you mock for buying every internet rumor that comes along. I totally get the skepticism. And, I don't care what you all believe. I'm just saying that the salt that goes with this report in particular should probably be of the grain and not the boulder variety.


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 7 hours ago [Title] I'm not saying he's right [Body]

Output: I'm not saying he's right about this, but I think he had Brandon's firing before anyone else. Brian might vouch for that.


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 10 hours ago [Title] I think you are reading too [Body]

Output: I think you are reading too much into it. Read the next sentence after he mentioned bowl games: "They may be in bowl games. They may be…you know, wherever they are in their status..." I don't think you can make any judgment at all about a pool of candidats limited to college coaches based on that statement.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Title] This probably wasn't intended [Body]

Output: This probably wasn't intended to be a diary, but I'll just point out that it seems unlikely to me that Harbaugh would be stupid enough to go to Miami given the acrimony in that front office. Have you read the backstory on Aponte? It doesn't sound like she's going anywhere, and if that's true, Harbaugh would be jumping from one bad situation to another. I'm not sure even Ross's money could paper that over.


Input: [Date] 44 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Great. Well, then the [Body]

Output: Great. Well, then the problem was either provider-specific (which AT&T denied) or it was an issue in certain pockets of the city.


Input: [Date] 44 weeks 2 days ago [Title] There was a problem with the [Body]

Output: There was a problem with the broadcast in the Atlanta area (and possibly others). They screwed up the regional coverage such that ABC and ESPN2 were both showing Texas A&M vs. SMU. This continued until some point in the 3rd quarter when the complaints must have finally bubbled up to the people who fix these sorts of things. At that point, the UM game became available on ESPN2.


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 weeks ago [Title] Did you just cut and paste [Body]

Output: Did you just cut and paste that summary from rotoworld?


Input: [Date] 1 year 29 weeks ago [Title] You'll always be Coach [Body]

Output: You'll always be Coach Schiano to me...


Input: [Date] 1 year 32 weeks ago [Title] Hello - I have returned to [Body]

Output: Hello - I have returned to receive your upvotes...


Input: [Date] 1 year 35 weeks ago [Title] Year 3 under Rodriguez is [Body]

Output: Year 3 under Rodriguez is identical to Year 3 under Hoke. We have not improved. Also, we could easily be 4-7 right now. Some of those wins are functional losses. But tell me more about how great things are...


Input: [Date] 2 years 12 hours ago [Title] It looks like Benoit will [Body]

Output: It looks like Benoit will continue to close (from Danny Knobler on Twitter - I can't embed for some reason): @DannyKnoblerCBS Tigers will keep Benoit as closer, use Veras along with Smyly in the 7th and 8th innings.


Input: [Date] 2 years 12 hours ago [Title] I'm not certain he's going to [Body]

Output: I'm not certain he's going to close, but it will be nice to have some more help with late innings.


Input: [Date] 2 years 44 weeks ago [Title] Michigan 38 - ND 31 [Body]

Output: Michigan 38 - ND 31


Input: [Date] 3 years 18 weeks ago [Title] I'm guessing "DB" isn't [Body]

Output: I'm guessing "DB" isn't "wondering what happened to Beilein and the program in such a short time frame" because Dave Brandon is smart enough not to evaluate the status of a major program by only looking at a three week period in which nothing that could be construed by any reasonable person as "negativity breed[ing] negativity" took place.


Input: [Date] 3 years 29 weeks ago [Title] Spencer Hall is Orson. [Body]

Output: Spencer Hall is Orson. #yourmindblown


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Raoul: The article doesn't [Body]

Output: Raoul: The article doesn't say anything about where McGary places Duke among the final six. It simply says McGary's parents favor Duke.


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Title] According to John Buccigross [Body]

Output: According to John Buccigross (and reports he's citing on twitter from foreign news agencies), Liv and Salei are confirmed dead.


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] The twitter link is all there [Body]

Output: The twitter link is all there is. The link within just goes to his profile. http://twitter.com/#!/nbadraftnet/status/61153951835357184


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] No, I'm well aware of the [Body]

Output: No, I'm well aware of the last four years, thanks. As I said above, I just think this is overkill. I don't think that's that controversial of an opinion.


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] For what reason do they need [Body]

Output: For what reason do they need to travel around the country and "get the former players pumped up?" I'm not being a smartass. I really don't see why it's necessary. I'm not saying they need to spend all of their time watching film like has been suggested above.


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] But he has a lot of former [Body]

Output: But he has a lot of former players in his phone...or whatever...


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] I don't understand why this [Body]

Output: I don't understand why this is necessary or a valuable use of the coaches' time. I understand the perceived need to "mend fences" or whatever, but if this is true, it seems to be overkill.


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] What was the state of "the [Body]

Output: What was the state of "the tradition" when RR came in, or did you miss that part of the post in your rush to cryptically name drop?


Input: [Date] 4 years 14 weeks ago [Title] Except it's not...at all. [Body]

Output: Except it's not...at all.


Input: [Date] 4 years 15 weeks ago [Title] Let's just watch the spring [Body]

Output: Let's just watch the spring game...


Input: [Date] 4 years 17 weeks ago [Title] Butler lost two starters and [Body]

Output: Butler lost two starters and they were pretty important. Gordon Heyward was their best player and a lottery pick in last year's NBA draft. Willie Veasley (who now plays in Japan) was a critical defender that, like Heyward, could guard almost anyone. Their struggles early this season were almost entirely related to defense. They've found a way to make up for those losses.


Input: [Date] 4 years 19 weeks ago [Title] He's an asshat. One thing [Body]

Output: He's an asshat. One thing I've always hated about the tournament is that CBS injects him into the mix when things really start to matter, i.e. the conference tournaments and ncaa tournement. He has nothing to do with college basketball all year, and then we get to listen to him drone on and on about the most important gamesr. He's not really good at it, either. While I dislike his style, generally, and don't enjoy him calling golf, at least he's more suited for it.


Input: [Date] 4 years 22 weeks ago [Title] He's taking some time off [Body]

Output: He's taking some time off after signing day? There's probably not a less eventful time for recruiting all year. Although, I guess he could be reporting on offers going out.


Input: [Date] 4 years 24 weeks ago [Title] Hillsdale College's turf is [Body]

Output: Hillsdale College's turf is blue. At least, it was 15 years ago. That's like 35 miles away, but a possibility.


Input: [Date] 4 years 27 weeks ago [Title] FWIW, ESPN reporting the deal [Body]

Output: FWIW, ESPN reporting the deal is for $570k. EDIT: Correction - the prorated portion of that is $250k.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Misopogon: I appreciate the [Body]

Output: Misopogon: I appreciate the creative correction.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Army has cadets. Air Force [Body]

Output: Army has cadets. Air Force has cadets. Navy has midshipmen - not cadets...ever!


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] This is batshit crazy. [Body]

Output: This is batshit crazy.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] I feel like this was reported [Body]

Output: I feel like this was reported elsewhere last week, but I don't recall where. I'm not sure if it's news or simply repackaging old news.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] I don't think I'm missing [Body]

Output: I don't think I'm missing anything. You're suggesting you came to this realization that it wasn't going to work out sometime after the nutjobs who said he wasn't a fit from the beginning? Was that after the 2008 season? 2009? This year? I don't really care. And, I think you've got the idea that I have a certain opinion on when/whether he should be fired. The truth is, I'm there now, but I was on the fence before the bowl game and after OSU. I think I've come to that conclusion thoughtfully and don't regret anything. I just find it funny that people are seriously claiming it was so horrific to have been on one side or the other because of things like mgopoints.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] What are you talking about [Body]

Output: What are you talking about and who are you talking to?


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] I'm not claiming to have any [Body]

Output: I'm not claiming to have any facts that anyone else doesn't have. I'm also not making assumptions and trying to pass them off as facts. Also, I feel great.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] I did hear that. [Body]

Output: I did hear that.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] You're still talking about [Body]

Output: You're still talking about "fit?" Glad you survived the neg bombing and mocking. It must have been terrible.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] It would be so easy if you [Body]

Output: It would be so easy if you were the AD. I like it. You didn't answer this question, but I didn't state it this clearly: Your assumption is that Harbaugh should have been told "take it or leave it" on December 1st (or thereabouts). If Harbaugh is the guy DB wants, and Harbaugh says he wants to wait, where does that leave us? In fact, let's assume that happened. We're in the same spot we are today, no? Or, would you have preferred DB just moved on rather than wait? That seems to be your position, actually, because this one month waiting period, in your calculus, is more important than getting the right guy. It's the "hole." So, again, it's December, we've moved on from Harbaugh because even though he seems to be a great, maybe even the best candidate, he won't bend to our will and follow our timeline. Let's talk names, now. You've already mentioned Muschamp - oops, we missed out on him - and Patterson who is still available. If it was so important to act then, who should DB have pursued, keeping in mind it would be at the cost of his presumed first choice for the job. And, two follow-up questions that may seem silly, but I'm curious since you've dismissed the possibilities out of hand: How do you know he doesn't have a Plan B and why do you assume that if Harbaugh says no this week, we're starting from scratch?


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] And, let me clarify by saying [Body]

Output: And, let me clarify by saying that the "If not Harbaugh" question does not have an obvious answer in my mind. I'm not going to be so presumptuous to suggest that Brandon sat around for the last month or three and never once asked "If I fire Rodriguez, and Harbaugh declines, what then?"


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] It's not called digging a [Body]

Output: It's not called digging a hole. It's called assuming he dug a hole. Count the "if's" in your response. You don't know and neither do I. The difference is, I'm not claiming to. Obviously it wouldn't change your mind if I told you to assume that Harbaugh said "I won't talk about this job until after our bowl game, but I'm interested" because your answer would be "put him on the clock and tell him to 'take it or leave it.'" Well, if he leaves it, what then? Your response would be "look for guys like Patterson and Muschamp" as if that was such an easy, viable option a month ago. The question "If not Harbaugh, who?" is no more easily answered now than it was at the beginning of December. But, it's easy to say "I would have hired him then" when you ignore any possible scenario which does not fit your assumptions.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] You make assumptions you know [Body]

Output: You make assumptions you know nothing about. Your "he's dug himself a hole" is built on the assumption that DB could have just hired Harbaugh a month ago and, since he didn't, he's now put us in a bad position. He said he was evaluating. But, none of us know whether he could or could not have hired Harbaugh on December 1st or whenever you believe this should have been handled. I do agree with your questions regarding our options if Harbaugh does not take the job. They don't seem pretty.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] How has he dug himself a [Body]

Output: How has he dug himself a hole, again?


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] In the unlikely event that [Body]

Output: In the unlikely event that someone links The Big Lead on this board, Brian might need to be sedated for several months. Oh, wait...


Input: [Date] 4 years 30 weeks ago [Title] I love penguins. [Body]

Output: I love penguins.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] That's the point, exactly. [Body]

Output: That's the point, exactly. Sure, many of us will commit the teams and divisions to memory, but most outside the Big Ten will have no idea and no reason to learn them. I've never bothered to figure out the ACC divisions. I just always look them up.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] I'm telling you people will [Body]

Output: I'm telling you people will not remember which teams are in which division because the division names are not in any way tied to the teams within. They might as well have named them "apple" and "poop." Congrats on your photographic memory.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] Who is making that argument? [Body]

Output: Who is making that argument? I haven't seen any "Bo and Woody" division name suggestions in this thread. The division names are awful and that has nothing to do with Michigan and Ohio State. Plus, no one is going to remember which schools are in which division. You can see the ACC and Coastal/Atlantic as the case study in that...although, we've gone even more vague with L's and L's.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] So, we're expanding to 20? [Body]

Output: So, we're expanding to 20?


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] Right. And, if the "G" [Body]

Output: Right. And, if the "G" doubles as a zero, you have a logo which sort of literally reads"Big 10 Ten." Why you'd need that 1 and G/zero in the "BIG" and then the "TEN" beneath it is beyond me.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] I'm 99.9% sure there isn't [Body]

Output: I'm 99.9% sure there isn't one and there isn't supposed to be one. I'm not being sarcastic - I don't think a "2" is intended anywhere. The only visual cutesiness is the "G" which is supposed to double as a zero...I think.


Input: [Date] 4 years 32 weeks ago [Title] Misfire! [Body]

Output: Misfire!


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] You're wrong about having any [Body]

Output: You're wrong about having any idea, one way or the other, what his original commitment was contingent upon. You said above it was contingent upon Rodriguez being coach. He's the coach. You offered a quote where he said it doesn't matter and suggested 1) he was talking about it just because it happened to cross his mind, although I'm sure it's in response to a question and 2) that it supported your previous comment, which it did not. So, you are wrong. Don't pretend like you have any idea why he may or may not be switching. You're speculating which is fine. Just don't state it as fact or pretend that you were somehow right with your comments two posts ago.


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] He's directly contradicting [Body]

Output: He's directly contradicting what you said above, but feel free and try and spin it in such a way that his words don't mean what they say by reading his mind or whatever. If there's a resident expert at fear of losing commits amid coaching changes, it'd be you.


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Link? [Body]

Output: Link?


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] I find it sad that you can't [Body]

Output: I find it sad that you can't help yourself... (I can't either)


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] This tangent is awesome... [Body]

Output: This tangent is awesome...


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Fail [Body]

Output: Fail


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Glenn [Body]

Output: Argh!


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] You're totally right. I [Body]

Output: You're totally right. I should have looked more closely at the whiskers. My bad.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Harbaugh's first three years [Body]

Output: Harbaugh's first three years at Stanford: 17-20 Rodriguez: 15-21


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] What's funny about people [Body]

Output: What's funny about people like you is that you were probably a terrible, insufferable fan when things were going well, too. You claim to love the program, but complain about everything, constantly, no matter what is going right. You're the guy in the stands that spends the entire game bitching about the play calling and suggesting you know better because you played pee wee and tecmo super bowl. You're not just distracted by shiny things, your entire existence is defined by trying to be the guy in the room that thinks he's the smartest because he talks the loudest about them. You were sick of Lloydball, then mad when they got rid of him, then mad when they hired an "outsider," and then you started shouting words like "unnacceptable" while we were starting a walk-on quarterback and running an entirely new offense. Or, maybe that's not you. But, since we're arguing in broad, idiotic generalities, it's close enough. Wear it. Happy Thanksgiving.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Frankly, you don't have any [Body]

Output: Frankly, you don't have any idea what you're talking about. But, it's great that you're confident in your ability to "call 'em like you see 'em." That takes balls.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Our only job this week is to [Body]

Output: Our only job this week is to support our team and this staff. Everything else is unhelpful and, honestly, disloyal. There is a time for navel-gazing and this week is not it.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Navy is also great at [Body]

Output: Navy is also great at lacrosse. But, top to bottom, on a year-to-year basis, most of the academies' programs would not do well in the Big Ten.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] You're talking out your ass. [Body]

Output: You're talking out your ass. They do tons of research that I wouldn't call military research. I'm not sure whether they fit the definition of "premier research instituions" but they have their strengths, espcially in the engineering fields.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] They'd be doormats at [Body]

Output: They'd be doormats at everything but football. And, while Army has a coaching staff that may have the tools to finally turn them around, only Navy football would be competitive. It's just not a good athletic fit, let alone cultural fit.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Don't bother. There are so [Body]

Output: Don't bother. There are so many things wrong with that, it's not worth it.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Why don't you simplify your [Body]

Output: Why don't you simplify your argument?


Input: [Date] 4 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Understood. I can't say that [Body]

Output: Understood. I can't say that I have that depth of experience (no insult intended!) with SI. I've subscribed in the past, but now I mostly just enjoy their online content. I especially like Posnanski on baseball. You could always write and say that Rosenberg's continued employment was the last straw for you and that you will be cancelling.


Input: [Date] 4 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Write to SI [Body]

Output: I recently realized that Rosenberg is writing/contributing at SI. His archive suggests that he began writing there as early as August 2009. I have quite a bit of respect for SI because I believe it has maintained its traditional status as a source of sports news and evolved as a new media outlet while avoiding a lot of the content-grabbing pitfalls other outlets have fallen into in this day and age. I don't see how Rosenberg really belongs there. Anyway, you can send your thoughts on this episode and Rosenberg's body of work for the Freep to the Editor at SI here: letters@si.timeinc.com EDIT: And, I'm suggesting this course of action because I assume, I think rightly, that the editors at the Freep don't very much care what you think...


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] Isn't there at least one more [Body]

Output: Isn't there at least one more dimension? Aren't they forced to pick the guy that combines both the physical attributes that you mention with the mental acuity to handle the position as well? What I mean is, maybe X isn't the best fit at this position, but we're looking at 5 or 6 freshman for a couple spots and X is the most advanced in other aspects at this point in time so we're going to put him on the field because we think he can handle the job and would give us the best chance to win. It's more than a physical fit, right? And, as the freshmen pick up the defense, doesn't it make sense that they can begin to move players to their more natural positions? I think you're probably right about where kids fit. I'm just saying that it might be incorrect to say the coaches didn't realize it.


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] 519 [Body]

Output: 519


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] Michigan 38 Penn State 23 [Body]

Output: Michigan 38 Penn State 23


Input: [Date] 4 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Michigan 35 Iowa 23 [Body]

Output: Michigan 35 Iowa 23


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] I'm saying that THE_KNOWLEDGE [Body]

Output: I'm saying that THE_KNOWLEDGE does not like you stealing his thunder.


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] It's an idiotic, [Body]

Output: It's an idiotic, self-soothing mechanism meant to deal with their massive inferiority complex. It's absolutely non-sensical and could probably only take off as a meme in a fanbase as pathetic as MSU's. We shouldn't feel the need to defend against it or even acknowledge it.


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] I think he does fine, even [Body]

Output: I think he does fine, even though I don't like him. Plus, with Millen comes Sean McDonough, who I find excellent at his job.


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] This is happening too often [Body]

Output: This is happening too often to be coincidence, right?


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Great. So, Ricardo Miller is [Body]

Output: Great. So, Ricardo Miller is transferring to Alabama?


Input: [Date] 4 years 45 weeks ago [Title] I'm sure Brian or someone [Body]

Output: I'm sure Brian or someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that if the transferring player is in good academic standing, it does not hurt the APR. If Lalota's and Emilien's grades were ok, then it won't matter.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] That's what I'm going for, [Body]

Output: That's what I'm going for, considering the opponent this weekend....


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Nothing Irish and preferably [Body]

Output: Nothing Irish and preferably something English.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Because he was out of [Body]

Output: Because he was out of bounds...yes?


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] ARGGHHH! [Body]

Output: ARGGHHH!


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] 2089.95 [Body]

Output: 2089.95


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] If he does, it's not [Body]

Output: If he does, it's not showing. He's certainly said all the right things this week.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Did they put it that [Body]

Output: Did they put it that succinctly? Did they make a statement ("Hart/Dix to Bama.") or did they make a vague suggestion or did they ask a rhetorical question? The only thing worse than their vagueness is trying to decipher it through another filter.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Yes, LeBron comes off as a [Body]

Output: Yes, LeBron comes off as a genius.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] It was around 2003-2005. [Body]

Output: It was around 2003-2005. EDIT: I'm saying I heard it then. I don't know exactly when it began.


Input: [Date] 4 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Hey, it's the weekly "are you [Body]

Output: Hey, it's the weekly "are you listening to the a-holes on 97.1 say bad, uninformed things about Michigan?" thread!