Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Body] No on will be brought in from the outside. Just not going to happen. If fired, a coordinator or position coach would take over. I personally believe that Brandon will be asked to resign shortly after the season followed by firing of Hoke. The new AD will ends to be in place ASAP and then a coach found. There ate a lot of moving parts here and it starts with the AD. My guess is that the new AD is the first thing the Pres/Board will work on. That is as important as a new coach. [Title]

Output: No on will be brought in from


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Has John Harbaugh ever commented on the UM job? He would likely keep Matison. I see him as the very best option out there. I assume his wife is not hating on the Midwest like Jim's. He seems to be more level headed. To me, he is by far the best fit. I assume the Brandon May have some level of relationship with him. [Title]

Output: Has John Harbaugh ever


Input: [Date] 3 years 35 weeks ago [Body] Does anyone know what player is giving the speech in this video? [Title]

Output: Does anyone know what player is giving the speech in this video?


Input: [Date] 3 years 51 weeks ago [Body] Tom, Is it safe to say that he is not a MSU lean at this point? If you had to guess, would UM be in his top 3 or top 2 or... 1? [Title]

Output: Elmer


Input: [Date] 3 years 52 weeks ago [Body] From what I have read, they are doing one of the most thorough jobs of evaluating schools that I have ever heard. Steve Sr. is using some matrix that he put together to evaluate schools based on acedemice and football. If they truely stick to that approach, then UM wins hands down. My worry is that we do so well this year with OTs that they think that the depth chart is not good for Steve. I also question whether ND doesn't enter the picture. I am an optimist though and I think that he may pull the trigger early for UM. Again, they seem to be taking the recruiting process very seriously. I think that if Steve and his family find the right fit, he will commit. [Title]

Output: From what I have read, they


Input: [Date] 3 years 52 weeks ago [Body] Thanks for explaining that. Brian sorry. Kudos to you also! Again, great site. [Title]

Output: Thanks.... Sorry


Input: [Date] 3 years 52 weeks ago [Body] Tom, Great site. I have been following this site for quite sometime. The best I have found for solid information. Question: Steve Elmer seems to be spending a lot of time in Ann Arbor. Is he checking out other campus's as much as he has UM? I have read where some think he is a MSU lean. I guess I am not seeing it with the frequency that he is coming to AA. If he is not going to Lansing or South Bend every few weeks, then my gut tells me that he is leaning toward UM even though his Mom is a MSU fan/grad. [Title]

Output: Elmer


Input: [Date] 6 days 8 hours ago [Title] Football is coming [Body]

Output: That is all.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] the one [Body]

Output: That matches the Glidden official paint color so I don't have to repaint my basement.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Projector [Body]

Output: I have an HD projector paired with a 106" screen. It's pretty impressive. Of course this setup depends on viewing area. Mine is in the basement where I can control the amount of light that in the room.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Pete Rose is a piece of crap. [Body]

Output: He's a liar, a cheater, and an alleged coke head.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Not Sure How [Body]

Output: Look at young kids today. I bet you see 10 wearing UA for every 1 Adidas. That is probably a very conservative guess too.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Same Everywhere [Body]

Output: Do you really think it is hard for an athlete to graduate from any major sports program college. Come on now.


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Nooooo [Body]

Output: Why cover up the best looking helmet in all of football?


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Fuck the NFL [Body]

Output: Fuck Karma and fuck Cowboys haters. This rule is total bull shit. That was a catch. It was possessed and advanced. Running with the ball is a football move. Two weeks in a row the Cowboy's game has been marred by poor officiating. Fuck the NFL for their incompetence.


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 5 days ago [Title] arrived in time [Body]

Output: to watch the buckeyes lose on monday


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] enjoy [Body]

Output: enjoy the mistletoe.


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Are you sure [Body]

Output: on espn3 it is listed as needing a password.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 6 hours ago [Title] wowsers [Body]

Output: I can't believe I read that whole post. A. The head coach is responsible for all aspects of the team. B. There are good and bad people in all levels of jobs. It is apparent that we have too many bad coaches.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Culture Club [Body]

Output: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Replay? [Body]

Output: For someone that was at the game: Did the hit on Shane replay on the video board? How did no one with authority see a hit that was flagged and had a large crowd response? I call bullshit.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Title] wait, don't go [Body]

Output: ah fuck it. see ya.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Personal First [Body]

Output: I have watched every Michigan game from beginning to end for the last 23 years. This is the first game I have ever turned off before it was over. After Gardner came in I did not see a team that had given up but I saw a coach who had. Fuck Hoke! Fire Hoke!


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Heartache [Body]

Output: Sports are nothing but heartache but what else are we going to do, talk to our wives?


Input: [Date] 46 weeks 3 days ago [Title] They are not Michigan [Body]

Output: They have a proven head coach and they will improve as the season goes on.


Input: [Date] 46 weeks 4 days ago [Title] however [Body]

Output: unlike Michigan OSU will improve as the season goes on.


Input: [Date] 46 weeks 4 days ago [Title] really? [Body]

Output: After today's offensive performance you want to promote Nuss? Wow.


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 5 days ago [Title] same here [Body]

Output: Took until a week ago to get excited... but damn, I'm excited now!


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Hells Yeah [Body]

Output: Fantasy football draft 1 tomorrow, a smoker full of meat on Sunday and fantasy football draft 2 to wrap it all up on Monday. I should just call it "Man" weekend.


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 5 days ago [Title] it's 8:30 am [Body]

Output: I'm eating pretzels and watching cartoons with my 5 year old daughter. She refused to watch more preseason NFL. What's up with that?


Input: [Date] 49 weeks 6 days ago [Title] what a shame [Body]

Output: it's a shame that we live in a world that cares about sexual preference. this should not be news.


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Title] answers [Body]

Output: 1. yes but its unlikely. 2. people who own walmart stock are as much a part of the problem as people who shop at walmart. 3. everybody's shit stinks. 4. see #3 5. the already get paid... see your student loan balance. 6. kitty, always kitty.


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Title] Fuck cancer indeed [Body]

Output: Lost my dad to cancer 17 years ago, and now my mom is losing a battle against ovarian cancer. This weekend she traveled 3 hours to see me graduate from the University of Cincinnati (I'm 41 and just finished my undergrad). She was skin and bones and looked horrible. Luckily she was seated about 10 feet from where I wound up sitting during the ceremony. It made my day to see the pride on her face. I'm going to miss her.


Input: [Date] 1 year 17 weeks ago [Title] what I heard [Body]

Output: blah blah blah Culvers blah blah blah


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Title] That's the thing about dads [Body]

Output: We don't realize how much we need them until they are gone. I miss mine too.


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Title] let's do this [Body]

Output: it's been a tough week. I'm ready for the weekend.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Title] UPS [Body]

Output: Now will that be arriving Next Day Air Early A.M. or Next Day Air Saver?


Input: [Date] 3 years 6 days ago [Title] And... here's the new look! [Body]

Output: I can't say I'm happy with breaking the clean look of our field, but it's not the end of the world. Today's news is a reminder of more important concerns.


Input: [Date] 3 years 9 weeks ago [Title] I personally think the [Body]

Output: I personally think the article's headline is a bit misleading because the "profit" was on Michigan's expense allowance for the game, and does not include Michigan's share of the remaining bowl revenue for the Sugar Bowl and other bowls. Unless the conference had to pay more in unused tickets than it received for its bowl bids, Michigan should still pocket a nice chunk of change from its share of the remainder.


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Title] Different situation this year? [Body]

Output: LSU fans quickly gobbled up the school's allotment of 37,000 tickets, breaking a school record for a regular-season road game. Oregon sold out its 15,000-ticket allotment. http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/ncf/news/story?id=6715802 Given the misbalance between the schools' allotments last year, I don't expect there is room for Mr. Jones to give more tickets to Michigan. This year, we aren't the equivalent of LSU facing a distant, nascent fanbase. We are matched against the defending national champions who are located within driving distance of Dallas. I suspect Jones will use the remainder of the tickets for local/Cowboys purposes, and the best we could hope for is a small group of seats or a large allotment of standing room only seats.


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Title] http://www.mgoblue.com/ticket [Body]

Output: http://www.mgoblue.com/tickets/fbl-cowboys-classic.html Victors Club members with 50 or more priority points did not face a limit unlike those who could order yesterday. Anyone who ordered more than 4 with less points either will have their order reduced, or the Athletic Department did not enforce their own policy, which is frustrating for those of us who would have ordered 1-2 more but were maxed out.


Input: [Date] 4 years 18 weeks ago [Title] I think the NCAA did not [Body]

Output: I think the NCAA did not suspend the players to provide OSU the opportunity to appeal. Although they ended up only appealing the 5th suspended game, if there had been less proof, OSU potentially could have appealed the entire charge/punishment, which could have led to no suspensions if successful. You could think of it similarly to being on bail until final sentencing.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] God help him get the support [Body]

Output: God help him get the support of the fanbase if he can't even face his old team. That game is a bellwether for the rest of the season and beyond. Think back to the MWC team we played at the start of 2008. It's an opportunity to show progress against an up-and-coming non-AQ team.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] I was more disappointed from [Body]

Output: I was more disappointed from that article to see that Hoke bailed out of SDSU with nothing more than a text message to his players. Michigan should have provided him the opportunity to take the extra 4-6 hours to hold a team meeting and explain his decision in person.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] You're absolutely right. [Body]

Output: You're absolutely right. Hoke will have fewer distractions than RR due to the relationship with the fanbase and media that is clearly going to be less strained than it has been the past three years. However, the only good that can provide is if it leads to more winning. A smoother relationship with former players and boosters has not and will never be a substitute for winning. Dave Brandon clearly felt that Hoke is qualified for the job, and he does not deserve a pass due to his lack of experience as a BCS coach. I will definitely be cheering like crazy at every game next year. But until Hoke starts performing in the areas where RR failed, confident and inspiring talk will not have me convinced we are immediately on track for greatness again.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] What does letting go of RR [Body]

Output: What does letting go of RR have to do with applying the same standards to our new coach? If Hoke can't do better than 3 wins next year, or 7-6 in year 3, would you really think we should keep him? Judging by people's expectations here, 7-6 by the third year would be highly unlikely. He would be significantly underperforming, and undeserving of a fourth year based on traditional Michigan expectations.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Given the question they were [Body]

Output: Given the question they were answering, I read it as "if we don't win at least 6 games, Hoke will not meet expectations for next year"


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Why should we expect Hoke's [Body]

Output: Why should we expect Hoke's recruiting to be better than Lloyd's? What evidence is there to suggest that a rookie B10 coach will out-recruit someone who won a national championship at Michigan?


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Lol if the BR media is [Body]

Output: Lol if the BR media is chasing BBQ receipts and iPhone photos, their heads are going to explode if they have to start a coaching search on January 11 or 12. Then again, the Detroit media was chasing down the Domino's corporate jet at Willow Run tonight based on blogs' obsession with FlightAware. I don't know which is funnier.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] The Big Ten does not allow [Body]

Output: The Big Ten does not allow signing 27 so that coaches can greyshirt kids. There are some minutiae with scholarship numbers that allow a team to count early enrollees in the previous year's class if you have enough extra room in your scholarship limits. Michigan took advantage of these rules last year to stock the roster back up to 85 for 2010.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] And here I thought the NCAA [Body]

Output: And here I thought the NCAA only cares when entrepreneurial reporters dig up a story exposing a violation. It turns out that even when violations are admitted out in the open, there has to be excessive stretching involved to justify a response.


Input: [Date] 4 years 28 weeks ago [Title] It wasn't just you. It [Body]

Output: It wasn't just you. It looked like his wrist hit the ground as he rolled over the defender.


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] Gruden [Body]

Output: I think it would be worth pulling out the checkbook for Gruden. We are in a much weaker position than we were three years ago in terms of the attractiveness of the job, but we still have a huge checkbook to go along with state of the art facilities, and I think we should take full advantage of that before we lose it. I think his national visibility from MNF and his NFL experience/Super Bowl win more than make up for his lack of recruiting experience as a college HC. Look at the way he talks up every damned player who completes a first down on MNF. Can you imagine how convincing he could be selling the Big House and winged helmets?


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] You will also want to look at [Body]

Output: You will also want to look at this link. http://www.mgoblue.com/genrel/081309aaa.html It states that a student ID is required to validate the tickets. Whenever I have had tickets validated, I have presented my ID, although I may have provided it without being asked in every case. You should absolutely be able to find a student in the Michigan Union Friday night before they close around 6 or Saturday morning before the game to validate it for you if you hand them the cash, so I wouldn't be too worried.


Input: [Date] 4 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Zing!! [Body]

Output: Zing!!


Input: [Date] 4 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Excellent artwork [Body]

Output: It's very disappointing that U of M is getting trigger happy with the cease-and-desist letters. That is absolutely hilarious that they thought you were actually making Denard Robinson Heisman Trophy™ candidate edition action figures. If the wallpapers are on a private website that makes no mention of your business whatsoever, I hope that you can continue to get them published. Thanks for your creativity and hard work making these so far.


Input: [Date] 5 years 1 week ago [Title] This is hilarious, because my [Body]

Output: This is hilarious, because my girlfriend graduated from Walled Lake Western high school with Triple O. Unfortunately, we haven't decided what to name him yet after picking him up this afternoon. There are many great suggestions on this page to look through, I'm sure we'll find one! Zoltan Meowsko is currently the front runner. Who wouldn't want their cat to be Assistant (to the) Space Emperor?


Input: [Date] 5 years 2 weeks ago [Title] Thanks for the info! I [Body]

Output: Thanks for the info! I couldn't find it at the Arborland Borders on Saturday or the A2-Saline Meijer this morning. I'll head over to Busch's tonight too!


Input: [Date] 5 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Denard left in an SUV with [Body]

Output: Denard left in an SUV with some people. I've been wondering who he was with that was so important that it was his job to go back into the store to get some extra ranch sauce. Either he's just a friendly guy, or you just figured it out for me.


Input: [Date] 5 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Denard: National Championship for Michigan soon [Body]

Output: I talked to Denard at the Domino's pizza on Main Street the weekend before last. I was wearing a Michigan football shirt, so he asked me if I was going to any games this year. I told him all of them, and Penn State too. So we talked about how that's going to be a night game, and how cool it's going to be to play Notre Dame at night in the Big House next year. He asked me what grade I'm in and when I said I just graduated but am going to grad school and will be here a while, he responded that hopefully I'll see a national championship soon! He had just been coming into the store a second time to get some extra ranch sauce, and when he left, I told the girl working there that he was the Michigan Football quarterback. She said, "Oh, that's who it was... He walked in here and asked, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Denard.' And I was like, Hi, Denard." I thought that was pretty funny. I was going to post this story on here right after it happened, but I thought it would get a lot of "that's a cool story, man" sarcastic responses. But since you asked...


Input: [Date] 5 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Bye week [Body]

Output: Actually, the bye week has already been implemented. Starting this year, the Big Ten is extending play to the 13th week of the season with each team having a bye week. This pushes the Michigan-Ohio State game to Thanksgiving weekend, which could affect attendance (don't get me wrong, I still expect 110,000+ sellouts, but it's going to lead to some students skipping UM-OSU who attend the games for social reasons primarily). The Big Ten made this change to deal with criticism that B10 football ends too soon before the other conferences.


Input: [Date] 5 years 7 weeks ago [Title] This does not sound good. [Body]

Output: This does not sound good. Shame on the Athletics Department and Admissions Office for not getting this figured out before the offer was made. And shame on the Detroit/Ann Arbor media for likely ruining this kid's chance to make a new life for himself in Michigan. One of the reasons it was expected Dorsey was coming here was to get away from a negative environment in Florida with his peers. If he ends up in a D1 program like FSU, it might not provide him the opportunity he would have at Michigan. This is not the time for the University to further vindicate the "investigative reporting" of the local media.


Input: [Date] 5 years 8 weeks ago [Title] Smaller football programs [Body]

Output: Smaller football programs that lose money already would still have a problem, but the NCAA could cap the amount that players would be paid. This would at least limit competition based on pay between big-time programs. This might limit some blue chip recruits from going to lesser programs for the opportunity for earlier playing time, but I think there would be a similar pecking order of schools going after recruits to what we see now. The programs that would be able to afford the maximum player stipend would usually be the successful ones that top recruits are interested in anyways.


Input: [Date] 5 years 11 weeks ago [Title] I think what it shows is that [Body]

Output: I think what it shows is that it's not worth going for it on 4th down from around the 45 until you get into field goal range. If you miss, they have excellent field position. If you make it, they only have about 4-5 yards worse field position than if you had just punted from where you were on 4th down within the 45. This wouldn't be true if the extra ten yards that could be attempted after getting a first down would make a field goal likely, but in that range of the field (30-45 yard line), punting position should not be a factor when deciding whether to go for 4th down.


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

Output: If the purpose of advertising during football games is to donate to Mott, I'd be OK with it even during the season, and by that measure advertising during the spring game to donate is something I can support too. I just see this and the expected Big Chill ads as the first step towards advertising in the Big House for football games to provide revenue for the program, not for donations. If they only stick to advertising for donations or for negative revenue events like the spring game or the Big Chill, then they're doing everything right. We'll just have to see how many seasons it is before we have "Allstate" on the field goal netting and an Arby's logo next to the block M on the scoreboard.


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

Output: I'm beginning to get concerned about this advertising. Advertising in the Big House for spring practice and the Big Chill is a slippery slope. Just because there's money to be made doesn't mean it's worth breaking this tradition. I know David Brandon is a savvy businessman and he's looking to increase revenues, but they need to be careful about this. We were supposed to be able to afford the stadium expansion without corporate advertising, or at least that's what was said when the idea was sold. The other item of note from that press release I see is that a website is going to be launched tomorrow featuring "Victor the talking puck".


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Were u the one right on the [Body]

Output: Were u the one right on the aisle wearing the blue polo?


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Majestic [Body]

Output: And surreal. The whole night. Simply wow! The AD nailed this one. Walking into the stadium with 55 minutes still and walking into seeing each team warming up under the sun setting...awesome. I was sitting with my brother and two buddies in row 4 in section 11, yup that endzone where all the action was in the 4th....i will never forget what i was a part of and what I witnessed. It was the most electric atmosphere i have been a part of for a college football game. The UTL, the spectacle of the event, ND vs Michigan, all of it came together to create a moment these eyes will never forget, especially since it was with my whole family. (40 people for tailgate and the whole fam went to the game...awesome)


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Title] But what happens... [Body]

Output: when say we have a jersey that a current player wheres where he himself becomes a legend? Who is then recognized?


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Cant wait.. [Body]

Output: till next year for the next night game. It truly was one of the greatest sights/events/nights i have ever been a part of and witnessed. Truly majestic and surreal. It was so unique to walk into the stadium for the game and the sun is setting, what a great feeling. GO BLUE ..oh, also love the ida of the patch, however i would like to see it a lil smaller.


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Title] 876 please [Body]

Output: 876 please


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Title] since last saturday many more [Body]

Output: since last saturday many more sellers than buyers for this game. peace of mind is priority for many i would assume, however if you wait til saturday tickets will be had for 100 bucks.


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Not Sure [Body]

Output: But i sure wouldnt mind "learning" a thing or two from her.


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Title] Gorgeous....husks were [Body]

Output: Gorgeous....husks were terrible on that cheap looking thing we wore the last three years


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Title] book it [Body]

Output: 686!


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Title] Will be at all home games and [Body]

Output: Will be at all home games and one away....its been a family tradition. Will be on golf course at 7am sat....CANT WAIT


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Title] Got two for ND im selling and [Body]

Output: Got two for ND im selling and will be posting on ticket spread. Section 38 row 37. Asking $275 per or best offer.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 8 hours 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] 4 weeks 8 hours 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] 25 weeks 4 hours ago [Title] Another thing to not click on [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 2 days 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] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Body] Were u the one right on the aisle wearing the blue polo? [Title]

Output: Were u the one right on the


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Body] And surreal. The whole night. Simply wow! The AD nailed this one. Walking into the stadium with 55 minutes still and walking into seeing each team warming up under the sun setting...awesome. I was sitting with my brother and two buddies in row 4 in section 11, yup that endzone where all the action was in the 4th....i will never forget what i was a part of and what I witnessed. It was the most electric atmosphere i have been a part of for a college football game. The UTL, the spectacle of the event, ND vs Michigan, all of it came together to create a moment these eyes will never forget, especially since it was with my whole family. (40 people for tailgate and the whole fam went to the game...awesome) [Title]

Output: Majestic


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Body] when say we have a jersey that a current player wheres where he himself becomes a legend? Who is then recognized? [Title]

Output: But what happens...


Input: [Date] 3 years 45 weeks ago [Body] till next year for the next night game. It truly was one of the greatest sights/events/nights i have ever been a part of and witnessed. Truly majestic and surreal. It was so unique to walk into the stadium for the game and the sun is setting, what a great feeling. GO BLUE ..oh, also love the ida of the patch, however i would like to see it a lil smaller. [Title]

Output: Cant wait..


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Body] 876 please [Title]

Output: 876 please


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Body] since last saturday many more sellers than buyers for this game. peace of mind is priority for many i would assume, however if you wait til saturday tickets will be had for 100 bucks. [Title]

Output: since last saturday many more


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Body] But i sure wouldnt mind "learning" a thing or two from her. [Title]

Output: Not Sure


Input: [Date] 3 years 46 weeks ago [Body] Gorgeous....husks were terrible on that cheap looking thing we wore the last three years [Title]

Output: Gorgeous....husks were


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Body] 686! [Title]

Output: book it


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Body] Will be at all home games and one away....its been a family tradition. Will be on golf course at 7am sat....CANT WAIT [Title]

Output: Will be at all home games and


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Body] Got two for ND im selling and will be posting on ticket spread. Section 38 row 37. Asking $275 per or best offer. [Title]

Output: Got two for ND im selling and


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 2 days ago [Title] That's b/c Brian is wrong, like he is about a lot of things [Body]

Output: Balas knows what he's talking about.


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] If he is... [Body]

Output: ...it's really stupid of you to post this with this title and call more attention to it when Hoke and co. are clearly trying to keep it under wraps. There's a reason Hoke said earlier this week he wasn't discussing injuries. They don't review these videos that are posted on mgoblue and probably have no idea that's in there.


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Sure it will blow over, everything does [Body]

Output: That said, if you mean in the sense that things will end up well for Michigan in his recruitment, pretty sure this kid isn't coming here. He's a flaky recruit (obviously) and isn't solid with us (obviously). Would love to have him but these things rarely end up well for the good guys.


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 1 day ago [Title] High [Body]

Output: With a belly full of coney dogs, brats, burgers and pizza.


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Terrible video [Body]

Output: Why do all of these hype videos have terrible, dramatic, slow, boring music? The purpose of a hype video is to get hyped up. No one is going to get hyped up listening to that crap. Take a page out of the ESPN book and put together highlights to something trendy and upbeat.


Input: [Date] 50 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I'll also clarify a bit [Body]

Output: I grew up in Michigan. Many of my friends are Michigan fans. Many of them didn't go to the school. I go to games and tailgate with them. I watch away games at the bar with them and have parties for bowl games. I don't think they are creepy or weird. That said, I don't know any of them I could text "hey, what did you think of the Brian Cole committment" and not get a "who?" back in response. That's the difference in what I'm referring to.


Input: [Date] 50 weeks 5 days ago [Title] There's a difference between following a team [Body]

Output: ...and being obsessed. Constantly reading about, posting about, getting emotional about a team constitutes obsession. Why have that much invested into an amateur sports team without some sort of connection? Michigan is my alma mater and current school. That's a connection. Having parents or siblings that went or go to the school is kind of a connection. The further I can go on the weaker the connection gets. The fact is, when you have little connection to something but are obsessed with it... yeah it's "kind of" creepy. It's an opinion. You don't have to share it. But all I'll say is there should be much more important things in your life than commenting on a football team you don't have much connection to other than being a fan. It might have something to do with why you weren't a good enough student to get into the school in the first place. Just food for thought.


Input: [Date] 50 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I will be on the sideline [Body]

Output: My first weekend back from my DC internship this summer too. Damn it's going to feel good to be home. Can't wait. Go Blue.


Input: [Date] 50 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I have to be honest [Body]

Output: I've never understood the whole obsession with Michigan football for non-students/alumni. This isn't a Wal-Mart Wolverine thing, I don't have that attitude. But I will say it's a kind of strange and creepy. I haven't missed a home Michigan game since I was 5, but had I not been/am a student, I probably wouldn't be on this blog.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 34 min ago [Title] lol [Body]

Output: Wow, man. You blatantly question the competence of the coaching staff then show you have absolutely no spine by adding that little sentence in at the end. You clearly don't have all the confidence in the world in our staff. If you did, you wouldn't have written everything else in your post. Which is good, you shouldn't. They haven't earned it yet. I'm not taking any position on this, I'm just in wait-and-see mode.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 1 hour ago [Title] You from Grosse Ile? [Body]

Output: Just wondering.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Hahaha [Body]

Output: I forgot about that. You're right.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Hmmm [Body]

Output: I'm not sure you understand what "by definition" means. What you just said is tantamount to "All I've eaten today is salad and vegetables, I am LITERALLY starving"


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Jabrill Peppers is shorter than Chuck [Body]

Output: It's official. Yes I can see both are leaning. Anyone with eyes can still see he's shorter. That is all.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I hate you [Body]

Output: Seriously. (maybe not seriously, but seriously)


Input: [Date] 1 year 17 min ago [Title] Face palm [Body]

Output: Racial issues are not political, they're social.


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 hours ago [Title] I expect him to stay there [Body]

Output: Deveon Smith has always been the better back. How anyone doesn't see that and thinks that Green, who consistently is tackled after first contact, is the better back baffles me. Smith consistently breaks tackles and makes holes when there are none. Doesn't mean Green can't improve, but as of right now, Smith is the better choice.


Input: [Date] 1 year 4 days ago [Title] Annnnnnd.... [Body]

Output: ....now I'm gay.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Why should they get the full cost of attendance? [Body]

Output: What makes the athletic accomplishment of a player like Jack Miller or Dennis Norflleet so much more worthy of being given everything than the scholar from the south side of Chicago that had to fight through far more adversity to get a full tuition academic scholarship to Michigan but still can't afford to house or feed him or herself? And that person has a far greater chance of attributing real value to society than 99% of the other college athletes out there, even those playing for major football and basketball programs. I've never understood the inane argument from athletes that say they went to bed hungry. It's a ridiculous lie b/c just like the rest of us that go or went to college with no money, there is federal aid in loans or grants that will take care of all of the necessities. And just like the rest of us they might have to pay it back when they graduate. For those that make millions of dollars for the athletic program, they have a far better chance of paying back those loans immediately since, if they truly are generating that revenue themselves, they're very likely going to be making hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars professionally afterward. Spare me their sob story. Full tuition is enough. Otherwise extend the full cost of attendance scholarship to academic scholarships as well. Athletes don't deserve any more than they do. In fact, they deserve less. They're not out there creating new technologies to make our lives easier, new medical breakthroughs, engineering marvels or positive social policy. They are providing entertainment. And only a scant few of them have names recognizable to the rest of the country.... Sorry, ending my rant now.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] And with that "system" [Body]

Output: you end up with a few elite programs becoming football or basketball businesses instead of universities, not requiring players to attend classes, making hundreds of millions of dollars more than any other school and monopolizing ALL the talent. There would no longer be any semblance of competition. Just like in the real world, free market economy (which is regulated far more than what you're suggesting for college athletics), there would be only the Warren Buffetts and Charles and David Kochs of the world at the top, holding 75% of the wealth in "college" athletics, leaving the other 25% to be split among the rest of the schools. Not sure how you could deny this when this is the reality of capitalism today. And that's with checks like antitrust laws in place which you don't think college sports should have. Thanks but no thanks. Today's NCAA landscape is far superior to that.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] I was ready to respond positively to this post [Body]

Output: B/c the thought behind it is correct. I agree that we could change his mind with a good season that I think is well within reach. That said, you lost me when you wrote "Hoke is recruiting good." My estimation of your intelligence dropped dramatically. Hoke is recruiting well, not good.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Face palm* [Body]

Output: He knew for a while he wouldn't be able to make it. Why was he saying he was coming? This football camp he has to attend didn't come out of nowhere.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Riiiiiight [Body]

Output: Sure, yeah. Let's impress one of the other 50 recruits that will never be a starter for a top 25 program. That makes me feel much better. There a only a small handful of uncommitted recruits coming now that can help this team in any way.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Smartest post in this thread [Body]

Output: Thanks for bringing us reason.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Poor logic [Body]

Output: We've known for a while he's going to be a Buckeye. Not sure what you're trying to do with that comment.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] Dude... [Body]

Output: Got enough Michigan in your room? Are you 12 years old?


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] You seriously believe that? [Body]

Output: That's not a good reason at all. If that's true he knew a long time ago that he wouldn't be able to make it. His coach didn't schedule this practice yesterday.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] These are terrible [Body]

Output: Seriously. Not that you put much time into them, I'm guessing, as you said you were just playing around. Keep em simple and classy.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] No I'm not [Body]

Output: And obviously they've gained muscle but it is by no means visible.


Input: [Date] 4 years 27 weeks ago [Title] It was confirmed on Rivals [Body]

Output: by Josh


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] dude [Body]

Output: your the man thanks for posting that link. I got on just as Rich started talking


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Manny Diaz [Body]

Output: is a excellent D-cord, I have talked about him for the last couple months


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Brian you make me laugh [Body]

Output: –1 for Seriously This Time The Fourth String Quarterback Is Really Bad, Guys, Seriously i LAUGHED HARD


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

Output: Having problems with my e-mail, will email you as soon as it is back up


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] The best ever [Body]

Output: Ohio Came To Bury Michigan, All Wrapped In Maize And Blue The Words Were Said, The Prayers Were Read And Everybody Cried But When They Closed The Coffin, There Was Someone Else Inside! The Bucks Came To Bury The Wolverines – But Michigan Wasn’t Dead, And When The Game Was Over, It Was Someone Else Instead. Twenty-Two Michigan Wolverines Put On The Gloves Of Gray, And As Cavender Played “The Victors”, They Laid Woody Hayes Away!”


Input: [Date] 4 years 41 weeks ago [Title] We landed [Body]

Output: on the Moon


Input: [Date] 4 years 44 weeks ago [Title] 344 [Body]

Output: 344


Input: [Date] 4 years 44 weeks ago [Title] Bet [Body]

Output: he grows into a DE watch


Input: [Date] 4 years 44 weeks ago [Title] Lets win some games [Body]

Output: first


Input: [Date] 4 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Trashbag [Body]

Output: thats it


Input: [Date] 4 years 45 weeks ago [Title] OMG [Body]

Output: I was 3 minutes in and was laughing my ass off on the floor


Input: [Date] 4 years 45 weeks ago [Title] James Rogers, JT Floyd [Body]

Output: and Big man Roy


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

Output: UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU


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

Output: is like totally awesome DUH!!!!


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

Output: Van Slyke is done for the year broken Collarbone............. Make it stop now


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

Output: is a fucking joke right, there is nothing on Rivals


Input: [Date] 4 years 47 weeks ago [Title] WOW [Body]

Output: owned by a OSU fan.. OUCH


Input: [Date] 4 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Kinda cool [Body]

Output: the kid wants to go into the FBI


Input: [Date] 4 years 48 weeks ago [Title] my alma matter.... [Body]

Output: Every player of note is gone.... 30 seniors


Input: [Date] 4 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Was this a serious ? [Body]

Output: Does this mean he plans to enroll early wherever he ends up?


Input: [Date] 4 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Uconn (sitting 50 yard line BABY!!!) [Body]

Output: and Wisconsin


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] ahhhhhhhhhhhaaaaa [Body]

Output: I am single, like long walks on the beach.... we can hook up on twitter lol This was a good countdown Grady had me cracking up


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] T-wolf [Body]

Output: hates cheerios and so does his dog Bahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa awesome sigh....... I am sad now..... damn you angry hating cornerback GOD


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] ummmm [Body]

Output: This is BULLSHIT**


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] ohhhh [Body]

Output: grow up.... we treat 20 year old kids like they are babies


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] fU*K [Body]

Output: HIM... NEGG me I don't give a shit, lazy ass


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] This is just [Body]

Output: excellent


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Perry [Body]

Output: really, really likes to eat**


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] I just wish practice was closed [Body]

Output: all day everyday


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Body] 1. Looks good from the stands 2. Looks good on SD, HD, 1080p and 4K (i.e. It should look good on all current broadcast viewing tech) 3. Is as close as possible to our historic colors as possible given the first two constraints I suspect others might put 3 in place of 1 or 2, but to me the orange-y yellow looks worse on TV than the slightly highlighter yellows, and I think that will continue as pore-o-vision tech becomes the new norm. As long as we pick the color given a reasonable arrangement of those three points, we'll be good. [Title]

Output: I'm fine with any shade of maize that


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 6 days ago [Body] The Internet is a boon for distribution of content, in that the rights-owners of the content have lower distribution costs and can better identify the people who will buy what they have. Sports programming is no different. ESPN rents the rights and will make their money either way; it's not like network television, where you can go to Hulu/iTunes/whatever and get the exact same thing for a cheaper price if all you want is every episode of "Royal Pains". If you want B1G Football, the Big Ten Network will sell those rights to various distributors for enormous dollars, and those distributors will absolutely make sure that they get paid for distributing it to whoever wants it. Whether that's a subscription to ESPN Sports or a cable subscription, it will be about the same amount because ESPN and the B1G don't care how you watch, they just care that you pay to watch. By the same cable unbundling becomes widespread, the economic picture won't change for the B1G - they'll have made enormous profit, and will make still more for every school they add, as long as the distributors think that the additional cost to them will result in additional subscriptions to enhance their profits. Put simply, adding Maryland and Rutgers has already paid off, and will continue to pay off because people will pay for Maryland basketball and Rutgers alumni sports fans will pay for Rutgers sports - one way or another. [Title]

Output: I don't agree about unbundling


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Any prospect where the odds are slightly in his favor at hand fighting works for me. "I could kill you now" also works. [Title]

Output: Skill against Skill alone


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Body] should not be tolerated here. As others have mentioned, if we recruit someone and tell them "You're getting an offer, but you might have to grayshirt the first semester" up front that's one thing. Telling them on Signing Day "Thanks for the LOI, but you're not getting a scholarship" is something different (and yet another reason for recruits to not sign a letter of intent if they can avoid it). The lack of contact just seems ... wrong. Of course, coaches aren't usually going to come out and say "You got hurt, we're yanking your offer", but there's got to be a better way to do this. I suspect this is one area where Harbaugh will bend us away from what I'd like us to do, and whether we'll tolerate it or not depends on how much he wins (and how much of it he does). [Title]

Output: The lack of contact and the late grayshirt


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Despite the available 14 scholarships, of which 12 are now taken, Harbaugh continues to go after anyone he thinks can help. That implies the class is going to be huge - perhaps as high as 25 as others have tweeted. (That in turn implies that at least some players we might have counted on next year are not going to be there, whether by transfer or by medical exemption. That doesn't make me happy about the upcoming year.) Harbaugh appears to have great confidence in his ability to take raw talent - the kind of player with athletic gifts but not mastery of skills - and turn it into what he needs. With his track record, that confidence is justified - as long as he can find the guys who have all the gifts but none of the skills, and can learn the skills quickly. One resolution to our Three-Star-Dilemma is thus: - the staff is hoping to fill out the top end of a large class with players with both skill and talent, but know that those guys are both worth saving spots for and commit on their own schedule, such that you can't count on a majority of those targets for your class. - the three-stars we're getting are guys who will be good at football once they get top-notch coaching, but for whatever reason aren't there yet Put more simply, we're getting a lot of three stars because we always were going to need them (given the class size, our recent mediocrity, and the staff's short time at Michigan), and because the right three-stars are committing now, rather than risk the wrong three-stars in February. [Title]

Output: A pattern emerges


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Specifically, it's not just about people who'll donate more, but turning out people who live up to the standards of alumni past and are well prepared to tackle the modern world in their field of study. That tends to correlate well to success and hence to donations, but skipping past the middle and heading to the dollars leads you to more Dave Brandons and fewer top artists. [Title]

Output: I would like to think that the goal of admissions is broader


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 1 day ago [Body] This is one reason I have a hard time getting worked up about play-calling. The right play call means less has to go totally right to get a success, but one guy getting it wrong can always kill you. That said, it would be nice if we both didn't get it wrong and called the right plays. [Title]

Output: It always comes back to execution


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I assign about 40% to RR recruiting, as it left us low on talent and bodies. This was papered over by Molk, and then Denard, but it showed up even before that. Next would be 30% to Borges, although I can't sub categorize that. I don't see the tinkering as the problem as much as I see it as a response to a problem (a response that made things worse, granted, but given the state of the team it's not clear that blocking at the 75th best level would have made any difference versus the utter shambles we actually were). Put another way, we were failing, and rather than hope we gelled, he tried anything he could think of. I can't really fault that, even if it didn't work; it's not clear that anything would have. The bottom line is that it was his job, and he couldn't get it done. Finally I assign Funk about 15% - he has to get some, but he also did good work with Glasgow, Magnusen and Cole, and was the coach for the rebound to bad (from utterly abysmal, granted). The remainder I assign to injury (I think Kalis's back boo-boo has been a big factor in his lack of success thus far, for example), and slight over expectations - even five star linemen fail more often than you'd think, and we didn't exactly have wall-to-wall future-Sunday guys. Put more simply, I think that first year gave us less tolerance for what followed. May we never have to dissect a similar failure again. [Title]

Output: My OL take


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 6 days ago [Body] My wife was never in a class without at least one person with the same name. I, on the other hand, never met anyone with my first name until well into adulthood (despite it being relatively common for my ethnicity). We both wanted to honor our son's dual heritage, but while my wife wanted something uncommon, I wanted Joe/Steve/Sam :). We also took into account both how he might feel as an adult and his initials, and came up with something that we both really liked. He has a first name from my side of the family, and a middle name from my wife's, and goes by those initials for now. If he wants to use his first name, he can, and if not, his initials work just fine. (As it happens, my people have a formal-name-and-a-nickname tradition, and there is a traditional name that sounds just like his initials, so everyone is happy.) I have sympathy for the wait-until-you-meet-them-to-name-them approach, as well. My son's first name means Sky, and he definitely has a sunny personality, but it didn't have to work out that way. [Title]

Output: Names have power


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] There's an alternate universe somewhere in which Henson spurned the Yankees and re-injured his foot in his first game, and never came back from it at all. If it was all about the money, his choice represents a guarantee of life-altering money versus a chance at ... Twice as much life-altering money. It may have ripped the heart out of our fans (and I'm right there with you - I didn't want him to leave), but it's not the awful decision we would like to think. [Title]

Output: Unless he got hurt


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Body] So many skilled wings! but why so few proven bigs? In Beilein we trust. [Title]

Output: Michigan haiku


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I saw him in Nyon, France in 1982 as part of the Paleo Folk Festival - a bunch of bands I'd never heard of, the Stray Cats, and BB King (I was on a summer exchange program). My host brother wanted to see a bunch of the bands so we drove from Geneva to Nyon and saw the show. I remember thinking after the Stray Cats finished their set that I was done and could go get food now, but then BB King came on and blew the doors down. Fantastic live performer, and someplace on high is getting a real treat now, even by divine standards. [Title]

Output: Damn that man could play


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] This would yield a combination of apparent time travel or faster-than-light information traversal: http://theophysics.host56.com/pdf/tipler-rotating-cylinders.pdf Note the publication date on the paper. [Title]

Output: Tipler FTW!


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Stone in Love, Don't Stop Believing, Who's Crying Now? And on and on. Btw, y'all have decent taste; about half the songs here started playing their hooks in my head as I read the names :) [Title]

Output: Anything by Journey


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] Manage expectations correctly, though. InAOut is a drive-thru fast food burger which is very good for that category. Five Guys is a step up from that, but that puts it in the category with your local sit-down burger joint. Both appear to be good places to work, though, and are decently run-businesses. I tend to go by Five Guys more often because there's one in the mall with my son's preferred option (Panera Bread). [Title]

Output: Both


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Or you would have been better off with the multiple picks. Obviously this varies by team and situation, but it's usually only worth trading up for guys who are so good a trade is unlikely e.g. Andrew Luck. Maybe if you're one player away or you have a chance at someone like Luck, but that rarely comes up. Almost every trade up is a bust. They would likely be better off taking BPA at #12 and either BPA or Winston at #19. [Title]

Output: Trading up requires your player to become a star


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 3 hours ago [Body] It's too bad for Nathan - he was very good for a long time, and you never want to see that career crash and burn like this. We still don't know how to predict who will get hurt, and relievers are even more volatile just due to the small-sample effect. 50 good innings is a season+ for a reliever, and a quarter season for a starter; it just is not enough data to know how good someone is. This is why signing pitchers to long-term deals is very risky, and why paying big money for a reliever is particularly foolish. Assembling a competent bullpen on the cheap is one of the hallmarks of the "modern GM" - picking through the bargain bin for failed starters, random guys with velocity who you can get on one year deals, breaking in young guns as relievers a la Earl Weaver - and for all his acknowledged acumen in nearly other GM endeavor, DD's (undoubted) efforts here have been badly snakebitten. [Title]

Output: Pitchers are volatile


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 9 hours ago [Body] MIT was a DARPA/ArpaNet hub, and my freshman year had Project Athena up and running for incoming freshman, so everyone got an account on the campus network, which was directly gatewayed into both the ArpaNet and NSFNet. It was actually pretty fast - dialup was so disappointing when I got it at home later. I didn't realize until later how much stuff I had access to via that setup - I used it for classes, USENET, and keeping myself on the top of the campus-wide Hextris (Hexagonal Tetris) and Trek73 leaderboards :) (For you younguns, DARPA=Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, ArpaNet was the network connecting the labs working with them, and NSFNet was the National Science Foundation network connecting the supercomputer labs to universities so people could time-share the super-expensive big iron for things like fluid dynamics calculations. Those networks were the proto-Internet and still form much of what used to be called the backbone.) [Title]

Output: 1985


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Works well on almost everything. Spicy Brown Mustard is also a favorite, as is Sriracha. [Title]

Output: Mendocino Sweet Hot Mustard


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 3 days ago [Body] or Williams/Brown/LaVert want in, and Hatch doesn't agree that his career is over (he has to agree to the medical exemption barring an extraordinary waiver). In that case, I would rather turn away Brown and/or Williams than force Hatch out, even if it makes our team worse next year. [Title]

Output: The only time we have a problem is if two+


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 6 days ago [Body] We liked it better than the Coverdell, and Utah's plan is well run with a few solid fire-and-forget options - for example, they have one that is aggressive early, then shifts to more conservative investments as it gets closer to maturity so that you don't get hit by a stock downturn just as you need the money. Although if your state permits tax deductions/credits for investment in its plans, do it - that's almost guaranteed to be a bigger savings than you can get elsewhere. CA doesn't, sadly, so we picked Utah's plan. (If you didn't realize it, you can invest in any state's plan and withdraw to pay expenses anywhere; the main differences are tax treatments and how the plans are run. Utah's consistently does very well in terms of low expenses and decent returns, with a wide variety of options, and is tax-advantaged for Utah residents.) The bigger point is to have a plan, and start it early. Sounds like you're up on both counts, so good luck! [Title]

Output: 529 plan here


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 6 days ago [Body] You're nuts. It only takes one trip to a CA campus where coeds study in bikins ... in March ... to remind you of the benefits of year-round sunshine. I mean, Ann Arbor had white Fourths of July while I lived there, and Stanford had at least one 80-degree-but-breezy-day this February. Not to mention the joys of seasonal-affect-issues, the ... exquisite fun ... of practicing in the cold rain, and so forth. It's not just an advantage because people say it is, it's because people act as though it is. [Title]

Output: If you think 17-year-old boys aren't influenced by weather


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 1 day ago [Body] They don't have to. They are a basketball power, a blueblood for at least 50 years, and they have a championship winning coach who promises to give you the best chance at the NBA ... and delivers. If you're a one-and-done level talent, it's absolutely a top option for you. Rather than cheating, I see Kentucky as gaming the system to the point of absurdity. Their hoopsters are student-athletes in name only, but that's the logical end product of this set of rules. [Title]

Output: I don't think Kentucky is cheating to any real extent


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 1 day ago [Body] But that's true of many of us - possibly most of us. That kind of scale would value teachers and janitors well above what they get paid. He's not worth it on a linear scale either (which is the context for his remarks) - he's not doing five times as much work as someone getting paid $1M to coach a team. On the other hand, he's likely going to be underpaid in terms of what he brings to the program - the excitement of any new hire is already exceeding what we might expect because it's Harbaugh and not some other former player/coach. If he succeeds in turning our program around, the surplus value accrued to the university could easily double what it pays him. And if he gets us on par with OSU's recent success, the sky's the limit. [Title]

Output: He's not worth it in terms of value to society


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 2 days ago [Body] And we should use that to its benefit. Legends jerseys are one way of doing that, and I liked the basic idea. What I didn't like is the seemingly constant changing of numbers. Give them out when people first start, and let them keep them until they're done. It would be cool to have Peppers add a patch to an already legendary number. [Title]

Output: Our football program has a nearly unmatched history


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] This season is a failure in much the same way the Apollo 13 mission was - they didn't achieve the goal, but when faced with unexpectedly catastrophic circumstances, they didn't give up; instead they got better, and should fate deal us a bad hand again, they'll be ready. [Title]

Output: Failure but not a systemic issue


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Once he demonstrated he was healthy, he would have gotten a first round grade, and taken it. His age means that coming back was much more likely to drop his status than enhance it, if he could persuade people he was healthy. Not to mention that, for once, the NCAA isn't the one at fault here. Sure, the rule is stupid, but it's not like McGary took a principled stand against it and opposed it because it was dumb. He got caught doing something he agreed he wouldn't when he signed his scholarship. Still, "vigilante dickpunch justice" is worth the whole rant right there :) [Title]

Output: I think McGary was always going pro


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Is universal free agency with maximum one year contracts. That market would quickly correct to paying most players a pittance, while pitchers would have one year where they made 1000% of their other years pay before they got hurt and went back to the minimum. It's a really effective way to transfer wealth from players to owners. [Title]

Output: Scott Boras' greatest fear


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 2 days ago [Body] What are the odds that a current Michigan student hasn't posted nude pictures of people without their consent? [Title]

Output: I wish this was a Penn State thing


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Terry Pratchett is a fabulous author whose critical appeal was definitely hurt by writing humorous genre books. It's the critics who missed out, though - this was a man in total command of his craft. I'll second the recommendations of Small Gods as an introduction - it's a stand-alone novel spending most of its time away from Anhk-Moorpork, which is the hub for many of the other books. Guards! Guards! is also a favorite. The two I reread most often are probably The Fifth Elephant - Vimes as an ambassador is not to be missed - and Going Postal - Moist Von Lipwig is a hoot :). The Night Watch might be the pinnacle of the series - despite the humorous bits, it's actually pretty dark, but Vimes and Vetinari dealing with the reformation of the Watch is exceptionally well done. As for Dr. Z, reading his SI columns taught me the importance of line play in football, and showed me how much the game really revolves around the trenches. Doesn't look like we'll get more of his writing, either :( [Title]

Output: If you're going to steal, steal from the best


Input: [Date] 21 hours 50 min ago [Body] Agree on the Hoosiers thing. That article was quite eye-rolling itself. [Title]

Output: Agree on the Hoosiers thing.


Input: [Date] 1 day 20 hours ago [Body] This is disappointing. I thought this idea very unique and it got our history out in a much more prominent way. The "create their own legacy" argument doesn't make sense to me. We can't bother to remember two great players who wore the same number? It's not a cool thing to connect the past to the present? I never heard anyone complain about a receiver no longer building their own legacy when they got the #1. [Title]

Output: This is disappointing. I


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Just let it go man. [Title]

Output: Just let it go man.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I mean that could just be an old photo? Not defending political bumper stickers, just saying. [Title]

Output: I mean that could just be an


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 2 days ago [Body] That FF XIII trailer definitely got me. Good song. [Title]

Output: That FF XIII trailer


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 1 day ago [Body] RR's offense was on an upward trajectory. Where is any evidence he would've turned that defense around? It got worse every year. Both coaches failed. [Title]

Output: RR's offense was on an upward


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Weird thing to me is that this game isn't one of the bigger ones. Free tuition for the winning team is kinda cool though. [Title]

Output: Weird thing to me is that


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 2 days ago [Body] The only value of spring game attendance is if you are curious what the weather was like that day and don't want to check weather.com. [Title]

Output: The only value of spring game


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 20 hours ago [Body] Wouldn't that mean that all this talk about competition for spots is bogus? They are still in the competition and a guy who got benched at Iowa (I know his stats look promising) shouldn't scare away guys from competing for the job I'd hope. [Title]

Output: Wouldn't that mean that all


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I agree completely. The press boxes look great blank and I don't need it looking like Penn State or some nonsense. That ring of champions thing has all the info you want just outside the stadium. I will also back you up on the helmet stickers, not a fan. But I'd rather have helmet stickers than crap on the press boxes. [Title]

Output: I agree completely. The press


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Not a fan of either of these developments. I thought the Legends jerseys were very unique and am not big on helmet stickers. Our helmet looks awesome as is. I'll wait to see what they look like before complaining more though. [Title]

Output: Not a fan of either of these


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Yeah. I don't blame the player trying to get a ball and not allowing a tip-in because the shot wasn't close. Just a terrible call. [Title]

Output: Yeah. I don't blame the


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 6 days ago [Body] My "ND never wins anything" policy finally bites me. Can't believe Northeastern didn't even get a shot that last possession. [Title]

Output: My "ND never wins anything"


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 19 hours ago [Body] Holy crap that is a bad idea. [Title]

Output: Holy crap is that a bad idea.


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Body] As long as you don't give them a name every time, then I'm fine with more than one night game a season. [Title]

Output: As long as you don't give


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 19 hours ago [Body] I mean, we had to lose to NW at SOME point right? Better now than when we're contending in the Big Ten again. After the last few games in football and even basketball this year, I wasn't surprised to see it go that way. Sad, but not surprised. [Title]

Output: I mean, we had to lose to NW


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 20 hours ago [Body] My house sophomore year where my room was a converted porch with no heat would like to speak to you about the worst living experience on campus. In fact my house senior year blew as well so I don't really agree with you at all on that. Also I would have hated to have to start my college experience and make that huge transition in addition to finding my own place to live there. Plus that's a great way to force socialization for people in a new place is having them live together. You think that's overpriced for meals where you could take as much food as you wanted? The amount of cereal and waffles I ate a day more than made up for that cost. [Title]

Output: My house sophomore year where


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I really thought the grass was going to make it. I'm bummed now. [Title]

Output: I really thought the grass


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Not getting the commericals on the BTN app so I got to hear Matt Shepard describe Larkin as a "flipping stud." Pretty good stuff [Title]

Output: Not getting the commericals


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Wow really weak [Title]

Output: Wow really weak


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] But what of your smearing of the matte helmets Brian?! They looked sharp damn it!! [Title]

Output: But what of your smearing of


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Oh god, he must come here now. [Title]

Output: Oh god, he must come here


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 17 hours ago [Body] I'd probably describe those other people you mention as evil. [Title]

Output: I'd probably describe those


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 18 hours ago [Body] I also remember thinking the matte helmets looked sharp. And was going to comment on it so don't worry. [Title]

Output: I also remember thinking the


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 5 days ago [Body] You won't be alone. I'll be there and appreciative of a chance to enjoy a Michigan hockey game without having to drive 4 hours. [Title]

Output: You won't be alone. I'll be


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 days ago [Body] You haven't heard of it before because it hasn't been a big deal. It's only stupid because you didn't bother to google it for 5 seconds. http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/bucs/bucs-qb-johnson-paid-to-have-footballs-altered-before-sb-37/2214490 Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: You haven't heard of it


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I just don't get how you discount a head to head game so easily. Are the playoff games going to count if they are close then? Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I just don't get how you


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Wouldn't they be in the same division if it worked like the rest of the conferences? The Big 12 played every other team in their conference why do they need a championship game? Regardless there is no way OSU suddenly has a better resume for beating Wisconsin. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Wouldn't they be in the same


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Um ok? [Title]

Output: Um ok?


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] That defensive intensity still gave up 35 points... Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: That defensive intensity still gave up 35 points...


Input: [Date] 1 year 32 weeks ago [Title] Doubtful [Body]

Output: Until he wins a title I imagine Buckeyes would reserve the middle spot for Tressel. After all, he was sacrificed for the program's many sins.


Input: [Date] 1 year 34 weeks ago [Title] Familiar [Body]

Output: "Why these people can't let go and do something else, I don't know. They're locked in a prison of their own devising, being miserable about the state of the blog while they make it worse by constantly complaining about it." You (Brian) described your relationship with Michigan Football almost identically before the Ohio State game. Interesting (but probably meaningless) parallel,


Input: [Date] 1 year 35 weeks ago [Title] Politely Declines [Body]

Output: Though the Bear Jew is world reknowned for his toughness and dietary ingenuity (prepare for lots of salmon and berries o-line!) his off-season conditioning program of hibernation has yet to produce optimal results in strength gains. The fact he would refuse to coach on Shabbat might also be an issue since The Game is still scheduled for Saturday before sundown. Despite his limitations, he would most likely maul the Free Press press corps at his first presser . . . only if they're kosher though. He at least merits an interview.


Input: [Date] 1 year 36 weeks ago [Title] I think I need help [Body]

Output: I'm so numb, I didn't feel anything. I'd hoped the win would bring back that loving feeling. Nope. Nothing.


Input: [Date] 1 year 41 weeks ago [Title] More like [Body]

Output: tasteless, offensive and in no way appropriate. Given the response MGoBlog gave on Twitter to another Michigan blog that RT'd an insult to Michigan that contained a reference to PSU/Sandusky, I can't imagine the life of this thread will be a long one.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] Correct! [Body]

Output: Those of you with DirecTV (myself included) will not be able to use ESPN3 to watch the game. Of course if DTV and ESPN recently struck a deal that someone wants to point out, I'll stand (happily) corrected.


Input: [Date] 2 years 1 day ago [Title] E3W [Body]

Output: More like Every Three Weekly.


Input: [Date] 2 years 18 weeks ago [Title] I wouldn't think so [Body]

Output: When Nike was in the picture they sold Tom Brady Orange Bowl throwbacks (with Brady on the back) and I bought (pre-scandal) a 1989 Rumeal Robinson throwback with the name on the back. Now I wish I could remove his name from the jersey . . .


Input: [Date] 3 years 14 weeks ago [Title] Why I'm afraid [Body]

Output: First he's crazy, you can't guard against that. Second, maybe of equal importance, I believe he is a former golden gloves champion. Two great reasons in my opinion to stay far out of his way.


Input: [Date] 3 years 15 weeks ago [Title] Wow [Body]

Output: 15 years gone and he STILL has great abs. The whole thing is a bit strange. When Dre left Death Row the relations between he and Tupac were less than ideal to put it mildly. . . Odd to read that Dre was the driving force behind this, strange how death/time changes feelings (no judgment).


Input: [Date] 3 years 20 weeks ago [Title] Thanks [Body]

Output: but I hope the Spartans lose in the first round and Izzo weeps like a willow.


Input: [Date] 3 years 21 weeks ago [Title] Music Industry [Body]

Output: I left the practice of law to work in the music industry (on the business side), which had always been my goal. Night and day in terms of happiness.


Input: [Date] 3 years 21 weeks ago [Title] Thanks for noticing [Body]

Output: Weirdest thing happened, I got a job I actually like/love and suddenly I no longer spend all day on mgoblog.


Input: [Date] 3 years 21 weeks ago [Title] Remove the Curse [Body]

Output: Don't curse my birthday.


Input: [Date] 3 years 39 weeks ago [Title] Someone frogot to tell Brian [Body]

Output: that Kovacs rubbed dirt on his injured knee; the ultimate Gritty McGritterson cure.


Input: [Date] 3 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Signs for next year [Body]

Output: Over under on the number of "Tom" signs next year in Ann Arbor (do we need Jamie Mac to make it official)? By that time any Tom reference would have to be a 1%, no?


Input: [Date] 3 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Shameful [Body]

Output: How could they hand down a punishment without reviewing all the different angles? As MSU is proving, it will take at least a few weeks to glean anything from rather obvious replays.


Input: [Date] 4 years 9 weeks ago [Title] Don't enter the raffle [Body]

Output: Well, unless you're a *5 recruit.


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] If Harbaugh is the man [Body]

Output: the current timetable makes sense. I can imagine a situation where Harbaugh wants to finish this special season with Stanford and not leave before the bowl game and DB doesn't want to fire RR and leave the program in limbo for a month with people speculating "WHY HAVEN'T WE HIRED ANYONE YET?! WHAT ARE THEY DOING?! WHY IS HARBAUGH STILL IN CALIFORNIA?!" DB's actions, to me, say the decision has been made and Rich Rod will be let go but he can't announce the new coach until early Jan. and rather not leave an empty void at the top for a month.


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Good reference [Body]

Output: sadly I missed it. As you were.


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] You think [Body]

Output: that pimp hand is let going to let you stay the night? Hell no! You won't get any cuddling either and you'll like it!


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Head Injuries [Body]

Output: are different. You don't tough out a concussion like you might an ankle sprain. As someone who suffered a few concussions in a short period of time that left me unable to read or think clearly for months, I can tell you that you only go back when you're ready to go full-bore. Limited action can still have wide-spread negtive effects such as exacerbating current symptoms or causing even more concussions if you aren't fully healed from the previous incident. With concussions you're either ready to go or you aren't, there is no middle ground.


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] EMF agrees [Body]

Output: UNBELIEVABLE!


Input: [Date] 4 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Wow [Body]

Output: he really must have enjoyed that trip to Boise last weekend.


Input: [Date] 4 years 38 weeks ago [Title] If everyone [Body]

Output: contributed their two cents to Beveled Guilt Brian could afford to personally pay the new defensive staff's buyouts.


Input: [Date] 4 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Viagra [Body]

Output: Asked JoePa is he uses viagra to look at cheerleaders.


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] C'mon guys [Body]

Output: that is neither hear nor their.


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] Lol Robert Smith [Body]

Output: Just said the cupboard was bare for Brian Kelley when he took over and they need to recruit better athletes.


Input: [Date] 4 years 40 weeks ago [Title] AWESOME! [Body]

Output: Don Johnson for the win!


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The great Sidney moncrief? He was from here and I played AAU years ago for his cousin Shelley moncrief who was still in the area. Just curious if he has any relations to people in the Detroit areas? [Title]

Output: Is he related to


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 17 hours ago [Body] i just checked it and then came to the blog and saw he wasted listed here. anyway, nothing major of course [Title]

Output: strange,


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 17 hours ago [Body] listed as #300. hes the last one listed, maybe u didnt scroll down enough [Title]

Output: actuslly swenson is


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 10 hours ago [Body] Shane starting, I hope Shane outplays him and gets the nod and takes us to good things. I can't help but really root for the kid and his success here. [Title]

Output: While I hope we win more than


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 days ago [Body] prefer we fill the class to the maximum scholarships available, or just take the right amount for depth and focus on 2016 kids? I ask bc depth isnt that bad in some areas, and perhaps taking a class of 10-12 now would be better then a full 16. Next year 16 spots appear to be open, and with a year of HARBAUGH maybe he has a better chance to grab that elite talent next season. Just curious what everyone else thinks, [Title]

Output: would most everyone


Input: [Date] 42 weeks 5 days ago [Body] But this was very well thought out and nicely done. I agree that this team needs support. Fans root for their team no matter what. Hell, look the 60 years of Lions football to prove it [Title]

Output: I rarely ever post


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I have been the thinking the same thing for weeks now. It's really unfair to him and the team [Title]

Output: I agree


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 weeks ago [Body] ive been searching, and i can not seem to find the date. anyone here know when they actually start fall practice? 51 days until the first game, so i assume we start around August 1st? [Title]

Output: when does practice start?


Input: [Date] 1 year 15 weeks ago [Body] from Peppers school, Juwan Bushel-Beaty. [Title]

Output: the OT


Input: [Date] 1 year 15 weeks ago [Body] thats what caught my attention...that of 21 kids, there seems to be not 1 player who is actually trending towards M? seems odd....and disheartening [Title]

Output: i agree 100%


Input: [Date] 1 year 19 weeks ago [Body] U ask him why its hard to pull kids from texas, but then you never ask about what if Texas, or TTU, or TAM or Baylor offer....right now he seems to like his biggest offers, but most Texas kids are fans of a TX school so i would like to hear what he thinks about if any of those schools come on board [Title]

Output: what about the TX schools??


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] Dooooonnnt Caaaarre [Title]

Output: Drinks a beer....


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] She overheard other players telling Malik that they don't ever go to class and he won't have to either. [Title]

Output: I read that


Input: [Date] 1 year 29 weeks ago [Body] On lattimore w his pick and then verbally said they are going to play together. So no need to get any hopes up [Title]

Output: He spilled the beans


Input: [Date] 1 year 39 weeks ago [Body] We should start recruiting A-Aron Balaky [Title]

Output: I think


Input: [Date] 2 years 4 days ago [Body] And I don't see any wines here so ill post... Popped a Redcap Vineyards Sauvignon blanc from Rutherford, napa. Now on to the Alianza made by one of the best cult wineries in napa, Araujo and the Eisele vineyard. Great stuff if anyone likes big reds that are reminiscing of an old world Bordeaux. [Title]

Output: I'm a Wine-o


Input: [Date] 2 years 2 weeks ago [Body] may have been too strong on my part, but he just seems to make plays and be around when good things happen [Title]

Output: ball hawk


Input: [Date] 2 years 2 weeks ago [Body] about Thomas Gordon already? He is a ball hawk and makes plays. i think he will be a large important part of the defense and should be the leader as well. not saying he is the next Ed Reed, but dude is pretty good and probably deserves a mention. [Title]

Output: Have we forgotten


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Body] Is supposed to be an EE as well [Title]

Output: Peppers


Input: [Date] 2 years 12 weeks ago [Body] that Wilkins already had left the team as well. Pretty sure it was after the season ended, could be wrong [Title]

Output: i had heard


Input: [Date] 2 years 15 weeks ago [Body] didnt he leave bc he knew he wouldnt play behind all the QBs there? he Lost the job to Golson, so he left. why woul dhe come here knowing he is gardners backup w 2 years left and shane coming in and then speight. he may be better then them ( we dont know) but clearly the kid seems scared to compete and wants a starting job handed to him. [Title]

Output: Plus


Input: [Date] 2 years 19 weeks ago [Body] how or where to watch it online? BTN doesnt seem to work w comcast in metro detroit [Title]

Output: Does anyone know


Input: [Date] 2 years 20 weeks ago [Body] Are there no QBs in the top 300 at all? [Title]

Output: No QBs??


Input: [Date] 2 years 32 weeks ago [Body] said he has left the team too [Title]

Output: and dont forget Hopkins


Input: [Date] 2 years 33 weeks ago [Body] on twitter McCray said he had a surgery today....everything good?? [Title]

Output: Ace...


Input: [Date] 2 years 35 weeks ago [Body] the Capital One Bowl already was discussing the otehr day matchups and they wouldnt even be interested in a rematch. they want a game where fan bases are excited to play a new different school and to travel somewhere for that game. both bama and michigan fans already experienced this game in a travel situation and more than likely wont be anxious to do the same thign again. this rematch, even if plausible w a bama loss, wont happen per the $$$$$$$$$$$$ the bowls want [Title]

Output: It wont happen


Input: [Date] 2 years 37 weeks ago [Body] if its not WEbb or TVH this is all just fluff.. and truthfully when there is 20+ kids visiting every weekend for games, the chance of a commit is there every time just based on odds [Title]

Output: i agree 100%


Input: [Date] 2 years 51 weeks ago [Body] but i was all stoked to do an NCAA football league too a few years ago. we did the same thing you are doing format wise and it was terrible. we did it 1 season, all 12 guys hated it and basically it was way too difficult bc of schedules etc. good luck with it, just letting you know my experience with it was very tough. [Title]

Output: Just a warning


Input: [Date] 3 years 2 weeks ago [Body] Is doing it. They said expect the rosters Friday-ish [Title]

Output: GT


Input: [Date] 3 years 8 weeks ago [Body] stupid job, life, kids, got in the way from my checking of recruiting news! thanks, [Title]

Output: ahhh i see now


Input: [Date] 3 days 3 hours ago [Title] It used to be just ND, MSU, [Body]

Output: It used to be just ND, MSU, OSU, and bowl game. They might be able to open it up a bit with ND out of the picture.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 3 days ago [Title] I used to pirate music, I [Body]

Output: I used to pirate music, I don't anymore. It didn't s stop for any sort of moral or legal reason, I just realized that I didn't need that many songs. I went through a phase where I needed to have every song I wanted to listen to on my phone. I would rarely listen to most of them. Now I just buy and keep around my absolute favorites and listen to the rest on the radio or something. I don't miss it, there's something great about hitting shuffle and not having to skip a lot of songs because they were just throwaways to begin with. For my all-time favorite artists, I just buy the album blindly. Figure I owe them that much. For new artists, there is most likely a legal free stream of the album somewhere on the internet so I can listen beforehand and eliminate the chance of getting burned on a blind purchase. I end up trying out a lot of new things, buying a few of them, and it works out fine. A subscription service can normally take care of the rest if you need more.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Do you remember that scene in [Body]

Output: Do you remember that scene in The Social Network where Sean Parker tells Zuckerberg to change the name from The Facebook to Facebook? Same reason: "it's cleaner." And people dig minimalism nowadays, though I guess a real minimalist would do away with the serifs as well.