Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] I think the original critique/concern was way overstated, but I'll admit that I have some questions, too. I'd feel great about all of the low-rated guys if those guys were clearly at the top of our coaches' lists. But they've given out a ton of offers this year, so it hasn't been quite that targeted. And I'm a little uneasy about how many teammates/brothers/etc. of high-level recruits seem to be getting offers. At times it seems like we're willing to use two or three roster spots to (maybe) get one top guy. Unless it's for a Rashan Gary-level recruit, I'm not sold on that approach. Having said that, I'll cut the coaches - and especially these coaches - a ton of slack on guys they've worked with at camps. And I agree with WolvinLA that recruiting, while important, gets so much attention now that its importance is exaggerated. It's also nice to see comments from Drevno, at Michigan [link] and before then [link], that basically say Harbaugh's the best talent evaluator he's ever seen. [Title]

Output: I think the original


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] So you're telling me that if Mitchell, who's supposedly down to Michigan and OSU, tried to commit to OSU then Meyer would basically tell him, "That's okay. Go to Michigan."? Yeah, I'm a little skeptical of that one. [Title]

Output: So you're telling me that if


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] I don't think anyone has mentioned the 2005 Rose Bowl against Texas. A loss, but a damn good game. [Title]

Output: I don't think anyone has


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] I was about to post the exact same photo as migiT, but here's another (in white): As an aside, LaVell Blanchard is high on my list of all-time Michigan basketball favorites. Great player, great kid, bad timing. [Title]

Output: I was about to post the exact


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Body] I remember Brent Musburger joking about the great names on (I think) our 1996 team. That team had a Payne, Steele, Irons, Sword, Swett... and a Copenhaver. [Title]

Output: I remember Brent Musburger


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] In other words, no offense to mid-July threads with 154, 80, and 235 responses, respecitvely, but here's a much more relevant thread -- a look at a generally uninteresting position group class from eight years and three coaches ago (that happens to redirect to your site). This content is fine - in fact, I enjoy this kind of thing - but why do you need to be so condescending and snarky with your posts here? [Title]

Output: In other words, no offense to


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 12 hours ago [Body] Disagree. This thread ("Past event in History") is an instant frontrunner for the Most Redundant Thread Title award at this year's MGoBloggies. It also has an outside shot at the Harbaugh Peculiar Capitalization award. [Title]

Output: Disagree. This thread ("Past


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I totally agree. I'm convinced that if we had lost that game in an ugly way (e.g., if the 4th quarter was like the first three), then people would think that jersey was just as hideous as the bumblebees. [Title]

Output: I totally agree. I'm


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 1 day ago [Body] For a little while there, he was crazy fun to watch in a "we're not good but had might as well enjoy this" kind of way. [Title]

Output: For a little while there, he


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Colin Cowherd and Fox seems like a match made in heaven. And I agree on Bomani Jones. In my opinion, he's the funniest guy - and one of the smartest guys - at ESPN. I generally hate sports radio, but his show is actually pretty damn good. [Title]

Output: Colin Cowherd and Fox seems


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Do we know if the (much smaller) numbers that people have been throwing around for peer programs and likely UM bids have been in terms of cash only or cash + apparel? [Title]

Output: Do we know if the numbers


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Nice to see that MSU has gotten over its Michigan obsession now that it's won a few football games. I can't imagine the scenario that would end with me opening an RCMB account. And I seriously doubt I'm alone on that. [Title]

Output: Nice to see that MSU has


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 3 days ago [Body] That's really stupid. If Harbaugh tweets a photo of himself at a McDonald's, he's just doing what half of the other people on Twitter do. It's the media who are deciding to cover all of that crap like it's newsworthy. Harbaugh's just being himself and living his life. [Title]

Output: That's really stupid. If


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 4 days ago [Body] It's a nice area, but I'm usually up for a day in Charlottesville before I need to get my ass to Dubuque. [Title]

Output: It's a nice area, but I'm


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I didn't know that my wife and I, both UMF grads, both with grad degrees (she from Purdue, I from UMAA and YTM), were so deficient in soft skills. I guess we had to make up for that absence with our pure ambition- nope, can't have that unless I am UMAA or Ivy pedegree (but apparently not Cornell or Brown.) Some day, when I am lying on me death bed and my mind revisits my life, I will finally comprehend why there was such a huge empty chasm in my soul. I will have to tell my daughter at BGSU that she is destined for mediocracy. Say, if she married someone of ultimate grooming like you would she still be accepted in society? [Title]

Output: Soft skills?


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I took nearly all my classes at the MMB but I did work-study from the Plant Dept building next to I-475 4x a week as a groundskeeper. I would first walk to the old now non-existent Halos next to CROB before heading to work. If you used to see a guy covered with dirt and grass and drenched with sweat while mowing the grass or shoveling snow it was likely me. [Title]

Output: CROB


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I went to UM-Flint back when it was still split into two campuses: the science/math building and the CROB campus. I enrolled because my father told me I could go there and he would pay tuition, or go somehwhere else and I would. It was a no-brainer, as I had no money whatsoever. I don't know if I could have enrolled at Ann Arbor, for I had major surgery in my freshman year in HS and my grades suffered. I likely could have transfered into AA after two years at Flint, but I met my future wife there and my path was set, as she is much more important than the prestige of AA. I got my degree and went to UM AA for grad school, and later med school at the UM way down south (YTM.) I do tell people that I graduated from UM-Flint; that is on my CV. I donate money to UM-Flint, not Ann Arbor. I love Ann Arbor, my son is finishing off his Masters there following his BSE last year, and I consider both schools my collegiate home (but not YTM.) I am not ashamed to any extent of my degrees. Are the schools different? Of course, as UM-Flint still has a large commuter and older student population, and a goal of servicing these students in a cost-effective manner. I would bet that the students generally come from poorer backgrounds, often blue-collar, and often working their way through school as I did. The drop out rate is much higher as a result. I found my professors much better teachers at the expense of not having much ability to mentor research. UM AA is a much more research-intense environment, with more higher-level high school applicants, with a lot of classes taught by TAs of varying ability and interest. The best students at Flint are equal with the best at AA, (and I have/do know many extremely smart and talented individuals), but as others have pointed out there are greater number of the best in AA overall. I now live and work in Ohio. For 99.9% of Ohio I am merely the Michigan fan from up north. I consider myself a Michigan grad. They don't care from which campus I got my degree, or even know of the existance of satellite campuses, just like most Michiganders don't know all the OSU campuses. As far as work goes the name on your undergrad parchment does not have a lot of advantage for many, perhaps most, jobs. As soon as you get into college your HS diploma is nearly forgotten, and when you get into grad/professional school your undergrad degree soon loses value, and when you get a job only your effort , drive, and results have long-lasting meaning (unless you are named Jeb). I could not tell you where 95% of my residents did their undergrad, but I know where they finished Med School. Rambling over. [Title]

Output: I went to UM-Flint back when


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] You have to scramble and try to find a program in the field you wish to study that did not fill all of it's residency slots. Depending on the specialty you are interested in it may be fairly easy (but you have to be flexible where you are going to live for a number of years, and it may not be the best program) or impossible for the upcoming year (in the very popular specialties.) Occasionally a slot opens up because of unforeseen events and you may be able to wiggle your way into the slot if you are at the right place at the right time; more often you either start training in a less popular field and try to transfer after a year, or do a research year somewhere to burnish your resume' and try again the following year. If you did not get into a less popular field to begin with you likely had a bad academic record, did not interview at enough instititions, are bad at interviewing, or went to school off-shore or a DO school ( and I have had residents fom both, one of whom later became my partner, but the success rate from these schools is lower, particularly is you apply for residencies on the coastlines or heavy academic/research universities.) [Title]

Output: You have to scramble and try


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] It's all about the base... [Title]

Output: It's all about the base...


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I did the match 25 years ago and fortunately managed to get my first choice. I now sit on a residency committee and interview and rank med student applicants every year. I agree that the match feels arbitrary and can be a very vexing, often expensive, and nerve-racking experience that can result in great highs or utter disappointment. I remember some med school classmates being devistated that they matched a thousand miles away from where they wanted to settle down, or not match into the field they wanted. Now being on the other side of the ranking system my colleagues and I are often amused by the number of interviewing applicants that are clearly using us as practice for later more coveted programs, cancel an hour before the interview session, or tell us how much they want to join our program only for us to find out that the matched in a completely different field of study. The interview system for us also lasts months and takes a lot of our time we could be doing patient-care or teaching. At least the match is supposed to be more slanted to the applicants than the programs' ranking compared to decades ago. I know that not every resident who joins our program had us listed in their top couple choices. We work hard to make their time with us productive, happy, and resulting in successful board accrediation and acreers. I am not at all perturbed that neither of my kids did not choose medicine as a career. Many of my residents have 200-400K in debt after 6 years of post-grad training. I remember being elated that after med school I could finally read a novel instead of a textbook. You really have a have a passion for your area of study, a thick hide, and acceptance of greatly delayed gratification. [Title]

Output: But how to change it?


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 23 hours ago [Body] OSU just is firing on all 12 cylinders. The Ducks resemble a Smart car. [Title]

Output: Game.


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Is just an wry good team. Jones may not play school but he does play football very well. If OSU could hang to e ball this game would not be close. [Title]

Output: OSU


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 3 days ago [Body] My son was on the travel team during his first couple of years at Michigan and had a lot of fun. It also got him into great shape. Watching a dozen teams go at it at ND was really cool. Unfortunately his Areospace Eng. major at up all his time and he had to stop competing. The team survives on a shoestring budget while several other B10 teams give scholarships. [Title]

Output: My son was on the travel team


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Body] If you are planning to enter a non-competitive specialty then passing is good enough, especially if you a a US-trained graduate. If you are planning to enter a more competitive field then a great score is necessary. I am an associate residency advisor for a competitive field and interview 40-50 candidates; about 300-350 applications are filtered. What is a great score? 250-255. The score can be lower if you are applying in the Midwest, or smaller community-based programs, or if you have ties with the program. Doing an away rotation helps tremendously, especially if you are active and help with a paper or poster. We elicit resident assessments of the visiting med student to help rank them, and most rotating students will at least get an interview unless they are underwhelming. Once interviewed the scores are mostly tiebreakers, as interviewing well is the most important factor. [Title]

Output: The Truth about scores


Input: [Date] 2 years 18 weeks ago [Body] I was playing White against iChessPro and taking on the Scillian Dragon variation when the Black KingsideKnight vaulted over my pawn structure and took out my Queen side bishop without compensation. I had bile in my mouth after that play. Six moves later I resigned. [Title]

Output: Never saw it coming...


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Body] Big fella running the court with the finish! [Title]

Output: Morgan!


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Body] Fail. IPAD issue. Sorry. [Title]

Output: Fail. IPAD issue. Sorry.


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Body] Neb with 15 points and the game is still close. [Title]

Output: Ugly half


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Body] No ability to penetrate is disappointing. Maybe the team needs a couple of viagra. [Title]

Output: Painful


Input: [Date] 3 years 25 weeks ago [Body] Thar be moose in der state. Moose can be dangerous. [Title]

Output: ungulates abound


Input: [Date] 2 days 11 hours ago [Body] http://mgoblog.com/content/why-we-fight [Title]


Input: [Date] 2 days 12 hours ago [Body] Plenty since: a) The sponsorship is for the length of the season. b) The extended segment was to introduce her as such. c) You have to be as entertaining on air as Liz Crowe or your introductory segment will be 2 minutes, and most of that Brian vamping while trying not to look annoyed. Seriously though I've been looking for the right sponsor for our Podcast for a long, long time, and when Liz left the beer company she was working for to break out as a consultant and real estate agent, I approached her specifically for this, and made the price a secondary concern because she's the right kind of sponsor. She is, like Harbaugh, herself at full volume all the time, and part of the fabric of the Ann Arbor and Michigan Athletics community. With most of the things I sell we're just helping them market their thing because we have the right audience to market their thing. But this is one of those things where it's more like the sponsor wanted to help us and can justify it if a handful of MGoBloggers use her as their real estate broker. The podcast is a marketable thing that a lot of our advertisers have been interested in; it's not like it took us this long to find a sponsor; it took us this long to find Liz. [Title]

Output: Plenty since: a) The


Input: [Date] 3 days 2 hours ago [Body] Brian used to go out there once a year around now for the alumni association's thing; I don't know if that event was discontinued or he just didn't get asked this year. We are doing other things with the alumni association (announcement to come). We also did an event with Todd Howard the night before the 2013 Northwestern (firedrill field goal) game that I put together. We had planned on doing that again, and had the venue chosen and everything, but Michigan was so unwatchable leading up to M00N that we canceled it. Maybe we'll do one after the season. Anyway if/when we do it'll be the second the Chicago Alumni Association Club asks us because they are an excellent group to work with. I think they're coming into town for Northwestern (homecoming) this year. [Title]

Output: Brian used to go out there


Input: [Date] 3 days 10 hours ago [Body] Why didn't you tell us? I am willing to move the event to your bachelor party. [Title]

Output: Why didn't you tell us? I am


Input: [Date] 4 days 6 hours ago [Body] This is for that guy on the message board who cares about Draftageddon. pic.twitter.com/WRmykO7nqf — Seth M. Fisher (@Misopogon) July 28, 2015 [Title]

Output: This is for that guy on the


Input: [Date] 4 days 9 hours ago [Body] One of the keys to all of this is Nebraska isn't leaving the Big Ten; everybody is joining the Big Ten, formerly known as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, so that for the sake of TV rights and whatnot all the powers are negotiating as one entity, and scheduling each other. I know it's a pipedream. What I don't want to see is the organic method of growing from a bunch of conferences into a league, because all that does incentivize the current conferences to snatch up any program bigger than a MAC school in a colonial land-grab, which is exactly how we found ourselves in a 7-team division with Maryland and Rutgers while Iowa and Wisconsin and Purdue come around less often than Utah. The conferences grew organically well enough when television was regional and limited to four networks, and declaring a national champion was just a nerdy postseason excercise between professions that have to pay half attention. Today conferences are billion dollar corporations with their television networks, yet theyr'e still functioning under a system that expects them to be faculty representatives from elitist, non-profit educational institutions. The NCAA had their chance to become a true regulatory body, but instead chose to act more like an industry trade organization*. The best thing for college football right now would be to acknowledge that the regional conferences that grew out of the 20th century are anachronisms worth preserving, like historic neighborhoods or whatever. Without that familiar structure the whole enterprise is at risk of becoming too desaturated, i.e. an NFL-lite, which is a crappier product fewer people will care about. When ESPN inevitably defaults on whichever round of promises it has to make to secure the TV rights to the last bastion of un-DVR'able entertainment, the BIG SIX or POWER SIX or whatever you want to term it will be in perfect position to cut Fox and Disney out of their revenue stream and make what they're making now by charging $5/month and selling ads themselves on a streaming college football channel. The Big Ten is just the body out of convenience; the organizing structure of any major conference is sufficient to expand to include the 60-64 schools that operate truly professional-level (i.e. highly profitable) football enterprises. Technically everyone joins the Big Ten, or joins a new conference that handles all the "conference" stuff for the group, and is such a tour de force in college athletics that the NCAA has to kowtow to it. I have no problem trying to fit Baylor and TCU into this (TT might be a stretch since their school's athletic budget is MAC-like despite the school's history). I only left them out because I thought a Texas-based mid-major conference would make for some rockin' good regional football. * Specifically, one for mid-19th century cotton growers [Title]

Output: One of the keys to all of


Input: [Date] 4 days 10 hours ago [Body] Those take a long time to make. This damn draft takes enough of that as it is. [Title]

Output: Those take a long time to


Input: [Date] 5 days 4 hours ago [Body] done. [Title]

Output: done.


Input: [Date] 5 days 4 hours ago [Body] link to the 200 post? [Title]

Output: link to the 200 post?


Input: [Date] 5 days 8 hours ago [Body] This is college football not the pros. I think it's more important that everyone in every division plays each other every year. [Title]

Output: This is college football not


Input: [Date] 5 days 8 hours ago [Body] Part of that is I hate to break up some great Texas rivalries. You can build one helluva mid major conference out of Baylor and TCU SMU Texas Tech and Rice. Fill the bottom with UTSA maybe North Texas maybe Tulane. Historically Texas and Texas A&M refuse to go anywhere without their little buddies. [Title]

Output: Part of that is I hate to


Input: [Date] 5 days 8 hours ago [Body] I removed the section on relegation. These schools have long traditions against each other even if they were not competitive. I would hate to lose Indiana even for a year just for the sake of recognizing 1 or even 5 good years out of say Bowling Green. Rather I capped the conferences at 11 and left spots open for expansion. If the Big East wants to add Rutgers or the Pac Ten want to add Utah there's a mechanism, but that is their only expansion and it forces their teams to all play a 10th conference game instead of an out of conf opponent. [Title]

Output: I removed the section on


Input: [Date] 6 days 3 hours ago [Body] Don't reply to the spammers. Just report them to LSAClassof2000. We are working on a system where anyone logged in to account we mark as spam is ported to our old-old-old server that runs a superslow copy of the site except with an ad service that only runs invasive ads, and there's zero virus protection, so anyone who tries spamming us ends up having their spam computers locked into 50-minute load times and a gazillion software attacks. I probably got the idea from Ernest Cline. [Title]

Output: Don't reply to the spammers.


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] And Bo shouldn't be over Yost unless we're taking racial prejudice into account. Leach beat OSU 4 times but every other QB on that list is a better passer. This is pretty much opinion. But yeah, Hart over Harmon and Wheatley as a 2...? [Title]

Output: And Bo shouldn't be over Yost


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] Ernest is friends with my brother too. I see your criticisms of Ready Player one, but I was actually sick of all the references after the midway point but then I thought the story took off, and I was impressed that he managed to actually bring the "your dream comes true" theme to a satisfying conclusion. I think the deux ex machina was self-aware; the whole point is it's a game and meant to function as one. I'm 50% through Armada and I think Cline was so disappointed by people not understanding this that he's making it too obvious (or perhaps the entire point) in this book. [Title]

Output: Ernest is friends with my


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] Yep. That's why I said "two quarterbacks." I've really been trying to not complicate stuff. [Title]

Output: Yep. That's why I said "two


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] We never really figured that out. I went with "plays as they would on your team" because I think it's more interesting to draft system guys for a system and whatnot. But here in the early rounds it's just a grab for superstars because at the end of 2014 nobody's saying "well if Hackenberg played behind Brian's offensive line..." [Title]

Output: We never really figured that


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] They have had him for awhile. He's a tight end. He's awful. [Title]

Output: They have had him for


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] But we've made that explanation like 10 times in the last few years. In fact I think I started leading off these posts with "THIS IS NOT A FANTASTY DRAFT IT'S A BIG TEN PREVIEW" last year. [Title]

Output: But we've made that


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] Every fan of every team makes all of these same statements about why their school is better, and totally clean too. Fact is the athletes are picking between heavens. Most campuses are beautiful. Most support staff are top notch. FBS coaches are among the top 200 in their profession. NFL talent comes out of so many schools that which coaches develop a position best has to mean less than what that individual player is made of (not that it doesn't matter, especially w/ quarterbacks). A little something extra makes a big difference because there isn't much difference between schools. As for fans, this site's existence when every other indie team site but 11 Warriors can't support even one blogging career speaks to something unique about Michigan fans' dedication. I have a hard time imagining there could ever be a Grantland for Just Clemson. Depending on what section you sit in though I'm sure you can encounter some pretty quiet old farts in Michigan Stadium. We even have a name for them: Blue hairs. [Title]

Output: Every fan of every team makes


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Body] Labels man. Ask yourself this: what do you call a guy who took money from some school then signed with Michigan anyway? Think that never happened with someone on the roster right now? Cut every "cheater" who broke an NCAA rule and there won't be many athletes left. This is why I blame the NCAA first and foremost. Whenever you find a thriving black market for something there's always a shitty someone making the regular market not work. [Title]

Output: Labels man. Ask yourself


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Body] In certain cases it's pretty clear. This is one of those cases. Clemson is one of those schools. Be mad at Michigan for not playing the same game as everyone else or be mad at the players who take liquid love over a minor preference in school choice, or be mad at the NCAA which creates all this madness. Pretending it doesn't happen is just naivety for the sake of sanctimony. [Title]

Output: In certain cases it's pretty


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Body] The charter schools are taking a few students. But the bigger effect is we built for a temporary population disruption. In the 1960s, 85% (that's ridiculously high) of Bloomfield Hills homes had school-age children. Today that's under 50%. Those numbers were repeated ad nauseum in the local paper/e-newsletter (Patch) during the merging of their high schools. Farmington won't be exactly like that--iBloomfield Hills was built almost entirely after the war and immediately filled with vets starting families, whereas Farmington was a thriving farming town for a century before it became a suburb. But that illustrates why, despite the population not being as hard hit as most of Michigan, these districts are still downsizing. A bit of school funding history: up until I was in college (and Engler was governor) your property taxes went right to the school district. Communities like Ann Arbor, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, and Farmington voluntarily raised their property taxes to create elite schools. The rule itself though ultimately created an effect of really good schools in affluent areas and awful schools in poor areas, which isn't really fair considering the state should be providing a good education to all of its citizenry. So the state pooled everybody's property taxes into the state fund, shifted half of them to prisons, and doled out the rest evenly. In response these communities started passing regular bonds. Every few elections there's a bond issue on the ballot, everybody winks at each other, and we pass it, and that money can't be touched by the state. But it does raise the price of living here, because paying off the "bonds" is effectually a permanently increased property tax. It means if you're planning on sending your kid to private school, you can save money by buying a house in another suburb. School choice is a politically charged thing that affects everywhere because there are parents who prefer privitized institutions everywhere. I don't think it's a primary effect in this particular case because the #1 reason people live in Farmington in the first place is the public schools. West Bloomfield is right smack in between Farmington Hills and Bloomfield Hills, but WB has relatively crappy (read: "just pretty good") schools, and far lower taxes because they don't pass school bonds. [Title]

Output: The charter schools are


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] I'm not advocating. I'm trying to explain what's going on in my community. We have half as many kids as when all four schools were built, and one routinely has the air conditioning break down and leaks all the time. We pay out the nose in taxes for school bonds to make sure our schools have a huge flow of money, but we've been falling behind Birmingham and Bloomfield Hills lately even though we all do the bond thing to pay for public schools that equate to private schools. That's because they've downsized. BH went to one high school. Birmingham renovated both schools and sold off a big chunk of Groves (my alma mater) to be a Michigan State satellite. The competition for young families in these burbs is fierce and school quality is #1 on the list. So that's why this is coming up. Like anywhere in the Midwest there are some poorer and some richer neighborhoods, but on the whole we're talking about a pretty affluent, education-obsessed suburban community that built for the baby boom and has been a bit oversized ever since that ended. There's a social component, since over time the schools have tended to become somewhat racially and economically segregated. When we do inevitably downsize to three schools, I imagine it will be a good opportunity to undo that. [Title]

Output: I'm not advocating. I'm


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] I live in the Harrison district; most of the families in our neighborhood send their kids to North already. Harrison's football program is great, but you can move a football program pretty easily. As for a dilapitated building that looks more like a prison... [Title]

Output: I live in the Harrison


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] I couldn't take any more Buckeyes. All of our teams are going to have some of those stains on them--mine included--but at that point I needed to infuse the draft with some maize and blue, badly. Also keep in mind the people drafting have some access to practice reports, and lots of practice hearsay. Not saying practice equals game, but the more the coaches and other players keep telling friends, family, and anyone in earshot this guy is for real, the more I tend to believe it. [Title]

Output: I couldn't take any more


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] I picked up the look a little bit. In the future we will add the quick spreadsheet to show where the teams are at by the end of each round. [Title]

Output: I picked up the look a little


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Body] When most of the games were at noon, and a few were still at 1? Hell no. I was a nice drunk like the rest of college students, but even I respected the "wait until you don't taste your toothpaste anymore before you have a beer" rule of morning drinking, and by the time the day was day enough to start imbibing you almost had time to finish two drinks before walking down to the stadium. The flasks (or in my case a bottle of coke that was 75% not coke) were the only way to get a buzz unless you were a truly committed drinker, and to be honest, we are all still University of Michigan students. [Title]

Output: When most of the games were


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Body] It wasn't from 9/11. I think 2004 they banned them. I remember a bunch of people sent in complaints (damn these people I thought at the time) after the 2003 Ohio State game. This one flag was pretty high up near the 35 yard line and was on a very long pole. I don't know why that game brought complaints--maybe the wind was up so the pole was being held lower than usual. [Title]

Output: It wasn't from 9/11. I think


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Toilet Paper Getting on TV was still a relatively new experience, and affecting what so many people were watching was kind of a thrilling thing. You'd see the rolls of toilet paper flying down after the first touchdown of the game and think to your young self "wow it would be so cool to be the guy who threw the toilet paper roll." It really did look festive, like instant confetti or ticker tape. Anyway they stopped when I was 8 or 9 so I never got to throw a roll of TP. Marshmallows I was definitely around for this tradition. It was 99% college students being inebriated (sneaking alcohol or a joint into the stadium was pretty easy pre-9/11) and wanting to throw something harmless. A lot of the mallows went at other students--friends sitting a few rows down and a section over, or a group of girls you walked in with. But there was a mini-game of trying to disrupt the TV crews and the opposing band with them. You tried to aim it so your mallow would pass as close to in front of the camera as possible to screw up their shot, or once they started to bring clear plastic shields, you tried to thunk it off the shield or lob it over. Also by the late '90s the TV crews had these big sound-catching clear plastic radar/dome things, which were as tempting as an opponent's sousaphone. I don't recall there being any real point to the marshmallows. Just a bit of goofy gameday atmosphere. [Title]

Output: Toilet PaperGetting on TV


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 13 hours ago [Title] Lame bro. I rushed the BEFORE [Body]

Output: Lame bro. I rushed the BEFORE it was cool. Man, that game. I went into my room and sat on my bed and just held my head in my hands for a while after that. What...the...fuck?!


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 17 hours ago [Title] Almost as excited for MBB as [Body]

Output: Almost as excited for MBB as I am for the football season


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Nothing new here. We already [Body]

Output: Nothing new here. We already knew the 49ers are going to suck this year and that Jed York is a d-bag. This is not thread worthy. /s


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] "Given the high profile of [Body]

Output: "Given the high profile of this site I don't see why people think it's so completely inconceivable that people with actual sources would post things on scout and rivals but not here." That's not the worry. Given the high profile of this site, can't you also see why some people who are just talking out their ass would like to be worshipped as some news-breaking inside source? Not saying that's the case with this guy, but I don't know either way. I'm not aware of him posting anything here before that had inside info like this. There was a guy last season saying stuff about the team, I think something about playbooks, that a bunch of people immediately took as gospel. He posted other stuff as well and I'm pretty sure it turned out he was full of it.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Funny how PeterKlima makes [Body]

Output: Funny how PeterKlima makes this post to supposedly make a statement about how it's not worthy of a thread and then it gets a bunch of comments. Note to the OP: If you wanna make a thread you think isn't worthy, don't make it about Harbaugh.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I thought Ace was taking a [Body]

Output: I thought Ace was taking a week off.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Title] You do realize he's had a [Body]

Output: You do realize he's had a bunch of injuries and THAT might be the reason he hasn't been the star we hoped for? I mean, it was apparently bad enough that the staff didn't think he should be playing anymore...


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Title] "There is no reason to do a [Body]

Output: "There is no reason to do a story about your feelings on the situation unless you want the spotlight." Or because he thought he wasn't being treated fairly and wanted to speak about it. He didn't bomb the whole program. He didn't go on a twitter war like that Illinois player. Pipkins said his piece and I have no problem with that. He's upset he's not playing football and not playing with his teammates anymore. This is not like Boren at all. Boren shit on all his teammates and transferred to OSU. You say he has no evidence, but his evidence is his own body. Yes, he may be wrong and living dangerously playing with multiple concussions, but he has a nervous system. He can feel.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Shit like that really does [Body]

Output: Shit like that really does prevent me from being a bigger soccer fan I feel. Yes, there's some flopping in the NBA, but it's not that bad and it's fairly recent. And I don't watch the NBA anyway. Also, a guy flopping doesn't result in some 15-minute bullshit argument that stops the game for so long. It really wouldn't be that hard to cut down on it. Just need stronger diving rules, perhaps even after the game with some officials making the call.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Harbaugh is so powerful he [Body]

Output: Harbaugh is so powerful he can build a pipeline without approval from Congress.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] "I was a weekend drinker. I'd [Body]

Output: "I was a weekend drinker. I'd start on Saturday and end on Friday." -Bill Hicks


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] "What does academic prestige [Body]

Output: "What does academic prestige do for an academic institution?" No, that's not my question. I worded it very poorly. What I should have said is how does being in the AAU raise their prestige? Does it actually make them a better university or have better professors? It seems a school joining the AAU just gets to now say it's an AAU member because you fit some criteria. Anyway, Nebraska isn't in the AAU. They were kicked out in 2011. So I guess the B1G doesn't actually have those standards anymore. Is Michigan really worse off because of that? http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/26078/nebraska-loses-aau-status Wikipedia's AAU page also lists them as former members so I guess nothing has changed. It seems Stanford and Cal do fine with their academic reputations without worrying about their football teams playing other football teams who attend schools that aren't as prestigious.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I hate the idea of a 16-team [Body]

Output: I hate the idea of a 16-team conference. The West is barely a part of our conference anymore right now. Hopefully will feel a bit different with more conference games.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Well, at least they were [Body]

Output: Well, at least they were dominating the North division when they were there. And I think they can recruit better in the Big 12 because of the Texas connection. What does the academic prestige actually do to Nebraska in practical terms? I agree though all the reasons they left in the first place seem the same, mainly Texas. EDIT: "As others have noted, significant revelation today about the Big 12's TV deal. If everyone's share is guaranteed, expansion far more viable" - Stewart Mandel's twitter


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Yes, but with how ND has [Body]

Output: Yes, but with how ND has partially joined the ACC and conferences and conference championships seem very helpful for getting into the playoff, it seems things have changed. The thing about all the repeated attempts to get ND in the past is that nothing was any different year after year. Realignment and the playoff especially seem to have changed things. Would be great if we could replace Nebraska with ND. No idea about how open ND really is to it though.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Made room how? Some people [Body]

Output: Made room how? At what point would we be oversigning and just kicking kids off to make room?


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] That must have been a long [Body]

Output: That must have been a long time ago. I haven't seen him in forever. I thought maybe he just left. What finally got him kicked off? Just more of the same and wouldn't stop? I'm not sure I ever formed that much of an opinion on him because it seemed everything was tl;dr.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Like War and Peace, but long. [Body]

Output: Like War and Peace, but long.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] OK, Ace Williams. [Body]

Output: OK, Ace Williams.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Now this is something that [Body]

Output: Now this is something that can be evaluated. I wouldn't be very happy being a Bo Pelini Nebraska team. I wouldn't accept oversigning. What happened in the post Ace talked about? Eh, I thought it was bad. I'd definitely prefer that it doesn't happen and I'd hope Harbaugh would be put under some pressure. I would definitely accept a few recruits who the staff thought they don't need anymore because of higher-ranked guys knocking on the door if they had already committed. Would rather the staff waited until the next cycle to start picking higher-hanging fruit even if signing up a couple mediocre players cost us a win (don't see how it'd cost more than that for a couple guys who are just so-so). EDIT: Reading who Gameboy was originally replying to and what he said, I'm not sure we really disagree at all actually. I don't think Harbaugh should be fired if he does like he did in Stanford in 2010, but I would like to hear some pointed questions from the media that would cause him to back off of doing that in the future and hopefully a conversation with Hackett behind closed doors (that we would probably never catch wind of).


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Win what exactly? The Hoke [Body]

Output: Win what exactly? The Hoke question was a serious one. What win percentage or number of B1G titles over X number of years would you be happy with? Can you name a coach who is winning conference titles regularly that treats kids well according to your criteria? Again, it's great that you have standards, but it's easy to have standards on overcommitting without having standards on winning. Clearly teams who do shady shit are at an advantage.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I hope you're wrong. I would [Body]

Output: I hope you're wrong. I would be extremely disappointed. Even yanking an offer just before Signing Day would be less egregious but still really shitty. At least that recruit wasn't a part of team yet and has other options.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 43 min ago [Title] Most moms aren't 6'3" either. [Body]

Output: Most moms aren't 6'3" either.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 44 min ago [Title] Especially in Quebec. [Body]

Output: Especially in Quebec.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 hour ago [Title] How about down here at the [Body]

Output: How about down here at the pawn shop?


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 hour ago [Title] That's ridiculous. So much [Body]

Output: That's ridiculous. So much hindsight in there. You're blaming Carr for announcing his retirement before his career actually ended? That happens all the time. You can't blame him for the Miles' media fiasco blowing up or Bill Martin being on a boat. From your post, it sounds like Carr was irresponsible for not literally looking into the future.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] You're stupid! [Body]

Output: You're stupid!


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] The Smoky Mountains area [Body]

Output: The Smoky Mountains area (beautiful by the way, Cherohola Skyway!) was definitely the most redneck area I've been to. I remember we walked into some restaurant or fast food place and got a bunch of looks when people heard us talking and knew we weren't from around there. It was weird. It's the same looks I've gotten traveling in Asia, except, ya know, I was in America still. EDIT: Not that anyone cares but this must be some kind of record for me. This is like the 20th post I've made today. Guess that's what happens when you're on vacation but have no responsibilities, like raising a family.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] It's true. That's why this [Body]

Output: It's true. That's why this generation of youth is called the "ME generation". Oh, no wait, that was the 60's... To be fair, I do think we're getting more and more egotistical. It's just that it's been going on for a long time and it's stupid to blame it all on rap. If you wanted to point to one specific thing, I'd pick cameras that allow us to take photos of ourselves and what we're doing at every moment over rap music.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 hours ago [Title] I actually went to a club in [Body]

Output: I actually went to a club in Saigon this past winter and basically got treated like royalty. It was fucking WEIRD. I couldn't stop smiling and laughing every time I saw an employee light someone's cigarette or pour my shots for me or escort me to the bathroom or even be the ones turning the water on and off at the sink. And to be fair, that's kind of how that recruit looks. I'd like to think I wouldn't be so wowed and would think it's absurd. Except for the women. I would definitely enjoy that part.


Input: [Date] 32 min 55 sec ago [Title] Tried it at a friends place [Body]

Output: Tried it at a friends place on PS4 shortly after it came out and ended up buying it on PC. Fortunately, being tech savvy and having used it before, I reintalled the driver that makes my PS3 controller work on my PC, and even found an alternate to the tool used for it that has a much better UI and isn't made in China. Definitely hope they get a cross-platform party system in soon. A lot of my friends have it on PS4 since it was free for PS+ users this month and it sucks I can't intentionally play with them. (Hilariously, I did randomly end up in the same game against a few of them once)


Input: [Date] 32 min 53 sec ago [Title] Tried it at a friends place [Body]

Output: Tried it at a friends place on PS4 shortly after it came out and ended up buying it on PC. Fortunately, being tech savvy and having used it before, I reintalled the driver that makes my PS3 controller work on my PC, and even found an alternate to the tool used for it that has a much better UI and isn't made in China. Definitely hope they get a cross-platform party system in soon. A lot of my friends have it on PS4 since it was free for PS+ users this month and it sucks I can't intentionally play with them. (Hilariously, I did randomly end up in the same game against a few of them once)


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I can't believe people are [Body]

Output: I can't believe people are mad about this and think it is dirty for being "deceptive." Other common football things that are deceptive and designed to throw the defense off: Play action Pump fakes Hard counts Fake punts Fake field goals Pretty much any trick play They are all perfectly legal, and if the NFL thought they were too mean, they would eliminate them. New England did something unique that Baltimore wasn't ready for, and that is nobody's fault but Baltimore's. They could have called a timeout, or they could make sure the guys they pay millions to play defense every year can identify eligibility based on formation, especially when there is announcement that someone else is checking in as eligible, which immediately indicates somebody else must not be.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Title] CS Major Here [Body]

Output: I have only taken the class once, and thus only have first-hand experience with the professor who taught the class, but the vibe I've gotten is that your experience will be greatly impacted by who's teaching it. (Same holds for EECS 281 if you decided to take it some day) I checked the class listing, and there appear to be 4 secions taught by either Ringenberg, Fu, and DeOrio. I have absolutely no idea who the second two are, but Ringenberg was my professor for ENGIN 101 and also taught other sections of 280 when I had it. (He may have even co-taught it; don't honestly remember) Ringenberg is a good professor who was generally very helpful when you needed it and also does a nice job with his lecture content, but his voice is a little monotone, so if you tend to get bored in lectures, beware of that. Other than that though, I would recommend him without any hesitation if you can swing scheduling his section. Projects, however, tend to be mostly the same except when they blow them up every one in a while, perhaps due to too much cheating. They are pretty managable though as long as you don't totally blow them off (especially the Sorry project, they give you enough time to not have to do it on Spring Break if you don't want to, but you better have done some of it before then if you want that to happen, as that is the most time consuming of the 5 or 6 there are, or at least where when I took it 4 years ago) Too bad for you Noble isn't teaching it next semester. Noble is one of the very best, and I am extremely happy I was able to take the class with him.


Input: [Date] 46 weeks 5 days ago [Title] My $0.02 [Body]

Output: I was okay with the decision to go for it, but I was a,azed at the play call. The clock stops for a change of posession anyway, so if you're going to go for it, you really ought to do a pass play with the option to scramle for it because it offers you a better chance of getting the first down and also burns more time for the play itself in the vent you are not successful. Given that the call was a run right up the middle needing 4 yards in a system not really designed for conservative runs right up the middle, pretty much every other option that didn't involve going for it was better IMHO.


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

Output: I'll get on that as soon as I get home from work. Thanks again! EDIT: Torrent still appears not to be working. It is not finding any peers to connect to. =(


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 weeks ago [Title] 2013 ND Game [Body]

Output: I would send an e-mail, but my current e-mail account has for some reason gone totally foo bar, so I will try asking here. Any chance you could reseed the 2013 ND game? I caught onto these torrent threads late and after going back and finding that one it seems the pool has dried up. Appreciate your work!


Input: [Date] 1 year 16 weeks ago [Title] Still doesn't change the [Body]

Output: Still doesn't change the enormous contributions he's made in every other part of his game, and if you've been watching any of him playing, you'd know too he could easily have a handful of goals by now with some of his chances. He's the kind of guy who's having trouble potting his first goal, but as soon as he gets it, it could give him the confidence edge to start putting a lot of them in.


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Title] To Be Fair... [Body]

Output: I doubt Kentucky makes it against any of the other 1 seeds, and doubt Tennessee makes it past Duke if they don't get trolled by Mercer.


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Title] Good News if We Make It [Body]

Output: Yale was the last team in last year and won the national championship. If we had beaten ND in the CCHA Final, last year's champion wouldn't have even meade the tournament. Losing to PSU definitely makes me not feel good about our chances, but then slamming Minnesota does again. We're wildely inconsistent this year, but the nice thing about the tournament is you don't need to be consistent, you just have to be on the upside at the right time. That's how we managed to win it all in 1996 and 1998 but NOT win in 1997.


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Title] Don't Worry About It [Body]

Output: I go down there and attend something at the convention center around mid to late January every year and I've never had a problem. Especially when you're there for an event at the convention center, most of the people around you aren't from around town anyway and probably aren't OSU crazies. Obviously there is always some risk, but I'd say its pretty low; no more likely to happen than if you drove around any other Big Ten town with Michigan stuff. I think most of the stories that go around come from football games. When I go down there for The Game, I am extra careful, because all the crazies ARE in town at that point and you are going right into the eye of the storm. For that you would want to take every necessary precaution and avoid any unnecessary risk, but for a convention, you'll be fine.


Input: [Date] 1 year 22 weeks ago [Title] Long track speedskating... [Body]

Output: Its kind of like if NASCAR races were actually just qualifying laps, minus the super fast car... He's from the Netherlands though, he's probably high.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] When I read the OP, I thought [Body]

Output: When I read the OP, I thought to myself "that isn't really thread-worthy for someone who may not care much about the NFL". Then I watched the video and saw that she got a map to go with it with a big dot over Green Bay. Wow.


Input: [Date] 1 year 29 weeks ago [Title] 2008 Northwestern [Body]

Output: There was rain, sleet, snow, and hail at some point during the game, and all I had was a windbreaker because it was actually not too bad when I left. Spent halftime in the bathroow huddled around a heater with everyone who didn't leave. There were maybe 20,000 left by the end of the game, and I stayed because the game was close, but of course the team didn't come back, given it was 2008, nor did they have the decency to let Northwestern pull away and let me leave. Oh, and literally the first 4-5 buses at CC Little showed up out of service. There were literally about 100-150 people, maybe even more all desperately trying to huddle under the tiny shelter (this was before the fancy ones there are now) and the numbers kept going up because some idiot decided not to make sure all the buses heading to North Campus weren't taking a break at the same time. The truely awful thing is, I initially forgot my ticket and had to go back for it. My roommate hadn't left because he decided he didn't want to deal with it. Should have taken that as a sign, but hey, at least I can say I'm loyal. (But seriously, they should have given everybody their money back who stayed for the whole thing as a sign of gratitude)


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

Output: He coached a Japanese team that he had also played for and the Japanese national team at the 1980 Olympics. EDIT: I guess that doesn't qualify as now, but I thought it was worth a mention anyway because Mel is awesome.


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Title] Yost and Notre Dame [Body]

Output: It has generally been to my understanding that Yost wasn't as bad with religion as he was with race. The story I've heard is that he hated Notre Dame because their AD stuck his nose into some thing over rereunning a race at a track meet and he got so mad about it he swore to make sure they never got into the Big Ten when he was previously all for it and it was probably going to happen soon thereafter. Everything he said after that was pretty much gaming public opinion at the time to stick it to ND, but he was totally cool with Catholics or Jews on the team. He definitely wasn't a fan of African Americans though, and that has been well documented.


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Ohio Stadium [Body]

Output: And that's not being a homer. I've been there twice and both times was shocked at what a dump it is. I expected it to live up to its reputation in stadium rankings and what I got was a cynder block. The whole thing is solid concrete, and what few parts aren't concrete are painted grey to match the concrete. Even the routunda was riddled with cracks and off-color patches to the concrete all around it, while the upper bowl looks like it has gotten zero maintenence since it was first put in. Its cracked, chipping, and ugly. By far the worst stadium I've ever seen. This is out of Michigan Stadium, Spartan Stadium, Ross-Ade, Bryant-Denny (not for a game), and Bronco Stadium (also not for a game, loved the smurf turf though) for reference. Haven't been to enough other venues of different sports or the NFL to make a call on any of those, although I will say I liked the Superdome when I went for the Sugar Bowl, and I thought Progressive Field was pretty nice when I went to the Frozen Diamond against Ohio, in terms of non-Michigan, non-Detroit venues I've been to.


Input: [Date] 2 years 8 weeks ago [Title] So if they joined for just [Body]

Output: So if they joined for just one sport, why are we so sure they're going to get into the CIC? I mean, it would be great if we DID allow them in, but what's stopping us from doing that anyway? The CIC still has Chicago in it, and whether JHU joins the conference for lacrosse or not, they certainly aren't affiliated with another major conference in any way, so they could just let them in anyway. While it is practically speaking all the B1G schools, its not like they couldn't make an exception if they wanted to. Also, if the conference is willing to take on an affiliate member for sports only a handful of schools are sponsoring... WHY THE HELL DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO GET A HOCKEY CONFERENCE!?


Input: [Date] 2 years 9 weeks ago [Title] Wow, what a schedule. Think I [Body]

Output: Wow, what a schedule. Think I need to get season tickets this year instead of going individual. Just hope the team is up to playing it, unlike last year.


Input: [Date] 2 years 11 weeks ago [Title] I was pretty confident I'd [Body]

Output: I was pretty confident I'd get in, although I was a little insecure about my ACT score and decided to take it again just to be safe. I got accepted two days before my new score was released. Talk about a waste of $50 and a Saturday. Applied to MSU and MTU as backups but frankly never figured it'd be a problem anyway. I guess I thought of MSU as the backup, but in reality I likely would have gone to Tech in that case. Also, thanks to the internet, I knew before I got the letter I had gotten in. IIRC, they milked that pretty hard though. They just e-mailed me saying they had decided, then made you go to the website, go to a page, and then click on "View Decision" to find out... Also, totally jealous of your age. You were here at a rediculously good time on the athletics side of things. Hockey team coming off a national title coming in, and them and football getting one a piece while you were in school. HAVE PITY ON THE CLASS OF 2012, but have more on 2011 because that's actually probably worse (assuming 4 years)


Input: [Date] 2 years 12 weeks ago [Title] That 64-bit integer... [Body]

Output: Is it signed, unsigned, or two's complement?


Input: [Date] 2 years 15 weeks ago [Title] I liked the picture... [Body]

Output: Until I realized they are playing my old high school in it. =/ Oh well, he'll be a good guy this time next year.


Input: [Date] 2 years 16 weeks ago [Title] I think you can make the case [Body]

Output: I think you can make the case either way, but what I felt ultimately made that a block was the guy make ZERO effort to twist to get to either side of Morgan even though he clearly should have known Morgan was likely going to beat him to that spot. If he shifted at all and hit Morgan more to the side, that's a block or a no-call I think, but the way he proceeded to knowngly crash right into the middle of his chest I think sealed his fate.


Input: [Date] 2 years 16 weeks ago [Title] Thought it was pretty even, [Body]

Output: Thought it was pretty even, although they definitely let an awful lot go. I felt this game was pretty physical. Only truely horrible call was that foul on Burke.


Input: [Date] 2 years 16 weeks ago [Title] Allegidly [Body]

Output: Gotta remember the second one.


Input: [Date] 2 years 17 weeks ago [Title] This season was definitely a [Body]

Output: This season was definitely a failure for which the team deserves criticism for. True enough, the streak was never going to last forever, but we've had less talent than we did this year and won the conference; these guys just couldn't learn to play like a team until they dug themselves into a hole just a little too deep to get out of. Injuries didn't help, but they still should have been good enough to at least be more competitive than they were. BUT, there is a difference between being critical of the team and being a fairweather whiner. Completely ceasing all hockey coverage falls into the latter. That isn't legitimate criticism, it's completely turning your back on the team because they aren't living up to their collective draft statuses, and I think it is unbecoming of the largest Michigan sports blog, and particularly one that regularly covers hockey. The fact Brian came out and said he wasn't covering hockey because he was mad at how they were doing is even sadder. I can understand being less motivated to keep up given the cisrumstances, but just admitting you're rage quitting and mad you bought season tickets is pathetic.


Input: [Date] 2 years 32 weeks ago [Title] True [Body]

Output: But there's getting a break or two to fall your way and then there's the crap ND and OSU have gotten away with this year. Ohio I don't know got an excessive about of luck; only the MSU fumble really stands out to me. ND, however, has gotten every break and every call. They barely beat a terrible Purdue team, they only beat us by a TD even though we gave them 6 turnovers, they needed two gifts from the officials to beat Stanford and Pitt, and they managed to get USC one week after their starting quarterback went down with a shoulder injury. That is more than luck, that is backing into a title game, but I guess that's okay because you need a lot more than luck to beat Alabama.


Input: [Date] 2 years 35 weeks ago [Title] That would be excellent. Do [Body]

Output: That would be excellent. Do you have any more specific instruction to that site though? I'm looking at a map right now and I'm not seeing anything on sattelite that looks like what you're talking about near there. Searching for the location only yields two results that are on the other side of town. EDIT: Think I found it. http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/specialolympics/ Google Maps search gave me the state-wide HQ which is across town. A general search turned up that, which is right where you mentioned and a VERY good parking location for $10. Very much appreciate the advice. Given your word on the people running it and the fact it is off to the side enough to be out of the way of passer-bys on the way to the stadium, that looks to be perfect and I will definitely go there. Thanks!


Input: [Date] 2 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Nope [Body]

Output: Should have taken the tickets. If going to the game means I have to wait until we win at the end to stand up and cheer, so be it, it is worth it to attend.


Input: [Date] 2 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Because [Body]

Output: Notre Dame fans are unbareable enough when they aren't winning national championships and trash talk like they do. If they actually DO get another one then it is going to be that much worse and I don't want to deal with that. Also, this year in paticular, because I feel they are grossly overrated. Yes, I know, it is difficult to say that about a team that is undefeated, but they've had more than a championship team's worth of lucky breaks this year. It took a 2-minute drive to beat Purdue, a team we now know to be exceptionally bad. We dominated their offense and lost because Denard had the worst game of his career, and we frankly moved the ball at will when we weren't turning it over. They beat Stanford on an absolutely bogus goal line call. They beat Pitt because they were not flagged for having two guys with the same number on the field. They did, to their credit, beat Oklahoma. That game was not a fluke, they showed up ready to play and they beat them. That, however, is the only quality opponent they've beaten this year without help from the other team beating themselves or help from the officials. They are a good team, good enough for 9 or 10 wins, but they have gotten quite a few breaks to be able to call themselves undefeated and I doubt that is going to cut it if/when they play in the NCG. To be clear, too, there are a lot of title teams that survive a game on a lucky break. I'm not saying that should preclude you from being deserving of a title, merely that ND has had more than one, and a couple of them have been poor officiating (although not as bad as Colorodo's 5th down; that one deserves an asterisk next to their title).


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Title] You're absolutely right. I [Body]

Output: You're absolutely right. I was only talking about the football program. The rest of the Athletics has been outstanding. I am guilty of being one sided and thinking only the football program at times.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Title] I find it absolutely [Body]

Output: I find it absolutely essential for the program to cut ties with an organization that is such a fervent reminder of the past decade of misfortune and poor leadership. New coach, new AD, new sponsor. Makes sense to me.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Title] garbage [Body]

Output: I felt almost ashamed to wear a highlighter yellow shit with the word "Maize" printed on the chest. I felt like I needed sweet shades, several wrist bands, a red solo cup, and a pocket full of E to complete the ensamble. My several neon yellow shirts will soon find a new home in the bottom of my trash can.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Alternate This [Body]

Output: On the topic of alternates- I have never really had an issue with Nike's. Most of the time I find myself saying "oh, those are their alternates", with Oregon's being the ultimate acception. Anybody recall the Oregon's opener in 2011- I guess it was a homage to the Tron Legacy era. Even so, I am happy to see M going back to its roots and getting onboard with a company that has respect for traditions and leaves boiterous themes and flamboyent hues at the wayside. I wouldn't have minded UA, seeing they're work with Navy and ND's uni's the past few years has also reflected their respect for tradition and functionality. I could honestly say I would have seen Jimmy go with Russle or Champion before ever endorsing Adidas.


Input: [Date] 41 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Chris Perry: A Cuttlass Supreme: Thats Pure Michigan [Body]

Output: Since we're talking about favorite players past, I would have to say Chris Perry was my favorite runnig back ever at michigan. more than hart or wheatley, and thats becasue he played with so much heart. he was never the kind of guy that could burn a corner back or shake a safety out of his socks, but perry had the fortitude to lower his shoulder and take on B1G linbackers that had a good 20-30 lbs on him. he was old testement, built for comfort, not speed- an '88 cuttlass supreme- with a motor that never quit. chris perry was galvanized in a conference that put their running backs through a mulcher and developed premier line talent, at a time when the B1G was the center of the college football universe. he was fast, dont get me wrong, and he did posess a tool box with some pretty lethal instrumentation, but he was never the best at any one thing, he was just good at everything. he also left it all on the field; I cant remember how many games I saw where perry getting helped up to his feet at the end of the third quarter and the 30 or 40-something posession for 6 yards a carry. lloyd really knew how to punish his backs back then. I am almost certain that if lloyd carr told perry to run through a brick wall, the only question perry would have is if he wanted him to leave his helmet on.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Title] This is because... [Body]

Output: this is because Jake Ryan is only a shell of the man he used to be two years ago, before the ACL thing.


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Title] 2013 Under the Lights [Body]

Output: I'm in the Navy, currently stationed in Sicily, and I got the inkling last June to give my older brother Tony a birthday gift that all the rest will now be compaired to. So I plan months in advace and purchase tickets from stubhub for the Notre Dame game under the lights and book a flight home a few days before the game- Im still making payments on my Visa card for this, but it was all worth it. Mind you, my brother is a molder of young minds, currently serving a sentence in the Maryland Public School system, and you cannot just drop everything and leave town whenever you feel like... Lesson plans must be made! So with this in mind, His Fiance scheduled his days off, unbeknownst to him. Oh, and he had no idea this was happening until I showed up at his doorstep on tuesday night and made him cry like a school girl. So, that thursday, we made the 10-12 hour journey from MD to Grand Rapids to see family and swung through Livonia on our way there, to pick up our season ticket holder cousin. That saturday morning we made the cross state journey to AA where our cousin brought us to meet his buddies, one of which was a former long snapper for michigan during the Rich Rod era. After we tailgated at the golf course for several hours with some people I never met, and drank all their beer, we made our way into THE BIG HOUSE. This was only my second experience here, and it was the largest attendence on record for any college sporting event in history. As we packed in, nut to butt and elbow to elbow, and charles woodson's voice boomed over the PA "this is Michigan", I realized that besides my wedding night this was best night of my entire life... And then the Wolverines beat the Irish 41-30, with one of THE BEST performances by Devine Gardner to date, and Jeremy Gallon was nothing short of stellar. Go Blue.


Input: [Date] 1 year 49 weeks ago [Title] Extremely unrelated, but... [Body]

Output: Are they, or are they not getting a little ahead of themselves here? I pulled this off of elevenwarriors blog post. The Last Frontier By Kyle Rowland -19 August 2013 19 Comments OSU Football The scene is set. Pasadena awaits the Rose Bowl every January, and every four years during the BCS era, the Arroyo Seco welcomes the national championship game. The 2013 season is one of those years. Less than two weeks remain until the start of college football. But already No. 1 Alabama and No. 2 Ohio State seem destined to face off in a dream matchup. Alabama-Ohio State, programs that ooze tradition. Nick Saban vs. Urban Meyer, a battle of the sport’s top two coaches. Tuscaloosa and Columbus, college football towns to the core. All that’s left to do is win 13 games – or sneak in the side door at 12-1. Expectations at Ohio State merge at undefeated and unrealistic. However, in 2013, national title talk in mid-August is justified. The Buckeyes are an amalgamation of hype and substance. Rock star coach, Heisman candidate quarterback and a potent cocktail of returning players and captivating newcomers. It’s clear after a 24-month span that included scandal, lackluster on-field results, the hiring of a new coach and the rebirth of one of college football’s bedrock programs, Ohio State once again has the nation’s attention and respect. But despite owning the longest winning streak in the country and receiving preseason praise, the Buckeyes are content on ignoring all the buildup swirling around them. “I don’t think it matters too much because you can be a preseason All-American and not do anything,” said junior defensive lineman Michael Bennett, when asked about the lofty preseason rankings. “You’ve just got to come out and play.” “We didn’t get to do all the things we wanted to do. We’re still real hungry.” - Noah SPENCE Preseason polls and watch lists exist partly to generate conversation. It works every year. The pitchforks come out and criticism rains down from Tallahassee to Ames. Inside locker rooms, rankings aren’t even a talking point. For most players and coaches, they’re irrelevant. “Everyone else is talking about that. We’re not,” said sophomore linebacker Josh Perry. “We’re just trying to win a Big Ten championship. We’ve got other goals, we’re just trying to take it one game at a time.” Games against Ohio State are never diminished. When Big Ten opponents knock off the Buckeyes, it can make a year or sometimes save a coach’s job. But during 2011, there was an emptiness that accompanied a victory over the evil empire of Ohio State. There were no losses last year. The Buckeyes did regain their status as the hunted, though. And few times in the past has it been as palpable. Every coach and player was asked about the football factory in Columbus at Big Ten media days. “Everybody in the Big Ten is going to be coming after us, which is what we expect,” Perry said. “We’ve got to expect their best shot. People are going to be turning on their TVs all around America. Whether they like the Buckeyes or not, they’re probably going to be watching. There’s definitely that target and that spotlight on us. We’ve got to be ready to go.” Teams thrive on banding together and proving doubters wrong. Whether it’s college football or cricket, negative prognostications are used as fuel. One year ago, Ohio State had to answer questions about motivation. Many pundits thought there was nothing to play for. That simply wasn’t true, the Buckeyes said. And they proved it wasn’t difficult to get excited by rattling off 12 consecutive wins. Every possible reward is available to Ohio State in 2013 – Big Ten championship, national title, etc. It hasn’t tasted defeat since the Gator Bowl on Jan. 2, 2012, but the Buckeyes remain starved for success. “We didn’t get to do all the things we wanted to do,” said sophomore defensive end Noah Spence, about the postseason-less 2012 season. “We’re still real hungry.” Said Bennett: “The country’s gunning for us. We’re not just a small team that goes out there and expects to go 5-7 or something like that, especially now after last year. We’re expected to be the best. We’ve always had that expectation. But it’s good now to have more people pushing you for it.” So 12 days from the season opener, Ohio State waits anxiously to begin its 124th season. It’s been more than a decade now since the program’s last national championship. Listening to Meyer on Saturday makes one think another notch will be carved into the Big Ten’s futility meter. “We're not ready to play a game yet,” he said. “The good thing is we don't have to be.” Ranked No. 2, the only task for the Buckeyes is to win. On Aug. 31, the first of 13 tests will be administered.


Input: [Date] 1 year 49 weeks ago [Title] spying on the enemy [Body]

Output: anybody ever visit this website? (http://www.elevenwarriors.com/) its hilarious! the writer has nothing bad to say about OSU, and has no constuctive criticism what so ever.


Input: [Date] 1 year 49 weeks ago [Title] Ask the Doc [Body]

Output: I work in a Navy orthopedic clinic as a corpsman and orthopedic technician. I talked to my surgeon on his thoughts of when a player should return to play after an ACL repair, he said nine months. Biologically, your body takes nine months to repair such an injury, and thats pushing it if you want a fully healthy and recovered knee. a partial tear may take a little less time. even though UM physical therapy methods and equiptment may be state of the art, my doc(who spent time working with the athletes at Annapolis) informed me the human body still takes that amount of time to be fully recovered and ready for game time play. he brought up the case with derrick rose and made the point that rose injured his ACL last spring and still sat on the bench for this entire season and his ability to start next year is still questionable.


Input: [Date] 1 year 49 weeks ago [Title] l [Body]

Output: l


Input: [Date] 2 years 25 weeks ago [Title] two all beef patties and a special sauce [Body]

Output: anyone else get hungry for some McValue meat? I felt like i was watching the McDonalds all-american game.


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] pneumonia KILLs [Body]

Output: i wish he would wear a jacket, though. we dont need a Craig Kill.


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Hoke the Renovator [Body]

Output: Also I'd like to add that Hoke is a rebuilder, he did it at Ball state, he did it at San Diego state and he did it last season. give him 2014 and all your questions will be answered.


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Hoke loves table scraps [Body]

Output: The fact that Hoke took Rich's table scraps and built a Three Wheeled Death Machine out of Fitz, Denard, and Junior speaks dividends. But I also believe Hoke is a chronic underdog loving, rag-tag team builder when he has to be imporvisational. Of course he loves his drop back passers, and smash mouth runners, this shows in his prospecs of course. But Hoke also can do what Rich Rod and many of the coaches in the NCAA cannot do, mold a scheme around his players. He is a patient coach and he may have to settle for a couple 8-4 seasons until his team recovers from deficates and his talent is proven and has a little salt on their jackets.


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] HOKES PRESS CONFERENCES IN A NUTSHELL AS OF LATELY [Body]


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] HOKE ON JOURNALISTS [Body]


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Lloyd Schembechler [Body]

Output: You know, the more I watch Hoke in press conferences the more he reminds me of Lloyd Carr. The more I see him in action the more he reminds me of Bo Schembechler.


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Denard Midgitson [Body]

Output: whe do D-Rob's legs look so short?


Input: [Date] 3 years 1 week ago [Title] WWBD? [Body]

Output: WHAT WOULD BO DO?


Input: [Date] 3 years 1 week ago [Title] ashamed [Body]

Output: How does he justify risking his carreer playing football for michigan?


Input: [Date] 3 years 1 week ago [Title] Relavence is relative. [Body]

Output: I agree, but... i can see why the staff allows it: they need to stay current. It keeps recruits interested. thats a big part of why Oregon's recruiting was so good, they were unique. the staff does a pretty good job of keeping tradition and they haven't bastardized the unifor like rich rod.Hoke expects tradition, rich rod didnt. Maize piping... seriously? anyway, i feel your frustration but it is also kinda cool to see your favorite team sport something fresh.


Input: [Date] 3 years 1 week ago [Title] Hello: Mountaineers [Body]

Output: Rich Rod just got a boner! Very WVesque.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Title] You just manipulated every [Body]

Output: You just manipulated every single fact to your liking. Hoke does not have control over a player being medically cleared to play. If they said he could play, it would be odd for Hoke to be criticized for having a different opinion. Hoke is not a doctor. There is no evidence that Hoke had any knowledge of a head injury. There's no reason to think he would have. What evidence do you have that Hoke had any idea that Morris may have been concussed? None. That's a fact. We're all replaying GIFs left and right to try and prove that Hoke should have known. That proves nothing. It's easy to watch a highlight 50 times from 6 different camera angles and then watch the players get addressed on the sidelines from numerous camera angles and assume that the coach should know more than the fan watching at home. In reality though, that makes no sense. He was coaching a football game. He wasn't performing a concussion test on the sideline. If his medical staff also wasn't, then how is that on Hoke? You and everybody else on here have attacked the man's integrity for no reason other than he didn't have all of the information at his disposal at one moment within a football game. Get over it. I wanted Morris pulled and Hoke fired well before any of that happened. The fact that it did happen doesn't make Hoke a bad guy, he's just a bad coach who got caught in an awful moment at just the right time for a media firestorm. Nothing more.


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Title] This post/entry is embarrassing to this site [Body]

Output: Sorry, I'm sure I'm in the minority, but this post is an embarrassment to this site. It pretty much implies several things that are not true by relying on tweets of media members who have taken every statement entirely out of context. This is easy to prove. I expect better than this. This whole thing is just Gibbons all over again. Laying in on a guy based on things totally out of his control, and then blaming him for not being in control of the situation he had no way to know he had to control. It's just dumb. Brady Hoke didn't knowingly play a concussed player. Why would anybody think he would? I'm embarrassed for you if you think anything about this was intentional or unethical. Seriously, spend 5 minutes thinking about the facts and realize this was nothing more thanan unfortunate and unpredictable set of circumstances.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Title] This wouldn't make me angry [Body]

Output: This wouldn't make me angry if it weren't for the fact that I have literally never read a single quote from any of our coaches that disparaged a single player in an improper way. I have also never seen a single one of our coaches use an excuse that didn't relate to the youth on our team, and even when they say that they say it's no excuse and they have to get the players they have ready. Even using that excuse, I've never seen them blame a single loss on any mistake of any player. EVER. Seriously, listening to this guy is like listening to a politician who just lies without regret because he knows his supporters will blindly believe it, and then get away with it no matter how false he is proven to be. Sad thing about society today - facts don't matter, which bubble you live in does...


Input: [Date] 1 year 12 weeks ago [Title] How do I know that this [Body]

Output: How do I know that this probably is some ridiculous haphazard standard that should not be applied to these situations? Well, prior to being mandated to change the standard, nearly every single University that investigated and punished students for sexual assault used the highest possible standard of proof, and this was almost always a departure from the standard of proof required for lesser offenses. The fact that nearly every independent vote of people closer to the actual situations resulted in a different outcome than the federally mandated rule leads me to believe that the people best suited for deciding this disagree with the federal government on this one. Secondly, I fully understand the burden of proof in a civil trial. However, as pointed out above, the rules of evidence and procedures used in a civil trial are so far removed from that of the type of hearings we're discussing that comparing them seems pointless. For instance, it costs A LOT of time and money to sue somebody. You also usually only do it if the responsible party has money to win. You also have to factor in attorney fees, time, travel, the duration of the proceedings, etc. On the other hand, an alleged victim in one of these cases risks essentially nothing. It's a relatively short process. The alleged victim's name never gets out. She doesn't have to pay for anything, per se. I mean, it doesn't someone anything to make a false allegation it would seem. I'm sorry, I just find this crazy and ridiculous, personally.


Input: [Date] 1 year 12 weeks ago [Title] I really couldn't disagree [Body]

Output: I really couldn't disagree much more. It honestly doesn't matter to me what happens when a student cheats or is caught drinking in his dorm room. I don't care what standard of proof they use for these types of transgressions. They really are nothing like a sexual assault allegation. I keep posing this hypothetical and not a single person has ever responded. What would you think if the following occurred: Your son is dating a girl and has what he believes is consensual sex with the girl. Later, he finds out that she claimed it was not consensual, and he is under investigation. Being that he's honest, he admits to having intercourse with the girl because that is in fact what happened. There is no other credible evidence. It's his word against hers seeing as to how he admitted to having sex. Because of the circumstances and the preponderance of the evidence standard, your son faces a 50/50 chance of expulsion depending on how truthful he and the girl are determined to be. Would you want those odds for your son for something he swears he didn't do? I wouldn't. Sexual assault is simply not something a university can investigate. It also potentially forces the defendant to have to put statements on the record to defend himself, which could kill his case in a criminal trial. Doesn't really leave many options for the men accused of these assaults.


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Title] "Emmert just said athletes [Body]

Output: "Emmert just said athletes shouldn't be able to capitalize on their own likenesses because of "competitive fairness." Yes. He really did." Ummmm, isn't he 100% right? If you allowed players to capitalize off of their likeness without restriction, then the entire college system would instantly be dead, and I mean DEAD. This seems pretty obvious. I know everybody likes to cry about a Minnesota wrestler or whatever not being allowed to pursue a music career, but in reality the problem stems from the fact that the second a star recruit steps foot on campus his likeness becomes worth whatever a booster wants to pay for it. Hey booster, wanna a photo of me for $1000? Why of course, young strapping man, that seems like fair market value for a photo of a guy who hasn't played a down of college football. How would you ever regulate that without just imposing the same types of restrictions? Honestly, I think bringing this up as if it is some kind of dumb argument from the NCAA reflects more poorly on the person calling it a poor argument than the person making the argument, in my opinion. If you think the whole system should be blown up, then I understand, but to act like this isn't a good argument is truly bizarre unless taken out of context entirely, as you and the original tweet managed to do.


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Title] Where exactly are you going [Body]

Output: Where exactly are you going with any of your arguments? Nothing you have said has been remotely related to reality. Please answer these questions. If you and another girl were both drunk, had what you believed to be consensual sex, and then to your surprise she accuses you of rape the next day, would you want your fate as a U of M student to be determined by a hearing where the only evidence is your word against hers, essentially? I'm not saying these are the exact facts of the Gibbons case, but seriously, think of what a terrible way to determine something so important. You seem to be downplaying being expelled from a major University like it's a traffic ticket. What world do you live in where a google search of a guy's name bringing up hundreds of articles claiming he may have raped somebody wouldn't harm his prospects of getting a job? Seriously, is it worth arguing this?


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Title] Worst post I've read on this [Body]

Output: Worst post I've read on this site in a long time. "There is zero reason to move Jake Ryan to the interior." Says who? A guy who watched a bunch of film after the games were over? I'm sorry, but stuff like this really gets to me sometimes. I understand that some people get upset by "trust the coaches" type statements, but has it ever occurred to anybody out there that maybe they actually have information on Jake Ryan and the other linebackers that leads them to believe that they just might be more qualified to make a major decision like this than you are? Do you think they did this on a whim? I'm sure it took weeks and months to make these decisions. Also, questioning which coach coaches which position is old. Yeah, Manning never played CB, but he also never played RB or DL, two other positions he was previously slated to coach. I'm sure the coaches have some idea of what it takes to make such a move.


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Title] If a team claimed they would [Body]

Output: If a team claimed they would rather walk out than play to win a national championship, then I would call every member of that team a liar.


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Title] I think your analysis of [Body]

Output: I think your analysis of Toussaint is WAY WAY off on a few of those. I'm actually more annoyed than anything because now everybody out there is going to say "look, he has all these negative points, start Green!" Toussaint is by far our best back right now. The -3 for the Chesson crack back block play is silly to me. If you really watch what happens, Toussaint starts to cut inside as soon as he sees the guy blitzing outside of him. Immediately thereafter Chesson blocks him directly into Toussaint's feet. After watching it like 20 times, I think Toussaint did the right thing, assuming that Chesson wasn't going to knock the guy 5 yards back into him. The other negative to Toussaint on the long delayed draw is even more ridiculous. Toussaint is looking left the entire time, trying to sell that he's pass blocking a free guy coming from the left as a part of the protection. Once he actually gets the ball, his view of the right is even more obscurred. You seem to want him to be psychic and able to know that WRs and OL out 20-30 yards to his right have set up perfect blocking for him when he has absolutely no way to see this or know this whatsoever.


Input: [Date] 1 year 51 weeks ago [Title] I honestly don't even know [Body]

Output: I honestly don't even know how to respond to something like this. This is by far the worst Michigan site to post to for many topics. I mean, you yourself state that my story is interesting, but it's no longer worth reading because it uses the term a-hole? Does that actually have any effect on the content of my post whatsoever? I mean, honestly, the word that originally came to mind was asshole, so I used the friendlier version. Obviously, everybody out there from some 10 year old kid to some graduate of the 1948 class understand exactly what I'm saying without being horribly offended. I honestly couldn't care less about the points attached to my name on here. I'm only wasting the time to write this because I'm not the only person on this board who is just tired of half the posts on a given topic being about typos, incorrect grammar, and thread titles that aren't fully informative. It really takes a lot away from the site. It just reenforces the stereotypes of arrogance and condescension that fans of other teams associate with Michigan and its students.


Input: [Date] 1 year 51 weeks ago [Title] Wanna hear an incredible story of what an A-hole Gee is? [Body]

Output: This story still blows my mind to this day, and I have no reason to not believe it. I went to law school with this guy who was maybe the single nicest, most honest, and most friendly guy that ever lived. He was from a Utah and apparently grew up either in the town that Gee did or from a town very close thereto. Anyway, through some group or association or something he was involved in for law school (can't remember what it was) he was to attend a national conference held at THE Ohio State University. Having always grown up hearing about what a crazy success Gee was in his area, he decided to try and see if he could schedule a meeting with Gee based on the premise that they were from the same home town or area or whatever. Sure enough, after going through the proper channels, Gee agreed to meet with him. My friend shows up to meet Gee in his office. Right off the bat Gee starts going off about his Mormon faith and starts discussing it with my friend. My friend was embarassed as he had to awkwardly inform Gee that despite being from Mormon central he was in fact not Mormon. Gee cut off the interview and asked him to leave. Again, the guy who told this story was without exception the nicest and most honest person (and especially lawyer) that anyone has ever met. I believe him 100%. And with that, Gee is officially a giant prejudiced A-hole. His Catholic comments were also not a shock to me based on this interaction with my friend.


Input: [Date] 2 years 2 days ago [Title] Here is the explanation [Body]

Output: You can only have a certain number of players report for the start of Fall camp. You can then add more at a later date before the season starts (this is when non-preferred walk-ons usually join the team). This has been explained to us in relation to guys like Bell and Wilkins, who despite being scholarship players, were asked to not report to Fall camp because there were walk-ons who were more deserving and valuable to the team to be getting practice reps. These players of course saw the writing on the wall and left the program. There would be absolutely positively NO reason to let Hagerup attend Fall camp. He'd be a wasted spot if he can't play this season. After Fall camp, he can report like a walk-on and rejoin the team without penalty.


Input: [Date] 2 years 1 week ago [Title] Dawson apparently ran his 40 [Body]

Output: Dawson apparently ran his 40 in the 4.4 range when he reported, which is damn impressive for a 6'2 corner. He also reported times of 4.39 at two consecutive camps after his junior year, but there's little evidence those were laser-timed etc.,so take them with a grain of salt. Anyway, who knows if he'll ever play a meaningful down (because he's way behind technique-wise), but there's little doubting he has the athleticism to be something special if he can bring it all together.


Input: [Date] 2 years 1 week ago [Title] Please read this with the [Body]

Output: Please read this with the same skepticism that I did, but Sam Webb recently claimed that Hill was one of the incoming freshmen that prompted mention from the coaches for being unexpectedly huge and athletic when he reported. I can't find the post claiming this, but I'm pretty sure he tested/measured as follows: 6'2 260 lbs (!!!???) 4.6-4.7 40 range (!!!???) If these are actually true, the ceiling/excitement level may be altered slightly. However, I'll believe it when I see it. (btw, other guys mentioned as athletic freaks - Gedeon and Reon Dawson)


Input: [Date] 2 years 3 weeks ago [Title] Random update from myself - [Body]

Output: Random update from myself - just checked the Rivals profiles of 5 random recruits. All 5 were again, identical to the heights and weights listed here. This list does nothing by compile heights/weights from Rivals and ESPN. Don't get your panties all in a twist if a FR isn't the height/weight you wanted them to be.


Input: [Date] 2 years 3 weeks ago [Title] I wouldn't bet on ANY of [Body]

Output: I wouldn't bet on ANY of these being up to date. Many of the freshmen heights/weights are IDENTICAL to the heights/weights listed for these same guys on recruiting websites as long as a year ago. IDENTICAL. In fact, the guys from The Opening that didn't enroll early - IDENTICAL. Also, many of the FR guys have done articles more recently where they claimed to be 15-20 lbs heavier than many of these. I doubt every kid lied and in turn every year old scouting report is right. Think about it. Almost every single height/weight for the veteran players are IDENTICAL to the height/weights listed on the spring roster. IDENTICAL. In other words, wait until fall practice. The "official" roster officially changed when the actual season started last year too.


Input: [Date] 2 years 9 weeks ago [Title] Wow, I've been reading this [Body]

Output: Wow, I've been reading this blog for about 4 years and I'm still not ready? What a waste of time... On an actual relevant note, you appear to have ignored the actual basis of my argument - that in the void of Terry Richardson playing for Michigan at 160 and not gaining a pound in the past year there is no way that Lewis would spur such doubt. Raymon Taylor reported to Michigan at 5'10 169 and .... oh hell, why am I arguing with somebody who wrote lololol in their response? I have better things to do.


Input: [Date] 2 years 9 weeks ago [Title] I'm sorry, I don't agree with [Body]

Output: I'm sorry, I don't agree with much of this at all. For being such an analytical guy you sure do put way too much stock in the fact that he attended Cass. What do the careers of 3 pervious players have to do with his ability to play? Nothing. Do you think OSU fans are lamenting Webb because he went to Cass? It's an illogical argument that tries to equate correlation with causation. Secondly, you make it sound like he's hopelessly small. He's measured in at 5'10 and 5'11 at various camps, depending on the camp. 5'11 is the average height of an NFL corner. He's about 160 right now with no evidence that he has lifted as he is skinny and just plain doesn't look like a guy who has lifted. Stribling is 6'2 and only 170, but it's assumed he'll gain weight, yet he appears to be just as skinny. Why is it likely that one will gain the weight and not the other? Because Terry Richardson didn't? Sorry, I think it's odd that one of our highest ranked recruits is treated as a meh recruit because of some guys with no actual input on his ability or potential.