Input: [Date] 1 year 32 weeks ago [Body] Arguing that KCP has been better than Burke is....questionable to say the least. I guess you can talk up his defensive impact, but the Pistons have the 20th best defense in the league, despite a whole host of defensive talent in Smith/Drummond, so just how big of an impact is he having? I agree, the eye test says he's a good defender, and I expect him to continue to be one, but you're greatly overestimating the impact he's had on that side of the court. If you replace KCP with a replacement level player, how many fewer games have the Pistons won at this point? Look at the record of the Jazz with and without Burke, pretty easy to see the type of impact he's had. You also referenced WS/48 earlier, which with such a small sample size of minutes borders on irrelevent, as shown by the fact that Burke shot significantly past KCP in that metric after last night's game. Argue that KCP made sense with the Jennings/Smith plan (which was a shitty plan to begin with, but oh well), sure, but to argue that KCP has been the more productive player to this point is a joke. [Title]

Output: Arguing that KCP has been


Input: [Date] 1 year 32 weeks ago [Body] The analytics aren't wrong, but you're only looking at one, not the whole picture. Even going into last night, Burke's oRtg of 103 was hovering around league average despite an absolutely dreadful TS%. A short sighted person might say he's been struggling to play well, but I'd argue his first 15 games in the NBA are about as encouraging as they could be despite his shooting struggles. Does anyone really think he'd continue to shoot that poorly, is there any reason to believe he'd be that inept of a scorer in the NBA? The rest of his game has translated as well as anyone could have hoped, his turn over rate is historically low for a rookie PG (and among the best in the league amongst all PGs), he's creating off the dribble successfully, and while he's still not very good at finishing inside, he isn't have a problem getting in the paint off the dribble. Even with the shooting struggles, Burke looks to be on track to be one of the top 3 players from this draft. No reason to be anything but excited about the way he's looked as an NBA player. [Title]

Output: The analytics aren't wrong,


Input: [Date] 1 year 33 weeks ago [Body] I'm here for the posbang. [Title]

Output: I'm here for the posbang.


Input: [Date] 1 year 34 weeks ago [Body] I'm not totally sure what guys expect from GR3. He's never had the ability to really create off the dribble, and most guys don't just magically develop that in one offseason. If a guy gets to college and can't create off the dribble, don't ever expect him to. It can happen, but it's incredibly rare. For that reason, I've always been pretty pessimistic about GR3 in that first or second option role. He reminds me a bit of Kawhi Leonard, and like Michigan fans, Spurs fans have been waiting for Kawhi to show the ability to create for himself. Mind you that's a generous projection, dependent on GR3 continuing to make strides with his jumper, and if you're an NBA team I think you'd have to be thrilled if GR3 reached that level. Stauskas, unlike Robinson, has the benefit of having an elite level NBA skill, and that's incredibly valuable. Guys like Korver stick around for ages because at the end of the day, it's always nice to have a guy who can hit the 3 ball consistently over 40%. The improved ability to get inside and finish is incredibly promising as well. If you were to compare him to a pro right now, I think Klay Thompson is the closest match skillset wise, though I wouldn't expect Stauskas to get to that level of total scoring. McGary I really don't know. He HAS to get the mid range jumper down and figure things out at the free throw line, other wise he's nothing more than an energy guy. I don't know if he ever develops real back to the basket ability, he's a quality finisher around the hoop but it's unlikely he ever creates much for himself. Defensively he has a good bit of upside due to his athleticism and size, though it'd be nice if he were a bit more prolific of a shot blocker. I would expect Stauskas to be the most useful player out of the gate of the three. [Title]

Output: I'm not totally sure what


Input: [Date] 1 year 39 weeks ago [Body] I have an apartment I'm looking to fill a room in, and seeing as I'm in the process of considering posting the room's availability on craigslist, I figure I could do a whole lot worse than a fellow Wolverine. Email me at n.repole (at) gmail.com if you're legitimately looking for a place in the greater Boston area. [Title]

Output: I have an apartment I'm


Input: [Date] 1 year 41 weeks ago [Body] It should have been a first down. If it makes you (or anyone else) feel better though, we probably would have just ran the ball three times for a grand total of three yards, so it probably didn't change the outcome. The missed blatant hold on one of PSU's early touchdowns and the weak PI call haunt me more than the lack of a first down there. If those things go our way, maybe we win. Either way, win or lose, the thing that bothers me most about this game is Fitz stat line. It's absolutely inconceivable how any coach allows that stat line to happen. Oh, the first 20 runs netted us 20 yards? Lets try seven more times! [Title]

Output: It should have been a first


Input: [Date] 1 year 43 weeks ago [Body] Why on earth did OSU not use a timeout or two when NW had the ball? [Title]

Output: Why on earth did OSU not use


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Body] That call doesn't get made a lot because the ref isn't typically so on top of the play. Most of the time they won't see that hand on the back turning the receiver a bit, it's why DBs do it so often (especially on slants), but when it's directly in front of them you can expect it to get called. Definitely a break though, that type of thing isn't called all the time, regardless of whether it should or shouldn't be. [Title]

Output: That call doesn't get made a


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Body] He reminds me a bit of Deion Branch who was drafted in the 2nd round, though I think coming out of college Branch had a bit more top end speed/quickness. In his prime though, Branch was mainly a shifty guy who ran great routes, had great hands, and blocked well despite his 5'9 frame. He did that on the outside as well, like Gallon thus far in college, not in the slot. Get him with a QB who really values precise route running and good hands over pure size/speed and I think Gallon's got a quality NFL future. Like Branch in Seattle though, if he doesn't end up in the right system or with the right QB, goings could be pretty rough. [Title]

Output: He reminds me a bit of Deion


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Body] The Jags should consider giving Braylon a call, pretty sure Hennebot still spends the first three seconds after a snap checking to see if Braylon's open despite him not being on the field. [Title]

Output: The Jags should consider


Input: [Date] 1 year 46 weeks ago [Body] Isn't too hard for me to believe that the girl involved didn't want to press charges due to the publicity it would receive and the way she would undoubtably be treated around campus. And without that girl pressing charges and wanting to speak out against it the police perhaps did not have enough of a case. That doesn't mean it didn't happen, and based on what's out there regarding the situation, it seems a whole lot more likely to me that something malicious did happen. As things stand, I don't look forward to FG attempts as I can't bring myself to root for the type of person Gibbons seems to be. Lewan's actions were shitty too, though to me that's more just a guy truly believing his friend didn't do anything wrong, trying to defend him, and being an idiot about it. I can forgive Lewan for his ignorance and stupidty, Gibbons on the other hand I hope never steps on campus again when he's done here. [Title]

Output: Isn't too hard for me to


Input: [Date] 2 years 3 days ago [Body] PER is heavily influenced by usage. Practically anyone who dominates the ball at the rate Jennings does can put up an above average PER. Go look at Antoine Walker's career PERs, and yet practically no one from the advanced analytics crowd will come by and say "there's a guy who helped a team win." On the flip side, RAPM doesn't seem to think too fondly of Jennings, and his TS% of 51% is awful for a guy who shoots that much. There's some hope for him if he ever figures out the difference between a good and a bad shot, because he does do a solid job of not turning the ball over and distributing. But when he puts up a jumper, which he does really, realy often, it's bad news. In the right situation, I think Jennings is capable of being useful. But I can't think of a situation worse for him than Detroit, where he's going to be depended on to space the floor (since no one else on the team can shoot) and create far more offense than he should be relied on for. EDIT: That isn't to say Knight's any better of a player by the way. I don't think he ends up any more than a 7th man at best to be honest, but that doesn't change that comitting to Jennings as the PG of this team is a mistake, compounded further by trying to turn Josh Smith into a SF. [Title]

Output: PER is heavily influenced by


Input: [Date] 2 years 3 days ago [Body] For a blog that has a ton of advanced analytics stuff, albeit mostly regarding football, I'm shocked to see a mixed reaction here. Jennings is a bad player right now. He doesn't help you win games: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnHndbNPYi0 [Title]

Output: For a blog that has a ton of


Input: [Date] 11 hours 25 min ago [Body] As I understand it, Brady's biggest problem is that the NFLPA ceded power to the commisioner to do exactly what he's doing: essentially to be prosecuter, judge, and if Brady doesn't like the decision, the appeals judge also. The players association royally fucked the players over with this aspect of their last labor agreement. Goodell was granted the power by the NFLPA to do exactly what he's doing, and it's not likely to be the concern of the federal courts to interfere. [Title]

Output: As I understand it, Brady's


Input: [Date] 11 hours 52 min ago [Body] We don't know what else is on that phone, though. Maybe he was cheating on his wife or there's evidence of any number of other activities that could either be embarrassing, illegal, or provide fodder for other civil proceedings or misinterpretations. Once he turns the phone over, no matter who he gives it to, it's no longer under his control. [Title]

Output: We don't know what else is on


Input: [Date] 13 hours 53 min ago [Body] As others have pointed out, if the schedules were equal, Harbaugh comes out ahead. But the schedules aren't equal. Wisconsin does open against Alabama, but should win easily in the rest of the OOC schedule. Then they get the other B1G west teams and their crossover games are with Rutgers and Maryland. Nebraska plays BYU as the one OOC that should be difficult for them (Miami looks to have another mediocre team this year) and do have to play MSU in one of their crossover games, Rutgers in the other. If Michigan were playing either Nebraska's or Wisconsin's schedule, I would have them at 10-11 wins. But Harbaugh doesn't get those schedules. I think the liklihood is that Michigan will have 8 or 9 wins. Nebraska and Wisconsin should be able to each win 9 games. [Title]

Output: As others have pointed out,


Input: [Date] 16 hours 56 min ago [Body] Given that this is not the first time something like this has happened at Wisconsin, why in the world does Wisconsin not have someone within the AD's office or football program dedicated to communicating with players to ensure this sort of thing doesn't happen? [Title]

Output: Given that this is not the


Input: [Date] 17 hours 16 min ago [Body] I don't know who these academic experts cited in the article are (they are not named), but every college or university I've been at requires a minimum of 20 on ACT tests for students to be deemed minimally college ready. Scores below 20 require remediation: students are not allowed to enroll in college-level courses in that area until they have completed one or more non-credit, remedial courses. That is, of course, for schools that admit students with scores that low. And I can tell you from experience, students who are scoring at 16-17 or lower on ACT tests are at pretty high risk of never graduating. One or two semesters of remedial work at that age rarely makes up for what was missed in the previous 12 years of education. For the hard working, motivated student it can work out, but for most, it's a struggle just to hope to barely pass college level classes. [Title]

Output: I don't know who these


Input: [Date] 2 days 2 hours ago [Body] The Big 12 has problems, one of the biggest being Texas. Their Longhorn Network and throwing their weight around is a large part of what drove off Nebraska and Texas A & M. The conference acceptance of West Virginia shows they have no concern for either geography or academics, though several of the original schools aren't exactly academic all stars either (and West Virginia was never a realistic option for the Big Ten because of its dreadful academics). Fans and talking heads around here (I live in Oklahoma City) have been bemoaning that the conference didn't go harder after Louisville instead of West Virginia. There are a contigent of Nebraska fans who want to rejoin the Big 12, but I have to believe a lot of that is motivated by nostalgia for a time when Nebraska football was relevant nationally. As others have pointed out, even if for nothing else, finacially and academically Nebraska is far better off now than what it was in the Big 12. The biggest losses for Nebraska were losing some recruiting strength in Texas and the rivalry with Oklahoma, but Oklahoma already considered Texas its big rival game any way. [Title]

Output: The Big 12 has problems, one


Input: [Date] 2 days 11 hours ago [Body] Isn't saying the only thing a coach did wrong was not to win a lot of games about like saying the only thing the captain did wrong was to sink the ship? [Title]

Output: Isn't saying the only thing a


Input: [Date] 3 days 13 hours ago [Body] Summers at a rented cabin on the north side of Higgins Lake with the family were about as good as it gets. It was a simpler time, and kids were granted quite a bit more autonomy in those days. [Title]

Output: Summers at a rented cabin on


Input: [Date] 3 days 18 hours ago [Body] Miami had a pretty decent team that year, too. They went 8-2-1, with a win at then #25 Northwestern, and an average margin of victory against MAC opponents of 21 points. Their only other loss was a 2 point loss in the season opener against Ball State. [Title]

Output: Miami had a pretty decent


Input: [Date] 3 days 21 hours ago [Body] We had a weak passing game last year, but it's hard to tell how much of that was due to QB play, WR play, OL play, offensive scheme, or play calling. It definitely was not just due to WR play, so it should be interesting to see what happens this season. [Title]

Output: We've had a weak passing game


Input: [Date] 4 days 2 hours ago [Body] I think I saw that when I was a kid at the Wisconsin Dells. [Title]

Output: I think I saw that when I was


Input: [Date] 4 days 13 hours ago [Body] My students explained this to me a couple of years ago, so this is probably only partly right. Phylicia was annoying everyone one. When she finally made a production of leaving, to everyone's relief, she was told "Bye Phylicia." So, yeah, it's basically a way to tell some annoying twat to fuck off and leave. [Title]

Output: My students explained this to


Input: [Date] 4 days 13 hours ago [Body] Worst job was substitute teacher for Flint Public schools for a month or so at the end of undergrad. I had few problems with high school or junior high, but I just could not do elementary school. It was the most stressful job I've ever had. Through grad school I worked summers as a janitor to pay the bills. My wife's grandmother thought I was a janitor till the day she died, since that was what I was doing the summer we got married. She worried about how I would support her grand daughter on a janitor's salary. The work actually wasn't so bad, but the pay and hours sucked, and janitorial staff are mostly either completely ignored as if we didn't exist or treated as though we were an affront to decency. Most of my work was scrubbing and waxing floors, with a majority of the actual work being dragging furniture out of the way at the beginning of the night, then at the end of the shift carefully carrying it back so as not to scratch or mar the new wax. I'm a frugal bastard, so I'm drinking tap water and Miller High Life. [Title]

Output: Worst job was substitute


Input: [Date] 5 days 3 hours ago [Body] I agree with the first part of your statement, but York isn't the type to realize anything that suggests he could be failing. He'll always have someone else to blame for his own shortcomings. And unless he fires himself, he's not going anywhere. [Title]

Output: I agree with the first part


Input: [Date] 5 days 3 hours ago [Body] York is the poster child for the entitled rich kid who never had to worry about failing because mommy and daddy were always there with money, jobs, and platitudes to reinforce how special their little snowflake was. If he would just learn to shut his mouth once in awhile and stop with the self aggrandizing statements he wouldn't come across as such a douchebag. [Title]

Output: York is the poster child for


Input: [Date] 5 days 14 hours ago [Body] 1. Michigan football 2. Michigan basketball 3. Other Michigan sports No other teams really matter that much to me. [Title]

Output: 1. Michigan football 2.


Input: [Date] 6 days 20 hours ago [Body] Old people. Edit: there were also people who would pay for QVC. It didn't rank high on the list, but still. [Title]

Output: Old people.


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 hours ago [Body] Of the 44 players who dress for a game, a minimum of 21 have to be Canadian and a maximum of 20 can be international (read US citizens). http://www.cfl.ca/page/game_rule_ratio [Title]

Output: Congratulations to Roh


Input: [Date] 1 week 17 hours ago [Body] Thirty years ago in grad school, I got into a huge argument with this girl I had known and dated less than a month. We had just come back from a party and were both drunk. In my drunken state, I decided I had two options: tell her to F off, I never wanted to see her again, or ask her to marry me. I chose the latter. We're still married. I have no idea today what the fight was about but she seems to remember every detail. [Title]

Output: Thirty years ago in grad


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] It wasn't just the appearance, the performance sucked, too. It took a few years for the engineering to catch up with the imposed emission standards. And speaking of ugly cars, a buddy of mine bought a used bright yellow AMC Pacer because it was cheap. It was cheap because it was ugly as hell, with the bulbous fishbowl rear end. To make matters worse, his father was convinced all the flexible tubes on and near the carbureter were unneccesary and just there because the government was screwing people over with the new emission standards, so he yanked all the tubes off and threw them away. My buddy had a hell of a time ever getting that thing running again. [Title]

Output: It wasn't just the


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] I remember all of those ads, except the smoking fingers. For those too young, here's an example of an ad for the x-ray vision glasses: They always hinted you'd be able to see naked ladies, which I'm sure they knew was their primary selling point to 10-14 year old boys. Here's a sea monkeys ad: [Title]

Output: I remember all of those ads,


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] The ads might very well have disappeared from comic books. I know in the 1960s most of the comic books I read had them. At that time, there was a presumption that comics were read by kids, so the ads were oriented towards them, and most items were under $5.00. [Title]

Output: The ads might very well have


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] One of the few things that is better in Oklahoma than in Michigan is that here the DMV is privatized. I have 10 or so Tag Agencies, as they are called here, within a 15 minute drive from home that I can go to. The nearest one, unfortunately, is poorly run, so I don't use it. I've had to wait 5-10 minutes or more there. The one I use most I don't think I've ever had to wait more than 5 minutes except once on the last day of the month I had to wait maybe 6 or 7 minutes. [Title]

Output: One of the few things that is


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] I'm not so sure it will be a horrible thing for the Big Ten Network if cable starts doing everything ala carte. Maybe it's different in the Big Ten footprint, but out here in Oklahoma, the only way for me to get BTN on Cox is to already have some kind of premium package (not just basic cable) and then pay $10 extra per month for a package that includes BTN and a bunch of other channels I don't watch (like ESPNN, ESPNU, and the PAC 12 network. I'm already willing to pay $10/month just for BTN, though I only have it during football season. I'm guessing ESPN gets the lion's share of what Cox parcels out. Granted there would be a lot fewer BTN subscribers, but if BTN were getting $5 / subscriber instead of 25 cents, they could still come out ahead. [Title]

Output: I'm not so sure it will be a


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] Ok. It makes sense now. The World Wingsuit League and a radio station in Louisiana is what Google provided when I looked. [Title]

Output: Ok. It makes sense now. The


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] What the heck is the WWL? [Title]

Output: What the heck is the WWL?


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] I'm guessing no, unless you were a drunk Nebraska blowhard (most of the Nebraska fans, though were nice to the point it almost seemed creepy). I was there with my youngest daughter (not the Sparty). [Title]

Output: I'm guessing no, unless you


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE: the good, the bad, and the ugly. The good: the general admission seats they added two years ago. Good seats and easy access to exits and amenities. The bad: some of the older bleachers. I sat in these for the game where Denard was injured. The rest of the game is blocked from my memory. Narrow stairs up 60-70 rows or more to get to seats really suck. The ugly: the stadium was patterned after OSU's. If you ever do get a chance to go there, just be careful where you sit, and make sure you try the runza. It's very similar to a pasty. Tastes good and helps keep your hands warm on a cold night. [Title]

Output: Memorial Stadium Lincoln, NE:


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] There's an interesting story from a few days ago about the connection between Harbaugh and Hill. Harbaugh recruited Hill to Stanford and Hill even signed a National Letter of Intent, but Harbaugh went to the NFL, Hill went on an LDS mission, and they went their separate ways. “I’m very excited to go to Michigan and play in that venue, to play coach Harbaugh,” Hill said at BYU's media day in June. “He and I have exchanged a few text messages since he accepted the job. We’ve talked about it. I’m very excited about it … I would have never imagined this. I sent him a text and said, ‘It’s not ideal, it’s not like we planned, but I’m grateful and super-excited to finally be on the same field as you.’ His response was, ‘I’m not looking forward to playing you, my friend'.” http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865632727/BYUs-Taysom-Hill-looking-forward-to-game-against-Jim-Harbaugh-who-once-recruited-him.html?pg=all [Title]

Output: There's an interesting story


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Congrats! I'm a teacher and [Body]

Output: Congrats! I'm a teacher and my wife is hoping to land her first full time teaching position this year. It's a hard job that keeps getting harder, but it can be very rewarding at the same time. Good luck!


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Graduation Video [Body]

Output: If anyone is interested, the video of graduation can be found here: http://coronadotv.me/chs/06112015-559 You'll have to skip ahead about a quarter of the way to get to Harbaugh's speech.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I teach Geometry and Algebra [Body]

Output: I teach Geometry and Algebra 2. I have a lot of students the struggle with geometry, then pick things back up in Algebra 2. It does sound like the class isn't structured the best too. Does the teacher just pull a section from the book each day? We got rid of our books and rewrote our materials just the way we want them. Also, I don't assign homework, just "home fun" which is just like homework but it doesn't sound quite do bad.


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 6 days ago [Title] My uncle played baseball with [Body]

Output: My uncle played baseball with Barry at Michigan. I think they still occasionally keep in touch over the phone. My uncle was pretty close with Hal Morris too.


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Here is a GoFundMe with more [Body]

Output: Here is a GoFundMe with more details and we are almost to our goal. Please help by donating or sharing the link on Twitter or Facebook as we push towards the last bit of funding that will hopefully allow us a chance to have kids. We have had some donations from people we don't know and have had quite a few former Michigan players RT the link on Twitter, which is cool. Thanks to those that share the link, pray and consider a donation. Go Blue! www.gofundme.com/klassenbaby


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 4 days ago [Title] 1. Teacher2. 2010 Toyota [Body]

Output: 1. Teacher 2. 2010 Toyota Yaris and my wife replaced her 1998 Ford Escort Wagon in Nov. when someone hit her and we now have a 2015 Nissan Versa. 3. I'm to cheap to care what others think. There are other vehicles I'd rather drive but I have grad school to pay for as well as IVF treatments. (Shameless plug: http://www.gofundme.com/gvs5wo)


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I can't start a thread but I [Body]

Output: I can't start a thread but I just saw an interesting comment Devin Gardner posted about Wellman as a comment under his Instagram picture he tweeted. I can't post the pic and comment on my phone but it was about "fake it until you make it". Looks like he put on some muscle.


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Actually I believe he calls him mighty jack the quarterback. [Body]

Output: Actually I believe he calls him mighty jack the quarterback.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 13 hours ago [Title] Buddy [Body]

Output: I'm not a fan of clothes on dogs, but I told my wife it was ok to buy Buddy a football jersey. He loves barking at the Sparty neighbors. If you're interested in helping Buddy gain at least one human sibling, please check out this link: http://www.gofundme.com/klassenbaby We would appreciate any shares of the link or donations. Fun fact...a few weeks ago former Michigan great Steve Hutchinson shared this link on his Twitter account. Thanks and GO BLUE!


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Let's go Shores! [Body]

Output: Let's go Shores!


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 6 days ago [Title] What about Chuck Martin? He [Body]

Output: What about Chuck Martin? He was a great coach at the D-II level and is pretty fiery.


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 3 hours ago [Title] That makes at least 3 of us [Body]

Output: That makes at least 3 of us from Muskegon. Go Blue!


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Title] I was thinking the same [Body]

Output: I was thinking the same thing. Counting to two is too hard I guess.


Input: [Date] 1 year 43 weeks ago [Title] Michigan Players on a Bye Week [Body]

Output: What do the players do during a bye week? Yesterday, after morning practice, Desmond Morgan drove back to Holland to say a few words to a crowd of 2,200-2,500 during his high school's Homecoming Assembly. He got quite the welcome following a video clip of some of his high school highlights along with his interception against UCONN. It's great to see Wolverines that are always willing to give back and not forget where they came from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4tjonTiqRw&feature=youtu.be


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

Output: Are all the three point attempts by ohio at the end necessary?


Input: [Date] 3 years 22 weeks ago [Title] Old guy [Body]

Output: Who is the old guy always sitting by coach?


Input: [Date] 3 years 37 weeks ago [Title] OT: MSU poster [Body]

Output: I know this doesn't really fit in here, but I didn't know if I was able to make a new post. I was at work today and was covering a friend's classroom for an hour and saw something that made me laugh out loud while the students were testing. Next to this teacher's desk was a MSU poster that said: "Spartan Fans, Raise Your Shield" Spartan sportsmanship embodies the dignity and respect that comes with being a Spartan. 81% of MSU fans in the stands attend games without being intoxicated. 82% of MSU fans in the stands dispose properly of the trash they brought into the parking or tailgate areas. 97% of MSU fans in the stands think it is acceptable for coaches and players to shake hands with their opponents after the game. I laughed at sportsmanship, dignity and respect. Also, being a math person, I looked at this in a different perspective. Basically: 19% of MSU fans in the stands attend games intoxicated. 18% of MSU fans in the stands litter or don't clean up after themselves. 3% of MSU fans in the stands don't think it is acceptable for coaches and players to shake after a game.


Input: [Date] 3 years 40 weeks ago [Title] Erin Andrews sign [Body]

Output: I saw one a little bit ago that said "Erin Andrews make me a sandwich". Yeah...cool sign sparty. Also, they seem to be proud of their thugs with all the signs about Gholston and the one saying "Plax was framed".


Input: [Date] 4 days 21 hours ago [Title] I'd like to point out the [Body]

Output: I'd like to point out the very nice use of the correctly italicized see as a proper introductory signal supra. Excellent MGoBluebooking.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] I assume you're similarly [Body]

Output: I assume you're similarly skeptical of any negative story about Notre Dame that doesn't offer Brian Kelly an opportunity to extensively rebut the charges...?


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] I guess I was responding to [Body]

Output: I guess I was responding to the notion that a commitment is like a contract between equals. If you don't think it's important for either side to honor their commitments -- that each should merely maximize their leverage regardless of the promises they made before -- that's a perfectly valid and logically coherent viewpoint, but it kind of defeats the whole idea of "commitments" in the first place.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] I'm not sure you're [Body]

Output: I'm not sure you're comfortable with the implications of your argument that schools and prospects bear equivalent responsibility in recruiting. If a prospect showed over and over again that he was unable or unwilling to keep his word when he committed, schools would very rationally back off from recruiting him; if a coach demonstrates the same pattern of unreliability or duplicity (not saying JH does, but assume arguendo), wouldn't it be rational to also separate him from the program? Either way, I think there are plenty of reasons to be more forgiving of high schoolers who decommit than of coaches who pull their offers. Among other things: massive information asymmetries between high school kids and collegiate coaching professionals; a significant likelihood that the prospect himself is not wholly in charge of his recruiting situation (parents, high school coaches, etc.) and thus shouldn't bear full blame for a change in circumstances; and a huge disparity in opportunity cost depending on when the commitment dissolution happens (i.e. if a Michigan cornerback prospect decommits a week before NSD, Michigan at worst signs a class with one fewer CB; if, on the other hand, Michigan unilterally pulls the same prospect's offer a week before NSD, there's a chance that the kid could wind up without a scholarship at all or getting locked into a minimum of a year at a school far from home / far below his potential).


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Is it possible that we’re [Body]

Output: Is it possible that we’re having a collective knee-jerk reaction against this because of all of the (admittedly excessive and ill-advised) tinkering that Dave Brandon did with THE BRAND? I’m just kind of concerned that we may move too far in the other direction, where we're just retrenching in this stodgy "This is MICHIGAN and we've been doing the same thing since 1817 and by god we're not going to change one iota of it until 3817.” I mean people griped when the band started doing pop routines at halftime because older alums just wanted them to keep doing homages to the polka. There are good innovations and bad innovations, and to a certain degree you can't figure out which are going to work out until you actually do them. Legends jerseys could've been a train wreck, but most people (myself included) think they've actually been a good innovation. On the flip side, general-admission seating in the student section was a really great idea in theory and just executed horribly and abandoned. There was a point when every venerable tradition was something novel, and I don’t see the utility in preemptively stifling this on principle. If it’s popular, it’ll become a cherished part of our Michigan tradition. If it flops (as is likely), then it’ll go by the wayside.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 5 days ago [Title] The "last two messiahs that [Body]

Output: The "last two messiahs that we hired"? This seems like historical revisionism in the extreme. RichRod, while a hot coaching commodity at the time, was emphatically not the consensus first choice in 2007 -- that was clearly Les Miles. And virtually nobody wanted Hoke to be hired, crowned him as a messiah when he was announced, or even thought (on the basis of his career losing record) that he was a "very good football coach." I agree with the general sentiment that even a head coach is limited in the velocity with which he can effect change in a program. But pointing to two arguably botched coaching searches during which we whiffed on our top choices does not add any evidentiary support to that argument.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] "Homosexuality" is not [Body]

Output: "Homosexuality" is not equivalent to gay males initiating sexual contact with straight males. And subjective discomfort alone, without objective evidentiary validity, has never been sufficient to justify discriminatory behavior. There were a lot of white players who were "uncomfortable" playing alongside African-Americans when pro sports were first integrated; that was baseless, we recognized it as such, and equality of treatment prevailed. A female's discomfort at sexual objectification by straight males is grounded in a history and pattern of gendered sexual aggression. Since there is no equivalent history or pattern of sexual aggression by gay men toward straight men, any distinction on the basis of sexual orientation is similarly baseless, and equality of treatment should prevail.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] Um... I wasn't discussing [Body]

Output: Um... I wasn't discussing sexual assault at all, and I'm certainly not denying that male rape happens (or diminishing it in any way). This is about what types of sexual pursuit are socially encouraged and what types are not.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] No, I'm not saying that at [Body]

Output: No, I'm not saying that at all. And when I say "sexual aggression," I'm not talking exclusively about sexual assault or rape. I'm talking about the fact that, taking a broad view of society, straight men are expected to be and usually are the initiators and pursuers of sexual relations with women. As a matter of purely descriptive social anthropology, I don't think that's a terribly controversial point. Meanwhile, there is no similar social expectation or pattern with regard to gay men sexually pursuing straight men. Of course male-on-male sexual assault happens; I can't imagine a plausible reading of my comment that denies that. That wasn't the point.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] There is a demonstrated [Body]

Output: There is a demonstrated history and socially encouraged pattern of straight men acting as sexual aggressors toward women. There is no similar history or pattern of gay men acting as sexual aggressors toward straight men. This is a false equivalency.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] Come on. [Body]

Output: This is one of those false equivalence arguments that crop up in gender contexts all the time. Being a gay male surrounded by straight males cannot be neatly analogized to being a straight male surrounded by straight women. For one thing, gay males live their entire lives in situations in which (1) they are surrounded by straight men, and (2) they know that any sexual advances toward those men would be not only unwelcome but potentially safety-endangering. The same thing cannot be said of straight men interacting with straight women, in which context society tells us that sexual objectification is not only natural but expected. If anything, it would be the gay male who feels most uncomfortable in the presence of naked straight men because he's socially conditioned to suppress any and all sexual feelings toward his straight male friends and peers. I cannot emphasize enough how glaringly different this is than the conjectural "straight dude in a room of naked ladies" comparator.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Title] Just wanted to commend you on [Body]

Output: Just wanted to commend you on sharing your insight into this, CBB. Exceedingly happy for you, both for being open about who you are and for having such supportive parents. This comment alone outweighs all the ignorant homophobic remarks I've seen on sports blogs and social media since the Michael Sam story broke.


Input: [Date] 1 year 24 weeks ago [Title] Global comment [Body]

Output: Hey guys, First of all, wanted to say that I think you do tremendously well with what I can only imagine is a harrowing task of keeping the MGoBoard and comments in check. Kudos. Just wanted to raise an issue that's been bothering me for a couple days. The Michael Sam post on the board lasted about ten minutes before being locked as "political," which is a judgment that I can understand (if not wholly agree with). But 11W (with a similar fatwa against politics and religion) and tRCMB (of all places) were able to entertain lengthy, mature, and collegial discussions about what was, at least for a few days, the biggest story in sports. It's really disappointing to me that MGoBlog posters aren't capable of the same niveau of adult conversation as our lesser rivals (or, at the very least, that our moderators don't think we are). I suspect that the primary purpose of locking the thread was to avoid the incidence of a few isolated homophobic comments that have made their way into previous threads (thinking specifically about the Jason Collins discussion). While that kind of solicitude for our LGBT readers is admirable, I think there's another implicit message being sent by locking down the thread: basically, telling LGBT people that their very existence is "political" and thus inappropriate for normal conversation. I don't want to speak for the whole community, but I'd have to believe that, given a choice between dealing with a few stray homophobic comments and having any issue involving a gay person declared verboten on the blog, most LGBT readers would eagerly choose the former. Again, I hope none of this comes across as an attack. I don't mean to second-guess you guys, and I think you do a very very good job under difficult circumstances. But I hope that, going forward, we can at least allow a discussion like the Michael Sam one to percolate a little bit before imposing a gag order. Thanks for reading and for your work on the blog.


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Title] Yes, my apologies for not [Body]

Output: Yes, my apologies for not making that clear in the initial post. The rules on "standing" to file a complaint are a little sketchy when it comes to *institutional* complainants (i.e. there were many occasions when Housing or DPS would file a complaint that perhaps *could* have been filed by a wronged individual but was *also* a transgression against general Housing/University policies). But in a case like this, the complainant would almost certainly be the sexual assault survivor herself. No need to worry about some random student/professor/staff member reading these allegations on MGoBlog and taking it on himself to file and pursue the complaint with OSCR. Sorry again for the lack of clarity on that topic in the initial post, was trying to fit a lot of information in and missed that fairly major point.


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Title] Erik, I wrote the description [Body]

Output: Erik, I wrote the description of the OSCR process that Brian quoted above, and just wanted to emphasize that the formal arbitration process has been the same since well before 2009. The reduced standard of proof for sexual assault allegations, however, seems to be a new thing since I left. When the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities was undergoing its scheduled revision in 2010, there was a suggestion that the standard of proof for sexual assault allegations be reduced to "preponderance of the evidence" (50.1%, although I hate that quantification) rather than "clear and convincing" (the more demanding standard required for all other violations). I was under the impression that that amendment did not pass the CSG, but apparently another amendment was made in the interim. TL;DR - the process was the same going back to 2009 (and before), but the standard of proof for sexual assault allegations is lower now.


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Title] OSCR [Body]

Output: Having worked at the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (the "disciplinary" office that administered the expulsion proceedings against Gibbons) for two years in undergrad, I thought maybe I could offer some insight / clear up some confusion about the OSCR process in this thread. OSCR is not, in any appreciable sense, an investigatory body. It is a passive office that acts only after receiving a complaint from some member of the University community. While any individual student, faculty, or staff member can file a complaint, the most common OSCR complainants by far are Residence Education (Housing) and DPS. In order to pursue a complaint with OSCR, the Complainant has to provide all the necessary evidentiary backing; again, OSCR does not investigate events on its own. The process for initiating and pursuing a complaint with OSCR goes as follows: An OSCR staff member conducts an intake meeting with the Complainant to discuss the nature of his/her/its complaint and inform the Complainant of the various resolution pathways available (in addition to formal arbitration, OSCR offers a number of alternative dispute resolution pathways that do not result in disciplinary action). An OSCR staff member will then conduct an intake meeting with the Respondent to notify him of the complaint and inform him of his rights/options in the process. At that point, the Respondent can either accept responsibility for the complaint or indicate that he's willing to proceed to a formal arbitration. Assuming that the Complainant is also interested in pursuing a formal arbitration, OSCR will either appoint a trained member of the University staff to serve as the formal arbiter, or it will select a panel of student arbiters. After hearing from both the Complainant and the Respondent, the arbiter or the student panel will reach a finding of "responsible" or "not responsible," and will then proceed to make a sanction recommendation. Any recommendations for expulsion have to be approved by a member of the University administration. When I was there, I believe this was the responsibility of the VP for Student Affairs, E. Royster Harper. As you can see, this is a multi-step process that requires several meetings and often many different witnesses, advisors, and arbiters. With that said, it is emphatically NOT a three- or four-year process. Given that all of the investigatory work is already completed before a complaint is filed, the formal arbitration process does not take very long at all. In my time at OSCR, I can't remember a single arbitration - including those involving sexual assault allegations - lasting more than a single semester, from initial complaint to final sanction. Hope this helps. Happy to take questions.


Input: [Date] 1 year 27 weeks ago [Title] Good. Tressel will finally [Body]

Output: Good. Tressel will finally start losing in the state of Michigan.


Input: [Date] 1 year 28 weeks ago [Title] I don't know that, when a [Body]

Output: I don't know that, when a superior official in an organization gives a directive to his inferior, I would necessarily characterize that as a "personality" issue. That's just the fundamental nature of employer/employee relations and corporate hierarchical structure playing out as it's designed to.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] Idk, 133 + 72 = 205, divided [Body]

Output: Idk, 133 + 72 = 205, divided by ~115,000 people in the stadium = less than two-tenths of one percentage point of those in attendance. I have to think that more than 0.18% of the South Quad population is hospitalized, treated, arrested, or cited on a normal Saturday night.


Input: [Date] 2 years 4 weeks ago [Title] And yet somehow the laws of [Body]

Output: And yet somehow the laws of supply and demand don't bend to your fiat.


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Yes, because every individual [Body]

Output: Yes, because every individual college football team exists in a vacuum, and the level and depth of talent at our chief rival and perennial conference competitor has zero bearing on the outlook for our program...


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Where do you think Professor [Body]

Output: Where do you think Professor Needs A Raise is going to get his raise from?


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Thoughts on the Common App? [Body]

Output: First of all, awesome post, maizeonblueaction. I love pieces on here that focus on the academic/institutional side of the university in the off-season. Second, a question - do you have any sense (intuitive or empirical) of how Michigan's belated accession to the Common Application has affected raw application numbers, acceptance rate, and yield rate? The 40% yield seems somewhat lower than it was when I started, and I'm wondering how much of that can be attributed to the ease of just checking one more box on the Common App when you're applying to schools, as opposed to the selection bias introduced when people have to proactively search out and separately apply for admission to Michigan. Of course, none of that is to say that financial aid wouldn't meaningfully affect our yield of admitted students. But it might make the low yield a little bit "stickier" just because you're engaging with a pool of applicants who are applying to UMich out of convenience but may not have applied without Common App accessibility.


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Probably both, but one of [Body]

Output: Probably both, but one of those (financial aid) is almost entirely endogenous to UMich, while the other (the nationwide higher education bubble) is exogenous and thus much more difficult to tackle from a single institution's perspective.


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Is "oomph" here used in the [Body]

Output: Is "oomph" here used in the Michael Bay sense (i.e. forgoing character development, compelling dialogue, and a coherent narrative in favor of just indiscriminately blowing stuff up)? Because if so, you probably could've saved $20 by just staying home and microwaving a ball of tin foil.


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] I don't think you really [Body]

Output: I don't think you really grasped what I was saying. "Trust them, they have more access than you" is not an availing argument when used to justify criticisms of the person with the most access to the program. Again, none of this is to say that Brian & Bacon's critiques are unfounded or incorrect. But their purported access to the program is probably the poorest measuring stick by which to evaluate their claims.


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Without getting into the [Body]

Output: Without getting into the Brandon/Bacon/Brian ballyhoo, I have to say this is a pretty nonsensical and self-defeating line of argument. If we're going to say that Bacon & Brian's opinions carry some sort of enhanced credibility because of their amorphous "access" to the program, wouldn't the same logic then immunize Dave Brandon from criticism, since presumably he has significantly MORE access to the Michigan program than Bacon and Brian combined, and therefore can speak more authoritatively than a sports writer and a blogger, respectively? Why don't we just evaluate these criticisms on their own merits and against our own experiences as fans rather than appeal to baseless assertions of esoteric knowledge to buttress the arguments we happen to favor?


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Title] This. [Body]

Output: I'm in law school at Yale, and professional/graduate programs have, as a rule, LESS generous financial aid than their undergraduate counterparts. Still, with the amount of grant and scholarship aid I've gotten, I'm paying roughly the same amount it would cost me to go to UMich Law (as an in-state student, no less). Ivy financial aid is awesome for those of us in the 99%.


Input: [Date] 2 years 7 weeks ago [Title] lol. I think if I were going [Body]

Output: lol. I think if I were going to maintain two mgousernames, I'd be a little bit less outwardly sycophantic when posting on my own stuff (no offense to PW, glad you enjoyed the diary)


Input: [Date] 4 days 21 hours ago [Body] I'd like to point out the very nice use of the correctly italicized see as a proper introductory signal supra. Excellent MGoBluebooking. [Title]

Output: I'd like to point out the


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 21 hours ago [Body] I assume you're similarly skeptical of any negative story about Notre Dame that doesn't offer Brian Kelly an opportunity to extensively rebut the charges...? [Title]

Output: I assume you're similarly


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 22 hours ago [Body] I guess I was responding to the notion that a commitment is like a contract between equals. If you don't think it's important for either side to honor their commitments -- that each should merely maximize their leverage regardless of the promises they made before -- that's a perfectly valid and logically coherent viewpoint, but it kind of defeats the whole idea of "commitments" in the first place. [Title]

Output: I guess I was responding to


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 22 hours ago [Body] I'm not sure you're comfortable with the implications of your argument that schools and prospects bear equivalent responsibility in recruiting. If a prospect showed over and over again that he was unable or unwilling to keep his word when he committed, schools would very rationally back off from recruiting him; if a coach demonstrates the same pattern of unreliability or duplicity (not saying JH does, but assume arguendo), wouldn't it be rational to also separate him from the program? Either way, I think there are plenty of reasons to be more forgiving of high schoolers who decommit than of coaches who pull their offers. Among other things: massive information asymmetries between high school kids and collegiate coaching professionals; a significant likelihood that the prospect himself is not wholly in charge of his recruiting situation (parents, high school coaches, etc.) and thus shouldn't bear full blame for a change in circumstances; and a huge disparity in opportunity cost depending on when the commitment dissolution happens (i.e. if a Michigan cornerback prospect decommits a week before NSD, Michigan at worst signs a class with one fewer CB; if, on the other hand, Michigan unilterally pulls the same prospect's offer a week before NSD, there's a chance that the kid could wind up without a scholarship at all or getting locked into a minimum of a year at a school far from home / far below his potential). [Title]

Output: I'm not sure you're


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Is it possible that we’re having a collective knee-jerk reaction against this because of all of the (admittedly excessive and ill-advised) tinkering that Dave Brandon did with THE BRAND? I’m just kind of concerned that we may move too far in the other direction, where we're just retrenching in this stodgy "This is MICHIGAN and we've been doing the same thing since 1817 and by god we're not going to change one iota of it until 3817.” I mean people griped when the band started doing pop routines at halftime because older alums just wanted them to keep doing homages to the polka. There are good innovations and bad innovations, and to a certain degree you can't figure out which are going to work out until you actually do them. Legends jerseys could've been a train wreck, but most people (myself included) think they've actually been a good innovation. On the flip side, general-admission seating in the student section was a really great idea in theory and just executed horribly and abandoned. There was a point when every venerable tradition was something novel, and I don’t see the utility in preemptively stifling this on principle. If it’s popular, it’ll become a cherished part of our Michigan tradition. If it flops (as is likely), then it’ll go by the wayside. [Title]

Output: Is it possible that we’re


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 5 days ago [Body] The "last two messiahs that we hired"? This seems like historical revisionism in the extreme. RichRod, while a hot coaching commodity at the time, was emphatically not the consensus first choice in 2007 -- that was clearly Les Miles. And virtually nobody wanted Hoke to be hired, crowned him as a messiah when he was announced, or even thought (on the basis of his career losing record) that he was a "very good football coach." I agree with the general sentiment that even a head coach is limited in the velocity with which he can effect change in a program. But pointing to two arguably botched coaching searches during which we whiffed on our top choices does not add any evidentiary support to that argument. [Title]

Output: The "last two messiahs that


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] "Homosexuality" is not equivalent to gay males initiating sexual contact with straight males. And subjective discomfort alone, without objective evidentiary validity, has never been sufficient to justify discriminatory behavior. There were a lot of white players who were "uncomfortable" playing alongside African-Americans when pro sports were first integrated; that was baseless, we recognized it as such, and equality of treatment prevailed. A female's discomfort at sexual objectification by straight males is grounded in a history and pattern of gendered sexual aggression. Since there is no equivalent history or pattern of sexual aggression by gay men toward straight men, any distinction on the basis of sexual orientation is similarly baseless, and equality of treatment should prevail. [Title]

Output: "Homosexuality" is not


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] Um... I wasn't discussing sexual assault at all, and I'm certainly not denying that male rape happens (or diminishing it in any way). This is about what types of sexual pursuit are socially encouraged and what types are not. [Title]

Output: Um... I wasn't discussing


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] No, I'm not saying that at all. And when I say "sexual aggression," I'm not talking exclusively about sexual assault or rape. I'm talking about the fact that, taking a broad view of society, straight men are expected to be and usually are the initiators and pursuers of sexual relations with women. As a matter of purely descriptive social anthropology, I don't think that's a terribly controversial point. Meanwhile, there is no similar social expectation or pattern with regard to gay men sexually pursuing straight men. Of course male-on-male sexual assault happens; I can't imagine a plausible reading of my comment that denies that. That wasn't the point. [Title]

Output: No, I'm not saying that at


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] There is a demonstrated history and socially encouraged pattern of straight men acting as sexual aggressors toward women. There is no similar history or pattern of gay men acting as sexual aggressors toward straight men. This is a false equivalency. [Title]

Output: There is a demonstrated


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] This is one of those false equivalence arguments that crop up in gender contexts all the time. Being a gay male surrounded by straight males cannot be neatly analogized to being a straight male surrounded by straight women. For one thing, gay males live their entire lives in situations in which (1) they are surrounded by straight men, and (2) they know that any sexual advances toward those men would be not only unwelcome but potentially safety-endangering. The same thing cannot be said of straight men interacting with straight women, in which context society tells us that sexual objectification is not only natural but expected. If anything, it would be the gay male who feels most uncomfortable in the presence of naked straight men because he's socially conditioned to suppress any and all sexual feelings toward his straight male friends and peers. I cannot emphasize enough how glaringly different this is than the conjectural "straight dude in a room of naked ladies" comparator. [Title]

Output: Come on.


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] Just wanted to commend you on sharing your insight into this, CBB. Exceedingly happy for you, both for being open about who you are and for having such supportive parents. This comment alone outweighs all the ignorant homophobic remarks I've seen on sports blogs and social media since the Michael Sam story broke. [Title]

Output: Just wanted to commend you on


Input: [Date] 1 year 24 weeks ago [Body] Hey guys, First of all, wanted to say that I think you do tremendously well with what I can only imagine is a harrowing task of keeping the MGoBoard and comments in check. Kudos. Just wanted to raise an issue that's been bothering me for a couple days. The Michael Sam post on the board lasted about ten minutes before being locked as "political," which is a judgment that I can understand (if not wholly agree with). But 11W (with a similar fatwa against politics and religion) and tRCMB (of all places) were able to entertain lengthy, mature, and collegial discussions about what was, at least for a few days, the biggest story in sports. It's really disappointing to me that MGoBlog posters aren't capable of the same niveau of adult conversation as our lesser rivals (or, at the very least, that our moderators don't think we are). I suspect that the primary purpose of locking the thread was to avoid the incidence of a few isolated homophobic comments that have made their way into previous threads (thinking specifically about the Jason Collins discussion). While that kind of solicitude for our LGBT readers is admirable, I think there's another implicit message being sent by locking down the thread: basically, telling LGBT people that their very existence is "political" and thus inappropriate for normal conversation. I don't want to speak for the whole community, but I'd have to believe that, given a choice between dealing with a few stray homophobic comments and having any issue involving a gay person declared verboten on the blog, most LGBT readers would eagerly choose the former. Again, I hope none of this comes across as an attack. I don't mean to second-guess you guys, and I think you do a very very good job under difficult circumstances. But I hope that, going forward, we can at least allow a discussion like the Michael Sam one to percolate a little bit before imposing a gag order. Thanks for reading and for your work on the blog. [Title]

Output: Global comment


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] Yes, my apologies for not making that clear in the initial post. The rules on "standing" to file a complaint are a little sketchy when it comes to *institutional* complainants (i.e. there were many occasions when Housing or DPS would file a complaint that perhaps *could* have been filed by a wronged individual but was *also* a transgression against general Housing/University policies). But in a case like this, the complainant would almost certainly be the sexual assault survivor herself. No need to worry about some random student/professor/staff member reading these allegations on MGoBlog and taking it on himself to file and pursue the complaint with OSCR. Sorry again for the lack of clarity on that topic in the initial post, was trying to fit a lot of information in and missed that fairly major point. [Title]

Output: Yes, my apologies for not


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] Erik, I wrote the description of the OSCR process that Brian quoted above, and just wanted to emphasize that the formal arbitration process has been the same since well before 2009. The reduced standard of proof for sexual assault allegations, however, seems to be a new thing since I left. When the Statement of Student Rights and Responsibilities was undergoing its scheduled revision in 2010, there was a suggestion that the standard of proof for sexual assault allegations be reduced to "preponderance of the evidence" (50.1%, although I hate that quantification) rather than "clear and convincing" (the more demanding standard required for all other violations). I was under the impression that that amendment did not pass the CSG, but apparently another amendment was made in the interim. TL;DR - the process was the same going back to 2009 (and before), but the standard of proof for sexual assault allegations is lower now. [Title]

Output: Erik, I wrote the description


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] Having worked at the Office of Student Conflict Resolution (the "disciplinary" office that administered the expulsion proceedings against Gibbons) for two years in undergrad, I thought maybe I could offer some insight / clear up some confusion about the OSCR process in this thread. OSCR is not, in any appreciable sense, an investigatory body. It is a passive office that acts only after receiving a complaint from some member of the University community. While any individual student, faculty, or staff member can file a complaint, the most common OSCR complainants by far are Residence Education (Housing) and DPS. In order to pursue a complaint with OSCR, the Complainant has to provide all the necessary evidentiary backing; again, OSCR does not investigate events on its own. The process for initiating and pursuing a complaint with OSCR goes as follows: An OSCR staff member conducts an intake meeting with the Complainant to discuss the nature of his/her/its complaint and inform the Complainant of the various resolution pathways available (in addition to formal arbitration, OSCR offers a number of alternative dispute resolution pathways that do not result in disciplinary action). An OSCR staff member will then conduct an intake meeting with the Respondent to notify him of the complaint and inform him of his rights/options in the process. At that point, the Respondent can either accept responsibility for the complaint or indicate that he's willing to proceed to a formal arbitration. Assuming that the Complainant is also interested in pursuing a formal arbitration, OSCR will either appoint a trained member of the University staff to serve as the formal arbiter, or it will select a panel of student arbiters. After hearing from both the Complainant and the Respondent, the arbiter or the student panel will reach a finding of "responsible" or "not responsible," and will then proceed to make a sanction recommendation. Any recommendations for expulsion have to be approved by a member of the University administration. When I was there, I believe this was the responsibility of the VP for Student Affairs, E. Royster Harper. As you can see, this is a multi-step process that requires several meetings and often many different witnesses, advisors, and arbiters. With that said, it is emphatically NOT a three- or four-year process. Given that all of the investigatory work is already completed before a complaint is filed, the formal arbitration process does not take very long at all. In my time at OSCR, I can't remember a single arbitration - including those involving sexual assault allegations - lasting more than a single semester, from initial complaint to final sanction. Hope this helps. Happy to take questions. [Title]

Output: OSCR


Input: [Date] 1 year 27 weeks ago [Body] Good. Tressel will finally start losing in the state of Michigan. [Title]

Output: Good. Tressel will finally


Input: [Date] 1 year 28 weeks ago [Body] I don't know that, when a superior official in an organization gives a directive to his inferior, I would necessarily characterize that as a "personality" issue. That's just the fundamental nature of employer/employee relations and corporate hierarchical structure playing out as it's designed to. [Title]

Output: I don't know that, when a


Input: [Date] 1 year 29 weeks ago [Title]

Output: Our long national nightmare is over.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Body] Idk, 133 + 72 = 205, divided by ~115,000 people in the stadium = less than two-tenths of one percentage point of those in attendance. I have to think that more than 0.18% of the South Quad population is hospitalized, treated, arrested, or cited on a normal Saturday night. [Title]

Output: Idk, 133 + 72 = 205, divided


Input: [Date] 2 years 4 weeks ago [Body] And yet somehow the laws of supply and demand don't bend to your fiat. [Title]

Output: And yet somehow the laws of


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Body] Yes, because every individual college football team exists in a vacuum, and the level and depth of talent at our chief rival and perennial conference competitor has zero bearing on the outlook for our program... [Title]

Output: Yes, because every individual


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Body] Where do you think Professor Needs A Raise is going to get his raise from? [Title]

Output: Where do you think Professor


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Body] First of all, awesome post, maizeonblueaction. I love pieces on here that focus on the academic/institutional side of the university in the off-season. Second, a question - do you have any sense (intuitive or empirical) of how Michigan's belated accession to the Common Application has affected raw application numbers, acceptance rate, and yield rate? The 40% yield seems somewhat lower than it was when I started, and I'm wondering how much of that can be attributed to the ease of just checking one more box on the Common App when you're applying to schools, as opposed to the selection bias introduced when people have to proactively search out and separately apply for admission to Michigan. Of course, none of that is to say that financial aid wouldn't meaningfully affect our yield of admitted students. But it might make the low yield a little bit "stickier" just because you're engaging with a pool of applicants who are applying to UMich out of convenience but may not have applied without Common App accessibility. [Title]

Output: Thoughts on the Common App?


Input: [Date] 2 years 5 weeks ago [Body] Probably both, but one of those (financial aid) is almost entirely endogenous to UMich, while the other (the nationwide higher education bubble) is exogenous and thus much more difficult to tackle from a single institution's perspective. [Title]

Output: Probably both, but one of


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Body] Is "oomph" here used in the Michael Bay sense (i.e. forgoing character development, compelling dialogue, and a coherent narrative in favor of just indiscriminately blowing stuff up)? Because if so, you probably could've saved $20 by just staying home and microwaving a ball of tin foil. [Title]

Output: Is "oomph" here used in the


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Body] I don't think you really grasped what I was saying. "Trust them, they have more access than you" is not an availing argument when used to justify criticisms of the person with the most access to the program. Again, none of this is to say that Brian & Bacon's critiques are unfounded or incorrect. But their purported access to the program is probably the poorest measuring stick by which to evaluate their claims. [Title]

Output: I don't think you really


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Body] Without getting into the Brandon/Bacon/Brian ballyhoo, I have to say this is a pretty nonsensical and self-defeating line of argument. If we're going to say that Bacon & Brian's opinions carry some sort of enhanced credibility because of their amorphous "access" to the program, wouldn't the same logic then immunize Dave Brandon from criticism, since presumably he has significantly MORE access to the Michigan program than Bacon and Brian combined, and therefore can speak more authoritatively than a sports writer and a blogger, respectively? Why don't we just evaluate these criticisms on their own merits and against our own experiences as fans rather than appeal to baseless assertions of esoteric knowledge to buttress the arguments we happen to favor? [Title]

Output: Without getting into the


Input: [Date] 2 years 6 weeks ago [Body] I'm in law school at Yale, and professional/graduate programs have, as a rule, LESS generous financial aid than their undergraduate counterparts. Still, with the amount of grant and scholarship aid I've gotten, I'm paying roughly the same amount it would cost me to go to UMich Law (as an in-state student, no less). Ivy financial aid is awesome for those of us in the 99%. [Title]

Output: This.


Input: [Date] 2 years 7 weeks ago [Body] lol. I think if I were going to maintain two mgousernames, I'd be a little bit less outwardly sycophantic when posting on my own stuff (no offense to PW, glad you enjoyed the diary) [Title]

Output: lol. I think if I were going


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Body] My quick response for what killed the wishbone was going to be "The U". No doubt that defensive speed(read emptying the inner city Ghetto ala Schmalenberger or whatever his name was) and getting these kids into colleger regardless of any admissions standards. However, if you took the talent like can be found in the big programs and COULD get them to commit to a system like the WB, I think it would still win. The advantage D lineman had for a decade or so has been pretty well matched by athletes on the O-line(Gronk etc.) Spread O-lineman like Oregon has would be perfect, so would spread QB's. I think early exit is the biggest single contributer to the demise, include in that The "U" type players that just are not gonna put off the $$$ coming to them in order to win multiple NC's for your school. [Title]

Output: Ha Ha!!


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Other than perhaps fashion, minor rules changes, early exits and the NFL. Just as Auburn won a national championship running basically the double wing as perfected 70+ years ago. A team could win with the wishbone today provided a couple of things: 1. No diva's only committed to themselves and their NFL aspirations. This is IMHO what actually did the most to kill the wishbone and other schematic offenses. NFL loves them some blazing speed and deep passes along with 75+ point totals. 2. A coach that can truely coach it, believe it or not these are becoming fewer and fewer. To run these offenses you have to be a master at setting up a D and picking up the very most subtle wrinkles they give you to exploit. 3. You have to be wiling to purposly aviod early exit players. Systems like this RELY on seniors & juniors that are patient enough to MASTER the execution & the systems that make this type of offense work. A frosh or soph should almost never play unless its at a RB position due to exceptional physical tools(Billy Sims, Marcus Dupree, Earl Campbell). These offenses (Wishbone, Wing T, Double wing etc.) are the anti spread. Instead of "We're going to get our best athletes in space" these systems are "We're going to create our space for any athletes". They're based on 4yds on EVERY PLAY! Patience, patience and more patience. When the D stops you from getting that 4yd gain, thats when they're really screwed because they've tipped thier hand. Show them the same formation, slightly different blocking assignments and you go to the HOUSE on them. A talented NCAA or NFL team that could get their talent to commit to a system like any of these would win and win big even today. Of course that would never happen because you would not have anybody on the team that could demand top salary cap $$. They would all be parts in a big, perfectly tuned engine instead of a conglomeration of superstars and super egos. [Title]

Output: Nothing stopped it


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Denard is a bugstain on the field. I love me some Denard but I'll give you 10 Denards if you'll give me 10 Jake Long's and I know which team I'd rather build from. Dime a dozen [Title]

Output: Without quality trench warriors


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Body] They just dont make near as many 6'7" guys who can carry around 300lbs and still move with athleticism. For every one of this type of guy that are probably 400 or more sub 6' guys who can run a sub 4.7 sec 40. I've been saying this for years, recruit with priorities based on rarity. You could literally never offer a WR or RB, S or CB until your class was set on big boys and my feeling is it would not hurt your program a bit. If you have serious quality on both sides of the trench you could have nothing but low 3 stars filling out the rest and still win big. Switch it up and you wont post a .500 record EVER IMO. [Title]

Output: And more rare


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Body] However they've wallowed under a middling MAC coach who didn't develop them whatsoever so it would not be fair to any of them to judge them against the likes of those 3 who've been coached by the guy who made Tebow into a Heisman. That said, I'll take the potential upside for Morris, Rudduck and Malzone over all 3 of Urban's guys in the long term. In other words, IMO Miller, Barrett and Jones have all reached or even exceeded their ceiling already. Not that its a bad thing, they have done pretty great things all of them but do I see any of them coming close to the trajectory of Andrew Luck?? not even close. I'll take Conner Cook's long term career over any of those 3. [Title]

Output: IS better?? None.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 6 days ago [Body] In that size range I'd put a Tiara up with the Bertram & Hatt's of the class. Excellent boats that should be judged on condition & hours vs. year of build. Good in great lakes conditions(built in Holland MI.) and nicely adorned without being "cheesy". [Title]

Output: Tiara


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I would love to see some of that crazy single wing stuff executed by todays top athletes. Can you imagine someone like Denard running that? I know everyone will explain how football has "passed that by" and how defenses aren't so easy to fool anymore but I kinda take exception to this idea. My local HS team is a dedicated Power T football team that has won 3 state championships in 2 different divisions and has repeatedly beaten higher class teams using the tried and true misdirection & constraint stuff exclusively. They run it with incredible discipline using somewhat lesser athletes(decent size but no real speed) and it just wreaks havoc on defenses. I think its more about the mentalitly of athletes and a general unwillingness to dedicate yourself to the greater cause at the expense of the "self". On the part of coaches as well as players. [Title]

Output: Love the magicians footage


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Body] How dare you try and represent yourself as a member of that elite club that their mommies and daddies forked out 10's of thousands of $$ to get them into AND that they themselves worked SOOO fucking HARD, I mean NIGHT and fucking DAY, laboring intesively, straining their already gifted minds to their very LIMIT so as to experience the level of personal growth and expanded intellect that can ONLY come from being in the presence of other hyper intellegent over achievers just like themselves. You sir are just a notch above a BUM!! and I being of high mind and far superior intellect, would be able to tell within 10 seconds in a job interview that YOU are indeed an IMPOSTER to the REAL DEAL graduates of the intellectual MECCA that is U of M (Ann Arbor). BTW, do you know how to pick out the ___________(fill in blank with Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIchigan, Hope, K-college etc) grad at a party?? Dont worry its easy, just stand there and wait for the arrogant prick to come over and tell you. A students WORK FOR D students and dropouts most of the time.(except in field of medicine & science) because while you were spending daddy's money at univerisity he/she was building a business with hustle, intelligence(not of the Phd kind) and sweat. [Title]

Output: How dare you try and


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Body] You blew up your arguement as soon as you equated Hope, Hillsdale and Albian to UM @ AA. Hope will take anyone wiht 34k/yr and dutch parents. Anyone who's mom or dad works at Hope for 5yrs gets a free ride. Hope has prestige for ONE reason.. $$$$ it costs to go there. Same with Albian, Hilldale, K-College. You, with every word, verify and justify what so many suspect. College, especially liberal arts at university, are nothing more than a rite of passage for the bourgeoise. Where how much $$ mommy & daddy are willing to toss into a hole where you might just learn how to beer bong & pack a bowl with folks from another state while having the time of your life on their dime renders you, the recipient of the proper sperm load, the beneficiary of this charity, as somehow superior to that CC kid who had to bust his ass to try and get ahead in this world. Thanks for giving creedence to what most of us already suspected to be 90% true. Self rightous pricks deserve to spend 250k on your kids education and have them return home with an expensive piece of paper, a cocaine habit and a case of the clap. [Title]

Output: You blew up your arguement as


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 5 days ago [Body] boat. Working for someone who never graduated from college and instead learned on the go, started his own company and now employs you OR working for his useless son in law, cousin, or nephew who beer bonged his way thru U of Whatever on mom & dads dime and returned to the corner office which was pre decorated for him. Fact is folks, those degrees are becoming more and more obsolete as we speak. In 1970 the only way some kids were ever exposed to the "world" and its many varied ideas, styles and personalities was by leaving home and going to "university". Thats because in 1970 we all got 3 channels of TV, 5 radio stations and had to drive 10 miles to a public library to read about anything. My 10yr old Googled how to make carbon nano tubes and spent 2 hours explaining the process to me and all the stuff they could do while I was trying to watch the tigers vs. yankees game. Does he completely understand it? Hell no, not even close. BUT.. he knows there are many innovative and advantagous uses for those things and that there is a process that produces them. He knows these things at 10 yrs old. Meanwhile that guy who graduated from U of M in 1973 with a BA in English? Well at least he didn't have to pay 50% of that avg.annual household income of the US per yr to get his and it was rarer then to have one at all. The things universities had a monopoly on for 200 years are quickly becoming run of the mill(outside of very high level research stuff that 90+% of M students never have any involvement with). Keep trying to justify the 27k a yr it cost you but thats going to get harder and harder to do as that 27 turns to 34, then 45, then 75. IMHO they maxed out their ROI at about 12-16k/yr and its been overvalued since then(for 90% of students). The future is going to be a crazy place folks and things that once had value are not going to continue to hold that same value forever. Ask the guy with the barn full of TV repair components. Rant over. [Title]

Output: Unless you graduated as an MD, DDS or JD you're all in the same


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 6 days ago [Body] And for equal substitutions, its all within the rules. Keep in mind that its also within the rules to have a defensive player lay down with cramps on any or all plays as long as he sits out one play. Thats what a Saban, Bielema or any coach in a big game vs. a tempo team should do. As far as NFL playing "manball" vs. CFB. Thats due to the placement of the hash marks as much as anything. In the NFL a defense can line up symmetrically and does not need to tip their hand in reponse to the offensive formation due to the long side of the field. [Title]

Output: As long as they allow time to move the chains


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 12 min ago [Body] Skateboarding? Jumping on a trampoline? Bicycles? Swimming? Heading a soccer ball? Where does it end?How about the old uncles that used to pat the youngsters on the head? Is that why I'm not working for NASA now? Can I sue them? In our desire to avoid the pitfalls of this thing called "living" we continue to eliminate the joys that make up actual life. Get busy living or get busy dying a famous man(or woman?) once said. This statement just rings with me when I hear stuff like this. For instance, we could very quickly drive motor vehicle deaths down by 80% with one simple thing. Wear a DOT cerfified helmet when you get in your car. Add a HANS device and they go down by 90% I'd bet. We accept some risks in life as worthy and eliminate others but where are we actually heading with this? I have a really hard time making my son put his bike helmet on just to ride 1/2 a block up our subdivision road to his friends house. He looks at me like I'm treating him like a baby and I feel the same way. He is an athletic and coordinated 10yr old who knows how to ride his bike. When he rides a quad or motor bike, he wears a helmet because HE recognizes the potential for severe injury that comes with the increased speed and proximity to trees etc. If he flies over his handlebars he'll get his hands down and manipulate his body to NOT land on his face/head. This is actually in inborn human instinct that shows up in toddlers(most of the time) unless said toddlers have worn helments because mommy was scared of head injuries and made them wear them as soon as they started walking. Those kids were handicapped from normal human develpment in that case were they not? I guess what i'm saying is that some young kids should NOT play pop warner. They lack the coordination, common sense and reflexes to do so. In fact at 9yrs old I'd venture to say that 50% of kids should not play and its growing all the time as we continue to insulate them from consequence altogether. Pain is the greatest teacher, but we dont teach HOT with a blowtorch. They should learn it at the kitchen table with a baked potato. If you cool the baked potato to acceptable temps from day one what have you done? [Title]

Output: Why just football?


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Take even a player like last nights featured Christian Laettner. Guy owns scoring records for NCAA tournament play and they'll never be broken simply because if you can score 20, you leave. Its a case of "dont hate the game, hate the playa'z" They short their own development as an individual but I think even more costly they never learn to function as a unit which is how you really get points. [Title]

Output: Well said


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Ha ha, with all the draft projection stuff I've read over the past couple weeks my brain must have farted and made me think they already drafted. Point being the same, his name would have been on those lists in the 1st or 2nd round as a WR had then been his position from day one. As far as Rockford or Macomb(could have used BBR or Livonia or any "big" program) they dont select their QB's thinking of who might go D1 at that position. They pick who can lead the team to the most wins. At those places Devin at WR would be a no brainer IMHO. There's probably 5 or 6 kids on their 65-90 man varsity roster that can play QB at the HS level "good enough" to get the wins, especially with a 6'5" wideout like DG. They would not put the 6'5" guy with speed at QB then put those others at WR even though they are 5'10" or 6 ft and lack leapiing ability and break away speed. This is not a slam on DG. He was recruited for a spread to run system where I believe he would have torn it up big time. He was then force fitted into a pocket passing based scheme where he never developed the instincts, patience, vision and game understanding to excel. Put it this way, Tom Brady became a QB because he couldn't and wouldn't be playing anywhere else on the field starting early in HS most likely. There were guys that were better than him at running with the ball, catching the ball and blocking. Devin became a QB because he went to a HS with a total of 35 guys on the varsity roster and he was so far and away the best athlete on the team the coach just said I want the ball in this guys hands on every play. He likely had very few options at QB(Cameron Gordon was the 2nd option when Devin was a sophmore) and thus he was QB out of nessesicity. They even changed to a spread system at Inkster(not a very good one at that) because the had DG for those years. Des was an example I used because despite lacking arm strength(big time) and only being so-so as a runner, he was the best option at QB at a school with 70 guys on the varsity roster and 2300 students. Why?? What did he have? Instincts, vision and an ablility to make the right decisions under pressure. Same tools that have made him a pretty damn good D1 middle linebacker despite not having D1 speed or size for that position. Would he have been a better QB than Devin and Michigan?? Only if he grew 3 inches and developed an arm(which never happens) otherwise no. But he had SOME of the tools just like Devin had SOME of the tools. I'll change my statement. Devin had the tools to be a GREAT college QB in the RIGHT system but he lacks the tools to be even a good "traditional" QB in a pro style system. [Title]

Output: Ha ha, with all the draft


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Russel Wilson is the epitome of a QB, in fact having to overcome physical limitations(height, arm strength) and use his instincts and mental game awareness to flat out dominate at the highest level. Jamius Winston will also(if he avoids the pitfalls of instant wealth and fame) likely dominate at the next level. Instinct and vision know no color or race. One thing that might make it seem like we're always saying these things about minority QB's is the simple fact that all the white kids who lack these things never make it past a very low level of football before they are washed out while perhaps the black kids are talented enough to overcome these limitations in their game and stay at the QB position longer. [Title]

Output: It has nothing to do with skin color


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Since the NFL has people who can and do seek out such hidden "talent". One a similar note, did Denard also have this "talent" you speak of? He's a running back now in the NFL so to me that says all I need to know about his talent for the QB position. Like I said, DG is a shining example of what a Michigan Man should aspire to be but it was obvious to me at a very early point in his career that he was not gifted with the tools to be a QB at any level above HS unless you're running a run to pass spread. Which makes total sense why RR recruited him. He would have been a STUD in an RR system where there's only 1 read but watching DG's eyes post snap you could clearly see that a QB in the "traditional" sense was never in his genes IMHO. Magnus I watch a TON of HS football and it becomes very clear which kids are playing QB because they are the best athlete in their school system starting in 7th grade and which kids are playing QB because they possess a poise, sense of timing and a natural ability to slow the game down and make decisions under duress. DG was clearly the former and not the latter IMO. As are most HS QB's I see. Desmond Morgan was a QB in high school and other than a clear lack of the arm to do it at the next level, he was more suited to play QB in the "traditional sense" then Devin. I watched them both in consecutive weeks and the difference was immediately obvious. There were probably options at a big HS school like Des attended but he had the tools that made him the best able to play QB in the traditional sense. Devin was most likely shoehorned into playing QB at a young age because it was obvious from the 16 player bench Inkster had that there were not many options available. If Devin was at Macomb or Rockford or 25 other HS's in the state he would have been a WR from 7th grade on thru and very possibly been drafted a couple weeks ago in the 1st round. Looking at it thru maize colored glasses because we love the kid(and 100% desevedly so) won't change the fact that other than in a run to pass spread he was never gonna be a stud QB. [Title]

Output: Well I guess we'll see.


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Body] "clear talent at QB" made me throw up in my mouth a little bit. Love me some DG. I think he was a great young man, a real team player and a shining example of exactly the kind of leadership our young players should model themselves after. That said, having watched several of his games when he was at Inkster H.S., he was anything but a "clear talent at QB". He was a chucker who was big and athletic enough to play QB in H.S. but had not developed(some of this is on coaching BTW) into anything resembling a clear talent at QB. Having also watched Malzone in several of his HS games this is abundantly clear to anyone with functional eyes and a brain. DG finished a 5yr career at Michigan with less of an understanding and less instincts for playing the position that Alex brings with him on his first day. Would/could DG have been a decent QB in a spread system? Probably in a RR style run to pass spread I'd say yes. Of course that really means you're a running back who can handle some throwing assignments. Not a clear talent at QB. [Title]

Output: "clear talent at QB" made me


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 2 days ago [Body] No dis on "drift guy" but it is a perfect comparison. Smaller, lighter, quicker components vs. Stronger, heavier, torquier ones. And..IMO, there's a lot of merit to saying that the "drift/tuner" guys of today have alot of advantages in their choice of equipment BUT, when facing a TRUE, finely tuned muscle car?? They are at an inherent disadvantage. Like good ol Dad used to say, when everything is put on the line, there's no substitute for cubic inches. Think Saban's best Bama or Carrols best USC or Miles best LSU vs. Oregon's best or RR's best WVU team. They are good enough to keep it interesting(most of the time) but ususally run out of "torque" in the end. [Title]

Output: Perfect analogy IMHO


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] The world as I have witnessed it throughout my 30+ years of professional work, is becoming more and more a place where the Dave Brandon's run the show. Self promoting bullshitters who ARE mean to the wait staff keep finding their way to the top as they step on and alienate those with the real chops to do the job and make the difference. Excellent work Brian. This was a fitting and deserved flogging of a man who prides himself on belittling and flogging others. I sincerely hope that writing this was as cathartic and healing a process for you as reading it was for me. Thank you [Title]

Output: Sadly.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Wayne benefitted from expansion like nobody can imagine. His timing in terms of the expansion before true international expansion was perfect. Howe had the opposite. Great one was great no doubt but a 20-35 yr old Gordie would dominate the league Gretzky owned in the same way but with the addition of being physically much stronger. [Title]

Output: Wayne benefitted from


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Any discussion of offensive philosophy has to take into account the GREAT differences between the NFL & all the others in regards to hash placement. NFL has 18' between the hashmarks, which allows a D to line up symmetrical against you without tipping what they are going to do. NCAA & high school football have similar hash mark placement(40' & 50' approx.) which means a D has to account for the "long" side of the field on every play. This is why the no huddle/stand there and look to the sideline works so well at those levels, along with the zone read stuff, triple option stuff and various other "schemes" that are rendered almost useless in the NFL. This is why college QB's that are successfull often flounder at the NFL level. They have to make subtle reads themselves and cannot rely on stomping their foot and looking to the sideline for instructions. [Title]

Output: hash marks


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Where it is mentioned that captains were done after because there was a sense of entitlement last year. Who were the captains again? Lewan? [Title]

Output: The most telling tweet


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 32 min ago [Body] We probably could have gotten Hoke for a lifetime supply of chicken wings and unlimited M gear. When a guy says he'd "walk" to AA from SD for the job, he kinda gave away his "negotiating leverage" right out of the gate. More evidence that pizza boy was playing favorites from the get go. Look where it got him. [Title]

Output: except that....


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 35 min ago [Body] We offered him fair market value vs. what other DC's with similar "clout" were getting paid at the time. He didn't want to leave WVU at that particular time for whatever reason. [Title]

Output: De bunked


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 1 hour ago [Body] P.J. Fleck?? I think thats the name of the guy at WMU right now. Tony Annesse? Instantly turned perennial loser Ferris st. into a winner, has an offense that I'd put against the "genius" of RR or Stitt anytime(watch some youtube of his teams including GRCC, Muskegon HS or Ferris st.) Of course this is all based on the outside chance was can't get Harbaugh and don't want Miles. If you aren't going to end up with a proven winner, might as well get a real innovator who's won BIG at a lower level and had to overcome serious talent difficiencies. [Title]

Output: P.J. Fleck?? I think thats


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 6 days ago [Body] If we'll look at an offensive innovater like Stitt. This guy deserves equal mention. Look at his record in 3(?)yrs at Ferris state. They went from perrenial doormat to beating GVSU and did so remarkably quickly. Previous to that he rebuilt a Muskegon HS prorgam and won mulitiple state championships. I've watched his offense firsthand and all I can say is WOW!! I don't see anyone doing what he is doing so I don't even know what to call it. [Title]

Output: Tony Annesse


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 2 days ago [Body] The slowest and most detrimental thing on our team is the MENTAL speed at which Devin Gardner processes the game of football. His handoffs are slow. At least 6 times in every game I've watched him play I find myself yelling RUN!! or THROW!! only to watch him do it 1-2 seconds after. His computer(brain) is running on a 120mhz processer. He's not dumb. His classroom success's at Michigan verify this. BUT..A 120mhz computer will, given enough time, perform the functions. Classroom gives you that time. Football does not. Can you imagine watching Tom Brady run our our offense for one series? Can you imagine the recievers getting hit in stride, when they come open? They would not know what to do with balls arriving 2.5 seconds after the snap and on target. Of course Devin is not Brady. Nor would it be fair to expect him to be. Problem is in his 5th year he's also not even Conner Cook in his 2nd. I watched Gardner play in HS. He was playing weak competition and he won(some) with a simple game plan. Throw it up to Cameron Gordon or take off running. He never learned the game for the speed chess match that football is. He learned checkers. Don't judge our team's speed when they are completely handicapped by Gardners sluggish processer. This team would be plenty fast with a QB who could manage a football game. Conner Cooks and Tom Brady's are forced to do that in 8th grade because they have no choice. They would be riding the bench if they didn't. "QB's" like Denard & Devin are never in that situation from youth football on. They are likely the best athletes on any team they play and get away with alot of weakness's that would bench Hackenburg & Cook early in their football life. [Title]

Output: We need speed, but not the type being discussed here