Input: [Date] 2 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Because he is the Coach of all team members [Body]

Output: And like he said, it's "23 other guys last game at Michigan." They all put in work, just like Denard. We all love Denard and everything he's done for the program, but he's no more important than the Senior who has spent 5 years on Scout team. I'm sure Denard will tell you the same thing.


Input: [Date] 2 years 37 weeks ago [Title] No [Body]

Output: You can do it now, as long as the other team agrees and it is approved. Michigan would be able to wear blue if it was agreed.


Input: [Date] 2 years 37 weeks ago [Title] I Will Be That Guy [Body]

Output: Yes, I will be that guy. Like I said all day yesterday to my friends, I think Devin is a better Quarterback than Denard. I think that he has better QB instincts and brings more to the table physically as a QB due to his height etc. Do I think he should start over Denard if Denard is healthy moving forward? No. I think Denard gives us a better chance to win right now due to his experience. But I REALLY wish the staff would've had the foresight and switched their roles on the team, i.e., groomed Devin for the starting spot this year (or even last) and put Denard in a WR/RB/Percy Harvin type role. Would've loved to see that. Just my .02 - I might be wrong and I acknowledge that, but love what Devin brings to the table and am excited for next year.


Input: [Date] 2 years 40 weeks ago [Title] Nebraska Fans [Body]

Output: Why do you guys have to be so god damn nice? I would much rather have another rival that I can hate personally. Good luck too. Hope you lose.


Input: [Date] 2 years 40 weeks ago [Title] Damn! [Body]

Output: Honey Badger loves himself some weed. I'm not gonna argue for or against it, but honestly - how does this kid keep on getting caught?


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] They're glad Bo is still dead? [Body]

Output: God forbid for them he should come back alive. Lol


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Troy is OK as of about an hour ago [Body]

Output: Troy is straight right now.


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

Output: To you


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Very Surprising [Body]

Output: Europeans are generally lazy and take long vacations, so I'm very surprised that you aren't able to take this off.


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Can We Quit [Body]

Output: Wit this Parolee and Convicted Felon at MSU crap? Last time I checked we've got a few on our team too. Let's just hate them for what they are - Michigan State Spartans. #GlassHouses


Input: [Date] 2 years 42 weeks ago [Title] While It Sucks [Body]

Output: I'm past the stage of worrying about recruits. Michigan will always recruit well - losing a player here or there is not going to kill this program. Hoke and Co. are building a dynasty here. Just think - guy's like Jake Ryan and Des Morgan were about as heralded as me coming out of High School. Michigan will be strong.


Input: [Date] 2 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Parker [Body]

Output: Would be a huge get for MSU, and it is looking like it will happen. He's really down primarily to Duke and MSU, with distance being a factor as he wants to play in front of his family. Unless something groundbreaking (literally) happens in the next few months, East Lansing is closer to Chicago than Durham, so it's looking like MSU is the team to beat here. Parker's supposedly the best HS recruit since Lebron James, so that is saying something. Definitely has immediate pro potential. Also, from what I hear, he's a solid kid too. Would suck to see him in Green and White.


Input: [Date] 2 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Raback It! [Body]

Output: I love the shout out and the optimism, but I don't see us killing them. They still have a lot of talent on their roster (perhaps even more than us at this point) and match up very well on defense against Denard and our offense. It's going to be closer than you think - I still think we are the better team and that we win, but I don't see a blow out by any means. Would love to see what you predict unfold - but I just don't see it happening realistically. Can't Raback anything though.


Input: [Date] 2 years 45 weeks ago [Title] Pahokee [Body]

Output: Interesting that Roundtree had roots in Pahokee. RichRod loved himself some rabbit chasers. Another of the few good thiga RichRod left behind, the unlikely bond between Michigan and Pahokee.


Input: [Date] 2 years 45 weeks ago [Title] I actually chuckled to be honest [Body]

Output: Guilty as charged, I'm not too pc


Input: [Date] 2 years 45 weeks ago [Title] I think they do [Body]

Output: A family friend of mine is currently on the team... Don't even think he played hs football but played rugby. He is a big athletic kid and made the team.


Input: [Date] 2 years 47 weeks ago [Title] It's Twitter [Body]

Output: And they are college kids making fun of a rival who got pasted on national tV. I wouldn't chalk it up to much more than that.


Input: [Date] 2 years 47 weeks ago [Title] WE LOST TO A GOOD TEAM [Body]

Output: We lost to a Good team, possibly the best in the country..... Get over it. We will win some games, and we will lose some games. Brady Hoke will get this program where we will compete with Alabama. Right now, they are way ahead of us.


Input: [Date] 2 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Ty Isaac [Body]

Output: I'm as dissapointed as the next one in losing Ty Isaac to USC, but I think you guys are going a little overboard - changing travel plans to Dallas just because of Ty Isaac? You guys are crazy.


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

Output: Is going to Kick their ass. Boise is in its first real rebuilding year in a long while.


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

Output: Spoke with bill, he is my man now. Told me he would take it from here.


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Thanks for the advice [Body]

Output: Great to know an IRS agent is a fellow mgoblogger! Thanks all for the advice... Confident that this will get sorted out and rather quickly


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Hiring a pro [Body]

Output: In the AM. Nothing to hide, just another layer of stress as I'm trying to take my business to the next level. Swear to god, it seems that being self employed just is not worth it these days.


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Thanks. [Body]

Output: Not hiding anything, just something I'd rather not deal with!


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Hey... Rabackomaba@gmail.com [Body]

Output: Can you email me? I'd like to pick your brain... Would greatly appreciate it. Kind of late now but will email you in the morning if you provide your email address


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Thanks All [Body]

Output: I think I am a lottery winner...I definitely report all my income, that is for sure. Possibly overstate deductions. Mileage. We shall see.


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Thank You Everyone [Body]

Output: Have been going to Toronto often all my life, and yes, watching College Sports sucks terribly in Canada. Terribly. Add to the fact that my grandmother has limited TV package as her interests are limited to Soaps, Wheel of Fortune, Price is Right and stations in satellite stations in her native language, therefore I am apprehensive to go. It is on AbC, therefore I should be good even I I stay at her house.


Input: [Date] 2 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Bad Era [Body]

Output: On so many levels.... Let's just let this be for the history books


Input: [Date] 2 years 50 weeks ago [Title] Stejskal [Body]

Output: Played HS sports with his kid back in the day... Good guy. If I'm not mistaken, he played football at Michigan as well.


Input: [Date] 3 years 1 week ago [Title] Lack of foresight [Body]

Output: U have to be kidding me? C'mon man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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

Output: Interview and handling by the Coach so far. Instant respect from me. He's making lemons out of lemonade and putting his stamp on the program right now, gaining the respect of his fan base, alumni, the media.....


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

Output: Got it now. Funny


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

Output: I listen in the shower ever morning on my iPhone (that is the extent), and I have been a little taken a back by it all. Poor form imo


Input: [Date] 3 years 3 weeks ago [Title] My friends [Body]

Output: Are an interracial couple and they are having a very tough time with the people there. Not very accepting.... Which is terrible.


Input: [Date] 3 years 3 weeks ago [Title] Kudos to You my Friend [Body]

Output: I met Sam Jones at a party in Boston a few weeks back.


Input: [Date] 3 years 3 weeks ago [Title] JAX [Body]

Output: Have friends in JAX and have been there a lot - if it's ppl you are worried about, JAX may be worse than Ohio. When u get past the weather and beaches, Jacksonville really sucks - my friends, who transplanted from Michigan, said that aside from the other Midwest transplants (of which there are many), the people and attitudes of JAX locals are terrible - typical southern stereotypes. Don't move there expecting amazing ppl. They hate it.


Input: [Date] 3 years 3 weeks ago [Title] One of the Best in the Midwest [Body]

Output: Do a lot of business in Columbus, therefore I am familiar with it. When you take away the ugly Scarlet and Gray and annoyance of Buckeyes, Columbus is a great town. Aside from Chicago (which really isn't a comp), I would actually have to say that C Bus is the best city in the Midwest (AA is not a comp in my eyes) Great city, lots to do, and excellent infrastructure and employment base. Interesting tidbit - C Bus became so large, and nice, due to the fact that they would force the growing suburbs to become part of the city in order for the burbs to tap into the water system. I bet the City of Deteoit wishes the would've done the same.


Input: [Date] 3 years 4 weeks ago [Title] Awesome [Body]

Output: This is literally the only way I will ever go to Cedar Point ever again. Waiting 2 hours for a ride, several times a day, is just not worth it.


Input: [Date] 3 years 4 weeks ago [Title] Great Thread [Body]

Output: As someone who comes from an ethnic family and knows many foreigners, I love this thread. Dated a Brazilian girl once... We went to home depot one Saturday and she was strutting her garden knowledge... I commented "man, you really have a green thumb"... Only to turn around to see he looking at her thumb inquisitively


Input: [Date] 3 years 5 weeks ago [Title] Home Example is Terrible [Body]

Output: I am buying a home with 10 percent down, which with extremely low interest rates will result in me paying less in my mortgage than I would in rent - this includes a small "reserve" for capital mprovements to the house and doesn't take into account living in a nicer place, home ownership, mortgage write off etc. Home ownership is smart if done right


Input: [Date] 3 years 5 weeks ago [Title] My Advice [Body]

Output: Use credit cards to build your credit score, not borrow. I screwed myself in college by spending a lot on credit cards that I couldn't pay back - eventually paid back, but after several months of missing payments etc. Bad record stayed on my credit report for 7 years. I now have three credit cards with a total limit of $35k... I charge everything to my cards (to get the cash back rewards) and pay everything off at the end of the month to about $100 on each card, so every month I'm typically using only $300 of my $35k available. My advice - use your cards, a lot. Pay them off almost every month (leaving a small balance helps your credit score and shows that you are able to manage.) Keep your debt to credit ratio low - below 25 percent. That will help. I left college with a 500 credit score, now I am near 800 and get the best rates, offers etc.


Input: [Date] 3 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Welcome to Michigan Channing! [Body]

Output: I'm with the coaching staff on this one - if they think he's good enough to earn and offer and accept his commitment, then he's no different from a 5* decorated CB in my eyes. Especially given the fact that he camped and they accepted his commitment in this near full recruiting class, it says alot. Also, I dont know if this has been touched upon, but I'm pretty certain that Matthews HS in Charlotte is a strong football school that sends multiple D1 players to BCS schools annually. Jamar Adams alma mater? In any case, I think this a great offer and a good segway into building a pipeline into Matthews.


Input: [Date] 3 years 10 weeks ago [Title] Pretty Cool [Body]

Output: Makes me respect soccer


Input: [Date] 3 years 11 weeks ago [Title] Agreed [Body]

Output: As a Toronto transplant living in Detroit, a little part of me dies inside every time I see a Sunbelt team make it far in the NHL playoffs. My rooting interests go 1. Red Wings, 2. Leafs, then the rest of the original 6. The rest of the teams can go stick it


Input: [Date] 3 years 12 weeks ago [Title] Well [Body]

Output: It looks like I was wrong and stand corrected - having said that, I still feel that he was set on MSU - if both sides really wanted him to be at UofM, he would be here.


Input: [Date] 3 years 12 weeks ago [Title] Good decision by the NCAA and good for him [Body]

Output: Don't like the fact that he's wearing their colors, but would hate to see the kid suffer because of bureaucracy. I'm sure our staff wanted him and I'm sure we had a small chance, but it seemed that he was set on MSU from the start (of him transferring.) Despite his perceived douchiness on social media, kid seems to be pretty smart and wants to get to the NFL - MSU is a more established pro style offense at this point, and Maxwell is a talented QB (despite the inexperience).....the knew each other from their HS days, so you have to give the kid credit for going with his head. As much as I love Denards 2011 highlights, the jump balls he threw all year don't instill a lot of confidence in a WR trying to get to the next level. The state of transition to pro style offense and lack of relationship with our staff hurt our chances with this kid, and MSU was able to pull him. Lack of scholarships is a dumb excuse. Having said that, excited for he WRs coming in and happy to bank a scholly for a Treadwell etc.


Input: [Date] 3 years 13 weeks ago [Title] I'll also be that guy [Body]

Output: The highlights also indicated that Zack Novak, Stu Douglass, Trey Burke, THJr, and GRIII were also Michigan offer questionable. I'll take Beiliens track record for identifying talent over anything right now


Input: [Date] 3 years 15 weeks ago [Title] What a fun sexy time [Body]

Output: For us


Input: [Date] 3 years 17 weeks ago [Title] Gotta feel bad [Body]

Output: For Petrino's family and her fiancée...sucks that his face is all over the place now. Poor guy


Input: [Date] 3 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Celebrities [Body]

Output: You are as starstruck when you see Lloyd Brady or Mitch McGary Picture Guy as if you were to see someone like Charlie Sheen etc.


Input: [Date] 3 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Yeah [Body]

Output: Law School I think


Input: [Date] 3 years 18 weeks ago [Title] Ferentz's Daughter [Body]

Output: Went to Michigan actually... Graduated a couple years after me


Input: [Date] 3 years 18 weeks ago [Title] What the Fuck [Body]

Output: Why and what r u apologizing for? Quit being such a polite southerner, your contributions to this board are great. My advice to you: Follow YOUR heart and mind


Input: [Date] 3 years 19 weeks ago [Title] Yeah... [Body]

Output: Where the fuck are you buying your gas? I'd be ecstatic if I were buying at $3/Gallon......It's $3/85 MINIMUM here in the D.


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

Output: Terrance Robinson, Marvin Robinson and Denard are all brothers??


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

Output: Seems like a pretty lofty comparison, because when you take out all the not-so great about Iverson's career, they seem like pretty similar players...... But I think it's jumping the gun at this point - Let's see if Burke can sustain his success, because Sophomore slumps are pretty common


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

Output: I can say with certainty that you are my favorite non Michigan poster on this board. Welcome. I dont know what your past is, or history or motives are, but I definitely like your contributions to this blog. Additionally, and I am probably in the minority here, but I love the Alabama Football program. Don't love Saban, but I like 'Bama's history and tradition. Love their uniforms as well. I've spent some time down in New Orleans and have driven through the state of Alabama on many occasions - always make it a point to stop in Tuscaloosa on the way down. Absolutely love the state of Alabama, driving through it is always fun - beautiful state. I actually stopped in Tuscaloosa during the Iron Bowl a few years ago on my way back to Michigan....GameDays don't seem as packed as they do in Ann Arbor, but that may have been because I drove through during the game, not before or after. Keep it coming.....and hopefully we pound you come Labor Day weekend.


Input: [Date] 3 years 21 weeks ago [Title] At first glance [Body]

Output: I thought it said anal zone


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

Output: Based on what I've heard of Urban's past recruiting exploits, I can imagine a situation in which he offers McCray and McCray immediately decommits to play at OSU, thereby creating the image that OSU is winning a recruiting war with Michigan. But that would mean that - A) McCray is kind of a sleaze himself and would go for that kind of thing (WHICH I DO NOT BELIEVE TO BE THE CASE), and B) that Hoke & Co. didn't do enough homework on this kid's desires or else they wouldn't have accepted his commitment given that this could unfold, especially since we have a pretty good # of LB prospects favoring or considering Michigan (WHICH I ALSO DO NOT BELIEVE TO BE THE CASE.) I was always a little leery of accepting a commitment from McCray based on he fact that his father played for the Buckeyes and he has been a fan/around the program his whole life - that is a very difficult bond to break. Think of how engrained Michigan Football is in your life - now multiply that x10 based on the fact that his father played there. Having said that, I will go with my positive gut on this one - While McCray did grow up an OSU fan, he fell in love with what Michigan has to offer and feels that Hoke & Co. offer him the best opportunity to succeed. His father, while a former OSU captain, is a father first and foremost and knows the deal - he needs to steer his kid to the best place for him, and feels that Ann Arbor is that place. It wouldn't be the first time a former player's son went to play for the rival (coughBorenCough) Welcome to the fold McCray - Looking forward to seeing you in Maize and Blue on Saturdays.


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

Output: Is a joke. He is absolutely biased against Michigan. Pretty sure he is your typical central Ohio redneck who hates Michigan.


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

Output: Seeding in the NCAA tourney is a big deal.


Input: [Date] 3 years 23 weeks ago [Title] Ahhh, the Internet [Body]

Output: 18 year old kids are allowed to be stupid and immature. Nothing put of the ordinary. Twitter just gives them a voice to be heard, which is an problem. But I actually thought this was kind of dunny


Input: [Date] 3 years 23 weeks ago [Title] Brian Kelly [Body]

Output: I cannot see why anyone would want to play for that asshole. I business associate of mine played Football at the University of Cincinnati, initially under Dantonio and them under Brian Kelly. He spoke very highly of Mark Dantonio but couldn't wait to graduate and get the hell away from Kelly. Wished he would have followed Dantonio to MSU (don't know if that was a realistic option for him or not, he just said that.) The point - Brian Kelly is a jerk!


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Title] I love [Body]

Output: The Sparty meme that "Hoke hard sells kids and forces them to commit by threatening to pull their offer" while "Dantonio wants them to be 100 percent sure they want to be a Spartan and does't pressure kids" That's exactly why Hoke is getting recruits over Dantonio! Seriously...while I admire Dantonio's product thus far at MSU, why is it so hard for Sparty fans to realize that the product that Hoke is selling is pretty damn attractive?


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Title] His brother is named Austin too? [Body]

Output: That must have been a confusing ass childhood.


Input: [Date] 3 years 24 weeks ago [Title] Thanks [Body]

Output: I live only a few minutes from there and was considering it...never been there, usually stick to the Hideout or Renshaw (or BDubs)...I will try it out.


Input: [Date] 3 years 26 weeks ago [Title] Not Far-Fetched, But.. [Body]

Output: While it is debateable, Burdbridge has been touted by several outlets (including our own MGoBlog analysts) as the best player in the State. Having said that, I would much rather have our own in state haul than theirs. Additionally, I find it funny on the RCMB (yes, I know..) that they are minimalizing their in state haul this year by saying (yes, this is true) that this was a particularly weak year in the state of Michigan talent wise. Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't I read exactly the opposite? Isn't this a particularly STRONG year in talent for the State of Michigan (and Ohio as well)? I can recall reading this several places, even prior to the start of the recruiting season...and I can't recall a time when the state of MI having so many players go to top line BCS schools. Am I wrong?


Input: [Date] 3 years 26 weeks ago [Title] Damn [Body]

Output: Terrible thing to happen to a kid, much less a Senior. Quick recovery Draymond. I hate the Spartan Draymond, but the person Draymond seems pretty solid. Nevertheless, never want to see this happen to anyone


Input: [Date] 3 years 27 weeks ago [Title] God Forbid [Body]

Output: Somebody gave the right to choose where they want to be


Input: [Date] 3 years 28 weeks ago [Title] Twitter [Body]

Output: Twiiter should be outlawed. Nothing positive. Like giving a curious kid a loaded gun.


Input: [Date] 3 years 29 weeks ago [Title] It was my assimilation into American Culture [Body]

Output: Grew up in Canada (Toronto) until the age of 12, after which my father picked up the family and moved us to Ann Arbor of all places. Grew up a Baseball (the Blue Jays were going through their hey-day) and Hockey (Toronto is the REAL Hockeytown, don't get it twisted) fan, but football and to a lesser extent Basketball (pre-Raptor era) were somewhat foreign to me. College Sports were an absolute unknown. My first night living in America was spent at Joe Louis watching Michigan beat MSU in the Championship of the GLI. Great experience - it was there that I saw what this whole Michigan thing was about. Then, when football season came around....it was over. My whole family fell in love with Michigan and football was king. Not I can't stand baseball and still follow Hockey a bit, but professional sports are not really my cup of tea. College is where it's at and from there on out I was a Michigan Man.


Input: [Date] 3 years 30 weeks ago [Title] Great win for MSU [Body]

Output: Let's not get "salty" over MSU winning....it helps the BigTen's image and anyone who watched that game can't deny that Sparty played a great game to claw back into that thing. I don't know if Richt really "lost it" for Georgia...Sparty had tremendous resilience and rightfully won the game. We just need to take care of business tomorrow so the "in-state momentum" stays on our side.


Input: [Date] 3 years 31 weeks ago [Title] I like this [Body]

Output: I actually really like this - nice concept that could create a pretty cool rivalry between our conferences. I'd like to think that they'll match us up with either USC or Oregon.... I would not like to play Arizona, despite the whole RichRod intrigue. I could see an Arizona/Purdue matchup as interesting...the "Snake Oil" Bowl.


Input: [Date] 3 years 32 weeks ago [Title] Probably Not [Body]

Output: Maybe restless leg syndrome at worst. He's tapping his toe virgorously. In my opinion, that's all.


Input: [Date] 3 years 33 weeks ago [Title] My Intention Was... [Body]

Output: My intention was to give some attention to a guy who I feel is the most underappreciated member of Team 132. The rest was context and a little background. Yeah, he is my favorite player but my hope was that the kid who literally lived out my childhood dream and played a huge role in the revival of Michigan Football would get a little time in the spotlight on this message board. Title was edited to reflect that.


Input: [Date] 3 years 33 weeks ago [Title] Players thought it was weird [Body]

Output: I remember 12 months ago after the whole Groban thing happened....I have confirmed accounts of players on the team at the time, and at the event, who thought that whole fiasco was a little weird.


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Great Move by Braylon [Body]

Output: He has made it onto my shit list in recent years, so this helps him in my eyes (not that he cares, but anyway).....classy move by Braylon and one that should be lauded. College is not cheap and $1MM is truly putting your money where your mouth is! Hopefully Braylon can mature - that is his true achilles heal, maturity. This "second most hated man in Cleveland" thing is really dumb. Grow up man, you just proved that you have what it takes to be a star, on and off the field - let your actions do the talking, not your mouth!


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Great Hire [Body]

Output: I think that this is a great hire for Texas A&M and a great move for Kevin Sumlin. While the SEC West is a frickin' gauntlet, they will definitely be able to recruit well in Texas - While I don't see them taking it to UT anytime soon, they definitely raised their profile with the SEC move. He has a track record and I think he'll do well with the x's and o's portion


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Unfortunately [Body]

Output: Brandon Minor was recently arrested on drug charges so shouldn't really throw stones


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Road Trip to NOLA [Body]

Output: I have done the Road Trip to New Orleans many times from Detroit and as recently as 12 months ago. It is a great trip and you get to see some cool places that you may not otherwise get to see (parts of MS/AR.) The drive is approximately 16-18 hours depending on stops and can be done in one day, but one must leave very early in the AM and arrive late at night to do that. I recommend stopping in Nashville/Memphis for the night and enjoying some good BBQ. The drive is nice, especially throughout Alabama and Tennessee. I always make it a point to stop in Tuscaloosa and check out their campus/stadium as well (I drove back to Detroit on the Iron Bowl Saturday a few years back which was pretty cool.) Also, as far as cost savings go - gas is always significantly less expensive the more south you go - very inexpensive in TN, MS, and LA so factor that into your costs as well. Safe travels!


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Road Trip [Body]

Output: To NOLA is fun...I've done it several times. Plane Tix to the Big Easy are always a bit more expensive than the usual destinations...I rarely see Detroit to NOLA directs. It's a 16-18 hour drive depending on stops etc. I've done it in one day, but would have to leave early (like 3 or 4 AM) and will still get there late night NOLA time. If $$$ is not an issue and you have time constraints, definitely fly. If you dont mind time and have a second to spend in NOLA, do the drive - you'll get to see some parts of the old south that you generally wouldn't get to see. I always stop in Tuscaloosa every time I go.


Input: [Date] 3 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Can we stop [Body]

Output: With this Msu stuff?? They beat us 4 in a row


Input: [Date] 3 years 36 weeks ago [Title] BEAT OHIO [Body]

Output: BEAT OHIO


Input: [Date] 3 years 36 weeks ago [Title] I would care a great deal [Body]

Output: Michigan State is 1B to OSU's 1A of our biggest rivals. There's no way around it. Yes, the OSU game annually is huge and our biggest of the year - can't stand their fans and love driving through Ohio rocking Michigan shit. But anyone who say's that we don't care about MSU, they only care about us etc. doesn't really know what they are talking about. MSU is our rival. Bottom line. MSU is one of our biggest rivals. While we have owned them in Football historically and even in the not so distant past, this game is still big to the players and the program. Add to the fact that most of the Michigan based students and Alumni (which is a good portion of our base) live and work with MSU Alums, this game is huge and IS indeed a true rivalry. I would care a great deal and no TRUE Michigan football fan would say otherwise. That game is huge.


Input: [Date] 3 years 36 weeks ago [Title] I will be there too [Body]

Output: Negril, Jamaica..... There are places there to watch


Input: [Date] 3 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Two More Weeks [Body]

Output: Of games to be played... We will move up 3 spots if we take care of business


Input: [Date] 3 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Auto type [Body]

Output: All


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] The point is.. [Body]

Output: You cared enough to waste your time to comment on a post about it. I personally don't care about it any more than a typical "human compassion" aspect, however I didn't feel the need to waste my time to post this. There are plenty posts daily that I'm sure you don't care about, yet you felt the need to comment on this one "because you don't care" So, obviously you do care


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] You obviously care [Body]

Output: Enough to be a d bag about it!


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Holy Shit is Right [Body]

Output: I made my previous comment prior to actually reading the Grand Jury report - truthfully I was too scared to actually read it. After reading it, it hurts me to say JoePa is should be held partly responsible. Sickening


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] I wouldnt Lol [Body]

Output: Too loud bc we r not in it


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] PSU has serious Problems [Body]

Output: I personally feel bad for JoePa.... Should have retired years ago. There is no way that he ends his career on a high note after this, regardless of whether or not he "did the right thing" or not. Secondly- Penn State Football has some serious image problems right now. Their athletic department makes Bill Martin's tenure look like a well oiled machine. I cannot see how any recruit would want to go okay for a coach who is 2 feet from an old folks home. Yeah, seeing him wave his cane at the pep rallies is cute and heartwarming, but it is so ridiculous..... The fact that the AD doesnt have a coach in waiting or succession plan is absurd to me. Add in a sexual misconduct scandal, with young boys no less..... It looks like its gonna be a rough road for Penn State football. Makes the days of RichRod and stretch gate look like paradise.


Input: [Date] 3 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Taken out of Context? [Body]

Output: I hope these quotes were taken out of context....either that, or Kirk needs to lighten up a little bit. I understand that we are all very passionate about our respective teams/universities, and for Kirk Cousin's it is even more so because he's right in the middle of it, but c'mon man...........when all is said and done, it's just a football game that is being played saturday. Win or Lose, there are much more important things in life to get your panties all tangled up about. We also have to remember that he is still a college kid too, and despite his buttoned up and cerebral attitude, he is still young. With that the case, I wouldn't base my "respect" of Kirk Cousins on his views/feelings of the Michigan/MSU rivalry - Everything I've read about him is that he is an exceptional kid and one that we should praise. I would say absolutely that I respect him and would love to have a kid like that as part of our University. Having said that, if these quotes aren't taken out of context and if he does have strong feelings towards those who cheer for UofM, he needs to chill, relax and realize that it's all in good fun and just a game. Nothing personal.


Input: [Date] 3 years 42 weeks ago [Title] An MLS team would not work in Detroit [Body]

Output: An MLS team would not last in Detroit.....the first few games/season would be fun, but once it lost it's lustre, the team would be dead. Detroit's sporting events plate is full enough with the Red Wings, Tigers, Lions, Pistons, Michigan & MSU...there really is not enough wealth or interest to go around. Additionally, I do not believe the interest in soccer in Southeastern Michigan is strong. Sure, Blackfinn was packed for USA-England, but the every four year world cup craze would never last on an annual basis here. When you take out the soccer playing kids attending the MLS game with their Parks & Rec team, the rare adult soccer enthusiast, and the small percentage of international people here, you don't have much left - Detroit is a blue collar/meat & potatoes town, and soccer is decidedly not that. I personally think an MLS team would fail in Detroit - I'd keep the Silverdome Soccer events at a once every year thing.


Input: [Date] 3 years 42 weeks ago [Title] It is just PR Marketing at its Fullest [Body]

Output: While I think its certainly odd for Izzo to donate to the school' most profitable athletic program over other (in my mind) more deserving ventures, I can't and will not criticize a man for doing what he wants with his money. There are much worse things that Izzo can do with $1mm and by all intents and purposes Izzo has shown to be a generally classy guy over the past. Hvaing said that, this is merely a PR/Marketing ploy to garner additional donations to the athletic department. The timing of it (during Michigan week and after Dantonio's "Spartan for Life" contract) and the way it was announced screams "hey MSU alumni, write some checks baby!" Nothing wrong with that.....I'm sure Dave Brandon is well aware of similar ways to raise money for our AD. I don't think this makes Izzo "an unbelievable human being" (as I read on an msu blog), however I wouldn't necessarily hate the player....


Input: [Date] 3 years 44 weeks ago [Title] I'm on the fence [Body]

Output: I like them - there's no doubt about that. But I'm not sure I like them as an "Every Saturday" thing...perhaps keep them in the closet and only bring them out for certain occasions, such as night games etc. It's one of those things like "Why mess with a good thing?".....and if there's one thing in College Football that is a good thing, it's the Michigan Football helmets. I say keep them in the closet for special occasions..like 3 to 4 times a year, not every game.


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Title] pointless writing [Body]

Output: Calling Denard "biggest dissapointment" is right up there with predicting the deceased ND recruit a "freshman to watch" a few years back. Its obvious the analysts did not watch the game and merely looked at the statline and box score. Did he comparare to last years #'s? No, but that is what we wanted. He got it done when he needed to, didn't make mistakes, managed the game and didn't get injured.


Input: [Date] 3 years 48 weeks ago [Title] I'd Raback it, but.. [Body]

Output: A lot can happen between now and Saturday. I am very confident, given what I was told and the source, that this will be the case. I have never been on the sidelines and don't know if I had the "pull" to accomplish this, and wouldn't feel comfortable asking. I would give my left nut to have this happen though. I am, however, a proud owner of an M practice jersey... On a side note, I am in PA traveling back to Michigan and I just stopped at a gas station with full service...people pump your gas.....seriously?


Input: [Date] 3 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Heininger [Body]

Output: I was told that Will Heininger has earned a starting spot on the line next to RVB and Martin. Roh is rush end/lb. Credible sources, not final or in stone.


Input: [Date] 3 years 51 weeks ago [Title] Sorry.. [Body]

Output: It's been a while since the last time I posted - Not sure what "Moderate" means...meant to upvote you, that was funny.


Input: [Date] 4 years 1 week ago [Title] Kellen Jones [Body]

Output: I have heard from credible sources (don't ask, just trust) the reason for Kellen Jones' absense from the roster. I heard about this a week ago after the rumors came out (which I heard there were rumors, but didn't know about what.) Kellen Jones' absense from UofM is not because of something he did, however it is being kept private for personal reasons. I was asked to not say anything about it, so I can't really elaborate any further. Just wanted to make sure we understood that Kellen didn't do anything wrong and is absent from UofM for reasons beyond his control. Nothing criminal in nature as the rumours (which I just heard) suggest.


Input: [Date] 4 years 4 weeks ago [Title] Don't have any inside info [Body]

Output: I don't have any inside info, but I say he's Blue (just a gut feeling.) Megan Fox is gonna have a great night!


Input: [Date] 4 years 5 weeks ago [Title] That Sucks! [Body]

Output: Honestly, I loved watching those "To Catch a Predator" Shows...always found them very entertaining to watch......sometimes a small part of me felt sorry for the guys as I watched them at the moment they realized their lives were ending...but then I realized what they were there for, and all the sympathy left. Hilarious about Chris Hansen too....21 years younger than him.


Input: [Date] 4 years 12 weeks ago [Title] Hazel Park or Inkster [Body]

Output: I would look into Hazel Park and Inkster as well. Strong school systems, great neighborhoods and a good "bang for your buck" when it comes to homes.


Input: [Date] 4 years 12 weeks ago [Title] Birmingham is Great..but [Body]

Output: very beautiful. Very safe and a lot to do - near all Oakland County amenities and Detroit. But..... There are some very pretentious people in Birmingham. If you're the "down to earth" type, I would stay away. You school age kids will thank you....I have spoken with many people/friends who have went to and graduated from Birmingham Public Schools, and they absolutely would not recommend sending your kids there due to the snobbish factor involved. Troy and Royal Oak are great substitutes for Birmingham. I live recently moved to Troy from Royal Oak and love both places a great deal.


Input: [Date] 4 years 12 weeks ago [Title] Ferndale [Body]

Output: Does not have an excellent school system, actually quite the opposite. I would stay away, especially from the south side of Ferndale (the part near 8 Mile.) Some of those neighborhoods aren't nice (not too bad, but I wouldn't want to OWN a home there) Ferndale's a nice place to go for a walk, party, have a drink and go to dinner, but living there isn't great if you have young kids to raise and depend on the public schools. Having said that, if you ffind yourself an opportunity to live in Pleasant Ridge, then take it!


Input: [Date] 4 years 26 weeks ago [Title] Dual Citizen Here [Body]

Output: Born and raised in Toronto (Scarborough) till I was 12....then moved stateside and grew up in Michigan. Mother is a native Michigander so I've always bled maize and blue and cheered for the Wings (even over the Leafs when I lived in Toronto.) The only sports team that captures my heart like Michigan does are the Toronto Blue Jays....I was in the prime of my childhood when the Jays pulled back2back rings and Joe Carter nailed one out of the park at the Skydome (it will always be the skydome to me) Still get out to see my family a few times a year...they live in Scarborough (kennedy and eglinton) and markham.


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

Output: Life's been busy man...haven't found much time to post. Additionally, and not to trying to be a dick (you not included), but I've found that the quality of posting on this blog has fallen severely....I still read religiously, just don't feel the need to post unless I have something significant to add. Hopefully things change RE: quality once we start winning.


Input: [Date] 4 years 47 weeks ago [Title] I need Two [Body]

Output: Tickets to the Michigan - ND game next weekend. Doesn't matter where they are, I just want two anywhere in the stadium. email me at rabackomaba@gmail.com if you have access...will pay a fair price and live in the Detroit area, so if you're in the area pickup won't be a problem. Thanks.


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

Output: Actually I heard he was switching to QBFORCE this year


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

Output: This thread was a huge cock tease for me. I was hoping that practice jerseys were finally being marketed for sale. I want more than anything to be able to wear a white and blue M practice jersey (w the adidas stripes down the side), I think they are awesome. Don't want them as game jerseys, but they would be a great addition to the fan collection. I was able to obtain (through confidential sources) a blue authentic used practice jersey a few weeks ago, however since its an actual practice jersey it is not wearable (its j olesnavegas old jersey) and is extremely tight....its interesting to see how the actual field jerseys fit differently as they make the very tight, but stretchy and bendable so they can fit over pads and maintain durability. Not the coolest thing to wear out in public as they make you look like a doofus. Adidas needs to market practice jerseys to the public asap.


Input: [Date] 4 years 49 weeks ago [Title] Cocky Ass Freshmen get slick and get Kicked off the Team [Body]

Output: Say what you want about the attrition that we've experienced, but if this were happening at Michigan this fall, the article would be titled: "Cocky Ass Freshmen try to get slick and get kicked off the team"


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] ahhhh [Body]

Output: Can't eait until the season starts


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] Although [Body]

Output: I'd like to trust the hot chick because I believe everything hot chicks say, I'll go with Sam Webb on this one. Thanks.


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] OK [Body]

Output: Can we quit being such a bunch of fucking pussies please? This stuff puts a chip on your shoulder....


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] Man, I can't believe this [Body]

Output: I still can't believe that Troy Woolfolk suffered a season ending injury. Last week, when JT Turner transferred, I thought to myself - "Well, that sucks, but he wasn't ready to play anyway. It's bad news and makes negative headlines, but it won't hurt us in the short run and maybe not even in the long run. As long as we have Woolfolk and JT Floyd, we're set. The only way Turner's departure could hurt us is if one of those guys, specifically Woolfolk, got injured. AND THAT CAN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE WE'VE HAD OUR LIONS SHARE OF BAD LUCK/NEWS IN THE PAST FEW YEARS AND THE UNIVERSE JUST DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY" Wow. Just wow. One thing after another. Wow.


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] wow [Body]

Output: That is pretty fucking sad to read.


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] Yet Another Transfer [Body]

Output: This is absurd. Rodriguez is running all the talent out of the program....was Tea supposed to contribute this season? Our line depth is definitely gonna take a hit this season.


Input: [Date] 4 years 51 weeks ago [Title] M Tattoo [Body]

Output: I just realized a thread from a few months ago showing a photo of him and his M tattoo....if he is transferring, it better be to Missouri or Maryland


Input: [Date] 4 years 51 weeks ago [Title] Fuck [Body]

Output: Fuck...can I start hearing some good news?


Input: [Date] 4 years 51 weeks ago [Title] Awesome [Body]

Output: I would prefer a Home/Home with Bama (or at least maybe a neutral site trade off, say one game in Detroit/Chicago and one in Atlanta/NO), but this is definitely awesome.


Input: [Date] 4 years 52 weeks ago [Title] This is a dumb thread [Body]

Output: Gardner and Pryor are very similar in their stature and skill set. While Gardner wasn't the 1# recruit overall, he was a pretty highly ranked recruit. Any comparisons between the two are because they play in the same conference, for rival schools, and have similar skill sets. Let's not fool ourselves - we would've loved to have pryor in 08 and still. Is he a douchebag? Well, unless any of you know him personally, then you really can't comment. Is he dumb? I'm leaning toward yes- but there are many, many dumb people in the world, many who have and do wear the winged helmet. Pryor won a rose bowl and b10 championship as a soph. He didn't do it by himself, but still a feat-if Gardner manages the same thing his sophomore year, I will be ecstatic- and I'm willing to bet that gardner would do it with a pretty decent team around him too, Dumb thread-I hate pryor like the rest of you, but that's bc he is a buckeye. He's been a pretty decent qb imo


Input: [Date] 5 years 2 days ago [Title] Troy Woolfolk Response on Twitter [Body]

Output: In reading the Twitter thread below, I happened to stumble upon Angelique Chengelis' twitter account, which links to Troy Woolfolk's twitter account, which is private, but say's: A story was written about me putting Tate in negative aspect. This was phrased wrongly & is not the truth. (more)


Input: [Date] 5 years 2 days ago [Title] Well, doesn't that [Body]

Output: ...suck.


Input: [Date] 5 years 6 days ago [Title] Eye of Tiger [Body]

Output: This is the part of the movie where Eye of the Tiger is playing in the background..


Input: [Date] 4 years 31 weeks ago [Body] Busey is dominating not only rush but this blog. I wake up, log on and am privy to a tsunami of Busey. [Title]

Output: Busey is dominating not only


Input: [Date] 4 years 33 weeks ago [Body] Welcome aboard, Desmond. I'm looking forward to watching you play for the Wolverines. [Title]

Output: Welcome aboard, Desmond. I'm


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Body] Although I'm still on the bandwagon it's easy to see why a lot of people have gotten off. [Title]

Output: Although I'm still on the


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Body] I am so excited for this. It will really help in recruiting. [Title]

Output: I am so excited for this. It


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Body] That is absolutely incredible. Thanks for sharing. [Title]

Output: That is absolutely


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Body] That's an understatement. [Title]

Output: That's an understatement.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Body] Brandon is in control so there is nothing to worry about. He is a demigod. [Title]

Output: Brandon is in control so


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 1 day ago [Body] We are working on moving the blog to a new version of Drupal, and once that's done I'll get a performance expert in here. For now I think I fixed some of the issues. [Title]

Output: We are working on moving the


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Body] i've given up on subtly implying dave brandon is the devil and am now pretty much openly saying it [Title]

Output: i've given up on subtly


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 11 hours ago [Body] You should have an update in your inbox that explains. We'll be in touch directly. /shakes fist at software [Title]

Output: You should have an update in


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 6 days ago [Body] who's got it better than banhammer [Title]

Output: who's got it better than


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Body] shhhhh it's like rappists [Title]

Output: shhhhh it's like rappists


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 6 days ago [Body] We're talking about a basketball/hockey book. That would be electronic only if it happens. [Title]

Output: We're talking about a


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I agree. I don't know if the people pulling the trigger on CB predictions know that, though. [Title]

Output: I agree. I don't know if the


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] whoops, that's his high school. Fixed. [Title]

Output: whoops, that's his high


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 1 day ago [Body] AFC Ann Arbor until I die [Title]

Output: AFC Ann Arbor until I die


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] The drive is one drag amongst many. And the 90 minutes is 90 minutes during the first round of the tournament. [Title]

Output: The drive is one drag amongst


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Anything would be better than the current system. Anything. You could have 'em play outdoors in the middle of the Mongol Horde and it would still be like "dat time travel tho". [Title]

Output: Anything would be better than


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I was talking about a Spath bit in an ITF stating that a major obstacle to an internal hire was removed when they axed Brandon. That's a long way from asserting that Powers is the or even a favorite for the job, but it just seemed so nonsensical to even look at Powers since Mel took a risk and did brilliantly with it. No offense to Powers. [Title]

Output: I was talking about a Spath


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I file that under "evil." Brandon wasn't evil. Just the definition of shitty. [Title]

Output: I file that under "evil."


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] it's easy to be nice to a kid with cancer. the way he treated his employees and his customers was awful. [Title]

Output: it's easy to be nice to a kid


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] this has been happening for a while, FWIW. It reached a tipping point today when I had to nix five posts in one thread. [Title]

Output: this has been happening for a


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] google is clearly finding sites that embed third party urls and not individually evaluating, so we can grandfather you in i think. [Title]

Output: google is clearly finding


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 6 days ago [Body] No. Even if you want to be a journalist, the Daily pumps just as many guys into jobs as schools with an actual program. [Title]

Output: No. Even if you want to be a


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 hours ago [Body] has Jake Pickard not committed yet? ...well, when he commits [Title]

Output: has Jake Pickard not


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 8 hours ago [Body] I didn't get any. Long story short, crazy helicopter dad. [Title]

Output: I didn't get any. Long story


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Student dumbasses who make the news and make the U look bad are fair game. Judge away, commentariat. [Title]

Output: Student dumbasses who make


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Ben is one of us, FWIW. Met him a few times in NYC. [Title]

Output: Ben is one of us, FWIW. Met


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Yeah, that's exactly the plan. [Title]

Output: Yeah, that's exactly the


Input: [Date] 29 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I've heard from a great source that Harbaugh has not talked to Jackson yet. I don't think he's going to stick, especially with Wheatley seemingly there for the taking. [Title]

Output: I've heard from a great


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I cropped the return address, which is a current NFL staff member sending from an NFL compound. [Title]

Output: I cropped the return address,


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 1 day ago [Body] "Brandon's Lasting Lessons" [Title]

Output: "Brandon's Lasting Lessons"


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I have no doubt the kid is or was recently in HS. I still think he's had good info for whatever reason as a lot of what he says matches up with things I hear. He had the official offer to Harbaugh before the NFL guys started talking about it. He needs to learn how to communicate these things better, yeah. And stop tweeting recruits. But I think he's an interesting source. [Title]

Output: I have no doubt the kid is or


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 3 days ago [Body] please don't. [Title]

Output: please don't.


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 5 days ago [Body] http://player.listenlive.co/22561 [Title]


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I have heard a lot of different dates, so not really. I think we'll have to wait either way. [Title]

Output: I have heard a lot of


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] prioritizing politics over winning football. can they sink any lower [Title]

Output: prioritizing politics over


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I don't understand people who [Body]

Output: I don't understand people who get upset with the whole "us" thing. As an alumnus, I do consider myself part of UofM forever. I spent hours of life in the stands and tons of tuition dollars that helped support the team. Why can't I be considered a part?


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 10 hours ago [Title] I'm confused. So what was her [Body]

Output: I'm confused. So what was her job? Was she helping athletes or students? Makes it sound like she's a super counsellor or something. Makes me wish I had met her while I was there


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Your answer [Body]

Output: Umm not every channel I get comes in HD. There are some channels that don't offer HD or my package doesn't carry the HD option. Or if I'm watching something from a DVD that's not HD.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Let's hope its the year he [Body]

Output: Let's hope its the year he finally has a breakout performance!


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] The pattern reminds me of a [Body]

Output: The pattern reminds me of a golfers kit. But, eh, they're gloves, I couldn't care less as long as they work.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] My experience... [Body]

Output: Summary: If your on an extreme budget, go with VIZIO. But only as a last resort. If you can find a sale or have the extra money.... go with SONY Detailed explanation: If you have channels that aren't in HD, I'd NOT recommend VIZIO. HD channels come in perfect and awesome, but anything that isn't HD comes in pixellated or fuzzy. I'd also have to point out that a lot of peripherals (DVD player, PS3) come in really softly. I have to boost my volume to 100 just to hear it. My other TV is a SONY that I adopted through marriage. It's been a champ and I highly recommend it. Combine that with a Sony HT-CT770 2.1 Channel Sound Bar with Wireless Subwoofer (or equivalent), and it's been an awesome purchase. Found this one by testing all the sound bars at the local best buy. This one gave the richest sound... while the others sounded hollow or tin-ey.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Not* paying attention. Sorry [Body]

Output: Not* paying attention. Sorry can't edit on phone.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Ha. Serves me right for [Body]

Output: Ha. Serves me right for thinking the NBA is garbage and paying attention to any of it (including nicknames). Angry diatribe retracted.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Title] I know you're trying to be [Body]

Output: I know you're trying to be funny, but making fun of someone's appearance is not cool in my books. Grow up


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Man card. Turn it in. [Body]

Output: Man card. Turn it in.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Currently under a [Body]

Output: Currently under a thunderstorm warning and tornado watch. Not getting me outside. Looking at the weather/cloud map, you'll have to be north of Houghton Lake to get a good view.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Title] In Harbaugh I trust [Body]

Output: In Harbaugh I trust


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 15 hours ago [Title] No, it's a home game [Body]

Output: Definitely not. Both OSU and Oregon come to Michigan and Michigan State that weekend, respectively.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 1 day ago [Title] If you listen to the full [Body]

Output: If you listen to the full routine here: http://therantisdue.com/90725 he continues asking who Iowa fans hate. Apparently OSU more than Michigan. In fact, just one guy really hates Michigan. Start at about 20:45.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Bad team and bad SCHEDULE [Body]

Output: Not sure if this was mentined yet, but we did have well, one of the WORST home schedules you can have in a single season. OSU, ND, and MSU were away. Our "best" home game was against Penn State. That had more to do with the attendance record than anything. Switch any one of those games to "home" and we still have the record.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 3 days ago [Title] "No one is gonna get hurt"... [Body]

Output: "No one is gonna get hurt"... really? why? b/c they're women? That seems to be what you're implying. So if two dudes were brawling it out, would it be, 'na man, let them fight it out' Get real. These women were throwing punches. And there was a child involved. A child! He threw something at the one woman's face. Who knows how much this could have escalated. The man taking this video should have put down the cameria immediately and helped try to break it off. Or at least go get security.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Concur [Body]

Output: This was posted on twitter yesterday that it was from the PA camp where >1000 kids showed up. https://twitter.com/Spath_Wolverine/status/607533478138269696/photo/1


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 4 days ago [Title] But this means Galloway won't [Body]

Output: But this means Galloway won't be a color commentator for OUR games. I see this as a win.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 12 hours ago [Title] Nevermind. Clicked link and [Body]

Output: Nevermind. Clicked link and read "Other fish like tuna can warm specific body parts, boosting performance at key times, but whole-body "endothermy" has not been observed in a fish before." Touché Internet.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 12 hours ago [Title] Why do they insist this is [Body]

Output: Why do they insist this is the first? It's already been reported that the blue fin tuna is "warm blooded". Not to mention some sharks, but they aren't fish.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Utopia; a MMORPG since 1998 [Body]

Output: It's a gamer's addiction I can't break. I've been playing this game on and off since 2003. It's one of the oldest-running online browser games. It features a hardcore strategy gameplay on building and managing a kingdom set in a fantasy world. And it's especially number crazy, like deciding what race and personality to play and how best to take advantage of each individual's attributes. Sadly it's numbers which used to be 40k or so near it's height is down to only about 4k. Lots of long-time vets playing with a few new players here and there. The game used to be unplayable unless you downloaded a third party software to analyze your builds and attack #'s. Now thought, they incorporated a lot of that into the game itself. Much more playable now for casual gamers, but still takes a lot of coordination to do well as a team. Game can be found here: http://utopia-game.com/shared/ Forums are currently down at the moment (not sure why) but likely due to a new "age" starting. By age, the game resets every 3 months to a different age. It's on Age 65 now.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 4 days ago [Title] hypocrite troll [Body]

Output: A bunch of overweight, fat bald guys Christmas'. I bet they spend the day jerking off to Chewie and Harrison Ford. -Matt Millens Mustache Says the poster who openly admitted to liking comic books.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 4 days ago [Title] The optimism and excitement [Body]

Output: The optimism and excitement that Harbaugh has brought shows no signs of stopping. Last year, HTTV took till the final couple days to reach 100%. .... Amazing.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Response to both above posters [Body]

Output: I have no sympathy for GRRM. "Writing is hard", rubbish. He has explicitly said the reason he hasn't finished the book is because he can't write while traveling. So it's been 4-5 years now and because he's famous, all he does is travel. That's a long vacation. Nobody needs that much time off.


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 6 days ago [Title] When did OSU and Utah [Body]

Output: When did OSU and Utah constitute top Pac12 competition? Middle of the pack at best. And I'm not blowing smoke, as I follow the Beavers as my 2nd team.


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 1 hour ago [Title] I was thinking more like this... [Body]

Output: Someone say recruits come in pairs?


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Redshirt [Body]

Output: Maybe this will allow either Malzone or Morris to redshirt like all QBs should.


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Using your parents cable [Body]

Output: Using your parents cable account to use watch ESPN does not count as cutting the cable. Someone is still paying $100/mo for that.


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Title] My guess is he would see [Body]

Output: My guess is he would see little time on field this year as a LB. So why not get some help at TE. He can always go back to LB next year if we really lack for bodies there. I'm fine with it. In JH I trust.


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 13 hours ago [Title] Definitely a smart decision, [Body]

Output: Definitely a smart decision, yet as he said an emotional one. Gets his degree and the program-tied benefits that exist with that. Gets to play in another system, get some starting experience, and get a 2nd degree. If you read this Russell, thanks for all the hard work you put into the program. We thank you for it.


Input: [Date] 6 days 7 hours ago [Title] It's crazy that Vincent Smith [Body]

Output: It's crazy that Vincent Smith is more inspiring off the field than on. I didn't think that was possible.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I think BC should be higher [Body]

Output: I think BC should be higher on that list in reality. I've lived around Boston for my entire life and have only known 2 non-alum BC fans. It's the combination of a lack of interest in college sports in the area and the fact that people really find BC to be arrogant and annoying. Maybe if they were successful it would be different but they're not. They caught lightning in a bottle with Doug Flutie in the 80's and haven't done anything since. They fired their most successful recent football coach for daring to interview with the NFL and fired their most successful basketball coach of all time for no apparant reason. They are just the worst. EDIT: I should also mention that if you do care about college sports in this area you were likely a Big East hoops fan and hold a grudge against BC for single-handidly starting its demise to go play schools below the Mason Dixon line. Did I mention I don't like BC?


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Providence at 100/1 with the [Body]

Output: Providence at 100/1 with the best point guard in the nation is attractive.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 6 days ago [Title] If I remember correctly, [Body]

Output: If I remember correctly, Countess was recruited by and commited to Rich Rod and then reaffirmed his commitment to Hoke? Is he the last player with a Rich Rod connection on the roster?


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I'm a big Providence College [Body]

Output: I'm a big Providence College hoops fan. I'm very excited about this series and thrilled that it honors the memory of the legendary Dave Gavitt, former PC coach and founder of the Big East. I love the new incarnation of the Big East. I don't miss any of the schools that have defected. The Friars have a much better chance to compete in a conference with smaller, like-minded, basketball-centric schools. It's a throwback to what the conference was originally supposed to be about. I think the series will be beneficial for both conferences but probably more so for the Big East. Out of conference schedules and performance are huge for a 10 team league. Hopefully in the years to come Michigan will make a trip out to Providence to play on Dave Gavitt Court. I would definitely be in attendence.


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I love the 30 minute Gallon [Body]

Output: I love the 30 minute Gallon documentary and how it's the "official" Jeremy Gallon documentary. Don't be fooled by imitations.


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Brian has been wrong before. [Body]

Output: Brian has been wrong before. . .


Input: [Date] 44 weeks 2 days ago [Title] This was shameful. [Body]

Output: This was shameful.


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Title] Really well done. Made me [Body]

Output: Really well done. Made me feel more feelings than I was prepared for on a Tuesday morning.


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Title] Very important cause. My dad [Body]

Output: Very important cause. My dad passed away of leukemia in 2011. He had a bone marrow transplant from a donor in Germany that they thought was successful at first but his cancer returned. I'll never forget the kindness of that stranger to give my dad a chance at life so it was an easy choice for me to join Be The Match. It's also a great thing to donate blood and platelets.


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Title] So basically you just want a [Body]

Output: So basically you just want a chance to play God.


Input: [Date] 1 year 8 weeks ago [Title] In New England we always [Body]

Output: In New England we always thought Pete was a happy-go-lucky idiot. Turns out he's stupid like a fox.


Input: [Date] 1 year 11 weeks ago [Title] Brady spent the AFC [Body]

Output: Brady spent the AFC Championship game last year forcing balls to Austin Collie because he was the only one he trusted at that point. I think Gallon is gonna have a great shot to not only make the Pats but thrive. I see them entrusting him with return duties right away to reduce wear and tear on Edelman.


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Title] People here and around the [Body]

Output: People here and around the country forget what originally made the Big East great. The lack of football and the ability to keep northeastern city kids local caused its original success in the 80's. The conference became a national laughing stock because of what happened with its football programs but that was never supposed to be the emphasis. Now they have a chance to remake themselves in the image that the great Dave Gavitt always had in mind. I believe they will more than hold their own against the B1G. Some of the opinions on this thread are shortsighted and don't show a solid understanding of the history of the sport or where it's headed. Edit: For context I should add that I'm a die hard Providence fan.


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Title] Fear the Deer. [Body]

Output: Fear the Deer.


Input: [Date] 1 year 13 weeks ago [Title] Michigan has a great future [Body]

Output: Michigan has a great future in lacrosse but tomorrow belongs to my Fairfield Stags. Sorry guys. It's the one sport where we approach competency.


Input: [Date] 1 year 14 weeks ago [Title] I'm very confused by the [Body]

Output: I'm very confused by the examples you gave of good vs. bad mojo.


Input: [Date] 1 year 19 weeks ago [Title] BC is not a major program. [Body]

Output: BC is not a major program. They are in a major conference though.


Input: [Date] 1 year 19 weeks ago [Title] Mediocre? The winningest [Body]

Output: Mediocre? The winningest coach in the history of the school, 7 tournaments in 13 years, ran a clean program and moved them past their prior point shaving/gambling scandals. I hate BC but you can't say Al Skinner was mediocre.


Input: [Date] 1 year 22 weeks ago [Title] I'm currently the top [Body]

Output: I'm currently the top alternate on a D league dart team.


Input: [Date] 1 year 33 weeks ago [Title] There's a new sheriff in [Body]

Output: There's a new sheriff in town! (my right index finger)


Input: [Date] 1 year 33 weeks ago [Title] As a non-alum fan: [Body]

Output: I don't think JFK was completely serious when he called Harvard the "Michigan of the East".


Input: [Date] 1 year 37 weeks ago [Title] That was a real meeting of [Body]

Output: That was a real meeting of the minds.


Input: [Date] 1 year 44 weeks ago [Title] My high school teams were the [Body]

Output: My high school teams were the Blue Raiders so I always root for Middle Tennessee. Our logo/mascot was an eagle for some reason. MTSU went with what looks like a winged horse with a lightning bolt coming out of its mouth. Both solid choices.


Input: [Date] 1 year 44 weeks ago [Title] The thread that created Lloyd [Body]

Output: The thread that created Lloyd Brady. Not sure how to go about finding it though.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] He should move to Scotland. [Body]

Output: He should move to Scotland.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] Wait a minute. San Diego. . [Body]

Output: Wait a minute. San Diego. . . Mick. . .you're Phil Mickelson aren't you?


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] Don Zimmer charged the mound [Body]

Output: Don Zimmer charged the mound in the 2003 ALCS at Fenway. I was actually at that game in a standing room only section and couldn't see anything when the crowd stood up. This kid next to me said Pedro just threw Don Zimmer to the ground and I of course didn't believe him until my phone started blowing up.


Input: [Date] 1 year 45 weeks ago [Title] My buddy and I are Red Sox [Body]

Output: My buddy and I are Red Sox fans and were walking back to our cars after seeing the Sox beat the Yankees in a regular season game in 2002 at Yankee Stadium. This one dude who was with a few of his friends was walking beside us and kept chanting "1918" over and over and over again. My friend eventually said something harmless like "scoreboard" but that was all this guy needed. He got inches away from my friend. He wanted a fight but when it was clear my friend wasn't going to swing at him he spit all over his face. We were in absolute shock. I've heard the new Yankee Stadium is a nice, family friendly place but it was a different atmosphere not too long ago. I'll never forget that moment under the Major Deegan Expressway. It was around then that I decided I didn't need to keep going to the South Bronx.


Input: [Date] 3 hours 44 min ago [Body] Who's he throwing to? And the RB they got reminds me of Carlos Brown--looks good against bad competition but that won't hold up in faster Big Ten. They had one safety but he isn't going to play now. So I like the left side of their line. That's it. And yes, I do enjoy inserting player analysis into commodity talk. [Title]

Output: Who's he throwing to? And the


Input: [Date] 7 hours 12 min ago [Body] I can't afford us. [Title]

Output: I can't afford us.


Input: [Date] 7 hours 19 min ago [Body] I think he's saying he didn't realize the kind of powers he was dealing with. [Title]

Output: I think he's saying he didn't


Input: [Date] 7 hours 28 min ago [Body] From my methodology. I've been checking on the prices daily and keeping a running average of the lowest prices. The "dip" is the lowest price I saw over that time. These are all over a week. If you're buying at the dip (I don't know what they call it in stock markets because I grew up in a commodities home) you watch the price for awhile and when you see someone offer one substantially lower than the going rate you jump on it. This happens because people of differing personalities get into the market. There are people trying to make a buck, and then there's a bunch of people who don't want to set it at the bottom but use the current market to set their price. And then every so often there's someone who's like "okay I'll just make mine 3% lower than the lowest" because he/she's impatient and just wants to sell the damn thing. However these will move so fast they're impossible to get in a high-volume market. So sometimes the best thing to do is just go in there and buy your dang ticket at the current market price because tomorrow it'll be higher, and by the time the next dip comes along it might not dip to the market price now. [Title]

Output: From my methodology. I've


Input: [Date] 8 hours 57 min ago [Body] I thought he did well with his trades this year. Every GM makes some head-scratchers (Fister trade was his) but other than that big one, Dom's biggest flaw was not being able to find good relievers, which is like firing a recruiting coordinator for not being able to find kickers. [Title]

Output: I thought he did well with


Input: [Date] 1 day 3 hours ago [Body] Brian's building a scary defense too. A decent nose and Zettel and Collins are both single-blocked, with Ngakoue and Biegel coming around the edges. Wartman-White is the best of the MLBs, and he's got two great man-press corners to make an evil blitzing 4-3 under work. The only weakness is the slot, but he's got two safeties, a WLB, and a nickel pick left to address it. [Title]

Output: Brian's building a scary


Input: [Date] 1 day 4 hours ago [Body] Yeah I'm not catching Schnepp on the DL because he burned his Rnd 2, Rnd 3 and Rnd 10 picks to get A+, A, and B+ guys for 3/4 positions. If he gets a good nose tackle that's a VERY good defensive line. But see the whole board. I used those rounds to get Peppers, Clement, and Longa. There is no player in the conference who can change the look of a defense like Peppers. And Clement-Elliot is a Gordon-Abdullah redux, with a HUGE dropoff after them. This is why Adam's running game is a Northwestern guy who's splitting carries with two freshmen behind a disaster of a line. Meanwhile Spriggs is his only OL I'd trade for any of mine (and some guys still on the board are better), and Butt is his best receiver after he reached for Westercamp and took Pierson-El too high. Likewise Longa; the next WLB off the board was Joshua Perry. On the other hand there are good DL (Michigan's entire two-deep is still selectable, plus some returning starters from stiff defenses) nobody's going to pick for awhile because no-one wants to take the first B guy when there's four more just like him. [Title]

Output: Yeah I'm not catching Schnepp


Input: [Date] 1 day 13 hours ago [Body] You're kidding right? Ed Davis was the first pick we all were like "oh damn you!" [Title]

Output: You're kidding?


Input: [Date] 5 days 11 hours ago [Body] http://mgoblog.com/content/why-we-fight [Title]


Input: [Date] 5 days 12 hours ago [Body] Plenty since: a) The sponsorship is for the length of the season. b) The extended segment was to introduce her as such. c) You have to be as entertaining on air as Liz Crowe or your introductory segment will be 2 minutes, and most of that Brian vamping while trying not to look annoyed. Seriously though I've been looking for the right sponsor for our Podcast for a long, long time, and when Liz left the beer company she was working for to break out as a consultant and real estate agent, I approached her specifically for this, and made the price a secondary concern because she's the right kind of sponsor. She is, like Harbaugh, herself at full volume all the time, and part of the fabric of the Ann Arbor and Michigan Athletics community. With most of the things I sell we're just helping them market their thing because we have the right audience to market their thing. But this is one of those things where it's more like the sponsor wanted to help us and can justify it if a handful of MGoBloggers use her as their real estate broker. The podcast is a marketable thing that a lot of our advertisers have been interested in; it's not like it took us this long to find a sponsor; it took us this long to find Liz. [Title]

Output: Plenty since: a) The


Input: [Date] 6 days 2 hours ago [Body] Brian used to go out there once a year around now for the alumni association's thing; I don't know if that event was discontinued or he just didn't get asked this year. We are doing other things with the alumni association (announcement to come). We also did an event with Todd Howard the night before the 2013 Northwestern (firedrill field goal) game that I put together. We had planned on doing that again, and had the venue chosen and everything, but Michigan was so unwatchable leading up to M00N that we canceled it. Maybe we'll do one after the season. Anyway if/when we do it'll be the second the Chicago Alumni Association Club asks us because they are an excellent group to work with. I think they're coming into town for Northwestern (homecoming) this year. [Title]

Output: Brian used to go out there


Input: [Date] 6 days 10 hours ago [Body] Why didn't you tell us? I am willing to move the event to your bachelor party. [Title]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 hours ago [Body] This is for that guy on the message board who cares about Draftageddon. pic.twitter.com/WRmykO7nqf — Seth M. Fisher (@Misopogon) July 28, 2015 [Title]

Output: This is for that guy on the


Input: [Date] 1 week 9 hours ago [Body] One of the keys to all of this is Nebraska isn't leaving the Big Ten; everybody is joining the Big Ten, formerly known as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, so that for the sake of TV rights and whatnot all the powers are negotiating as one entity, and scheduling each other. I know it's a pipedream. What I don't want to see is the organic method of growing from a bunch of conferences into a league, because all that does incentivize the current conferences to snatch up any program bigger than a MAC school in a colonial land-grab, which is exactly how we found ourselves in a 7-team division with Maryland and Rutgers while Iowa and Wisconsin and Purdue come around less often than Utah. The conferences grew organically well enough when television was regional and limited to four networks, and declaring a national champion was just a nerdy postseason excercise between professions that have to pay half attention. Today conferences are billion dollar corporations with their television networks, yet theyr'e still functioning under a system that expects them to be faculty representatives from elitist, non-profit educational institutions. The NCAA had their chance to become a true regulatory body, but instead chose to act more like an industry trade organization*. The best thing for college football right now would be to acknowledge that the regional conferences that grew out of the 20th century are anachronisms worth preserving, like historic neighborhoods or whatever. Without that familiar structure the whole enterprise is at risk of becoming too desaturated, i.e. an NFL-lite, which is a crappier product fewer people will care about. When ESPN inevitably defaults on whichever round of promises it has to make to secure the TV rights to the last bastion of un-DVR'able entertainment, the BIG SIX or POWER SIX or whatever you want to term it will be in perfect position to cut Fox and Disney out of their revenue stream and make what they're making now by charging $5/month and selling ads themselves on a streaming college football channel. The Big Ten is just the body out of convenience; the organizing structure of any major conference is sufficient to expand to include the 60-64 schools that operate truly professional-level (i.e. highly profitable) football enterprises. Technically everyone joins the Big Ten, or joins a new conference that handles all the "conference" stuff for the group, and is such a tour de force in college athletics that the NCAA has to kowtow to it. I have no problem trying to fit Baylor and TCU into this (TT might be a stretch since their school's athletic budget is MAC-like despite the school's history). I only left them out because I thought a Texas-based mid-major conference would make for some rockin' good regional football. * Specifically, one for mid-19th century cotton growers [Title]

Output: One of the keys to all of


Input: [Date] 1 week 11 hours ago [Body] Those take a long time to make. This damn draft takes enough of that as it is. [Title]

Output: Those take a long time to


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] done. [Title]

Output: done.


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] link to the 200 post? [Title]

Output: link to the 200 post?


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] This is college football not the pros. I think it's more important that everyone in every division plays each other every year. [Title]

Output: This is college football not


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] Part of that is I hate to break up some great Texas rivalries. You can build one helluva mid major conference out of Baylor and TCU SMU Texas Tech and Rice. Fill the bottom with UTSA maybe North Texas maybe Tulane. Historically Texas and Texas A&M refuse to go anywhere without their little buddies. [Title]

Output: Part of that is I hate to


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

Output: I removed the section on


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Body] Don't reply to the spammers. Just report them to LSAClassof2000. We are working on a system where anyone logged in to account we mark as spam is ported to our old-old-old server that runs a superslow copy of the site except with an ad service that only runs invasive ads, and there's zero virus protection, so anyone who tries spamming us ends up having their spam computers locked into 50-minute load times and a gazillion software attacks. I probably got the idea from Ernest Cline. [Title]

Output: Don't reply to the spammers.


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

Output: And Bo shouldn't be over Yost


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] Ernest is friends with my brother too. I see your criticisms of Ready Player one, but I was actually sick of all the references after the midway point but then I thought the story took off, and I was impressed that he managed to actually bring the "your dream comes true" theme to a satisfying conclusion. I think the deux ex machina was self-aware; the whole point is it's a game and meant to function as one. I'm 50% through Armada and I think Cline was so disappointed by people not understanding this that he's making it too obvious (or perhaps the entire point) in this book. [Title]

Output: Ernest is friends with my


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Body] Yep. That's why I said "two quarterbacks." I've really been trying to not complicate stuff. [Title]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] We never really figured that out. I went with "plays as they would on your team" because I think it's more interesting to draft system guys for a system and whatnot. But here in the early rounds it's just a grab for superstars because at the end of 2014 nobody's saying "well if Hackenberg played behind Brian's offensive line..." [Title]

Output: We never really figured that


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] They have had him for awhile. He's a tight end. He's awful. [Title]

Output: They have had him for


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] But we've made that explanation like 10 times in the last few years. In fact I think I started leading off these posts with "THIS IS NOT A FANTASTY DRAFT IT'S A BIG TEN PREVIEW" last year. [Title]

Output: But we've made that


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Body] Every fan of every team makes all of these same statements about why their school is better, and totally clean too. Fact is the athletes are picking between heavens. Most campuses are beautiful. Most support staff are top notch. FBS coaches are among the top 200 in their profession. NFL talent comes out of so many schools that which coaches develop a position best has to mean less than what that individual player is made of (not that it doesn't matter, especially w/ quarterbacks). A little something extra makes a big difference because there isn't much difference between schools. As for fans, this site's existence when every other indie team site but 11 Warriors can't support even one blogging career speaks to something unique about Michigan fans' dedication. I have a hard time imagining there could ever be a Grantland for Just Clemson. Depending on what section you sit in though I'm sure you can encounter some pretty quiet old farts in Michigan Stadium. We even have a name for them: Blue hairs. [Title]

Output: Every fan of every team makes


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Body] Labels man. Ask yourself this: what do you call a guy who took money from some school then signed with Michigan anyway? Think that never happened with someone on the roster right now? Cut every "cheater" who broke an NCAA rule and there won't be many athletes left. This is why I blame the NCAA first and foremost. Whenever you find a thriving black market for something there's always a shitty someone making the regular market not work. [Title]

Output: Labels man. Ask yourself


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Body] In certain cases it's pretty clear. This is one of those cases. Clemson is one of those schools. Be mad at Michigan for not playing the same game as everyone else or be mad at the players who take liquid love over a minor preference in school choice, or be mad at the NCAA which creates all this madness. Pretending it doesn't happen is just naivety for the sake of sanctimony. [Title]

Output: In certain cases it's pretty


Input: [Date] 3 hours 44 min ago [Title] Who's he throwing to? And the [Body]

Output: Who's he throwing to? And the RB they got reminds me of Carlos Brown--looks good against bad competition but that won't hold up in faster Big Ten. They had one safety but he isn't going to play now. So I like the left side of their line. That's it. And yes, I do enjoy inserting player analysis into commodity talk.


Input: [Date] 7 hours 12 min ago [Title] I can't afford us. [Body]

Output: I can't afford us.


Input: [Date] 7 hours 19 min ago [Title] I think he's saying he didn't [Body]

Output: I think he's saying he didn't realize the kind of powers he was dealing with.


Input: [Date] 7 hours 28 min ago [Title] From my methodology. I've [Body]

Output: From my methodology. I've been checking on the prices daily and keeping a running average of the lowest prices. The "dip" is the lowest price I saw over that time. These are all over a week. If you're buying at the dip (I don't know what they call it in stock markets because I grew up in a commodities home) you watch the price for awhile and when you see someone offer one substantially lower than the going rate you jump on it. This happens because people of differing personalities get into the market. There are people trying to make a buck, and then there's a bunch of people who don't want to set it at the bottom but use the current market to set their price. And then every so often there's someone who's like "okay I'll just make mine 3% lower than the lowest" because he/she's impatient and just wants to sell the damn thing. However these will move so fast they're impossible to get in a high-volume market. So sometimes the best thing to do is just go in there and buy your dang ticket at the current market price because tomorrow it'll be higher, and by the time the next dip comes along it might not dip to the market price now.


Input: [Date] 8 hours 57 min ago [Title] I thought he did well with [Body]

Output: I thought he did well with his trades this year. Every GM makes some head-scratchers (Fister trade was his) but other than that big one, Dom's biggest flaw was not being able to find good relievers, which is like firing a recruiting coordinator for not being able to find kickers.


Input: [Date] 1 day 3 hours ago [Title] Brian's building a scary [Body]

Output: Brian's building a scary defense too. A decent nose and Zettel and Collins are both single-blocked, with Ngakoue and Biegel coming around the edges. Wartman-White is the best of the MLBs, and he's got two great man-press corners to make an evil blitzing 4-3 under work. The only weakness is the slot, but he's got two safeties, a WLB, and a nickel pick left to address it.


Input: [Date] 1 day 4 hours ago [Title] Yeah I'm not catching Schnepp [Body]

Output: Yeah I'm not catching Schnepp on the DL because he burned his Rnd 2, Rnd 3 and Rnd 10 picks to get A+, A, and B+ guys for 3/4 positions. If he gets a good nose tackle that's a VERY good defensive line. But see the whole board. I used those rounds to get Peppers, Clement, and Longa. There is no player in the conference who can change the look of a defense like Peppers. And Clement-Elliot is a Gordon-Abdullah redux, with a HUGE dropoff after them. This is why Adam's running game is a Northwestern guy who's splitting carries with two freshmen behind a disaster of a line. Meanwhile Spriggs is his only OL I'd trade for any of mine (and some guys still on the board are better), and Butt is his best receiver after he reached for Westercamp and took Pierson-El too high. Likewise Longa; the next WLB off the board was Joshua Perry. On the other hand there are good DL (Michigan's entire two-deep is still selectable, plus some returning starters from stiff defenses) nobody's going to pick for awhile because no-one wants to take the first B guy when there's four more just like him.


Input: [Date] 1 day 13 hours ago [Title] You're kidding? [Body]

Output: You're kidding right? Ed Davis was the first pick we all were like "oh damn you!"


Input: [Date] 5 days 11 hours ago [Title] http://mgoblog.com/content/wh [Body]


Input: [Date] 5 days 12 hours ago [Title] Plenty since: a) The [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 6 days 2 hours ago [Title] Brian used to go out there [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 6 days 10 hours ago [Title] Why didn't you tell us? I am [Body]

Output: Why didn't you tell us? I am willing to move the event to your bachelor party.


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 hours ago [Title] This is for that guy on the [Body]

Output: This is for that guy on the message board who cares about Draftageddon. pic.twitter.com/WRmykO7nqf — Seth M. Fisher (@Misopogon) July 28, 2015


Input: [Date] 1 week 9 hours ago [Title] One of the keys to all of [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 11 hours ago [Title] Those take a long time to [Body]

Output: Those take a long time to make. This damn draft takes enough of that as it is.


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] done. [Body]

Output: done.


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] link to the 200 post? [Body]

Output: link to the 200 post?


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] This is college football not [Body]

Output: This is college football not the pros. I think it's more important that everyone in every division plays each other every year.


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] Part of that is I hate to [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] I removed the section on [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Title] Don't reply to the spammers. [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Title] And Bo shouldn't be over Yost [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Title] Ernest is friends with my [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Title] Yep. That's why I said "two [Body]

Output: Yep. That's why I said "two quarterbacks." I've really been trying to not complicate stuff.