Input: [Date] 2 years 25 weeks ago [Title] Just picked up my stubhub $64 [Body]

Output: Just picked up my stubhub $64 special. Sitting in section 224 and have never been to any sporting event in East Lansing. Not really sure what to expect but it can't be worse then sitting in the IU student section last weekend.


Input: [Date] 2 years 25 weeks ago [Title] return to columbus with your [Body]

Output: return to columbus with your tail between your legs scum


Input: [Date] 2 years 26 weeks ago [Title] anyone have a live feed [Body]

Output: anyone have a live feed online that works? Thanks


Input: [Date] 2 years 26 weeks ago [Title] score [Body]

Output: 72-59 Michigan


Input: [Date] 2 years 29 weeks ago [Title] thank you kind sir [Body]

Output: thank you kind sir


Input: [Date] 2 years 29 weeks ago [Title] Long live Taylor Lewan! [Body]

Output: Long live Taylor Lewan!


Input: [Date] 2 years 29 weeks ago [Title] Online Feed [Body]

Output: If somebody could post an online feed I would be forever grateful


Input: [Date] 2 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Tix [Body]

Output: Where is the best place to buy tickets reasonably for a Big Ten game this season? Really want to make it to Crisler this season and Stubhub's prices seem pretty high for a decent seat.


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] CANT WAIT!! [Body]

Output: 28-12 MEEECHIGAN


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

Output: poking smot


Input: [Date] 2 years 50 weeks ago [Title] Growing up as a huge Michigan [Body]

Output: Growing up as a huge Michigan fan but attending Indiana next year I couldn't be more excited! Go Blue


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 10 hours ago [Body] Think its the timing and the way things are worded fall in line with a copy job. Not saying that they did but man if you see the Scout thread this seems so similar in the set up. But doesn't hurt me any. [Title]

Output: Think its the timing and the


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 5 days ago [Body] well at least we get to see, what a Hand and Kareem combo will would look like. SIGH.... [Title]

Output: well at least we get to see, what a Hand and


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 3 days ago [Body] This is true but you have to factor in how much contact was kept, if he feels as wanted now. You also have to wonder how much of an impression MSU has made on him. Won't be easy to get him back on our side but like you said there is still a chance. [Title]

Output: This is true but you have to


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 3 days ago [Body] the fact that Langford was on the verge of committing and is now a MSU lean makes this suck even more. [Title]

Output: the fact that Langford was on the verge of


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Looking the English tweets he puts out I dont think the test should be a problem for him. [Title]

Output: Looking the English tweets he


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Don't know if you know, but it has been talk on recruiting sites that some recruits in the state feel like they are not as big a priority as out of state. So the OP comment is a real thing. [Title]

Output: Don't know if you know, but it has been talk on


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvnhvjzoZA0 Couple Sophomore highlights on the court. [Title]


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I know he is a part time player which I why I said he hasnt played since middle school and had my second paragraph about having a better QB this year alowing him to show off a little better. The thing that does not show is he was bothered by a knee injury most of the football season which I why I said he has better speed than you realize, but he has gotten no real coaching in Football and has used pretty much all resources to basketball. All indications from his dad is he will be sticking to Basketball, but like I said if he wants to stick with football he will be a top level recruit. [Title]

Output: I know he is a part time


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Whats funny is as good as i think he will prove to be in Football I would LOVE for him to go play basketball at Michigan more than Football. He has that It factor the team has not been this good is Harry Douglas and Toney Douglas played here. Has lead the team to two state championships on his first two years and a 68-7 Overall record during that time. Only loss this year being to Monteverde (at their gym). Kid is Special in the gym. [Title]

Output: Whats funny is as good as i


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] he is a rising JR. he is now a legit 6'5 205, this was seeing him last week. [Title]

Output: he is a rising JR. he is now


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 4 days ago [Body] This is right up my alley. I went to JONESBORO high and go to all of their games and I can tell you he is a monster at basketball he is an amazing athlete and you will see that, he has better speed than Magnus thinks. Me and his dad are cool and he will be sticking with Basketball but he has all the ability to play football if thats what he wanted to do. I also expect him to blowup on the football trail because the starting QB (Zerrick Cooper 4 star QB going to Clemson) was out the entire year and this was MJ's first year playing football since middle school. Just watch out for him. I have a ton of info on this kid. [Title]

Output: This is right up my ally. I


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Have seen him play live, and he would be a perfect fit for us. The thing that does not come across on the tape is how terrible his team is, he was also a great teammate constanly coaching up and encouraging his team. His ability to get to the rim is good and his shot looks good, and he goes full speed all the time. Would love to get him. [Title]

Output: Have seen him play live, and


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] OK..... I was just trying to remind people that the while at the time it seemed like we were killing it in that short period it was not as good as they were thinking. [Title]

Output: OK..... I was just trying to


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] Do you remeber who Hoke Pulled in after he was hired? Were not worldbeaters. Tamani Carter-Left School Matt Wile-Good pickup Keith Heitzman-No real impact Ray Taylor-Good Pickup Antonio Poole-Never played Russell Bellomy-Transferred Chris Bryant-Injured Thomas Rawls-Transferred Frank ClarkGood Pickup Chris Barnett-Never made it to school So that late period was not a good as you may have that it was. [Title]

Output: Do you remeber who Hoke


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I wouldn't say Illinois is extremely unlikely. They will be without rice. I wouldn't predict a win right now but not saying its extremely unlikely. [Title]

Output: I wouldn't say Illinois is


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 14 hours ago [Body] As a regular student no. As a scholarship athlete sure that will work. [Title]

Output: As a regular student no. As a scholarship athlete


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Go look, still being reported by scouts still easily a first round grade. [Title]

Output: Go look, still being reported by scouts still


Input: [Date] 28 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Yeah not true at all. Still plenty of scouts tweeting he is still almost a lock for first round even with having hurt the foot twice,the issue is now that it's the same foot if he comes back next year and hurts it again it really really hurts his stock. [Title]

Output: Yeah not true at all. Still plenty of scouts


Input: [Date] 29 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Calvin knows about this all too well [Title]

Output: Calvin knows about this all


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 1 day ago [Body] is Twitter screwing up for anybody else? I cant see any new tweets. [Title]

Output: is Twitter screwing up for


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Not true, on my app I can just scroll down and see all the previous threads pretty easily. [Title]

Output: Not true, on my app I can just scroll down and see


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 1 day ago [Body] La Confora tweeted out a like saying it's happening. He also said many NFL officials won't believe it until they see the press conference. [Title]

Output: La Confora tweeted out a like saying it's


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Not necessarily people feel he is still in play, plus he is planning a trip to Alabama. So he is still looking around. [Title]

Output: Not necessarily people feel he is still in play,


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Lol what? Where did the back pedal come from I must have missed something. [Title]

Output: Lol what? Where did the back pedal come from I


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 13 hours ago [Body] Are you being serious? [Title]

Output: Are you being serious?


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 1 day ago [Body] It's really been high reward with Bryant. It's usually off big plays and with ATL secondary I was looking at that match up. But I was leaning with Stills and all the touches he gets. [Title]

Output: It's really been high reward with Bryant. It's


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Half PPR Martavis Bryant vs ATL or Kenny Stills vs CHI my qb is Brees [Title]

Output: Half PPR Martavis Bryant vs ATLor Kenny Stills


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Pretty sure he is an Early Enrollee [Title]

Output: Pretty sure he is an Early Enrollee


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Besides the fact that he broke the Nuss hire and the Hoke firing. [Title]

Output: Besides the fact that he broke the Nuss hire and


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Or maybe he wanted to get a Michigan degree, which im sure is more important than just playing when he knows he is not going pro. [Title]

Output: Or maybe he wanted to get a


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 4 days ago [Title] You haven't been north of [Body]

Output: You haven't been north of Midland much have you?


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Vernors is all sugar these [Body]

Output: Vernors is all sugar these days. Skip it. Get something with actual ginger in it. perhaps ginger lemon tea.


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Irn-Bru straight from [Body]

Output: Irn-Bru straight from Scotland. Love that stuff and I always ask for it for my birthday. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Title] For me it was a two part [Body]

Output: For me it was a two part process #1- I stopped drinking beer to get drunk. I just wanted to have something that I drink to enjoy. #2- I found some good intermediate beers. I feel like if people jump too far in with things like the hopslam you mentioned they are overwhelmed or dont have enough experience to think it is exceptional. It might be a little like a non-wine drinker tasting a $75 bottle of wine. It just tastes like wine usually. My advice would be to start out with some solid but not extravagant beers like amber ales and ESBs. They are usually pretty well balanced between hop and malt. After establishing some tastes of what you do or don't like you can branch out. You should find a simple craft beer that serves as your go to when you are out or are at some random grocery store. At least then you will have a guiding light in the storm of craft brews.


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Don't tell the freep that [Body]

Output: Don't tell the freep that practices are longer


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Maybe Brian just plain [Body]

Output: Maybe Brian just plain doesn't want his board to be half boobs and butts and this was a convenient way to get everyone to nix it.


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 2 days ago [Title] You do know freedom of speech [Body]

Output: You do know freedom of speech is protection from government not from Google and websites right? Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Dave Brandon [Body]

Output: Dave Brandon


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Even with the nitpicking over [Body]

Output: Even with the nitpicking over when Eminem peaked we can still all agree this is a bad idea right? RIGHT?!? Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 3 days ago [Title] You just know this idea [Body]

Output: You just know this idea spawned in a frat party when some bro tried to freestyle and everyone drunkenly thought it was amazing. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 2 days ago [Title] wow [Body]

Output: wow


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 2 days ago [Title] mmhhmm [Body]

Output: mmhhmm


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Miles will never come here. [Body]

Output: Miles will never come here. Michigan stadium has no grass.


Input: [Date] 38 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Finally [Body]

Output: Thank you for this


Input: [Date] 39 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I like how Brandon defends [Body]

Output: I like how Brandon defends not calling the university a brand but instead the block M a brand but then refers to the Michigan brand. Smooth Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 39 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Hey guys any news on [Body]

Output: Hey guys any news on Gardner's redshirt????


Input: [Date] 40 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Too far [Body]

Output: Too far


Input: [Date] 40 weeks 3 days ago [Title] They're ok [Body]

Output: They're ok


Input: [Date] 42 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Good ol Alton Brown showed me [Body]

Output: Good ol Alton Brown showed me the direct onto the coals cooking. Kudos for spreading the gospel. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad


Input: [Date] 42 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Noooooo our inside source [Body]

Output: Noooooo our inside source gone!


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 3 days ago [Title] So are professors, athletic [Body]

Output: So are professors, athletic trainers, and all of us fans. so what?


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I was really hoping to never [Body]

Output: I was really hoping to never hear the term blue waffle again. Bad move to be on the internet.


Input: [Date] 50 weeks 17 hours ago [Title] Getting relegated this year [Body]

Output: Getting relegated this year but Norwich City is my team. Lived in Norwich for 4 years in my late teens.


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 weeks ago [Title] Iowa State is a BCS school. [Body]

Output: Iowa State is a BCS school.


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Title] *dominant normally I wouldn't [Body]

Output: *dominant normally I wouldn't say anything but you have misused dominate twice now.


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Title] Don't watch the NBA and my [Body]

Output: Don't watch the NBA and my NFL watching has waned in recent years.


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Title] For a fringe soccer fan like [Body]

Output: For a fringe soccer fan like me that call makes me not want to watch much more of this World Cup. Especially when the announcers say things like that is the first of many controversies.


Input: [Date] 1 year 8 weeks ago [Title] part of his eyes for Michigan [Body]

Output: part of his eyes for Michigan might be the beatdown Michigan fans put on everyone each year of their charity fundraiser.


Input: [Date] 1 year 8 weeks ago [Title] Does anyone know when we will [Body]

Output: Does anyone know when we will hear about Devin Gardner's medical redshirt??!


Input: [Date] 12 hours 51 min ago [Title] So, maybe Funchess is a part [Body]

Output: So, maybe Funchess is a part of the reason the offense sucked last year. Any play not designed for him, essentially allowed his defender to help out somewhere else. Still, I'm not sure how the coaches either didn't notice, or noticed but didn't do enough to change that behavior. I get the sense that any player taking plays off under the new regime isn't going to have the opportunity to do it more than once.


Input: [Date] 18 hours 5 min ago [Title] .Harbaugh is not the greatest [Body]

Output: .Harbaugh is not the greatest natural speaker in these settings. The content he provides is great, not always answering the question asked, but I don't have a problem with that. Honestly, I don't care how he handles these pressers as long as he wins games.


Input: [Date] 1 day 41 min ago [Title] If you ever wondered why [Body]

Output: If you ever wondered why people sometimes refer to a football field as the gridiron, these photos help explain it. Gridlines were standard field markings in the late 19th to early 20th century.


Input: [Date] 1 day 6 hours ago [Title] That's the problem, you have [Body]

Output: That's the problem, you have to grow them yourself or know someone who does. All the peaches you buy are picked before they are ripe. To get the perfect peach, you have to pick it when it's ripe or very nearly so.


Input: [Date] 3 days 5 hours ago [Title] As I understand it, Brady's [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 3 days 6 hours ago [Title] We don't know what else is on [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 3 days 8 hours ago [Title] As others have pointed out, [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 3 days 11 hours ago [Title] Given that this is not the [Body]

Output: Given that this is not the first time something like this has happened at Wisconsin, why in the world does Wisconsin not have someone within the AD's office or football program dedicated to communicating with players to ensure this sort of thing doesn't happen?


Input: [Date] 3 days 11 hours ago [Title] I don't know who these [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 4 days 20 hours ago [Title] The Big 12 has problems, one [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 5 days 5 hours ago [Title] Isn't saying the only thing a [Body]

Output: Isn't saying the only thing a coach did wrong was not to win a lot of games about like saying the only thing the captain did wrong was to sink the ship?


Input: [Date] 6 days 8 hours ago [Title] Summers at a rented cabin on [Body]

Output: Summers at a rented cabin on the north side of Higgins Lake with the family were about as good as it gets. It was a simpler time, and kids were granted quite a bit more autonomy in those days.


Input: [Date] 6 days 12 hours ago [Title] Miami had a pretty decent [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 6 days 15 hours ago [Title] We've had a weak passing game [Body]

Output: We had a weak passing game last year, but it's hard to tell how much of that was due to QB play, WR play, OL play, offensive scheme, or play calling. It definitely was not just due to WR play, so it should be interesting to see what happens this season.


Input: [Date] 6 days 20 hours ago [Title] I think I saw that when I was [Body]

Output: I think I saw that when I was a kid at the Wisconsin Dells.


Input: [Date] 1 week 7 hours ago [Title] My students explained this to [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 7 hours ago [Title] Worst job was substitute [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 21 hours ago [Title] I agree with the first part [Body]

Output: I agree with the first part of your statement, but York isn't the type to realize anything that suggests he could be failing. He'll always have someone else to blame for his own shortcomings. And unless he fires himself, he's not going anywhere.


Input: [Date] 1 week 21 hours ago [Title] York is the poster child for [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Title] 1. Michigan football 2. [Body]

Output: 1. Michigan football 2. Michigan basketball 3. Other Michigan sports No other teams really matter that much to me.


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Title] Old people. [Body]

Output: Old people. Edit: there were also people who would pay for QVC. It didn't rank high on the list, but still.


Input: [Date] 1 week 2 days ago [Title] Congratulations to Roh [Body]

Output: Of the 44 players who dress for a game, a minimum of 21 have to be Canadian and a maximum of 20 can be international (read US citizens). http://www.cfl.ca/page/game_rule_ratio


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Title] Thirty years ago in grad [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Title] It wasn't just the [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Title] I remember all of those ads, [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 3 days ago [Title] The ads might very well have [Body]

Output: The ads might very well have disappeared from comic books. I know in the 1960s most of the comic books I read had them. At that time, there was a presumption that comics were read by kids, so the ads were oriented towards them, and most items were under $5.00.


Input: [Date] 1 week 4 days ago [Title] One of the few things that is [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] I'm not so sure it will be a [Body]

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


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] Ok. It makes sense now. The [Body]

Output: Ok. It makes sense now. The World Wingsuit League and a radio station in Louisiana is what Google provided when I looked.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] What the heck is the WWL? [Body]

Output: What the heck is the WWL?


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 14 hours 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] 8 weeks 5 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 6 days 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] 11 weeks 5 days ago [Body] who's got it better than banhammer [Title]

Output: who's got it better than


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 3 days ago [Body] shhhhh it's like rappists [Title]

Output: shhhhh it's like rappists


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 5 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] 14 weeks 10 hours 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] 15 weeks 3 days ago [Body] whoops, that's his high school. Fixed. [Title]

Output: whoops, that's his high


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 15 hours ago [Body] AFC Ann Arbor until I die [Title]

Output: AFC Ann Arbor until I die


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 3 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] 19 weeks 5 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] 21 weeks 2 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] 23 weeks 5 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] 23 weeks 5 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] 23 weeks 5 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] 23 weeks 5 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] 26 weeks 5 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 days ago [Body] has Jake Pickard not committed yet? ...well, when he commits [Title]

Output: has Jake Pickard not


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I didn't get any. Long story short, crazy helicopter dad. [Title]

Output: I didn't get any. Long story


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 4 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] 27 weeks 5 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] 28 weeks 15 hours ago [Body] Yeah, that's exactly the plan. [Title]

Output: Yeah, that's exactly the


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 4 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] 31 weeks 3 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] 32 weeks 3 hours ago [Body] "Brandon's Lasting Lessons" [Title]

Output: "Brandon's Lasting Lessons"


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 14 hours 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] 32 weeks 2 days ago [Body] please don't. [Title]

Output: please don't.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] http://player.listenlive.co/22561 [Title]


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 5 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 6 days ago [Body] prioritizing politics over winning football. can they sink any lower [Title]

Output: prioritizing politics over


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Body] I live in Providence and I usually watch the games at McFaddens. Will be there for the games this season. [Title]

Output: I live in Providence and I


Input: [Date] 5 years 48 weeks ago [Body] Last fall I went to McFadden's several times, which is a sports bar downtown, on Smith St. There were always several other college football fans there (which was a bit surprising, because college football is not big in RI), including Big Ten fans and, on occasion, other Michigan fans. Spat's, which is just off Thayer and near the Brown campus, would be another option. If you post an e-mail at which I could contact you I'll be in touch; would be nice to watch the games this fall with another M fan. [Title]

Output: Last fall I went to


Input: [Date] 6 years 15 weeks ago [Body] I'm doing a PhD in political science (not at Michigan). What specifically would you like to know? [Title]

Output: I'm doing a PhD in political


Input: [Date] 6 years 33 weeks ago [Body] How would this not apply to, say, a middle class white guy from Southfield, too? Would his parents be able to travel to, say, LSU seven times per year to watch him play? I think it's highly likely that the vast majority of D-1 football players (just like the vast majority of regular students) attend a school within 200 miles of where they grew up. I fail to see why it is so surprising that guys from the South are reluctant to go too far away for college, therefore. What would be surprising is if there *were* a lot of movement cross-regionally. [Title]

Output: How would this not apply to,


Input: [Date] 6 years 33 weeks ago [Body] Are you serious? Are you that dumb? How many guys from Pahokee have decommited? Zero. Contrast this with Bryce McNeal, who goes to the Breck School, a posh prep school in Minneapolis. Your theory is obviously wrong. [Title]

Output: Are you serious? Are you that


Input: [Date] 6 years 34 weeks ago [Body] Chitown, you're probably my favorite poster on here, because your posts are generally lucid, well-reasoned, and supported by evidence. However, it also seems at times that you're contrarian just to be contrarian. A perfect example of this is your feigned moral outrage to that post. [Title]

Output: Chitown, you're probably my


Input: [Date] 6 years 34 weeks ago [Body] Ha! Excellent... [Title]

Output: Ha! Excellent...


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Body] Yep, right now. [Title]

Output: Yep, right now.


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Body] Why all the bitterness and sour grapes? Also, making fun of OSU's academics, while fashionable, betrays a certain insecurity. Who says the degree doesn't matter much? I'm doing a PhD at a reasonably reputable Ivy League school, and I can claim quite honestly that OSU's department (in terms of faculty renown) is superior to the one I'm in. Also, I didn't see anything that Tressel or Pryor did that Rodriguez or, say, Taylor would be doing if the roles were reversed. While today was obviously unpleasant, why not give credit where credit is due? [Title]

Output: Why all the bitterness and


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Body] Nick Sheridan, a former walkon, was thrust into this role by pure circumstance. I am willing to bet that not even in his wildest imagination did he ever think that he would possibly be the starting quarterback in the Ohio State-Michigan game. This was, in all likelihood, the last action he will see in a game. What I'll remember about him, however, is getting back up and running and playing as hard as he could despite getting destroyed again and again by Laurinaitis et al. That's courage, plain and simple. He was the starting quarterback for Michigan at the 'Shoe. Not only that but there was even a moment early in the third quarter, despite all the improbability, when it seemed that Michigan could tie the game at 14-14. By virtue of those two facts he has accomplished more than virtually any of us could claim when we were his age. [Title]

Output: Nick Sheridan, a former


Input: [Date] 6 years 37 weeks ago [Body] Is there a more reasonable explanation, particularly for Babb and Chambers? The broader point was, however, that certain reasons for ending your participation in some group enterprise (in this case transferring from a football team) entails real costs on the other members of the group. The duties and responsibilities for team and player seem to be reciprocal. Barring particularly unbecoming or unfair behavior on the part of the coaches or severe mitigating circumstances (as discussed re: McGuffie above), I think it's legitimate to express one's displeasure at the decision to dissolve one's responsibilities to the group, which the first poster did albeit in an inelegant fashion. Or do you think a transfer is legitimate under any circumstances? [Title]

Output: Is there a more reasonable


Input: [Date] 6 years 37 weeks ago [Body] Granted he expressed his point a bit inelegantly (and the bizarre capitalization didn't help), but unless you believe that being involved with some group enterprise (in this case a football team) entails no collective responsibilities or duties to other members of the group, I think it is legitimate to make value judgments on *certain* reasons for transferring (ambiguous though these sometimes are to outside observers). Granted, neither Artis Chambers nor Zion Babb were ever going to be showcase players on this team. They provided a role, however, and their attrition diminishes the team's depth and the value of their sporadic contributions. It also diminishes the collective game experience this team has, which seems especially crucial in a transition such as this. Is it therefore so illegitimate to be unmoved when players decide to leave the program because, in their estimation, their role on Saturdays is not substantial enough? [Title]

Output: Granted he expressed his


Input: [Date] 6 years 39 weeks ago [Body] I spent the first 22 years of my life in Michigan, am a life-long Michigan fan, graduated from the university, and I barely know the history of the Little Brown Jug or anything about Fielding H. Yost. [Title]

Output: I spent the first 22 years of


Input: [Date] 6 years 40 weeks ago [Body] The fact that you quite prominently point to the fact that you do not "hate" Terrell Pryor simply for choosing to go to Ohio State as an example of your reasonableness and moral seriousness is hilarious. At least to me. [Title]

Output: The fact that you quite


Input: [Date] 6 years 40 weeks ago [Body] I only started paying attention to recruiting a couple years ago, but it seems that decommitments have become a much more significant issue each passing year. Not just for Michigan, but in general (though it has seemed to affect Michigan particularly hard this year). What explains this? Are coaches putting more pressure on students to commit much earlier in the recruiting process, before they have had a chance to take visits to multiple campuses? Are recruits just more schizophrenic and more apt to decommit (for whatever reason) today compared to the past? Will this make it more likely that we will see an early signing period in football in the near future, as in basketball? [Title]

Output: Decommitments as a General Phenomenon


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Body] First, you professed a theory (as underwhelming as it was) not a prediction. Second, the problem with your claim-other than it being plain stupid, obviously-is that stadium renovations are an exceedingly rare occurrence. So even if you compiled all the data on years in which stadium renovations took place and the team's won-loss record for those years and then ran the regressions, the results almost certainly would not be statistically significant. Third, if it would not be such a waste of time I'm sure I could find many cases that directly refute your hypothesis relatively easily. [Title]

Output: First, you professed a theory


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Body] Are you serious? Are you that dumb? From the "Stadium History" page on umich.edu (after like 10 seconds of research): "During the 1997 season the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the expansion of Michigan Stadium that added seats around the stadium and video scoreboards in each end zone." That year turned out OK. [Title]

Output: Are you serious? Are you that


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Body] Absolutely hilarious. Brilliant. - Supported outlawing any water-going vessels after the Titanic. - Never goes on vacation because there's a possibility it could rain. - Advocated the cancellation of the space program and admitted defeat in the Cold War after Sputnik. - Demands refund at zoo because the monkeys were either (a) sleeping or (b) refused to come out of the cave. [Title]

Output: Absolutely hilarious.


Input: [Date] 6 years 43 weeks ago [Body] Well, your powers of foresight are no doubt impressive, but his verbal was hardly "obvious." Indeed, there were compelling reasons for him to go elsewhere: 1. Desire to live in a different part of the country. 2. Uneasiness with having one's father as a coach. 3. Feelings that a different program would be a better "fit," in terms of style of play, etc. 4. Other personal reasons such as rapport with the coaches or players of another program, etc. Same reason that, say, many children of U-M professors decide to leave Ann Arbor for college/university. And to call anyone out for not thinking he was a 100% "lock" to U-M is a bit... lame. [Title]

Output: Well, your powers of


Input: [Date] 6 years 44 weeks ago [Body] "My point, however, is that this was NOT an easy call. This was NOT a 'no-brainer.' And in hindsight, it was the wrong call." You're right, of course, but who's arguing otherwise? I would find it very hard to believe that coaches did not take (2), (3), and (4) into consideration when deciding whether or not to go for two. [Title]

Output: "My point, however, is that


Input: [Date] 6 years 48 weeks ago [Body] Get in touch with the alumni chapter there. When I lived there I watched a couple games (MSU and Ohio State, which were the only two that were televised) at The Sports Cafe on the Haymarket. There will be a strong contingent of U-M folk I'm sure. [Title]

Output: Get in touch with the alumni


Input: [Date] 4 years 50 weeks ago [Title] I live in Providence and I [Body]

Output: I live in Providence and I usually watch the games at McFaddens. Will be there for the games this season.


Input: [Date] 5 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Last fall I went to [Body]

Output: Last fall I went to McFadden's several times, which is a sports bar downtown, on Smith St. There were always several other college football fans there (which was a bit surprising, because college football is not big in RI), including Big Ten fans and, on occasion, other Michigan fans. Spat's, which is just off Thayer and near the Brown campus, would be another option. If you post an e-mail at which I could contact you I'll be in touch; would be nice to watch the games this fall with another M fan.


Input: [Date] 6 years 15 weeks ago [Title] I'm doing a PhD in political [Body]

Output: I'm doing a PhD in political science (not at Michigan). What specifically would you like to know?


Input: [Date] 6 years 33 weeks ago [Title] How would this not apply to, [Body]

Output: How would this not apply to, say, a middle class white guy from Southfield, too? Would his parents be able to travel to, say, LSU seven times per year to watch him play? I think it's highly likely that the vast majority of D-1 football players (just like the vast majority of regular students) attend a school within 200 miles of where they grew up. I fail to see why it is so surprising that guys from the South are reluctant to go too far away for college, therefore. What would be surprising is if there *were* a lot of movement cross-regionally.


Input: [Date] 6 years 33 weeks ago [Title] Are you serious? Are you that [Body]

Output: Are you serious? Are you that dumb? How many guys from Pahokee have decommited? Zero. Contrast this with Bryce McNeal, who goes to the Breck School, a posh prep school in Minneapolis. Your theory is obviously wrong.


Input: [Date] 6 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Chitown, you're probably my [Body]

Output: Chitown, you're probably my favorite poster on here, because your posts are generally lucid, well-reasoned, and supported by evidence. However, it also seems at times that you're contrarian just to be contrarian. A perfect example of this is your feigned moral outrage to that post.


Input: [Date] 6 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Ha! Excellent... [Body]

Output: Ha! Excellent...


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Yep, right now. [Body]

Output: Yep, right now.


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Why all the bitterness and [Body]

Output: Why all the bitterness and sour grapes? Also, making fun of OSU's academics, while fashionable, betrays a certain insecurity. Who says the degree doesn't matter much? I'm doing a PhD at a reasonably reputable Ivy League school, and I can claim quite honestly that OSU's department (in terms of faculty renown) is superior to the one I'm in. Also, I didn't see anything that Tressel or Pryor did that Rodriguez or, say, Taylor would be doing if the roles were reversed. While today was obviously unpleasant, why not give credit where credit is due?


Input: [Date] 6 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Nick Sheridan, a former [Body]

Output: Nick Sheridan, a former walkon, was thrust into this role by pure circumstance. I am willing to bet that not even in his wildest imagination did he ever think that he would possibly be the starting quarterback in the Ohio State-Michigan game. This was, in all likelihood, the last action he will see in a game. What I'll remember about him, however, is getting back up and running and playing as hard as he could despite getting destroyed again and again by Laurinaitis et al. That's courage, plain and simple. He was the starting quarterback for Michigan at the 'Shoe. Not only that but there was even a moment early in the third quarter, despite all the improbability, when it seemed that Michigan could tie the game at 14-14. By virtue of those two facts he has accomplished more than virtually any of us could claim when we were his age.


Input: [Date] 6 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Is there a more reasonable [Body]

Output: Is there a more reasonable explanation, particularly for Babb and Chambers? The broader point was, however, that certain reasons for ending your participation in some group enterprise (in this case transferring from a football team) entails real costs on the other members of the group. The duties and responsibilities for team and player seem to be reciprocal. Barring particularly unbecoming or unfair behavior on the part of the coaches or severe mitigating circumstances (as discussed re: McGuffie above), I think it's legitimate to express one's displeasure at the decision to dissolve one's responsibilities to the group, which the first poster did albeit in an inelegant fashion. Or do you think a transfer is legitimate under any circumstances?


Input: [Date] 6 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Granted he expressed his [Body]

Output: Granted he expressed his point a bit inelegantly (and the bizarre capitalization didn't help), but unless you believe that being involved with some group enterprise (in this case a football team) entails no collective responsibilities or duties to other members of the group, I think it is legitimate to make value judgments on *certain* reasons for transferring (ambiguous though these sometimes are to outside observers). Granted, neither Artis Chambers nor Zion Babb were ever going to be showcase players on this team. They provided a role, however, and their attrition diminishes the team's depth and the value of their sporadic contributions. It also diminishes the collective game experience this team has, which seems especially crucial in a transition such as this. Is it therefore so illegitimate to be unmoved when players decide to leave the program because, in their estimation, their role on Saturdays is not substantial enough?


Input: [Date] 6 years 39 weeks ago [Title] I spent the first 22 years of [Body]

Output: I spent the first 22 years of my life in Michigan, am a life-long Michigan fan, graduated from the university, and I barely know the history of the Little Brown Jug or anything about Fielding H. Yost.


Input: [Date] 6 years 40 weeks ago [Title] The fact that you quite [Body]

Output: The fact that you quite prominently point to the fact that you do not "hate" Terrell Pryor simply for choosing to go to Ohio State as an example of your reasonableness and moral seriousness is hilarious. At least to me.


Input: [Date] 6 years 40 weeks ago [Title] Decommitments as a General Phenomenon [Body]

Output: I only started paying attention to recruiting a couple years ago, but it seems that decommitments have become a much more significant issue each passing year. Not just for Michigan, but in general (though it has seemed to affect Michigan particularly hard this year). What explains this? Are coaches putting more pressure on students to commit much earlier in the recruiting process, before they have had a chance to take visits to multiple campuses? Are recruits just more schizophrenic and more apt to decommit (for whatever reason) today compared to the past? Will this make it more likely that we will see an early signing period in football in the near future, as in basketball?


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Title] First, you professed a theory [Body]

Output: First, you professed a theory (as underwhelming as it was) not a prediction. Second, the problem with your claim-other than it being plain stupid, obviously-is that stadium renovations are an exceedingly rare occurrence. So even if you compiled all the data on years in which stadium renovations took place and the team's won-loss record for those years and then ran the regressions, the results almost certainly would not be statistically significant. Third, if it would not be such a waste of time I'm sure I could find many cases that directly refute your hypothesis relatively easily.


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Are you serious? Are you that [Body]

Output: Are you serious? Are you that dumb? From the "Stadium History" page on umich.edu (after like 10 seconds of research): "During the 1997 season the University of Michigan Board of Regents approved the expansion of Michigan Stadium that added seats around the stadium and video scoreboards in each end zone." That year turned out OK.


Input: [Date] 6 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Absolutely hilarious. [Body]

Output: Absolutely hilarious. Brilliant. - Supported outlawing any water-going vessels after the Titanic. - Never goes on vacation because there's a possibility it could rain. - Advocated the cancellation of the space program and admitted defeat in the Cold War after Sputnik. - Demands refund at zoo because the monkeys were either (a) sleeping or (b) refused to come out of the cave.


Input: [Date] 6 years 43 weeks ago [Title] Well, your powers of [Body]

Output: Well, your powers of foresight are no doubt impressive, but his verbal was hardly "obvious." Indeed, there were compelling reasons for him to go elsewhere: 1. Desire to live in a different part of the country. 2. Uneasiness with having one's father as a coach. 3. Feelings that a different program would be a better "fit," in terms of style of play, etc. 4. Other personal reasons such as rapport with the coaches or players of another program, etc. Same reason that, say, many children of U-M professors decide to leave Ann Arbor for college/university. And to call anyone out for not thinking he was a 100% "lock" to U-M is a bit... lame.


Input: [Date] 6 years 44 weeks ago [Title] "My point, however, is that [Body]

Output: "My point, however, is that this was NOT an easy call. This was NOT a 'no-brainer.' And in hindsight, it was the wrong call." You're right, of course, but who's arguing otherwise? I would find it very hard to believe that coaches did not take (2), (3), and (4) into consideration when deciding whether or not to go for two.


Input: [Date] 6 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Get in touch with the alumni [Body]

Output: Get in touch with the alumni chapter there. When I lived there I watched a couple games (MSU and Ohio State, which were the only two that were televised) at The Sports Cafe on the Haymarket. There will be a strong contingent of U-M folk I'm sure.


Input: [Date] 2 years 27 weeks ago [Title] How do you level up your [Body]

Output: How do you level up your horde?


Input: [Date] 2 years 34 weeks ago [Title] "While we were advised BHBH [Body]

Output: "While we were advised BHBH would again be Spring Football Game Weekend, and of the rental price of the stadium" It sounds like the race pays a venue fee for use of the stadium. Maybe not as much as they charge for a wedding or other non-charity event? $6k a pop for one-hour wedding ceremonies is a nice payoff.


Input: [Date] 2 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Americans for Safe Access vs [Body]

Output: Americans for Safe Access vs DEA over the schedule 1 classification could have a significant impact on how this all plays out as far as federal involvement, raids, etc. With regards to sports at the end of the day the school/team/NCAA/NFL can make whatever rules they please and players can either adhere to those rules or face the consequences. I don't think we'll see any rule changes unless recreational use is legalized nationwide like alcohol. I definitely don't see it changing anything at the college level since both states have set a minimum age of 21.


Input: [Date] 2 years 39 weeks ago [Title] I managed to be surrounded by [Body]

Output: I managed to be surrounded by the drunk belligerent Husker fans despite being in the visitors section. Outside of the game people were really nice. Poor cell service, crappy beer, nothing to do outside of football, I don't think we'll bother driving through 8hrs of corn again.


Input: [Date] 2 years 40 weeks ago [Title] We're leaving Friday from [Body]

Output: We're leaving Friday from Colorado. Go blue!


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] Whoa, let's not get all East [Body]

Output: Whoa, let's not get all East Lansing here guys.


Input: [Date] 2 years 41 weeks ago [Title] We're making the drive from [Body]

Output: We're making the drive from Colorado and it's my husband's birthday weekend. Not sure how I'm going to top this present.


Input: [Date] 2 years 45 weeks ago [Title] When this is done I'm going [Body]

Output: When this is done I'm going to punch babies.


Input: [Date] 3 years 20 weeks ago [Title] My family is in Saline and [Body]

Output: My family is in Saline and they had golf ball sized hail.


Input: [Date] 3 years 37 weeks ago [Title] So he had to be forced to do [Body]

Output: So he had to be forced to do the right thing and then he "learned" from it and the dog that was attacked was most likely euthanized for defending itself. His writing and word choice shows he's perfectly fine with discrimintion against dogs based on breed, something I fight against every day. It is ignorance and I'm disappointed a professor would subscribe to such ideas.


Input: [Date] 3 years 38 weeks ago [Title] Me too. [Body]

Output: 10am start for Mountain time isn't fun either. It is an improvement from when I lived in Alaska and those games started at 8am.


Input: [Date] 3 years 40 weeks ago [Title] Universities discourage [Body]

Output: Universities discourage victims of sexual assault from going to the police because if they deal with these cases internally they don't get included in the annual campus crime reports. Always skip the school/campus cops and go straight to the police.


Input: [Date] 3 years 42 weeks ago [Title] Same here. [Body]

Output: The ends are cutting off with both versions for me too. It is extra scary only being able to see the angry wolverine and Sparty. EDIT: I changed the desktop setting from "center" to "stretch" and it works now.


Input: [Date] 3 years 48 weeks ago [Title] 742 [Body]

Output: 742


Input: [Date] 3 years 48 weeks ago [Title] Great commercial but how am I [Body]

Output: Great commercial but how am I supposed to watch the game with all this dust in my eyes?


Input: [Date] 3 years 49 weeks ago [Title] They made these for a bunch [Body]

Output: They made these for a bunch of schools and all of them have the same typo. Our local news used the Colorado one.


Input: [Date] 3 years 51 weeks ago [Title] At first glace I also saw a [Body]

Output: At first glace I also saw a boat! I thought it was inspired by "the crossing of the Delaware" until I looked closer.


Input: [Date] 4 years 6 weeks ago [Title] Arrived 5 days late [Body]

Output: Sadly I always win these things. When I was 16 I was supposed to fly home to Alaska from Michigan on a Saturday. I was travelling by myself and there was a bad snowstorm. I didn't leave Detroit until Sunday, got stuck in Minneapolis for 2 nights (it was supposed to be 1 night but the agent gave me a ticket for a flight that didn't exist), then flew to Salt Lake and on to Seattle where I spent another night before finally going home. I didn't have my bag the whole time and had to buy some clothes in Minny. So yeah, I arrived home 5 days late and received no compensation from the airlines.


Input: [Date] 4 years 7 weeks ago [Title] I bleed maize and blue but [Body]

Output: I bleed maize and blue but there is no denying that Ralphie is awesome! After moving to Colorado I went to one of their games just to see her. I felt bad when they hauled her all the way out to Georgia just to lose in classic ass whooping fashion.


Input: [Date] 4 years 8 weeks ago [Title] The car thing really throws [Body]

Output: The car thing really throws me. I graduated in '04 and students with cars were still the exception, not the norm. Has this really changed?


Input: [Date] 4 years 10 weeks ago [Title] +1 this is a great post. This [Body]

Output: +1 this is a great post. This guy is going to be one of those parents who refuses to pick up their sick kid when the school calls because it's really important she still get to play in the game after school. At least he'll probably get what he deserves when his daughter gets older.


Input: [Date] 4 years 15 weeks ago [Title] Our favorite New Belgium is [Body]

Output: Our favorite New Belgium is the Abbey and I'm digging on the new Ranger IPA too.


Input: [Date] 4 years 15 weeks ago [Title] Some homebrew, some Avery [Body]

Output: Some homebrew, some Avery brews, and enough hard liquor to forget I even did the taxes last night.


Input: [Date] 4 years 22 weeks ago [Title] I was also part of the class [Body]

Output: I was also part of the class that got to pay the price. It's not nearly as fun watching those wins get stripped away and the current team punished for actions that happend well before they ever got to college. But I can't complain too much since my senior year was the last time we beat OSU in football.


Input: [Date] 4 years 26 weeks ago [Title] "The last time U-M closed was [Body]

Output: "The last time U-M closed was 1978". That explains why the only time I've heard of a snow day was from a 70s alumna.


Input: [Date] 4 years 26 weeks ago [Title] They never cancelled due to [Body]

Output: They never cancelled due to weather in my 4 years there. We had a bad ice storm one year and they were nice enough to warn students to watch out for all the falling tree branches.


Input: [Date] 4 years 27 weeks ago [Title] As a huge Dylan fan this was [Body]

Output: As a huge Dylan fan this was probably my favorite post ever.


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

Output: Audio online at mlive now. http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/index.ssf/2011/01/brady_hoke_on_the_huge_show_de.html


Input: [Date] 4 years 31 weeks ago [Title] 1. At home on the big [Body]

Output: 1. At home on the big screen 2. with the hubby 3. we'll check in on all of them, really looking forward to the Rose Bowl 4. starting off with bloody marys and then we'll go from there


Input: [Date] 4 years 39 weeks ago [Title] Not giving his DC enough [Body]

Output: Not giving his DC enough freedom to install his own staff. I'm with that. I kind of feel like he's been set up to fail so either let GR get his own staff and run a scheme he's comfortable with or bring in someone new and don't make the same mistake twice. Either way I'd like to see the 3-3-5 scheme go.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I'd feel worse for him staying on the Kings. Both franchises have been awful on the court, but the Sixers have a (very tenuous) path forward, which Nik could potentially be a part of. I don't see any evidence at all of such a path with Sacramento. [Title]

Output: I'd feel worse for him


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Yeah, I dunno, I'd probably decide on "better franchise" based on something along the lines of their respective chances of being late-round playoff teams in the next five or so years. By that metric, I'd go with the Sixers. Who could be all means continue being terrible. But given their assets -- lottery 5s and otherwise -- I think they def have a better chance of breaking through than do the Kings. [Title]

Output: Yeah, I dunno, I'd probably


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Body] The occurance of disasters is an excellent prompt to donate, and I also encourage everyone who can to do so. I'd also encourage everyone to do some research about where their money is going and how it's likely to be used. Specifically, I'd strongly encourage givers to resist the urge in give in such a way that their money is earmarked for Nepalese disaster relief. The bottleneck in providing immediate disaster relief is generally not money (as we saw in post-earthquake Haiti, post-Sandy NY, post-tsunami Japan, etc.), and making generalized donations now can help improve the responses available for future disasters. Along these lines, Felix Salmon, in the aftermath of Sandy, made what I thought was a strong case for giving to MSF rather than the Red Cross: "Which isn’t to say that donating money is a bad idea, when disasters hit. But it is to say that donating money to the Red Cross might not be the best use of your dollars. My advice is to give instead to MSF, or an organization like it, which is dealing with disasters every day of the year. That gave them the experience ability to respond quickly when disaster struck in the USA — and it also means that if your money would be put to more urgent use somewhere else, like Zimbabwe or Honduras or Chad, then that’s where it will go. We should spend as much money as is needed here — but don’t force the matter and earmark $117 million for Sandy relief, when no one knows whether even the Red Cross thinks it can sensibly spend that much. The Red Cross didn’t need to promise to spend all that money on Sandy and Sandy alone, but it made that promise anyway." [Title]

Output: The occurance of disasters is


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 1 day ago [Body] This point tends to get carried too far. No reasonable idea of usefulness would reduce to immediate and specific vocational preparation. Case in point: the training that a good student receives in a good philosophy department (cultivating, namely, the ability to think precisely and to manage complex ideas) can be of enormous value, both in a variety of employment contexts and in the general practice of citizenship. [Title]

Output: This point tends to get


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 1 day ago [Body] So in otherwords: you like the aspect of the uniform that looks very much like a million other uniforms Michigan basketball has worn, but you're not a huge fan of the glaring dick-cumberbun that's been vomited onto the shorts? To me, that would mean that I don't like the uniform. [Title]

Output: So in otherwords: you like


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 14 hours ago [Body] I never played past high school, but I did manage to accumulate a fair amount of joint injury: a torn ACL/meniscus and four subsequent knee surgeries and continued wear left me unable to do anything ballistic with my legs at a young age, and I already have a fair amount of arthritis in that knee and same-side hip, both of which I assume will have to get replaced at some point going forward. I know that this pails in comparison to the joint injury/pain that a lot of guys go through, but I say it to establish the fact that I can appreciate the costs of joint damage. That said, I'm grateful that, aside from getting my bell rung a few times, I never accumulated much head trauma. I just see a qualitative difference between brain injury and bodily injury; bodily injury can alter your life, making it inconvenient and painful (in ways that I acknowledge can be pretty awful), but brain injury can fundamentally change who you are. And this is what I, and I assume others, find so frightening about the risk from concussions. I could see myself with full information trading a few years of playing a sport that I love for a future of moderate physical disability. I could never see myself making that trade for a future of middle-aged advanced dementia. [Title]

Output: Head injury vs. joint injury


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 1 day ago [Body] It's interesting to see this outcome after reading a really fascinating Grantland piece recently on advanced defensive metrics: http://grantland.com/features/department-of-defense/. Among other things, the article makes the case for Chris Paul as the best perimeter defender in the association. [Title]

Output: It's interesting to see this


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Honest, straight-faced answer: I would give zero fucks if I was largely clueless about where guys would end up before they committed somewhere. I would care more about losing scouting content, but that content doesn't seem to me to be dependent on the element of the business model in question. [Title]

Output: Honest, straight-faced answer: I would give zero


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Me directly answering your question does not qualify as going off on a wild tangent. [Title]

Output: Me directly answering your question does not


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] With respect go the question of whether anyone would pay him a cent: possibly, though at the margin, certainly fewer. my broader, more tangential point: the world would not be a poorer place if some of these hypothetical guys were to empty their contact lists of 16-year-olds and go back to selling insurance or whatever. [Title]

Output: With respect go the question of whether anyone


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] The 'certain definition of value' I referenced is the one that you presuppose: the one that centers entirely on the guy running the site. A piece of recruiting info also carries value for (at least some) of the people who absorb it, whether or not they pay. It also carries some (possibly negative) value for the players/coaches/families from which it was extracted. [Title]

Output: The 'certain definition of value' I referenced is


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Under a certain definition of 'value', yes. Also, I'm not entirely convinced by my own argument, but I'm much less convinced by your fact/opinion distinction, either with respect to its logical structure or its application to statements about what recruits will do. [Title]

Output: Under a certain definition of 'value', yes.Also,


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I dunno, man. I have a really hard time swallowing the notion of statements of fact about the world as property. Whatever the legal framework, items of prose seem to me to be qualitatively different from kernels of knowledge, and it seems to me that the latter can't properly 'belong' to anybody. Granted, there's a collective action problem here; if everybody gets info for free, then nobody gets paid to collect it, and everybody gets less recruiting bits. But I feel confident in saying that the socially optimal level of recruit pestering is way lower than what goes on now. [Title]

Output: I dunno, man. I have a really hard time swallowing


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I could be mistaken, but my impression of the twitterverse is that you could find a cure for cancer, and you'd still get a dozen people telling you that you're a vagina that rhymes with "punt". Which is not to say that York hasn't earned some vitriol. [Title]

Output: I could be mistaken, but my


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] Whatever. Facebook is rightly horrified at Swift's suggestion: http://literallyunbelievable.org/ [Title]

Output: Whatever. Facebook is rightly


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Before or after the game? [Title]

Output: Before or after the game?


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] The success of autodidacts doesn't mean that schools are useless. And I think we may have to agree to disagree on the interpretation of my experience; in my view, there is vanishingly little danger here, and the use of (very modest) university resources to encourage students to be less shitty than I was at times in undergrad seems reasonable. [Title]

Output: The success of autodidacts


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] So if I'm Roma, and I'm kind of bummed out that my ethnic identity is used as a shorthand for fucking people over (an association that has been used as a pretext for my ancestors' systematic extermination at various points in history), I should realize that I'm part of the problem. Got it. [Title]

Output: So if I'm Roma, and I'm kind


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] The thing with a simple "be considerate" message is that many people (and I would place my 20-year-old self firmly in this camp) have no idea that some of the things they're saying actually are deeply incosiderate. I would regularly call things retarded, and I would regularly admonish my friends to not be such fags when they wouldn't want to go out in the cold and such. I don't do this anymore, not because I'm such a better person now, but because I realize now that I was being demeaning and shitty. [Title]

Output: The thing with a simple "be


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] In requesting that people not say certain things because other people find them hurtful and demeaning, the university isn't providing a nudge to exercise self-control so much as it's letting people know that some of those things actually are hurtful and demeaning to others. I used to say a lot of things in friendly conversation that I now consider socially unacceptable and, with the exception of the occcasional slip up, rarely use. It's not because I'm so much more in possession of myself, but because I now realize in ways that I didn't before that I was kind of being an asshole. [Title]

Output: Self-control vs. understanding of context


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] There is an enormous gap between 1) censoring ideas, and 2) requesting that people be civil to each other. The notion that my ability to formulate and openly argue for ideas is somehow compromised because Big Brother has asked that I not call anyone a fag is...not particularly compelling. [Title]

Output: Free thought


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Belle Waring: "98% of what people angrily claim is “Political Correctness” is just manners. Politeness. If something I were saying at a dinner party offended another guest and my host explained why, I would stop saying that thing, in all likelihood. I myself used to call things “retarded” all the time when I was a kid, and I carried it into adulthood, and then people on the internet made it clear that they found this hurtful and demeaning, so I stopped. I explained to my children, I have a left-over bad habit in that I will occasionally call something retarded and it’s not an appropriate thing to say; will you please correct me when I do it? Thinking about what I wanted my children to say helped me here. Likewise, although I don’t know that I said anything particularly unpleasant about it ever, I was comparatively ignorant about issues facing trans people until some years back. Does this make me angry because the word “cisgender” exists now? No, because I’m not an asshole." [Title]

Output: An onerous task: don't be an asshole


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I'd actually disagree about Westwood village being awesome. It's kind of like a scaled-up South U, except with more douchebags in Maseratis and 50-year-olds with plastic faces. Other things of note: CTools is a lot better than UCLA's course computing website, and people get ticketed for jaywalking on campus all the time, which totally sucks. Let the negative recruiting commence! [Title]

Output: I'd actually disagree about


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Burt and Ernie did MOP's Ante Up: [Title]

Output: Another thing to not click on


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 4 days ago [Body] As a current UCLA grad student, that is absolutely true. I went to the Oregon game this year, and most of the stadium seemed to not completely realize that a football game was happening. The campus in general seems pretty detached from football. That said, the university is not without amenities... [Title]

Output: As a current UCLA grad


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Article is paywalled, but you can get the gist from the abstract: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pam.20287/abstract Auto insurance 'redlining' is an empirically verifiable thing. To your initial point: this isn't to say that insurance companies are extracting excess profits from people in affected neighborhoods. But it does demonstrate that a lot of (potential) drivers take a huge hit on premiums through no fault of their own. [Title]

Output: Statistics


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 4 days ago [Title]

Output: (No subject)


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 4 days ago [Body] This raises an interesting point over what counts as "political". I'm assuming that you're objecting to the comments on race and racism because they cross the no-politics line. But I'd argue that discussing the stability of Grosse Pointe's elite status without acknowledging that the form of segregation from which it draws its status represents one of the biggest moral failings of 20th Century America is, at the very least, a tad political. [Title]

Output: This raises an interesting


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Let's not drag Harbaugh into this. [Title]

Output: Let's not drag Harbaugh into


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The point is that "grown men", as used in the initial comment, refers to the stage of life development at which dudes are likely to be not so into being led around on a string. Yes, 22yos are often asked to bear tremendous military burdens, and we should all solemnly introduce this point in as many threads as possible. But the relevant sense of "grown men" has a lot more to do with not getting care packages from mom, making solo trips to Bed, Bath and Beyond, etc. [Title]

Output: The point is that "grown men", as used in the


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Maybe it's the case that the attributes that make a person well-suited for infantry do not overlap precisely with the attributes that make them resent being dragged to cocktail parties? [Title]

Output: Maybe it's the case that the


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I came across this site the other day: http://www.donotlink.com/ It allows you to link to a page you'd rather not support without that link affecting the page's standing in search engines (I think). The page still gets whatever marginal benefit from the extra views, but presumably that benefit is fairly small. [Title]

Output: Option for posting unsavory links


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I remember seeing McGuffie at the CCRB right before he transferred and being struck by the fact that he had a tremendously unironic mustache, a really hot girlfriend, and could benchpress way more than me. Everything seemed right. [Title]

Output: I remember seeing McGuffie at


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Politics != ideology != moral reasoning. Criticizing a movie because of what you perceive as its moral or ideological failings is entirely reasonable. As this is not at all the place for the discussion, I won't offer my own opinion on the merit of specific critiques. But, regardless of your own commitments, it would be a mistake to write off a critique simply because it addresses what it takes to be the underlying ideological commitments of the movie. [Title]

Output: Politics != ideology != moral


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I take it as a positive sign that Harbaugh and Clark exchanged pants before the picture. [Title]

Output: I take it as a positive sign


Input: [Date] 29 weeks 6 hours ago [Body] Calmer than you are. [Title]

Output: Calmer than you are.


Input: [Date] 38 weeks 2 days ago [Body] So you were right. [Title]

Output: So you were right.


Input: [Date] 41 weeks 4 days ago [Body] The people who don't get why it's so fucked up for an athlete who's been accused (very plausibly) of raping one of his classmates to yell sexually aggressive obscenities, in public, at other classmates, clearly have no idea what "rape culture" means. But boys will be boys. [Title]

Output: The people who don't get why


Input: [Date] 44 weeks 3 days ago [Body] When people self-select into taking an IQ test on a football blog mid-season while their team is doing poorly, the IQ test will not go well. [Title]

Output: The lesson I take from this


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] I have no special insight here, but if he's "researching the neuroimmunological, physiological and biochemical responses of elite contact sports athletes to training and competition", then I'd have to assume that a lot of his work is going to be focused on studying and working to improve players' brain health, short and long term. This seems like a very smart move by the University, both in terms of protecting the wellbeing of students and in terms of limiting future liabilities (though again, I have no expertise in terms of legal-type things). Also, has anybody seen that Rippetoe article? /s [Title]

Output: Concussions


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 17 hours ago [Title]

Output: Harumph


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I've been on a bit of an Eastbound and Down kick lately, and the thing that strikes me about the MSU sign isn't the carelessness with spellcheck or the unfamiliarity with "whereas", it's the fact that the whole sign is written in straight-up Kenny Powers prose. Not in the sense of explicit references to genitalia or intoxicants, but in the sense of being a pompous impersonation of some made-up narration of a virtuous warrior on a solemn quest, or some bullshit. [Title]

Output: MSU sign


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I'll admit to not following Brandon's posts very closely, but I'd agree that both the content and style of his writing seemed quite a bit different than those of Brian/Ace/Seth. This is obviously very subjective, but I just don't care much at all about predictions about where a guy might end up committing in 6 months. Which is not to say that I don't care about recruiting -- I love reading scouting reports, seeing the strengths and weaknesses of the guys who are coming here or going elsewhere. But when it comes to psychoanalyzing tweets or terse phone interviews with16yo kids who would rather be doing something else, I'll pass. Aside from my (again, very subjective) disinterest in the content of recruiting speculations, I don't think that they lend themselves to the sort of prose that makes this site really extraordinary. It's that prose that I think is really indispensible to this site, and I'm more than OK seeing the task of bugging teenagers take a back seat to it. [Title]

Output: Analysis and reflection vs. the reading of recruiting tea leaves


Input: [Date] 1 year 5 days ago [Body] I wouldn't mind seeing another true center on the team, and I think he'd be the best candidate. I know we're building for the future and all, but I'd still rather see him then Cousins, given his passing ability and the team-centered nature of his emotional volatility. [Title]

Output: Joakim Noah


Input: [Date] 1 year 6 days ago [Body] To my ear, Illmatic is probably the best thing ever done, though I'm not prepared for a vigorous defense of my ear. [Title]

Output: To my ear, Illmatic is


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] As you say, it takes a while to put on good weight without also adding a lot of bad weight. But it also takes time to lose a lot of bad weight without losing good weight. In other words: a guy who slowly gets to a lean 250 lbs is probably going to be a lot stronger than the same guy who gets to a fluffier 275 and then drops down to 250 in a month. [Title]

Output: Fluctuations


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] I make no arguments about what effects the athletic department at Michigan has on the University as a whole, nor vice versa. These have nothing to do with the claim of ultimate importance -- you can argue that a healthy AD is good for the rest of the University, but this does not at all rebut the claim that the rest of the University is what really matters. That last bit is all I'm claiming: that the University of Michigan is an educational institution. What matters in the end is its performance as such. I.e. academics are more important than athletics. [Title]

Output: I make no arguments about


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] Granted, we're on a Michigan sports blog. But these are shockingly misplaced priorities. As an earlier poster noted, the University's mission statement doesn't preclude a strong role for athletics, but it certainly doesn't necessitate one, either. The reason universities exist is to train young people and to advance scholarship. End of story. [Title]

Output: "athletics and academics are both equally important"


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] Is it really the case that robust football and basketball programs increase non-athletic alumni donations? Looking at a list of universities with the largest alumni donation sums, it's clear that prominent athletic departments aren't a prerequisite. (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-12/college-donations-rise-to-recor...) But is there some evidence to suggest that sports play a big role once you control for alumni wealth? I'm genuinely agnostic on this and would welcome persuasive evidence either way. [Title]

Output: Honest question


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] I don't know if it has more to do with Michigan's prior NBA drought, the circumstances of his tourny run, or with the character of Trey himself, but I get the feeling that there were a lot of us who turned out to see the Trey Burke NBA Tour last year. I donned all the Michigan gear I own to watch him come to the Staples Center and play the Lakers. [Title]

Output: Great essay


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] My main point is just that I don't see Walton solidifying himself as a 1st round pick in the next two years (as Lawson was able to do, and as I doubt Ferrell will be able to do either). I'd be happy to be wrong about that, and I'll be happy to have him running point in either case. [Title]

Output: I'll go along with that


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] As for Walton/Lawson: I like the size comparison, but Lawson has freakish end-to-end speed and can get up a lot higher than Walton. Lawson was also a lot more productive his freshman year. Like I said above, I love Walton's game, but one of the reason's that I'm so stoked about his play last year is that I really don't see him leaving before his eligibility is up. [Title]

Output: Agree on Kaminsky


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] Every guy you mentioned measured out at 6'1" or better (given the...idiosyncratic...standards of combine measurement) with wingspans of 6'3.5" or better -- this is significantly bigger than what I'd expect Walton to measure at. EDIT: I see that Silva and Napier actually only had 6'3" and 6'3.25" wingspans, respectively (which is still longer than I'd expect Walton to measure). Probably not coincidentally, these guys were both also 4-year players. The other guys are also either much more explosive than Walton (Flynn, Bledsoe, Walker) and/or have a much longer reach (Burke at 6'5.5", Bledsoe at 6'7.5"). [Title]

Output: All bigger than Walton


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] I love Walton's game, but I don't see him as having the size to be a first round pick. He's listed at 6'1", but I'd be very surprised if he measures out at that, even with shoes, and he seems to have really short arms for his height. The only player drafted at all in the last three years who's as small as Walton is Pierre Jackson, and he was taken in the 2nd round (and has significantly more vertical explosion). [Title]

Output: I love Walton's game, but I


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 weeks ago [Body] "Fighting for the right to be assaulted by much larger people" is not, I think, an accurate reading of any form of feminism. [Title]

Output: "Fighting for the right to be


Input: [Date] 1 year 4 weeks ago [Body] My initial inclination was to agree more with Mat, re: the costs/benefits of being taken in the 2nd round. However, it looks like there really is a fairly sharp downgrade in career prospects for players taken at the beginning of the 2nd compared to those taken at the end of the 1st: Harvard sports guy. [Title]

Output: Effect of being taken in the 2nd round


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] Clay Travis is "not sufficiently sophisticated/wordly in the way I'd prefer" in the same sense that a man defecating on my front lawn is "not sufficiently mannered/hygienic in the way I'd prefer." [Title]

Output: Clay Travis


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] Lou Bullock and Brent Petway ... I love Beilein so much. [Title]

Output: NBA Jam skillz


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] I don't disagree that serious malfeasance went on at UNC. But the point that I think Perrin makes is that UNC (to the extent it exists as a monolithic entity) doesn't actually disagree either, that Willingham and Smith are presenting a false narrative of obstruction and denial on the part of current University administration, and that meaningful steps have been taken to avoid future malfeasance. Getting back to the OP, none of this is to necessarily let Williams off the hook. But I'd be hesitant to throw too much shade on the current UNC leadership, and I'd be especially wary to accept arguments from Willingham and Smith at face value. [Title]

Output: I don't disagree that serious malfeasance went on


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] I don't mean to come off as a reactionary defender of UNC (I really don't have much at stake personally), but I'm not overly persuaded by the arguments layed out here. They basically attack a press release for...being a press release. It's not clear to me that the absence of scathing, public self-critique in such a communication is any evidence at all that the university hasn't taken misconduct seriously. Further arguing from the presence of multiple committees to the necessary failure of each committee also strikes me as weak, as does their attack on the use of aggregate GPAs among student athletes. There also seems to be a lack of attention to factual detail in the piece, referring to [James] Michael McAdoo a football player. While this might be a meaningless typo, it seems congruent with a general carelessness with facts that might be characteristic of the arguing parties. The people responsible for the article, Jay Smith and Mary Willingham, were called out specifically by the sociology professor Andrew Perrin in the 2nd link I provided above http://scatter.wordpress.com/2014/04/28/media-sociology-from-the-other-side/: "Early on in the scandal, the paper — mostly through the work of Dan Kane, who is the main journalist working on this set of stories — has developed a viewpoint that believes the University is monolithic, defensive, and evasive. This viewpoint isn’t particularly amenable to evidence; rather, it seems to structure the way Kane approaches each element of the story, assuming and expecting malfeasance. This is facilitated by the active work of Jay Smith and Mary Willingham, who are fostering that narrative and viewpoint. I don’t believe that viewpoint is accurate; in fact, I think that the university administration has been remarkably methodical and transparent in its approach to the situation, has provided lots of information, and has been unusually open to involving faculty in the processes of investigation and reform. Despite there being ample information available on these processes, the N&O has not reported on any of that, preferring instead to focus on sensationalism. Examples include the focus on Ms. Willingham instead of investigating the substance of her claims; the recent article essentially reprinting an evidence-free claim of “bullying” by the Government Accountability Project; and a news story in yesterday’s paper about the fact that a group of retired faculty wrote an op-ed in the same paper. In each of these cases, there is no serious attempt to assess the situation." ... "CNN has gleefully reprinted, with no skepticism whatsoever, claims that have turned out to be either factually untrue or highly questionable, such as the content of Mary Willingham’s MA thesis, the number of very-underprepared student-athletes at UNC, and the actual character of a now-famous “paper” she insinuated was a final paper that received an A- grade (it wasn’t, and it didn’t)." Given their history of sensationalism and carelessness with factual argument, I'd at the very least treat arguments orginating with Smith and Willingham with a healthy dose of care. [Title]

Output: Thanks for the link


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] Andrew Perrin, a sociologist at UNC and a contributor at a fairly prominent academic social science blog, wrote a few weeks ago on his experience as a member of the UNC faculty group that sought to investigate and reform academic misconduct. http://scatter.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/the-unc-athletics-scandal-in-context/ Give the post as much credence as you'd like, but it certainly appears as though the university as a whole took the scandal seriously; there have been concrete actions to improve institutional oversight, and the people in charge of the most grievous failings have been fired and in one case prosecuted. (Perrin provides a bit more detail here, focusing more on the nature of the media coverage of the scandal. As Michigan fans, we might not be surprised to see the local paper erring on the side of sensationalism in the scandal's aftermath.) [Full disclosure: my girlfriend is a UNC grad] [Title]

Output: Insider UNC perspective


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] People who can't afford to own cars themselves, and people who like to not get killed by cars. [Title]

Output: Other beneficiaries


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] Whatever the cause, it seems like McCants and his family have had a strong dislike for Williams for some time. Most notably, his dad made this oft-quoted statement a few years ago: "THE CURRENT COACH IS A PIECE OF (EXPLETIVE) (EXPLETIVE) AND i DON'T RECOMMEND ANYONE GET RECRUITED BY HIM HE WILL WRECK YOUR CAREER IF YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF HIS UNDERHANDED TACTIC AND INSINCERITY. BEWARE!!!!!!!" [all-caps in original] I don't make any claim to knowing the backstory here. But the fact that just about everyone who has ever come in contact with McCants has a pretty low opinion of him is enough to provide me with some priors... [Title]

Output: The ax in question


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] I don't doubt that McCants (and players like him, at UNC and just about every other big-sports university) received academic treatment well outside of the standards professed by the NCAA. I would tend to doubt, however, the veracity [voraciously] of any of his specific claims; he clearly has an ax to grind, and he's regarded as hyper-untrustworthy, even by people who have no interest in seeing UNC dodge scandal. In other words, I don't think his claims give us any new information RE unethical behavior at UNC. [Title]

Output: True but not new


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] McCants isn't exactly a reliable witness here. Quite a few people have come out saying what a head case he is since he came forward the other day, including people like Julius Hodge who have no UNC affiliation. He also apparently has a long-standing antipathy for Williams, one that doesn't appear to be shared by many other players. Beyond this, McCants had a media quote from his playing days in which he compared his experience at UNC to being in prison, on account of how he was always expected to show up to things like class. [Title]

Output: McCants


Input: [Date] 1 year 7 weeks ago [Body] James C Scott wrote a really interesting book, Seeing Like a State, on the consequences of state programs to make complex entities more measurable from a centralized perspective. Bending over backwards to make outcomes more legible does bad things. [Title]

Output: Not just the corporate world


Input: [Date] 1 year 8 weeks ago [Body] Crawford's quicker and Stauskas is stronger, but in terms of their length, fluidity, ability to score off the dribble, take a few minutes at point, weaknesses on defense, I think they have a lot of similarities. [Title]

Output: I really like the Jamal Crawford comparison


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Body] I'm not sure if "Xs and Os" is the right term, but I think that understanding a team's defensive philosophy -- being able to mike the right rotations in a reflexive sort of way, knowing which way you're forcing the dribbler in different situations, etc. -- is a pretty big deal. It's not the same as memorizing a 100-page play book, but it can still definitely take some time. If you look at players' defensive win shares, for example, they tend to rise for their first few years in the league, even when those players are physically well-developed (see Kawhi Leonard, Jimmy Butler, etc.). Also, with respect to physical maturity, I think McGary definitely has room for improvement. He's old for his class, but I'm assuming that his "weightroom age" is still pretty young. I think he can definitely still benefit from dropping body fat, adding lean mass, and gaining more explosiveness. [Title]

Output: I'm not sure if "Xs and Os"


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Body] Sorry for crazy-man self-reply; was responding to someone via the app whose comments have been caved. [Title]

Output: Sorry for crazy-man


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Body] If traveling were called differently 20 years ago, you'd still be on this message board griping about the decline of the NBA, with reference to your past non-career. Also, did you ever watch Patrick Ewing play? [Title]

Output: Let me assure you


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Body] There have definitely been some rough spots -- I've been disappointed with the Thunder all postseason, most of the East is still a relative tire fire, etc. But we're still likely to see two legitimately great teams in the finals in the Heat and Spurs. And what's the comparison group? Whatever you feel about the excitement and loyalties at play in college, the level of play in (even a relatively down) NBA playoffs is massively higher. And I'd also argue that overall quality of play in today's game is at the very least comparable to the Golden Era of the mid-/late-80s. [Title]

Output: There have definitely been some rough spots --


Input: [Date] 1 year 9 weeks ago [Body] This comment describes 95+% of anti-NBA gripes. "I never watch the game, but let me tell you how much it's declined. THUGS TRAVELING LAZY THUG ISOLATION TATTOES. Also, let me tell you about how defense is so much better in college basketball, which explains Adam Morrison's career shooting percentages." Tonight we got to see impressive 2nd half performances by arguably the best overall player and arguably the best shooter to ever play, both playing within (pretty fucking intricate) team offensive and defensive concepts, for the right to face a GREG FUCKING POPOVICH team in the finals. And yet the game has gone to shit. [Title]

Output: This comment describes 95+%