Input: [Date] 32 weeks 10 hours ago [Body] Yeah, that's tough. Money doesn't make up for everything. Let's be fair--it's good that Nuss gets a soft landing. He jumped onto a sinking ship, and even with all of the struggles produced real growth on the OL for the first time in a couple of years. It is impossible to tell how much incompetence comes from him and how much comes from his superiors. We know a lot of it came from the top. [Title]

Output: Yeah, that's tough. Money


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 1 day ago [Body] BTW, this is a good spot to point out that I disagreed with your call that B-ball's unis would not be changed this year. I felt my reasoning was sound, but you were right. So good call. [Title]

Output: BTW, this is a good spot to


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Yep. The white M is a giant unforced error on an otherwise great look. The maize M on the blue panel was a real winner on the original unis. [Title]

Output: Yep. The white M is a giant


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Maybe. But most aren't firing someone. The key is probably a combination of roster and control offered. Maybe Oakland (whose QB looks promising) is enough of a draw. Or maybe Atlanta is willing to Nuke the staff. Or maybe Chicago has it's own "come home" to offer. I can say this: it's a good thing Chuck Pagano is winning in Indy. Because that would be the Harbaugh dream team, assuming good terms with the front office. [Title]

Output: Maybe. But most aren't firing


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Scratch one NFL suitor off of the list. Ross deserves credit here; he's done some things that have raised my eyebrows, but despite liking DB he was not an obstacle to a prompt dismissal and has apparently put no foot wrong in the Harbaugh sweepstakes. Contrast to how he dealt with Harbaugh last time when JH wasn't coming, and it's impressive. I genuinely hope Philbin succeeds there and rewards Ross for the confidence. [Title]

Output: Scratch one NFL suitor off of


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Some necessary cold water. You know where you can get good teleconference equipment? An Apple store. Pretty sure there are some Apple products in that area. [Title]

Output: Some necessary cold water.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Can you elaborate? [Title]

Output: Can you elaborate?


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] This post was a response to clarkiefromcanada, who appears to have deleted his post while I was typing. Ah well. I want to believe. [Title]

Output: Ne'ermind


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I guess, seeing the original non-shopped version, it doesn't say Michigan after all. But I want to believe. [Title]

Output: I guess, seeing the original


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Even includes the faded portion that is partially masked through the laminate,and a pixelated word that appears to be "Michigan" on the other side of the same page. So someone, somewhere, is trolling hard. [Title]

Output: Even includes the faded


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Given your recent exposure as someone who makes stuff up, I'm inclined to disbelieve the OP. In this case my post is, literally, "pics or it didn't happen." No offense, but I was 14 once and thought I had to make stuff up to be significant, too. [Title]

Output: Given your recent exposure as


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] He's developed a fair number, including Richard Sherman. Your inability to name them (And I can't name many myself) is not a strike against him. [Title]

Output: He's developed a fair number,


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] No team that is going to fire a coach is without holes; naturally Atlanta has some. Frighteningly, one of the problems you've identified (running game) is something that Harbaugh has a track record of doing very well. And you have to believe that if Blank wants to make a serious run, he's going to clean out quite a bit to get Harbaugh. It's pretty much assumed that he wants a place with more control. And the Niners are not bringing him back, so their leverage is pretty limited--I don't think they'll block any serious move, since Jim is really in the driver's seat with where he wants to sign. The Niners will get a pick or two, but the alternative is firing him and seeing him walk to the same team for free. It's over in SanFran. [Title]

Output: No team that is going to fire


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] It's plausible, and it's bad. But it's not world-ending even if true, any more than home-shopping is a sure sign they're coming. If he hasn't made up his mind, then he's considering, and that means both options are appealing. [Title]

Output: It's plausible, and it's bad.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] He is not stringing Michigan along. But that doesn't mean he has made up his mind--most signs now point to Michigan being a real possibility, but almost everything says that he has not yet decided. That Jeff Moss anecdote worries me, because it's plausible and would fit with a guy who is really thinking hard but leaning away from Michigan. And the Atlanta thing worries me. They have real talent. There is no way Mike Smith is there next year unless they actually win a playoff game or two. But they have a real QB and pieces around him and have seriously underperformed. They're in a weak division. The dominoes are ready. And if Harbaugh is desperate to win a Super Bowl that is hard to turn down. [Title]

Output: He is not stringing Michigan


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] You've got this wrong, because you're conflating two different kinds of talking heads. Your typical guys that get most of the screen time are guys that are producing talking points, driving clicks, producing quotes, and all that. Quite true. That's where you get things like Kirk Herbstreit (who I like) calling Miles-to-Michigan. But guys like Jay Glazer and Adam Schefter are engaged in a cutthroat battle to break real news first and best. They are not analysts, though they might occasionally venture in some analysis for tv/radio purposes. They report. They cultivate sources. They, unquestionably, know more than they can actually write or say on air. Sports news orgs pay significant cash for them to produce, and if another guy is better, that guy gets paid too. Schefter is a good example--he got hired by ESPN because he was scooping Mort and everyone else on their staff. So I'm talking about the specific set of guys who really gather the hard information. If they get stagnant, they will open a space for someone else. If they are inaccurate, they lose significant prestige and their networks suffer. They are incredibly careful about what they report on, because (as we've seen in other spheres recently) being seriously wrong is a problem. [Title]

Output: You've got this wrong,


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Jim, your time is now Fulfill Your True Destiny Come to Michigan Also: The concept is good A thread for bad fan haiku But your first one stinks No offense, nothing personal, truth to power, etc. [Title]

Output: Jim, your time is


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] It's all circumstantial. Like the house shopping. It just means this is a real possibility. Why does this have to be a done deal for someone from Michigan to say, "Let's ship a nice tie down for Jim for a presser, show him we mean business." It doesn't have to be a done deal for a spouse to call an agent to find out what kind of houses are available should a move be made (indeed, that seems almost a pre-requisite for a spouse if she is being consulted in the decision). It just means that the offer is legit. And, apparently, that it is getting real consideration. But we already knew that. [Title]

Output: It's all circumstantial. Like


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I'm not talking about the presidential loser's confidence, but also the confidence of many who shared his political slant and had rational reasons (such as real issues with polling assumptions that became significant last November) for doing so. Perhaps you were only reading coverage from one side of the spectrum; that's fine, of course, but then you sound like Joe Average NFL guy who reads none of this stuff from he M perspective but bases his prediction on Harbaugh on only what Rappoport and Schefter tweet. Reasonable people can disagree. That's kinda the point. [Title]

Output: I'm not talking about the


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I would trade the 00s that USC had for any Michigan decade in my life in a hot second. LSU may gripe about Saban now, but he turned a mediocre program with little history into a dominant power in the nation's best conference, allowing Miles to simply continue the momentum. I would take that kind of stint from Harbaugh easily. [Title]

Output: I would trade the 00s that


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] That's fine, but it's distasteful and embarrassing right now--wait for the result. [Title]

Output: That's fine, but it's


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] A negative post, posted twice. That makes this a double-negative. Which is really a positive. IT'S HAPPENING PEOPLE [Title]

Output: I suspect a lot of the


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I suspect a lot of the Michigan confidence is a combination of hope, non-negative feedback from JH, and a conviction that the offer is so solid that there's no way he'll turn it down. Which is to say, I'm not as optimistic, because I think Harbaugh can be swayed by an equal dollar offer from a potentially competitive NFL team. I think he wants to win a Super Bowl more than anything, and it's obviously not happening here. So a team with a good QB and/or roster is a legit threat. [Title]

Output: I suspect a lot of the


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I'm seeing more M fans totally convinced that it's happening (which is fine) rip on pretty reasonable NFL media guys who disagree. While I agree that the NFL guys aren't hearing the same info Brian is, it's worth noting that these NFL guys are not scrubs. If they were, someone else with better practices and sources would swoop in and supplant them. My point is: be careful about arrogant bashing of NFL types just because they're not as optimistic as we are. We are hopefully right; however, we have serious confirmation bias. Remember, in each of the last two national elections, one side has been stunned by the results because they chose to trust in (reasonable!) sources that predicted the outcomes they were hoping for. It's a natural human tendency. Don't get too carried away. [Title]

Output: I'm seeing more M fans


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 5 days ago [Body] But he IS interested. This is Michigan. He grew up loving it, played here, sang the Victors, beat Ohio State. It's a tremendous draw. I believe that if he had no interest he would have said so. If he chooses not to come, that just means the draw for the NFL job is bigger. Haven't you ever had to decide between two attractive opportunities? It's not always easy. That's where JH appears to be. [Title]

Output: But he IS interested. This is


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 5 days ago [Body] As long he doesn't say he's "Taking his talents to South Beach" or make some similarly brutal publicity move, a decision should be reluctantly accepted. A guy who has dreamed of winning a Super Bowl for decades, and has come oh-so-close, shouldn't be faulted for keeping up the chase. But I hope it doesn't come to that. [Title]

Output: As long he doesn't say he's


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I think the difference in multiple people contacting candidates is that in 2007 multiple people contacted candidates as representatives of the University WITHOUT representing the person in charge of the search. In this year's case, as far as we know, multiple contacts are made on behalf of the U of M but all are directly representing Jim Hackett. Outside guys like Woodson are just friends of the program that do not purport to represent the people in charge. Excellent write-up. Just reading the timeline is awkward and embarrassing; that Michigan wound up with a brilliant young up-and-coming coach is astonishing. It may be possible that Miles would still be coaching today and that he would be successful. It is also possible that a media far less compliant than the media in Baton Rouge would have, as they did with RR, found an area where Les's oversight was less than thorough and turned it into a massive scandal. We'll never know. But the signs suggest that Hackett is handling things much better today. And was probably hired expressly for this purpose. [Title]

Output: I think the difference in


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Of course it's Harbaugh-specific. JH is a Saban-level hire both in resume/capability and fanbase desperation. The big shots that are funding this are not putting $8 mil out for a lesser candidate. And that's ok. Because half do that total could easily, easily pull a lot of quality guys. [Title]

Output: Of course it's


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 6 days ago [Body] FWIW Afam Shefter is much cooler on the possibility of JH coming, and cites sources at Michigan (and he surely has some) that were cool on it too. He says that Harbaugh has "something to consider," but even there he's not super optimistic on it. He's a League guy, of course. But he's also the best in the business and, as a Michigan guy, not someone who would be biased against. [Title]

Output: FWIW Afam Shefter is much


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Yep. At the very least, there'd by movement. Joe Schad just tweeted speculation (no suggestion of actual info) that Tom Herman would be a good fit in Houston. If that's a real possibility, he's available for Michigan. He'd be a good choice. But Michigan is waiting on Harbaugh. And that might mean they miss out on a couple of other good candidates... And I think I'm ok with that. Swing for the fences. [Title]

Output: Yep. At the very least,


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] Who's going to throw him the ball? Harbaugh could come, revitalize the entire team, convert the OL into a bulldozer that mows down opposing teams like grass, go 10-2... And still have a QB passing for 150 a game with Funchess barely seeing a pass his way. No matter who is coaching, the passing game looks dodgy. Funch had his problems this year, but his numbers were certainly hurt by a crippled passing game. How many times have we longed for a deep ball, any deep ball, to be thrown his way? He can't risk another year like that--now is the time to go, while some bloom is still left on the rose. [Title]

Output: Who's going to throw him the


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Since we are dealing in complete hypotheticals, which of these would be a bigger deal: Nick Saban to Notre Dame, or Bill Belicheck to Michigan? [Title]

Output: Since we are dealing in


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I can understand some trepidation. Oklahoma has underachieved a fair amount in his tenure. I'll grant that there are some questions. I think his minuses are no worse than those of any other long-tenured coach not named Nick Saban, though. Literally everyone who has coached for a long time has some head scratching losses and disappointing seasons under their belt. Thing is, all potential candidates have downsides, and when we sign one, part of my process will be to talk myself into having hopes for the guy. Stoops will be pretty easy to talk myself into--there are a lot of pluses there. [Title]

Output: I can understand some


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I like Richt a lot, actually. I think the reason he deals with player discipline issues so often is because he doesn't sweep stuff under the rug; Atlanta and Athens are not places that are as subservient to football as, say, Birmingham and Tuscaloosa, so that stuff gets out, and he deals with it. And I think he's a good coach and a good man. But I don't think he will work at Michigan culturally. He's an evangelical Christian, which will predispose a lot of Michigan's fanbase to be distrustful of him, and his style is very Southern. I don't think he'll play well up here and I don't know that he would acclimate to the "style" of Michigan himself. [Title]

Output: I like Richt a lot, actually.


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Maybe, but then again, if Florida and Nebraska can't find anyone... Let's just say that this could turn out to be like one of those NFL drafts where a half dozen teams need to take a QB in the first round, and none of the QBs are any good. Just because Nebraska took Blaine Gabbert doesn't mean Christian Ponder will be a hit. [Title]

Output: Maybe, but then again, if


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] The decline is not irrelevant. Yeah, he had a great first year. So did Hoke. Maybe Shaw is a good coach, and this year is a blip that will be corrected with a good quarterback. But maybe not. It would be foolish not to be concerned about it--college football history is stocked with coaches that inherited solid programs, coasted on the momentum for a few years, and burned out when the experienced players who had grown up under the old coach left. Larry Coker is a good example of this--before they got mugged by Ohio State, that Miami team of his looked like the dominant power of the age, with a very legitimate shot at breaking Oklahoma's all-time win streak. He had won a national championship with one of the great, loaded teams of all time. They demolished every team in their path in 2002, and after their coronation over an overmatched OSU squad in Tempe, they were due to replace Ken Dorsey with highly touted transfer Brock Berlin. But those older players left, and despite playing in a weak conference, Coker could never rebuild a great team. Decent-but-not-great seasons followed, and he was fired. It might not be the same with Shaw. But it might be. It's a legitimate question. [Title]

Output: The decline is not


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] You didn't read my post. I explicitly said that there are multiple possible reasons why his Mississippi State recruiting classes aren't as strong as those of neighbors to his west or east. Not all reflect badly on him. But the fact that his recruits are not typically as shiny-looking as those that are flooding to Tuscaloose, Baton Rouge, Gainesville, et al is inarguable. [Title]

Output: You didn't read my post. I


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] This thread is about process. And Hackett has given a reasonably revealing look at what his process looks like. Candidates will be identified, but they are in different "swimming lanes." Timelines. Of course, this makes lots of sense, but people rarely speak of it in this fashion. It means that Hackett is more concerned with getting the right guy than having a guy in place right away. If the right guy is someone who is available now (I don't think that's Schiano, but let's use him as a hypothetical) the timeline would be quick and he would be named very soon. If the right guy is "involved in a bowl," either as a head coach or as a coordinator (let's say, hypothetically, Dan Mullen) the interviewing process may not happen until late this month, with the announcement after the game is over. More importantly, if the guy is currently the head coach of a team in the NFL (hypothetically, one that plays in Santa Clara or in Baltimore), it means that he is willing to wait for the right time to hire them. And I think he only gets in that swimming lane if he thinks it's a likely possibility. It means that preliminary, informal talks between "people close to the situation" might happen early, but that formal stuff waits until teams are at least eliminated from playoff contention. That might mean that there is a long, awkward wait; it sounds to me that he only gets in that lane if the payoff is worth it. And a Harbaugh running under the banner next September is worth it. [Title]

Output: This thread is about process.


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] Mullen has built his team with mostly 3-stars. He does not recruit with the rest of the SEC teams. Whether that's because he's cleaner, because he's working with a lesser program, or because he's a bad recruiter, most of his players are guys who don't get sniffs from Bama or LSU. FWIW if you start with the premise that most of the SEC is pretty dirty (and I hold that premise), it is objectively impossible to conclude that Les Miles has somehow built a whistle-clean winner at LSU. Honestly, I think LSU is likely as dirty as any program in football, and that's not including the shady stuff that is public knowledge, like light discipline of players who have committed crimes and oversigning. [Title]

Output: Mullen has built his team


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Body] At least half the SEC is one bagman confession away from imploding. That so many schools have sustained things for so long suggests that the Omerta is powerful enough to not be a huge concern. Seriously, Auburn won a national title with a quarterback that had a confirmed cash offer from Mississippi State (oh, hey there) and hasn't lost a single scholarship. That's just some of the stuff we KNOW. [Title]

Output: At least half the SEC is one


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Yeah. I'm not getting the kind of moves they're talking about making. Maybe they have insight into coaches that other places don't, but I'm not sure about that. It looks like they're starting with plan B candidates. [Title]

Output: Yeah. I'm not getting the


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Schefter is very reliable. He's careful not to report rumor. Crucially, he is sticking to what he knows here. So when he says "Harbaugh to NCAA unlikely," he is saying that as someone who has the best ear to the ground in the sport. Someone fed him info about possible trades; nobody has fed him any info about Harbaugh to Michigan. If that info was out there, he'd have it; it's not being talked about in NFL circles. Combine that from someone who can be objective and knows the business, for whom the idea of leaving a successful, Super Bowl-caliber NFL career for college is unthinkable, and you get this conclusion. This doesn't mean that Harbaugh won't come, but it makes a lot of sense. [Title]

Output: Schefter is very reliable.


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 1 day ago [Body] That may be part of it, but I can understand the ambivalence of LSU fans. Ironically, it's not the results on the field--his record hasn't been bad at all, which is why he still has a job. But I am not convinced that Les Miles is a particularly good coach. He obviously knows how to acquire talent, since boatloads of it truck into the NFL every year. But the team on the field seems to be more a collection of talent than a well-coached team of players; this is particularly true on offense, where Les has squandered jaw-dropping levels of talent every year with mediocre offenses. When people think of low-scoring SEC slugfests, they think of LSU, because every one of LSU's biggest games in the Les area are low-scoring slugfests. That is criminal with the kind of talent he has had on the field. Actually, kind of like Lloyd Carr in that respect. But he's not a fantastic game-manager either, frequently making crazy choices that get bailed out by lucky plays (remember the 25-yard TD pass with 1 second left against Auburn a few years ago, when a field goal was the right move?) or stupidity by the other team (Tennessee trying to win a game with 15 players on defense). The reason Miles hasn't been fired for all of this is that he keeps winning. The way he coaches suggests that he should be losing two or three games a year that he shouldn't, and it just never quite happens. I think LSU fans are fine with him going because they're convinced that the bottom will fall out at any moment. [Title]

Output: That may be part of it, but I


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I hadn't thought about that... but unless court regulations dictate otherwise, isn't this the sort of thing they would grandfather out? [Title]

Output: I hadn't thought about


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I might be missing something, but I've never heard of this sort of thing being talked about in advance before. Obviously, Dakich isn't going to contribute meaningful time to a championship team at Michigan, but it seems that Beilein is looking out for him and giving him a chance to both be a part of the team and to transfer on exceptionally friendly terms and play at a smaller school. This is astonishingly classy. At least, it seems that way to me. [Title]

Output: I might be missing something,


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Yeah, Texas gets an embarrassment of riches (Dallas, of course, just hosted). But it's worth noting that the article says that when Arizona hosts, it will be the first western city to host since Seattle... in 1995. Given that Indy is a doable drive from Detroit, it could be a lot worse. [Title]

Output: Yeah, Texas gets an


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 1 day ago [Body] That will come. The big obstacle to the state of Michigan (which has seven D-1 hockey teams) hosting a Frozen Four has always been the lack of an appropriate facility. Some philistines howled about Ford Field hosting it, but it was a well-done event with only a grandstand setup flaw harming the view, and it was the only way that the FF was going to come to Michigan with the Joe being the dump that it is. Now, Detroit is back in play for the big events. The Frozen Four has not been in Minneapolis in decades; it has visited St. Paul occasionally, but not as often as you'd think. The Xcel Energy center is still probably the nicest hockey arena in the country, but occasions of it hosting the Frozen Four are actually quite rare, particularly when you consider how huge the college hockey fanbase is in this part of the country. [Title]

Output: That will come. The big


Input: [Date] 38 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I don't think he wants to. He's said this is his last job, and that he took it partly because it was with Hoke and partly because it was close to family. I think he will retire whether the next guy wants him or not. [Title]

Output: I don't think he wants to.


Input: [Date] 41 weeks 11 hours ago [Body] Allow me to chime in here, in defense of the OP: This seems to be the exception that proves the rule here. Obviously, recent athletic events have focused a highly unusual spotlight on the regents. There is an election approaching, and the regents who are elected will have a fair amount of influence on athletic decisions that are crucially important to the audience of this blog. So this is relevant. Brian explains real-life reasons why he supports the candidate, avoiding reasons that are intensely political. And, importantly, this blog has overall done a good job in being fair about the no politics/no religion rule. As someone who (obviously, look at my sig) sits strongly on one side of the religion spectrum, and who (I suspect) would find that a majority of people here would disagree with me on a large number of real-life issues, I enjoy this blog precisely because it is a place to discuss and occasionally argue fundamentally unserious issues without wading in the "heavy stuff" the rest of our lives deal with. And I can do it comfortably. I would be a minority in many ideological areas here. Brian and the mods aren't perfect, but they uphold the "no pol/rel" guidelines just fine. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Allow me to chime in here, in


Input: [Date] 41 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Dude, this might not be your intent, but it sounds like you're taking credit for that being an original idea; that's hogwash. People have been advocating for night games for decades. Yes, there have always been traditionalists who preferred noon starts, but some people have been on the horse for a long time. [Title]

Output: Dude, this might not be your


Input: [Date] 42 weeks 13 hours ago [Body] Hate, hate, hate the Tennessee orange wings on the helmets. Highlighter may not be accurate, but neither is this--the maize I grew up on and that was brilliant in the 90s/early 00s puts this color to shame. It actively bothers me every time I see it on television. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Hate, hate, hate the


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Michigan didn't just lose six games. We got smoked, embarrassed, annihilated. It was every bit as ugly as the way the team is playing now. We were flat-out embarrassed by OSU, and in the Bowl that theoretically could have saved RR's job. Recruits were already bailing. It was over. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Michigan didn't just lose six


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Why would the president want to BET on the AD candidate? [Title]

Output: Angell


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I probably agree with what he is trying to say, but he shouldn't have said it. This is kinda what got him in trouble a long time ago when he was a HS coach in Michigan. If I remember correctly he basically said intercity athletes are poor and stupid so we shouldn't expect any more out of them. In my mind, that is the WRONG answer. What players he chooses to select or any other coach for that matter is his choice. Stanford doesn't accept kids that don't meet academic standards and they do just fine. [Title]

Output: I probably agree with what he


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Yup, this stuff may all be garbage but....1)we are obviously both reading it because there is nothing else going on in UM football right now and b) I'd rather have our guys trending up than down. I'm just saying.... [Title]

Output: Yup, this stuff may all be


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] I have never understood why anyone care how much money the athletic dept makes. Do you really think it matters. Will 4 million less per year really effect the performance on the field? I could care less how much money they make. It's not like they will lower ticket prices if they make more money. [Title]

Output: I have never understood why


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] I think Title IX put an end to unlimited FB scholarships. You can only have so many Womens badminton teams. [Title]

Output: I think Title IX put an end


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] I may be wrong, but I think that limit already exists. SEC teams just take 35 commits and figure out how to get down to 25 before the Aug 1 deadline. [Title]

Output: I may be wrong, but I think


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 1 day ago [Body] BK used to be really in with the kids....or FUBU. FUBU would make some sweet unis. [Title]

Output: What about British Knights


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] From what I can tell in the videos Hibbetts looks like a much better all around bball player than Donnel did in HS. Despite being a few inches shorter, he sure plays taller on the inside, handles the ball better and shots better. I wonder if the coaches haven't told him something about a possible opening in the future. [Title]

Output: Hibbitts > Donnel


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 6 days ago [Body] most schools bowl payouts are split with the conference. they get the same amount whether they go or not. [Title]

Output: most schools bowl payouts are split with the


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 4 days ago [Body] relax [Title]

Output: relax


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Motta is a little (ok alot) over rated too. [Title]

Output: OSU


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I think the point is that the SEC wants the NCAA to make it a rule so that their conf rule doesn't handcuff them. [Title]

Output: I think the point is that the


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 1 day ago [Body] nt [Title]

Output: Only one, unless something else happens


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Tell that to Terrelle Pryor. However, I think he was a higher rated FB prospect than a BB prospect, but I believe he was at least a 4* in both. [Title]

Output: Tell that to Terrelle


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Guess I don't much care because Motta can really recruit, but he is an aweful coach so even with good players they aren't too scary. [Title]

Output: Motta sucks


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 2 days ago [Body] According to a USA Today article, Alex Boone is quoted in the HBO feature talking about how the players hated Harbaugh because he was too Gung Ho. Sounds like sour grapes from a fat ass Bucknut that can't let it go. [Title]

Output: Alex Boone is a tool


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Really don't want to rehash a topic that has been covered ad-nauseum, but no matter what anyone says on this board a medical scholarship for Hatch is still a definite option. [Title]

Output: Hatch


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] Ok, I know I'll get negged to death, but why in the world does everyone keep thinking Hatch won't get a medical scholly. I know Bielien loves him, we all do. But Bielien is being paid to win and Hatch will not help the team win bball games. Giving him a medical scholarship and letting him be a student coach while getting a full ride is certainly not a mean thing to do. [Title]

Output: Ok, I know I'll get negged to


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 15 hours ago [Body] Named my Chihuaha puppy Brady in 2011 when we got him. Obviously, not the best choice. Most of the family now call him F.P. (fu*ky puppy). I just tell people we named him after Tom, not Hoke. My older dog is named Bo. [Title]

Output: Brady


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Ok, so the question now is when do we get the next Austrailian kicker. This is a good start, but we should obviously be getting Aussie kickers more often. [Title]

Output: Ok, so the question now is


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 1 day ago [Body] you mean "cal" as in calipari? [Title]

Output: you mean "cal" as in


Input: [Date] 17 weeks 3 days ago [Body] David Brandon says 108,000 [Title]

Output: David Brandon says


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 14 hours ago [Body] While Bobby Knight may have been a bit gung ho (to say the least), calling him "dirty" is way unfair. He typically got more done with less than almost any coach in America. Except for his temper, he is one of the best coaches ever. I would highly doubt that he knowingly allowed any recruiting shenanigans. [Title]

Output: Re: Bobby Knight


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I love how Clark Kellogg says that most of the deficiet is due to OSU playing like crap not because UM is playing well. Good job doofus. [Title]

Output: I love how Clark Kellogg says


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 2 days ago [Body] What tournament are your talking about? Seriously, doubt they will ever wear something like that. David Brandon is gone you know? [Title]

Output: What tournament are your


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Beckman is 10X better than Ferentz. He has only had 3 years to try to turn that tire fire around. Ferentz has been screwing Iowa up for going on 16 yrs. [Title]

Output: Beckman is 10X better than


Input: [Date] 24 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I bet the staff told Costello that Peters' committment may be coming soon. [Title]

Output: I bet the staff told Costello


Input: [Date] 25 weeks 4 days ago [Body] A lot of schools have screens that are larger than Michigan Stadium, but to my knowledge no one has TWO screens larger than Michigan Stadium. Which is a big deal if you are directly under a screeen or at the far end. Another benefit at Michigan Stadium is that we show no advertising on our video screens. Ohio has decent size screen, but 1/3 of the screen (as well as vast areas of the stadium) are covered in advertising. What benefit for the fans is having a huge screen covered in car dealership adds. [Title]

Output: A lot of schools have screens


Input: [Date] 1 day 3 hours ago [Title] You're saying the NFL was [Body]

Output: You're saying the NFL was offered a spreadsheet conveniently put together by Brady's agents, on which they'd have to take the agents' word it was complete and accurate, and in order to find out what was on Brady's cell phone, they could instead track down multiple other cell phones and check off items on the spreadsheet? And that's a perfectly reasonable alternative to just spending 10 minutes scrolling through Brady's phone? Sorry, defending that approach is a stretch beyond stretches. All this fuck-Goodell outrage pretty much ignores the fact that Brady basically just broke into the Watergate hotel.


Input: [Date] 1 day 18 hours ago [Title] I hate your idea of suing [Body]

Output: I hate your idea of suing because I don't want to sit here for three years watching some godawful lawsuit wend its way through the courts while ESPN breathlessly reports on every stupid motion and argument and filing in existence. I just upvoted for the Few Good Men reference.


Input: [Date] 1 day 18 hours ago [Title] Yes, they can, but from the [Body]

Output: Yes, they can, but from the phone company, which would probably never give them up short of anything but a legal subpoena. To the NFL, they're as unrecoverable as if I called up AT&T and said, hey, give me so-and-so's stored-up text messages.


Input: [Date] 1 day 22 hours ago [Title] Today in Awkwardly Worded [Body]

Output: Today in Awkwardly Worded Headlines: it's good to know Tuskegee has finally gotten out from the oppressive shadow that is Dennis Norfleet.


Input: [Date] 2 days 21 hours ago [Title] Nay to Vanderbilt. Doesn't [Body]

Output: Nay to Vanderbilt. Doesn't pass the saltwater test. Close but no cigar, they're closer to Mobile Bay than to Lake Michigan. If you're closer to salt water than to a Great Lake, no Big Ten for you. That rule if actually enacted would've saved the Big Ten a lot of trouble.


Input: [Date] 3 days 10 hours ago [Title] Where have you been the last [Body]

Output: Where have you been the last 60 or 70 years?


Input: [Date] 5 days 19 hours ago [Title] How did we get this far into [Body]

Output: How did we get this far into the discussion and not mention the impact of Dave Brandon Junior on this whole thing? Sounds to me like Saban to Texas could've been done quite easily until Patterson pissed off his agent.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] My all-time favorite band, [Body]

Output: My all-time favorite band, playing one of their very best songs:


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] And in most cases that's a [Body]

Output: And in most cases that's a good thing. Here, maybe not, I just really like the very chill vibe of the studio version, but Billy Preston is killing it anyway and the whole band is as '70s as '70s can be, so hey.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] TMNT while it was on, then [Body]

Output: TMNT while it was on, then Animaniacs. Definitely some Animaniacs.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] I like the non-live version [Body]

Output: I like the non-live version of this song better than live, it's a bit more laid-back, but the OP said live, so I'll be obliging.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] I like this game. It's a [Body]

Output: I like this game. It's a great deal more memorable than pretty much any other game that year. Hell of a lot more interesting than your basic run of the mill 24-10 win.


Input: [Date] 1 week 5 days ago [Title] There's an xkcd for [Body]

Output: There's an xkcd for that: http://www.xkcd.com/1235/


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Title] If you like the Garcia page, [Body]

Output: If you like the Garcia page, also read up on Operation Mincemeat. In general the whole story of intelligence during WWII is fascinating. The Brits absolutely ran circles around the Germans throughout the whole war. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mincemeat


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Title] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki [Body]

Output: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions Read and learn, everyone.


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Title] Fking grammar Nazis. [Body]

Output: Fking grammar Nazis.


Input: [Date] 1 week 6 days ago [Title] Amazon's a retail company [Body]

Output: Amazon's a retail company like any other retail company. Which means they hype up sales to try and generate, you know, sales. Probably 100 years ago Sears or Montgomery Ward or Hudson's would have these big posters up advertising a sale and people would walk out going, "I say, old bean, that was a dilly of a letdown." Why anyone expects Amazon to be magically different because it's an Internet company and start selling $50 TVs is beyond me.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 20 hours ago [Title] The change from calling it [Body]

Output: The change from calling it Big Jim's is a really recent development, so I don't know all that much about it.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 20 hours ago [Title] Nobody from UVA ever said UVA [Body]

Output: Nobody from UVA ever said UVA had the "largest mall in the country." Just the only one that's a World Heritage Site.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] The interesting thing to me [Body]

Output: The interesting thing to me about the Craig Ross blurb is this: Ross said he wished Franklin and Leach threw the ball more (and better) - which is basically RR's offense. Thus the highly ironic and idiotic nature of whatever boogeymen were out there during the RR era, pining for the good old days. Ever since Bo left, the offense we've run that bears the absolute least resemblance to Bo's offense..... is Lloyd Carr's! Lloyd's model was to find a bazooka statue and have him either give to the RB or shoot off rockets. I figure this is partly because Harbaugh showed what could be done with a QB with passing skills, and that combined with that being the direction the world was moving anyway, convinced Bo's successors to go find strong-armed QBs. Thus, Grbac, Navarre, Henne, etc. Bo's offense would've had little use for John Navarre; RR would never have recruited him.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] I gotta admit....Pluto is a [Body]

Output: I gotta admit....Pluto is a cool-looking ball of rock. I did kinda think maybe it could be re-planetized. But putting Pluto back in the planet category is kind of like adding Rutgers to the Big Ten. Sure, Scarlet Knights is a cool nickname, and Rutgers was great back in the day....way back in the day. But they don't bring anything and they mess up the symmetry and if you think Rutgers is worthy of being in the Big Ten then why not dozens of other programs? Besides, neat as Pluto looks, there are some moons in this solar system that look way cooler. If that's the only criterion I propose Callisto as a planet. It hasn't managed to get rid of Jupiter from its orbit around the sun, but I don't know how you could turn down a giant floating disco ball.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 23 hours ago [Title] Grounds grounds grounds [Body]

Output: Grounds grounds grounds grounds grounds. It's not a campus. Or, it's a campus that's called grounds.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 1 day ago [Title] May I humbly suggest you take [Body]

Output: May I humbly suggest you take an hour or two and walk around the UVA grounds. It really is worth the experience. I don't think they'd be doing tours in the summer, but you never know. Also, Monticello isn't the only presidential mansion in the area; someone mentioned Montpelier which is maybe 30 minutes away, and Ash Lawn-Highland is the house of James Monroe and right next door to Monticello. Actually there are two former houses belonging to Monroe in the area; one is smack in the middle of the UVA grounds.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I'm not letting Brandon off [Body]

Output: I'm not letting Brandon off the hook for hiring a coach that required an expensive firing. He made the choice and he signed the contracts.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Title] And yet Dave Brandon left [Body]

Output: And yet Dave Brandon left behind a deficit.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Yep....Martin is actually one [Body]

Output: Yep....Martin is actually one of the hardy souls racing the Supermac, a once-a-decade-or-so race from Chicago to Port Huron (or vice versa, depending.) Over 500 miles, and then Stripes will turn around and do the regular Port Huron race.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Title] If everything comes to [Body]

Output: If everything comes to fruition - never a safe assumption but things do seem to be rolling - the whole thing will work out brilliantly, I think. That's a huge empty space separating Midtown and downtown. The project as designed would be a huge, huge link, not to mention bringing very badly needed residential development to an area absolutely screaming for it. I don't know about the JLA site development, it sounded like a lot of wishful thinking, but it'd be great if they actually did build a 30-story skyscraper there, especially if that too was part residential.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Let's be clear: The new Wings [Body]

Output: Let's be clear: The new Wings arena isn't being financed with public money in the same sense these other stadiums generally are. I outlined this in another thread, but the "public portion" of the Wings arena is Downtown Development Authority money. DDA money is required by state law to be spent on economic development downtown. The DDA is financed by property taxes - but only that portion of property tax above the property's assessment prior to inclusion in the DDA. In other words, a parcel's taxable value before inclusion was X, when it was included it became X+Y, and Y is taken by the DDA to support downtown economic development - which again, by state law, is the only allowable purpose. X continues to go to the city for police and streetlights and whatever. This is why the DDA is called quasi-public. It's basically a homeowner's association for downtown businesses. And the DDA, by the way, will own the arena. This is a far cry different from the usual public funding mechanisms. The DDA exists precisely to fund things like this. And Oliver is not being honest by not noting the difference.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Frankly, in the case of this [Body]

Output: Frankly, in the case of this project, people who hate public funding of stadiums should be cheering the new Wings arena up and down the block. The bonds issued to pay for this thing are being paid back by the Ilitches and the DDA - NOT "Detroit taxpayers" which seems to be what fronts all the headlines. The Downtown Development Authority is more akin to a homeowners' association than anything, except its members are downtown businesses, and it's them who will pick up half the tab. It is most emphatically not being paid for by city residents. The DDA is funded by property taxes paid by downtown businesses, but only that portion of property tax above and beyond the value that the property would be assessed at if it wasn't in the DDA. And since state law requires that money go to economic development in the area, the arena is a more than logical use of the funds. Oh, and the DDA will own the arena, not the Ilitches.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Old proverb-like substance [Body]

Output: Old proverb-like substance says you can have a product three ways: good, fast, or cheap, but you can only get two of the three. Little Caesar's is the only pizza place where you can get fast and cheap. I don't care if it's not gourmet. It's still a hell of a deal.


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 6 days ago [Title] "The 2015 gloves are out" - [Body]

Output: "The 2015 gloves are out" - pretty sure this is exactly the point where uniform obsession jumps all of the sharks.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] 1) they'll do no such thing [Body]

Output: 1) they'll do no such thing because they don't want to spend all the money duplicating the process of setting up all the various infrastructures, rules, championships, and so on. And because breaking from the NCAA would cost a ton of money as it would essentially destroy the basketball tournament. The value of March Madness is 1+1=2 where one part is the power 5 and the other part is everyone else. The value of two separate tournaments would be 1+1=1.5. That supposedly more lucrative football setup will be canceled out by all those other costs, and in case you haven't noticed, college presidents and ADs are fairly risk-averse. 2) those college presidents and ADs don't even give one tenth of a shit if the system organizes into cute little patterns. Zero fucks are given. All they care about is what's best for their institution. Even if the NCAA falls apart and something new is formed, all the motivations and decisions processes will be precisely the same as before. And they're not going to force a total rearrangement of all their relationships and institutions to satisfy some pretty little organized system that somebody wants.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Buried somewhere in my stuff [Body]

Output: Buried somewhere in my stuff is a logo-ed bottle opener that plays the fight song when you open a bottle that my cousin gave to me. That'd actually be a very cool knick-knack if my cousin weren't an Ohio State fan.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] No it won't. It's just [Body]

Output: No it won't. It's just another completely meaningless masturbatory exercise in a very long list of adorable little ideas that will never happen because they require order and harmony to result from an inherently chaotic system.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] All that for just $70,000 - [Body]

Output: All that for just $70,000 - or six figures if you go all out. Also, the cheaper Model S's only have about 200 miles range, and electric car range is always given as a maximum. All kinds of factors can lower it; you might be looking at more like 150 miles. Even if you could charge it in five minutes like filling a gas tank, that would be an aggravatingly short distance on a road trip. You have to really shell out if you want something closer to 300 miles. And Tesla has yet to turn a profit that isn't propped up by carbon credits, so really, those are some moderately subsidized prices. Also - and I'm not an engineer, so this might be totally off the reservation - but it seems to me the instant torque would be rotten for towing heavy things. For the same reason you'll squeal your tires if you slam on the gas pedal at a stoplight: too much torque all at once moving against something too heavy. Instant torque trying to haul something heavier than maybe a light rental trailer - that would probably squeal the tires too, until they finally grip and the whole mass lurches forward. Teslas are a good start on the way, but they're not there yet. Actually, if there's one thing I hate about them it's the huge touchscreen. Cars shouldn't have them. Personally I dislike voice commands for several reasons, and with regular buttons you can get familiar with them and find them by feel. With a touchscreen no matter how long you've had the car you have to take your eyes off the road to operate it.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] It's really amazing what [Body]

Output: It's really amazing what happens when a highly competent journalist interviews a highly competent subject.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I'm not going electric until [Body]

Output: I'm not going electric until they have all the capabilities of a gas car. That means they need to have similar range and be able to restore that range in the same amount of time it takes to fill up. They also need to cost about the same and perform about as well in the snow. The Volt and similar plug-in hybrids are the only ones I see that meet these demands, except for the price and the general lack of cargo space. Electric evangelists like to talk about the average commute and so on but they usually live in California without any seasons. The average commute is a hell of a lot different from summer to winter. And they forget that people (smartly) buy cars for their maximum needs rather than their average needs. If you need to tow a boat twice a year, say, a car that fits your average need is a waste of time. P.S. the alphabet soup of vehicles in your post is probably the single worst trend of the past 20 or so years. BMW and Mercedes and the like have been doing that for decades, but it's really Lexus that made people think it's not luxury if it's not alphanumeric mumbo-jumbo. Therefore screw Lexus. Lincoln ditching MKS for a return to the Continental is one of my favorite new things ever. Give me a Continental or an Eldorado over MKS or CT6 any day.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] The M's on the undershirts [Body]

Output: The M's on the undershirts had lightning bolts on them, because while people with eyes might find this tremendously tacky, the players whose scholarships can be pulled if they speak out against the administration universally agreed that they came to Michigan for the chance to play with lightning M's on their sleeves. I wish this part were more universally acknowledged. "The players like them" is one of the most overused arguments in history. Players liking uniformzz is not proof that players unanimously like uniformzz, it's proof of a monumental sampling bias.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Maryland 60% OSU 45% MSU [Body]

Output: Maryland 60% OSU 45% MSU 45% VT 45% SEC 3% FSU 2% It adds up to 200%, as it should. It's also based on "who would I rather see lose in games between them?" If it were more like "who would I want my teams to beat the most" I'd have to reshuffle.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] It's not about trying to [Body]

Output: It's not about trying to stop. It's about if one or more wheels hit a slippery patch, which they will. The more wheels you have delivering power to a grippy part of the road, the better you'll do. If your front wheels hit the ice, you still have the rear wheels moving the car - and not coincidentally, off the ice. With traction control the car can then take all the power off the front wheels, and then off the rear wheels when they cross the icy patch. In a front-wheel drive car you have nothing. In the kind of road you get during a heavy snow - not yet plowed, but with ruts where the traffic has been - the road has slippery patches and good patches, and AWD with traction control is going to keep the car way, way straighter and safer than 2WD.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I got 0% financing when I [Body]

Output: I got 0% financing when I bought my Escape, so I'm slightly above-water on the Blue Book value for a trade in and quite a bit above-water for a private sale. I've been thinking of continuing to pay it down and keeping my eye out for another 0% financing deal if I can find one, and using the difference on a down payment to upgrade to an MKC. Problem is that the Escape is the top trim-level and the bells and whistles that I like (the kick-tailgate is absolute genius) don't come on the lower trim levels on the Lincoln. And we wonder why we can't sell any. I'd have to jack it all the way up to at least $45,000 if I want a Lincoln with the kick-tailgate. Which I do because it's handy as hell.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 1 day ago [Title] It's at Breslin, so, he's [Body]

Output: It's at Breslin, so, he's probably only like the 330th ugliest thing in the photo. Including the building.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Title] If the possibility exists [Body]

Output: If the possibility exists that somebody might call a particular uniform "sickkkkkk" then I don't want to see it, ever.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Title] - Best round of golf is about [Body]

Output: - Best round of golf is about a 112 on what must be the easiest course in the whole Midwest. - I play like shit. Oh, rules. I don't do gimmes or mulligans. I'd only be kidding myself.


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I always felt the best way to [Body]

Output: I always felt the best way to handle 16 would've been to keep it out of circulation until his last teammate retired. Other than that I'm not sure there's a not-awkward way to put it back in circulation, and permanent retirement doesn't seem quite right either.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I believe that would look [Body]

Output: I believe that would look like someone jerked off into a pile of elephant shit.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Title] True. I actually Google [Body]

Output: True. I actually Google Earthed that a bit ago and they're closer to Baltimore harbor than to Lake Erie by about twelve or fifteen miles. I'm willing to give them a waiver basically for being on the western side of the mountains. But, I also wouldn't bat an eye if we traded them to the ACC for someone more midwestern. Maybe Pitt. Then everyone who gives a shit about markets can still have their markets.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Yes, which makes Maryland now [Body]

Output: Yes, which makes Maryland now and forever not a real Big Ten school. Rutgers too.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Still don't want Oklahoma and [Body]

Output: Still don't want Oklahoma and Texas. This is not a game of collect 'em all. You don't win for having the coolest schools in your conference. Texas acts like hegemonic assholes. I don't know why any conference would want to invite the school that destroyed the Big 12 as well as the Pac-16 before it even left the ground. They'll come in acting like their shit don't stink and nobody will want to live with them. Nothing against Oklahoma per se, I suppose, but you're not a Big Ten school if you're closer to saltwater than to a Great Lake. I agree with the first one-third of your post. The rest, no.


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Because Buzz City is a fake [Body]

Output: Because Buzz City is a fake nickname that nobody has ever used and Motor City predates the Pistons.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 38 min ago [Title] Offseason schmoffseason. [Body]

Output: Offseason schmoffseason. First off it only started about 11:30 last night as far as I'm concerned. Second....it's summer in Michigan. Time to go out and enjoy a life that doesn't revolve around football. I feel sorry for anyone who calls these the doldrums.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Title] It's not mutually exclusive [Body]

Output: It's not mutually exclusive to acknowledge that Lloyd was both a highly successful coach that won a national championship, and a bit of a dinosaur who left the program in sore need of an overhaul. It is, however, massively dickish to define him by the latter at the expense of the former.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Fuck that. Golden Girls is [Body]

Output: Fuck that. Golden Girls is great. Anyone who can't appreciate sassy old ladies isn't much of a man. Betty White didn't make a triumphant return to celebrity status because of her work on the Mary Tyler Moore show.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Title] "The Knicks wouldn't do this [Body]

Output: "The Knicks wouldn't do this because it is stupid" is not a real thing.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 1 day ago [Title] No...no, it really isn't. [Body]

Output: No...no, it really isn't. You play it like the Wings were the only ones in the league who were spending. Colorado spent, Dallas spent, St. Louis spent, Philly spent, New Jersey spent. Congratulations and all for being smart enough to take Kane first overall and Toews third overall, but when your stars are grossly underpaid it's easy to build a team around them. They only just started making what they're worth last summer.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 3 days ago [Title] You must be joking. Anyone [Body]

Output: You must be joking. Anyone who's not mentally sharp is going to bat .150, period. You can't hit if you're not paying attention and if you think you can just flip the paying attention switch when you need to, you're nuts. Fielders aren't just standing there. Baseball players are taught, every new batter, to re-assess in their mind what they're going to do with the ball. "If it's a single in front of me I'll do this, if it's a double to the corner I do that, if it's a short fly ball I do something else." There's a reason relievers have a reputation for being a little crazy: because if you're wound up too tight in a role where you're constantly getting up and down and never know when you'll play, you'll be a wreck. And if you would be cool going to work for 27 weeks with an average of one day off a week and some weeks none at all, and jetting all over the country to do it, more power to you. "Baseball isn't mentally taxing" is extremely ignorant.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Yes....and rifle shooting is [Body]

Output: Yes....and rifle shooting is an NCAA sport too.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 3 hours ago [Title] What....North? No zings [Body]

Output: What....North? No zings without ID, son, or a well-placed zing is mere trollery.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 11 hours ago [Title] By beating North, no less :) [Body]

Output: By beating North, no less :)


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] Think we had this thread [Body]

Output: Think we had this thread not too long ago, but I'll bite again. This is not my 1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Cruiser, but it's exactly like it. Got it as a graduation present in 2000 - my folks used the money I freed up for them by getting my college paid for by ROTC. Pros: Insanely good gas mileage for a car of that weight and displacement. (Generally about 25-26 mpg, could top 30 under just the right conditions.) Has roof rack. Hauls enormous amounts of stuff and is therefore perfect for trucking my worldly possessions back and forth the 10-11 hour drive to school. Capable as well of hauling a sofa on the roof. Incredibly durable wagonbeast - only ever had to put about $30 worth of repairs under the hood. (The serpentine belt tensioner seized up and took the belt with it.) Seats folded very flat to maximize storage. Comfy cloth seats. Cons: Vintage 1984 interior design. (Exterior, too, but I still kinda like it.) Had obnoxious dashboard vibration at exactly the freeway speed I like to travel. Really heavy gas pedal canceled out a lot of the pickup you should get with a 3.8L V6. Utterly stupid location of battery terminals made it incredibly difficult to jump/offer a jump. Handled like a warehouse. Verdict: BEST FIRST CAR. One of my greatest regrets in life is not getting a picture of the car stuffed to the gills, roof rack piled high, and two bikes on a bike rack in the back - the result of driving myself and a buddy back home from school with both our stuff. That car was a trooper. Plus even though it wasn't much good on freeway entrance ramps, it was surprisingly excellent accelerating from 60 and up, the better to pass people on two-lane highways. And had I ever gotten in a crash I have little doubt I'd've been solidly protected.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 20 hours ago [Title] Bullshit. I don't see even [Body]

Output: Bullshit. I don't see even one single sub.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 20 hours ago [Title] Rather than bolstering the [Body]

Output: Rather than bolstering the satellite camp, in fact, a measured view of the camps in light of Johnson's commitment, only shows that the loophole is a chance to lazily poach talent in contravention of a rule designed to avoid turning recruiting into a 12-month long circus. Pity, because that rule has been doing such a great fucking job of that, up til now.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 3 days ago [Title] I don't see why your opinion [Body]

Output: I don't see why your opinion of these sports not being thrilling means less than their opinion that they are Because acting like they're not happening just because you don't care about them is stupid.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Also the super regionals of [Body]

Output: Also the super regionals of the college baseball tournament, and the only day where all eight series are guaranteed to be playing.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 5 days ago [Title] There's a fair chance your [Body]

Output: There's a fair chance your Grandpa and mine crossed paths. My Grandpa spent the war in Texas in the Army, training medics for the European theater.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Yeah, that quote is just [Body]

Output: Yeah, that quote is just nothing but inoffensive fluff. In fact that's pretty much the whole interview. The equivalent of a guy sitting at his locker saying "we just try to give 110%, take it one day at a time, hopefully things go our way." I see nothing to get worked up about.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Calling womyn "female" is a [Body]

Output: Calling womyn "female" is a common microaggression borne of a misogynistic cis-gendered paradigm that ignores the role of self-identified genderqueer identification in fulfilling modern sex roles and escaping the limiting factors of white Euro-male dominance in society. Or something, I guess.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Here's a twist on the [Body]

Output: Here's a twist on the question, too: I was about nine, ten when Desmond was playing. That's the perfect age to watch the really amazing players. Wide-eyed wonder hardly begins to describe it. I sort of wish I'd been ten years old to watch Denard play.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Anthony Carter jumps right to [Body]

Output: Anthony Carter jumps right to mind. There've been so many really good receivers, but AC was really the original. He was doing things nobody had really done at Michigan before. That's why Desmond, Charles, Denard were so fun, too. AC was really the first electric receiver Michigan had. Among the first the country ever saw, really.


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Title] They crootin' errbody up in [Body]

Output: They crootin' errbody up in here.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 11 hours ago [Title] Grand Rapids was still in the [Body]

Output: Grand Rapids was still in the AHL playoffs. They were eliminated yesterday. Not going to announce it while he's still coaching them.....bad form.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Of course they're dead for a [Body]

Output: Of course they're dead for a reason. Oldsmobile really lost its position in the marketplace. So did Pontiac. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be fun to have them back anyway.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I remember seeing the new GTO [Body]

Output: I remember seeing the new GTO for the first time at the auto show, and it had come with a fair amount of hype, and my heart sank just a bit because my first impression was "aw man, it looks like a Civic."


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Pontiac for sure, and the [Body]

Output: Pontiac for sure, and the first thing we're doing is bringing these things back to life:


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 5 days ago [Title] Besides, Russian soccer is at [Body]

Output: Besides, Russian soccer is at least fairly good, and they're a major world power in every sense of the word. Like hell they are. They're decent enough to not embarrass themselves at major competitions and that's about it. Whoopee, they tied South Korea and Algeria at the 2014 WC. That doesn't say "major world power."


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Practical limits. Even if [Body]

Output: Practical limits. Even if Hugh Freeze would sign 100 players a year if he could, the thing is he can't. At some point you run out of useless players to kick off the team put on medical scholarship, and they can play all the games they want with the yearly limit but it's way, way harder to get away with breaking the 85 limit. And players know who else is in their class. The more you have, the harder it'll be to convince them there's room for one more. Yes, even SEC coaches have limits, even if they act like they don't.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Agreed. Even SEC coaches [Body]

Output: Agreed. Even SEC coaches have a limit to how many they can sign. It's not like they're all going to glom 10 Midwestern recruits onto their already bloated classes. If they replace a southern recruit with a Midwestern recruit, I guess we'll just take that southern recruit and put some of that ESS EEE SEE SPPEEEEEED on our teams and they can have the plodding scrawny wastrels they seem to think Midwesterners all are.


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Not gonna pass judgment until [Body]

Output: Not gonna pass judgment until something more official comes out, but some basic principles here: No piping is always better than piping. Maize outlines on the numbers look way better than no maize outlines on the numbers. The best away jerseys ever were the Tom Brady-era ones. God those were sharp. If the tradeoff for losing all the godawful stupid piping is having no maize outlines on the numbers, I'll take it all day every day.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Our Justice Department has [Body]

Output: Our Justice Department has some fucked up priorities FIFA is always chest-puffing about how soccer transcends sport and is so incredibly meaningful in real-life ways to real-life people. They don't get to weasel out with "it's just a game" now.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Hockey's also different [Body]

Output: Hockey's also different because of the structure of the sport. College lacrosse gets 100% of the best lacrosse players and they always stay for all four years. Genuine hockey stars that go to college and play out their eligibility are very rare. The lesser talent pool and increased turnover increases parity. Probably more so than the nature of the on-ice game, because when I say parity I'm mainly referring to how things play out year over year. That's really what drives the parity (or lack thereof) in lacrosse: the much slower roster turnover and the continual parade of elite talent to the same schools. In hockey schools like Union or Quinnipiac can and do win the national title. Quinnipiac hasn't even been D-I that long. In lacrosse, Quinnipiac doesn't even have the remotest prayer. The Final Four and final eight might get jumbled a bit, but it won't be the Quinnipiacs of the world. It'll be the teams that can buy their way into the club.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I think the idea is that the [Body]

Output: I think the idea is that the extra field-level seating allows these people to move between the tunnel and actually watching the game.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 1 day ago [Title] I don't think there's any [Body]

Output: I don't think there's any real parity in college lacrosse. One year's competition doesn't really define that. One of those "upsets" was a Hopkins win, which can't possibly be used to argue for parity. Ohio State is a huge-budget school. Albany I'll grant you, but let's see what happens when they lose Lyle Thompson. Colgate was the shit too, when they had Peter Baum, but now they're just as meh as ever. There might've been 11 or 12 teams with a legit chance to win it all if we stretch the hell out of the definition of legit. That's not parity though, because mostly it's the same 11 or 12 every year. All that's really happened is a few new teams have cracked open the door, consisting pretty much of huge-budget schools or schools that hired a coaching legend. Take a look at hockey if you want to see parity. Parity is Providence winning it all as a regional four seed. Parity is the large parade of different schools in the Frozen Four every year and the very diverse, almost random, distribution of seeds. Parity is powerhouse Wisconsin winning like three games all year. This year in lacrosse the Final Four was three of the same four teams it was last year. The only parity in lacrosse is among the same elite club of teams which sort of ebb and flow among themselves; the effort required to break down that door is enormous.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Should be no reason to neg [Body]

Output: Should be no reason to neg this post and people who do should be ashamed. Every single veteran you ask will point to someone who had it worse. Today is for those who had it the worst.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 5 days ago [Title] I don't see a justification [Body]

Output: I don't see a justification for punishing UNC if athletes weren't given preferential treatment in the sham classes, steered into the sham classes, or if athletic department employees weren't clearly involved in some way, like with Syracuse. Yeah, but, that's literally what happened. Some quotes from the Wainstein report: These paper classes were taken by students of all types, but were especially popular among student-athletes, particularly those who played the “revenue” sports of football and men’s basketball. Many of these student-athletes were referred to these classes by academic counselors in the Academic Support Program for Student-Athletes (“ASPSA”) who were always under pressure to maintain student-athlete eligibility and saw these classes – and their artificially high grades – as key to helping academically-challenged student-athletes remain eligible and on the playing field. Crowder and Nyang’oro were primarily motivated to offer these classes by a desire to help struggling students and student-athletes. Both felt sympathy for under-prepared students who struggled with the demanding Chapel Hill curriculum. Crowder felt a strong affinity for student-athletes in particular, and she gave them ready access to these watered-down classes to help them manage their competing athletic and academic time demands. Student-athletes accounted for a disproportionately high percentage of enrollments in the AFAM paper classes. Of the identifiable enrollments in the lecture paper classes, 47.4% were student-athletes, even though studentathletes make up just over 4% of the Chapel Hill undergraduate student body. A good number of these student-athletes were “steered” to the AFAM paper classes by certain academic counselors in ASPSA. This steering was most prevalent among the counselors for the revenue sports of football and men’s basketball. So, uh, yes, basically what happened is these fraudulent classes existed, and the athletic department got wind of it and used them to keep athletes eligible. If the NCAA believes even one word of what they say about how important studies are and the mission and blah blah blah, they will leave nothing but a smoking crater in Chapel Hill to make sure other schools think twice about this kind of thing.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 6 days ago [Title] If only his book cover didn't [Body]

Output: If only his book cover didn't look like a For Dummies book.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 6 days ago [Title] Cool bro, congrats for [Body]

Output: Cool bro, congrats for winning the hardcorest fan competition. We're all so proud of you right now.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I honestly cannot figure out [Body]

Output: I honestly cannot figure out how you got to be so get-off-my-lawny about the stadium and so dazzle-eyed enthusiastic about uniformz.


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 6 days ago [Title] I don't think there need be [Body]

Output: I don't think there need be such a gloomy prediction about the future of football attendance at Michigan. Students are one issue, but I bet you they come back with lower prices and a team worth getting out of bed for. But the season ticket waiting list didn't dwindle away like attendance at a lot of places. It went poof almost overnight because Dave Brandon. That's a very pinpointable reason. It won't reappear overnight, but when you consider that the waiting list and attendance survived the recession, things should look a lot better in coming years, evenutally getting more like they had been pre-Brandon. Long-term, like, 20 years, I think expansion should stay on the table. And given the choice between having the traditional bowl shape and the biggest stadium in the country, I'd choose the latter.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 46 min ago [Title] True, and forced roster [Body]

Output: True, and forced roster turnover gives Michigan a lot better timetable, too.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] You rarely see coaches at the [Body]

Output: You rarely see coaches at the top of their profession undertaking a massive rebuilding project. Dunno if it's all that rare. It just happened on December 30.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 20 hours ago [Title] I'm not gonna argue at all in [Body]

Output: I'm not gonna argue at all in favor of freshman ineligibility, but, devil's advocate-style here, freshmen would still be training for their chosen career. They're lifting and practicing and doing literally everything but playing in the game itself. It'd hardly be a ban on training. To use your analogy it'd be more like if the computer science program sent people to programming competitions but only starting with the 200-level classes, while the 100-level classes were reserved for building up the fundamentals.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Man, just looking at the [Body]

Output: Man, just looking at the video before hitting play I could already hear "I'm George Kell along with Al Kaline," and....yup. I really like Mario and Rod but those two were absolutely sparkling on the air.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 1 day ago [Title] The stat I saw said about 95% [Body]

Output: The stat I saw said about 95% of FGs from that distance are made. I happen to really like this, by the way. There were 8 missed PATs last year. A 95% conversion rate would mean 62 missed PATs, almost eight times as many. Assuming it only happens once per game, that would mean about a quarter of NFL games see a missed PAT. That's very significant. It could alter a lot of strategy. A 21-17 game is coached very differently from a 20-17 game. I think the 95% rate is just about the sweet spot where it'll still be just automatic enough that 7 points is a safe assumption, but it's still worth watching to find out.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Both football and lax have [Body]

Output: Both football and lax have offseason practice sessions during the other's season.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I read this headline as "Guy [Body]

Output: I read this headline as "Guy going to play quarterback at ND gets call from Jim Harbaugh and switches to lacrosse."


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Born and raised. [Body]

Output: Born and raised.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] There is no more five second [Body]

Output: There is no more five second "closely guarded" rule. I'm torn. In no way was that rule important, but when it got invoked it felt like a reward for superior perimeter defense. Eh, I think that was the case one-third of the time, and the other two-thirds it was the ballhandler forgetting or not noticing that the ref was counting down.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I doubt it. It's not like [Body]

Output: I doubt it. It's not like the system requires 32 seconds of passing before you shoot or else it won't work.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Yeah, that's the idea, but [Body]

Output: Yeah, that's the idea, but the likelihood is that you'll just see rugged, bogged-down basketball from the starters instead. Backups foul a ton because they're not likely to foul out so they go in with instructions to play really physical. If the starters are less likely to foul out, they'll just play more physical themselves. KenPom did an analysis of a couple conferences that experimented with six fouls about 25 years ago. In the two years where they had six fouls, fouls per game spiked. When they went back to five, fouls per game went immediately back to normal.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] The NCAA will implement the [Body]

Output: The NCAA will implement the full NBA-sized restricted circle and can call fouls on players who are deemed to have flopped when they are in the middle of an interminable review. Thumbs up on the former even if it hurts Michigan's defensive strategy; the latter isn't likely to have much impact. That's because you're not an ACC fan. Those of us who are, will be rubbing our hands together with glee at the idea that someone on Duke or Carolina might actually foul out now.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Pffft. If you can't get off [Body]

Output: Pffft. If you can't get off a shot against the UVA defense in 35 seconds, how will you get one off in 30 seconds? Can't see it hurting.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Nautica. If we have a wine [Body]

Output: Nautica. If we have a wine and cheese football crowd, that should do wonders for apparel sales.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 3 days ago [Title] Connor Hellebuyck sure looks [Body]

Output: Connor Hellebuyck sure looks like a future star. He ended up with better stats for the tourney than Pekka Rinne even with Rinne's record-breaking shutout streak. The US might have some gold in the future if he continues to be in net.


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 4 days ago [Title] Indeed, Nike has no history [Body]

Output: Indeed, Nike has no history at all of doing incredibly stupid things with uniforms.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 38 min ago [Title] I got a few since I'm the [Body]

Output: I got a few since I'm the kinda guy who's not really good enough or athletic enough - short and slowish is a bad combination - to be the star of any team I play on in any sport, but I am good enough to not look like a fool and occasionally pull off a hero play. Let's go with basketball. I have the worst handle you've ever seen and I'm 5'7", so it's not my best sport. One day though, my friend Hooch and I were at the gym going one-on-one and horsing around, when eight other dudes roll up. These guys are all 6-foot, minimum, and look like they spend every waking moment on a court, and yes, I'll just say it, Hooch and I were the only white guys. They ask us if we want to go full court, five on five. Hooch was deceptively good at basketball and half these guys can dunk so here I am just as far out of my league as I've ever been in my life. Good thing I can shoot a little. This particular day though, I couldn't miss. Could. Not. Miss. One of those rare in the zone days where I feel like I'm throwing stones in the ocean. I wasn't exactly the first offensive option on my team, or the second or third or fourth, but I knocked down a shot or two and they started finding me on the perimeter more often. Then I kept on not missing. I'm playing alright defense and on offense I'm just running to the most open spot I can find and hitting every jumper ever. Finally I'm open one more time for a catch and shoot outside the arc and as soon as I catch the ball I hear this panicked - I mean really panicked, like you would sound if you saw, say, me, being the only one between LeBron and the game-7-winning bucket - voice from across the court go, "Don't let 'im shoot!" Then of course it goes in again and the same voice goes, "god damn it man" and there's a string of curse words aimed at my defender for wandering more than three inches from where I was standing. Never got to shoot again the rest of the day.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 12 hours ago [Title] Well I don't care about the [Body]

Output: Well I don't care about the hate-spewing going on, I like it. Heck of a lot of work to do something like that and some of them turned out really well. Interesting series IME even if the Michigan-as-Ohio set looks more like Wisconsin. And yes, I'd be interested in seeing the green version and I don't care if it's "blasphemy." College football is supposed to be fun. This is fun.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] I can't see how that's [Body]

Output: I can't see how that's possibly safe. I've seen runners jogging down the middle of a traffic lane - and facing away from traffic, mind - because the sidewalk and curb had snow and ice on them. Could their fitness routine not be put on hold for one day for the roads to clear? If you're wondering why bike and running nerds have a bad name, that's why.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] What is the point? So you [Body]

Output: What is the point? So you don't have to go all the way around the circle to go one street to the right?


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] I was going to post this [Body]

Output: I was going to post this article but the ranking number kept changing and I kept losing track of it.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] Agree and you'd think people [Body]

Output: Agree and you'd think people in Michigan more than anyone else would get it when it comes to the subject of intersections that seem confusing at first but in fact improve traffic flow in large and noticeable ways.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Division winners only would [Body]

Output: Division winners only would be great, but with three division winners it's nigh-impossible to do. Maybe if they expanded to another team in each league and had four divisions each like the NFL does. At any rate, to me the complaints made sense, that the division winners didn't get enough of an advantage. Too many wild cards in the WS was a valid complaint, I think. I just think of it as, the wild cards aren't actually in the playoffs yet until they win their way in one more time, and then the wild card gets the disadvantage of starting their rotation with their #2 pitcher. The only team really "hosed" by it is the first wild card. The second wild card would never even have gotten to pull the lever. Anyway, it remains to be seen in practice if it's that much of a disadvantage. Last year we had another all-WC Series.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 1 day ago [Title] The home-field advantage [Body]

Output: The home-field advantage prize for winning the ASG is dumb, but it has roots in an even dumber overreaction. Because a game ended in a tie, everyone acted like that was some colossal travesty, and MLB decided to "fix" it. The game is nothing but the single most glorified exhibition in sports, who the fuck cares if it ended in a tie? Why people thought that was bad, I have no idea. Who gives a shit? The only thing that matters about ASGs is if they're memorable, and that one certainly qualified. Second, the play-in game is supposed to put the wild cards at a disadvantage. That's the whole point. And doing so is a good idea.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 1 day ago [Title] We have a new record for [Body]

Output: We have a new record for get-off-my-lawniest comment ever in the history of MGoBlog.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Maybe if they'd chosen a name [Body]

Output: Maybe if they'd chosen a name that didn't sound like industrial-strength laundry detergent.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Definitely. A couple [Body]

Output: Definitely. A couple instances does not make anything the "new normal." The normal is still for players to be offered as sophomores, juniors, and sometimes as seniors.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Exactly. IME it's not so [Body]

Output: Exactly. IME it's not so much about deflating balls per se, it's the fact that it's not the first time the Patriots have been caught deliberately and obviously breaking rules. They're a cheater organization and deserve no sympathy. They're the Alabama of the NFL with maybe even more annoying fans and the only reason anyone here (besides actual Pats fans) puts forth an ounce of defense for them is Tom Brady. I mean, there is a ridiculous amount of inconsistency in the general attitude that SEC teams should be nuked for their cheating ways while the Pats should get off easy because "everyone does it." And Brady's suspension for me only rises to the level of outrage because of things like Ray Rice and the attempted two-gamer. That said, having screwed that one up doesn't mean the league must always and forever come down lightly on any kind of punishment in the future.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Title] How did we get this far [Body]

Output: How did we get this far without nominating Isiah Thomas, who drove a fifty-year-old basketball league into bankruptcy and oblivion within two years of purchasing it?


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Title] I race sailboats. It's a [Body]

Output: I race sailboats. It's a blast. An average week during the summer has me racing three days a week and there's three different boats I regularly crew for. And not only do I race locally but once or twice a year I fly to Connecticut to race with folks I used to race with when I lived in Rhode Island. The water is the place to be in the summer. Sailing is both relaxing and very competitive. Plus there are parties. Lots and lots of parties, especially around Mackinac week where you get to feel like a bigshot because of all the parties going on and the hundreds of people who turn out to watch the boats leave for the start. It's great because it doesn't take an ounce of talent to get into in some way and not a ton of money if it's not your boat. But it does take a fair amount of learning, and it's fun to have knowledge and a high comfort level with something that some people consider a cross between a Goldberg machine and a wild bronco.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 3 days ago [Title] "Refuse" to get bullpen [Body]

Output: "Refuse" to get bullpen help? You mean signing Joe Nathan, Joba Chamberlain, and Tom Gorzelanny, and trading for Ian Krol and Joakim Soria doesn't count? Say what you will about the methods. Personally I'd be happy if we never again signed another over-35, $10 million closer. But saying Dombrowski "refuses to get bullpen help" is just ignorant blather.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] So, I would argue that easy [Body]

Output: So, I would argue that easy access to the Southfield is a bug, not a feature. When I was taking classes at UDM and working in Dearborn, it would take about 15 minutes to go the three-ish miles up the Southfield to 96. Then, if you happen to live out Plymouth / Canton / Northville way, I understand the 96/275 interchange is a holy terror.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Title] I live in Grosse Pointe Park [Body]

Output: I live in Grosse Pointe Park and work in Dearborn. Some hopefully helpful notes: - The commute is about 25-30 minutes without traffic, 30-35 with. It's longer in the afternoon than the morning by about five minutes. 94 is a pain in the ass and occasionally a huge pain in the ass, but there are lots of alternate routes that help limit my commute to no more than 40 minutes if traffic is really nasty on the freeway. - You can find a house for around $200K. The selection would be more limited than if you were looking for one around $500K, but they're there. In general, proximity to the border with Detroit depresses a home's value and you should be able to find something with some patience. - Excellent schools. Crime is basically limited to petty thefts. Things like bikes and power tools have a habit of occasionally making their way into Detroit. It's not exactly rampant, though. - GP sorta has a few downtown spots. Each of the Pointes except the Shores has a little bit of a downtown, and there are nice restaurants and bars to be found although not so many that you don't want to go out and around, too. But fortunately we're only about 15 minutes from downtown Detroit.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 5 days ago [Title] The phone-loving people are [Body]

Output: The phone-loving people are godless communists. I can read, process, and delete an email in like five to ten seconds. And if it's important I have a searchable, file-able record of what's been said. It takes way longer to dial the voicemail and listen to a message all the way through because people refuse to get to the point. I can't search for it later, either, if I want to keep it I have to listen through all the other saved voice mails til I get to the one I want. Voice mail is a waste of my time. Email all the way.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 10 hours ago [Title] Only thing that stopped me [Body]

Output: Only thing that stopped me from eating cuy in Peru was "hmm, the cuy is 60 soles and everything else is 10-12. I'll wait til another place where it's cheaper." It never was. Alpaca steak is great stuff, though.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 17 hours ago [Title] If so, probably on Webex most [Body]

Output: If so, probably on Webex most likely, as I'm in Dearborn and not Livonia.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 18 hours ago [Title] Have you been to Paris? If [Body]

Output: Have you been to Paris? If not, here's some random advice for your first day. Drop your crap off and get situated, and then first thing you do, head for the Arc de Triomphe. It's not the tallest thing in Paris. But it has the best view. You're not lofted way above Paris - you're in it and yet above it. It feels like being in the whole city at the same time. It's on the far west side of the historic and interesting part of the city so you can stand on one side and see just about literally every landmark in the city. That was my first impression of the city and since Paris is easily among the absolute most famous cities in the world, it was breathtaking. By the way, you might've been planning on this already, but don't rent your car until you leave Paris. Traffic actually isn't that bad, but I'll be damned if I ever saw where anyone parked. The Metro takes you anywhere you need to go. Where you're staying, take a look through booking sites like Orbitz. I stayed at a place called the Hotel Eden Montmartre - nice little place, learned later that it was one of the few hotels in Paris that provides Kleenex - and booking through Orbitz got me a deal where breakfast was free. This was important because ordinarily it would've been 7 euros per person per day. Look for stuff like that to save a little money. The room itself was awfully reasonable for Paris.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 19 hours ago [Title] Age? [Body]

Output: Age? Thirty-something Occupation? I work in finance at FoMoCo. At the moment, on prototype transmissions. Location? GP Park Alum? I turned Michigan down once, and they turned me down once, so we're even. Most MICHIGAN thing you've ever done? - I got made fun of when I first got to school in Virginia for saying I was going to "Teeter's."


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] I only have a few days, and [Body]

Output: I only have a few days, and Venice is harder to get to than Rome and doesn't have as many Vatican Cities as Rome does.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 21 hours ago [Title] There's lots of reasons to go [Body]

Output: There's lots of reasons to go to Pattaya besides hookers. There's also massages, go-go shows, "beer bars," cabarets, "karaoke", and other institutions which no doubt have absolutely nothing to do with prostitution.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] Growing up, our extended [Body]

Output: Growing up, our extended family took several trips to Ocean Isle. Nice beach. About midway between Wilmington and Myrtle Beach so you can take day trips to do things like see the battleship and be back in plenty of time for dinner and evening beach time. Dumb story bro: last year my boss told me she was going there for vacation, and I was like, "oh, good idea, your kids will like the waterpark if they get bored with the beach." She didn't know there was a waterpark, so we looked on the map. No waterpark. They tore the damn thing down :(


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] Going to Italy this summer [Body]

Output: Going to Italy this summer for a wedding. My cousin decided on a destination wedding, so off we go. The wedding is in some Tuscan town somewhere, so my own plans are to hit Rome and Florence before coming back.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 22 hours ago [Title] Don't worry about the age of [Body]

Output: Don't worry about the age of the boat. Someone else beat me to saying it above, but if the engine and hull are both in good shape, which can be determined with a survey which should be done regardless of whether you're buying a year-old boat or 60-year-old boat, age is nothing. Boats don't take the beating cars do, and freshwater boats can last a ridiculously long time. No salt, no potholes, and diesel engines are notorious for their ability to take a beating. If you like a boat and the price, have the survey done and if it checks out, the phrase "age is just a number" was never more apt.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 23 hours ago [Title] I agree, anything at all [Body]

Output: I agree, anything at all above about 27 feet and you're looking at a major, major investment to trailer it around. Your average F-150, Silverado, Tundra, etc. isn't going to haul anything bigger. You'd be surprised how damn big a 25-foot boat looks on a trailer. I wouldn't limit your search locally. Deals can be had by looking out on the East Coast. It will cost in the neighborhood of $1500-2000 to have it delivered from there to Michigan, so factor that into the price, but it's worth looking to see what you can find.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Besides the student loan [Body]

Output: Besides the student loan issue, I'm disappointed the article didn't mention the proliferation of shiny palaces on campuses. Dorms, dining halls, classrooms - every building is starting to be gold-plated. The author provided one figure to back up his claim: a four-fold rise in the number of administrators. Well, tuition has gone up much more than four-fold. Probably the only expense that has kept pace with the tuition hikes is capital and building expenditures. There's the culprit.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Most of those analyses that [Body]

Output: Most of those analyses that say School X lost money on the bowl game completely neglect to mention the bowl game's actual payout; they just ask the school how much they spent on travel and compare it to the bowl's travel allotment.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 1 day ago [Title] Admittedly the jealousy thing [Body]

Output: Admittedly the jealousy thing is outta line and as much an amateur psychology troll as everything white pony is saying. I figure, since he's already pegged me as snobby and arrogant and has no intention to change that opinion, I might as well play it up all the way. And I have no idea how big or small his dick is. That said, you know as much as anyone how long and bizarre the "douchey" rant was, and if you combine that with these other posts, I have no problems calling him baselessly judgmental. He has no idea who I am or what I did or who I knew in high school, but he's got no problems coming to irrevocable conclusions anyway.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Yeah, OK. I actually had - [Body]

Output: Yeah, OK. I actually had - have - no problem hanging out with most people, because most people aren't jealous and judgmental dickheads like you. Tell me, what exactly is it that makes you "cool people and a good friend"? The raging envy, or the immediate leap to judgment about people you've never met? It's not like you've proven yourself to be the kind of person people like.


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 2 days ago [Title] Right, this from the same [Body]

Output: Right, this from the same life's loser who got turned down from U-M and the resulting feeling of inadequacy and small dicked-ness caused him to go on an unhinged rant about how U-M students were all arrogant whiny rich kids in a post entitled "douchey MGoBlog users." Did your amateur psychology work out that totally idiotic and off-based conclusion about me all by yourself, or did you need help from someone who was smart enough to get into Michigan?