Input: [Date] 1 year 17 weeks ago [Body] Best $1.30 I've spent EVER!!! [Title]

Output: Just downloaded it


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Body] Fuck the final four [Title]

Output: I'm fucking over it


Input: [Date] 1 year 18 weeks ago [Body] Bunker for the New World Order... Just like the airport in Denver...thoughts? [Title]

Output: Or it's a secret


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 weeks ago [Body] We sweep them in the season and now they act like beating us was the fucking superbowl. I guess we would be excited also if we won 1 out of 3 attempts [Title]

Output: I love sparty


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Body] What we bought [Title]

Output: And that's exactly


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Body] Why would a QB ever where 98 and that Gardner was lame for choosing that number [Title]

Output: He said


Input: [Date] 1 year 21 weeks ago [Body] It was on my iPad and should have done better. And pissed off wasn't the right description I should have said it made me shakes my head [Title]

Output: I agree


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] We need to just double team marble??? Fucking half the score is from him!!! Take that away and we are maybe down by 3 [Title]

Output: So who thinks


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] Well all this nba talk should be squashed now [Title]

Output: Yeah


Input: [Date] 1 year 25 weeks ago [Body] Now we can panic... Jesus it's like watching NBA live he is on FIRE [Title]

Output: Ok


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

Output: I lol'd


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

Output: great analysis. I Kept hoping Denard would make a big jump a la himself from 2009-2010 or RG III over the course of his career. But in the end, he was who he was. A great athlete and runner but a limited passer with a tendency to make bad decisions and turn the ball over. You live by Denard, you die by Denard. And this year, we lost more of those toss-ups.


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

Output: Was the problem that he threw the flag? Somebody please explain this to me


Input: [Date] 2 years 39 weeks ago [Title] roster mismanagement [Body]

Output: Gardner played great today, but it's too bad we lost the chance to control our destiny in the Legends division because he wasn't available at QB last week. When it comes down to it, the coaches took a huge gamble when they decided to have DG practice exclusively at WR all year. Denard takes ~20 carries/game and is bound to get hurt for a spell during the season. Backup QB becomes a really important position in that kind of offense. The gamble didn't pay off and we might have lost our shot at a Big Ten title because of it. Gotta put that on Hoke, ultimately. I'm not saying we should get rid of the guy or anything, but this was an incidence of roster mismanagement. They corrected their mistake, though, and I'm looking forward to watching DG at QB in the future.


Input: [Date] 3 years 47 weeks ago [Title] Denard will not put up last season's numbers [Body]

Output: Denard will not put up last season's numbers. Period. Last year we ran an up-tempo, no huddle offense. Add to that a Defense that was liable to give up big plays and the number of possessions per game for the Offense went up considerably. He simply will not approach those statistics again. So long as we are winning games and Denard is healthy, I am totally ok with this. The great thing about Denard is, he is ok with it too.


Input: [Date] 3 years 50 weeks ago [Title] the naked boot [Body]

Output: is setup by the off-tackle run. You need to establish that running game before that play really works. I hope we can adopt that downhill running mentality. We certainly have nowhere to go but up from the Spring game. Sept. 3rd. CANT WAIT


Input: [Date] 4 years 3 days ago [Title] Ithaca Spirit Group Represent! [Body]

Output: We have been known to have some fun at Uncle Joe's, come down sometime


Input: [Date] 4 years 15 weeks ago [Title] Free streaming [Body]

Output: Any idea if it is possible to stream this online somewhere?


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] So if Hoke gets blown out in a bowl game in yr. 3 [Body]

Output: do we fire him?


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] Brady got choked up [Body]

Output: when talking about the thousands of kids he's touched hehe


Input: [Date] 4 years 29 weeks ago [Title] you mean like winning B1G Championships and Rose Bowls? [Body]

Output: Don't sound so bad after 15-22


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Dont forget [Body]

Output: Glenn Steele and Rob Renes. Two guys in a similar mold


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] ... [Body]


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Final Four [Body]

Output: Success is nice


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] Demens [Body]

Output: is a beast


Input: [Date] 4 years 34 weeks ago [Title] if you DO chalk it up to inexperience [Body]

Output: is there really anything you can do except give these guys more time with their coach? 19 starters +2 specialists returning. If RR can retain his roster, then the execution should get better with time.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] He really doesn't have to bring his problems up, though [Body]

Output: I don't think it's about being self-centered, there was just no reason for him to continue making self-deprecating remarks. The stuff about how the money is nice and his pool is nice and miss Rita likes nice things, that just didn't need to be said.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] So long as the Big House [Body]

Output: doesnt end up looking like the LA Coliseum, I will be happy


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Stan Edwards' pimp hand [Body]

Output: I appreciate your work, Brian, but IME, It was a little out of line to bring up an unsubstantiated rumor on the radio.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] Question for the informed [Body]

Output: Who was responsible for calling the plays and putting together the offense that put up 41 points on the Gators in the 08 Capital One bowl? After only putting 3 points on the board against OSU, our offense looked wide open in that game and Henne had the game of his life. THAT offense could have kept mallet and manningham (maybe) around and could have helped us avoid the last three years. Maybe.


Input: [Date] 4 years 35 weeks ago [Title] the brand [Body]

Output: When I went abroad the two US college brand merchandise I would see the most were Carolina Tarheels and Michigan Wolverines. This is just one example, but I saw this guy, a Malaysian tourist, on the Red Sea on my way to Jordan


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Watching WVU D up Pitt right now [Body]

Output: The men behind their D-Line are stemming and moving, attacking from different positions on every single play. The are ballhawks, too. 3 turnovers with 5 minutes left in the first half. This seems to me to be how you eliminate the "bubbles." At all times, there should be at least 4 men rushing the QB. GERG seemed, in the beginning of the season at least, to be content to drop everyone into a 3-deep zone behind the line. When you have an inexperienced secondary and allow your D-Line to get double teamed, bad results are sure to happen. I really think the best-case scenario for the D is to get Casteel on board. RR knows him, the staff knows him, and he knows 3-3-5, meaning we wouldn't have to switch schemes drastically again.


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] I see it every time we lose [Body]

Output: and it is ridiculous. When things like Wisconsin and Penn State happen, people go straight for the pitchforks. We aren't used to losing, I guess. Perhaps ND wouldn't be better off with Weiss, but their pattern of coaching roulette should be exactly what we try to avoid


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] what do the numbers look like without the Indiana game? [Body]

Output: 12 drives and 12 TDs, right? That has to skew things.


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] Yes, exactly [Body]

Output: if we have an Irish fan saying that other Irish fans were using a similar rationale for running Weiss out of ND, why would this be something we want to emulate? Do we want to be ND, where the entitled, whiny fan base cuts the legs out from under every coach who comes into town and sends them packing after 4 years, resulting in decades of mediocrity?


Input: [Date] 4 years 36 weeks ago [Title] this is the key issue [Body]

Output: We are scoring when the game is already out of hand. If we can get out to a fast start we might be able to force offensive mistakes from teams trying to play catch-up. The truth is the Iowa, Wisconsin, and Penn State were much bigger beatings than the final score would indicate


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] poor kid [Body]

Output: he got rocked


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Tom Harmon, no question [Body]


Input: [Date] 4 years 37 weeks ago [Title] Brother Jimmy's has been mentioned [Body]

Output: and Professor Thoms' is also a good Michigan bar on Saturdays in NYC


Input: [Date] 4 years 40 weeks ago [Title] were we watching the same game? [Body]

Output: I can see the boxing analogy because these powerful offenses were certainly trading punches all game long, but I thought both teams looked very good and about as evenly matched as possible. Good news for us because we could clearly play with Iowa last weekend and Wisky would not have gotten past them without the fake punt


Input: [Date] 5 days 4 hours ago [Body] Sorry I don't read through all 56 posts. But I hope you feel better with your snide comment. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Sorry I don't read through


Input: [Date] 6 days 6 hours ago [Body] Optic nerve. Not optical nerve. Sorry, I just can't read that and not say something. Something has been said, so please carry on. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Optic nerve. Not optical


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 3 hours ago [Body] I'm guessing the OP is not watching the Gold Cup Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I'm guessing the OP is not watching the Gold Cup


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Cowherd is an idiot. He yells into his microphone and conducts an interview as though he's Nancy Grace. Harbaugh responded the way you are supposed to when you meet someone who is mentally unstable - 1. Respond slowly. Do not agitate them. They may get violent. 2. Be non-committal. Stay vague so that they can't lock onto something you said and get violent. 3. Throw the question back at them. It will confuse them and they may leave you alone. 4. Treat stupidity with silence. See 1. Good job Jim! [Title]

Output: Ugh.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] Woot Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Woot


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I buy tickets on stubhub every year. Guaranteed not to get fake tix and allows me to see what's available based on location. As a buyer it's the best site I've found. Not sure as a seller, but others must like it as there are always thousands of tickets available. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I buy tickets on stubhub


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Body] There are rarely updates on the weekend. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: There are rarely updates on the weekend.


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Just because you have enough mgopoints to post doesn't mean you should. Didn't your grandma tell you that? Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Just because you have enough


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] Best recruit ehav! Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Best recruit ehav!


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 days ago [Body] There came a point in this post when you stepped into creepy man-crush territory - at about the time you said, "I was geeked..." Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: There came a point in this


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I'm waiting for Michigan to play an away game in London so I can complain about the food in first class on the flight over. But alas, I'll take noon starts for now... /s - but only because everyone knows that first class is about the unlimited booze. [Title]

Output: I'm waiting for Michigan to


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 4 days ago [Body] This is a big deal. I fly up from Florida for a game for each of the kids (5 and 7) and the 3:30 starts suck. When your 5 year old wakes up at 6am and is eager to see the game, trying to find something to do for the next NINE hours is a bit daunting. With the noon games, you wake up, hit Angelos for breakfast, shop at the M Den, tailgate for 45 minutes, and boom - gametime. Afterwards you can go anywhere you want for dinner or visit local friends. Of course, the 3:30 games from my outdoor patio TV by the pool in Florida allow me to go off-shore fishing all morning without worrying about missing game time. First world problems... [Title]

Output: For those of us flying in...


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Body] It must be a phrase that stalls the literate brain from deciphering the extreme idiocy of the remaining statements. I for one had to re-read that particular phrase three times before my doctorate educated cerebrum said, "nope, no sense here" and moved on. Of course, I once had the same question of alternate reality while eating at a Cracker Barrel in Montgomery. [Title]

Output: It must be a phrase that


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 13 hours ago [Body] Not a bad house. But where's the pool? [Title]

Output: Meh...


Input: [Date] 8 weeks 13 hours ago [Body] But how do you say this guy's name? Is it Bla-shill or Blas-hill? [Title]

Output: May be a silly question


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Computer Engineering undergrad and Medical School after. Now a plastic surgeon. I think the grass is always greener somewhere else. I loved engineering and loved physics. Having done plastic surgery, I think I'd go back to engineering. Although, I certainly would miss the paycheck. [Title]

Output: Hmmm


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Body] "The Contest" I'M OUT! [Title]

Output: For me


Input: [Date] 13 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I'll take either over Shake Shack. That place is terrible. 7 bucks for a burger of which I could eat 3. Personally, I think most towns/cities have a hole-in-the-wall burger joint that's much better. Down here in Florida it's Charm City Burger Company in Deerfield Beach. Ridiculous. [Title]

Output: I'll take both


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Boy, my Saban Sympathy Jar is just plain dry. "Why you in my campz... steelin all my peeps?" [Title]

Output: Boy, my Saban Sympathy Jar is


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I mean comeon.... It doesn't protect against blasters or even rocks. What the hell good is it? And why do they need a snow- version? Is there a "formal" attire armor suit for storm troopers? [Title]

Output: Like Storm Trooper armor?


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] What if Tom loses his job? I'm not so sure this is a good idea... think of the children! [Title]

Output: Very startling development....


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Was she hired by ESPN for her brain or her teeth? Hmm... [Title]

Output: I wonder...


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 6 days ago [Body] The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. Yes, it hasn't been made yet - but with that storyline how can you mess it up? [Title]

Output: Hopefully...


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Don't get me wrong, I like Levert but he was inconsistent a lot this year. Although it sucks that he broke his foot (again), it did allow for the team to gel this year much more than I believe they would have. Levert shined in 2014 due to being a "part" of the team, but not the leader. Having Jaylen come in as a freshman and without the immediate "leadership role" being thrust upon him, I believe he can help the team out and give us at least 2 solid years. Levert coming back will be great for stats, but I don't think the overall team performance would be better. [Title]

Output: Jaylen Brown


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I remember match day as being fairly stressful for most folks. I was lucky in that I already knew where I was headed. Congrats to all and get ready for the only legalized form of slavery left in the US - residency. [Title]

Output: Good luck to all!


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Anybody else think the uniforms looked like we were wearing yellow hula skirts? Watched it on my phone so maybe that's the problem but man were they awful Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: Anybody else think the


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 8 hours ago [Body] All he needs is an 880? If you turn the SAT in blank you get 800. Is this truly the academic minimum? Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: All he needs is an 880? If


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I love how he dispensed with the inane media questions that the previous group embraced. Two examples - Q - how to build competitiveness? A - um, you don't have to . It's football Q - it's cold outside. Did it help to practice early A - what? We have an indoor building Hopefully the media follows suit with legitimate questions from now on Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I love how he dispensed with


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I forget the exact numbers but when the 1% movement was going on, someone brought up the stat that in the world economy, 99% of Americans were in the 1%. It was probably hyperbole to make a point, but even John Stossel (how's that for a reference?) showed that 85% of Americans under the poverty level had cable TV. Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I forget the exact numbers


Input: [Date] 23 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I agree that nudity is over censored in this country but I do think the Europeans could learn a thing or two. For instance, I was in Basel in December and walking through the old town with buildings aging back to the Middle Ages. The shops in most of these were selling erotic toys. Although I thought it was hilarious at the time, I'd probably be miffed it that was in my city. Your posts just reminded me of this experience. Carry on! Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad [Title]

Output: I agree that nudity is over


Input: [Date] 1 week 1 day ago [Body] I seriously don't get the hate. Cmon guys. It's a black jersey with red numbers. It's not like the zubaz nonsense from the NCAA tourney a couple years back. Also to those freaking out about the "fishnet" pattern, i've seen these and the UM version in person, and you literally cannot tell if you're more than 5 feet away from it. It's a functional fabric weave designed to NOT tear and stretch like the stuff adidas used to have. Seriously, its way better. And unless you're lining up across from them on the field, you won't be able to tell it's there. [Title]

Output: I seriously don't get the


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 2 days ago [Body] But that's apples and oranges though, since the Foamposites and Retro J's are exclusive, that's what makes them cool and desirable. A better comparison would be a Lebron or KD vs. a Hyperdunk, I'm pretty sure I know what they'd rather have. That being said, the exclusivity of the Jordan brand is gonna be pretty cool and give us some good exposure. And I'll also say Nike is a heck of a lot better at marketing their athletes/universities, hence why they sell a lot more. We'll see when the crop of young guys come up though, I think UA and adidas have both done a good job signing young up and coming talent. [Title]

Output: But that's apples and oranges


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Body] This is the case and how these contracts work. Again, it will be easier to analyze this once the details come out. Nike does sell better here in the US, that's a given. But to your point of the kids wanting KD's and Kobe's and such, that's becuase of the name attached to it. Kids want the Lebron's because they're Lebron's, not Nike's. This is part of the reason why adidas chose to let go of the NBA contract. People don't buy Kevin Durant jerseys because they love adidas, they do it because they love Kevin Durant. Similarly, (outside of the <.05% of the fan base that posts on here) people don't buy Michigan apparel because they love Nike or adidas, they do it because they love Michigan. These deals are far more valuable to the apparel companies than the schools, you'd be naiive to think otherwise. Now I'm not saying I don't expect to see a spike in apparel sales, I totally do and I think the fanbase as a whole is ready to move on from the DB/RR/Hoke era, and the Nike contract ushers in a fresh start. Will it make up for the money we left on the table with adidas? I HIGHLY doubt that, but it remains to be seen. The thing that scares me is that it's a 12 year deal. That's a long time. A lot can change in 12 years. 12 years ago Under Armour was just gaining momentum, and still was only making baselayer/compression gear. Look where they are now. Just something to think about. [Title]

Output: This is the case and how


Input: [Date] 3 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Are you really trying to say that fans will go to more games when the team is in a bad stretch just because there's a swoosh on the uniforms? Like I get some of the arguments on here but come on now,that's a massive stretch. [Title]

Output: Are you really trying to say


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Agreed, I'm going with blue. White is minimally acceptable, and only on the road. [Title]

Output: Agreed, I'm going with blue.


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Body] This has nothing to do with adidas. They will still be the supplier for the upcoming season. It likely has more to do with the "generic" numbers they had last year not being worn by prominent players this year for football, like 98 for example. And I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a new basketball template this season. [Title]

Output: This has nothing to do with


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I keep hearing this argument, but is there any actual proof of it happening before? Genuinely curious. It doesn't make sense to me that a brand like Nike or adidas would pull funding for an AAU team, consequently pissing off 10-20 members of their key demographic just because one player went to a school they don't sponsor. [Title]

Output: I keep hearing this argument,


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Body] No question about it. And I think the 3 hole playoff was great for TV as well. Some of my friends who aren't even golf fans were glued to the TV for the end there. [Title]

Output: No question about it. And I


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Not sure I agree with you there. He finished in the top 5 of all 4 majors last year, the only other players to do that were Jack and Tiger. Give the kid his due - he's only 26 years old and most golfers don't hit their prime until their mid 30s. HERE is a good look at what he did last year, impressive to say the least. And whle I was rooting for Sergio today, good to see Rickie pull one out. [Title]

Output: Not sure I agree with you


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Man that sucks. It's a shame too, the first thirty minutes of the game were some of the most entertaining basketball I've seen in quite a while. [Title]

Output: Man that sucks. It's a shame


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Agree. Or sleeve numbers. I've always been partial to those. + a blue collar would be nice, and also have a symbolic meaning to it. [Title]

Output: Agree. Or sleeve numbers.


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Agreed, little block M's would be cool. Kind of like how Sparty does it, theirs don't look horrible. [Title]

Output: Agreed, little block M's


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] FWIW, I know someone who ran track at ND and graduated last year, she says that ever since the UA contract went into effect, the track team won't train in UA footwear. They all go out and buy their own adidas or Asics. [Title]

Output: FWIW, I know someone who ran


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Where are you hearing this? One of the big reasons ND went with UA was that they wanted to have the largest contract in the NCAA, but adidas refused to make their deal worth more than Michigan's, whether through loyalty or contractual obligation. Also, when asked about the potential of more team/player sponsorships, UA's CEO said "we're not going to compete with our dumbest competitor." I think this kind of shows that company's direction, and I highly doubt more high profile college sponsorships are in their future. LINK to that story. [Title]

Output: Where are you hearing this?


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 2 hours ago [Body] Lmao tech on Beilein. You know it's bad when that happens. [Title]

Output: Lmao tech on Beilein. You


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 3 hours ago [Body] I hate that I agree with you, because I want to believe that true competition still exists anymore, but this is spot on. Wisconsin is the B1G's only chance to bring exposure to the conference"brand" this March, so they need to advance and get a high tourney seed, simple as that. I'm staying positive because we played pretty well, but the odds are against us [Title]

Output: I hate that I agree with you,


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 3 hours ago [Body] Doesn't look great right now, but if a couple calls went our way it would be a 10+ point Michigan lead right now. We're not out of it at all. [Title]

Output: Doesn't look great right now,


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Need a GIF of that immediately! [Title]

Output: Need a GIF of that


Input: [Date] 20 weeks 1 day ago [Body] NIke is better based on what? I keep seeing the argument "Nike is clearly better" but have not seen any concrete reasons why other than "kids like it." You say that adidas sucks, but also say you only have ever bought one piece of apparel? I'm not saying everything they make is amazing but it's impossible to judge based on one item. And when we first signed the adidas contract, I would have agreed that Nike does make a superior product. adidas was crap up until about 2 1/2 years ago. But now, adidas has the top performance footwear on the market, hands down. And like it or not, tournament unis bring exposure to the brand. You're talking about it, and that was the goal. Remember when Nike had all of their schools wearing gray a couple years ago? People on here would have had a meltdown if that happened to us. There's also something to be said for being a company's flagship school. Given our recent success we'd be a middle tier Nike school at best. I mean look at Miami (YTM). They were the original sponsored school, but they've been down for a few years, Nike treats them like crap and they end up leaving for adidas. [Title]

Output: NIke is better based on


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Wellllll that wasn't pretty. But at least I don't have to defend my alma mater TOO much next week... [Title]

Output: Wellllll that wasn't pretty.


Input: [Date] 40 weeks 8 hours ago [Body] Been a looooong week let's do the unthinkable and take it to em tomorrow! [Title]

Output: Been a looooong week let's do


Input: [Date] 42 weeks 1 day ago [Body] This captures my thoughts on the issue perfectly. However, I'd be utterly shocked if he does even ONE of the things on this list. I don't feel like I matter to the AD, and that's a problem. He takes this "this is big business, you wouldn't understand" attitude to things and it's very off-putting. I've never felt so disconnected from the program [Title]

Output: This captures my thoughts on


Input: [Date] 1 year 2 weeks ago [Body] Grabbed a sixer of Gulo Gulo tonight. Never had it, heard it was good though so I'm giving it a try [Title]

Output: Grabbed a sixer of Gulo Gulo


Input: [Date] 1 year 20 weeks ago [Body] They still had a chance to win. OSU made what 2 of 8 ft's on their final 4 posessions? State only had to make one basket but instead kept turning it over. [Title]

Output: They still had a chance to


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] For me? Yes I think that's awesome that I can be a part of something so cool and historic. But for the average student who doesn't post on football message boards, the at home experience of a game against some tiny directional school seems just as good as being there. [Title]

Output: For me? Yes I think that's


Input: [Date] 1 year 23 weeks ago [Body] Why? He is basically saying that the University has stripped everything away from games that made them fun and unique. If i want obnoxiously loud piped in music and advertisements at every stoppage of play, I can get that in the comfort of my own home by turning on the tv and cranking up the surround sound. The only difference is that I saved hundreds of dollars on parking, tickets, and absurdly overpriced food, and hours of time spent waiting in lines. The one thing I would miss out on by not going to the games now is the halftime show. And since they decided to turn that into an advertisement as well, i'm ok with missing it. [Title]

Output: Why? He is basically saying


Input: [Date] 1 year 30 weeks ago [Body] No kidding. Excellent blitz read and toss to funchess [Title]

Output: No kidding. Excellent blitz


Input: [Date] 1 year 30 weeks ago [Body] Morris looks more comfortable in the pocket than Gardner. Like the arm strength too [Title]

Output: Morris looks more comfortable


Input: [Date] 1 year 30 weeks ago [Body] Morris is rockin some pretty sweet kicks, so we got that going for us [Title]

Output: Morris is rockin some pretty


Input: [Date] 1 year 30 weeks ago [Body] About damn time they called a hold [Title]

Output: About damn time they called a


Input: [Date] 2 days 3 hours ago [Body] Given the limited scholarships that NCAA soccer teams have, particularly for men's soccer where most scholarships are fractional, those coaches are flat out lying to the parents. Fortunately haven't seen that at my kids' club. They have had kids go onto the U-15 and U-17 national teams in recent years, and they certainly sell that, though in a relatively low key way (it's probably enough to say "we have 2 former players on national teams"). I agree about the community thing, particularly in small town/suburban areas, where high school sports form so much of a community's broader identity. That's the world I grew up in. My kids are growing up in the city (NYC) and that aspect is obviously totally absent from our daily lives, it probably only heightens the power of club sports. [Title]

Output: Given the limited


Input: [Date] 2 days 5 hours ago [Body] Not to mention that those media "insiders" professionally subsist on leaks from the league office, which has to be a significant reason why Brady had to believe that anything the NFL found on his phone would quickly make it into the public. Whether stuff regarding his wife, his contract or internal union business. Basically, the NFL has done nothing in the past decade that would lead the players to trust that they can keep players' information private. [Title]

Output: Not to mention that those


Input: [Date] 2 days 5 hours ago [Body] It also seems to be the case that the elite club sports can be played at a much, much higher level than high school sports. I know about half of the older kids at the elite levels of my sons' soccer club don't play high school soccer because of a belief that it doesn't challenge them, that the coaching is much worse than the professional coaching that they get at the club, and that it's more dangerous because of the unskilled players and poor referreeing. I know the club encourages this as well. I think soccer's a bit extreme in this regard, largely because coaches looking to advance are funneled into clubs rather than high schools, but it's undoubtable that club sports structure the youth sports landscape far, far more than they did 10-15 years ago. [Title]

Output: Club sports


Input: [Date] 2 days 7 hours ago [Body] Concussions in soccer certainly should be a concern for anyone whose kids are playing. Soccer, however, doesn't have the huge number of subconcussive collisions that football has. From what I've read, those subconcussive hits, from things ike linemen bumping helmets, seem to be as much of a trigger for CTE as diagnosed concussions. It's also hard to see how football, as it's currently played, eliminates those collisions. [Title]

Output: Concussions in soccer


Input: [Date] 3 days 13 min ago [Body] The Vikings players in the Star Caps case used this strategy and played three full seasons as the case worked its way through federal court. There were jurisdictional questions that may now be resolved, but Brady can play as long as the case is being adjudicated. See here... http://www.startribune.com/star-caps-timeline/129168873/ [Title]

Output: The Vikings players in the


Input: [Date] 3 days 6 hours ago [Body] At least then, there would be another Culvers in the world. Worst case is that he leaves to open an Arby's. [Title]

Output: Not worst case...


Input: [Date] 2 weeks 5 days ago [Body] You should check out Andrew Highsmith's new book on Flint, called Demolition Means Progress (U of Chicago Press), which tells a history of this very idea of the connection between tearing down existing structures and understandings of urban progress in the era of deindustrialization [Title]

Output: You should check out Andrew


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 2 days ago [Body] 4-3-3 in name only. Probably going to play closer to a 4-1-4-1 with Brian sitting in front of the defensive line and Rapinoe and Heath responsible for tracking back on the wings. Good move in that Ellis recognized need for a dedicated d mid. Bad in that she's breaking out a new formation in a semi. This does, at least, seem to get players into the spaces where they're most comfortable [Title]

Output: 4-3-3 in name only. Probably


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The story goes, and this may be apocryphal, that Vivek had a lot of success defending with 4 and a dedicated cherry picker when coaching his daughter's team, so he either ordered a study or suggested that Malone try it as a strategy. Insert Stauskas defense joke here... [Title]

Output: 4 on 5


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Should have added that the structural political constraints you mention are 100% right on [Title]

Output: Should have added that the


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Rutgers AD isn't just using student fees. It's been drawing on the university's discretionary fund since the 2008 stadium expansion. This at a time when academic departments have seen significant funding cuts. The AD has pretty much poisoned the well (not that the Faculty Support Well is ever really that healthy). I'd imagine any facility expansion pretty much needs to be wholly donor funded at this point. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/31/university-senate-report-... [Title]

Output: Rutgers AD isn't just using


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Body] More funding? Isn't the Rutgers AD already running a massive deficit and using a bunch of money from the school's general fund? [Title]

Output: Rutgers


Input: [Date] 4 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Zach Lowe Zach Lowe – @ZachLowe_NBA "Would you like to stop being a god at Kentucky and come be our 4th coach in 7 months? Maybe play some 4-on-5?" [Title]

Output: Zach Lowe Zach Lowe –


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 2 days ago [Body] He was banned either because of Title IX or gay marriage posting. He could never quite get the No Politics rule. [Title]

Output: He was banned either because


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Who would even play there for the US? I love that set up, but aside from maybe Rapinoe, who I don't think I've ever seen play centrally, I haven't seen anyone with the ball control and passing skills to play that. I guess Morgan could do it, but there's no way to play with both Wambach and a false 9. [Title]

Output: Who would even play there for


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] That was confusing. Did he mean False 9? [Title]

Output: That was confusing. Did he


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Given all the problems with the offense, the US defense has looked really strong since the early bobbles against Australia. In this game, Colombia hasn't really had a dangerous scoring chance. [Title]

Output: Given all the problems with


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Yep. Red card is a game long expulsion. The PK + red card for a foul on a breakaway is always a harsh punishment [Title]

Output: Yep. Red card is a game long


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Good call on the PK. Wouldn't be surprised if Colombia started to melt down here. [Title]

Output: Good call on the


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] That was orange. Can't believe it wasn't at least a yellow. [Title]

Output: That was orange. Can't


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Can't believe that wasn't yellow on the tackle against Johnston. Late and on the ankle of a defender clearing the ball? That's terrible reffing. [Title]

Output: Can't believe that wasn't


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The last defender was even and the ball wasn't headed toward the goal. I've seen those grounds justified as not DOGSO, but I think that was the right call. [Title]

Output: The last defender was even


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Honestly, they don't look that talented. Colombia's better at linking short passes together and close control. The US backline is well organized and they've got good speed up the flanks but they struggle to hold the ball under pressure and link plays. Basically, they're reflecting the issues with soccer development in the US more generally. [Title]

Output: Honestly, they don't look


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Er, two beats. [Title]

Output: Er, two beats.


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] If you foul someone two bears after the ball's gone, you're going to get yellow [Title]

Output: If you foul someone two bears


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] U.S. already resorting to blasting long balls out of the back. Totally bypassing the central midfield. They look dangerous on set pieces and not much else. [Title]

Output: U.S. already resorting to


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Fox sports ap if you get FS1 on your cable package? [Title]

Output: Fox sports ap if you get FS1


Input: [Date] 5 weeks 4 days ago [Body] FWIW, there are not any real success stories of recovery from achilles tears by NBA players (maybe only Dominique). The link below has a list of players between 1992 and 2012 that have returned after an achilles tear (excluded are 8 guys who never made it back to the league). Now, a lot of these guys were on the down side of their careers anyway, but the evidence seems to show that would be foolish to count on Jennings next year (and it would be very Knicksian to trade for a player too broken to contribute). http://www.cbssports.com/nba/fantasy-basketball-today/25095586/history-n... [Title]

Output: FWIW, there are not really


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Twins born at the end of my first semester as assistant prof. That was fun. [Title]

Output: Twins born at the end of my


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Body] This is good advice, but also make sure that, when you do go on the academic job market, you get other people's input on you letter and materials. From running junior searches at an R1 (and serving as placement officer) I can tell you that about 1/3 of candidates eliminate themselves off the bat by not understanding the genre of the material they're writing for job applications. Also, go to as many job talks as you can, so you can see what works, and more importantly, what doesn't in your discipline [Title]

Output: This is good advice, but also


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Trust me, a lot of them, not all certainly, are working late into the night after their kids go to bed, or are getting up at 5 to grab a few hours. And a lot of what they're doing doesn't look like "work." That person sitting at the coffee shop at 11am reading may actually be doing a book review, or doing the secondary research to have their original research speak to their audience [Title]

Output: Trust me, a lot of them, not


Input: [Date] 6 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Studies have shown the average faculty work week to be on the order of 55 hours per week. [Title]

Output: Studies have shown the


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Yep. Very few runs aside from out wide. U.S. is tactically really crude. Just bang it in high and hope for a knock down. Like English League 1 [Title]

Output: Yep. Very few runs aside from


Input: [Date] 7 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Problem is that, out of those guys, only Smith can create anything on his own, and Smith creating is almost as likely to hurt as help his team. If the Cavs win 2, it will be a remarkable achievement. [Title]

Output: Problem is that, out of those


Input: [Date] 9 weeks 1 day ago [Body] If the Cavs were at full strength, this would be a great series, but they're not. Hard to believe that Irving's knees are going to be right after a week and he's a minus defender at full health. Cavs have the series' best player but Warriors have next 4 if Irving's not healthy. Cavs have been playing great D but against very, very limited teams. The Warriors are a huge step up on both ends of the court, first in both defensive and offensive efficiency for the season. They have looked sloppy/nervy in the last couple rounds, but they have a gear Cleveland just can't match. Barring injury, I think it plays out much like the Warriors-Rockets series. [Title]

Output: Warriors in 5


Input: [Date] 10 weeks 3 days ago [Body] This is exactly what's he's talking about. I noticed MSU, in particular, bringing the ball up on a wing, looking for a secondary break, and then slowly resetting their offense with the ball up top such that they would be 15 - 20 seconds into a possession before they even started to run an offensive set. They were essentially starting their offense at the same time an NBA team would on the shot clock, only with unnecessarily consuming 10 seconds of game time, while they passed the ball on the top without running anything off the ball or running any on ball screening action. If the 30 second clock gets teams to initiate offense 5 seconds sooner, it will greatly improve the flow of the game. [Title]

Output: This is exactly what's he's


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Body] And just to add to this point, that stat line reflected a style of play that was unique at the time. Webber was memorable in his ability to see the court as a passing big man, stretch the floor, rebound and play inside. Those Kings teams are so fondly remembered not only because of their success and the way they got screwed in the famous Lakers series, but because they played in a different way than almost any other team at the time. In what was probably the height of NBA iso/2-man ball, the ball moved on the Kings like with no other team at the time. This was largely due to Webber's unique skill set (and to a lesser degree, Vlade's). In many ways, he was an early version of the skilled big men, who can play in or out of the post, that have reshaped the way that basketball is played. [Title]

Output: And just to add to this


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Here's a different counter-point, then. Jalen's one of the very, very few former athletes who is willing to share information about how these worlds that we're all very interested in (or we wouldn't be reading this blog) function from the athlete's perspective at the mundane, daily level. He'll share what it's like to be suddenly rich and living in a strange town. He'll share what it was like to be at an elite, wealthy university after growing up poor in Detroit (and both what he values about that university and how he felt exploited by it). He'll share how athletes manage night life and athletic careers. He'll share how he took care of his body. That kind of inside information is what lots of people want to hear. I think he does it in a mostly fascinating way that at least approaches the truth as he understands it. It is, in its nature, going to be centered on Jalen, because it's his perspective, and it seems uncharitable to call him out for being self-centered when so much of his current career involves him telling stories about himself that people seemingly want to hear. [Title]

Output: Here's a different


Input: [Date] 11 weeks 3 days ago [Body] What's the case, other than the need to satisfy a bonded debt obligation on their stadium expansion, for Rutgers to continue to offer D-1 sports? It's bad at almost all of them, the AD serves as a financial burden, stripping money out of both the academic side of the university and out of students through required fees, and they have seemingly few fans. The fact that they have D-1 sports may actually hurt the school's academic reputation on the East Coast, given the association that many in the NY metro area make between big time sports and a lack of academic rigor. [Title]

Output: What's the case, other than


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Great defense. "Hey, he's not even a real chief! He's just a stereotype!" There were lots of native students at Illinois who were understandably offended by a white guy dressed up in a stereotypical costume doing a made up "Indian" dance. There were also some native students who weren't offended. But I find it strange that so many people need to cloak their defenses in a belief that no native people were offended when there have been both movements on campus to get rid of the mascots and while the most prominent American Indian political organization (the National Congress of American Indians) has called on colleges to get rid of mascots since the 1940s. Here's the resolution from the Peoria Tribal Council, the most direct descendents of the Illini people, asking the University to stop using the mascot: http://aistm.org/2000peoria.htm When this passed, the Peoria tribal chairman said, "I don't know what the origination was, or what the reason was for the university to create Chief Illiniwek. I don't think it was to honor us, because, hell, they ran our asses out of Illinois." [Title]

Output: Great defense. "Hey, he's not


Input: [Date] 12 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Your friends are pretty much telling partially true stories that they want to hear. The Spirit Lake tribal council endorsed the name, the Standing Rock tribal council didn't. http://www.indiancountrynews.com/news/mascots/1318-standing-rock-sioux-b... There's certainly no consensus among Indian people about Indian mascots. For example, the Seminole Tribe of Florida endorsed FSU's nickname but the Seminole Tribe of Oklahoma has denounced it. The NCAA has allowed FSU to maintain the name because of the "local support." My sense from talking with folks reporting and writing about the UND issue is that the fairly overt racism and inequality experienced by many Indian people in the Dakotas, plus Engelstadt's in your face effort to plaster the logo everywhere, plus the fact that he was kind of a Nazi sympathizer*, has led to more opposition. *On Engelstadt... http://deadspin.com/5256436/deadspin-classic-north-dakotas-nazi-loving-alumni-donor [Title]

Output: Your friends are pretty much


Input: [Date] 14 weeks 1 day ago [Body] It's generally thought in NBA media circles that Thibs is gone no matter what happens to the Bulls this year, with most people pointing toward Orlando as the probable destination (Simmons and Zach Lowe, also the article below). http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/orlando-magic/magic-basketblog/os-... [Title]

Output: It's generally thought in NBA


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 1 day ago [Body] U.S. is playing in the centennial Copa in 2016, (which is out of the normal Copa cycle) since we're hosting it. [Title]

Output: Copa


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] In the NCAA, #2 for the Lakers would, when he guessed wrong on the pick, reach out and hand check Wade on his hip, allowing him to recover back over the pick, prevent the drive, and therefore not force the set of defensive choices faced by everyone else on the Lakers. That kind of impeding of motion is rarely, or unpredictably, called in the NCAA (watch any Louisville or Duke game, where their defense is largely based on using their hands on the perimeter rather than moving their feet). It's called every time in the NBA and it makes offense much more free flowing. [Title]

Output: NCAA officiating


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] All this is exactly right on. The Piston's are letting Monroe walk because it no longer makes sense to construct a team with two big guys on the floor because it kills spacing. As I say below, the only decent teams that have isos as a core part of their offense are OKC (out of necessity), and Cleveland and Houston because of the particular players they have. Almost every other team is trying to score by getting into their offenses early enough to be able to run multiple sets and forcing the defense to constantly shift and move to defend the space created as players shift around the perimeter. [Title]

Output: All this is exactly right on.


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I took Cuban's point to be more about how officiating (college refs with the charge call fetish, as well as allowing far more perimeter hand checking than ever goes on in the NBA) doesn't prep college players for NBA defense, how the longer shot clock doesn't teach guys to get into the offense early (which is far more important with a 24 second clock) and how the staccato flow of the game, with all the stoppages and over coaching, doesn't teach players to manage energy and solve game problems for themselves in the way the NBA stresses. But understanding exactly what Cuban means is always a pretty futile exercise. Your characterization of NBA offenses, at least now, is almost completely off base. Of the teams playing iso/hero ball right now that are even in playoff contention, it's pretty much 1. OKC with Westbrook, who both has a terrible coach and has been forced into it because every other offensive threat is hurt, and 2. Cleveland with Lebron and Kyrie, who are the two best offensive players in the East, and 3. Houston with Harden, which is both about his particular skill at getting to the hole, getting fouled or finding an open man, and the result of a pretty bad coach. Almost every other playoff contender is playing some kind of variation on pace and space, with a ton of ball movement, multiple pick and rolls with off the ball action, and dedication to giving up decent shots for good and great ones (essentially trying to avoid mid-range jumpers for layups or open 3s. You can't seriously watch the best teams in the league (Spurs, Hawks, Warriors) and say that the NBA is the land of hero ball and isolations. [Title]

Output: NBA Offenses


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Presumably, the supposed starting group played together for most of the spring practices. The spring game was a way to inject fun competition into the end of the process. It certainly was more interesting and seemingly fun than what we've seen in the immediate past. [Title]

Output: Presumably, the supposed


Input: [Date] 15 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Newsflash. Writing is hard [Title]

Output: Newsflash. Writing is hard


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 4 hours ago [Body] They can keep the 5 time outs if they allow a TO called before one of the media timeouts (which happen every 4 minutes) to substitute for the media timeout. That would stop the awful pattern of TO called at 16:10, 20 seconds of game action, dead ball, media timeout, that totally and unnecessarily kills the flow of the game. Don't see it happening because it would hurt the ad revenue, but it would dramatically improve the flow of games and stop some of the overcoaching that plagues college bball. [Title]

Output: They can keep the 5 time outs


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 5 hours ago [Body] The first part of this post is right on (won't comment on the last part b/c I'm not entirely sure what the reference is to). NBA ball right now, with some exceptions (OKC most prominently, but also Cleveland, both of which still rely to a significant extent on iso ball and 2-man games) is being played with incredible levels of offensive and defensive sophistication. Watch the Spurs, Warriors, Hawks, any teams that have bought into post-Dantoni pace and space offenses, and you'll routinely see teams running 5-6 pick and rolls a possession at the same time there's a ton of off the ball movement to get shooters open and defenses unsettled. If you watch a significant amount of NBA, college is hard to watch just because the offenses are so static, with a lot of 3 out, 2 in sets and guys just rotating the ball around the perimeter before jacking up a shot. (Belein actually gets about as close as any college coach to running an NBA type offense). [Title]

Output: The first part of this post


Input: [Date] 16 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Hill's been forgotten because of the ACL, but if he's reasonably healthy, he could fit in really well to the way Harbaugh has liked to have his H-back play. Delanie Walker was a really important and sneaky player in his first 49er team who could either come across the formation on a trap block, find soft spots in the short zone, or get down the sideline on wheel routes. We haven't seen enough from Hill to know about his blocking, but he did show a knack for getting open and actually catching the ball last year before he got injured. [Title]

Output: Khalid Hill


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Um, central defense seems like it continues to be a bit of a problem. [Title]

Output: Um, central defense seems


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Rimando's got to come out for that ball. A high looping cross inside the 6 has to be his. [Title]

Output: Rimando's got to come out for


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Bliss is without a doubt the winner. Trying to frame a murdered player posthumously in an attempt to cover up illegal payments. I don't know how anyone could top that. [Title]

Output: Bliss is without a doubt the


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I agree entirely. He reads to me as a Hunter Thompson knock off (which is what he's really trying to be) but without Thompson's sense for language or interest in the humanity of his subjects. The people in his books feel like charactures rather than actual people. Tom Sugrue's Origins of the Urban Crisis remains the indespensible book for understanding contemporary Detroit. [Title]

Output: You're not alone


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I'm pretty sure they'll find him a grad program who will take him, if there's mutual interest, since it would probably be a net revenue gain for the program, but I can imagine some fairly reasonable questions about his commitment to a program/the propriety of going outside normal admissions guidelines to admit someone who might not complete the program (assuming a 2 years MA) to help out the AD, etc. [Title]

Output: I'm pretty sure they'll find


Input: [Date] 18 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Grad admissions occurs on a departmental basis. Rackham and its equivalents in other schools are largely administrative (ie, they tell departments how many students they can admit but don't make any actual decisions). Cases like Rudock certainly lie outside the admissions numbers initially allowed by Rackham, et al, but I can imagine some departments might balk at admitting him for fear he wouldn't be committed to the program. I would think he'd have to have at least decent grades and make a compelling case to the faculty administering the program why he wanted to pursue that particular line of grad work. [Title]

Output: Grad admissions occurs on a


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 2 days ago [Body] The real problem is Nantz, who never seems like he actually enjoys the game. Hecomes across as biding time until he can announce the Masters, where his sanctimony is right at home. [Title]

Output: The real problem is Nantz,


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Team play (Pop's ball movement sets oriented around multiple pick and rolls that have taken root in Atlanta, Portland, Golden State and elsewhere) and strong defense (Thib's help side shading and the Heat's insanely aggressive pick hedging) are basically the two trends that have defined the NBA over the past five years. [Title]

Output: Team play (Pop's ball


Input: [Date] 19 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Admit it, you haven't watched an NBA game in five years. Or you're a Sixers fan. [Title]

Output: Admit it, you haven't watched


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 50 min ago [Body] According to the deadspin story, academic support staff would collect email addresses and passwords for bball players, and tutors were logging into email, corresponding directly with professors as if they were the athletes and submitting assignments. The metadata contained in the assignments indicates original authors other than the players. On the one hand, that's pretty bad. On the other, very efficient! http://deadspin.com/syracuses-academic-fraud-skipped-the-middleman-16898... [Title]

Output: According to the deadspin


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 19 hours ago [Body] Yeah, it's hard to see him starting the rebuild job in Boston and leaving without seeing what he could do with a team that's actually trying to win. [Title]

Output: Yeah, it's hard to see him


Input: [Date] 21 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I believe the correct term is Winkelvii [Title]

Output: I believe the correct term is


Input: [Date] 22 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I think he's still enrolled at Stanford, on track to graduate this June (Stanford's on quarter system) and then will enroll as a graduate student at UM in the fall. So no weight because he's not officially a Michigan student yet. [Title]

Output: I think he's still enrolled


Input: [Date] 26 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I'm all for changing the schedule for the semifinals so theyre always on New Years Day. A lot of folks with a normal work schedule on the west coast is going to miss the early game (NYE is not an official holiday) and the New Years Eve evening semi is idiotic. [Title]

Output: Semis


Input: [Date] 27 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Going to be a lot more than that when you figure in the settlement with the resort for lost earnings on two floors of rooms for 2-3 weeks plus increased insurance rates for the chapter. I'd guess at least twice the costs of the damages themselves, more if the rooms can't be repaired by Presidents Day weekend. [Title]

Output: Going to be a lot more than


Input: [Date] 29 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The logical fallacies in this post are almost too numerous to detail... but what the heck. 1. Not a free speech issue b/c Brian/mgoblog isn't a government entity. 2. Neither would it be censorship because it would not be a policy backed by state enforcement power. 3. Mgoblog is in no way affiliated with the university, so it would not be the university promoting censorship. 4. If mgoblog were to decide to eliminate such avatars, the guidelines would be decided by the owner of the site, and those he has delegated to act in his stead. 5. If only Brian had provided some type of guideline... It's a picture of boobies! Ever open a fifteen-post thread at work and get two different 800x600 pictures of impossibly fake boobs alternating for pages and pages? And then have your boss walk up behind you? Thanks, internet hero, for turning my idle surfing of a sports site into a firing offense! No one needs to see the same set of fake gazongas eighty times accompanied by your three words of deep insight into the team of your choice. http://mgoblog.com/content/official-mgoblog-pet-peeve-list [Title]

Output: Free Speech?


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 8 hours ago [Body] Rose Bowl will always kick off at 5 on NYD. The playoff semis will actually be on NYE next year (which is dumb). [Title]

Output: Rose Bowl


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Also Khalid Hill, who's essentially a doppelgänger of Delanie Walker [Title]

Output: Also Khalid Hill, who's


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Low center of gravity. Tough to bring down. [Title]

Output: Low center of gravity. Tough


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Folks should probably figure out how to come to terms with Rosenberg being the main voice at SI writing about Michigan. He's always had a line to Lloyd and it's clear from this article and the past that he has some kind of connection to Harbaugh and his dad. (I'm assuming he has relationships with a lot of the Bo-era coaches from writing his book). While not much is new in the article, it's clear that some of it results from a one on one talk. The upshot being that he's most likely going to be SI's main guy for access inside Harbaugh-era Schembechler Hall. It sucks that his shitty reporting for the Freep landed him such a national platform, but it is what it is. [Title]

Output: Rosenberg's back in the fold


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 3 days ago [Body] For what it's worth, I don't think there's any love lost between Rosenberg and Brandon. Brandon attacked Rosenberg in all but name in his presser about the NCAA thing and Rosenberg, in this very article, says that Harbaugh "coveted" the job in 2011 but Brandon botched the search. [Title]

Output: For what it's worth, I don't


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I would imagine halftime so it doesn't getted missed in the ESPN broadcast with the end of the Iowa / Ohio State game. [Title]

Output: I would imagine halftime so


Input: [Date] 30 weeks 6 days ago [Body] If your pulling guard takes more than 4 hours to get to the hole, contact your physician immediately. [Title]

Output: Kialis


Input: [Date] 31 weeks 6 days ago [Body] One big reason is to avoid a "he quit on his team" narrative (ala Petrino) if he does have interest in returning to the NFL one day. [Title]

Output: One big reason is to avoid a


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 1 day ago [Body] That assumes he sleeps [Title]

Output: That assumes he sleeps


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 1 day ago [Body] The issue is really in these JCs that exist, in part, as places for schools (Ole Miss, KSU, Miss St) to stash non-qualifiers, because those institutions have really shaky accreditations and very marginally qualified faculty. Places like WCC don't fall in this category. UM will admit from JCs, but not the ones that exist as football way stations. [Title]

Output: The issue is really in these


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 2 days ago [Body] State employees are governed by state law. The NLRB only oversees fair labor practices in private sector employment [Title]

Output: State employees are governed


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] We sure don't squeeze slightly overweight guys into beltless slacks the way we used to. [Title]

Output: We sure don't squeeze


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Ah, I misunderstood "Oklahoma has been a great program for years" as referring to the years prior to Stoops, ie, downplaying the Stoops turnaround, not as referrring to the longevity of Stoops' success. And no, now that I'm no longer misunderstanding, we're not disagreeing at all. And yes, Mora > Stoops > Harbaugh is the proper order, with all being total coups should they come to M. [Title]

Output: My bad


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Oklahoma was equally bad as, if not worse than, UCLA circa 2011 when Stoops took over. The 1990s were kind of a lost decade for OU, with Gary Gibbs, Schnellenberger, and John Blake (who would go on to be one of the real bad guys in the series of UNC scandals) combining to be just over .500 during the decade. Just before Stoops took over, Blake had gone 12-22 in the previous three years. Stoops has done it over the long haul but he also turned things around almost immediately. Stoops took Blake's players and went 7-5 then 13-0 in his first two years. So Stoops's reclamation project at Oklahoma even more impressive than what Mora's done at UCLA (which is impressive in its own right). [Title]

Output: Stoops.


Input: [Date] 32 weeks 6 days ago [Body] I'd argue that most college tours for non-athletes don't spend much more time on academics. The norm seems to be "There's the library, now let's look at this awesome climbing wall in the gym! Now let's check out the Sundae Bar." Always confuses me that potential students aren't encouraged to sit in on classes (at least that's the case at the institution where I teach, which is a large, private university). [Title]

Output: I'd argue that most college


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 3 days ago [Body] They hate it crossing semesters because a football game is hugely disruptive to a campus in a way that a basketball of a hockey game is not. Also, any plan that involves games during finals weeks (roughly the second two weeks of December) is a non starter. [Title]

Output: They hate it crossing


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Similar thoughts are in Peter King's column today, along the lines of "there's always one unexpected firing in the NFL and this year's might be Sean Payton." [Title]

Output: Similar thoughts are in Peter


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Who knows if he's a possibility, but he should have the requisite amount of hate for OSU after this morning. [Title]

Output: Who knows if he's a


Input: [Date] 33 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Exactly...this is not even the dumbest Michigan coaching search in the past 5 years [Title]

Output: Exactly...this is not even


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Doyle and Spike obviously had really nice games. The big thing from that game, however, might be Chatman getting more comfortable on offense and beginning to learn what he needs to do to rebound at the college level. The game on offense looks like it's starting to slow down for him. Defense is still fairly rough, but, given his talent level, if he's starting to figure out how to fit in to the offense, that's huge for this team. And rebounding seems like it will be one of the big challenges for this team throughout the year, so if he can contribute the numbers from last night, it will be a tremendous help. Caveats related to Syracuse playing zone and Chatman's role in zone busting being necessarily different than in the normal offense certainly apply. [Title]

Output: Doyle and Spike obviously had


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I don't remember feeling that Doyle got screwed out of a clear charging call at any time. I don't remember the first two calls but Doyle clearly flopped on the last one, where SU got the layup with under a minute left. (The really terrible miss by the refs was the push on Irvin's dunk, which should have been a flagrant because it was such a dangerous foul by a player making no play on the ball. That was the kind of foul that starts a fight 10 times out of 10 in a pickup game.) On Dakich, when he's not wearing his sports talk radio host hat and is reading the game as a coach, he's quite good. His point about Spike moving without the ball to take advantage of the space in the SU zone before the behind the back pass/Doyle dunk was really insightful. I get about 3-4 of those things I don't otherwise notice in the game from him. In his first year as a broadcasters, he provided even more of that stuff, but he's shifted significantly from focusing on analysis to emphasizing personality, which is annoying but almost certainly the kind of thing that advances one up the broadcasting hierarchy at ESPN. [Title]

Output: I don't remember feeling that


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 3 days ago [Body] The rankings were fine. The attrition was terrible. That would have done him in at Michigan. [Title]

Output: The rankings were fine. The


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Harbaugh and the NYC media would be a total disaster. He's self-aware enough to know that. If he stays in the NFL, I expect it will be in a job no one is talking about because it will come open after a late season collapse. [Title]

Output: Harbaugh and the NYC media


Input: [Date] 34 weeks 5 days ago [Body] In same boat. Hoke should be fired, but the "improvement" in RR's last year was fools gold. A bunch of marginal close wins (Illinois, Indiana, UMass) and every loss was a blowout where we never had the ball in the 4th quarter with a chance to tie. That year was a lot more exciting because of Denard, but this team never quit on their coaches like RR's last team did. [Title]

Output: In same boat. Hoke should be


Input: [Date] 35 weeks 3 days ago [Body] YES... [Title]

Output: YES...


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 16 hours ago [Body] People on mgoblog have always been idiotically pessimistic about basketball. If you went through the game and postgame threads the last two years, you'd find innumerable posts about how Jordan Morgan couldn't play, how THJr didn't try, how Stauskas was one-dimensional, how Belein needed to throw the ball into the post, and how the team in general lacked heart.. People just kind of overreact and act irrationally when they're fans. [Title]

Output: People on mgoblog have always


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 19 hours ago [Body] This is a pretty good response to Detroit tying it up. [Title]

Output: This is a pretty good


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I think they were blaming them for throwing stuff in the wake of the melee, which is a totally justified criticism. [Title]

Output: I think they were blaming


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Grantland did a great oral history: http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-malice-palace/ Also, 'Sheed was regarded as one of the most most level headed guys in the lockerroom and one of the best teammates in the league, at least in his later years. Just not cooperative with the media and incredibly antagonistic toward refs (including being double t'd and thrown out of the McDonald's high school all-america game). But not a surprise to see him trying to calm other players down. Edit: And I just lost 30 minutes of my life watching this... http://hitemwheretheyaint.com/the-16-most-memorable-moments-from-the-car... [Title]

Output: Couple things


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 2 days ago [Body] One of the best weird rumors to come out of the whole thing was that the fan that squared off with O'Neal was the guy who played Turtle in Entourage. He wasn't, but the similarity was striking enough to give it some life [Title]

Output: One of the best weird rumors


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Required any time Pat Forde is mentioned... http://www.blackheartgoldpants.com/2008/9/17/615876/bhgp-presents-fordy-... [Title]

Output: Required any time Pat Forde


Input: [Date] 36 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Better than his dad... http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/jonathan-chait/80425/lanny-davis-takes-h... But still awful. [Title]

Output: Better than his


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 22 hours ago [Body] There are huge, huge administrative issues in establishing such a department. What qualifies someone to teach in such a department? In a moment when rankings hold so much importance and % of faculty with PhD and % of tenure-line faculty are key determinates of ranking, what degrees do faculty hold? What do their appointments look like? What unit or school does the hiring? What disciplines do they publish in? What qualifies someone for promotion? What are the research-teaching-service balance expectations? What does tenure mean in such a department? How do the people appointed in such a school fit into the faculty's broader role of the shared governance of the university? What does the university's accreditor think of such a department? Etc, etc. [Title]

Output: There are huge, huge issues


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Trey made the right choice, but he better start knocking down shots or Exum's going to start taking his minutes. [Title]

Output: Trey made the right choice,


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 2 days ago [Body] You're interpreting as general a critique that's very targeted and specific. Schlissel's lines about academic oversight are targeted at an athletic department that previously had been 1. Poaching donors from the academic side of the university, breaking long standing agreements that the AD would not impinge on those donors. 2. Blocking faculty oversight of student-athlete curriculum, which is legitimately within the faculty's shared governance purview. This is very much targeted at the AD Brandon ran, vis a vis the rest of the university, not some generalized view of athletics and academics in the broader world. [Title]

Output: You're interpreting as


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Exactly. The bonded debt remaining on the stadium renovations means that there can functionally be no downplaying of the importance of football within the broader university. What this statement does show is more evidence that Brandon ran the AD as a fiefdom unto itself, in a manner that was antithetical to the broader university's mission. Blocking faculty oversight of the curricular habits of student-athletes is consistent with the reports about Brandon attempting to poach donors from the academic side of the university. [Title]

Output: Exactly. The bonded debt


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Interesting. You may be on to something there. Everytime he comes off the field after a mistake (and this may be true in general ... tv just doesn't show it) Nuss looks like he's teaching about some fine detail of what went wrong with his footwork. I think the reality is that DG's futility this year is a combo platter of 1. physical limitations that are hampering a QB that had learned to turn to his athleticism after his first read was covered, 2. playing in his third offense in five years, 3. an offense that forces him to do things that he does badly, particularly fitting the ball into the small windows of a short passing game with no deep threat and going rapidly through progressions in a congested field, and 4. a learned practice of not keeping his eyes downfield so plays have very little time to develop. Add in an offense that just looks badly coached, particularly among the WRs and RBs, and we have the current mess. [Title]

Output: Interesting. You may be on to


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Gallon was very good and, for all his faults, Borges ran an offense where the WRs stretched the field deep. We now have an inaccurate and very likely injured QB in a passing game where virtually all of the throws happen within 10 yards of the LoS. There's no reason for CBs not to squat on routes at 10 yards, because we're incapable, whether by design or because of circumstance, of pushing the ball down the field. Add in that our #1 receiver drops 1/3 of the accurate balls thrown to him, and you have this mess of a passing game. [Title]

Output: Gallon was very good and, for


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Go watch last year's ND game, he was firing balls to Gallon on skinny posts in tight windows 35 yards downfield. In Borges's offense, he pushed the ball downfield consistently on a line. Either he's damaged physically or he's been coached away from that. [Title]

Output: Go watch last year's ND game,


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] I think this gets the narrative of improvement that suddenly stopped correct but misrepresents the turning point. Last year against ND (aside from the one brain dead play) Gardner stood in against the rush and went through progressions and played a startlingly great game... It was MSU last year that broke him. That's the point when Gardner lost all trust in his oline and just started dumping the ball to the first read, regardless of whether he was open in not. Compound that lack of trust with a change from a first option who consistently got open with one who drops about half of the balls thrown to him and an offense incapable of generating big plays, requiring DG to hit a series of short passes into congested coverage, and an inability to escape the rush the way he did in his initial years, and you have this year's offense. [Title]

Output: I think this gets the


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] If Funchess doesn't drop half the balls that hit his hands, how much better does Gardner look as a QB? This is a level of futility that goes so far beyond DG. Bad coaching, bad individual play, bad attention to detail. You see mistakes at every level (Smith not hitting the correct hole, Funchess with probably a 30% drop rate, Gardner throwing balls on completely incorrect trajectories). About the only high point on offense is Hayes's blitz recognition. [Title]

Output: If Funchess doesn't drop half


Input: [Date] 37 weeks 5 days ago [Body] Why can I upvote this only once? What is it about Morris's play that's led anyone to think he's remotely a better option? [Title]

Output: Why can I upvote this only


Input: [Date] 38 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I would not be surprised if Hackett was kept on to do some kind of "administrative review" of the AD after the new guy is hired, basically charged with separating Brandon's new hires into categories of "competent" and "Brandon toadie," which he could then pass on to the new AD. [Title]

Output: I would not be surprised if


Input: [Date] 39 weeks 3 days ago [Body] If only Sonny had EZ-Pass [Title]

Output: If only Sonny had EZ-Pass


Input: [Date] 40 weeks 2 hours ago [Title]

Output: Courtesy of Rog and Dave.


Input: [Date] 41 weeks 3 days ago [Body] RR's third year record is better than it looks. Several of the wins (ND, Illinois, Indiana just off the top of my head) were close, down to the wire things. The losses were not. We were never in a situation where we had the ball with a chance to tie the game in the 4th quarter in any of the games we lost. By the end of the year, the team had clearly quit on him. His stay was pretty much untenable by the end of that year. [Title]

Output: RR's third year record is


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] The Regents' responsibilities are primarily fiduciary. That's why all the renovation and new construction, including that sign board thing, have to get regents approval. They may also have some role in university -- state/local government relations (thus the fireworks vote). They also are responsible for runnning presidential searches, and likely informally sign off on high administrative appointments on the level of provost and athletic director, though those are formally the President's responsibility. They don't so far as I know, have responsibility for signing off on faculty appointments. Generally, anytime the Regents get too involved in the actual operations of the university, it turns into a giant mess. See the recent goings on at Illinois. [Title]

Output: Regents


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] The concussion thing will die down, but holy hell, would it come back in force if we hired Leach. Is that really how anyone wants the next coaching regime to start? [Title]

Output: The concussion thing will die


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] So you're imagining a thought process by a big name coach that goes like this: "Well, I don't trust the guy hiring me but he won't be around long. Then they'll hire someone else who I probably don't know at all. That seems like a good bet! I'll take it!" Yeah, no. [Title]

Output: So you're imagining a thought


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Since when is engineering considered "hard science"? Isn't it, by nature, "applied science"? [Title]

Output: Since when is engineering


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Did they ever appoint a new fulltime dean of LSA after McDonald retired? I can't believe how badly the provost/president screwed up what should have been a slam dunk appointment. [Title]

Output: Did they ever appoint a new


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 1 day ago [Body] The players clearly disliked Kiffin. There have been few signs of an analogous situation here. [Title]

Output: The players clearly disliked


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I'm in general agreement with the sentiment here, aside from the money being fungible part. IThat money was directed into specific parts of the university and is not fungible elsewhere. (And I have no problem with this, donors are well within their rights to do this kind of targeting as long as they don't have the power to say "you need to hire a scholar who believes these things with my money"). There were, however, rumors that Brandon intervened with Ross to get increased amounts of the donation he was making for the athletic department (and I have people who I trust in other parts of the university that he has done this to donors in other academic segments of the university). [Title]

Output: I'm in general agreement with


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Exactly. We shouldn't be mad at Brandon for what happened on the field on Saturday. That's Hoke's realm and he owns the disorganization that was on full view. We should be mad at Brandon for the clown show that occurred between 7 PM Saturday and Schlissel's statement yesterday. And we should be mad about the larger pattern of blindered decision making that's gone on within the athletic department during his directorship, of which the latest events are just the most egregious example. [Title]

Output: Exactly. We shouldn't be mad


Input: [Date] 43 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Exactly. The same thing happens with a lot of UM professors with kids in high school, they either try to get into administration or start looking for other jobs because UM provides no tuition remission for their kids. [Title]

Output: Exactly. The same thing


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 1 day ago [Body] I am shocked that it took 111 posts for someone to point this out. The SNOOTs on the board are really slipping. http://grammar.about.com/od/grammarfaq/f/whatisasnoot.htm [Title]

Output: I am shocked that it took 111


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 6 days ago [Body] There may be reasonable disputes about low level corporal punishment. If you are inflicting real injury on a child, however, injury that leaves wounds still open a week later, injury that leads you to text things to the other parent like "felt bad after the fact when I notice the switch was wrapping around hitting I (sic) thigh" and "Got him in nuts once I noticed. But I felt so bad, n I'm all tearing that butt up when needed!" you're not disciplining your child. You're violently lashing out at him because you're angry or frustrated. Proper discipline requires self-discipline and self- control. Isn't that what we're trying to convey as parents? Peterson obviously lacked self-discipline and lost control of his actions if he injured a 4 year old to that extent. A 4 year old! There's no way this kind of beating could be instructional. This was domestic violence. [Title]

Output: There may be reasonable


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Here's latest report. This is not discipline, it's domestic violence. If true, he should be out for 6 games according to the nfl's new policy and face significant criminal sanction. "The beating allegedly resulted in numerous injuries to the child, including cuts and bruises to the child's back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum, along with defensive wounds to the child's hands. Peterson then texted the boy's mother, saying that one wound in particular would make her "mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch." Peterson also allegedly said via text message to the child's mother that he "felt bad after the fact when I notice the switch was wrapping around hitting I (sic) thigh" and also acknowledged the injury to the child's scrotum in a text message, saying, "Got him in nuts once I noticed. But I felt so bad, n I'm all tearing that butt up when needed! I start putting them in timeout. N save the whooping for needed memories!" In further text messages, Peterson allegedly said, "Never do I go overboard! But all my kids will know, hey daddy has the biggie heart but don't play no games when it comes to acting right." According to police reports, the child, however, had a slightly different story, telling authorities that "Daddy Peterson hit me on my face." The child also expressed worry that Peterson would punch him in the face if the child reported the incident to authorities. He also said that he had been hit by a belt and that "there are a lot of belts in Daddy's closet." He added that Peterson put leaves in his mouth when he was being hit with the switch while his pants were down. The child told his mother that Peterson "likes belts and switches" and "has a whooping room."" http://deadspin.com/report-adrian-peterson-indicted-in-child-injury-case... [Title]

Output: Here's latest report. This is


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 6 days ago [Body] And those photos are reportedly from a week after the beating. [Title]

Output: And those photos are


Input: [Date] 45 weeks 6 days ago [Body] A spanking that causes open wounds? On a 4 year old, not an 11 year old as originally reported? (and if he were 11 I don't think I'd think any different) That's far beyond normal discipline and well into abuse IMO. [Title]

Output: A spanking that causes open


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 7 hours ago [Body] Depends on if they are hearing them collectively or if the students have asked for the hearings to be split up. It also depends on what the students are disputing in the report. I've sat on an appeal board for academic discipline cases, and we got the recordings of the hearings in question. Each was about an hour and a half. If ND follows the same procedures (which are brief statements and then questioning by the board) they should last about the same amount of time. If there are five of those, then no way are they going to be handled in a day (and some of these guys won't even get hearings for a couple weeks). If the charges are collectively considered (or four together and one on it own if there are significant differences), then they could do it all in one day. I will say, any kind of "resolve this serious academic matter NOW, because of FOOTBAW!" is the kind of thing that would lead faculty to resent the place of the AD within the larger university. ND doesn't seem to be doing that, though, at least from the outside. [Title]

Output: Depends on if they are


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 1 day ago [Body] On the rescheduling bit. It's virtually impossible to schedule a meeting that requires a quorum of faculty members on short notice (and I'll bet this committee has bylaws that it can't meet and make a ruling unless a significant majority of the committee is present), particularly at the beginning of the semester. There's so much backlogged business within departments after the summer that the set meeting time is a necessity. Plus, you have to give the members 4-5 days before the hearing to read the evidence. People are busy, yo. If the case is what you present, ie another student typing, proofing, and editing the paper without ackowledment to the professor, that would cross the bar of academic dishonesty for me. Editing work to make ideas more clear is an important part of learning to write well. It also constitutes submitting a piece of writing that is substantially someone else's work under your own name. I would probably refer a case like this to my institution's academic discipline board (particularly if I found out about it via a random email mistake). It probably wouldn't be "fail the class" bad, but it would be a significant grade reduction. [Title]

Output: On the rescheduling bit. It's


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 3 days ago [Body] I've been following this peripherally. To what extent did ND involve the NCAA? Did they just make a public announcement that these players are being held out because of an academic disciplinary matter or did they make some kind of report to the NCAA? From what I know of ND, which comes from someone who used to be on the faculty but has since moved elsewhere because being a young single faculty member at ND is not ideal, most faculty realize that football's a big deal but are very focused on making sure it doesn't impinge upon the academic side of things. My friend was there for Willingham/early Weis, but I doubt that sentiment has changed (the Golston expulsion certainly seems to suggest it hasn't). [Title]

Output: I've been following this


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 4 days ago [Body] As someone who teaches in higher ed, I don't want the NCAA anywhere near academic matters internal to a university. The NCAA deals, poorly IMO, with matters relevant to athletic departments. Anything to do with academics properly falls under the purview of that university's faculty as the central part of its governance of academic matters at the university. If students are receiving fradulant grades or grades for classes that don't exist (as at UNC), the proper body to handle that is the accredidation agency supervising the various departments of the university itself, not the NCAA (which is what happened at UNC). ND seems to be handling this entirely according to the procedures set in place by its faculty and the NCAA should have nothing to do with it. [Title]

Output: As someone who teaches in


Input: [Date] 47 weeks 4 days ago [Body] If they're ruled guilty of what's been reported (submitting work they didn't do under their own name) they would almost certainly fail the relevant class, which would likely render them academically ineligible. It's kind of all or nothing at this point given the way academic discipline boards work. [Title]

Output: If they're ruled guilty of


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Wow! What an end to the post. Congratulations! [Title]

Output: Wow! What an end to the post.


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 2 days ago [Body] I think he's part of the "DE in the under, DT in the over" crew along with Wormley and Godin. Certainly haven't heard much mention of him, though. [Title]

Output: Strobel


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Not up to the standard of those three guys, but Shante Orr had some strong games. I'd say he was slightly below Clark's standard of last year, so don't know if that counts as "impact DE" but he could certainly be disruptive. He certainly would have created more of an impression had he stayed for his senior year. I know he had significant family pressures, but that's one of the poorer decisions to depart early of the past years. Also, Woodley didn't really have a hybrid role that I can remember. I think he was pretty much exclusively a hand down DE. [Title]

Output: Shante Orr


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 4 days ago [Body] If your kids are already into Michigan football, then 9 is plenty old. My then 5 year old twins made it through all of the UConn night game last year (and may have kept the predominantly M section in the end zone partially sane). The kid in the OP looks plenty into the game. You'll have a blast. [Title]

Output: If your kids are already into


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Are you making this criticism? "There is a thought afoot" is a really vague, self-deflecting rhetorical formulation. If you have actually heard this, from what sources? [Title]

Output: Are you making this


Input: [Date] 48 weeks 4 days ago [Body] I actually think they were really similar years. Huge expectation creating wins over ND followed by a series of too close wins against bad teams and an end of the year filled with losses to better teams. The difference is that last year's losses contained a lot more hope than did 2010's. It's easy to forget, but we were never within a TD in the 4th quarter in any of our losses this year, and the Wisconsin game was equally as depressing (if more exciting) than last year's Iowa game. The case for 2010 is the pure wonder of watching Denard, which can't be understated, but the close games and losses were equally, if not more, painful, because you could see and feel this whole thing that most of us were hoping would happen just collapse in upon itself. [Title]

Output: I actually think they were


Input: [Date] 49 weeks 23 hours ago [Body] This thread seems like a good place for this... George Gipp was a drunk and a pool-hall gambler who would've put glory's mantle up against your $5 if you spotted him the six and the break. The school has had booster problems like everyone else, and it has had 'roidheads like everyone else. If Notre Dame "stands apart," as the Times puts it, it's as a chronic bungler of sexual-assault accusations against football players. This school can have a scandal every fucking year and keep its hands clean simply by saying: "Oh, this is not what Notre Dame is about. We're one of the good ones!" This is the Jim Nantz of schools. http://deadspin.com/notre-dame-was-never-special-and-never-will-be-16245... [Title]

Output: The Jim Nantz of schools


Input: [Date] 49 weeks 3 days ago [Body] Ace, Can you do a vicious electronic questioning of msu tomorrow? kthx. [Title]

Output: Ace


Input: [Date] 49 weeks 4 days ago [Body] Still waiting for the first defensive coach in history to promise to adopt a more conservative, passive approach. "This year, we're going in with a philosophy where we're willing to bend as long as we don't break." [Title]

Output: Now we're aggressive!


Input: [Date] 49 weeks 6 days ago [Body] Depends on when it came to light at ND. If it broke at the end of the spring semester or over the summer, its likely difficult to convene the academic disciplinary board, which is a faculty panel, given how faculty scatter at the end of the semester. This past week may have been one of the first time's the entire committee on academic integrity could be convened. [Title]

Output: Depends on when it came to light at ND. If it


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 1 day ago [Body] We'll find out if Irving's actually a good player now. He's literally never played in a high pressure game in college or the pros. [Title]

Output: Irving


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 1 day ago [Body] Varejao's missed mote than half his teams games the past three seasons. There's no way they can expect him to give them substantial minutes. Bulls, then Cavs, then Raptors, then junk. That's the east this year. [Title]

Output: Varejao


Input: [Date] 51 weeks 2 days ago [Body] Exactly. This shows how real the 'Fear of a Black Wallet' phenomenon is among athletic and academic admins. [Title]

Output: Exactly. This shows how real


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 day ago [Body] For what it's worth, the World Anti-Doping Agency's standard for failing a marijuana test is ten times that of the NFL. Given that everything that Roger Goddell does is wrong, I'm just going to assume this continues the trend. [Title]

Output: For what it's worth, the


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 days ago [Body] I like that "great place to work" is in quotes, suggesting Brandon's not talking about the actual experience of employees of the athletic department but in a workplace qualification handed out by Businessweek or Forbes according to the specific metric of their "Great Places to Work" issue. The presence of a Smile Committee is clearly one of those metrics. [Title]

Output: I like that "great place to


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 days ago [Body] Don't know if you can answer this without film work, but did his mechanics get progressively poorer throughout the year as he got hit and hit again, or were they poor in game situations where he was getting pressure from the ND game onward? I remember him standing in against the rush pretty well against ND (well, with one major exception) and thought he progressively lost trust in his line and became increasingly unwilling to stick in the pocket as the year got on and he got beat up, but I don't know anything about QB mechanics to know if his mechanics were right before his trust broke down. [Title]

Output: Don't know if you can answer


Input: [Date] 1 year 3 days ago [Body] Hoke pretty much has to be extended after this year if he's not going to be fired. Coaches almost never go into the last year of a contract without an extension. It hurts recruiting too much. [Title]

Output: Hoke pretty much has to be


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] This is the second thing he's said that makes me thing that he's been hearing complaints.about athletics intruding on relationships between academic programs and donors. The first was in his interview with the Michigan Record where he described strong athletics as a good thing as long as they don't intrude on the university's academic mission. [Title]

Output: This is the second thing he's said that makes me


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] That's really interesting. I've heard similar things (3rd and 4th hand) about smaller donors (endowing chairs, not buildings) to academic programs being targeted by the athletic department during the transition between Terry MacDonald and the new dean of LSA. The person I talked to was pretty annoyed, it apparently violated an implied "hands off" agreement between central campus and the athletic campus and was seen as trying to take advantage of an administrative vacuum. [Title]

Output: That's really interesting.


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] If you really wanted to project and read between the lines, you could portray this quote from Schlissel in his interview with the Michigan Record as implying that he's somewhat uncomfortable with the over-commercialization of the AD "Athletics is a wonderful community-building thing for the campus and we just have to be careful that the balance remains appropriate given that we are a great academic institution." (The most logical explanation is that it's a throwaway line, or, if you want to project in a different direction, that it's directed at the AD's reputed targeting of donors to academic programs). On the fireworks thing, it's pretty obvious that at least some of the regents have been hearing complaints about the game day atmosphere and the continued marketing efforts to sell tix. This kind of veto doesn't just come out of the blue. [Title]

Output: Schlissel


Input: [Date] 1 year 1 week ago [Body] The first point, about game length and time predictability, is certainly true. Knowing that games will start and finish in about 2 hours is a huge plus. I've gone to evening Red Bull games with my 2nd grade kids. Even with 45 minutes on the train from NYC, you know you can go to the whole game and be home at 10 from a 7 PM game. There's no way that happens with any other spectator sport. Games are televised locally, with one or two national broadcasts weekly, but there's just no ability within the structure of the sport to insert commercial breaks. I wonder if that will impact rights fees paid by broadcasters if soccer continues to gain in popularity. There's only so much time for commercials. [Title]

Output: The first point, about game