Why/how YOU came to MGoBlog
Opened up "Why I came to MGoBlog", thinking it would be something completely different. And while it's a great thread, it wasn't what I was expecting...and even though a few people threw the concept in there, it's more a Bama discussion (interesting in it's own right). But what interested me - how did you first hear about MGoBlog, and what made you come here and start reading and posting?
My cool story bro is actually Jim Carty started fairly regularly referencing the Blog, and it was far more interesting, and better written, than anything Carty or the Ann Arbor News (yes, it was a paper at the time) was putting out. So after clicking it more and more, I went back to the beginning, and started reading all the parts that interested me over any lunch hours I was staying in, reading the opinion and emotion pieces, and skipping over Miami of Ohio previews, or UFRs (because while interesting today, 3 year old UFRs lose a little something), etc. And few months later, I was basically up to date, and kept reading. Then started reading the posts too, and that season came around, and I finally started posting too.
So that's how I found it and started reading...how did you? Who guided you, tipped you off, what search made you come across MGoBlog...then stick around?
(Those 4 or 5 who mentioned it in the other thread, feel free to cut and paste).
February 15th, 2012 at 6:54 PM ^
February 15th, 2012 at 8:03 PM ^
mgoblog when the rumors of sam mcguffie transfering were at their highest... none of the major media outlets had firm information and i didn't want to pay for insider info on rivals or scout. so i did a search on "sam mcguffie transfer rumors" and about 10 links to mgoblog came up so i picked one and went from there. i slowly got hooked and then it got out of control when i lost my job because i had nothing else to do then sit infront of a computer all day and look for jobs and read mgoblog for 15 months...
February 15th, 2012 at 8:58 PM ^
Google took me to Maizenbrew before the season started. After noticing that the content on that site was a little sparse, I clicked on one of the links on the side, which brought me here. Saw a post about someone with a Tacopants jersey, and being curious, searched the archives to figure out who in the heck Tacopants was. From there, I ran across the UFR of the uConn game 2010, which had the "Denard Robinson killed Tacopants" tag. The UFRs hooked me instantly. I lurked for a few months before actually joining.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
I found this site in the summer of 2006 as the hype was building for that season, when 2005 was labeled by Brian "the year of infinite pain," and remember fondly that we ran a lot of 3-3-5 on defence and Brian was making crazy arguments that some spread team from West Virginia was nothing more than an over rated gimick offence and had advanced stats that placed them no better than 13th and there was no way they should be rated higher than Michigan. Those were the days. The board was fun and intelligent and this place felt like a small insiders club. That was before accounts and upvotes and negbangs and almost all the content was about football.
February 15th, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^
I set up my original user account back in the blogspot / haloscan days. But I became a daily regular during the coaching search. (The first one.)
I waste entirely too much time on this site to have a normal life, checking it several times a day and posting several times a day.
I have ~4000 points for my obsession. How in the name of all that is holy and good do you people with 10,000+ points even function?
February 15th, 2012 at 10:10 PM ^
M-Dog.
I found MGo the week before the Horror, but from surfing for M hockey info. After the Horror and the Oregon game, I checked out for the season in utter disgust (unacceptable!) and came back sometime before the bowl game. Been largely lurking ever since.
A previous poster mentioned something about this being an intimidating place for the first-time poster, which I both agree with and am profoundly thankful - keeps the content quality high.
February 15th, 2012 at 10:26 PM ^
February 15th, 2012 at 10:59 PM ^
I was curious to learn what Michigan fans were writing about OSU/UM the week before the 2006 game. Google sent me here.
February 16th, 2012 at 1:50 PM ^
The endless salad bar.
February 17th, 2012 at 8:29 AM ^
First week of law school in DC, walk into Civil Procedure. Look around, there's an open aisle seat, I like aisle seats, I ask the guy next to it "Hey, anyone sitting here?" "No man, sit down."
So I sit, and we start talking. What did you do before law school, what kind of law are you interested in, where'd you go to undergrad - "Oh, I went to Michigan." "No kidding? I grew up in Ann Arbor." "Wait, seriously? Me too."
So that's how I met one of my best friends. Who promptly upon discovering that I was as obsessive about Michigan football as he was (so, about 5 minutes later) introduced me to MGoBlog.
February 17th, 2012 at 8:45 AM ^
I'm 95% certain that this is the first MGoBlog post that I came across:
http://mgoblog.blogspot.com/2005/04/hockey-final-grades.html
I was instantly hooked. It was linked to from the USCHO.com Fan Forum by some guy named FunkyMoses. That guy still posts around here from time to time, but he changed his username. Still has about a bajillion MGoPoints, though.
February 17th, 2012 at 10:01 AM ^
I searched for a Michigan app in the Android Market.
February 17th, 2012 at 10:54 AM ^
Well, I have a policy of refusing to sleep in the wet spot after any sexual encounter that lasts less than 45 seconds. Colin Cowherd got SUPER pissed at me about that, kicked me right out of bed, and snarled "You're the kind of stuck-up bitch who gets turned on by those effin' loser know-it-alls at mgoblog."
I was like, MGoWHAT?, did a google search, fell in love just like Colin predicted, and here I am.
February 17th, 2012 at 11:30 AM ^
"Our guest today is Brian Cook from MGoBlog." The rest is history.
February 17th, 2012 at 11:36 AM ^
Came here to see what people think about my cousin who plays for them right now. But, now I will probably always be checking the boards frequently.
February 20th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
When I was doing time, my friend Andy told me that if I ever got out, that I should find this big hayfield up near Buxton. One in particular, that had a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end of it. Said it was like something out of a Robert Frost poem. He said that's where he asked his wife to marry him. They went there for a picnic and made love under that oak. He made me promise that if I ever got out that I would find that spot and at the base of that wall, I'd find a rock that had no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. A piece of black, volcanic glass. He said there was something buried beneath it that he wanted me to have.
and this is how I found MGoBlog.
February 20th, 2012 at 7:23 PM ^
I think some of the funny OT stuff got me hooked on MGoBlog, rather than in-depth football analysis.
February 20th, 2012 at 7:46 PM ^
I was looking around the internet for information about M football last summer and found this place, lurked for about a month then created an account. I've looked at several dozen other college team blogs and never seen one as full of information and interesting as this one.
Btw, I sometimes wish the threads the mods delete could be locked and put somewhere that they can still be seen. The responses to the idiotic OP's are often the most hilarious and creative ones on the board.
February 21st, 2012 at 12:48 AM ^
February 21st, 2012 at 12:10 PM ^
Looking for the bestfreeinfo on the best school in the nation.
There, fixed it for you.