December 16th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
Isn't Floyd your specialist in getting burned long? I could be thinking of someone else
December 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
Yes, he is. This might be a blessing in disguise, really.
December 16th, 2012 at 1:31 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 1:37 PM ^
When I see "key defensive player", I'm thinking Jake Ryan, not the guy WRs lick their chops to match up against.
December 16th, 2012 at 1:45 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 1:48 PM ^
Did part of my comment upset you, or was it inaccurate? Feel free to take jabs at our secondary weaknesses, namely our senior CB that routinely falls down in coverage.
December 17th, 2012 at 7:38 AM ^
J.T. makes me nervous as shit back there in man to man coverage.
December 17th, 2012 at 11:21 AM ^
Guess you're going to be beside yourself now.
December 16th, 2012 at 11:54 AM ^
...Terry Richardson?
December 16th, 2012 at 11:57 AM ^
So we let a convicted felon play almost the entire season...but forbid a senior from playing his final game in the winged helmet against his hometown team?
Gotta figure whatever Floyd did is bad, real bad. Like felony bad.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:06 PM ^
Frank Clark was convicted of a felony during the offseason. He only missed one game, so the to force a senior to miss his final game in his home state it had to be a relatively severe transgression.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:03 PM ^
So we let a convicted felon play almost the entire season after his suspension...but forbid a senior from playing his final game in the winged helmet against his hometown team?
FTFY. Players get suspended for lots of dumb reasons. That doesn't mean this is necessarily worse than another suspension.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:42 PM ^
Actually Frank Clark is not a convicted felon, as long as he holds up his end of the bargain under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act
December 16th, 2012 at 5:25 PM ^
was he convicted of a felony? Yes. Therefore, regardless of what stays on his record he is still a convicted felon.
December 16th, 2012 at 2:40 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 11:58 AM ^
Three strikes for Hagerup??
December 16th, 2012 at 11:59 AM ^
At least 2 that we know of. I wonder if we see a punter in this recruiting class now.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:16 PM ^
This is #3 that we know of.
December 17th, 2012 at 10:57 AM ^
Wile has two years of eligibility left, and has proven to be a good punter during Hagerup's intermittent absences. I don't think we need two scholarship punters; Wile only got a scholarship in the first place as a backup kicker back when it looked like Gibbons wasn't going to pan out.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
Says a lot about his personal discipline. This is now habit forming. Gotta wonder how detrimental it would be to keep him around much longer.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:01 PM ^
I can't figure out why the earlier report was censored:
Heard from several that as of now, U-M will be down a key defensive player for the Outback Bowl. Will wait for the program to announce who.
Maybe this is why Norfleet is suddenly playing CB?
Mod edit: The threshold for saying a player is kicked off the team for potentially illegal behavior is higher than unsubstantiated rumors. Speculation that names particular players and/or suggests those players have legal or other serious problems should be kept off the board unless a credible source comes forward to report. If you think you are a credible source, I encourage you to email Brian at the address at the top of the page. JGB.December 16th, 2012 at 12:05 PM ^
When it was posted, it was just speculation and rumors and rumors often drag innocent people/players into their crossfire. This time, its news straight from the team.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:07 PM ^
JGB wasn't censoring the Original Report. It was to stop a lot of commentators from acting like Ace Williams; throwing out speculation and saying "I've got an in with the team", but not actually giving us real sources
December 16th, 2012 at 1:59 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 12:02 PM ^
he is clearly not getting shorter/skinnier since he was an elite high school recruit offered by bama and many others but...
the young man is tiny--short, very thin legged.
can you play in big ten as a db at that size? i do not remember antoine winfield in college but he is thick now.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
Probably still needs to put on weight. But the Norfleet to CB move might be more about protecting Richardson's redshirt than anything. No need to burn it just for a meaningless bowl game.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:22 PM ^
i've seen richardson play quite a bit
i think his redshirt is burned for this year
December 16th, 2012 at 12:26 PM ^
redshirt is done IIRC.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:05 PM ^
They were playing the SMOKE A BOWL and started training a bit too early for it.
Just baseless speculation but it's not as if this hasn't been a problem before.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 12:08 PM ^
I saw the thread from last night was locked- should I not post information like that when I hear it? I didn't speculate as to why they were being disciplined, but it was still before the athletic department put out a press release.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:11 PM ^
Mgobloggers + alcohol + Sat night + rumors (even if the info is correct). It's a train wreck waiting to happen.
But, I thank you for giving us a heads up. These three stooges should have their Michigan Men cards taken away, imho.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:15 PM ^
Maybe email Brian? The problem is that it's impossible to tell apart true word-of-mouth information from a random message board poster and trolling that can damage the reputation of an innocent person. So it's better to be safe than sorry.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:23 PM ^
Yeah I had actually emailed Brian earlier in the day. Then, Balas decided to tease the entire fanbase last night with his tweet, and that seemed like a fair time to post what I knew.
December 16th, 2012 at 2:01 PM ^
but all you did was name names with no details. Presumably you heard more than the names, but even if you didn't, you should say that, instead of acting like you have info but only want to tell the internet some of it.
Edit: How is this trolling? The guy still hasn't said anything about how he "knew" before any official statements. Having been associated with the university in several ways over the years, I'm pretty sure students don't just magically know what's happening unless somebody with an actual connection to the team tells them. He just repeated a rumor that could have easily been wrong. Sometimes The_Knowledge is right, too.
December 16th, 2012 at 2:13 PM ^
"Presumably you heard more than the names, but even if you didn't, you should say that, instead of acting like you have info but only want to tell the internet some of it."
...I explicitly stated that I only knew the names and that it was disciplinary.
December 16th, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 4:34 PM ^
So you did, eventually. You didn't initially, which I complained about, and then you did in a subsequent comment that I didn't see until now because you can't view it through the thread. But ok. I clicked on your name and saw it now, so my bad.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:15 PM ^
I think it's wrong that the thread got locked as it did. If people were out of line - that's what we have the moderation system for. They get negged and greyed out and nobody sees what they have to say.
But it was pretty obvious there was a lot of smoke and where there is there's usually fire.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:53 PM ^
Spot on. There is a bad case of MgoEgotism around here - an inflated view of one's importance and influence. Its the internets for crying out loud. Its all about speculation. That's normal. What's not normal is that mods here, perhaps trying to justify or bolster their sense of importance, feel that things said here have some sort of broader influence, and so they must step in, save the day, be heros. Trust me, what is speculated here matters very very little. If at all. I have seen it over and over with different mods, shutting down threads discussing speculative issues that end up being true. Where there is smoke, there is fire about 90% of the time here.
December 16th, 2012 at 2:18 PM ^
In any case, one of the mods decided to lock down the thread late on a Saturday night, and so what? We found out the truth the next day. Is this really something to get upset about?
December 16th, 2012 at 8:13 PM ^
We saw the same mentality with the Newtown posts went up on Friday. While OT, it still remains one of the most terrible tragedies of our lifetimes. And it gets shut down instantly because it might divulge into a policy discussion? Why does the moderation feature even exist if that's the case? For a lot of people, discussing a situation like that and how it effects them can even be thearaputic.
Maybe it's just me but I feel like we should trust the members of the board to police themselves in most instances - again that's what the moderation features are for.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:27 PM ^
If their objection was to the thread itself instead of the ensuing commentary they probably would have deleted the thread instead of just ocking it down. I wouldn't worry about it.
December 16th, 2012 at 12:33 PM ^
it was collateral damage as much as anything. I don't think it was the post, as much as the baseless speculation that got the thread locked. Look around, if you are still in A2 and not Bolivia, you're good to go.
December 16th, 2012 at 1:00 PM ^
Look around, if you are still in A2 and not Bolivia, you're good to go.
<Looks around.>
OMG I'm in Ohio. What did I do???
December 16th, 2012 at 1:22 PM ^
Well if those unfortunate souls who reside in the Buckeye state are "Hell people in Ohio", and MGoBlog hell is Bolivia, then by the transitive property, Ohio=Bolivia.
Also, if she weighs more than a duck... she's a witch!
December 16th, 2012 at 12:37 PM ^
December 16th, 2012 at 12:55 PM ^
Absolutely, I'll do that.