NEG UPDATE: New #1
It wouldn't be near the first game if we didn't have a neg record. If you recall, last season Mr Yost set an (un)official Neg record. According to MGoHoF, Yost's Neg total as of the spring was 1,248 for not believing UMbig11's report that Speight was QB1.
Well then.
Somewittyname did not let that record stand. Please go to the Camp Update from Sam Webb thread and Neg if you haven't already.
EDIT: As of 12:50pm on Sunday, the results are as follows:
Total Negs | 4,621 |
Total Posts | 37 |
Neg Average | 125 |
Neg High | 259 |
The table only takes into account Negs in the Camp Update thread.
It is important to note that this poster began their spree with over 4,400 points and is currently -1,397. We can assume this poster accumulated roughly 5,800 Negs over the course of 18 hours.
The Mods may need to confirm this, but have we ever witnessed an OP that has a negative point total? someshittyname created a post (which can be negged here) comparing last year's starters versus this year's projected starters. It's hilarious to me to see that negative point total in an OP. Nice job.
I'm not counting upvotes. Strictly Negs. Thank you stephenrjking for pointing out the current total in the HoF.
August 19th, 2017 at 11:22 PM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^
Ha Ha! to Jack Daniels. I haven't gone near the stuff in almost 18 years as during my freshman year of college my roommate and I decided to conduct an experiment in alcohol and Mike Tyson's punchout. When we started, we of course were killing Glass Joe and the rest of the contenders. After killing a 5th of Jack, we were getting TKO'd by Glass Joe and couldn't figure out how he had gotten so fast.
August 19th, 2017 at 11:22 PM ^
This comment alone is pretty disgusting. Know matter how swn wants to spin it, in today's culture, this is nothing to accuse someone of or joke about:
"Stick to sleeping with 15 year olds and leave the discussion for the big boys."
August 20th, 2017 at 12:13 AM ^
or the digging of a hole, but I must defend this comment. As we all know, Mitch Cumstein was Ty Webb's roommate who got in trouble for night putting with the 15 year old daughter of the dean.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:04 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:18 AM ^
Favorite comment in all of these threads. You all really are just children aren't you?
August 20th, 2017 at 12:42 AM ^
August 19th, 2017 at 11:27 PM ^
Over +1550 Neg and that is from the other post alone, now he has to come in here and snark some more.
A serious glutton for punishment.........
This is no longer a "point of view" discussion about the potential (or lack there of) of the OL, you are just egging on the crowd to Neg Bang you.....
August 19th, 2017 at 11:33 PM ^
I willingly gave up 50 mgopoints. Good luck buddy.
August 19th, 2017 at 11:39 PM ^
August 19th, 2017 at 11:52 PM ^
I have up voted you like 15 times somewittyname. I feel where you're coming from. However this is a message board of fans. To be a "fan" means you are suspending some part of rationale in order to be optimistic about some arbitrary game. Pointing this out causes pain. People react. Negbang commence
August 20th, 2017 at 12:01 AM ^
that is not why people are downvoting. There has been disagreements on Mgoblog before. However, when people brought up reasons why Nolan Ulizio at RT wouldnt be a disaster, he responds with " lol whatever helps you sleep at night" instead of actually engaging in a discussion. Magnus can be perceived as negative, but he actually gives rationale for his predictions.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:25 AM ^
Toby, it goes without saying why it's a negative. If you feel otherwise, eesh.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:04 AM ^
Yes, that's part of being a part of any kind of blog, you typicaly share common opinions / hopes.I guess it depends on your level of fandon, but yes, some on this board are probably just blind loyalist's and that every year they believe we'll believe undefeated, just like there's other parts of the board that believe that we'll do anything from not win a game to win a national championship. That's what makes blogs fun that at the end of the day, outside of trolls, you're atleast all fans of the same team even if you have different outlooks. My issue with swn is when he brings in stupid / naive comments about loving teenagers. I have a sibling that was affected by that situation, so to joke about, especially given what happened at PSU, is a very immature,irrational, and un-informed comment.
August 19th, 2017 at 11:59 PM ^
As dickish as somewittyusername is, I actually share their concern. The current bar for RT we have is JBB's play from last year. That's not a high bar, and I personally don't expect his play to improve that drastically in one offseason.
Currently he's in a battle to start at RT. That doesn't seem great to me. Now we have Ulizio jumping in the competition. I don't buy that as an inherently good thing. It could be, but to me it seems more likely that RT is a problem position, that neither JBB or Runyan have played well enough, and now Ulizio's getting a shot because why not.
I could be very wrong, and I hope I am. But I don't thiink that's an unreasonable take to have. Obviously somewittyusername was a dick about it so negs are deserved, but the overall concern I share.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:28 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:34 AM ^
I understand the concern that he's in the conversation, given he wasn't a highly ranked recruit and it's a position of concern. That being said, the coaches recruit these players for a reason and are looking for a specific type of player they can develop. Most years you see lineman that weren't necessarily highly ranked guys in terms of recruiting but coaching developed them and turned them into NFL players. That's one of the things that Frey was noted for. If I'm not mistaken, Ulizio's knock wasn't that he didn't have the size or athleticism, but he needed to develop. Enter great coaches like Frey and Drevno, and if they developed him enough to be in the conversation, worse case it gives the line depth.
August 20th, 2017 at 9:10 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 11:44 AM ^
We've all already had our agression fix for the weekend! :)
August 20th, 2017 at 12:12 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:48 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:02 AM ^
Seriously, I really like that whole "logged in to neg thing." Hadn't seen someone say that before.
August 20th, 2017 at 7:40 PM ^
Opinion swayed by the majority! Interesting.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:22 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:41 AM ^
Nice. Can't believe what sort of positive upvote ratio I had to counterbalance all of this. Crazy how rational thought works I guess. Only in certain instances though I suppose. Sometimes the will of people override truth for the sake of what they like. Pretty common these days.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:47 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:32 AM ^
Man, that's some serious commitment to trying hard to be the "cool contrarian"!
Good luck with that!
August 20th, 2017 at 1:09 AM ^
What? How am I trying to be either? I am just going to keep pointing out, one by one, ridiculous claims (based on logic). Yours fits the bill.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:35 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:37 AM ^
Not asking for upvotes, just negbang somewittyname to c-bus.
August 20th, 2017 at 12:49 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 12:56 AM ^
Just wait until I put 8 good years of effort trying to build up my total MGoPoints, only to see it vanish because of one night of drinking and posting.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:01 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:07 AM ^
It's hard for me to constrain my thoughts to the dimensions of your own, so I can't quite see how this post would be anything remotely surprising? I lthink RT is a question mark and although Delance may or may not have issues of his own it wouldn't hurt to have him on board. Come on man, you're reaching. Really reaching.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:19 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:32 AM ^
Shhh. I said I wouldn't mind having him on the team right now, had we gotten him in the first place. But what would I know, Nolan is king.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:38 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:41 AM ^
Listen to the sage advice of Bo Schembechler and proceed accordingly:
We're going to believe in each other,
we're not going to criticize each other,
we're not going to talk about each other,
we're going to encourage each other.
Glenn Schembechler
I suggest now would be a great time to be on the encouraging end.....
August 20th, 2017 at 1:42 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 2:13 AM ^
He's not, except that it's August 20, and his name is just popping up now for RT. Jean Delance, as you probably figured is not on our team. So, here we are with a questionable RT situation and only mgoboreders are not concerned. Why are they not concerned? Because according to the only coherent argument I've heard so far, Harbaugh had good OLs at Stanford.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:11 AM ^
Its 1:07 am and the negbang pace has slowed. somewittyname is at 1758 points at the time of this writing. Let us renew our effort in the morning.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:22 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:33 AM ^
Keep it up! Keep it up! I have an inverse point agreement with an ethereum agent.
August 20th, 2017 at 1:41 AM ^
it looks like you have an inverse relationship with bitcoin value
August 20th, 2017 at 1:19 AM ^
August 20th, 2017 at 1:26 AM ^
Given that this is a competitive bunch, can we count on an attempt to overtake this record every August? Might as well make it a fun and entertaining competition to see how low onecan go before their one way (?) trip to Bolivia. I hear La Paz gets kind of cold at night in mid-August, might be a place to beat the summer heat of A2......
August 20th, 2017 at 1:32 AM ^
1:32 am swn is at 1541 points, does anybody have a prediction on when she goes negative? Ill start out with 8:45 am 8-20-2017