Unverified Voracity Is On To Great Tiger

I'm not exactly sure how that helps. With the starting lineups there was cheering and shouting "who cares" and now there's nothing.

Seriously. Announcing the lineups was one of my favorite parts to the pre-game experience.

Admittedly removing the 20 points limit did a great job in reducing the number of diaries where people say "this isn't a diary, it's a board post." Unfortunately it's also very much increased the number of board posts where people say "this isn't a board post, it's a steaming pile of monkey shit."

Yes, I'd definitely like to see the 20-point requirement restored and a 50-point requirement for diaries. Better to occasionally lose (or simply have to wait for) a good diary that doesn't get posted (yet) because the writer doesn't have the points, than to have to filter through the crap to find anything good. Eventually people get tired of filtering through crap.

So, if you're not allowed to bring a bag into the stadium, is it ok to just bring a dugout?

Thanks. I will hang up and listen.

As far as the Diary versus the Board goes I am still in the camp of "Let anyone with a pulse post on the board but only let 'trusted users' post diaries".

How you get to be a trusted user? I don't know... But I think that diaries should be good and not the shit that has been posted

Should this guy be suspended? No. But now the Big Ten is in the position of trying to make the Mouton suspension not seem like a one-off idiotic decision based on the complaining of the Great White Fail. I'd actually prefer the hypocrisy to the new "policy."

I actually kind of prefer this to be a policy. I'd rather have the conference take a hard line on cheap shots and whatnot. But since this is a "policy" borne out of an attempt to mollify a miserable fat man and not a real policy intended to cut down on cheap shots, I agree it's stupid. I predict the enforcement of this will fail and after the season's over the conference will "reexamine" it and try to figure out how to make it go away.

"Early on, the Wolverines struggled to penetrate a 4-4-3 defense, which clogs the middle of the field and forces the action outside."

A "4-4-3 defense"? No wonder it was hard to penetrate.

fo sho

i needs it.

You can jack up the requirement for diaries, and make a note that if someone does a diary-worth post (i.e. research or actual analysis or whatever) and doesn't have the points to maybe email it to you and perhaps there's a way you can just give them enough points to post it?

I'd hate to lose a good research/analysis post from someone new who doesn't bother to post on the boards (and thus doesn't have the points).

vs just having a board- the difference is really subtle. The really regular contributors who I would otherwise think would be good for diaries are now contributing directly to the website for major topics, so that distinction is lost too. But at the very least I would push the limit to post a diary up over 100.

Aren't we better than that? I mean, yes, Charlie Weis is fat - extraordinarly fat, orca fat - but I don't think it's very civil to point that out. Anyone can see that he's morbidly obese, a man whose gluttony is matched only by his sloth. But why focus on that when we could just point out his hypocrisy and remarkable arrogance? Isn't that better than dwelling, like school children, on the fact that he is so very, very fat?

note: yes, you can use an "'s" with a name that ends in "s".

I agree with Mark that announcing the lineups was one of my favorite things leading up to the start of the game and I don't buy the reasoning that they simply don't have time.

If so, they should simply go back to announcing either the defense or offense and just switch it every other game.

Why would you want to diminish atmosphere by having people NOT cheer for their own team and favorite players/Coach Rod when they're announced?

On the lineups announcement -Any chance they avoided it the first game because they were a little worried about the response Rodriguez might get? Remember this was in the midst of practice-gate.

I know most of the fans who read here realize it was much ado about nothing, but at the same time weren't we all a little worried the casual fans were on the verge of turning against him? Of course that wouldn't explain why they don't announce the lineups now.

I don't see why the Purdue suspension is Mr. Rodriguez's fault. According to a 16 Sep AAnews.com article, "Big Ten spokesperson Scott Chipman said by e-mail the conference 'reviews all plays on a weekly basis.'" If I remember the context correctly of his mentioning the Purdue "punch", Mr. Rodriguez's main point was that the conference should enforce this evenly, which means there will be lots of chances to use the new policy. So many, in fact, that he just happened to catch the end of the Purdue game and saw what looked like a non-football play. It wasn't that he studied each of the Big Ten games' film from that week and discovered the Purdue "punch"; he just referenced it in passing as evidence of his larger point.

The merits of the policy may be up for debate, but I think Purdue's blaming Mr. Rodriguez (or even, at this point, UM blaming Mr. Weis) is missing the issue: this is the Big Ten's policy, effected and policed by the Big Ten. The Big Ten coaches - if they don't like it - would do better to Rise and Strike as one rather than bicker with each other.

I like the idea of having to earn your Avatar and thread making rights. I say 50 pts. The reason I say for the avatar thing is because I was just reading a thread and a new poster with 1pt had a Sanjaya avatar from American Idol. That just can't happen...

Late to the party on this, but I'm in favor of the 20 / 50 rule. A buddy of mine went from 0 to 87 points in one night just by posting top notch content. It isn't' that hard to reach either of those and it discourages the trolls.