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Are not coincidence.

I watched most of that PSU-Alabama game (which was in Happy Valley), and at no point did PSU look like it stood a chance to keep up with an interested Tide.  PSU scored a meaningless 8 points to make it look prettier at the end, but that game was never in doubt.  UM keeping it VERY close late into the 4th quarter on the road, to me, is a "better" loss than PSU's,  Of course, this is all semantics - UM needs to be eat Iowa before I really start believing that this team has turned the corner.

The conjectures on this board about how well Belien would recruit at Michigan based on how he did at previous stops, were as useless and limited as the same conjectures regarding Brady Hoke and his recruiting at Michigan.

"column" should be plural.

Exactly, PSU is considered fraudulent because of how they beat their crappy competition, not because they beat crappy competition.  

We don't know how good we are, but I'm fairly sure we're less fraudulent than PSU.

They can have their picture taken with Woodson.

#milking it

I don't buy that. I have watched a number of SEC games this year and aside from LSU and Alabama, the rest of the SEC is pretty much the same as the B1G. Some really weak teams (vandy, tenn, Miss) with a few avg to good teams (Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Arkansas). I think if you put the top few teams in the B1G up against any SEC school other than the top two they would be competitive games and I would give MSU and Wiscy the edge on just about all of them. Honestly, I don't know what all the fuss about the SEc is this year aside from LSU and Alabama. 

Really? This is the year you're going to say that?  After LSU and Alabama I'm not sure who you are talking about.  I'm not really scared of anyone besides those top 2 in the SEC this year, I'd say they are weaker than they have been in the last 3 or 4 years.

TEAM A

Predictor     86.48
SOS             73.89 (22nd)

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TEAM B

Predictor     83.55
SOS             75.54 (15th)

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TEAM C

Predictor     83.85
SOS             72.36 (33rd)

TEAM A is UNRAKED Notre Dame
TEAM B is #18 Georgia
TEAM C is #9 South Carolina

Explain that.

Auburn and LSU are vastly superior, the rest not so much.  Arkansas is a good solid team with a cuople deficiencies, but the rest of the SEC is as mediocre as the Big Ten is this year.

There's been exactly one upset in that conference this year, Auburn over South Carolina, and that was due largley to Stephen Garcia being Stephen Garcia.

Considering that the third best team in the SEC (Arkansas) needed huge comebacks to beat a mediocre Vandy and Ole Miss, a massive collapse by an overrated Texas A&M, and was stomped by Alabama, that doesn't speak that highly of the conference.  Number 4 in the conference, South Carolina, is without its starting QB and RB and wasn't all that great before then, and huffed and puffed its way past two tomatoes in Tenn. and MSU by a total of 13 points (which isn't really a good thing).  They also get to miss both LSU and Alabama, which astounds me.  Georgia?  They haven't beaten anyone with a winning record all year.  So no, this year the SEC has done nothing to show they are the best conference in America.  Talked a lot of game?  Yes.  Shown it on the field beyond LSU and Alabama (whose recruiting, um, practices we know about)?  Nope.

I think the B1G is a hot mess as well, but there is no dominant conference this year - all are remarkably top-heavy (except the Big East, which is bottom-heavy), with little depth behind.  For my money, the Big 12 is probably the best top-to-bottom conference, but even that is open for debate.

To me, the reason the BBall team struggled two years ago was the loss of our senior leadership. If we don't do very well in the 2012-13 season it will be because we can't replicate the leadership of Novak/Douglass. I am really hoping, even if he does't play many minutes, that Vogrich can step up, along with Hardaway and Morgan, as a guy who leads by example in practice and the offseason.

Are those full season or just teams we have played to date?  To date is more relevant in this context

But if it happens, Muppets are surely warranted.  Anytime you get a top 5 player in the Country, plush puppets are acceptable. If you do it in basketball? It's practically demanded.

I am well-read is probably in the mind of the beholder. I enjoyed both the Molk article, and the THJ article. I think that well-written articles can stand on their own merit. In fact, I would go so far as to suggest that the local paid media have misjudged their market. Report the news, don't try to make the news or be the news. Further, both of the aforementioned articles were there for the taking for anyone willing to put in the work. 

Well, if what the Freep and DetNews puts out is truly "MASS" appeal, then give me the Daily.  Appealing to a large group of people does not mean you have to put out crap, and I'd be fine if the local paid media did a couple of these in-depth articles about local athletes (at UM, MSU, directional schools, etc.) per year instead of the Jihad abomination that Rosenberg and Snyder wrote or whatever Drew Sharp leaks from his forehead ever week.

went to national prominence writing excellent articles in the 90's - human story pieces - similar to that in the Daily.  Including an anti-MASS-audience ode to the Iditerod.

He's become something of a yutz (all went to his head), but he was an excellent writer at one time.  You don't have to be awful to thrive in the mass media, it's that way because of the people in charge.

It's not the composition of the audience, it's the space available to writers. 

The "newshole" for regional newspapers has shrunk dramatically over the past 15 years as newspapers desperately try to get more ad revenue to keep their operations afloat. More ad space + a static or shrinking page limit = very little space for long-form sportswriting in daily newspapers. 

The Daily doesn't face such pressures as it's supported by student fees as well as ad revenue (and doesn't have shareholders to satisfy) allowing more space for long-form. 

I should add that you have to have Time Warner television service, not just Internet. I've tried a few times to stream things only to be rejected since I only have Internet through them.

McGary would be the highest recruit since Jerod Ward in 1994. Obviously, his career at Michigan didn't reflect this lofty projection. (He was a good player but he never dominated like that ranking would suggest. Injuries had a lot to do with that)

Realistically, he would be the best player since Webber. Webber was the consensus #1. Dominated college ball for two years. Was rookie of the year. All NBA first team and may have been a Hall of Famer if not for injuries.

If McGary comes here and is half the player Webber was, I would be ecstatic.