Unverified Voracity Says Meet Perry

...sued the over "Buckey Battle Cry" because it sux!

/HURR DURR

If RR wanted to start doing surprise onside kicks, I can't think of a better team to do it against than MSU.  Unless, of course, Michigan jumps on MSU early and often, rendering it unneccessary.  Then, I think it would be better to wait until OSU.

When I opened the main page and saw Perry the Torn-ACL Elephant in crutches, my heart stopped momentarily.  I'm thankful it had nothing to do with Michigan (sorry Purdue).

I'm listening to the TOC podcast (because I'm actually genuinely interested in an intelligent Sparty POV), but the audio... needs a lot of cleanup.  Wildly varying levels, people bumping the mic, etc.  The content's reasonably interesting, though, so I'll give 'em credit for that.

It sounds like a first podcast.  Which is obviously completely understandable.  Hopefully by the next time I listen to them -- when Brian guest-stars again next year -- they'll have a few more under their belt and figure out how to apply compression and noise reduction.

..I am volunteering tomorrow (with a buncha other folks) selling Cancerkicker bracelets and "The Kick" t-shirts as a fundraiser for Phil Brabbs' Cancerkicker foundation. We will be wandering around the golfcourse late morning and early afternoon, and ....here's the thing

... we have a friendly rivalry, it seems, with people raising money for the same cause (research on multiple myeloma) on behalf of former MSU player Shaun Mason  (MSU, 97-01)

SO if you see me....us....PLEASE BUY A BRACELET OR A SHIRT, or Sparty will beat us, and we can't have that of course.

(PS Forgive me for asking but would this have been an ok thing to start a board thread about??  What say you, keepers of the local social norms?)

The Saturday Cancer Kicker Tailgate activities can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=158513060839438

Jesus Brian, I saw the start of the post and saw "Perry the ACL...." and I thought you were announcing a Dorrestein injury.

Can we change his name to Paulie, or Paddy if he's an Irish ACL-ephant?

"Copyright law as currently wielded by large organizations is pure evil"

The real problem is not typically the large organizations. They are forced to pursue small and not-meaningful violations because they will lose copyright if they don't. Universities probably do not care about these magazines or your swank tee's, they care about losing copyrights because they did not enforce them. This doesn't mean large organizations can't be evil, just that there is significant incentive to do so under current laws.

is really cool.

Could that kid be any more perfect?  What an incredible representative for M. 

I've been lamenting over the last couple years that my boys are growing up not having the same M domination of the universe that I had as a kid, and that's been bumn'n me out.  But now they've got Denard, and I like it.

Not a big deal Professor J. Alex Halderman.and the Michigan students.

MSU students could have done the same thing.  Unfortunately all of their laptops were seized as evidence...

GnuPG - obviously

i know this isn't a real gnupig, i am in a hurry

send RichRod Denard?  send him for all of us?

Michigan fans who serve the same God Dilithium honors in the end zone may want to say a quick prayer that He will protect him Saturday from the angry Michigan QB hating god and his servants, those MSU defenders that would deliberately try to injure Dilithium.

It truly is a struggle between good and evil.

Go Blue!

via BHGP

The thumbs-up sold it perfectly.  I was giggling for a good 30 seconds.

That is, once I found out it had nothing to do with Michigan starters.  THEN I laughed.

"So… yes, I think Michigan should go for the surprise onside kick on a regular basis, around once every ten possessions. I also think zero coaches would actually do this in real life."

Actually, Chip Kelly and Oregon did it against Stanford when they were down 21-10 last week and it worked to perfection. It caught them totally off guard, Oregon recovered and drove down for a TD. That was a big turning point in the game. Michigan should definitely think about it. But either way, at least one coach would do it.

Was a monkey on a train?

I just listened to Brian's section of the podcast, and he makes an excellent point about the "Greg Jones as a spy" defense.  On a running play, the MLB is always going to have a blocker assigned to him, and is unlikely to be the read key on an option - so it's not clear that having Jones "spy" will do much of anything.  As Brian said "he'll just be playing run defense".  I think spying the QB would matter more if Denard was scrambling out of the pocket on passing plays, or if we were running lots of true QB draws where we pass block for a few seconds at the start of the play.  It also seems like Jones spying should open up the underneath coverage on play-action passes.

Ohhh Perry, the ACL-ephant. Love it.

Question not really relating to anything but trash talk with my buddies: In the past few days, on a Michigan blog somewhere or another, there was a post that included alternate lyrics to the MSU fight song. The alternate lyrics were obviously written by a Michigan fan, but I've been looking for the past hour or so with no luck. Any help, people?

My memory has failed me. Google has failed me. I need your help my friends!

but the opposing team should do the same thing to slow down DRob.