Bigger productivity drain: March Madness or Coaching Change?

MM is crazy and fun. CC is stressful and will likely get me fired. There is literally nothing like a CC. ... hundreds of tidbits of dubious information, each one launching me into severe depression or wild euphoria. I try to temper my cognitive biases, but it's futile. I personally don't even see a comparison.

March Madness. Im not filling out 50+ coaching change brackets.

Coaching change...no question. I can put on a game at work and listen while I get work done (until the last 2 minutes). But I have been checking about 5 websites seemingly every 15 minutes during the CC.

Harbaugh.

CC by far. All I have to do during MM is check scores here and there, I can wait until I'm out of work to watch. If Michigan's playing during work it sucks, but that's life. With this I want to read every bit of analysis even though I know it's useless. Plus MM is Thursday/Friday starting at noon. This is 24/7, IT COULD LITERALLY HAPPEN ANY TIME AND IF I'M NOT AMONG THE FIRST TO KNOW, I, JUST, I DON'T EVEN KNOW, MAN...

Anxiety alone, its Christmas and I'm not getting any shopping done and this isn't good. I keep telling myself tomorrow.

 

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Coaching change since I always take off work the first two days of the tourney and from there the rest of the games are either evenings or weekends so the tourney doesn't really affect my work.

Pr0n

March Madness is addicting fun. This is addicting annoying bullshit. 

There's no Flightaware in MM

This one's not even a contest. Clearly it's CC. I'll even be taking off the first two full days off March Madness to watch every game and I still anticipate getting more done than the facade I call "work" right now.

The reason is with MM you always have next year. With this you may never have a shot at him again.. 

The solution is to quit your job. Then productivity is no longer an issue.

The solution is to quit your job. Then productivity is irrelevant.

It's the CC...and not really close.  The tournament only has a handful of games on during the work day.  I'm checking this stuff out hourly for the last week at least.  I have a problem.

... without question.  I take the days off because of it.  CC is just an IFTTT away.

CC is a black hole into which nor even time can escape MM at least I can skip a bunch of games I am not interested in but with CC everything matters.

CC is not as draining as the playoff talk every week.

I spend all day at work visiting and revisiting Mgoblog hoping for a new nugget of info on the CC. I think I have a problem.

Coaching change. I'm always checking twitter and this site to see if there's any news...Most of it ends up being "news." I don't want someone else to have to tell me who the new coach is. I want to be one of the first to know because I saw it on twitter and here.  

CC is a bigger productivity drain, and not even close. During MM, at least you know when the games are scheduled and which teams to watch out for, so you can plan your working hours around it. I visit mgoblog at least 20 times a day just so that I don't miss any information that is coming out, and productivity just plummets to rock bottom.

I had portraits of Harbaugh tattooed inside my eyelids so that the only times that I'm not staring at MGoBlog (sleeping or blinking) I can still see images of our next coach.

Yes

Easily the coaching change is way more of a productivity drain for me.
With March Madness I at least know the schedules, who's playing who, scores etc. and I'm less interested in catching every single detail.
The coaching search, on the other hand, has me clinging to every tweet, interview, blog and/or Facebook post, searching for clues and new information.
It feels like I'm putting together a puzzle or investigating a mystery, using instinct to determine real from fake.
Plus the whole thing is hilarious when I step back and think "all this to find out who might be the next coach at Michigan?" - I F5 MGoBlog what feels like hundreds of times per day and read about so many others doing exactly what I'm doing. So yup... All this to find out who might be the next coach at Michigan...
(Resumes F5-ing)

Kellogg!!! YMCA!!! disgusting!!! tickets!! fundamental!!! lightsaber!!!

March Madness doesn't have me checking twitter for sketchy information, mgofeeds banging on my phone, or me compulsively checking on here.

Star wars has nothing to do with stars!!!!!

Whenever I get too worked up by the CC stuff I like to wind down with a technique I call chasing the pain. You punch yourself. preferably in the foot then chase that with a flick of the eye. rinse and repeat! dry on low.

For me, coaching change for sure. I'm happy to randomly check score updates during the tournament, except when UM is playing. 

Coaching change by a mile. March Madness is something fun that you can enjoy with your co-workers. This coaching change is the kind of thing that makes you question the choices you've made in your life. 

however the mental anguish of the cc is a different type of drain. I feel ashamed each time I click on a cc post and yet I can't control myself.

March madness. Last week I was checking the blog a lot. This week, I have not. I don't go to work on the first thurs/fri of the tourney, and the goal is to watch all games those first four days.